Kentucky added 5,290 new COVID-19 instances within the newest reporting week, in line with the information from the U.S. Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention present as of Wednesday.
This comes as the specter of sub-zero wind chills pushed individuals indoors for the vacation weekend, and as Gov. Andy Beshear acknowledged a post-Thanksgiving bump in COVID-19 instances.
A complete of 17 Kentucky counties had been experiencing excessive COVID-19 neighborhood ranges as of Dec. 22, in line with the CDC’s COVID-19 Information Tracker.
The counties span the western and japanese halves of Kentucky and embrace Ballard, Carlisle, Hickman, Graves, McCracken, Livingston, Marshall, Lyon, Crittenden, Butler, Simpson, Monroe, Harrison, Robertson, Rowan, Johnson and Pike.
One other 42 Kentucky counties are at medium, whereas the remaining 61 had been at low ranges.
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The change represents a slight uptick within the variety of counties experiencing excessive neighborhood ranges in comparison with the earlier reporting interval, whereas the variety of counties at medium is sharply up — now at 42 from the earlier week’s 28.
The CDC makes use of COVID-19 neighborhood ranges to assist form public well being suggestions. Residents dwelling in communities experiencing excessive neighborhood ranges, for instance, ought to masks up when indoors in public areas and observe bodily distancing.
The federal company defines neighborhood ranges based mostly on a county’s weekly whole of recent COVID-19 instances and hospital admissions, mixed with the proportion of inpatient beds occupied by optimistic people, a seven-day common.
Together with the rise in instances, the CDC reported 51 extra coronavirus deaths throughout the state, present as of Dec. 21.
The Kentucky Division for Public Well being didn’t replace its neighborhood degree map because of the vacation weekend. As of Monday, the state’s positivity charge was at 9.85%
Fayette County is presently at a low COVID-19 neighborhood degree, in line with the CDC.
The company reported 342 extra instances right here for the week via Dec. 21, with a weekly case charge of 105.83 per 100,000 individuals. That’s almost a 40% improve from the earlier week.
The positivity charge in Fayette County stands at 11.26%, almost 3% larger than it was within the seven days main as much as Dec. 19, which was the most recent date for which knowledge was obtainable.
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