Statewide Testing Positivity Rate: 4.7%.
Deaths: We are pleased to report no new deaths today. We have experienced a total of 77 deaths resulting in a 2.14% mortality rate among known cases. This compares with a 1.51% mortality rate at the state level, and a 2.71% morality rate at the national level.
Hospitalizations: We presently have 17 cases in the hospital. This is 5 more than yesterday. The most hospitalizations we have had at any one time was 33 on 09/02/2020. We have had a total of 283 hospitalizations resulting in a 7.88% hospitalization rate among known cases. The state hospitalization rate is 7.59%. The latest state data shows that 71.84% of ICU beds and 28.47% of ventilator capacity are being utilized.
Total (Cumulative) Cases: The Lake Cumberland District has experienced a total of 3,592 cases since the onset of the outbreak. This means that 1.72% of our total population have been a confirmed case. However, we do not know how many additional people may have had COVID-19 and were either asymptomatic or mildly symptomatic and never tested.
Released (Not contagious) Cases: We released 20 cases today from isolation. Released cases include: Adair: 3; Clinton: 4; Green: 3; McCreary: 4; Pulaski: 4; and, Wayne: 2. In all, we have released 86.1% of our total cases.
Active (Current) Cases: We added 14 more cases today than we released historic cases. Taking all things into account, this leaves us with 423 active cases in our district across all 10 of our district’s 10 counties. On 10/17/2020 we were at our peak number of active cases, 423.
Where are Cases Tied to: The most common areas to where we are seeing cases tied are (in descending order): Businesses, Schools, Medical Facilities, and Places of Worship.
New Cases: We report that our total case count has increased by 34 today: Adair: 2; Casey: 1; Clinton: 4; Green: 6; McCreary: 2; Pulaski: 4; Russell: 5; Taylor: 5; and, Wayne: 5. Our current new case growth rate is: 1.015. This means our total case count is projected to double every 47.87 days. The most new cases we ever added in a single day was on 08/26/2020 when we added 75 cases.
Today’s new cases include:
- Adair: A 74-year-old female who is hospitalized, still symptomatic
- Adair: A 67-year-old male who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
- Casey: A 87-year-old male who is hospitalized, still symptomatic
- Clinton: A 32-year-old female who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
- Clinton: A 3-year-old male who is self-isolated, unknown
- Clinton: A 23-year-old male who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
- Clinton: A 56-year-old male who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
- Green: A 66-year-old male who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
- Green: A 60-year-old male who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
- Green: A 73-year-old male who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
- Green: A 64-year-old male who is self-isolated, asymptomatic
- Green: A 61-year-old male who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
- Green: A 76-year-old male who is hospitalized, still symptomatic
- McCreary: A 31-year-old female who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
- McCreary: A 31-year-old female who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
- Pulaski: A 22-year-old female who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
- Pulaski: A 24-year-old female who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
- Pulaski: A 18-year-old female who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
- Pulaski: A 16-year-old female who is self-isolated, asymptomatic
- Russell: A 39-year-old female who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
- Russell: A 71-year-old female who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
- Russell: A 23-year-old male who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
- Russell: A 44-year-old female who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
- Russell: A 88-year-old female who is self-isolated, asymptomatic
- Taylor: A 52-year-old male who is self-isolated, asymptomatic
- Taylor: A 61-year-old female who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
- Taylor: A 67-year-old female who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
- Taylor: A 66-year-old male who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
- Taylor: A 49-year-old male who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
- Wayne: A 62-year-old male who is self-isolated, asymptomatic
- Wayne: A 50-year-old female who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
- Wayne: A 23-year-old female who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
- Wayne: A 53-year-old male who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
- Wayne: A 14-year-old male who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
It has been a difficult week. We have had a sharp increase in new cases. We presently have our highest number of active cases at 423 (an increase of 81 over last week). This is also the highest number of active cases at the state level. There were 3 COVID-19 related deaths this week. There are 17 COVID-19 cases presently in area hospitals. I shared a story earlier in the week how the COVID-19 beds in Danville’s hospital are all full. I hope this isn’t an omen for what is to come here locally.
For the first time, we have 6 of our 10 counties in the “red-critical” range of community-spread: Adair, Clinton, Green, Russell, Taylor, and Wayne. Cumberland County is also very close to the mark. Only Casey is in the “yellow-community-spread” range. Cumberland, McCreary, and Pulaski are in the “orange-accelerated” range.
Please, let’s all continue to do our part in slowing the spread of COVID-19 by wearing our face coverings, avoiding crowds (especially in confined spaces), social distancing when around others, increasing our hand hygiene, increasing our general sanitation, and by avoiding the touching of our faces.
The Lake Cumberland area has experienced 3,592 cumulative confirmed cases and there have been 86,894 confirmed COVID-19 cases across all 120 Kentucky Counties as of today (this includes 86,797 statewide plus 97 recently reported cases in Lake Cumberland not in the Governor’s/Department for Public Health’s daily report). Regardless of the confirmed case count for any Lake Cumberland County, we believe COVID-19 to be widespread. The LCDHD is working tirelessly, including nights and weekends, to identify and contact all those with whom any positive case may have come into close contact, and to follow-up daily with positive cases. Additionally, we are striving diligently to follow-up on business-related complaints regarding noncompliance with the Governor’s Executive Orders. We are also working with any community partner that requests assistance for prevention or post-exposure planning/response.
