Statewide Testing Positivity Rate: 7.17%.
Deaths: We are pleased to report no new deaths today. We have experienced a total of 85 deaths resulting in a 1.66% mortality rate (about 1 in 60) among known cases. This compares with a 1.3% mortality rate at the state level, and a 2.41% morality rate at the national level.
Hospitalizations: We presently have 43 cases in the hospital. This is equal to yesterday. The most hospitalizations we have had at any one time was 43 on 11/07/2020. We have had a total of 369 hospitalizations resulting in a 7.22% hospitalization rate (about 1 in 14) among known cases. The state hospitalization rate is 6.56%. The latest state data shows that 73.12% of ICU beds and 29.92% of ventilator capacity are being utilized.
Total (Cumulative) Cases: The Lake Cumberland District has experienced a total of 5,108 cases since the onset of the outbreak. This means that 2.45% 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 86 cases today from isolation. Released cases include: Adair: 10; Casey: 11; Clinton: 2; Cumberland: 6; Green: 8; McCreary: 2; Pulaski: 14; Russell: 3; Taylor: 20; and, Wayne: 10. In all, we have released 83.6% of our total cases.
Active (Current) Cases: We released 7 more cases today than we added new cases. Taking all things into account, this leaves us with 752 active cases in our district across all 10 of our district’s 10 counties. On 11/06/2020 we were at our peak number of active cases, 758.
Where are Cases Tied to: The most common areas to where we are seeing cases tied are (in descending order): Schools, Businesses, Family, and Medical Facilities.
New Cases: We report that our total case count has increased by 79 today: Adair: 8; Casey: 6; Clinton: 6; Cumberland: 7; Green: 11; McCreary: 1; Pulaski: 26; Russell: 4; Taylor: 8; and, Wayne: 2. Our current new case growth rate is: 1.019. This means our total case count is projected to double every 36.77 days. The most new cases we ever added in a single day was on 11/06/2020 when we added 113 cases.
Today’s new cases include:
Adair: A 19-year-old male who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
Adair: A 79-year-old male who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
Adair: A 49-year-old female who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
Adair: A 42-year-old female who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
Adair: A 78-year-old female who is self-isolated, asymptomatic
Adair: A 43-year-old female who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
Adair: A 62-year-old male who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
Adair: A 48-year-old female who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
Casey: A 59-year-old female who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
Casey: A 40-year-old female who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
Casey: A 61-year-old female who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
Casey: A 20-year-old male who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
Casey: A 49-year-old male who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
Casey: A 20-year-old male who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
Clinton: A 47-year-old female who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
Clinton: A 77-year-old male who is self-isolated, unknown
Clinton: A 69-year-old female who is self-isolated, unknown
Clinton: A 52-year-old female who is self-isolated, unknown
Clinton: A 47-year-old female who is self-isolated, unknown
Clinton: A 6 Months-old male who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
Cumberland: A 13-year-old male who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
Cumberland: A 30-year-old female who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
Cumberland: A 40-year-old male who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
Cumberland: A 72-year-old female who is self-isolated, asymptomatic
Cumberland: A 63-year-old female who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
Cumberland: A 35-year-old female who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
Cumberland: A 66-year-old male who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
Green: A 10-year-old male who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
Green: A 41-year-old female who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
Green: A 41-year-old female who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
Green: A 21-year-old female who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
Green: A 30-year-old male who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
Green: A 7-year-old female who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
Green: A 8-year-old male who is self-isolated, asymptomatic
Green: A 1-year-old male who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
Green: A 3-year-old female who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
Green: A 39-year-old male who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
Green: A 70-year-old female who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
McCreary: A 33-year-old female who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
Pulaski: A 18-year-old male who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
Pulaski: A 28-year-old male who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
Pulaski: A 33-year-old female who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
Pulaski: A 58-year-old female who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
Pulaski: A 42-year-old male who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
Pulaski: A 59-year-old male who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
Pulaski: A 21-year-old male who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
Pulaski: A 58-year-old male who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
Pulaski: A 39-year-old male who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
Pulaski: A 43-year-old male who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
Pulaski: A 46-year-old male who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
Pulaski: A 31-year-old female who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
Pulaski: A 62-year-old female who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
Pulaski: A 46-year-old female who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
Pulaski: A 51-year-old female who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
Pulaski: A 51-year-old male who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
Pulaski: A 5-year-old male who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
Pulaski: A 54-year-old male who is self-isolated, asymptomatic
Pulaski: A 73-year-old female who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
Pulaski: A 40-year-old female who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
Pulaski: A 45-year-old male who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
Pulaski: A 17-year-old female who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
Pulaski: A 18-year-old male who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
Pulaski: A 24-year-old male who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
Pulaski: A 52-year-old female who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
Pulaski: A 32-year-old female who is self-isolated, asymptomatic
Russell: A 67-year-old male who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
Russell: A 51-year-old male who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
Russell: A 52-year-old female who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
Russell: A 41-year-old female who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
Taylor: A 67-year-old female who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
Taylor: A 31-year-old female who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
Taylor: A 18-year-old female who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
Taylor: A 21-year-old female who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
Taylor: A 19-year-old male who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
Taylor: A 21-year-old female who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
Taylor: A 25-year-old male who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
Taylor: A 40-year-old female who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
Wayne: A 45-year-old female who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
Wayne: A 69-year-old male who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
This was the worse week for the state and for the Lake Cumberland District in terms of new cases since the onset of the outbreak. Lake Cumberland’s new case rate exceeds the state average. We have 172 more active case today than we did last Saturday. We are at our peak number of hospitalizations at 43; 2 more than last Saturday. We experienced 3 deaths this week.
8 of our district’s 10 counties are now in the “red-critical” range: Adair, Casey, Clinton, Cumberland, Green, Pulaski, Taylor, and Wayne. This leaves only McCreary, and Russell in the “orange-accelerated” range.
We have largely caught up on our delinquent data entry into the state system. We are hopeful the state reports will begin to better align with ours early next week.
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 5,108 cumulative confirmed cases and there have been 120,387 confirmed COVID-19 cases across all 120 Kentucky Counties as of today (this includes 119,661 statewide plus 726 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.
