K-12 Return to School Guidance:
Governor Beshear announced on Tuesday that he signed an Executive Order that requires all K-12 Students, Faculty, Staff and Visitors to wear a Mask at Schools and Child Care & Pre-Kindergarten programs in the Commonwealth while at School.
Fayette County Schools to Mandate Mask Wearing for all students, faculty, staff & visitors to any Fayette County facility to start the new School Year. (K-12)
Mask Recommendations:
All unvaccinated Kentuckians should wear masks indoors when not in their home.
Kentuckians at higher risk due to pre-existing conditions should wear masks indoors when not in their home.
Vaccinated Kentuckians in jobs with significant public exposure should consider wearing a mask at Work.
All Unvaccinated Kentuckians, when eligible, should be vaccinated immediately.
Also, Governor Beshear on Wednesday that ALL employees, and visitors, including those who are fully Vaccinated are now REQUIRED to wear masks in Kentucky State Offices.
Kentucky COVID-19 Vaccine Monitoring
As of August 18:
Total State Population: 4,440,204
Total State Population Vaccinated: 2,429,109
% of Total State Population Vaccinated: 55%
Total State Population > 18 Years of Age Vaccinated: 2,254,050
% of Total State Population > 18 Years of Age Vaccinated: 66%
Total State Population >65 Years of Age Vaccinated: 581,796
% of Total State Population >65 Years of Age Vaccinated: 84%
First Dose Administered by Vaccine:
Pfizer: 1,226,058 50%
Moderna: 978,875 40%
Janssen(J&J): 176,379 7%
Notes from Wednesday’s 8.18 Ky. COVID-19 Daily Summary
Total New Cases: 3,576 18 & Under: 987
Total Cases: 525,746 including 389,397 with 133,349 Probable cases.
Positivity Rate: 12.59% (7-day Rollover Average)*
Total Tests: 7,606,685 Total Positive Tests: 643,162 Total PCR Positive: 457,855 Total Serology Positive: 40,196 Total Antigen Positive: 145,111
Kentuckians Ever Hospitalized with COVID-19: 25,135 (4.78%)
Kentuckians now in Hospital with COVID-19: 1,658
Kentuckians Ever in ICU with COVID-19: 5,059 (0.96%)
Kentuckians now in ICU with COVID-19: 466
Kentuckians on a Ventilator with COVID-19: 229
Current Hospitalized Patients:
Occupied | Available | % Occupancy
Inpatient Beds: 9,272 4,085 69.4%
ICU Beds: 1,263 552 69.6%
Ventilators: 621 1,188 34.3%
New Deaths announced today: 9
*39 duplicates and records not meeting case criteria removed since the last report.
Total Deaths due to COVID-19: 7,468 Confirmed: 6,695 Probable: 773
QuarantineofVaccinatedPersonsGuidance (from CDC.gov)
Vaccine.KY.Gov to see when you can get vaccinated, or call 855-598-2246 from 8 am to 7 pm Monday-Friday. 855-598-2246 TTY: 855-326-4654 (8 am to 7 pm Monday – Friday)
The data collected by the Kentucky Department for Public Health (KDPH) on case patients comes from a number of sources, including electronic laboratory reports, provider case
disease and COVID-19 investigation reports, local health department investigation results, hospital infection prevention clinical patient data, and KDPH investigation results. Data is often found incomplete and/or incorrect and during KDPH investigation individual patient-level data is added to, corrected, and de-duplicated so that overall case counts and aggregate data values change daily.
