K-12 Return to School Guidance:
Governor Beshear 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 20:
Total State Population: 4,440,204
Total State Population Vaccinated: 2,444,573
% of Total State Population Vaccinated: 55%
Total State Population > 18 Years of Age Vaccinated: 2,267,450
% of Total State Population > 18 Years of Age Vaccinated: 66%
Total State Population >65 Years of Age Vaccinated: 582,438
% of Total State Population >65 Years of Age Vaccinated: 84%
First Dose Administered by Vaccine:
Pfizer: 1,234,605 50%
Moderna: 984,698 40%
Janssen(J&J): 177,367 7%
Notes from Friday’s 8.20 Ky. COVID-19 Daily Summary
Total New Cases: 3,869 18 & Under: 1158
Total Cases: 534,430 including 395,654 with 138,776 Probable cases.
Positivity Rate: 12.80% (7-day Rollover Average)*
Total Tests: 7,678,995 Total Positive Tests: 652,988 Total PCR Positive: 464,717 Total Serology Positive: 40,690 Total Antigen Positive: 147,581
Kentuckians Ever Hospitalized with COVID-19: 25,234 (4.72%)
Kentuckians now in Hospital with COVID-19: 1,780
Kentuckians Ever in ICU with COVID-19: 5,075 (0.95%)
Kentuckians now in ICU with COVID-19: 487
Kentuckians on a Ventilator with COVID-19: 255
Current Hospitalized Patients:
Occupied | Available | % Occupancy
Inpatient Beds: 9,326 4,518 67.4%
ICU Beds: 1,292 692 65.1%
Ventilators: 650 1,182 35.5%
New Deaths announced today: 6 Additional Deaths: 34 Total New Deaths: 40
*12 duplicates and records not meeting case criteria removed since the last report.
** Through Ongoing mortality review of death certificates received after February 1, 2021, we identified 34 additional deaths not reported with earlier daily totals.
Total Deaths due to COVID-19: 7,517 Confirmed: 6,739 Probable: 778
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.
