Kentucky COVID-19 Vaccine Monitoring
As of October 26:
Total State Population: 4,467,673
Total State Population Vaccinated: 2,781,063
% of Total State Population Vaccinated: 62%
Total State Population > 18 Years of Age Vaccinated: 2,613,206
% of Total State Population > 18 Years of Age Vaccinated: 75%
Total State Population >65 Years of Age Vaccinated: 714,575
% of Total State Population >65 Years of Age Vaccinated: 95%
First Dose Administered by Vaccine:
Pfizer: 1,479,305 52%
Moderna: 1,100,313 39%
Janssen(J&J): 199,416 7%
Notes from Tuesday’s 10.26 Ky. COVID-19 Daily Summary
Total New Cases: 1,493 Confirmed: 704 Probable: 789
18 & Under: 421 Confirmed: 172 Probable: 249
Total Cases: 738,190 including 528,317 Confirmed Cases and 209,873 Probable cases.
Positivity Rate: 5.66% (7-day Rollover Average)*
Total Tests: 9,757,302 Total Positive Tests: 897,198 Total PCR Positive: 619,629 Total Serology Positive: 51,875 Total Antigen Positive: 225,694
Kentuckians Ever Hospitalized with COVID-19: 31,249 (4.23%)
Kentuckians now in Hospital with COVID-19: 893
Kentuckians Ever in ICU with COVID-19: 6,112 (0.83%)
Kentuckians now in ICU with COVID-19: 266
Kentuckians on a Ventilator with COVID-19: 148
Current Overall Capacity:
Occupied Available Percent
Inpatient Beds: 8,547 4,487 65.6%
ICU Beds: 1,190 188 86.4%
Ventilators: 631 1,291 32.8%
New Deaths announced today: 25
*25 duplicates and records not meeting case criteria removed since the last report.
Total Deaths due to COVID-19: 9,665 Confirmed: 8,558 Probable: 1,107
Kentucky COVID-19 Vaccine Monitoring Stats
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.
