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Thursday’s COVID-19 Data: 1,855 New, 6.18 % Positivity, 40 New Deaths

Kentucky COVID-19 Vaccine Monitoring
As of November 18:
Total State Population: 4,467,673
Total State Population Vaccinated: 2,625,285
% of Total State Population Vaccinated: 59%
Total State Population > 18 Years of Age Vaccinated: 2,450,502
% of Total State Population > 18 Years of Age Vaccinated: 71%
Total State Population >65 Years of Age Vaccinated: 688,089
% of Total State Population >65 Years of Age Vaccinated: 92%
First Dose Administered by Vaccine:
Pfizer: 1,373,291
Moderna: 1,034,907
Janssen(J&J): 192,086
Notes from Thursday’s 11.18- Ky. COVID-19 Daily Summary

Total New Cases: 1,855 Confirmed: 1,015 Probable: 840
18 & Under: 509 Confirmed: 253 Probable: 256
Total Cases: 768,656 including 545,311 Confirmed Cases and 223,345 Probable cases.

Positivity Rate: 6.18% (7-day Rollover Average)*

Total Tests: 10,294,583 Total Positive Tests: 934,609 Total PCR Positive: 639,803 Total Serology Positive: 53,335 Total Antigen Positive: 241,471
Kentuckians Ever Hospitalized with COVID-19: 32,238 (4.19%)
Kentuckians now in Hospital with COVID-19: 750
Kentuckians Ever in ICU with COVID-19: 6,304 (0.82%)
Kentuckians now in ICU with COVID-19: 195
Kentuckians on a Ventilator with COVID-19: 100

Current Overall Capacity:
Occupied    Available     Percent
Inpatient Beds:
        9,038                3,913              69.8%
ICU Beds:                   1,224                    140              89.7%
Ventilators:                  554                 1,349             29.1%

New Deaths announced today: 40
*29 duplicates and records not meeting case criteria removed since the last report.

Total Deaths due to COVID-19: 10,394 Confirmed: 9,185 Probable: 1,209

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.

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