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Friday’s COVID-19 Data: 2,582 New, 8.94% Positivity, 35 New Deaths

Kentucky COVID-19 Vaccine Monitoring
As of December 17:
Total State Population: 4,467,673
at least one dose – Fully Vaxxed – Boost/Add.Doses
Total State Population Vaccinated:                                  2,739,591               2,403,025          744,729
% of Total State Population Vaccinated:                                    62%                            54%             17%
Total State Population > 18 Years of Age Vaccinated: 2,527,821               2,236,673          744,058
% of Total State Population > 18 Years of Age Vaccinated:    73%                           65%             21%
Total State Population >65 Years of Age Vaccinated:     701,397                    634,061        353,485
% of Total State Population >65 Years of Age Vaccinated:    93%                             84%            47%
First Dose Administered by Vaccine:
Pfizer: 1,471,189 54%
Moderna: 1,067,867 39%
Janssen(J&J): 197,806 7%
Notes from Friday’s 12.17 Ky. COVID-19 Daily Summary

Total New Cases: 2,582 Confirmed: 1,536 Probable: 1,046
18 & Under: 617 Confirmed: 311 Probable: 306
Total Cases: 825,692 including 580,465 Confirmed Cases and 245,227 Probable cases.

Positivity Rate: 8.94% (7-day Rollover Average)*

Total Tests: 11,017,485 Total Positive Tests: 1,001,761 Total PCR Positive: 681,866 Total Serology Positive: 54,514 Total Antigen Positive: 265,381
Kentuckians Ever Hospitalized with COVID-19: 34,165 (4.14%)
Kentuckians now in Hospital with COVID-19: 1,255
Kentuckians Ever in ICU with COVID-19: 6,571 (0.80%)
Kentuckians now in ICU with COVID-19: 329
Kentuckians on a Ventilator with COVID-19: 195

Current Overall Capacity:
Occupied    Available     Percent
Inpatient Beds:
          9,645                3,597                  72.8%
ICU Beds:                     1,291                     137                  90.4%
Ventilators:                    669                 1,226                35.3%

New Deaths announced today: 35
*103 duplicates and records not meeting case criteria removed since the last report.

Total Deaths due to COVID-19: 11,754 Confirmed: 10,324 Probable: 1,430

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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