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Saturday’s COVID-19 Data: 2,575 New, 8.92% Positivity, 32 New Deaths

Kentucky COVID-19 Vaccine Monitoring
No Vaccine Monitoring on Weekends.
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 Saturday’s 12.18 Ky. COVID-19 Daily Summary

Total New Cases: 2,575 Confirmed: 1,540 Probable: 1,035
18 & Under: 581 Confirmed: 298 Probable: 283
Total Cases: 828,260 including 582,020 Confirmed Cases and 246,240 Probable cases.

Positivity Rate: 8.92% (7-day Rollover Average)*

Total Tests: 11,053,669 Total Positive Tests: 1,005,016 Total PCR Positive: 683,889 Total Serology Positive: 54,560 Total Antigen Positive: 266,564
Kentuckians Ever Hospitalized with COVID-19: 34,245 (4.13%)
Kentuckians now in Hospital with COVID-19: 1,237
Kentuckians Ever in ICU with COVID-19: 6,584 (0.79%)
Kentuckians now in ICU with COVID-19: 317
Kentuckians on a Ventilator with COVID-19: 164

Current Overall Capacity:
Occupied    Available     Percent
Inpatient Beds:
          9,464                3,688                  72.0%
ICU Beds:                     1,300                     137                  90.5%
Ventilators:                    626                 1,269                 33.0%

New Deaths announced today: 32
*103 duplicates and records not meeting case criteria removed since the last report.

Total Deaths due to COVID-19: 11,786 Confirmed: 10,352 Probable: 1,434

Kentucky COVID-19 Vaccine Monitoring Stats

QuarantineofVaccinatedPersonsGuidance (from CDC.gov)

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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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