Notes from Monday’s 5.16.22 Ky. COVID-19 Weekly Summary
Total Cases: 1,339,520
Total Deaths: 15,830
Total New Cases: 6,443
New Cases 18 & Under: 1,032
Total New Deaths: 96
Positivity Rate: 9.35% (7-day Rollover Average)*
Kentuckians now in Hospital with COVID-19: 340
Kentuckians now in ICU with COVID-19: 30
Kentuckians on a Ventilator with COVID-19: 9
Current Overall Capacity:
Occupied Available Percent
Inpatient Beds: 7,909 2,611 75.18%
ICU Beds: 1,213 455 72.72%
Ventilators: 126 772 14.03%
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…
