Notes from Monday’s 2.27.23 Ky. COVID-19 Weekly Summary
Total Cases: 1,713,220
Total Deaths: 18,094
Total New Cases: 3,289
New Cases 18 & Under: 574
Total New Deaths: 39
Positivity Rate: 8.78% (7-day Rollover Average)*
Kentuckians now in Hospital with COVID-19: 300
Kentuckians now in ICU with COVID-19: 46
Kentuckians on a Ventilator with COVID-19: 15
Current Overall Capacity:
Occupied Available Percent
Inpatient Beds: 8,373 3,093 73.02%
ICU Beds: 1,293 393 76.69%
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, and provider cases.
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…