Statewide Testing Positivity Rate: 4.32%.
Deaths: We are sad to report 1 new death today from Clinton. We have experienced a total of 74 deaths resulting in a 2.28% mortality rate among known cases. This compares with a 1.57% mortality rate at the state level, and a 2.78% morality rate at the national level. Our hearts and prayers go out to all the families and friends who have lost loved ones.
Hospitalizations: We presently have 14 cases in the hospital. This is 3 less than yesterday. The most hospitalizations we have had at any one time was 33 on 09/02/2020. We have had a total of 266 hospitalizations resulting in a 8.19% hospitalization rate among known cases. The state hospitalization rate is 7.67%. The latest state data shows that 70.2% of ICU beds and 27.4% of ventilator capacity are being utilized.
Total (Cumulative) Cases: The Lake Cumberland District has experienced a total of 3,246 cases since the onset of the outbreak. This means that 1.55% of our total population have been a confirmed case. However, we do not know how many additional people may have had COVID-19 and were either asymptomatic or mildly symptomatic and never tested.
Released (Not contagious) Cases: We released 10 cases today from isolation. Released cases include: Adair: 3; Casey: 1; and, Taylor: 6. In all, we have released 87.2% of our total cases.
Active (Current) Cases: We added 24 more cases today than we released historic cases. Taking all things into account, this leaves us with 342 active cases in our district across all 10 of our district’s 10 counties. On 09/02/2020 we were at our peak number of active cases, 411.
Where are Cases Tied to: The most common areas to which where we are seeing cases tied are (in descending order): Businesses, Schools, Family, and Places of Worship.
New Cases: We report that our total case count has increased by 35 today: Adair: 13; Clinton: 6; Green: 3; Pulaski: 7; Russell: 1; Taylor: 4; and, Wayne: 1. Our current new case growth rate is: 1.012. This means our total case count is projected to double every 58.1 days. The most new cases we ever added in a single day was on 08/26/2020 when we added 75 cases. Today’s new cases include:
Adair: A 33-year-old female who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
Adair: A 63-year-old female who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
Adair: A 63-year-old male who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
Adair: A 73-year-old male who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
Adair: A 78-year-old female who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
Adair: A 24-year-old male who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
Adair: A 61-year-old female who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
Adair: A 60-year-old male who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
Adair: A 23-year-old male who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
Adair: A 35-year-old female who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
Adair: A 37-year-old female who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
Adair: A 54-year-old female who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
Adair: A 65-year-old female who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
Clinton: A 66-year-old female who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
Clinton: A 64-year-old female who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
Clinton: A 66-year-old male who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
Clinton: A 10-year-old male who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
Clinton: A 72-year-old female who is self-isolated, asymptomatic
Clinton: A 39-year-old female who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
Green: A 8-year-old male who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
Green: A 67-year-old female who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
Green: A 71-year-old male who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
Pulaski: A 51-year-old male who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
Pulaski: A 28-year-old female who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
Pulaski: A 14-year-old male who is self-isolated, asymptomatic
Pulaski: A 17-year-old female who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
Pulaski: A 60-year-old female who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
Pulaski: A 53-year-old male who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
Pulaski: A 38-year-old female who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
Russell: A 40-year-old female who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
Taylor: A 26-year-old male who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
Taylor: A 21-year-old male who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
Taylor: A 32-year-old male who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
Taylor: A 30-year-old male who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
Wayne: A 48-year-old male who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
The death we report today was a 75-year-old female from Clinton. Our mortality rate at 2.28% of known cases remains high when compared to the state mortality rate (1.57%) but lower than the national mortality rate (2.78%).
As far as total number of new cases, this was the highest week for the state and the second highest week for Lake Cumberland since the onset of the outbreak. This is our third straight week of increasing numbers. We added 260 new cases this week compared to 227 last week.
As for active cases, we have 58 more this week than last (342 vs 284). Also, we experienced 3 COVID-19 related deaths this week. Fortunately, our number of hospitalized cases is down (14 today compared to 23 last Saturday). We still only have 2 counties in the “red-critical” range of community-spread (Adair and Clinton); but Taylor is getting dangerously close to this level.
Please, let’s all continue to do our part in slowing the spread of COVID-19 by wearing our face coverings, avoiding crowds (especially in confined spaces), social distancing when around others, increasing our hand hygiene, increasing our general sanitation, and by avoiding the touching of our faces.
The Lake Cumberland area has experienced 3,246 cumulative confirmed cases and there have been 79,540 confirmed COVID-19 cases across all 120 Kentucky Counties as of today (this includes 79,445 statewide plus 95 recently reported cases in Lake Cumberland not in the Governor’s/Department for Public Health’s daily report). Regardless of the confirmed case count for any Lake Cumberland County, we believe COVID-19 to be widespread. The LCDHD is working tirelessly, including nights and weekends, to identify and contact all those with whom any positive case may have come into close contact, and to follow-up daily with positive cases. Additionally, we are striving diligently to follow-up on business-related complaints regarding noncompliance with the Governor’s Executive Orders. We are also working with any community partner that requests assistance for prevention or post-exposure planning/response.
For more statistics and local data go to LCDHD COVID-19 Information.