• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Home
  • About Us/Contact
  • Online Version
  • Advertise
  • SUBSCRIBE
  • Facebook
  • Twitter

Adair County Community Voice

Thoughtful, Thorough, and Truthful News Coverage in Columbia, Kentucky

  • Headline News
  • Featured News
  • Obituaries
  • Sports
  • Upcoming Events

As coronavirus cases increase, so do hospitalizations and deaths

Share on Facebook Share
Share on TwitterTweet
Send To Devices Send

 

 

Kentucky Health News

The pandemic continued to accelerate in Kentucky yesterday, especially in hospitals but also in new cases.

Kentucky reported 2,728 new cases of the coronavirus Tuesday, raising the seven-day rolling average by 24, to 2,369.

The state’s hospitals reported 1,109 Covid-19 patients, 32 more than Monday, an increase of almost 3 percent.

The number of hospitalizations started growing faster just before Thanksgiving, going up about 3% a day; after the post-Thanksgiving lull, the increase has averaged 3.5% per day.

Intensive-care units have 305 of the patients, five fewer than Monday; 174 patients need mechanical ventilation to breathe, six more than Monday.

Seven of the state’s 10 hospital-readiness regions are using at least 80% of their intensive care unit beds, with four of them over 90%. The highest is Barren River (Bowling Green-Glasgow), at 97.7%.

The state’s seven-day daily infection rate keeps going up. Tuesday, it was 48.24 cases per 100,000 residents, up from 47.96 on Monday. Counties with rates more than double that rate are Powell, 134.1; Cumberland, 116.6; Robertson, 108.4; Lewis, 104.4; Lawrence, 99.8; Harlan, 98.3; Owen, 98.3; and
McLean, 97.8.

While Kentucky’s infection rate remains high, some other states are surpassing it. According to The New York Times, Kentucky’s infection rate ranks 20th among the states, four notches lower than it was Friday. But in the last 14 days, the state’s 56% increase in new cases is eighth among the states.

The state reported 59 more Covid-19 deaths Tuesday, raising Kentucky’s pandemic death toll to 11,348. Reporting of deaths is often delayed by the state’s confirmation process; in the last 14 days, the state has reported an average of 42 Covid-19 deaths per day; a month ago, the 14-day average was 27 per day.

Primary Sidebar

Discover Adair County 2022

2021 Discover Adair County

2021 Discover Adair

2021 Graduation Magazine

2021 Graduation Mag invite

DISCOVER ADAIR COUNTY 2020

2021 Service Directory

KY PUBLIC NOTICES

Drug TIP LINE

Search