Notes from Tuesday’s 12.29 Ky. COVID-19 Daily Summary
Total New Cases: 2,990
Total Cases: 261,492 including 210,548 with 50,944 Probable cases.
Positivity Rate: 8.41% (7-day Rollover Average)*
Total Tests: 3,392,215 Total Positive Tests: 204,012 Total PCR Positive: 180,583 Total Serology Positive: 6,818, Total Antigen Positive: 16,611
Kentuckians Ever Hospitalized with COVID-19: 13,224 (5.06%)
Kentuckians now in Hospital with COVID-19: 1,635
Kentuckians Ever in ICU with COVID-19: 2,998 (1.15%)
Kentuckians now in ICU with COVID-19: 380
Kentuckians on a Ventilator with COVID-19: 211
Current Hospitalized Patients:
Occupied | Available | % Occupancy
Inpatient Beds: 8,074 5,183 60.9%
ICU Beds: 1,145 658 63.5%
Ventilators: 616 1,178 34.3%
Kentuckians who have Recovered: 36,124 (13.81%)
New Deaths announced today: 31
Total Deaths due to COVID-19: 2,594 Confirmed: 2,424 Probable: 170
Travel Advisory
On December 14, 2020, the Kentucky Department for Public Health (KDPH) revised its travel guidance to discourage all out-of-state leisure travel until further notice.
If persons do engage in out-of-state leisure travel, they are urged to voluntarily self-quarantine for 14 days when they return to Kentucky or follow CDC guidance for alternate options to shorten the quarantine period.
Additional CDC guidance related to domestic travel during the COVID-19 pandemic includes:
You and your travel companions (including children) may feel well and not have any symptoms, but you can still spread COVID-19 to family, friends, and the unity after travel.
If you have a known exposure to COVID-19 you should delay travel, quarantine yourself from other people, get tested, and monitor your health. Check your state or local health department for information about local quarantine requirements.
Don’t travel if you are sick or test positive for COVID-19. Don’t travel with someone who is sick.
Complete CDC guidance on travel can be found here: Domestic Travel During the COVID-19 Pandemic
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Follow these recommendations to stay safe and limit the spread of COVID-19
Allow Employees to work from home when possible.
Non-Critical Government offices to operate virtually.
Reduce in-person shopping. Order online or curbside pickup as much as possible.
Order Take-Out. Avoid dining in restaurants or bars.
Prioritize businesses that follow and enforce mask mandates and other guidelines.
Reschedule, postpone or cancel public or private events.
Do not host or attend gatherings of any size.
Avoid non-essential activities outside of your home.
Reduce overall activity and contacts, and follow existing guidance, including the 10 Steps to Defeat COVID-19.
*Based on a 7-day rolling average. Timing of reporting overall lab results versus positives, repeat testing of individuals, duplicate entries, and lack of reporting by some labs, make the data imprecise and more appropriate or useful for trending.
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.
