Local "non-hospital" health care agencies — as well as emergency responders that provide medical care — that haven't signed up to receive the vaccine can do so on the health department's website.
For the week of Dec. 18 through 24, the hospital reached record highs for the total number of inpatient beds occupied by coronavirus patients and its overall proportion of COVID-19 patients.
The Pennyroyal Arts Council helped the health department by emailing parents of the other dancers to make them aware someone in the ballet had tested positive for the virus.
Three of the last four weeks of data show that Jennie Stuart's ratio of COVID-19 patients to total beds was at or above the 20% threshold that puts a hospital under “extreme stress.” For the most recent week available, the ratio of 16%.
At least 181 state and local public health leaders in 38 states have resigned, retired or been fired since April 1, the largest exodus of public health leaders in American history.
Skeptics can underestimate the contagiousness of coronavirus and the risk their behavior poses to others. The virus’s ability to be transmitted asymptomatically makes it even riskier.
Kentucky has confirmed one-sixth as many flu cases this season as this time last season, but the state's top doctor says it's too soon to read much into that.
