For the first time since local health officials began reporting confirmed COVID-19 cases one month ago, there are now as many people who have recovered from the respiratory disease as there are people still classified as an active case.
Christian County had 38 active and 38 recovered cases on Thursday, health department spokeswoman Amanda Sweeney reported. Those are in addition to three people who died from COVID-19 complications last week.
The number of confirmed cases by age group are:
- Pediatric (0-21): 4
- Young Adult-Middle Age (22-59): 46
- Older Adult (60-84): 26
- Elderly (85+): 3
The total of 79 reported Thursday is the same number the health department reported Wednesday.
Slightly more than half of the cases in Christian County are from Western State Hospital.
As of Thursday, the psychiatric hospital had 40 cases, an increase of five from Wednesday, Gov. Andy Beshear said during his daily briefing. Twenty-seven employees and 13 patients have tested positive for COVID-19, the respiratory disease caused by the novel coronavirus. Two people from Western State were among the three in Christian County who have died.
The numbers reported daily by local health departments and state officials do not always sync on the same day, which could explain why the Christian County Health Department reported no increase on the same day that the governor reported an increase of five cases.
(Jennifer P. Brown is the editor and founder of Hoptown Chronicle. Reach her at editor@hoptownchronicle.org.)
Jennifer P. Brown is co-founder, publisher and editor of Hoptown Chronicle. You can reach her at editor@hoptownchronicle.org. Brown was a reporter and editor at the Kentucky New Era, where she worked for 30 years. She is a co-chair of the national advisory board to the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues, governing board past president for the Kentucky Historical Society, and co-founder of the Kentucky Open Government Coalition. She serves on the Hopkinsville History Foundation's board.
