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LCDHD COVID-19 Public Information Brief 1/26/2021 By Amy Tomlinson Lake Cumberland District Health Department The Lake Cumberland area will continue in Phase 1a of our COVID-19 response, but has now also expanded into 1b, first responders and school staff. Also, do not forget about the federal contract with Walgreens and CVS pharmacies to vaccinate the long-term care facilities and personal care homes -- residents and staff. It is our understanding that almost every nursing home in the state has been visited by either CVS or Walgreens to administer prime/1st doses of the vaccine. The Lake Cumberland District's health departments are not pre-registering for future vaccination phases currently, as we have not been authorized to order additional first dose vaccines, nor have we been promised that we will be allowed to do so in the future. The only prime/1st dose vaccines coming into the Lake Cumberland area at present are the 500 doses per week that are coming to the Lake Cumberland Regional Hospital. Their COVID-19 hotline phone number is 1-844-675-3390. Also, select providers are receiving vaccine for school staff. Counties where 1st Dose School Clinics are Complete/Largely Complete:
Counties where 1st Dose School Clinics are in Progress:
Statewide Testing Positivity Rate: 9.63%. Deaths: We are happy to report no new deaths today. We have experienced a total of 316 deaths resulting in a 1.81% mortality rate (about 1 in 55) among known cases. This compares with a 1% mortality rate at the state level, and a 1.67% mortality rate at the national level. Hospitalizations: We presently have 61 cases in the hospital. This is 4 more than what we reported yesterday. We have had a total of 982 hospitalizations resulting in a 5.63% hospitalization rate (about 1 in 18) among known cases. The state hospitalization rate is 4.57%. The latest data shows that 97.78% of Lake Cumberland's ICU beds are filled, and 33.33% of ventilator capacity is being utilized. Total (Cumulative) Cases: The Lake Cumberland District has experienced a total of 17,431 cases since the onset of the outbreak. This means that 8.34% 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 106 cases today from isolation. Released cases include: Adair: 5; Casey: 8; Clinton: 10; Cumberland: 9; Green: 6; McCreary: 2; Pulaski: 40; Russell: 7; Taylor: 9; and, Wayne: 10. In all, we have released 93.7% of our total cases. Active (Current) Cases: We added 12 more cases today than we had deceased and/or released cases. This leaves us with 784 active cases in our district across all 10 of our district's 10 counties. On 12/10/2020 we were at our peak number of active cases, 1,341. Where Did Cases Visit Prior to Isolation: The most common places cases visited prior to isolation are (in descending order): Businesses, Schools, Family, and Medical Facilities. We have had 66 cases tied to Christmas gaterings, 43 tied to Thanksgiving gatherings, and 15 tied to New Year's events. Of our active cases, 10% can not be tied back to another known case (community-spread cases). New Cases: We report that our total case count has increased by 118 today: Adair: 5; Casey: 9; Clinton: 8; Cumberland: 8; Green: 4; McCreary: 9; Pulaski: 22; Russell: 20; Taylor: 25; and, Wayne: 8. Our current new case growth rate is: 1.007. This means our total case count is projected to double every 96.56 days. The most new cases we ever added in a single day was on 12/30/2020 when we added 301 cases. Today's new cases include:
We are happy to report no new deaths today. Today, on the global scale, though, 100 million total cases was surpassed. At the local level, for the second day in a row, new cases were lower this week than last. Thus, our 7-day-average incidence rate for our district lowered slightly. Unfortunately, all 10 or our district's 10 counties remain in the "red-critical" range of community-spread. Until the vaccine is widely available, let's all 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 touching our faces. The Lake Cumberland area has experienced 17,431 cumulative confirmed cases and there have been 351,138 confirmed COVID-19 cases across all 120 Kentucky Counties as of today (this includes 350,528 statewide plus 610 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 with positive cases when ready to be released. Additionally, we are striving diligently to follow-up on business-related complaints regarding noncompliance with the COVID-19 guidance. We are also working with any community partner that requests assistance for prevention or post-exposure planning/response. Finally, we are working with all community partners regarding vaccination planning. COVID-19 Vaccination Status We spend a great deal of our time of late explaining to people why there is not enough vaccine available in our area for everyone who wants one to get one. Here is an article that helps to explain the answer: COVID-19 Vaccine, Patience is Needed. Several people who contact us are very frustrated. While this is understandable, we ask for patience and to keep in mind: 1) we at the local health departments have no control over the federal contract with CVS and Walgreens, 2) the state Department for Public Health and the Governor's Office, not the local health departments, has control over how much vaccine is shipped to providers in our district, 3) currently, the state is only getting about 50,000 doses per week to spread across a population of about 4.5 million, 4) the local health departments have little influence on how any providers, other than the health departments, utilize the vaccine they receive, and 5) we post everything we know about the status of the vaccination efforts daily in our Daily Brief, so tying up our phone lines and staff with questions will produce no more information than simply reading our Daily Brief. This story was posted on 2021-01-27 07:07:28
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