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Kentucky reaches record COVID-19 ICU admissions

By Crystal Staley/Sebastian Kitchen

On Thursday during the Governor's weekly Team Kentucky update, Dr. Steven Stack, commissioner of the Kentucky Department for Public Health, said hospitals are facing a variety of challenges caring for patients right now, including:
  • Inability to transfer pediatric patients to children's hospitals due to lack of available beds;
  • Health care staffing shortages;
  • Inability to transfer patients to higher levels of care due to lack of available beds at other hospitals;
  • Needing to use crisis standards of care, where each nurse and/or nursing assistant must care for more patients than they normally would;
  • In some cases, needing to cancel elective or non-emergency procedures in order to free up staff and resources;
  • Ongoing EMS staffing shortages amid increased requests for transfers; and
  • Individuals coming to emergency departments solely for COVID-19 testing
Yesterday, 3,576 new cases were reported and the state's COVID-19 test positivity rate was 12.59%. As of yesterday, 1,658 Kentuckians with COVID-19 are hospitalized; a record 466 are in the ICU; and 229 are on ventilators.


Yesterday, Dr. Stack and Cabinet for Health and Family Services (CHFS) Secretary Eric Friedlander signed a directive allowing people licensed to practice medicine or nursing in other states to serve on an emergency basis in Kentucky.

From March 1 to Aug. 18, 2021, 85.3% of COVID-19 cases, 90.3% of COVID-19 hospitalizations and 87.4% of COVID-19 deaths were among partially vaccinated or unvaccinated Kentuckians.

As of today, 2,436,044 Kentuckians have received at least their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine; 6,935 have been vaccinated over the past 24 hours.

From March to May 2021, 6% of COVID-19 deaths were among Kentuckians younger than 50 years old; from June to August 2021, 16% of COVID-19 deaths were among Kentuckians younger than 50 years old.

The Governor continued to encourage all Kentuckians 12 and older to get a safe and effective COVID-19 vaccine and then sign up for a chance to win $1 million or a full college scholarship at ShotAtAMillion.ky.gov. Two $1 million winners and 10 full-scholarship winners were announced on July 2 and July 30. On Aug. 27, another $1 million winner and five more full-scholarship winners will be announced.


This story was posted on 2021-08-20 09:27:51
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