This toll already meets the prior record for the highest number of pediatric influenza deaths ever reported in Kentucky in a single flu season. The prior record was established during the 2019-2020 flu season, when six children died of influenza.
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Gov. Andy Beshear said that Kentucky has surpassed 1 million total COVID-19 cases since the start of the pandemic, with 1,014,703 total cases as of Tuesday.
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) � Kentucky’s public health commissioner is urging residents to get the flu vaccine to help lessen the strain on hospitals in the coming months. Dr. Steven Stack says if more Kentuckians get immunized against the flu, hospitals will have more capacity to care for COVID patients and other patients as well. Stack
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) � Kentucky Public Health Commissioner Steven Stack says people who don’t need emergency care shouldn’t visit hospitals for COVID-19 testing but should go to a pharmacy or contact their local health department for more resources instead. Stack said Thursday that Kentucky’s emergency rooms have been reeling from record-high ICU admissions among virus
As of Thursday, 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.
Dr. Stack said a variety of hospitals across the state have already started canceling and postponing non-urgent, but important, surgeries and other procedures that would require admission to the hospital for overnight stays.
On Monday, Gov. Andy Beshear and Dr. Steven Stack, commissioner of the Kentucky Department for Public Health, updated Kentuckians on the state’s Healthy at Work requirements.
Kentucky officials say the state is expanding the class of people eligible to receive the COVID-19 vaccination.
On Thursday, Gov. Andy Beshear announced four new regional COVID-19 vaccination sites, in Bowling Green, Covington, Glasgow and Murray.
Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear and Dr. Steven Stack, commissioner of the Kentucky Department for Public Health (KDPH) said the state is expecting to receive approximately 38,000 doses of a COVID-19 vaccine as early as mid-December.