Statewide Testing Positivity Rate: 6.1%.

Deaths: We are happy to report no new deaths today. We have experienced a total of 81 deaths resulting in a 1.79% mortality rate (about 1 in 56) among known cases. This compares with a 1.37% mortality rate at the state level, and a 2.51% morality rate at the national level.

Hospitalizations: We presently have 42 cases in the hospital. This is 1 more than yesterday. The most hospitalizations we have had at any one time was 42 on 11/01/2020. We have had a total of 345 hospitalizations resulting in a 7.63% hospitalization rate (about 1 in 13) among known cases. The state hospitalization rate is 6.64%. The latest state data shows that 68.88% of ICU beds and 29.32% of ventilator capacity are being utilized.

Total (Cumulative) Cases: The Lake Cumberland District has experienced a total of 4,520 cases since the onset of the outbreak. This means that 2.16% 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 0 cases today from isolation. In all, we have released 84.3% of our total cases.

Active (Current) Cases: We added 44 more cases today than we released historic cases. Taking all things into account, this leaves us with 627 active cases in our district across all 10 of our district’s 10 counties. On 11/01/2020 we were at our peak number of active cases, 627.

Where are Cases Tied to: The most common areas to where we are seeing cases tied are (in descending order): Businesses, Schools, Family, and Places of Worship.

New Cases: We report that our total case count has increased by 44 today: Adair: 4; Casey: 5; Clinton: 1; Green: 3; McCreary: 3; Pulaski: 12; Russell: 1; Taylor: 13; and, Wayne: 2. Our current new case growth rate is: 1.015. This means our total case count is projected to double every 45.91 days. The most new cases we ever added in a single day was on 10/28/2020 when we added 91 cases. Today’s new cases include:

Adair: A 42-year-old female who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
Adair: A 41-year-old male who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
Adair: A 54-year-old male who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
Adair: A 20-year-old female who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
Casey: A 20-year-old male who is self-isolated, asymptomatic
Casey: A 59-year-old male who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
Casey: A 56-year-old female who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
Casey: A 24-year-old male who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
Casey: A 73-year-old female who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
Clinton: A 48-year-old male who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
Green: A 63-year-old female who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
Green: A 34-year-old male who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
Green: A 52-year-old female who is self-isolated, asymptomatic
McCreary: A 47-year-old female who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
McCreary: A 57-year-old male who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
McCreary: A 67-year-old female who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
Pulaski: A 43-year-old male who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
Pulaski: A 27-year-old female who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
Pulaski: A 61-year-old male who is self-isolated, asymptomatic
Pulaski: A 40-year-old male who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
Pulaski: A 8-year-old female who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
Pulaski: A 70-year-old female who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
Pulaski: A 80-year-old male who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
Pulaski: A 28-year-old female who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
Pulaski: A 1-year-old male who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
Pulaski: A 62-year-old male who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
Pulaski: A 24-year-old female who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
Pulaski: A 19-year-old male who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
Russell: A 74-year-old male who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
Taylor: A 26-year-old female who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
Taylor: A 60-year-old male who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
Taylor: A 24-year-old male who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
Taylor: A 19-year-old male who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
Taylor: A 20-year-old male who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
Taylor: A 2 Months-old female who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
Taylor: A 48-year-old female who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
Taylor: A 80-year-old male who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
Taylor: A 36-year-old female who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
Taylor: A 71-year-old female who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
Taylor: A 7-year-old male who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
Taylor: A 28-year-old male who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
Taylor: A 49-year-old female who is self-isolated, asymptomatic
Wayne: A 9-year-old female who is self-isolated, still symptomatic
Wayne: A 5-year-old female who is self-isolated, asymptomatic

Nine of our ten counties are now in the “red-critical” range: Adair, Casey, Clinton, Cumberland, Green, McCreary, Russell, Taylor, and Wayne. Pulaski is the only county in the “orange-accelerated” range of community-spread. We also are at our highest ever number of active cases and hospitalized cases.

It should be noted that, due to the recent surge in cases, and due to a medical absence of one of our key staff, we are behind entering 350 cases into the state system. While our local numbers are current (as reported in our news briefs, and on our webpages), the numbers reported by the Governor’s Office and posted on the state’s COVID-19 webpage will be significantly off. We have reported this through the State Department for Public Health to the Governor’s Office. In any event, please utilize our local data for the time being.

Please, let’s all continue to 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 the touching of our faces.

The Lake Cumberland area has experienced 4,520 cumulative confirmed cases and there have been 109,046 confirmed COVID-19 cases across all 120 Kentucky Counties as of today (this includes 108,642 statewide plus 404 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 daily with positive cases. Additionally, we are striving diligently to follow-up on business-related complaints regarding noncompliance with the Governor’s Executive Orders. We are also working with any community partner that requests assistance for prevention or post-exposure planning/response.

https://www.lcdhd.org/2020/11/01/public-information-brief-11-01-20/

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