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A reported down-tick in COVID-19 case numbers is happening as hospitals across the U.S. have seen a 16% decrease in weekly reported cases. The Purchase District Health Department, in far western Kentucky, is no different.
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Western Kentucky health departments have scaled back or completely stopped making check-in calls in recent weeks to those who test positive for COVID-19 in their communities, due to being overwhelmed by a flood of cases from the omicron variant.
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Kentucky officials continue to report record COVID-19 cases with more than 83,000 over the past week, but say the omicron surge could peak soon.
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Last week, Kentucky saw more than 6,400 cases in a single day. The state’s previous highest number of cases was recorded nearly a year ago.
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Though the Delta variant of COVID-19 is often pegged as the catalyst for the most recent wave of the virus, a less common variant known as Mu was discovered in western Kentucky during genome sequencing of tests not long after, a public health official with the Purchase District Health Department (PDHD) said.
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The latest COVID-19 surge in Kentucky has hit hospitals hard. Doctors from around the state have reported that capacity issues far exceed previous...
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More than 10,000 people are currently held in Kentucky prisons, and nearly 8,000 have been infected with the coronavirus since the pandemic began. This infection rate of nearly 80% is among the worst nationally, according to a new report by the advocacy group Prison Policy Initiative.
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At a Monday briefing, Governor Beshear reported Kentucky had more cases of the virus last week than any other point of the pandemic. Beshear said...
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COVID hospitalizations have now spiked six-fold in Tennessee over the last month. And Memphis, which saw the state’s first delta variant cases, is projected to surpass the hospital totals from
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The highly contagious Delta variant of the coronavirus is forcing communities across Kentucky, and the U.S., to step up safety precautions once again....