Hospitalizations

Fewer than 300 Kentuckians were hospitalized with COVID-19 at the beginning of June. That jumped to 483 this week.

As COVID-19 cases rates in Kentucky decline, the state reached 9,000 deaths. The highest concentration of deaths from coronavirus has been, overwhelmingly, in unvaccinated people since the vaccine became widely available.

As health care workers grapple with the pandemic’s most recent wave, a few things are clear: patients hospitalized with COVID are getting sick quicker, are younger than before and are mostly unvaccinated.

Nashville’s largest hospital is quickly filling up with unvaccinated COVID patients. On Thursday, Vanderbilt University Medical Center announced its adult hospital is once again rescheduling surgeries that can be delayed,

Seven-day average positivity rate matches peak of previous April wave

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear on Wednesday announced the highest one-day total of new coronavirus cases — 2,700. The new record follows two weeks of sharply…