Kentucky reported 3,408 new COVID-19 cases on the day before Thanksgiving and 26 more deaths related to the virus. It’s the fourth time in the past week the case total has topped 3,000. 29-percent of the new cases were reported in Louisville and Lexington. According to the state, there have been over 166,000 cases of COVID-19 with 82-percent of that total confirmed cases.
The number of people hospitalized with the virus is 1,734 with 409 people in the ICU. In just the past week, hospitalizations have increased 11-percent, and the ICU census has increased 14-percent.
On Wednesday, 20-percent of Kentucky’s hospital beds and 28-percent of ICU beds contained a person infected with the virus. The state’s positivity rate Wednesday was 8.8-percent. Only Cumberland, Breckinridge, and Menifee counties were not listed in the red on the state’s incidence rate map.
State officials have urged people not to travel during the Thanksgiving holiday to help slow the spread of COVID-19 that has caused a surge among the state’s hospitals who are finding it increasingly difficult to staff COVID areas of the health care facilities.
