The hospitalization rate is up 117%, compared to two weeks ago. Last week, Kentucky's positivity rate was close to 9%. SHAPIRO: Coronavirus cases in your state are surging, as they are in many parts of the country. Kentucky's rate remains below the national average at about 45%. Now that the delta variant is surging around the country, there's even more pressure to get Americans fully vaccinated. SHAPIRO: That's Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear announcing a million-dollar reward in his state's vaccine lottery. ET: This story has been updated to include comment from the Kentucky Department for Public Health.Government officials have begged, pleaded and even bribed Americans to get the coronavirus vaccine.ĪNDY BESHEAR: This is going to be a special moment, and that's all because she did the right thing. "We are at an alarming place," Beshear said. In Warren County, Superintendent Rob Clayton announced on Monday night masks would be required after roughly 700 students and staff went into quarantine less than a week before the school year was to begin.īeshear stated on Tuesday that "without intervention," the state of Kentucky is on track to see its highest number of hospitalizations in the entire pandemic in two weeks, reported the Courier Journal.
Multiple school districts had implemented their own mandates prior to the governor's announcement. "I'm going to have the courage to do what I know is right to protect our children," Beshear said on Tuesday. Scottie Day said, "It should be rare that a child would need to go to the hospital."Īccording to the Courier Journal, several school districts disregarded the governor's pushes for all school districts to require masks, wishing to leave the decision up to the students' parents. "Kids are not immortal," Kentucky Children's Hospital Physician in Chief Dr. At this rate, in two weeks we will blow past our previous peaks." We had a 61 percent increase in number of COVID-19 patients on a ventilator in just one week. We had a 32 percent increase in the number of hospitalized COVID patients in the intensive care units in one week.
"We had a 43 percent increase in hospitalized COVID cases in Kentucky in one week. "This is the fastest and steepest rise in cases of the entire pandemic," Stack said. Newsweek was directed to a recent press release that featured Kentucky Department for Public Health Commissioner Dr. "We continue to stress that vaccination continues to be our number one fight against hospitalization, against this COVID rate." "The vast majority of patients that are requiring hospitalization are those unvaccinated patients," said Charlotte Ipsan, chief administrative office for Norton Women's and Children's Hospital. On Tuesday, the hospital recorded 10 pediatric patients with COVID-19, four in intensive care and two on ventilators. Norton Children's Hospital in Louisville has seen an uptick in children admissions in the last week alone. "This is how we make sure we protect our children, but this is also how we make sure that they stay in school," Beshear said Tuesday afternoon.Īccording to the Courier-Journal, dozens of Kentucky's school districts are scheduled to start school on Wednesday morning, so the mask mandate comes just in time.īeshear also highlighted that Kentucky is in the midst of one of the fastest surges of COVID-19 cases yet, and on Monday he announced 1,301 new COVID-19 cases, and the total number of cases in the state hit 500,267.Īnd as all states across the country are ravaged by the new Delta variant, children-especially those unable to receive the vaccine-have seen an increase in hospitalizations.ĬOVID-19 is "hitting kids in a way that we haven't seen before," Beshear said. "We're to the point where we cannot allow our kids to go in to these buildings unprotected, unvaccinated and face this Delta variant."- Ben Tobin August 10, 2021 Breaking: will sign an executive order today requiring everyone in child care facilities, pre-K and K-12 schools to wear a mask.
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