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Kentucky’s new-case COVID rate falls more than any other state’s in last 2 weeks
As the United States sees the highest number of new cases of the coronavirus since the surge in late summer, Kentucky is an outlier. In ...
Al Cross, Author at Winchester Sun
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Coronavirus case numbers rise; positive-test rate is up to 5.7%
All the leading indicators of the pandemic went the wrong direction in Kentucky Tuesday, threatening to move the state off its rough plateau and into ...
by Al Cross, Wednesday, November 10, 2021 1:33 pm
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Pandemic map is mainly orange, but has plenty of red counties
Kentucky’s coronavirus map is now mainly orange, indicating the continued decline in new cases in the last five weeks, but the state’s new-case rate is ...
by Al Cross, Friday, October 29, 2021 9:17 am
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Covid-19 is killing 40 Kentuckians a day
Most measures of the pandemic in Kentucky inched down Wednesday, except the most serious: deaths and Covid-19 patients on mechanical ventilation. The state reported 52 ...
by Al Cross, Friday, September 24, 2021 9:06 am
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Beshear sends National Guard to 21 more hospitals as number of COVID-19 patients sets another record
Gov. Andy Beshear sent 310 more members of the Kentucky National Guard to 21 hospitals Thursday, saying “This shows that every hospital is bursting at ...
by Al Cross, Friday, September 10, 2021 3:07 pm
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State reports 1,054 new COVID cases, raising weekly infection rate by 18% in one day; State as a whole is ‘orange’
If there was any doubt that the coronavirus is surging in Kentucky, it was dispelled by Tuesday’s daily report from the state Department for Public ...