Since Monday, the COVID-19 rate of occurrence in Grayson County has fallen nearly 40 percent.
On Friday, the county’s rate of COVID occurrence was 33.0 per 100,000 residents (over the last seven days), according to the Kentucky Department for Public Health, a healthy, 37.8 percent drop from Monday’s 53.0. On February 1, the rate of occurrence in Grayson County was 249.7.
An incident rate over 25 indicates a “critical spread” of the virus.
Between Monday and Friday, the Grayson County Health Department reported 78 new cases of the virus to state health officials, raising the total number of cases ever in the county to 7,985.
Two new deaths were also reported this week, raising the county’s death toll to 119.
Several bordering counties have likewise experienced a precipitous drop in the number of new cases, as Breckinridge (22.3), Ohio (22.0), Butler (24.4), and Edmonson (18.8) counties’ incident rates have fallen below 25. Only Hardin (25.9) and Hart (26.3) counties join Grayson County as being narrowly in the “red.”
Kentucky health officials announced a combined 11,439 new cases between Monday and Friday, with 133 new deaths. The new cases increase the number of cases ever diagnosed in Kentucky to 1,274,681, and raises the death toll to 13,758 (1.1 percent fatality rate).
As of Friday, 1,148 people are hospitalized, with 223 patients being treated in intensive care. There are 119 people on ventilators.
The positivity rate, which on February 1 was 27.51 percent, checked in at 9.85 percent on Friday. Kentucky’s incident rate, 178.26 on February 1, fell to 35.05 on Friday.
By Ken Howlett, News Director
Contact Ken at ken@k105.com
