The positivity rate for COVID-19 continues to spike in Kentucky and Governor Andy Beshear says hospitals are starting to fill up.
After reporting 2,100 new cases Monday, along with 25 new deaths over the past three days, Governor Beshear urged people to get the vaccine, saying that many of those deaths were ages 50 and younger, showing that anyone can get horribly sick.
He warned that the state could be reach a critical point, with a positivity rate at 12.4 percent and some hospitals starting to reach max capacity.
Nearly every county in Kentucky is now listed as ‘red’ on the COVID-19 state incidence rate map, including Christian, Todd, Trigg, Hopkins, Muhlenberg, Logan, Caldwell and Lyon counties, with the remaining seven counties ‘orange’.
There are currently 1,528 individuals in the hospital with COVID-19, 429 in the ICU and 224 on a ventilator.