UK HealthCare starts vaccinating frontline health care workers wdrb.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from wdrb.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Currently on ventilator: 246
Top counties with the most positive cases today are: Jefferson, Fayette, Warren, Daviess and Madison. Each of these counties reported 100 or more new cases; Jefferson County alone reported 418.
The red zone counties for this week can be found here. Community leaders, businesses, schools and families in these counties should all follow red zone reduction recommendations, as well as other orders and guidance.
Those reported lost to the virus today include a 68-year-old man from Boyd County; a 62-year-old woman from Caldwell County; a 77-year-old and 80-year old man from Daviess County; an 88-year-old woman from Graves County; a 77-year-old man from Hardin County; five men from Jefferson County, ages, 61, 64, 78, 83 and 92; a 90-year-old man from McCracken County; and three women from Ohio County, ages 87, and two, both of whom were 91.
Kentucky reports 2,946 new coronavirus cases, 15 additional deaths wdrb.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from wdrb.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Dec. 16, 2020) After receiving the Pfizer vaccine shipment on Tuesday morning at UK Chandler Hospital, five emergency department employees were the first to receive the vaccine about four hours later. In about a week, 1,950 front-line health care workers who either take care of COVID-19 patients or who are exposed to patients being ruled out for the virus, will receive the first dose of the two-dose vaccine.
UK HealthCare s allotment of the vaccine is among nearly 12,000 doses available in this week’s initial rollout for Kentucky’s health care workers.
This comes after the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved an emergency use authorization (EUA) Dec. 11 for the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, making it the first-ever approved vaccine ready to administer in the fight against COVID-19.
We can see victory : First COVID-19 vaccine shots given in Kentucky at U of L Health Deborah Yetter, Louisville Courier Journal
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. Declaring let s knock this thing out, Dr. Jason Smith, chief medical officer at University of Louisville Health, on Monday became the first person in Kentucky to receive a dose of the new COVID-19 vaccine.
Gov. Andy Beshear was on hand to watch as Smith, who is a trauma surgeon, two nurses and two other doctors in quick succession were injected with the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine approved just last week for emergency use in patients.