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For sixth day of the last seven, new coronavirus cases increase; hospitalizations for covid-19 at a low for the week

Kentucky Health News chart compares daily case numbers with rolling average for past seven days.

Dotted line on KHN chart shows trend for the last month.

By Al Cross and Melissa Patrick
Kentucky Health News

Gov. Andy Beshear reported 258 new cases of the coronavirus in Kentucky Friday, the sixth day out of the last seven that the number has risen.

Following his recently revised schedule, Beshear did not hold a press conference Friday, but issued a press release. It did not emphasize the increase in cases, putting the number in the fifth paragraph and making no comments about recent trends.

Friday's numbers raised the state's case total to 13,454. While Beshear has said he will base his reopening decisions more on hospitalizations than daily case numbers, the press release did not mention those numbers, leaving them to the state's daily report.

The report showed 339 people in Kentucky hospitals with covid-19, and 64 of them under intensive care. The hospitalization number was the lowest of the week, and well under the averages of 387 for the last five days and 409 since June 11. Hospitalizations often drop on Fridays, but the number has generally declined since a high of 518 on June 4. Friday's intensive-care number was about average for the week.

“I know Kentuckians have what it takes to reopen as safely as possible,” Beshear said in the release. “We must continue to strike the balance between supporting our local economies and still cutting our contacts significantly.”

While social distancing and masks wearing are the two main prevention measures, Beshear said this week that people should also limit their daily activities to reduce exposure to the coronavirus and the pressure on their immune systems.

He said in the release, “As we realize that this fight will be a marathon, not a sprint, we have not lost heart. We have not lost our determination to protect each other. Instead, we have steeled ourselves to live in this new normal until we get a vaccine.”

Beshear reported two more deaths from covid-19, a 68-year-old man from Harlan County and a 95-year-old man in Franklin County, raising the death toll to 522.

“This year has been tough for everyone,” he said in the release. “But just imagine, in addition to all this fear and uncertainty and sudden change, also losing a loved one, and not being able to grieve with extended family and friends.” He has limited funeral homes to 40 people at a time.

The third and fourth paragraphs of the release recounted Beshear's Thursday proclamation of Friday, June 19 as Juneteenth National Freedom Day and noted the disproportionate effect of covid-19 on African Americans.

In other covid-19 news on Friday:

• Results from the first phase of the University of Louisville's study to track covid-19 in Louisville shows that precautionary measures worked against the disease's transmission among health care workers, says a news release. The researchers tested 1,372 health care workers and found that two of them had an active infection, 14 tested positive for antibodies, suggesting they had been exposed to the virus. 
•  “This is good news,” UofL Assistant Professor of Medicine Rachel Keith, who conducted the study, said in the release. “It shows that the precautionary measures adopted by our hospitals are working, and that patients seeking care in our hospitals are at a low risk of being infected by their health care providers. These results show the need for appropriate precautions, indicating that with proper PPE and social distancing, we can minimize the threat posed by the virus to our health care community.” Phase II of the Co-Immunity Project, which will test people in the Louisville community for the virus, is in progress. 
• National Cancer Institute Director Ned Sharpless offered a "conservative" estimate that there will be an additional 10,000 deaths from breast and colorectal cancers over the next 10 years due to coronavirus-caused postponements in diagnosis and care, The Washington Post reports. 
• Wondering how to stay safe at the beach during the coronavirus pandemic? The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has guidance for that largely mimics the same advice for most activities: social distancing, wear a mask during close contact and wash your hands. 
•  Health officials warn that the novel cornavirus is still circulating, even as the state eases into reopening, and that public health precautions -- like hand hygiene, wearing masks and social distancing -- must be taken seriously or Kentucky will risk another shutdown, Deborah Yetter reports for the Louisville Courier Journal. 
• Dr. Forest Arnold, a epidemiologist and associate professor of medicine at the University of Louisville, told Yetter, "I think a partial reopening can work and be successful if people would be serious about wearing masks and washing their hands and cleaning up after themselves. Occasionally, I go to the store and see a lot of people doing that and a handful of people not doing that. A handful of people not doing that is all it takes." 
• "A federal judge has ruled that Kentucky's most populous counties will not have more than one polling location during the upcoming primary elections," Ryland Barton reports for WFPL. U.S. District Judge Charles Simpson wrote: “Comprehensive plans were put in place which included making absentee ballots available for all voters, providing early in-person voting options for 15 days leading up to Election Day, and establishing a polling place for Election Day in-person voting. This Triple Crown of voting options wins against the pandemic’s risk of disenfranchising the Kentucky voter.” 
• WYMT reports on covid-19 cases across Eastern Kentucky. 
• As of 8:00 a.m. ET Friday, the unofficial U.S. coronavirus toll had reached 2,191,200 cases and 118,435 deaths -- up about 28,000 and 720 from the day before, according to the MedPage Today real-time tracker.. 
• Politico reports on the rising coronavirus cases among Latinos, reporting that Latinos age 25 to 54 have a covid-19 death rate at least five times greater than white people. In Kentucky, 17.21 percent of the coronavirus cases have been in the Hispanic population, along with 4.08% of death, as of June 18. The daily report is not broken down by age-group. The Hispanic and Latino population in Kentucky is 3.8%, according to the U.S. Census. 
• "It's been more than 3 weeks since George Floyd's death sparked an ongoing wave of national protests, and some cities are cautiously optimistic that these large outdoor gatherings didn't speed the spread of covid-19," MedPage Today reports.

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