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Track Covid-19 in Jefferson County, Kentucky

Track Covid-19 in Jefferson County: Latest Data and Maps - The New York Times

Track Covid-19 in Jefferson County, Ky.

These Covid tracking pages are no longer being updated. Get the latest information from the Centers for Disease Control, or find archived data from The Times’s three year reporting effort here.

Daily Covid-19 admissions in the Jefferson County area

Avg. on March 2 7
14-day change –30%
2
4 hospital admissions per 100,000

About the data

Data is from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Hospitalization data is a daily average of Covid-19 patients in hospital service areas that intersect with Jefferson County, an area which may be larger than Jefferson County itself.

The number of daily hospital admissions shows how many patients were admitted to hospitals for Covid and is one of the most reliably reported indicators of Covid’s impact on a community.

About the data

Data is from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Hospitalization data is a daily average of Covid-19 patients in hospital service areas that intersect with Jefferson County, an area which may be larger than Jefferson County itself.

Primary series vaccination rate

67%

Total population

91%

Ages 65 and up

Bivalent booster rate

17%

Total population

45%

Ages 65 and up

An updated vaccine is recommended for adults and most children. Statewide, 6% of vaccinations did not specify a home county.

Nearby hospitals

Share of I.C.U. beds occupied
75%
85%
95%
No data
About this data Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Notes: The hospitals map shows the average I.C.U. occupancy at nearby hospitals in the most recent week with data reported. The data is self-reported to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services by individual hospitals. It excludes counts from hospitals operated by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and the Indian Health Service. Numbers for hospitalized patients are based on inpatient beds and include I.C.U. beds. Hospitalized Covid-19 patients include both confirmed and suspected Covid-19 patients. The C.D.C. stopped reporting data on cases in May 2023.

How trends have changed in Jefferson County

Hospitalized Covid-19 patients in the Jefferson County area
200
400
600 hospitalized
7-day average
56
Weekly new Covid hospital admissions
Early data may be incomplete.
50
100
150
200 hospital admissions
7
Weekly deaths
Data for recent weeks is incomplete.
20
40 deaths
6
About this data Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Notes: Weekly county death data prior to Jan. 2021 was not reported by the C.D.C. and is sourced from reporting by The New York Times. Hospitalization data is a weekly average of Covid-19 patients in hospital service areas that intersect with Jefferson County. Hospitalization numbers early in the pandemic are undercounts due to incomplete reporting by hospitals to the federal government.

Historical trends in Jefferson County

The data in these charts has been archived and they are no longer being updated.

Weekly cases
5,000
10,000 cases
163
Test positivity rate
50%
7-day average
5
About this data Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The data in these charts has been archived and they are no longer being updated. Weekly county case data prior to Jan. 2021 was not reported by the C.D.C. and is sourced from reporting by The New York Times. The C.D.C. stopped reporting data on cases in May 2023. Test positivity data is based only on test results reported to the federal government and is a seven-day average.

Credits

By Jon Huang, Samuel Jacoby, Jasmine C. Lee, John-Michael Murphy, Charlie Smart and Albert Sun. Additional reporting by Sarah Cahalan, Lisa Waananen Jones, Amy Schoenfeld Walker and Josh Williams. See a full list of contributors to The Times’s Covid-19 data reporting here.

About the data

Data on this page is reported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Population and demographic data is from the U.S. Census Bureau. Hospitalization data is reported by individual hospitals to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and it includes confirmed and suspected adult and pediatric patients. The C.D.C. does not provide complete vaccinations data for some counties and caps its vaccination rate figures at 95 percent.

The C.D.C. may make historical updates as more data is reported.

The C.D.C. stopped reporting data on Covid cases in May 2023.