Updated: Most Lexington residents have gotten a vaccine dose. See more COVID-19 data
Last week, Lexington reported its fewest new COVID-19 cases in over a year.
The COVID-19 pandemic has been in Lexington for nearly 16 months. Since the first case was confirmed on March 8, 2020, the city has had 35,610 cases, resulting in 2,093 hospitalizations and 323 deaths.
In June, Lexington has reported less than one-half of the cases it reported for all of May. Last month, Lexington reported its fewest new cases in a month since May 2020.
The charts below are based off data from the Lexington health department. The health department releases new data from the previous day on each weekday. Data from Friday is reported by the health department on Monday. Data from Saturday, Sunday and Monday is reported by the health department on Tuesday.
Some of the data also comes from the state Department for Public Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
COVID-19 vaccine data for Lexington
The latest vaccination data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows Fayette County is second among all Kentucky counties in percentage of fully vaccinated residents.
Weekly COVID-19 statistics for Lexington
The rolling seven-day average is used by the local health department to measure the rate of coronavirus spread in Lexington over the past seven days. It’s calculated by taking the total number of newly-reported coronavirus cases over a seven-day period and dividing by seven.
Monthly COVID-19 statistics for Lexington
COVID-19 by age in Lexington
Note: Age breakdowns for cases, hospitalizations and deaths may not add up to the city’s total number of cases, hospitalizations and deaths. Age information may be delayed when the health department is reporting new data.
The health department on Dec. 11 released corrected data for its hospitalization statistics.
“Hospitalizations data have been adjusted to remove several earlier reports that did not have a COVID-19 admission,” a spokesman for the health department said. “... We will continue to review and clean up the hospitalizations data.”
This story was originally published December 4, 2020 at 9:15 AM.