Trigg County is averaging nine new COVID-19 cases a day in December and had one of western Kentucky’s highest incidence rates on Tuesday.
The Pennyrile District Health Department reported 62 new cases in the county between Thursday and Tuesday, which averaged to over 10 new cases per day. None of the new cases involved hospitalization.
The district health department also reported a death that occurred in May has been confirmed as a covid-related death through the state’s audit. The death is the 30th death linked to COVID-19 since the pandemic began 21 months ago.
According to the state’s COVID-19 dashboard, 50-percent of Trigg County’s residents have been vaccinated with 61-percent of residents 18 and under vaccinated. Trigg ranks 62nd out of 120 Kentucky counties in vaccination rate.
On Tuesday, Trigg County’s incidence rate was 57.5 — the fourth-highest west of Louisville and the 21st highest in the state.
The state introduced an incidence rate map in September of 2020 that takes the average number of new cases over a seven-day period and normalizes it per 100,000 population. A seven-day average of 25 or more cases means the county is labeled a ‘red’ county or critical for outbreak purposes.
