Steven Stack, Kentucky’s public health commissioner.
“Our hospitals are at the brink of collapse in many communities,” said Dr. Nearly 70% of the state’s hospitals - 66 of 96 - are reporting critical staffing shortages, the highest number yet during the pandemic, the governor said. “And right now, sadly, we are one of the hottest states in the country.” “Right now, COVID is as bad in Kentucky as it has ever been in this pandemic,” Beshear said. Andy Beshear announced Monday he is canceling his executive order from earlier this month that requires students to wear masks in schools. At least 68 virus-related deaths were reported statewide during those three days. The legislature passed bills Thursday that scrapped a statewide mask mandate for public schools and imposed a ban on any statewide mask rules until June 2023. The Bluegrass State reported 10,007 coronavirus cases in the past three days, and more than 2,700 of those cases were in school-aged children. Kentucky currently ranks third nationally for the highest number of new daily COVID-19 cases per capita, Beshear said Monday. "Let’s step up and have the courage to be responsible for them.” “We’re supposed to be responsible for the safety of our children," the governor said. As of Sunday, 25% of the state’s 171 school districts had decided in favor of a school mask mandate, the Lexington Herald-Leader reported. 11 would remain in place as “we work to make the best decisions for the safety of all students, staff and our community.”īeshear urged school boards statewide to “do the right thing" and keep mask mandates in place. She said the districtwide mask mandate in effect since Aug. The Lee County school board is scheduled to discuss mask policy and other virus-mitigation strategies this week, Wasson said. “I can’t put into words how much this hurts.” “He fought hard against COVID but unfortunately it was too much,” Bailey’s son, Austin, said in a social media post. "And then there is one wrong decision, where you endanger children and you allow COVID to spread throughout your community when your hospital is already overburdened.”Ī school custodian in eastern Kentucky died from COVID-19 on Sunday, becoming the second staff member at Lee County Elementary to die from the virus since the school year began.Ĭustodian Bill Bailey died two weeks after an instructional aide at the same school, Heather Antle, also died from the coronavirus, Lee County schools Superintendent Sarah Wasson said. Face masks required in all Kentucky schools, child care settings (Courtesy: Kentucky Gov. “There is one right answer - where you choose masking, where you protect your kids, where you keep them in school," Beshear said at a Monday news conference. Andy Beshear’s mask mandate for K-12 schools Thursday, saying the executive order violates laws passed by the General Assembly this spring that limited the governor’s emergency powers. FRANKFORT, KY (WOWK) Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear has canceled his previous mask mandate order for schools. The Democratic governor vetoed the mask-related language, but GOP lawmakers quickly overrode him before ending a three-day special session.
According to the New York Times, about 47% of people in Kentucky are fully vaccinated.Last week, the Republican-dominated legislature scrapped a statewide mask mandate for public schools and imposed a ban on any statewide mask rules until June 2023. State data shows that there was a total of 3,869 new cases in Kentucky as of Friday, August 20. "At this rate, we are going to be out of hospital capacity, very, very soon."
"Our hospital capacity, really the capacity that we have based on the staffing that we have, is reaching a critical point," Beshear said at a press conference on Thursday, the Associated Press reported. Children have been increasingly admitted to hospitals, which are overwhelmed with patients, most unvaccinated. The legislature then passed laws giving itself control over mask mandates and other measures that had been imposed by Beshear lawmakers subsequently eliminated school mask mandates as well as other rules meant to prevent the spread of COVID-19. Kentucky has become a hot spot for COVID-19 amid the rapid spread of the Delta variant - a strain likened to be as contagious as chickenpox, according to internal records from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The governor announced the face-covering. The judge's ruling temporarily lifts the mask mandate that would only apply to Catholic Diocese schools of Covington, Huff Post reported. Andy Beshear is now requiring, by way of executive order, face masks in all Kentucky schools and child care centers. It often indicates a user profile.īeshar also faces a lawsuit from parents at a catholic school in Cold Spring, Kentucky. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.
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