Covid-19 update: Infection-control inspections indicate nursing homes were ready for pandemic; chart has county infection trends-HEALTHYLIVE

As news develops about the coronavirus and its covid-19 disease, this item may be updated. Official state guidance is at kycovid19.ky.gov.

• State inspection records indicate that most Kentucky nursing homes were prepared for the pandemic after it began, Bailey Loosemore reports for the Louisville Courier Journal. "At least 154 of the state's 285 licensed nursing homes have received covid-19-focused infection-control inspections since late March, including eight facilities that have reported some of the highest numbers of cases." Only two "were cited for infection-related deficiencies," both "not properly wearing a mask." Two others received citations unrelated to the pandemic. Most covid-19 deaths in Kentucky have been of nursing-home residents.
• Lexington is going through a third round of increases in new daily coronavirus cases, but not because 10 nights of protests have spread the virus, public-health officials told the Lexington Herald-Leader. It is spreading “rapidly” in the city, local health-department spokesman Kevin Hall said, but “Based on our case investigations, the protests are not contributing to the rise in cases we’ve seen this week and the couple weeks prior.” Symptoms can appear two to 14 days after infection.
• Much of the increase is among Lexington's Hispanic and African-immigrant populations, the Herald-Leader's Beth Musgrave reports: "Approximately 17 percent of the 847 people who have tested positive for covid-19 are Hispanic, according to the Lexington-Fayette County Health Department figures. Fayette County’s population is 7% Hispanic."
• The New York Times tracks infection rates in each U.S. county over time. Here's a screenshot of the 20 counties with the most cases on its Kentucky chart as of 11 a.m. Monday:
  
  

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