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My Rapist Ex was a Porn Addict, Tried to Force me to Do Porn
I'm going to have to hide this from my profile but I had to get it off my chest somewhere. My ex (M24) was a porn addict. He hung out with a lot of amateur creators: "cosplayers" who posted nude content and sold their photos to guys, girls with onlyfans accounts. He tried to groom me into being part of what they were doing. I don't know who needs to hear this, but this is how grooming works:
Putting you down
Normalizing the industry and porn itself
Equating selling yourself with "confidence"
Building up people who make porn
Only encouraging you when you suffer for them
Teach you that sex happens when they want it
Physical abuse
It started with him blowing up photos of the girls he knew on his big screen, showing me what they did and telling me I should do it with them. If I said no he would put me down or accuse me if being a horrible person who doesn't support other women. What kind of feminist doesn't support sex workers? He watched and showed me more and more porn until I just got so bored of it I could look at the most brutal things without even caring anymore. The trauma only came later. Remembering those images and thinking of those poor girls. He and his friends kept telling me how they "used to be" (insert negative quality here: shy, timid, self hating) like me, but then they started posting lingerie photos and nudes and it made them feel "confident" Money? Who needs money? They would do it for free. It made them feel confident and special and amazing! I was trash, a loser, a waste of oxygen, but if I posed for nudes with them I could feel special too! I was constantly told why I "couldn't" sell myself like they could. Men prefer skinny girls. Men prefer white girls. Men prefer bigger boobs. I should work out more. I should eat less. I should get surgery upon surgery. I should bleach my hair and wear contact lenses, and paint my skin white. I should wear sexier cosplays and outfits. I was praised, by all of them, when I did things like that. They would go to the gym with me and be super supportive. Warm, super close, best friend types. Call me all the time. Talk to me constantly. I didn't have time to think for myself. There were crises too. If I had to be at a family event or hang out with other friends, they needed me. They'd call me or message me in the middle of the night and it kept me up. I was tired all the time. So tired and so isolated that what they were saying started to make sense. They said it so many times I thought they were my own thoughts. Wanting to wear full outfits was "weird and lonely and loserish". Taking half naked photos was "sexy hot confidence" Who knows how many fans and followers they had that all started following me, so I felt popular too. I felt loved and special... But ONLY if I agreed with them. If I disagreed, with anything, I was shut out. I thought my "BF" was just quirky and "liberated", that I was progressive and special. People are swingers, people are in poly relationships, it's not even weird! It wasn't like he was asking me to do crazy stuff. Except he didn't take no for an answer. He would literally beg me to have sex with him when I didn't want to. It didn't matter what I wanted. At first it was just little stuff like refusing to change position wjej I was in pain or going harder when I asked him to slow down. But it got worse. And I wasn't allowed to be "possessive" either. He'd spend an entire weekend with someone else and want to sleep with me right after. He'd swear they were "just friends" or he was just "helping her take photos for onlyfans" Although I should keep in mind that she was prettier than me because she's "the kind of girl men prefer" But I could be like her! I could be everything he wanted. He didn't want a traditional relationship YET but if I could become exactly what he wanted... Then it progressed to sexual assault. He slept with a couple of other girls over a weekend and I found them all talking about it on social. I called him out on it and broke it off with him. He came to my house on the pretense of "talking it out" and started begging for sex and telling me he needed it, and when I said no he forced me. Then said it was my fault for wearing the outfit I was wearing. My closet was full of outfits I didn't want to wear because eventually they were supposed to make me "confident". I said a lot of things to placate him which he recorded, "in case I accuse him of anything" He released videos of us having sex on multiple porn sites, labeling them everything from "revenge porn" "teaching a feminist a lesson" "ethnic girls love white dick" "teen fucks stepbrother" (I'm 32, I was 30 at the time, and we are not related in any way) and because of what he recorded the police refused to charge him and some of the porn sites refused to take down the videos. I lost my job and some family disowned me. People made tons of false accusations about me. I think a lot of people decide its better to just go along with it and pretend they have power than admit that this life was forced on them. A lot of people go through what happened to me and it ruins their life. One girl here even made the news after being recorded against her will, kicked out of school because she was wearing a school hoodie, and harassed at home and at work until she lost all hope of getting any job because of men online who stalked her location and profiles. Her life will never be normal again. I hope mine will. Porn isn't innocent. The industry turns on being able to entice and force young people into putting themselves at serious risk of sti's, sexual abuse, physical assault, addiction, affliction, stalking. It's a fear culture that destroys lives. And it preys on people who are financially desperate, lonely, or just scared. Porn isnt exclusive of prostitution. You don't just point a camera at prostitution and it suddenly becomes something else. Nobody "does porn". Half the time you get a casting call for a modelling/acting job you don't know is porn until you get there. That's happened to me many times as a model/actor and I've always said no. But some people feel terrified or pressured, or they say yes not realizing what can happen. Sorry for venting here but I dont see many posts, even on feminist blogs, from the other side. People are forcibly addicted, threatened, assaulted. And on the other side, wives and girlfriends are taught not to advocate against these abuses because girls who do porn are more special/confident/attractive than they are. They don't actually believe that. They just want you to feel desperate so they can exploit you too. I'm still healing from the trauma and trying to remember what confidence used to mean before he taught me my body and what I could do with it was 100% of everything. They wanted me broken and I broke the wrong way. Now I'm obsessed with fashion and love wearing layers upon layers of clothes. The man I'm dating now has helped me a lot since he's also a victim. Please don't let anyone make you feel like you are less than porn. And I hope more people start advocating against unregulated "found porn" sites.
New deaths by county: 85 M Ballard, 75 F Boone, 52 M Boone, 67 M Boone, 70 M Boone, 72 M Boone, 74 M Boone, 86 F Bourbon, 79 F Bullitt, 88 F Daviess, 92 M Daviess, 58 F Fayette, 70 F Fayette, 80 F Fayette, 76 M Fayette, 86 M Fayette, 84 F Franklin, 94 F Franklin, 74 F Gallatin, 77 F Graves, 85 M Graves, 69 M Harlan, 75 M Hart, 38 M Jefferson, 59 M Jefferson, 76 M Jefferson, 97 F Kenton, 68 M Kenton, 69 M Kenton, 85 M Kenton, 97 M Kenton, 78 M Lawrence, 82 F Letcher, 85 F Letcher, 87 F Letcher, 96 F Letcher, 63 M Letcher, 66 M Letcher, 67 M Letcher, 89 F Metcalfe, 70 M Montgomery, 78 F Oldham, 39 M Oldham, 71 F Perry, 85 F Perry, 78 F Pike, 79 F Pike, 73 M Pike, 89 M Pike, 69 F Pulaski, 76 M Pulaski, 66 F Rockcastle, 70 M Russell, 80 M Shelby, 77 F Simpson, 67 M Taylor, 65 M Wayne, 80 M Wayne
Vaccine: I wanted to make sure we walked you through, again, the fact that certainly for the past four weeks, we are vaccinating more people than we get first doses for. In other words, we are already at the point where we have more capacity than we have supply. <...>Now, I want to give you one other piece of good news, you look down there and you see 401,264 Kentuckians that have had their first shot through one of either the state program, or the long term care program that the federal government contracted with Walgreens and CVS; but those aren't the only Kentuckians that are receiving doses from other places. The federal government is also providing doses to the Bureau of Prisons, to VAs, to Department of Defense workers. And today we got numbers that in addition to the 401,264 that have been vaccinated through the programs we've talked about, another 18,244 Kentuckians have been vaccinated according to the federal government. The vast majority of that of the 18,244 are from the VAs that have vaccinated almost 16,000 Kentuckians, so we appreciate that.
The first is in the Kentucky Convention Center. That is at 1 West River Center Boulevard in Covington. That's an exciting area, which as you can see here will begin Thursday, and run through Saturday, 10am, to 4pm.
Both sites open Thursday, Friday, Saturday, of this coming week, 10am to 4pm. The portals will go live around 5pm with rolling seven day appointments. You go to https://kroger.com/COVIDvaccine, or you call 866-211-5320. Appointments can also be reached by going through https://kycovid19.ky.gov and clicking on the vaccine bar.
The fourth and final new regional site this week is a partnership with TJ Regional Health. That's at the TJ Health Pavilion, 301 North L. Rogers Boulevard, Glasgow, Kentucky. Day and hours are still being determined, but Kentuckians should check on their website soon for more information their phone number is 270-659-1090.
Just one quick note first for claimants: if you were claiming benefits today and saw a strange thing in your claim that the week said “1996” and not “2021”, we know about the problem, we fixed that, we believe by mid-morning, we have no idea what caused it.
We got a question at last week's press conference about what to do, what is the IRS going to do if you don't have a corrected 1099? Again, we still encourage you to look at that as soon as you get it, so we can correct that for you. But the IRS has now announced if you do not have your corrected 1099-G by the time you need to file your taxes. Actually, don't file what's on the 1099G, file what you think is correct. We have that IRS bulletin on our website, on the KCC website under identity theft tips, so feel free to look at that and get some more information about what to do if you are in that situation. [...] So, please check those FAQs that we have out there for you. Of course we are happy to help you out on the email line, but most of the time is a simple misunderstanding.
We've sent an email out to over 68,000 claimants on Tuesday letting them know their claims are being denied, because we can't validate their IDs. <...>Now if you got that email and you are a real life claimant,<...> when you get your notice of determination please pay very careful attention to the appeal deadlines, in that document. You can appeal that determination of denial and give your ID validation at that time.
[[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) and so you can email there and get those questions answered if you think you have that mass claim issue.
So please, we understand there is a lot of fraud out there, if you get one of those fraudulent filings, just like I did this past weekend, you can email [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) and we will make sure to mark that in the system as a fraudulent claim.
This is something you’re touched on quite a bit, really for a while now. So just wanted to get your thoughts on it again, we're seeing some efforts to limit executive powers for governors, just throughout the region, not only here in Kentucky but in Indiana and Ohio as well I believe. So, I just wanted to ask you again and hear your thoughts on what you see as the potential pitfalls of moving to a system that would require the legislative body to enact certain emergency restrictions. -- We are in an emergency, and in an emergency, you've got to move fast, you’ve got to be fluid, and you’ve got to adjust to battlefield conditions. And when you look at the losses we've sustained, we're fighting a war. We've almost lost 4,000 Kentuckians. And you never fight a war by committee, and we can't fight this one either.
Regarding the regional sites, and even non-regional sites, can you provide any information about any possible state efforts to help people who don't have access, maybe to transportation, and can't get to a location despite being eligible for a dose? Thanks so much. -- We'll have more information on that in the coming weeks, that involve mobile units that we're working on right now and that we hope will be launched in at least one location as early as next week. We’ve got local health departments that are already doing some of that.
Good evening everybody, or afternoon, Virginia. It is four o'clock on Thursday, it'll be the last time we get together this week and remember that we are going to get through this, and we are going to get through it together. I want to start the way we start, most of our days, by focusing on some good news. Remember it's easy to get down during these times the isolation or the change in our lives that has gone on longer than I think we thought that it would. It can hurt and damage our mental health; but one way that we ensure that we fight back against that is to make sure that we know about all the good things that are going on in our state, and in our world around us. So even in tough times, I want to put a spotlight on good news and today.
Let's start with an announcement we made earlier this week. It's a new partnership with the Kentucky Chamber of Commerce that's going to help us build a better Kentucky, one with a stronger post-COVID economy and good paying career opportunities for our state's residents. The new partnership is called the Discover Kentucky Initiative, and it will grow European company investment and jobs in our Commonwealth. This is how it works: many internationally based companies are interested in the US market, but they aren't ready to commit to building a factory, establishing an office, or setting up a sales operation. Team Kentucky, through its office in Hamburg, Germany, is often in touch with companies just like this. The Discover Kentucky Initiative will vet these inquiring companies and work with them in three ways to seed the ground for long term economic success. First, the Initiative will introduce Kentucky chamber-member businesses to these inquiring European companies. Second, it'll foster relationships with these European businesses through regular check in and assessments. It'll build a relationship, and will maintain Kentucky as a top-of-mind location for the time when each company is ready to invest in a US operation. And third, it'll ensure continuity of these relationships. Sometimes it may take more than just the tenure of one governor and we want to make sure that our efforts to bring in good jobs from Europe, in this instance, I want to make sure it lasts long after I'm gone. Through this partnership with the chamber, we are taking advantage of how the pandemic is changing business. Companies that may not have considered developing their products in the US, manufacturing or selling here, are now seeing the new value for global diversification. We know this works too. Economic development often hinges on relationships. That's why in any given year about three quarters of all the projects we announce are expansions of companies already in the Commonwealth. European companies today operate more than 220 facilities in Kentucky, employing more than 37,000 people full time. Those facilities often form the economic backbones of communities across Kentucky, and each of those successes starts with a relationship. We're hungry in Kentucky. We feel the urgency of improving our economy, our way of life, and what's out there for our children. I am a 43-year-old governor. I'm going to live in and work in the economy that I helped to create and/or improve as governor, and my kids are too. So that means doing everything we can, every day, through Team Kentucky, partnering with everybody who's out there that wants to generate these great opportunities. I want to get to the time when our kids look around at different places and they would say “Why would I leave, when the best opportunities in the United States are right here in Kentucky?”. I think that's possible and I'm committed to making it happen. I'd like to thank the chamber for its leadership board and member companies for working with Team Kentucky on the initiative. Together we're planting the seeds that are going to grow our post-COVID economy into something that we've always dreamed up.
We also have some good news today for Eastern Kentucky. I'm excited to announce an Appalachian Regional Commission Grant totaling more than $500,000 for Hazard Community and Technical College to expand their commercial driver's licensing (CDL) program. These funds will allow for six classes of CDL students at HCTC’s main campus, and six classes at the Leslie County Campus training 150 students a year. This expansion comes at a great time when the transportation and logistics industry is growing. We have seen its importance during COVID, and the demand for licensed commercial drivers is increasing in Eastern Kentucky. HCTC will use the funds to purchase two new trucks and trailers, program supplies, and provide salaries for one full time instructor, and for four adjunct instructors. Students at HCTC utility lineman program also benefit from the expansion because they must obtain a CDL license to graduate from their program. Thanks to this project, we're going to train more Kentuckians for jobs that are out there right now, that are in demand, that can pay good wages, and we can get more of our people to work right now. Congratulations to Hazard Community and Technical College on this exciting grant. And thank you to everybody who made it possible. Because of your work, eastern Kentuckians will have greater access to education and good jobs in their communities, both of which are top priorities for this administration.
Alright, let's move into our COVID report. Our COVID report continues to have good news in everything but our number of deaths, which continues to be high, difficult, and tragic.
Positive cases today: 2,500 - Let's start with positive trends. Today, we're announcing 2,500 new cases of COVID-19. And just to give you an idea of cases, when we look back about four weeks, so, today I said we have 2500 new cases, on January 11th, it was 4084. So again, a good trend.
That is a high number, but it is the lowest Thursday we've had in over four weeks. And if we stay on this track, we're gonna have fewer cases this week than we did last week, which will give us four straight weeks for the first time in this pandemic of declining cases. So cases are too high, but the trend is some of the best we have seen during the pandemic.
Probable cases: 798
Total confirmed cases: 372,012
Children Under 18: 432
We only have 104 red counties today who would have thought “with 120 counties would be excited about 104?” but that number is dropping, day after day after day.
Total tests conducted: 4,138,554 (PCR: 3,653,551, Serology: 108,691)
Positivity Rate: 8.37% - The lowest since December, 28, meaning the lowest in over a month.
Total hospitalized: 17,170
Generally, hospitalization numbers are all within the realm where we have sufficient capacity, and that's good news, it means that we can take care of those that need our help.
Currently hospitalized: 1,340
Total in ICU: 3,639
Currently in ICU: 368
On a ventilator: 171
Total recovered: 44,394
New deaths today: 58 - But then there's our, our tough news, in that today we're announcing 58 new deaths where COVID-19 was a contributing factor. This is one of the higher numbers that we have had. If there is any positive in these death numbers, it's that a smaller and smaller percentage of them are residents in long term care. Of today's 58 only 18 were in long term care which when you think about we used to be at 66% of all fatalities being in long term care, shows you that our prioritization of individuals in long term care for vaccination is working, and it's saving lives; but we are still losing far too many. And I hope this reminds everybody of how dangerous this virus is. Mask up, protect one another, protect yourself and your family. Follow the rules and the regulations. We don't want to lose 58 people on any given day and now we're 3,921 deaths since the start of this pandemic. We just memorialized our 3,000th death, not long ago, by planting flags out here at the Capitol. And we add to that every day. Going from 3000 to 4000 so quickly is a trend that we have to stop. We certainly need to slow it down, and each and every one of you can help by doing your part.
Total Deaths: 3,921
New deaths by county: 85 M Ballard, 75 F Boone, 52 M Boone, 67 M Boone, 70 M Boone, 72 M Boone, 74 M Boone, 86 F Bourbon, 79 F Bullitt, 88 F Daviess, 92 M Daviess, 58 F Fayette, 70 F Fayette, 80 F Fayette, 76 M Fayette, 86 M Fayette, 84 F Franklin, 94 F Franklin, 74 F Gallatin, 77 F Graves, 85 M Graves, 69 M Harlan, 75 M Hart, 38 M Jefferson, 59 M Jefferson, 76 M Jefferson, 97 F Kenton, 68 M Kenton, 69 M Kenton, 85 M Kenton, 97 M Kenton, 78 M Lawrence, 82 F Letcher, 85 F Letcher, 87 F Letcher, 96 F Letcher, 63 M Letcher, 66 M Letcher, 67 M Letcher, 89 F Metcalfe, 70 M Montgomery, 78 F Oldham, 39 M Oldham, 71 F Perry, 85 F Perry, 78 F Pike, 79 F Pike, 73 M Pike, 89 M Pike, 69 F Pulaski, 76 M Pulaski, 66 F Rockcastle, 70 M Russell, 80 M Shelby, 77 F Simpson, 67 M Taylor, 65 M Wayne, 80 M Wayne
So let's remember each one of those entries I read is a person. Loved by their family, missed by their community, maybe their congregation. Somebody who was so important, that was loved, and that we will miss.
Racial breakdown of all cases: 85% White, 8.5% Black, 5% Multiracial, 1.2% Asian, 0.3% American Indian, 0.1% Pacific Islander
Ethnicity breakdown of all cases: 94.3% Non-Hispanic, 5.7% Hispanic
Racial breakdown of all deaths: 88% White, 8.6% Black, 2.7% Multiracial, 0.6% Asian, 0.1% American Indian
Ethnicity breakdown of all deaths: 98.1% Non-Hispanic, 1.9% Hispanic
Long Term Care Facilities (PDF): 24 new residents and 20 new staff positive from yesterday, and 2 more deaths. These numbers are- and their daily amounts are changing really significantly, which I think is a ray of hope in what are otherwise, really tragic difficult numbers of deaths that were seeing each day.
Today, we're specifically honoring the life of Tommie Speagle of Waco, Kentucky, who was 96. She passed away on Saturday after battling COVID-19. We received a touching tribute from her daughter, her caregiver in her later years, sharing how she was the most wonderful mother, grandmother, sister, aunt, and friend. She lived a full life of adventure living across the country from family members, until she met her first husband Newell Edward Bridewell, who passed away from cancer in 1981. Following that loss, she fell in love again with John Spiegel. She overcame challenges in life, such as a speech impediment that halted her education, yet went on to have a great career, and was an avid reader and poem writer. She was also very active in her church, Rice Station Christian in Irvine. Today, our prayers are with her daughter Beverley Morefield, her two sons, Paul Bridewell and William Bridewell, her stepdaughter Sandy Curl, her stepson JC Spiegel, 6 grandchildren, and 14 great-grandchildren. A Wonderful Life and while I’m sure it was a full life, It's not okay that it was cut short by COVID-19. This was someone with a big, large, wonderful family, and it’s really hurting today, and it's been hurting since her passing. So let's think about them, let's think about her. And let's make sure we mask up for one another.
Alright, let's get on to what I believe is other good news, and that's our vaccination efforts. I wanted to make sure we walked you through, again, the fact that certainly for the past four weeks, we are vaccinating more people than we get first doses for. In other words, we are already at the point where we have more capacity than we have supply. And the reason that so many out there can't get appointments is just a matter of supply. This shows that we're filling every appointment that we can possibly put a vaccine in someone's arm for. And I want to show you, if you get on these every day, there's always going to be one day, where you see the most doses available and one day where you see the least, and here's the reason: We get our shipments on Monday and they become available for vaccination on Tuesday, and they come in a lump sum. So all the new supply for a week goes in on Tuesday and obviously can't vaccinate everybody immediately for that supply. And as you go through the week, you know, we end up burning through that full supply. And I want to show you this today because, with the new amount that we got this week 68,475, we've already gone through 42% of it in two and a half days, because this report cuts off at about noon. So this is just Tuesday, Wednesday, and half of Thursday. So again, we have the capability, we’re getting it out within a week; in fact we're doing more, we're making up for some extra that we had from earlier weeks as we ramped up, the issue here is supply. Now, I want to give you one other piece of good news, you look down there and you see 401,264 Kentuckians that have had their first shot through one of either the state program, or the long term care program that the federal government contracted with Walgreens and CVS; but those aren't the only Kentuckians that are receiving doses from other places. The federal government is also providing doses to the Bureau of Prisons, to VAs, to Department of Defense workers. And today we got numbers that in addition to the 401,264 that have been vaccinated through the programs we've talked about, another 18,244 Kentuckians have been vaccinated according to the federal government. The vast majority of that of the 18,244 are from the VAs that have vaccinated almost 16,000 Kentuckians, so we appreciate that. So when you, when you add it in word about 419,500, just a little over that, Kentuckians that have had at least their first dose. We are really close to 10% of our total population that has been vaccinated and certainly when you remove 18 and under or 16 and under that can't be vaccinated, you know that's about a million people, so the numbers are better there. But again, everything we're getting, we're getting in people's arms. We're also working to be intentional, knowing that we need an equitable rollout of this vaccine but that also there is real hesitancy out there. We're not being impacted right now by that hesitancy in scheduling appointments. But if we want to get to immunity, and if we want to make sure underserved populations and other groups are getting vaccinated at the rate that they should, that that other populations are, we know we have to be addressing this on the front end. And that's why we do some programs where people who are trusted by their communities are asked to take the vaccine so that they can be a real life example, and to share with their community, that this is safe. So, during this last week we've had two separate times where we've had faith leaders that have come to Frankfort, that have been vaccinated, and that are sharing their stories with their flocks, talking about the safety of it. It's been a special experience, they helped us plant the flags today to honor the newly lost, but to see people who have also dedicated their lives to service stepping up and wanting to show people that it's safe. James put together a short video, let's give it a look, I hope you enjoy it.
Video: Hi, I'm Barbara Hager, the pastor of Broadway Temple and Design Church in Louisville, Kentucky. I’m Bishop John Stowe and the Catholic Diocese of Lexington. Hello, I'm Bernetta Cosby from St. Stephen Baptist Church. Rabbi-Shlomo Litvin, Chabad of the Bluegrass. Hi my name is Philip Lotspeich I'm with the Presbyterian Church USA, I just got my first vaccine shot. Hey ya’ll, I did it, I just got my shot. I think you should too. I just received my vaccination for COVID-19 and hope all of our faithful will do the same. I just got my vaccination and I'm encouraging everyone to get theirs, whenever possible. I just received my first dose of the Moderna vaccine, and I'm encouraging each of you to do the same, so that we can protect one another, and our communities. Trust is an integral part of the medical process, and today, we're working with the governor to inspire that trust in the community. So I got my vaccine, I hope you get yours, and trust the process, believe in your community together and we can get through this. This promotes the common good and helps us to promote a healthier Kentucky. And I encourage everybody to go out and get it as soon as it's offered to you, because that's our way to get back at serving God, in the way that we want to. Governor Beshear has done a wonderful job in leading our community to think about each other. He has personalized losses that our state has experienced through COVID, and is trying to keep us on one team and one place as one community to make our state, our Commonwealth, more healthy, and to overcome this terrible challenge. You guys, we're almost through this pandemic, but we have to stay vigilant, the pandemic is still on the rise. Please wear your mask, social distance, stay safe out there. Be sure to mask up Kentucky.
It was exciting, and moving and having over the course of those two events, 50 different faith leaders that together reach hundreds of 1000s of people, was truly special. This is also something that came out of community conversations that we had, about how to build trust and how we can build trust, especially in communities that we need to reach, and that in the past haven't been treated right in vaccination efforts. And if I can, when a video is playing, is the one time I actually get to watch Virginia. You do an amazing job in conveying the emotion, and I know that's why Kentucky loves you so much.
Alright, in other good news, we continue to fill out our map on regional and local vaccination sites. I want to show you the map as we announced it last Thursday, which shows you some of the larger sites.
But after I'm done announcing the new regional centers, Dr Stack is going to talk to you about the local health department program. And when you overlay that here's what it looks like. As you can see, the map is filling up. And each one of those red pins is a local health department that has brick and mortar places in every county in their region. This is going to provide vaccine all over Kentucky. There will be limited numbers depending on the size of the entity that's getting it. But I hope that you see, we're building this airplane as we're flying it, the airplane is starting to look really good, and our efficiency of the airplane is already over 100%. But this, when you look at it, this is the structure we've got to have for the amount of supply that we want. If we were just happy having a structure that they could administer the amount of supply we had right now, shame on us for not working to be ready for that moment when we can get hundreds of 1000s of vaccines to get out to Kentuckians. Our goal is to be able to far exceed what we think we can do today, which is about 250,000 vaccines a week-- to get that number significantly up to where if they gave us enough vaccine for our entire population, our hope is that we could do it in a matter of weeks. That would be the greatest problem that we could ever ask for.
New deaths by county: 87 M Barren, 84 F Campbell, 67 F Christian, 78 M Christian, 86 F Daviess, 86 F Daviess, 87 F Daviess, 99 F Daviess, 83 M Daviess, 84 M Fayette, 79 F Fleming, 96 M Fleming, 73 M Graves, 77 F Green, 89 F Harlan, 73 M Harlan, 90 F Harrison, 73 F Hart, 77 F Hart, 71 M Hart, 77 M Henderson, 76 M Hopkins, 56 F Jefferson, 69 F Jefferson, 72 F Jefferson, 57 M Jefferson, 68 M Jefferson, 69 M Jefferson, 73 M Jefferson, 81 M Jefferson, 66 M Kenton, 91 M Kenton, 64 F Menifee, 75 F Menifee, 80 F Menifee, 87 F Menifee, 75 M Menifee, 90 M Menifee, 81 F Ohio, 80 M Rowan, 77 M Todd, 46 F Warren, 70 F Warren, 95 F Warren, 39 M Warren, 75 M Wayne, 69 M Webster
2. We had our very first Commonwealth Education Continuum Meeting today.<...> our charge is to close the gaps where we often lose our students the most, from early childhood to kindergarten, from K-12 to postsecondary, and then from postsecondary into the workforce. And that requires a strong public education system that is adequately funded, well supported, and cohesive from early childhood through post secondary life.
Tomorrow we're going to have some major announcements that should answer the question for everybody: “Where do I go?”. <...> So, our only limitation at this point, because our capacity already exceeds our supply, is how many first doses we can get from the federal government. But, we had three good pieces of news yesterday from the President's COVID team. First, we're getting our first increase in supply that we have had, for the most part in this pandemic except when Moderna came online. It has a 16% to 17% increase where we're going to get about 8,800 new first doses a week. <...>So up until yesterday we were only guaranteed week-to-week how much we get. <...>Having this three-week guarantee is going to help us<...>the federal government contracting to purchase another 200 million doses of Moderna and Pfizer, highly effective vaccines that they believe we will get at the end of the summer.
Gov talks about challenges in supply of the vaccine below.
That's a website up there https://www.GISaid.org. This website shows the genomic mapping of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which is the virus that's causing COVID-19. We have found now for the first time in Northern Kentucky, in Kenton county, two individuals who tested positive and have subsequently been found to have the B117 variant, that's the one that we believe was first found in the United Kingdom. That variant is more contagious.
we had already administered 88% of all the inventory given to the state program to use. The long term care facility program has had a slower rollout, but the state had given 88% of all the inventory it had to give out. Remember, we set the target on January 4 for 90%, that's pretty good three weeks and to be that close.
When you get the vaccine, it is normal for you to have a sore arm where you got the injection, that's normal, that's your body responding to the stimulus that's the vaccine. It is normal to feel achy, to feel tired, to feel a bit rundown, to feel like your energy's lower, it's even normal to have a low-grade temperature, those things are normal. That is your body's immune system responding as it is supposed to to a vaccine. <...> It's not a side effect, it's not a complication, it’s not a reaction, it’s your body's immune system responding as it should to the vaccination. So if you have that, please know that means your immune system is doing what it's supposed to do and is now going to be better primed to prepare you.
My question is going back to the roughly 17% increase in vaccine. What will the total number of doses that Kentucky will be getting? -- I believe we're going from, and we'll get you an exact figure, about 56,000 new first doses. [...] It’s going up 8,800 and so what we believe is we'll be able to vaccinate about 8,800 more people. And so with that, we'll be getting what? About 64/65,000. Supply will allow us to vaccinate between 64-65,000 people a week, those will be the first doses.
Do you all have any more information about the Kenton county individuals that you can provide? Were they connected in some way? Had they been out of the country? And also, is there any reason to believe the spread of that variant is limited to those two people in Kentucky right now? -- I'll ask Dr Stack here in a minute about the first, but no, the way this thing spreads, I think we should assume it's moved beyond those individuals. You know we are casting a wide net to find and and to check different positive tests for this. [...] But we've got to assume that given how infectious it is and how much more aggressively spreads that it's beyond the two individuals. And the CDC is saying this will be the dominant strain by the end of March, if not in early March.
This is for Dr Stack, does the UK variant, or any of the other variants seem to cause a faster pace of symptoms? And if you know that you were exposed, does it at all change your quarantine in any way? And can you talk a little bit, if there's time today, if not tomorrow, about double masking when wearing it? Thank you so much? -- [...] So, first of all, the double masking, if you have additional layers in front of you it reduces the transmission of things through it, so we already recommend three-layer cloth masks, that's already part of this. The best thing you can do is to stay more than six feet away from people because then you just aren't close enough to get exposed. [...]
Do any of the other variants that we know of seem to cause a faster pace, if you're going to get the symptoms, and does it at all change quarantine? -- [...] So no, the onset still seems to be five or six days for the typical person post-exposure. The typical person still is probably infectious about two days before they get symptoms. The large, alarmingly large, number of people probably 40% or more, appears not to ever have symptoms, which means there could be spreading disease but not show signs, and it doesn't change the quarantine. Everything would still seem to appear consistent that when your symptoms are resolved for 72 hours and you have had 10 days since you either tested positive or became symptomatic then you are freed from isolation. So, all those things remain the same and unchanged at this point.
Good evening Team Kentucky. This is Lieutenant Governor Jacqueline Coleman here to kick off our COVID update today in the press briefing with some really good news. Our administration, as you know, is committed to providing broadband internet connectivity to every Kentuckian and closing the digital divide is critical for economic development, education, and creating the jobs of the future right here in Kentucky. So I have an update on the Kentucky broadband initiative. One week into our speed test, I am happy to report that 31,400 households have participated so far, and that is great news. Just to give you an idea of a comparison, in our first week we have just about outpaced other states that began their speed test about six months ago. The counties that have the highest participation rates so far are Scott, Harlan, Caldwell, Woodford, and Lyon counties and so I want to say thank you to all of you for making this a priority and to make sure that the rest of our counties join you in that as well. We need everyone, no matter where you are from, to participate. This speed test is the first step to bringing internet connectivity to every Kentucky, it takes 30 seconds, and it is completely anonymous. So what we'll do is, we'll take this data and we'll build a map of Kentucky, highlighting the areas that are in the most need of broadband, and once that mapping is complete, we will work with partners both public and private to bring fast, reliable internet connectivity to the areas that are most in need. So I'll give you a reminder of this website so you can log on and do the speed test yourself. The website is http://speedtest.ky.gov/ Again, 30 seconds and completely anonymous. So I'm going to encourage all of you to keep up the good work and to make sure that you participate.
Second up, we had our very first Commonwealth Education Continuum Meeting today. I am co-chairing this initiative with President Aaron Thompson, from the Council on Postsecondary Education, and Commissioner Glass, from the Kentucky Department of Education, and our charge is to close the gaps where we often lose our students the most, from early childhood to kindergarten, from K-12 to postsecondary, and then from postsecondary into the workforce. And that requires a strong public education system that is adequately funded, well supported, and cohesive from early childhood through post secondary life. This work is critical, not just in the world of education, but in producing the jobs of the future, creating transformational change for our families, and building a stronger Kentucky economy of the future.
Thank you to Lieutenant Governor Coleman and let me join her in today thanking every single individual who is working or volunteering at any one of these vaccination sites. But let me also thank everyone who is continuing to perform PCR and other types of testing. Let me thank everyone out there who is still doing contact tracing; let me thank everybody out there that's still doing enforcement, which I know is not a fun job. Let's remember, as we move forward to defeat this virus it takes all of us continuing to do our part. Not everybody will be on the vaccination site, which I know is so exciting and we all want to be a part of, but let's remember we need all those other pieces too. Just like we individually need to not only get our vaccines but continue to wear masks until we've reached that immunity level, it takes all of us knowing that all of our roles are important, lifting each other up.
Alright so, on our virus update let's start by talking about the macro. This is still a dangerous time in America, virus levels are still at some of the highest that they have been since the beginning of the pandemic. And with some new variants, which Dr Stack is going to talk about, the risks of spread and of harm to you or your family are still at some of the highest that they've ever been. And our number of deaths is heartbreaking, mainly due to that exponential rise, but every day we have 1000s of cases, we're gonna have a significant number of deaths. But, both in our country and in our Commonwealth that trends are getting better, they are currently going in the right direction. By which we mean decreasing positivity rates, overall decreasing cases, and stabilization of our hospitalized Kentuckians-- those in the ICU, and those on a ventilator due to COVID. But just like when fighting that third wave, we talked about our success being fragile, and we have that one week bump to holiday gatherings, especially with these new variants out there, this trend that we really want to see-- a decrease in cases, a decreasing positivity rates and what that'll mean is decreasing number of deaths over time, that's really fragile too, maybe even more fragile, with the variants that are out there. I'm convinced that one of the reasons we are seeing trends going the right way is that every single one of you across Kentucky is doing more and is doing better, even if you were doing it right every other day. More people wear masks, more people trying to follow the rules. Let's be the most vigilant we've ever been, knowing that victory is around the corner, but we got to protect one another until then.
The vaccine update: top line is the same it's been, our one issue is supply. If we had three issues, they’d be supply, supply, and supply. We figure out the distribution, and we're going to continue to improve. Tomorrow we're going to have some major announcements that should answer the question for everybody: “Where do I go?”. Now that doesn't mean that there will be appointments, even when you have that one number that you know that you should be calling. Remember last week we vaccinated 82,511 new Kentuckians, even though we only received 56,000 new first doses. So, our only limitation at this point, because our capacity already exceeds our supply, is how many first doses we can get from the federal government. But, we had three good pieces of news yesterday from the President's COVID team. First, we're getting our first increase in supply that we have had, for the most part in this pandemic except when Moderna came online. It has a 16% to 17% increase where we're going to get about 8,800 new first doses a week. That is incredibly helpful. It's not nearly enough, we could be doing a quarter of a million vaccinations right now if we had the supply. But we'll take 16% to 17%. We're pushing the admitted new administration-- they've been in for what? Six days when they announced this, we will take 16% after six days. The second thing they're doing is going to help all of us, all the providers across the Commonwealth. So up until yesterday we were only guaranteed week-to-week how much we get. We’d get on the computer on a system called Tiberius and we'd wait on Tuesdays, to see how much we were going to get for the following week. We then have until the end of Thursday to tell the federal government everywhere to send it in our state, and then on Friday, we would be able to tell those providers how much they're getting. So they’d only have the weekend to prepare to go on Monday. Having this three-week guarantee is going to help us start planning ahead, it's going to allow our providers to be able to schedule, even three weeks out, we hope as we get this system up and underway.
The last piece of good news yesterday was the federal government contracting to purchase another 200 million doses of Moderna and Pfizer, highly effective vaccines that they believe we will get at the end of the summer. So what this says is, we will have a consistent supply which helps us plan, it’s going to be lower than any of us want, but we like seeing increases in it and we hope they continue. There has been some talk that at the end of this first quarter there may be some extra coming in under the initial contracts. And then it looks like there may be a significant amount coming summer to late summer and we've got to have the capacity, and the infrastructure, even if that is a million doses that we get at that time, to get it out as quickly as we can and that's our commitment.
Just wanted to talk about a few challenges that we've talked about before, it's all numbers based on supply.
Challenge number one is the amount of supply we get versus the number of providers who want to help. We have 1500 providers that are either fully signed up, or working on it to sign up in our system. If we used every single one of them at the moment, that each one would get about 36 doses. We're not even allowed to ship Moderna in groups under 100 and Pfizer is in groups under 900, so it's not possible. But the second piece of that is you'd have to call 1500 separate numbers hoping you are one of the first 36 callers. With the number one complaint being they want a consistent number and place for their region to go to, we're going to have to work on the system that, again, we're going to talk about tomorrow, that helps give certainty to people.
Second is, we have to do this, regionally. The number of counties we have, and their populations, don't provide an equitable way to do it. So there's this example today: Robertson County, which is a great place, it's the smallest county by population, if we sent the minimum number to Robertson County, 100 doses, to be equitable in terms of population, we'd have to send Jefferson 36,000. And then we're already at 60 plus percent of our allocation for that week, even though we're only at 19% of the population. Now when we look regionally, we can get equitable distribution in terms of population there. There are a lot of other areas that we have to ensure equity in the way we distribute this virus and we are being about doing that, especially each day that we move forward but from the population piece, to make sure rural Kentucky gets as much as urban Kentucky adjusted by population, a regional approach is the only way that that it can be done without picking certain counties that would just lose comparatively.
Third piece. As we move down the groups 1A to 1B to 1C there are 10s of 1000s of people in 1A. There's several 100,000, if not more, and in 1B and there's 1.2-1.3M in 1C. So the infrastructure that's needed when you're gonna have 40,000 calls in the first five minutes as it providers we move down changes. And so I hope everybody knows out there we may have to change providers and likely will, as we move to different groups. That doesn't mean there's not going to be a really important role for everybody, especially reaching targeted populations. We got to do this right, we can't waste a single vial. And we've got to make sure that as many people that call in it, at least get a response and that we don't pull everybody that we have on testing and tracing off of it, move them over just to vaccinations, and drop the ball on protecting people in the interim.
Alright, so that's a bit of an update, remember this is the most significant logistical challenge probably since the end of World War Two. We’re up to it, we're already outpacing our supply. We're going to need trust, remember we built the nation's model in testing, from nothing to what we had. We're going to need some patience, and in many ways we're going to have to think about the “we” not “me”. And as we move through, and in each time period we're in, to ensure we have the very best structure to deal with the groups and the size of the groups and the complex needs of the groups, that we're dealing with.
Alright, today's COVID report has some good and some bad, mainly we talked about earlier.
Positive cases today: 2,424 - Again, that number is far too high, but it is the lowest Wednesday in four weeks. When we look back to January 6th, there were 5,742 cases of COVID-19. Today, less than half of that. Overall that is a good sign.
Probable cases: 1,018
Total confirmed cases: 352,943
Children Under 18: 413
We have our fewest number of red counties in a while though they're still 111 of them.
Total tests conducted: 3,964,224 (PCR: 3,545,049, Serology: 106,506)
Positivity Rate: 9.35% - We like seeing that steadily fall.
Total hospitalized: 16,101
Currently hospitalized: 1,597 - Slightly up
Total in ICU: 3,459
Currently in ICU: 387 - Slightly down
On a ventilator: 225 - Slightly down
Total recovered: 41,925
New deaths today: 47 - We lost a woman in Harrison County, the first county where we had a case of COVID-19, on March the 6th
Total Deaths: 3,542
New deaths by county: 87 M Barren, 84 F Campbell, 67 F Christian, 78 M Christian, 86 F Daviess, 86 F Daviess, 87 F Daviess, 99 F Daviess, 83 M Daviess, 84 M Fayette, 79 F Fleming, 96 M Fleming, 73 M Graves, 77 F Green, 89 F Harlan, 73 M Harlan, 90 F Harrison, 73 F Hart, 77 F Hart, 71 M Hart, 77 M Henderson, 76 M Hopkins, 56 F Jefferson, 69 F Jefferson, 72 F Jefferson, 57 M Jefferson, 68 M Jefferson, 69 M Jefferson, 73 M Jefferson, 81 M Jefferson, 66 M Kenton, 91 M Kenton, 64 F Menifee, 75 F Menifee, 80 F Menifee, 87 F Menifee, 75 M Menifee, 90 M Menifee, 81 F Ohio, 80 M Rowan, 77 M Todd, 46 F Warren, 70 F Warren, 95 F Warren, 39 M Warren, 75 M Wayne, 69 M Webster
All losses are a loss for Kentucky. Let’s light those houses up green and let’s ring those bells at 10am. This is a reminder that we are thinking of the Kentuckians we’ve lost, their families, and their communities. It’s the color of compassion and renewal as their souls move from their bodies to a better place.
Racial breakdown of all cases: 85% White, 8.5% Black, 5% Multiracial, 1.2% Asian, 0.2% American Indian, 0.1% Pacific Islander
Ethnicity breakdown of all cases: 94.2% Non-Hispanic, 5.8% Hispanic
Racial breakdown of all deaths: 87.8% White, 8.8% Black, 2.6% Multiracial, 0.6% Asian, 0.1% American Indian
Ethnicity breakdown of all deaths: 98.1% Non-Hispanic, 1.9% Hispanic
Long Term Care Facilities (PDF): 28 new residents and 14 new staff positive from yesterday, and 24 more deaths. It appears as a percentage of our deaths, Long Term Care is going down slightly. It is certainly the largest portion, that's why we're vaccinating it so quickly. And this is actually some of the fewer cases that we have had in a while in long term care.
Total facilities: 324
Total deaths: 2150
Active cases: 708 residents, 380 staff
Total cases: 16440 residents, 12057 staff
K-12 Update (PDF): Our school reports this week thus far, and that's just really Monday and Tuesday, we're still waiting for today. 703 new positive cases in students, 288 new positive cases in staff, 3,680 new quarantine students just in those first two days this week. 481 new quarantined staff.
Alright, now we've got Dr Stack to talk about a number of things, including the importance of continued testing, but also to specifically talk through the new variants, finding it in Kentucky, in two separate cases, and what it means for us, and the steps we ought to be taking.
New deaths by county: 81 M Bath, 78 M Carroll, 73 M Carter, 89 M Carter, 68 M Clay, 86 M Daviess, 89 M Fayette, 69 M Gallatin, 87 M Graves, 86 M Hardin, 77 M Hardin, 77 M Hardin, 82 M Hardin, 76 M Henry, 63 M Hopkins, 84 M Hopkins, 76 M Jefferson, 80 M Jefferson, 63 M Jefferson, 77 M Jefferson, 85 M Lincoln, 55 M Livingston, 68 M Livingston, 71 M Logan, 86 M Logan, 95 M Lyon, 61 M Madison, 89 M Mason, 86 M Mercer, 85 M Montgomery, 95 M Montgomery, 99 M Montgomery, 90 M Muhlenberg, 92 M Muhlenberg, 79 M Ohio, 90 M Ohio, 60 M Pulaski, 73 M Pulaski, 77 M Pulaski, 93 M Robertson, 52 M Rockcastle, 55 M Russell, 72 M Taylor, 76 M Wayne, 80 M Wayne, 47 M Whitley, 83 M Whitley, 62 M Whitley, 86 M Whitley, 74 M Woodford, 78 M Woodford
Historically the Kentucky National Guard has assisted in around Washington DC during presidential inaugurations. <...> The Kentucky National Guard will send approximately 270 personnel to the region.<...>
<...>The Guard has also been activated to assist in security here in Frankfort for any planned acts of terror that might be perpetrated by anybody out there.<...>
<...>The regional areas are going to open the week of February the 1st. The week before that we'll announce how many are statewide, and where they are, and how to sign up. <...> Here's another exciting piece. At that point, all these regional areas will be providing vaccines to anyone, all the way down through 1C. So in those regional centers, and that's everybody above 60, everybody who has a condition defined by the CDC that makes COVID especially dangerous, and all essential workers as defined by the CDC. This is going to open up the opportunity at these facilities, starting the week of February 1st for everybody who falls in those categories for 1B, or 1A. <...>
: Anyone in phase 1 will be able to begin scheduling appointments on the 28th. And again, Kroger will begin administering the vaccine during the week of February 1st at our first regional site.
: And in many communities, I realized this is not all <...> But in many communities, the smaller communities in particular, they are finding that the demand is decreasing already for phase 1A and in those communities, of course, they have fewer health care personnel, and the other ones, we'll have to keep at work until we reach you all.
* So Walgreens \[...\] completed 72 clinics at individual licensed facilities and that included 3,512 residents and 2,059 staff as well, as they have 23 licensed facilities left to go for their first dose. \[..,\] CVS, had 75 clinics last week, and they have 42 centers remaining, and the residents that they were able to vaccinate were 2,973, and the staff were 2,432
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The appointment hours are between 8a-12p and 1-3p daily. We have 16 staffers working giving us a total of 125 appointments a day. This system will allow you to schedule, reschedule, and cancel appointments, and add appointment information to your own digital calendar; it's got one of those downloads and you can download that and save it. If you forget your appointment information, you can go to the website, where this is scheduled, enter your email address and it can email you your appointment information. And it also sends reminders to you the day before your appointment is scheduled so you don't forget about it.
Now with respect to the Continuing Assistance Act, remember that was the extra $300 a week, as well as extra weeks on the pandemic-related claims. The $300 a week, we believe, that we've got the programming done and we are testing it and that should start pushing out next week. And as far as the PUA, the Pandemic Unemployment Compensation claims and the Pandemic Extended Unemployment Compensation claims, those were the ones that had only 39 weeks and ran out Christmas week, Congress gave us an extra 11 weeks. Those are now programmed in. So we believe that you can go in and start claiming those within the next week, even if you had exhausted your previous weeks, you should not have to open a new claim. Again look for any more information on the Kentucky Career Center website.
[Amy] had mentioned that 16 staffers are manning the phone, so to speak, with these phone appointments. How many of them are actually specialists who can actually fix claims? On top of that, how many claims have been processed that on average per day, and per week. And with the fraudulent claims, could they be mistakes or ID issues, and if so, what's being done to let those folks know? -- We're gonna send those five questions over to Amy.
Okay. Hopefully I got all those down I'm not sure I did. I do believe the 16 staffers are people who can fix claims, so you should be able to get the assistance you need if you make one of those appointments. Now the average per day and per week, I don't know that but we can drill down and see if we can get that. ID issues: Whenever a claimant files a claim, and if they fail initial validation, there is an automatic online validation process where you answer some questions about your history. And if you fail that, you were given notice that you failed and you are given the opportunity to upload documents. You have a certain amount of time to upload those documents, we have not been strictly enforcing that, some people have been able to do it. We are going to start moving to a process where we are trying to close out some of the old claims. So if you don't upload your ID documents that have been requested within the requested amount of time, you will get a denial of your claim. <...> that then triggers appeal rights. So there's various levels there where you are given the opportunity to validate online, to upload documents, given multiple opportunities to upload documents, and if you have trouble with that and never do and get a denial you can establish your identity on appeal. <..>
What would you say to the people who are still reluctant to take the vaccine? [...] -- [...] What I'd say to them, is it safe. I've taken the vaccine but more than that I watched one of the people I love most in the world, my wife, get the vaccine standing right next to me. Maybe in the last couple weeks with all the terroristic threatening that's out there, you know, I realized, more every day how special having her in my life is, and to be confident enough in this vaccine to recommend it to her. I recommend this to my family, I recommend this to people I care about, and I've taken it in myself. I think what you're gonna see as we move forward is more influencers, faith leaders, and others stepping out and working with us.
So CVS and Walgreens have only administered 29% of the total staff received at long term care facilities. I think I heard earlier in the update that there are only 23 facilities left to get their first dose. My question is on willingness among residents and staff at these places to get the vaccine contributing to the slow pace of rollout? [...] -- Sure. So the doses that we show, that have been provided to CVS and Walgreens, also include second doses. So, when we get through all of them and then multiply by two that will be the number of doses from Pfizer that they will give. You're right though that it looks like they're going to be a certain number that are there that do represent individuals we at least believed were in long term care as residents, or as staff, that said “No”. So, yes, it does, if we schedule 12 clinics in one day-- and you are limited in many ways, because you have to go to the clinic, you can't set something up where people are coming to you when it's long term care, and a certain percentage of people say “No”, then you are going to do fewer vaccines that day.
Good afternoon everyone. Good afternoon, Virginia. This is four o'clock on Thursday, the last time we'll come together live this week. And remember that we're gonna get through this, and we're gonna get through it together. We have a lot of information today. My guess is that we will go over the hour, but it's important to get it out. Some exciting information first on economic development, then a another tough COVID report, but a little lower on cases than the last couple weeks but a really hard death count today, and then a whole lot of information on vaccines, in a couple of different ways, and I think most of that information is pretty exciting, and then we'll make sure that we also continue to explain what some of the various numbers that we post mean, and what we have control over and what we don't.
But let's start out with some really positive news for the Commonwealth. Today, we announced another great economic development project for Kentucky, and one that signals a shift towards the future of the automotive industry. Leaders at Hitachi Automotive Electric Motor Systems America are establishing a new 200 job operation in Berea to produce motors for electric vehicles manufactured by Honda of America. This new business is going to provide quality job opportunities for those in Berea, and in Madison County, and around, with an average hourly wage of $27 including benefits. It also positions us, as a state, to not only better serve the automotive industry which has so many facilities in Kentucky, but to be on the cutting edge of the future of that industry. Not to be a provider of parts of the past, but making sure that we are ensuring the future of our automotive jobs here in Kentucky. This new Hitachi subsidiary was established in Kentucky in March of this year, and company leaders work diligently over the past 10 months to navigate the challenges caused by this pandemic to make this a reality. The project is going to use a sister facility, in Berea already, to begin operations and work is being done right now to renovate that space. The company has created 20 jobs already and that's going to grow to about 200 as production begins in 2022, or early 2023. Hitachi has been a great partner and a great company in Kentucky for years with four facilities, currently operating in the state. That’s two manufacturing plants in Berea and manufacturing and warehouse operations in Harrisburg. I'm thrilled that this company has such a positive view of our workforce and of it being a great place to live; that they continue to expand and even pick us for some of the most high-end and hi-tech parts of their business for the future. Long term commitment of companies like Hitachi reiterate what we already know-- that we have all the tools to build a brighter future, and a better economy, if we take advantage of the opportunities we have before us. I'd like to welcome Hitachi Automotive Electric Motor Systems of America to Team Kentucky. I can't wait to see what the future has for this company, and think about it, folks in the midst of a pandemic, we have a next generation company that's going to open up and employ 200 folks in Berea. That means that we can fight for our future, even while we're fighting this virus.
Alright, the second announcement is about activation of the National Guard for help during inauguration in Washington. The peaceful transfer of power is one of the bedrocks of our democracy. Historically the Kentucky National Guard has assisted in around Washington DC during presidential inaugurations. But given the attack, the January 6th attack on our US Capitol, on lawmakers, that domestic terror attack that took the lives of Capitol Police, more of our soldiers and airmen have been requested to be there and we have said, yes. Absolutely, yes. It is our job, it is our duty to provide these great Kentuckians to ensure that peaceful transition of power occurs, and to stand up to domestic terror when we see it. I'm proud that our guardsmen and guardswomen will be there to protect our nation, and to ensure safety during this period of time. The Kentucky National Guard will send approximately 270 personnel to the region. These brave men and women, who proudly serve this Commonwealth, are going to proudly serve in Washington DC over the inauguration. Adjutant General Lamberton and I are grateful to the families, and employers of the service members who provide unwavering support.
Additionally, an announcement, but we're not going to provide any further details that the Guard has also been activated to assist in security here in Frankfort for any planned acts of terror that might be perpetrated by anybody out there. We will have the sufficient resources, we will be prepared to ensure that what happened in the US capital does not happen here in Kentucky. That's our commitment, and we'll be ready.
Our COVID update today:
Positive cases today: 4,084 - But that is down from this day last week and the week before.
Probable cases: 962
Total confirmed cases: 317,345
Children Under 18: 504
I believe we have cases in all but one Kentucky County, a lot of other counties on here. Eastern, Western, northern, South-Central Kentucky. It should just tell everybody that it is everywhere. And at this point, if you didn't want to wear a mask before, wear it for your own personal safety. Everybody should be wearing a mask when they are indoors around people outside of their household, and you ought to be carrying one with you outdoors, at any time that you would come within six feet of other people. You’ve got to do it. With what we're seeing right now, it's the most effective tool of fighting this virus and prevents any other steps from having to be taken. If you are a business, enforce that mask rule right now. If you don't, the likelihood that someone with COVID is spreading it in your facility is higher now than it has ever been. And if we do have a mutated virus that is spreading 50% or more aggressively right now, the risk is much higher than it's ever been. Do it for the safety of yourself, of your workers, of your customers.
Total tests conducted: 3,709,482 (PCR: 3,378,562, Serology: 104,306)
Positivity Rate: 12.34%
Total hospitalized: 15,022
Currently hospitalized: 1,661 - That’s down 41 from yesterday.
Total in ICU: 3,312
Currently in ICU: 409 - That is up six to 409. When we look at our ICU, there are some regions we're concerned about, but still capacity throughout the state, while it could change quickly, we are not where say Los Angeles County is, which is absolutely full, and what we are seeing in some other states but again with numbers this high, that can change and change quickly.
On a ventilator: 196 - 29 fewer Kentuckians on a ventilator, 196, though, that's not always the result of a good outcome
Total recovered: 39,998
New deaths today: 51 - Hard day today on deaths, 51 new deaths that we're announcing that COVID-19 contributed to here in the Commonwealth. That puts us past an awful milestone, we now have 3,042 Kentuckians that we have lost to this virus. We'll be working on a plan over the next couple of weeks to again honor those that we've lost. It felt like just the other day that we were on the front steps of the Capitol after we lost our 2,000th Kentuckian and we reached 3,000 far too quickly. Please think about these families, think about the toll that this has taken. Please let's do what it takes to defeat this virus and that's whether you're up here rethinking legislation or whether you're in your community on what you can do. Losing over 3,000 people- I mean we're at war, we are absolutely at war. We are suffering more casualties and most wars we've ever followed in. Let's treat it like it is going to be hard.
Total Deaths: 3,042
New deaths by county: 81 M Bath, 78 M Carroll, 73 M Carter, 89 M Carter, 68 M Clay, 86 M Daviess, 89 M Fayette, 69 M Gallatin, 87 M Graves, 86 M Hardin, 77 M Hardin, 77 M Hardin, 82 M Hardin, 76 M Henry, 63 M Hopkins, 84 M Hopkins, 76 M Jefferson, 80 M Jefferson, 63 M Jefferson, 77 M Jefferson, 85 M Lincoln, 55 M Livingston, 68 M Livingston, 71 M Logan, 86 M Logan, 95 M Lyon, 61 M Madison, 89 M Mason, 86 M Mercer, 85 M Montgomery, 95 M Montgomery, 99 M Montgomery, 90 M Muhlenberg, 92 M Muhlenberg, 79 M Ohio, 90 M Ohio, 60 M Pulaski, 73 M Pulaski, 77 M Pulaski, 93 M Robertson, 52 M Rockcastle, 55 M Russell, 72 M Taylor, 76 M Wayne, 80 M Wayne, 47 M Whitley, 83 M Whitley, 62 M Whitley, 86 M Whitley, 74 M Woodford, 78 M Woodford
The 68 year old woman in Clay County was a healthcare worker. Remember these don't all happen on the same day they go through our process to where we ensure that indeed COVID-19 was a contributing factor to their passing. Folks, we're almost halfway through, that's, what this virus has done to us at least today.
Racial breakdown of all cases: 84.9% White, 8.6% Black, 4.9% Multiracial, 1.2% Asian, 0.2% American Indian, 0.1% Pacific Islander
Ethnicity breakdown of all cases: 93.9% Non-Hispanic, 6.1% Hispanic
Racial breakdown of all deaths: 87.5% White, 9.1% Black, 2.7% Multiracial, 0.6% Asian, 0.1% American Indian
Ethnicity breakdown of all deaths: 98% Non-Hispanic, 2% Hispanic
And today we have a memorial. And this is another person that I knew personally, whose family I knew personally, whose son I talked to on the phone and actually even texted me the other day, just making sure that I was safe. So today we share the loss of Lewis Bass known to many in Louisville, and throughout Kentucky as Sonny. He was 99 years old. Everybody in Louisville knew Sonny, they did, he was a beloved community leader who was always ready to jump in and help others. His granddaughter Anna said his true loves were his family, UofL, and giving back to his community. And that was apparent through his work and philanthropy efforts. Sonny was born in West in the West End of Louisville, and dedicated his life to helping the entire city succeed. He was a three year football Letterman and a two year Letterman in basketball at the University of Louisville, before serving his country in World War Two. When he returned to Louisville, Sonny took the first step in his many business ventures, which included co-founding what is now known as Humana. Sonny was a gifted tennis player he played competitively into his golden years. He was ranked number one in the seniors tennis in Kentucky for 10 years and singles and doubles and won a gold medal at the Maccabi games in Israel in 1986. He played on Louisville’s tennis team, which took home the national title in 1989. But his greatest achievement was meeting Gladys, his wife of 74 years and beginning the family he loved so much. Gladys, Sonny, and many other family members were infected with COVID, I remember when that happened, but unfortunately, it hit Sonny the hardest. Despite the efforts of those at Baptist East Hospital, he passed away on December 11th. Gladys is recovering and thankful for her family. She's thankful her family was able to locate caregivers to help with her recovery despite the challenges of the virus. Sonny’s special, not only did he accomplish so much professionally in his community, my goodness, look at that family. But he also made everyone who came into contact with him smile. You'd often be seen making dogs out of beads he carried with him for his children, or staff at restaurants, or treating those he saw to a quick magic trick just to brighten their day. He lived by the motto “It only takes a minute to give a little joy and see a smile.”. Anyone who knew Sonny can't help but smile when they think of him-- great all around man. Today we lift up Gladys, his entire family, including Steve and Terry. It's a huge loss for them in the entire, not just community of Louisville, but for the state. So today we mask up for Sonny.
Alright, now for good announcements. I think we need some of that positivity, and some of these are exciting. So first, let's talk about vaccination of K-12 personnel, our educators, who agreed to be vaccinated. You may remember that when we talked about making this group a priority, so our schools can be open safely, we set a goal of starting those vaccinations the week of February the 1st. I'm excited to report that our vaccination efforts are increasing at a rapid pace and that has allowed us to not only do the planning, but to start some of these vaccinations. And today we can announce that we believe that we will have all of the K-12 personnel, that agreed to be vaccinated, through their first shot of vaccination by the end of that week we said we'd start February the 1st. This is really exciting. This means on something as important as vaccines, we're actually beating deadlines, maybe even getting them partially done before, we thought we would be able to start them. This is going to mean, with the second dose just a month after, that our educators are going to have real and significant defense against this virus for their own health. And after that second shot first week, or a couple of weeks of March. This is important. These folks have worked really hard when they've had to be virtual, they're asked to do a job where oftentimes they will come in contact with a lot of people, some of which have hard times wearing masks or social distancing. And I want to thank Dr Stack who's with us here today for making this a reality, and for, I don't know if he under-promised but he definitely overachieved with this one. So exciting news for educators.
Here's another exciting piece. At that point, all these regional areas will be providing vaccines to anyone, all the way down through 1C. So in those regional centers, and that's everybody above 60, everybody who has a condition defined by the CDC that makes COVID especially dangerous, and all essential workers as defined by the CDC. This is going to open up the opportunity at these facilities, starting the week of February 1st for everybody who falls in those categories for 1B, or 1A. So it is exciting. And to help us with this we have brought on a new project manager, kind of like Mark Carter was with contact tracing, that somebody already working for this administration that many of you know, that has done everything from running a sophisticated company to the city of Lexington. So let me introduce our project manager for this part of our vaccination effort, Jim Gray.
Governor, thanks very much, and I want to say that this is of course it's a tough and challenging project; but it's also a real honor that you'd asked me to be involved in it, and to help and assist Dr Stack and your team with such incredible work, that's really remarkable work that's already been done. The work that's been done to get us to this point is nothing short, as I said, of remarkable. And we want to thank Dr. Stack for continuing to lead us as a critical partner in our delivery system that's going forward. This is all about Team Kentucky delivering on an ambitious life-saving project. Now, the team that will be moving forward, Governor, as you know, will be coordinating with the Department for Emergency Management, Kroger, as you've mentioned, and other partners to establish regional hubs to vaccinate as many people as possible, as the vaccine quantities increase over the next few weeks and months. Now, as you've already said, I'm just gonna dig into this just a little bit more some of the details on the Kroger arrangement. First, new shots will be administered beginning the week of February 1st at our regional sites, that’s what Kroger will be helping us stand up. Now this regional system will grow over time to reach even more Kentuckians. We will not be announcing specific sites today; but let me tell you what we are doing, as we speak, we are working to get sites evaluated and secured, and we'll be releasing more information in the coming weeks. Importantly, as you've already said, we are committed to ensuring equitable distribution of the vaccine, every Kentuckian will have access to the vaccine, and everyone will have their turn. We'll be starting with regional high-volume sites and over time, Kroger's existing network will come online. There will also be a federal program that will come online which will expand our volume even more, bringing the vaccine as close to everyone's homes as possible. Now details will be available as we know more about the number of doses that Kentucky will be supplied and when. And that's a process that Dr Stack will continue to guide and lead. And importantly, you’re going to hear from Kroger's Megan Brown in just a minute, we are creating tools to ease the process of getting an appointment. Building a registration website where Kentuckians can go to determine when they're eligible for the vaccine and to schedule appointments. We'll also be establishing a hotline so citizens can make a phone call to find out when they're eligible, and to schedule an appointment as they become eligible. Our plan involves announcing our first regional site, and launching the website and hotline on January 28th. Anyone in phase 1 will be able to begin scheduling appointments on the 28th. And again, Kroger will begin administering the vaccine during the week of February 1st at our first regional site. Now remember, and I'm coming to closing here, while we're doing our best to make getting your vaccine as simple and seamless as possible. This is going to take some time and our system relies on the speed of the vaccine manufacturers and releases from the federal government. So we ask, we continue to ask, for your patience. To say it one more time again: everyone will have their turn. This project, announced today, will get the vaccine in every arm that wants it as quickly and safely as possible. Meanwhile, as the Governor has said routinely, keep wearing your masks, practice social distancing, and washing your hands. Back to you Governor.
Thank you. Secretary Gray made a really good point there, that we can build any infrastructure, but how quickly and how many people we can vaccinate depends on how much the federal government gives to us. Last week, we provided more vaccinations than we received in doses because we still had one from the week before, but there's going to be a point where we are just strictly limited by how much the federal government provides, and I'll go to how we learn about what we get and when we learn in a minute; because we've got Megan Brown, from Kroger, who has been, again, an amazing partner to us throughout the course of this pandemic, helping us build the critical infrastructure we need. I want to thank her, thank Kroger, and turn it over to her.
New deaths by county: 79 F Boone, 81 M Boone, 54 F Boyle, 73 F Campbell, 84 F Campbell, 92 F Campbell, 72 M Campbell, 92 M Franklin, 70 F Gallatin, 40 M Grant, 70 M Grant, 95 F Jefferson, 72 M Jefferson, 78 M Jefferson, 92 M Jefferson, 66 F Kenton, 74 F Kenton, 99 F Kenton, 102 F Kenton, 86 M Kenton, 88 M Kenton, 90 M Kenton, 82 F Lewis, 65 M Marshall, 89 F Simpson, 64 M Simpson
Vaccine: So this was the amount that was allocated in December. Now some of that last part of December is still coming in. So there's a difference between what's been allocated and what's been received as it is logged into the system.<...>What we will do right now is every Monday we're going to provide a vaccine update. And we are not going to be updating the vaccine numbers every day, online, until we believe that they are accurate, until we've got that reporting coming in.<...>So we have had two January allocations as well. One from Pfizer, the vast majority of this is going into long term care. <...>So, of what's been allocated, our numbers as of today, and again, there is a reporting lag, there is no question, is that about 174,750 doses have been received, by either the long term care program or the healthcare worker program. And out of those, this was, I think, accurate as of yesterday- I don't think we'll get today's in until tomorrow, total doses- and they should be total people- that have been vaccinated 60,414.
Dr. Stack: This is the phase planning for all the rest of the population. <...> Now, for the first time today you're seeing in Kentucky our category 1C, 2, 3 and 4. 1C aligns with what the CDC had said for all the rest of 1B plus 1C. And we even lowered the age, so 1C is people 60 and over, people who are 16 and over with any of the highest risk, see COVID-19 conditions- that is published on the CDC website. <...> By the time we get to phase 2, that's anyone 40 or over who wants to get vaccinated, and by the time we get to phase 3, it's anyone 16 or over, because people under 16 are not eligible for the vaccine now because they're not authorized by the FDA. And so people under 16 are in category 4 because they're not even eligible to get this, and it's probably about 18% or so of the population which has over 800,000 people. <...> So, because focusing on priorities is important to try to get the highest risk people, we're still going to ask every vaccination site to use the priorities and stick with that.
Your response to a certain school district in the greater Louisville area that has not included AP courses and virtual learning options when in-person classes are set to begin January 11th. -- That is a requirement for in-person classes, under an executive order. If you do not do it you're not only in violation of that order, but you may be making immunocompromised kids come in, because of the pressure you're placing on their future to a place where they are not safe. We said we want to get schools open in red counties, to do that safely means those kids that it's not safe for them to come back to school or those whose parents don't think it's safe, don't lose out on educational opportunities. Whatever school district this is, and I don't know it, it's your responsibility, it's in the order, we expect you to live up to it.
I wanted to ask you a general assembly question, which the session starts tomorrow. And a couple weeks ago, I counted on time prefiled bills aimed at limiting executive authority. With the republican super majorities in both chambers is there anything that you can do to stop that and do you believe it will backfire on Republicans? -- I believe that we are in the midst of a pandemic that is killing people and the more limitations that a General Assembly wants to place on me, that other states don't have, leave us less equipped to fight the virus. It means we won't save as many lives, which means it'll take longer to defeat the virus meaning it'll take longer to fully open our economy again to where our small businesses can have full capacity. It'll take longer, it will be a direct result of any bills passing that limit that authority. But what I'll also say is that the Supreme Court, when they cited in our favor in a unanimous decision over the case filed by the Attorney General, talked about the constitutional nature of these powers and I think we're sending up a signal that what the General Assembly may do, could be unconstitutional.
Folks who have allergies, there are some who should not be getting the vaccine. Can you or the doctor tell me what those allergies are that folks shouldn't be getting the vaccine? -- Yeah, let's send that one to Dr Stack.
[...] So, emergency use authorization says that people who have had severe reactions to injectable vaccines or injectable medications should exercise increased caution before receiving the vaccination. So that's a relatively small or tiny portion of the general public. So, if you have had serious reactions to injectable medications in the past, before you get your vaccination, make sure you discuss it with the healthcare providers who are at the vaccine site, so that you can be properly informed, and they can work with you on an individual basis to determine your risk, and then recommend to you what seems to be safest and in your best interests.
Good afternoon everybody. Good afternoon, Virginia. Happy 2021. This is certainly going to be a better year than 2020. It's four o'clock, the time that three days a week we get together and remember that we're going to get through this, we're going to get through this together. In fact, in the year 2021, we're going to defeat the Coronavirus, and that is going to be an amazing accomplishment. 2021 offers us the possibility of so much more. This is going to be the year where we determine our place in the post-COVID world and in the post-COVID economy, our opportunities in the second half of this year may be greater than we ever imagined. A world where the density of New York or LA is no longer attractive, a world where more people can work remotely, a world where Kentucky has more chances than ever before. And what we're seeing as other states right now already planning for that post-COVID world. So I hope, up here in Frankfort, that we're going to spend the first part of this year, where we're in a session, but also on the administrative side, making sure we truly take advantage of the opportunities in front of us, so that we can lead and not follow, create the jobs of tomorrow, not chase the jobs of yesterday, where we can be everything we ever wanted, instead of just sitting back, watching others, and then seeing if we can copy what they do, which means will always be steps behind. We have true opportunity in 2021. But before we can move into those opportunities we still have to defeat this virus and things are still going to be tough until we are able to get this vaccination out to everyone who is willing to take it. And along the way, we're going to have to continue our programs that help build confidence in that vaccine, showing that it is safe and showing it's effective, we're gonna continue to do that.
Today we're going to start looking at the last week, some of the information we don't have enough context, yet, because we have had two holiday weeks where a number of drive-thru testing locations have been closed and a number of other things have reported slower like the major national labs. After that, we're going to talk about today's report and then we're going to talk specifically about vaccination. We're going to provide you more-- in fact, all-- of the priority groups here in Kentucky. Dr Stack is going to talk through our new goals, because we’ve got to get these things out faster, and I'll talk about that in a minute. I'm not okay with the pace that they are currently being provided. We have too many people out there that are rightfully anxious, and they need to see, well, this whole country pick up the pace, we're certainly going to do it here in Kentucky.
So let's start with our stair stepper chart on cases, we can see that this last week was higher certainly than the week before, but of course lower than our peak from-- oh, about five weeks ago, when we were seeing that exponential growth. It's hard to know how much of this week might otherwise have been in the week before, which we thought was artificially low, but it is going to take a little bit of time to see exactly where this trend is going. In good news, we think some of what we saw this last week was probably reports coming in again from that prior week, where you see the really big dip. We do have real concerns that people's behavior and getting together, especially over the Christmas holiday in informal gatherings where masks are not worn, will increase cases that we see over the coming weeks. And what that means is we just need the very best out of people moving forward. Whether you did it right and kept things within your family or really small or whether you did it wrong, and did it in large groups where COVID spreads, we need your very best right now and in the months to come.
Positivity rate, this is concerning when you look at this big jump. Now there are a couple of things that we think are at work here. Most of the testing, where people who are asymptomatic get tested, and when you test asymptomatic folks a smaller percentage of them have it, than where you go if you're symptomatic. Because if you think you have COVID and you go to the hospital, where most symptomatic folks go, well, that positivity rate is higher. A lot of our asymptomatic testing, including our surge testing from the federal government and others, was closed numerous days during the last two weeks. And what that would mean is the sites where the positivity rate is the lowest, were not open as many days. Now that probably doesn't account for all of the growth that we see here. Again, part of it is probably Christmas, is how COVID spread in some small gatherings; maybe we may continue to see this through New Year’s. Now we'll have to see from the data I don't think the rise is this dramatic, but we are probably seeing, at least a rise in the positivity rate, something again we're going to have to follow very carefully.
When we look at the hospital capacity by region which we've been showing you, that's that map, we've gone from two to four regions that are in the red. Region 10, certainly a concern with 95.6% of the ICU beds filled. Now obviously if you just go over to 4, while it’s in the red, at 83.3% is a lot different than its neighbor. We have region 7 which is in the red for inpatient beds, but not ICU. And area 8 which has been in and out of the red again for ICU. We believe we still have hospital capacity. This shouldn't necessarily sound the alarm, but it should tell us that where we are continues to be fragile. That in just one week of not doing the things we need to do we can give up gains that we fought and we sacrificed, week after week to achieve. That's what this virus is, it just waits for you to get tired, it waits for you to let your guard down, , and then it springs into action and can spread so fast, so fast that that month's worth of work can be wiped out pretty quickly so let's remember that and make sure that we continue to do the things, each and every day, that we need to to defeat this virus. Remember we're gonna beat it. We're gonna win. The question is how many people we're going to lose along the way? How many people are going to have long term symptoms and complications and difficulties coming out of it? How many of our young people may suffer from the microcardia that is afflicting some of our young people? How much damage is going to be done between now and when we have enough vaccine out there to reach immunity? I want to make sure that we keep that damage as small as possible, that we lose as few people as possible, that takes effort, takes commitment, and that takes continued resiliency.
Positive cases today: 2,319 - Today's reports are higher than the last several weeks. In fact this is the highest Monday that we've had with 2,319 cases. Again, we'll be watching, especially moving into next week, on how many of these Monday cases may have been backed up in the system from really two holiday weekends in a row.
Total tests conducted: 3,504,553 (PCR: 3,224,871, Serology: 102,490)
Positivity Rate: 11.18% - We talked about this, we're going to be watching it. We can't tell you definitively right now, whether this has been, again, inflated by what testing is open or not, or as a result of private gatherings over the holidays. We think it is some of both, but it's going to take days for the data to show us the truth.
Total hospitalized: 13,794
Currently hospitalized: 1,737 - That's up
Total in ICU: 3,092
Currently in ICU: 456 - That's up
On a ventilator: 216 - That's up over yesterday again when we saw the trend lines still down, compared to other, other times
Total recovered: 37,455
New deaths today: 26 - Hard day with 26 deaths
Total Deaths: 2,749
New deaths by county: 79 F Boone, 81 M Boone, 54 F Boyle, 73 F Campbell, 84 F Campbell, 92 F Campbell, 72 M Campbell, 92 M Franklin, 70 F Gallatin, 40 M Grant, 70 M Grant, 95 F Jefferson, 72 M Jefferson, 78 M Jefferson, 92 M Jefferson, 66 F Kenton, 74 F Kenton, 99 F Kenton, 102 F Kenton, 86 M Kenton, 88 M Kenton, 90 M Kenton, 82 F Lewis, 65 M Marshall, 89 F Simpson, 64 M Simpson
All losses are a loss for Kentucky. Let’s light those houses up green and let’s ring those bells at 10am. This is a reminder that we are thinking of the Kentuckians we’ve lost, their families, and their communities. It’s the color of compassion and renewal as their souls move from their bodies to a better place.
Racial breakdown of all cases: 83.9% White, 9.4% Black, 5.1% Multiracial, 1.3% Asian, 0.3% American Indian, 0.1% Pacific Islander
Ethnicity breakdown of all cases: 95.1% Non-Hispanic, 4.9% Hispanic
Racial breakdown of all deaths: 87.1% White, 9.4% Black, 2.7% Multiracial, 0.7% Asian, 0.1% American Indian
Ethnicity breakdown of all deaths: 97.9% Non-Hispanic, 2.1% Hispanic
Long Term Care Facilities (PDF): 105 new residents and 126 new staff positive from yesterday, and 37 more deaths. This is the reason that long term care residents and staff are in the very first group because the magnitude of lost there
Folks, the only way that we can stop this now is to stop the community spread. It's what we are doing in our communities or what we're not doing. It's not following the rules and regulations enough, not wearing a mask, not engaging in social distancing, not being careful that ultimately costs the lives of individuals in these facilities. Please, these are real people. This is just in long term care: 1,858 people that have passed away because we couldn't keep COVID out of the facility because of community spread. We just need to do better.
And speaking of, I think that's a fair way to characterize the vaccine rollout across the country. A number of things that I believe the federal government underestimated. First, the amount of time for each individual vaccination that's done. It takes signing somebody up and getting the consent form. It takes asking several questions to ensure that you're not giving the vaccine to someone who might have a severe reaction or had a fever, all those questions, then it takes the vaccination itself, and some form of monitoring for a certain period thereafter. So this isn't something, when you think about that, what eight to 10 minutes per individual at least? That one person working a normal workday can hit the type of numbers that we need to hit to get people vaccinated out there. I think a couple of other things that were underestimated by the federal government and that's when you have a really narrow first group, which we did, and I understand why, and especially on the hospital side, if each vial has been allocated to individuals, when the group is smaller, there appears to be less urgency to get it out to those individuals because you know that they're going to get one, because of the way it's been set up. But we need to move faster. We need those that have already received the vaccine to move faster. We need our partners in long term care to move faster. So today, we're going to talk about some changes that we're making, providing some additional clarification so if we ever have one of those two stores- one in Lexington and one in Louisville, that thaw too much again, they know exactly what populations should get it. And then you're going to see in the coming days we're going to be pushing harder and harder and harder to get these vaccines in people's arms so much faster, and we're going to really be building up larger operations that we can get more people through. So, let me be clear, I am not satisfied by the pace of vaccination here in Kentucky. While I think it is the same across the country that's not what I was elected to do. I was elected to do my best for you, the people of Kentucky, and we are going to do better.
So let's look at what has been allocated. This doesn't mean it's been received in Kentucky, we've gone over this before. So this was the amount that was allocated in December. Now some of that last part of December is still coming in. So there's a difference between what's been allocated and what's been received as it is logged into the system. Let me also say we have delays in reporting, and each and every part of this system, so I know when we talk about the number of vaccinated today it's higher. Now groups that are vaccinating are supposed to report within 24 hours every vaccination. That target is not being hit and so we're going to be communicating to each and every one of those providers that that is a must, and that is a requirement to get additional doses of vaccine. We have got to have better data and that's from both our long term care program and what's currently the health care worker program. We're not gonna stop until we have it and until we have it daily. What we will do right now is every Monday we're going to provide a vaccine update. And we are not going to be updating the vaccine numbers every day, online, until we believe that they are accurate, until we've got that reporting coming in. We believe if we do weekly right now, it can be accurate and the moment we believe that we are getting those reports in, within 24 hours, we will move back to daily. But we want to make sure that what we're telling you is as accurate as we can get it.
So we have had two January allocations as well. One from Pfizer, the vast majority of this is going into long term care. And when I talk about some numbers in a minute, you'll see that of the doses received by our long term care partners only about 20% have thus far gotten into individuals arms. But under a contract with the federal government to have this program going, to even have the vaccinations that are occurring right now, we have to send a certain portion to them. That means it's going to be really important in our partnership with CVS and Walgreens, that we do a couple things. One thing that we've already reached out, is we are offering individuals, more people including the National Guard, to supplement and in fact, add to their teams. We want to make sure that we can multiply their man and woman power, so we can do more faster. Again, we have made that offer, we're going to push. I'll let you know when we get our response, how many teams that lets us add, how that lets us impact our schedule. But I'm telling you in real time what I've been pushing to make sure that we can move this thing, faster.
So, of what's been allocated, our numbers as of today, and again, there is a reporting lag, there is no question, is that about 174,750 doses have been received, by either the long term care program or the healthcare worker program. And out of those, this was, I think, accurate as of yesterday- I don't think we'll get today's in until tomorrow, total doses- and they should be total people- that have been vaccinated 60,414.
Now let me break that down a little bit further. So, of total vaccine doses received, this is a come in and they've been logged in by the provider, on our health care worker side which are going to hospitals, they're going to our local health departments, they've received 122,100, and they have already vaccinated 49,773. So, not enough, not enough but certainly what, over, over a third, maybe hitting 40%. We're gonna reach out to each of these partners and talk about the urgency. And I know we've got health care providers out there that are concerned that they haven't gotten it yet, and I’d say two things. Number one, we need more urgency in this program by those providing the vaccinations, and we're gonna work with them on that but number two if you're a health care provider, you are going to get this vaccine so much earlier than the rest of the population so we really need you to set a good example on the patience side. Because what about that person who's going to have to wait two more months, and really need it, because they're vulnerable to this virus? For them, please set the very best example that you can. They're watching you. They're watching how you react. And so we need to make sure that we're modeling that right type of behavior.
Long Term Care Program has received 52,650 doses and has provided 10,641 vaccinations. Now that's only about 20%. But you can look at the numbers a little differently, we believe 146 long term care facilities have had the vaccinations done right now out of about 750. Again, we need the pace to increase here, we're providing more people, we're pushing for better data on a day-to-day basis from these partners; but no question, no question, this has got to move faster and we're gonna make it happen.
Some of the ways that we're going to do that Dr Stack is going to talk through. Providing more clarity, providing clear goals, creating accountability. And then as we move forward, and we're not going to go through it all today, how we build out the system out there, how we get more volume is something we're working on right now. You know we've been in this a couple weeks and we've already learned lessons, and we can't wait another month to start putting the newly needed infrastructure in place. When we learn one model doesn't work or doesn't move fast enough, we improve its efficiency, but we also look at other models we can rapidly implement, to where we can get the type of results that we need. So with that, Dr Stack.
Thank you Governor. Good afternoon, Virginia. Can you hear me okay? So, I'm going to talk on two things real quick just very briefly, I think the Governor wanted me to touch on where we are. I think that the points he has made have already covered very well, that when testing was suppressed over the last two weeks, that people who probably didn't get tested were people who were lower risk, and so I think that can artificially elevate our positivity rate. I will tell you that there are signs that perhaps the hospitalization numbers are increasing. So I am concerned that the activities over the two major holidays here, the Christmas and New Year's plus the many other holidays that accompany the season, have probably resulted in some increase in disease. We will know that better over the next one to two weeks as we see what the positivity rate does when testing volume again increases. And we'll also see what happens with the hospitalization data. So I'm going to again, beseech all of you, I'm going to ask you as personally and passionately as I can, please wear your mask, stay six feet or more away from each other, wash your hands, stay home if you're sick, and get tested if you think you've been exposed or have COVID. So please, we've got to do these things, to block and tackle, until we get enough people vaccinated to get to a better place, which won't happen until later this year. I'd now like to turn our attention to the vaccine rollout.
This is the phase planning for all the rest of the population. I'm going to go through three slides, and then I am going to turn around and put this in a bigger perspective. So phase 1A was already defined. Essentially, all the states followed ACIPS guidance, that's the CDCs advisory committee- that's long term care facilities and as the Governor said we've activated CVS and Walgreens fully and given the full allotment required to activate that as robustly as the federal government provided to us. Even so, we're working and trying to take steps to see if we can accelerate that further. But we're still hopeful that all the nursing home population will be vaccinated, both first and second dose, by March 1st. That's what we were led to believe at the start, and I think they can still get that done. If we can do it faster, that's even better. 1A also includes healthcare personnel. Folks, I'm a physician. For 20 years, I worked as an emergency physician after all my training. I know it's frustrating, it feels disempowering, not knowing where to go and how to get things. We're working on that. There weren’t systems in place to sort all of society and discrete little buckets and line them up single file and marched them through in a certain order-- that didn't exist and it's a really daunting task. So, the month of January, is going to be a progressive ramp up to reach and identify healthcare personnel in a very generously described paradigm. So in a memorandum I sent out to all healthcare personnel, a week or so ago, it describes healthcare personnel as being any individual regardless of their role, who works in a patient-care setting. That could be in a hospital, a doctor's office, a dentist's office, a physical therapy office, a home setting if you go out to a home. It could also be a mortician who's dealing with deceased individuals, it can also be people who deal with human tissue and fluids, like laboratory personnel, behavioral health individuals, it is intentionally a very generous permissive definition, it includes health care professional students. The challenge again is there was no way to have all of the healthcare people identify who they are and then have a designated place to go get vaccinated. Particularly when there are small quantities of vaccine in the first weeks, and all of this was happening over the holidays, the end of the year holidays where it is really really hard to get stuff established. And remember, we need health care people to be the ones who do the immunization, and part of the challenge there, as you all know, is it's been a hard year for a lot of the health care persons who have had to do so much extra work this year to help us get through COVID. So in the month of January that should escalate and ramp up. And I'm confident, the vast majority of healthcare personnel, and our very generous description of it, will have access to the vaccine as the month of January unfolds.
Make Japan Great Again: Field report from the "Stop the Steal" pro-Trump Rally in Tokyo on 29 November
tl;dr: I attended a pro-Trump "Stop the Steal" rally in Hibiya Tokyo this past weekend, which was well attended by participants from various interest groups and movements which overlap with Trump's policy positions, primary in respect of China/CCP. Takeaways:
The event drew between 300-500 people by my estimation, mostly nationalist Japanese or members of Chinese ethnic minorities who have grievances with the CCP
Trump's positions on China unites these disparate groups, and it appeared that they have an interest in ensuring the continuation of Trump's confrontational tone with China.
The event was well organized, and it seems that there may have been involvement by the Steve Bannon / Guo Wengui "Rule of Law Foundation" based on discarded boxes and shipping labels I found at the rally site.
More fulsome summary below. Several weeks ago I was scrolling through one of my Japan-related twitter lists that I rely upon for all things Japanese news and politics. Normally full of commentary on the Suga administration’s flailing COVID-19 response or speculation on what the incoming Biden administration means for Japan-US relations, I was very surprised when I saw a large Japanese language digital flyer appear in my feed advertising an apparent pro-Trump “Stop the Steal” rally and demonstration to be held in Tokyo the weekend after Thanksgiving. I was intrigued, but certain this was a joke. A MAGA rally in Japan? To protest the results of the American election? Impossible. Even if this wasn’t a joke and some fringe Japanese conspiracy theorist actually thought the results of the election were still in doubt AND wanted to publicly protest this supposed “injustice”, surely he would be standing out in the cold, alone, spewing his nonsense to entirely disinterested passersby. Nevertheless, the digital flyer seemed somewhat professional and it was clear someone had put time and effort into producing it. The Japanese language on the banner makes many the the same tired, baseless claims that the Trump campaign has been making about the election - that elections in key battleground states were stolen from Trump, that the election should be redone using in-person voting only and that the fake news media was complicit in throwing the election to Biden, etc., etc. ad nauseam. Curiously, however, the very bottom of the banner provides contact information for one of the demonstration organizers and also mentions that the group organizing the event is the so-called “Party to Protect the People from the Fake Media”, which is is suspiciously similar in name to another Japanese political party, the so-called “Party to Protect the People from NHK”, a legitimate (though fringe) political party in Japan espousing far-right beliefs which was founded on the founder’s seething hatred of NHK, Japan’s gargantuan public broadcaster. I haven’t been able to find much information online about the “Anti-Fake Media” party organizing the Trump rally, but it appears to be affiliated with the “Anti-NHK Party”. By way of background, the Anti-NHK party has gained some limited public support for publicly denouncing NHK’s controversial fee collection scheme. Rather than levy a tax on all citizens to fund the public broadcaster or otherwise allocate government funds, NHK instead obligates any owner of a television set (whether or not it is actually used to watch broadcast television) in Japan to pay the NHK subscription fee directly to the broadcaster. NHK is very aggressive about collecting this fee, and outsources the collection to an agency which is notorious for its coercive methods: representatives go door-to-door to inquire if residents own a TV and the press them to pay the fee. From my American perspective it is a bizarre system, and I can easily see how a political party could leverage populist appeal in opposition to this Orwellian practice. The leader of the party, Takashi Tachibana, is crazy and commonly makes outlandish and racist remarks which get him into fleeting trouble in the press. Last year he famously wondered aloud if the key to solving over-population would be to “massacre races that have babies like idiots”. Just like Trump, he and his party are able to survive these otherwise career-ending remarks and are begrudgingly accepted in the political arena, though they have yet to break into the mainstream in the same way that Trump did in 2016 (and I am doubtful they ever will given the LDP’s iron grip on politics here). Given the populist nature of the Anti-NHK party’s beliefs, I am not surprised that an offshoot of this party like the Anti-Fake Media party has aligned itself with the populist morass of Trumpism and echoed Trump’s hatred of the “mainstream media” to throw more kindle on Japan’s tiny populist fire. Back to the demonstration itself. Demonstrations in Tokyo are common, and are held for all sorts of fringe political movements (such as Japanese far right nationalists seeking the return of several historically Japanese islands which are currently held by Russia) and other causes (anti-Olympics protests, anti-nuclear power protests, etc.) There was even a small but well-discussed “Black Lives Matter” protest earlier this year, largely attended by expats. These demonstrations typically proceed along a “standard” route through the most well known locations in the capital and are escorted by a heavy police presence. On weekends it is very common to see small groups of demonstrators marching through places like the shopping Meccas of Harajuku and Ginza or near the government nerve center in Kasumigaseki. Most of the time they are easy to ignore as they move quickly and are relatively quiet. The flyer for the Trump demonstration asked attendees to gather at Hibiya Park in central Tokyo at 2:00pm this Sunday (29 November), which is just a stone's throw from the Imperial Palace and many government buildings including the National Diet and the Prime Minister’s Official Residence. I was still not convinced that this would be a gathering of any significance, but figured I would get to Hibiya Park around 1pm to see and perhaps talk with some of the participants, if they even showed up. After exiting the subway at Kasumigaseki and to my immediate surprise, I was greeted with several groups of older Japanese people wearing Trump’s signature “Make America Great Again” hats also making their way up from the subway station to the park. As we walked further down Kokkai Street near the park, I noticed bright shades of red white and blue of numerous American flags peeking through the leafless brown trees lining the park. It was at that moment that I realized this event was going to be far larger than I imagined and my disbelief really took hold. A MAGA rally in Japan. What on earth. Who ARE these people?! What draws them to Trump? And how can they possibly believe this election is not over? I was determined to find out. When I arrived at 1:00pm there were approximately 50-100 people setting up large Trump banners, flags and other accoutrements for the rally participants. The crowd was fairly subdued at this point and while there were more people there than I had anticipated, it certainly didn’t come close to the size of other demonstrations I have seen marching through Tokyo before. Nevertheless, it was clear that this event was well organized and there were already several news organizations on the scene filming the preparations and interviewing participants. After some mingling, I was able to discern that many of the people there (at least at first) were not in fact Japanese, but exiled Chinese and Taiwanese who were living in Japan and were affiliated with groups or movements that oppose the CCP such as Falun Gong and the Hong Kong Democracy movements . The Epoch Times (Falun Gong) and overseas Chinese Vision Times, two vocally anti-CCP outlets, had very large press contingents at the event and were interviewing numerous participants. I suspected that the participants who were gathering for this rally appreciated Trump’s antagonism of China and my discussions with a few of them confirmed this: they all had virulent hate for the CCP and appreciated Trump for publicly standing up to the CCP. Ironically though, the humanitarian causes that these Japan MAGA rally participants were supporting - such as Falun Gong, the oppression of the Uighurs in Xinjiang and the Hong Kong Democracy movement - have been generally ignored by Trump or otherwise taken back seat to his administration’s almost singular focus on rebalancing trade deficits with China. I tried to argue with some of them that Biden would be more likely to champion their specific humanitarian causes in discussions with Beijing, but this suggestion was quickly brushed aside. While I can sympathize with many of these oppressed groups and can understand how they came to view Trump favorably, the main underlying theme of rally emphatically was not these causes: it was to give voice to the conspiracy theory that the election had been stolen from Trump. I asked several of the participants why they thought that the election was not yet decided in Biden’s favor and what made them believe the election had been rigged. Not surprisingly, I received canned answers about the process not yet being complete and nebulous claims about voter fraud. When I pressed them on details, none were forthcoming and they were very quick to pivot the discussion to something else or stop talking to me entirely. As we got closer to 2:00pm, more supporters clad in their best MAGA gear joined the preparation area and began lining up within the park, many holding American flags as well as pro-Trump banners and signs. At this point there were approximately 300-500 participants lined up for the rally, and it had hit a critical mass where it no longer felt like a few fringe conspiracy theorists but instead had the imprimatur of an official, well organized movement. It was also at this time that I noticed many more Japanese joining ranks with the Chinese and Taiwanese (and even some South Korean) protestors. A few of the Japanese protestors I spoke with expressed their dislike of the CCP and other Japanese nationalist / Trump-adjacent beliefs (such as revision of the Japanese constitution to permit a full army) behind their support of Trump. One of the few other Westerners there had come out in support of his Chinese wife, who was a member of one of the anti-CCP groups participating in the rally. There was a wide range of ages represented - some appeared to be young college students, while there were also some young professionals and many elderly. There was also a fairly even distribution between men and women, and I noticed a few children and even some MAGA-adorned dogs. The rally finally started at 3:00pm, led by a loudspeaker on top of a car (adorned with a large pro-Trump banner), that led the crowd of several hundred through Tokyo’s streets to several chants that included “4 More Years!”, “Make Japan Great Again!”, “God Bless Trump” and “Take Down CCP” among many others and Japanese language equivalents. One man in a Trump mask danced along to the chants and raised his fist and waved in true Trumpian style. I watched as the main rally line made its way out of the park, astonished at its size as well as its professional organization: hundreds of American flags, Trump banners and plenty of mobile loudspeakers. At this point I took closer notice of the MAGA signs and clothing that the protestors had brought with them or were being supplied by the organizers. While some of of these signs and hats were custom made at home (one woman had taped “Trump” on top of a red Hiroshima Carp - a Japanese professional baseball team - baseball cap), quite a few people appeared to have “official” Make America Great Again / Keep America Great hats, t-shirts and signage from the official campaign. As one can imagine, these items are not typically sold in Japan and I do not believe the official Trump campaign website store allows shipments outside of the United States. Where did they get them? I had enough trouble trying to buy and have shipped to Japan a Joe Biden t-shirt (I had to have sent to my sister in the US first before forwarding it to Japan), that I can’t imagine these Japanese MAGA supporters navigating the same American based e-commerce ecosystem to procure their election goods. I suppose these could have come from Amazon or elsewhere on the internet, but there was such a large number of these - very new looking - hats and signs that the more likely explanation was that one of the organizers had imported these from the United States and distributed them to the protestors. With the demonstrators now off to assault Tokyo with MAGA conspiracies over loudspeaker, I decided to wander back to the initial organization location in Hibiya Park. At this point there were only several park staff members who were holding a debrief and gathering some of the waste left behind by the protestors. I noticed that there was a large collection of cardboard boxes near to where the the flags and signs had been distributed, and began perusing through these remains for any hints about where these items may have come from. Most of the boxes and packaging had been destroyed or contained no identifying marks, but I noticed one box had DHL branding, which made it stand out. Upon closer inspection, I saw that the shipping label had not been fully removed, and the name and address of “The Rule of Law Foundation” in New York City could clearly be seen on the shipping label. I took a picture of the label, but was spotted by one of the few straggling organizers who noticed me rummaging through their trash and came over to chase me away. A quick google search of “The Rule of Law Foundation” brings you to the website of Guo Wengui, a billionaire political exile from China who has been a vocal critic of the CCP and the primary benefactor for Steve Bannon’s most recent agit-prop initiatives: https://rolfoundation.org/. Earlier this year, Steve Bannon was famously arrested on Guo’s luxury yacht off the coast of Connecticut on fraud charges. Further research shows that Guo and Bannon are also behind the “New Federal State of China”, a supposed Chinese government in exile: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Federal_State_of_China. I had noticed the Federal State of China flag at the rally earlier (a blue flag with intersecting yellow star ovals, similar to the EU flag) but did not understand its significance at the time. No one I spoke to at the rally had mentioned the Rule of Law Foundation, Guo Wengui or Steve Bannon, but it was apparent that this group played a significant role behind the scenes organizing this rally by bringing together other political groups with common cause (the Anti-NHK crowd, the pro-Tibet Chinese, Falun Gong and others), likely also providing financing and a large cache of MAGA goods. I would not be surprised if Bannon and the gang decided to astroturf this MAGA rally in Japan as one of the latest salvos in the campaign's futile efforts to overturn the election. This would provide other Trump lackeys such as Rudy Giuliani and Jenna Ellis with “evidence” that there is a global movement in support of Trump’s claims as part of their laughable attempts to be taken seriously back in the US. It’s also in Bannon’s best interests to do all that he can to come back into the President’s good graces before 20 January in the hopes of securing a pardon in his pending fraud case. The crowd was certainly large enough to cause a stir, but the Japanese press and government may be wary of giving this movement oxygen as it tries to navigate relations with the new Biden administration. Still absolutely floored at how big this became. At least everyone wore masks? Video I created from the rally, using a Japanese version of the Trump rally signature anthem, “Fortunate Son” by Creedence Clearwater Revival: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfCMskCir_0 Link to imgur album with photos, including of the Guo / Bannon shipping label: https://imgur.com/gallery/GZnZ9SK
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