Nationally, more than 150,000 people were hospitalized with COVID-19 this past week, 191 of those people were from Kentucky.

The requirement will remain in place for congregate care facilities.

Senate Joint Resolution 150 would end the state of emergency, which is currently set to expire on April 15, on March 7 — two years and one day after it was first declared by Gov. Andy Beshear.

UofL researchers first treated human lung cells with a non-toxic dose of CBD for two hours before exposing the cells to the coronavirus.

Site organizers said they're trying to increase accessibility of testing across the city as they see increased demand to get tested. 

The positivity rate hit a new record in the state Thursday at 31.37% — the highest ever reported since the start of the pandemic.

The state reported more than 53,500 new coronavirus cases in the past five days, pushing the case total past the 1 million mark since the first Kentucky case was detected in early March 2020, the governor said.

Kentucky also reported a new record positivity rate of 28.61% on Friday.

Doctors are urging you to only go to the ER if it's an absolute emergency.