They attribute the rise to people spending more time indoors because it's so hot, and having summer gatherings.

Putting off routine medical checkups could cause an important diagnosis to be missed. 

Kentucky reported 4,009 newly confirmed cases on COVID-19 on Friday, along with a positivity rate of 11.83%.

Vaccine doses have increased in recent weeks as now 30.3% of Jefferson County residents have received at least the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccination.

Doctors point to COVID-19 variants that could be coming in with people from other states also traveling for spring break as something that increases the risk of a person getting the virus.

According to the CDC, during the 2017-2018 flu season an estimated 810,000 people had to be treated in the hospital for the flu or complications from the flu.