{"id":"MET-SDF-037","kind":"order","level":"city","jurisdiction":"Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government, Kentucky","state":"KY","metro":"SDF","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Mayor Linda Gorton with the Healthcare Stakeholders group (hospitals, LFCHD, University of Kentucky)","authority":"KRS 67A.060 (advisory); LFUCG testing program agreements","instrument":"Healthcare stakeholders provide COVID-19 update (August 24, 2021)","title":"Delta-wave update: more than 4,000 cases in four weeks; emergency rooms overcrowded; public directed to mask indoors; free school-based testing from August 26, 2021","dateIssued":"2021-08-24","effective":"2021-08-24 (testing sites from Aug. 26, 28 and 31, 2021)","end":"advisory","startDate":"2021-08-24","endDate":"2021-09-30","quarters":["2021Q3"],"types":["MASK","SCH","HC"],"addressees":["the public","pre-K-12 students, teachers and staff","hospitals"],"clause":"COVID-19 is surging. In four months, March through June, we had just over 3,000 confirmed cases. Now, just in the past four weeks, we\u0027ve already had over 4,000 reported cases.... Our hospitals report that emergency rooms are already overcrowded with COVID-19 patients.... There are new free testing options for pre-K - 12 students, teachers and staff... Wear a mask, especially when you are indoors in a crowd.","enforcement":"advisory; testing program","functions":["WF workforce (school testing and quarantine)","ED emergency departments (overcrowded)","CB"],"notes":"Third-quarter-2021 governmental statement of conditions in Fayette County and a mask directive to the public in advisory form; no LFUCG mask ordinance or executive order for 2021 was found.","sourceUrl":"http://lexingtonky.gov/news/08-24-2021/healthcare-stakeholders-provide-covid-19-update","snapshot":"http://web.archive.org/web/20210825021837/http://lexingtonky.gov/news/08-24-2021/healthcare-stakeholders-provide-covid-19-update","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":531382,"grade":"primary","character":"","description":"","collection":"MET-SDF","url":"/library/MET-SDF-037","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/MET-SDF-037","citation":"Mayor Linda Gorton with the Healthcare Stakeholders group (hospitals, LFCHD, University of Kentucky), Healthcare stakeholders provide COVID-19 update (August 24, 2021) (Aug. 24, 2021) (Ex. MET-SDF-037)","stateName":"Kentucky","related":["MET-SDF-048","SEC-09-GM-016"]}