Gov. Beshear's COVID-19 presser has begun. He hinted at "new steps" he will take earlier today.
Beshear says this is currently the "fastest surge" of COVID-19 we've had in Kentucky. Hospitals filling up in the south.
Beshear says there are only 8 available ICU beds in the entire state of Arkansas, according to its GOP governor.
Beshear: COVID-19 hospitalizations in Kentucky went up by 112 since yesterday, now 1,251. Hospitalizations, ICU patients and those on ventilators spiking straight up, exponential growth. 
Beshear: In two weeks we expect to have more Kentuckians hospitalized due to COVID-19 than at any time during the pandemic.
"... without intervention"
Beshear says March to July 31, 92% of new cases in Kentucky were unvaccinated. 91% of hospitalizations and 89% of deaths unvaccinated.
Beshear: We can't let kids go in schools unvaccinated and unprotected (masked). So I will have the courage to do what is right...
Beshear: Today I am signing executive order requiring everyone in K-12 schools and child care facilities to wear a mask.
Beshear: "This is how we make sure we protect our children and this is also how we make sure that they stay in school."
Beshear: "Those that are there in the classroom and want to keep the kids in the classroom, know what it takes. There is no dispute, other than junk and lies that some people put on the internet, that masks work."
Gov. Andy Beshear issues mask mandate for Kentucky schools courier-journal.com/story/news/edu… via @courierjournal
Beshear: "We would be sending (students) to the deadliest version of a chicken pox party imaginable, by sending them in a classroom every single day without a mask, without being vaccinated, facing the delta variant."
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