 Kentucky is continuing to see coronavirus numbers fall from the peak of the Delta variant surge. That was the headline from Governor Andy Bashir's COVID-19 briefing on Monday. And while the governor says the steep drop in cases is welcome news, the numbers are still too high. Just about everything is moving in the right direction and actually at a speed that the decrease in cases and in hospitalizations, ventilators and ICUs is significant. It is a real trend. It's a positive trend. It has not plateaued. It is moving downward, which is reason for optimism. But our deaths, which trail cases and hospitalizations, ICUs and ventilators are still very high. In fact, over the three days we're reporting on today, Saturday, Sunday, and today, Monday, we've lost 103 additional Kentuckians. Looking at the latest numbers, there were more than 3,200 new cases Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, bringing the total to more than 727,000. 103 more Kentuckians have died, raising the death toll to 9,396. Nearly 1,200 people are currently hospitalized with COVID-19, including 337 in intensive care and 219 on ventilators. Its positivity rate is now 7.36%, which is nearly half the rate seen at the peak of the current surge one month ago.