Other public health departments might benefit from implementing tools like Kentucky’s Indicator Monitoring Report, which combines multiple data elements to generate a daily COVID-19 status score to systematically assess the state’s mitigation, response and reopening efforts, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports.

“Data sources included in Kentucky’s IMR are publicly available, data are analyzed with familiar software, and a standardized method is used to compile the report, suggesting IMR might easily be adopted by other jurisdictions,” CDC said.

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