Day: March 19, 2020
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Beshear asks schools to shut until April 20, warns about all gatherings, business practices; testing expands; more needed
As news develops in Kentucky about the coronavirus and its covid-19 disease, this page will be updated. Official state guidance is at https://kycovid19.ky.gov. —– Saturday, March 21, 2020 Gov. Andy Beshear,...
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Rural hospitals seek help in covid-19 response legislation, which is blocked by Democrats, who say it’s too friendly to corporations
The Kentucky Rural Health Association is urging its members to ask Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, their senior U.S. senator, to include help for rural hospitals in the third coronavirus package being...
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Two main fronts in fighting the new coronavirus and covid-19 in Kentucky are a familiar pair: Saturday night and Sunday morning
Gov. Andy Beshear showed how aggressive steps to limit social interaction can prevent deaths from a pandemic of a disease for which there is no vaccine. A reproducible version of the...