Month: March 2020
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Massie, long an outlier, is a House pariah after forcing members to gather, against public-health advice, to pass virus-relief bill
Rep. Thomas Massie spoke Friday. (Associated Press photo) —– By Al Cross Kentucky Health News Thomas Massie, the congressman from Kentucky’s Fourth District, has long been at the limits of elective...
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Legislature passes bill to support state response to covid-19; includes many suspensions and changes in health-care rules
Rep. Patti Minter, D-Bowling Green, wears a mask as she uses her phone on the House floor during a recess. At right is Rep. Chris Fugate, R-Chavies. (Kentucky Health News photos...
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Beshear rejects Trump idea of scaling distancing by county risk; hospitals cut staff in ‘lull’; Ky. board limits drugs Trump promoted
As news develops in Kentucky about the coronavirus and its covid-19 disease, this item will be updated. Official state guidance is at https://kycovid19.ky.gov. Kentucky confirmed 50 more cases of covid-19 Thursday,...
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Republican senators move legislation that would let GOP attorney general block abortions during Beshear’s pandemic emergency
Attorney General Daniel Cameron —– Kentucky Health NewsReacting to Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear’s order that apparently lets abortions continue during the covid-19 pandemic, Republican legislators have adopted a countermeasure.A Senate...
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Most Kentuckians with Alzheimer’s are over 65 and have chronic illness, putting them at greater risk of covid-19; tips for caretakers
UKNow photo —– People with Alzheimer’s disease are considered at high risk for covid-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus, not only because they have Alzheimer’s, but also because...
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Beshear says next two or three weeks are ‘absolutely critical;’ drive-through tests to begin on ‘very limited’ basis next week
As news develops in Kentucky about the coronavirus and its covid-19 disease, this item will be updated. Official state guidance is at https://kycovid19.ky.gov. “The next two to possibly three weeks is...
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Some conservative talkers, including a leading one heard in Ky., downplayed the covid-19 threat and criticized efforts to blunt it
President Trump and Mark Levin in the Oval Office on Oct. 8 (Photo by Leah Millis, Reuters) —– Several conservative radio talk-show hosts, including one who is heard most nights...
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Video and audio spots to help prevent spread of coronavirus are free for all to use; themes are prepare, protect and disinfect
Prepare, protect, and disinfect are the themes of new public-service announcements aimed at preventing the spread in Kentucky of covid-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus. This one combines all...
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Living with covid-19: Here’s the story of one New York couple still with it, perhaps ‘visitors from the future’
What’s it like to have a bad case of covid-19, or to care for someone with it? Pretty horrible, Jessica Lustig writes for The New York Times Magazine, where she is a deputy...
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As Trump envisions Easter reopening, Beshear clamps down, says country must ‘defeat the coronavirus on the very first try’
At his daily press conference, Gov. Andy Beshear addressed remarks by President Donald J. Trump. —– By Al Cross Kentucky Health News As President Trump openly hoped for “packed churches”...