Month: July 2020
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As case numbers hit a near-record and positive-test rate surges, Beshear asks churches to drop in-person services and says he will limit some business activity Monday if the surges don’t abate
By Melissa Patrick and Al Cross Kentucky Health News After reporting Kentucky’s second highest daily number of new coronavirus cases and a surging positive-test rate, Gov. Andy Beshear asked churches...
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Beshear says he wouldn’t ask teachers to return to classrooms now, and may ask schools planning early-August starts to wait
By Al CrossKentucky Health NewsAs Kentucky’s coronavirus surge continued Thursday, Gov. Andy Beshear said he wouldn’t ask a teacher to resume teaching now, but “I want to see where we...
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Foundation’s annual policy forum shifts gears in pandemic, to be a series of monthly webinars on children’s health, starting Sept. 21
The Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky‘s 20th annual policy forum will focus on policies and programs that reduce the chances of disease and unhealthy behaviors that often begin in childhood, including...
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Voices from the coronavirus pandemic: Oral histories from just a few of the millions whose lives have been changed by it
Lori Wagoner at her work station in North Carolina (Photo by Eamon Queeney, The Washington Post) —– As the coronavirus continues to surge across Kentucky and the nation, The Washington Post is continuing...
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Hospitalizations and positive-test rates increase; daily cases fall, but 7-day average inches up; Beshear says deaths will rise
Rhonda King leaves the hospital. (Image from WLKY-TV) —– By Al Cross and Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News More Kentuckians are testing positive for the coronavirus and more of them are...
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Tick that can clone itself is found on cattle in Southern Ky. and wildlife in Eastern Ky.; it’s also a threat to pets, and hard to identify
Asian longhorned tick (Photo by Anna Pasternak, UK) —– By Katie Pratt University of Kentucky College of Agriculture, Food and Environment The Asian longhorned tick, which preys on a variety of...
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Spring lockdown followed by summer events makes people let their guard down and spread the virus, health departments say
Lexington Herald-Leader map, relabeled by Kentucky Health News —– Coronavirus cases are surging in Kentucky because “people are letting their guard down” at summer events like barbecues, parades and vacations,...
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Ky. records second highest number of cases and most patients in intensive care in one day; Beshear defends statewide approach
Kentucky Health News chart; daily numbers may have been slightly adjusted since initial report. —– By Al Cross Kentucky Health News Gov. Andy Beshear reported Tuesday the second highest number...
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Beshear limits private gatherings to 10 people, issues travel-and-quarantine advisory for states with high rates of positive tests
Gov. Andy Beshear showed a version of this chart; current figure was added later by Kentucky Health News. —– Trying to tame the surging coronavirus, Gov. Andy Beshear limited private...
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Report prepared for task force says Ky. should tighten limits on gatherings and restaurants, close bars where positive tests are up
Screenshot from White House Coronavirus Task Force report —– A report prepared for the White House Coronavirus Task Force recommended that Gov. Andy Beshear should close bars in all counties with rising...