Month: October 2020
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Record number of cases in one day and one week; 7-day rolling average of new cases is over 4 times what it was 3 months ago
Kentucky Health News graph, based on initial, unadjusted reports of daily cases —– By Al Cross Kentucky Health News Kentucky has never had more new cases of the novel coronavirus...
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Presence of the coronavirus makes it more important than ever to get an influenza vaccination, Kentucky medical experts say
Advisory from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine —– By Grace Colville University of Kentucky Flu season, like everything else this year, is looking a whole lot different....
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Federal guidelines for staff testing in nursing homes change again to account for low numbers of coronavirus tests in rural counties
State health cabinet map; for a larger version, click on it. —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The federal government has revised its coronavirus staff testing rules for nursing...
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More than 1 in 3 Kentuckians are on Medicaid, after many lost their jobs and the state made enrollment easier due to pandemic
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Kentucky has added more than 250,000 people to its Medicaid rolls since the coronavirus pandemic came to the state in early March, bringing the...
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Ky. records over 1,000 virus cases for 6th day, and 3rd out of the last 4; 7-day rolling average is 837, over 100 above week ago
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News Kentucky recorded 1,039 more cases of the coronavirus Friday, the third day out of the last four and only the sixth overall that the...
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As cases remain high and 17 deaths are added, Beshear issues Halloween guidelines; some schools flout him on fall breaks
Kentucky Health news chart, based on initial, unadjusted daily case reports —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Gov. Andy Beshear reported 910 new cases of the novel coronavirus Thursday,...
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Cases top 1,000 for second day in a row; September has highest number of covid-19 deaths; Beshear says all that’s a wake-up call
State Department for Public Health graph, adapted by Kentucky Health News —– Graph by Daniel Desrochers of the Lexington Herald-Leader, adapted by Kentucky Health News By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News With more...
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Feds give state $7 million to help deal with lingering behavioral-health impacts of 2019 flooding in 21 Eastern Kentucky counties
Grant will help three southeastern regions, highlighted by roughly patterned area. —– Kentucky is getting a $7 million federal grant to expand behavioral-health services in 21 Appalachian counties to help...
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Anthem settles states’ lawsuit over data breach that affected 2.3 million Kentuckians; state will get more than $1.9 million
Kentucky will get $1,929,942 from Anthem Inc. as part of a 43-state settlement for a data security breach that “compromised the personal information of 78.8 million Americans,” said a news release from...