Day: December 9, 2020
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OPINION: Governor, legislative leaders need to collaborate
Gov. Andy Beshear and (clockwise) House Speaker David Osborne, Senate President Robert Stivers, House Minority Leader Joni Jenkins, Senate Minority Ldr. Morgan McGarvey —– By Bruce Maples Kentucky Forward I...
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White House task force urges testing of people without symptoms; Beshear says he will just keep encouraging them to do that
White House Coronavirus Task Force table; for a larger version, click on it. —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News This week’s White House Coronavirus Task Force report again used strong language...
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New virus cases keep slacking, but intensive-care units in three hospital regions are in ‘a very precarious situation,’ Beshear says
Kentucky Health News graph, based on unadjusted initial daily reports —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News As new cases of the novel coronavirus kept declining, Gov. Andy Beshear assured...
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‘The balancing of individual liberty and public health may now be the most contentious issue in American life,’ doctor writes
In 1905, Supreme Court Justice John M. Harlan, a Kentucky Republican, wrote a landmark decision affirming 11 states’ authority to require vaccinations. Kentucky has such a law, but no Kentucky...