Day: June 11, 2021
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Kentucky Sports Radio is spending a week on the road in low-vaccinated counties to promote coronavirus immunization
Matt Jones talks with sidekicks Drew Franklin and Shannon “The Dude” Grigsby on the first stop of their “Shots Across the Bluegrass” tour, Dinosaur World in Cave City, on Monday. (Photo...
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‘Only in our anti-truth hellscape could Dr. Anthony Fauci become a super-villain,’ says headline on Washington Post column
By Margaret Sullivan The Washington Post Right-wing commentators are pretending that thousands of newly released emails from Dr. Anthony S. Fauci represent some kind of smoking gun against the government’s...
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Rural and conservative congressional districts, in Kentucky and the nation as a whole, have lower coronavirus vaccination rates
Map from Harvard University study; click here for the interactive version. —– More conservative and more rural Americans – and Kentuckians – are more likely to remain unvaccinated against the coronavirus, and the divide...
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End of Beshear’s Covid-19 press briefings Friday will signal, if not the end of the pandemic, the turning of a page and moving on
Beshear at a briefing the first week of the pandemic, with interpreter Virginia Moore at left and Health Commissioner Steven Stack at right. (Photo by Michael Clevenger, Louisville Courier Journal) —–...
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Study finds rural seniors less likely than urban ones to follow Covid-19 prevention advice, especially social distancing
Rural adults 65 and older were less compliant than their urban peers when it came to following some of the suggested strategies to slow the spread of the coronavirus, especially...