Month: July 2021
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Beshear honors health-care workers at Morehead; state reports 994 new virus cases Friday, with positive-test rate of almost 7%
Hundreds of front-line health-care workers gathered at St. Claire Regional Medical Center in Morehead Wednesday night to get thanks from Gov. Andy Beshear and others for their work during the pandemic. “You...
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130 Ky. rural health clinics, more than any state but Texas, will get $6.38 million to increase confidence in coronavirus vaccines
The federal government is sending $198 million to more than 1,980 rural health clinics for outreach efforts to increase locals’ confidence in the safety of coronavirus vaccines, and Kentucky is getting more...
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FactCheck: Origin of the novel coronavirus remains unclear, but U.S. Sen. Rand Paul overstates the case for the Chinese lab
Fauci and Paul sparred at a Senate committee hearing. —– By Lori Robertson and Jessica McDonald FactCheck.org At a July 20 U,S. Senate hearing, Republican Sen. Rand Paul and Dr. Anthony...
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As surge continues, Beshear won’t rule out new measures, makes red-zone recommendations, says schools face ‘difficult questions’
State Dept. for Public Health graph, with ratios added by Ky. Health News, shows how the infection rate declined as the vaccination rate increased, and while the Delta variant has broken through...
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Closed hospitals in Ky. border counties in Va. and W.Va. are reopening, one as part of a chain, one bought by a local clinic
Its old slogan: “Your Friends on the Hill.” (HD Media photo) —– “Rural hospitals must leverage the full resources of their communities in order to survive.” That’s the “most critical” lesson...
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National settlement would bring Kentucky and its local governments $460 million over 18 years to fight opioid epidemic
Opioid tablets (Getty Images photo) —– Kentucky’s Daniel Cameron and other state attorneys general announced Wednesday a tentative settlement with the nation’s three top drug distributors and drug maker Johnson & Johnson for their...
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Kentucky reports 963 new coronavirus cases; its rate of increase over last the last two weeks, 256%, ranks 15th in the nation
Screenshot of New York Times interactive map with seven-day new-case average; click to enlarge. —– By Al Cross Kentucky Health News The pandemic continued to resurge in Kentucky Tuesday, part of a national...
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McConnell says to ignore ‘demonstrably bad advice’ from vaccine skeptics, and get vaccinated to control the pandemic
By Lisa Mascaro The Associated Press Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell implored unvaccinated Americans Tuesday to take a Covid-19 shot, issuing a stark and grave warning of a repeat of last year’s shutdowns...
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State reports 1,054 new coronavirus cases, raising weekly infection rate by 18% in one day; state as a whole is ‘orange’
State Dept. for Public Health map, adapted by Kentucky Health News; to enlarge, click on it. —– By Al Cross Kentucky Health News If there was any doubt that the coronavirus is...
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Paul-Fauci feud escalates; they trade allegations of lying
The long-running acrimony between U.S. Sen. Rand Paul and Dr. Anthony Fauci, head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, escalated Tuesday, as Paul strongly implied that Fauci had...