Day: August 3, 2021
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What you should know about the Delta variant of the coronavirus
peterschreiber.media, iStock/Getty Images Plus —– By Becky Dutch, Vince Venditto, Ashley Montgomery-Yates and Aaron Grubbs University of Kentucky As the SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant continues to spread across the United States and hospitals’ Covid-positive intake numbers...
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Beshear asks vaccinated Kentuckians to talk to their unvaccinated friends about getting immunized; virus is ‘spreading like wildfire’
State Dept. for Public Health graph, relabeled by Ky. Health News; for a larger version, click on it. —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News In a press conference focused on getting...
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Hospitals seeing many more Covid-19 cases, and more of them in younger people; four systems now require employee vaccination
Kentucky Health News graph, based on data from state Department for Public Health —– This story has been updated. When the pandemic resurged in Kentucky last month, Gov. Andy Beshear said he would...
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Fauci: The vaccinated can be as infectious as the unvaccinated, so they need to wear masks indoors; pandemic will get worse
Chart by The Washington Post based on Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data —– As Gov. Andy Beshear issued a vaccination-promotion video with one of the latest student winners of the state’s vaccine...
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Special enrollment period for health insurance on healthcare.gov ends Aug. 15; subsidies are bigger, and more people qualify
AARP illustration —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Time is running out to sign up for low- or no-cost health insurance through the federal marketplace under the special enrollment...