Month: August 2021
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With almost 3,000 new coronavirus cases, Kentucky’s rate of increase is among the fastest in the nation; deaths are up too
State Dept. for Public Health map, relabeled by Ky. Health News; for a larger version, click on it. —– By Al Cross Kentucky Health News Kentucky reported almost 3,000 new cases of...
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Cameron challenges Beshear’s school masking order; state school board is set to issue its own mask mandate tomorrow
Photo from Salon.com —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The emergency order Gov. Andy Beshear issued Tuesday to require universal masking in all school districts is already being challenged...
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Sen. Rand Paul is kicked off YouTube for a week for making a false claim that cloth masks are ineffective in fighting Covid-19
U. S. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky. (Photo from Politico) —– YouTube has suspended U.S. Sen. Rand Paul for a week because of a video in which he falsely claimed that masks are ineffective in fighting...
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Baptist seminary president’s guidance to Christians on vaccines still drawing high readership, eight months after publication
Albert Mohler —– When the first coronavirus vaccine was released in December, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary President Albert Mohler published an article in Kentucky Today, an online news service of the Kentucky Baptist Convention, giving...
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Beshear orders all in schools to wear masks, says he’s willing to re-institute broader indoor mask mandate ‘if necessary’
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News Citing what his health chief called “the fastest and steepest rise of the entire pandemic” Tuesday, Gov. Andy Beshear issued an emergency order requiring...
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Beshear says Republicans at Fancy Farm should have taken ‘one minute’ from attacking him to promote coronavirus vaccinations
Agriculture Commissioner Ryan Quarles was the most outspoken. (Photo by Ryland Barton, WFPL) —– Republicans at Saturday’s Fancy Farm Picnic took several familiar shots at absent Gov. Andy Beshear’s handling of...
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Covid-19 hospitalizations in Kentucky have increased by 400% in the last month, and have risen for 26 consecutive days
Ky. Health News graph, from initial, unadjusted daily reports; to enlarge, click on it. —– By Al Cross Kentucky Health News The number of people hospitalized for the Covid-19 disease...
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Most Kentucky school districts are not requiring masks
NOTE: Oldham County decided Monday evening to require masks. (WFPL map) —– Nearly two-thirds of Kentucky school districts are not requiring masks in their buildings as the new school year begins,...
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Six substance-use treatment centers get $1 million each from feds
Six Kentucky programs to treat substance-use disorder will each get $1 million from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services as part of the Rural Communities Opioid Response Program, established by Congress...
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National Health Center Week salutes federally qualified health centers, primary-care providers for one in eight Kentuckians
Map (click on it to enlarge) shows Kentucky Primary Care Association members, their health centers and counties where they have school-based clinics. Shading of counties shows congressional districts. —– Aug....