Month: August 2021
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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...
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Neurosurgeon in a county at high risk from the coronavirus gets local paper to share the facts about the virus and the vaccines
Dr. Amr El-Naggar —– In a big Kentucky county with a low coronavirus vaccination rate, a critical infection rate and Covid-19 patients filling its intensive-care beds, a doctor reached out...
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Citing research showing virus is as contagious as chickenpox, Beshear again asks all schools to enforce universal masking
State Dept. for Public Health map, adapted by Ky. Health News; to enlarge, click on it. —– By Melissa Patrick and Al Cross Kentucky Health News Before announcing the new winners of...