Month: December 2021
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As Covid-19 numbers remain high but steady, hospital numbers keep creeping up 2% a day; deaths are up 75% in the last month
Cabinet for Health and Family Services graph, adapted by Ky. Health News; click on it to enlarge. —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Most of Kentucky’s coronavirus numbers continue to...
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Omicron: Misinformation, some of it disinformation, is outpacing factual information; news media can help mitigate that
Photo illustration by The Daily Beast —– “In July, a fake slide deck with the logos of the World Health Organization and the World Economic Forum purporting to show a...
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Rep. Andy Barr writes about bill, named for his late wife, to spur research into the heart ailment that killed her in June 2020
The late Carol Barr with her husband and daughters Eleanor and Mary Clay. —– By U.S. Rep. Andy Barr Though every holiday season without my wife Carol will be difficult,...
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Beshear says focus should be on boosters, to prevent another surge of cases; CDC approves them for 16 and 17-year-olds
Image from WAAY-TV —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News It’s important to get all eligible Kentuckians vaccinated against the coronavirus, but to prevent another surge in cases, the focus...
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Beshear declares emergency to help get more students into nursing schools to relieve state’s ‘dire’ shortage of nurses
Nurse Cydney Kanis at Baptist Health Lexington (Photo by Alex Slitz, Lexington Herald-Leader) —– Kentucky Health News Gov. Andy Beshear declared an emergency Thursday, allowing the state to take special...
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UofL Health to retire loan used to buy Jewish Hospital and other facilities of defunct KentuckyOne Health in four years, not 15
Jewish Hospital has kept its name but is now clearly a subsidiary to the UofL Health brand. (UofL photo) —– The University of Louisville‘s hospital operations are doing so well that UofL Health had adopted an...
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New cases of the coronavirus remain high in Kentucky; state reports 70 more Covid-19 deaths, including a 16-year-old
Ky. Dept. for Public Health map, adapted by Ky. Health News; for a larger version, click on it. —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health NewsThe metrics used to measure the pandemic in...
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As coronavirus cases increase, so do hospitalizations and deaths
Kentucky Health News graph; click on it to enlarge. —– By Melissa Patrick and Al Cross Kentucky Health News The pandemic continued to accelerate in Kentucky yesterday, especially in hospitals...
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Every Covid-19 indicator in Kentucky is up; hospital cases rose 52% in last month; but vaccinations are outpacing new cases
Ky. Health News graph (virus cases based on initial, unadjusted reports); click on it to enlarge. —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News As every metric used to measure the...
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Legislature will again be asked to let local governments pass tobacco-regulation ordinances, aimed at preventing youth use
Sen. Paul Hornback —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Kentucky lawmakers can expect another bill to be filed in January to give local governments the ability to regulate tobacco...