Month: March 2022
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Legislature passes public-assistance reform bill with changes that please advocates; health cabinet secretary still sees ‘red tape’
Rep. David Meade, R-Stanford —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Legislation aimed at getting able-bodied adults off Medicaid and other public-assistance programs and back into the workforce, and decreasing...
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Wide-ranging abortion measure goes to Beshear’s desk; Planned Parenthood says bill would ‘eliminate abortion access in Kentucky’
Abortion rights supporters briefly disrupted the state Senate on Tuesday as they voted to pass House Bill 3, a measure that adds multiple new restrictions on abortion. (Courier Journal photo...
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Beshear seeks one more month of pandemic food benefits, after leaving impression that the legislature hadn’t left that option open
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News On March 21, Republicans in Kentucky’s legislature overrode Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear’s veto of their resolution ending the Covid-19 state of emergency about a...
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Cameron, 20 other Republican attorneys general sue to overturn CDC’s mask mandate in public transportation hubs
Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron —– Attorney General Daniel Cameron has joined 20 of his Republican counterparts in a lawsuit to overturn the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention‘s rule requiring...
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Most in nationwide poll say they have contracted the coronavirus, but concern about serious Covid-19 illness in their family declines
Most Americans say they have contracted the coronavirus, and the infected are more likely to be Republicans, says a new poll by Monmouth University in New Jersey. “This appears to be the first poll to show...
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House-passed bill to expand individuals’ vaccine privacy rights fails to make it out of Senate committee as session nears end
Rep. Savannah Maddox —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News A House-passed bill to keep state and local governments from asking employees and applicants if they have received a Covid-19...
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Pandemic numbers nearing levels seen before Omicron variant hit
Kentucky Health News graph from weekly state reports —– By Al Cross Kentucky Health News The pandemic in Kentucky has declined to levels not seen since early last summer, when...
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One mother’s story helps show how recovery from addiction, difficult anywhere, is even harder in much of rural Kentucky
Megan Simpson works after group class at Living Clean transitional housing in Manchester. She recently completed peer support training and passed her certification test. She started as a peer support...
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CDC rates fewer Ky. counties at high risk from virus, but levels in some have increased and state’s risk level is still relatively high
State version of CDC map, with additional label by Kentucky Health News —– Kentucky as a whole is at lower risk from the coronavirus than it was a week ago,...
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Legislature moving bills to address health-care worker shortage
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention illustration —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News In the final days of the 2022 legislative session, three bills to address Kentucky’s healthcare workforce...