Month: March 2022
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Rural vaccination rates lag in Ky. and rest of U.S., but difference in rural and urban rates in Ky. isn’t as big as national gap
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News Getting vaccinated for Covid-19 is less popular in Kentucky, and in rural America, than in the rest of the country. But rural Kentuckians do...
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Compromise bill to address hospitals’ issues with ambulance services passes first hurdle; aimed at delays in transfers
Rep. Ken Fleming, R-Louisville —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News With input from 13 stakeholders, a compromise version of a bill to improve ambulance responses to both emergent and...
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Most coronavirus metrics keep falling; Beshear says the main lesson of the pandemic is ‘We all count, every single one of us’
Chart by The Washington Post, adapted by Kentucky Health News; for a larger version, click on it. —– By Al Cross Kentucky Health News As the pandemic continued receding in Kentucky...
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State House sends the Senate an omnibus anti-abortion bill
Rep. Nancy Tate presenting SB3 on House floor. LRC photo. —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News After two hours of debate Wednesday, the state House passed an omnibus anti-abortion...
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McConnell, long a vaccine advocate, objects to Biden’s mandate for health-care workers, saying it threatens Ky. rural hospitals
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has been perhaps the most outspoken Republican leader in favor of vaccination against the coronavirus, but Thursday he objected to President Biden’s vaccination mandate for...
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Youth mental health, which has become more problematic in the pandemic, is being addressed at local, state and national levels
Wilson (Spectrum News image) —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News At a time when President Biden and the federal government have sounded alarms about an increase in mental-health issues in...
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State as a whole moves out of the ‘red zone” but 51 counties are still in it; infection rate 6th, hospitalization rate 3rd among states
NYT graphs show new-case rates of the top state, Maine; Kentucky (which ranks sixth); and the only bordering state in the top 10, West Virginia (which ranks fifth). Kentucky ranks third...
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Opinion: Legislature is moving bill that would restrict abortion rights while ignoring several filed to help babies and mothers
Photo illustration from Dreamstime —– This opinion was originally published in the Lexington Herald-Leader. By Linda Blackford Herald-Leader Opinion Editor Why bother writing about abortion access in Kentucky? The die is cast, as...
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State is almost out of the ‘red zone’ but still ranks 6th in nation, and many counties still have high coronavirus infection rates
Ky. Health News graph, from state data; click on it to enlarge. —– By Al Cross Kentucky Health News Kentucky remains one of the states most affected by the coronavirus,...
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State and schools get new Covid-19 guidance; Beshear makes employee masks optional; state will go from daily to weekly report
State Dept. for Public Health graph, adapted by Kentucky Health News; to enlarge, click on it. —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News As Kentucky came close to leaving the statewide “red...