Day: June 14, 2022
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Drug overdose deaths in Kentucky rose nearly 15% last year; fentanyl involved in 73% of deaths, methamphetamine in 48%
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Drug-overdose deaths in Kentucky rose 14.6 percent in Kentucky in 2021, according to the state’s annual report released Monday. “The drug epidemic is not a Kentucky...
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Kentucky’s Covid-19 cases and hospitalizations keep rising, somewhat steeply, but the positive-test rate is slightly lower
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News While coronavirus cases and Covid-19 hospitalizations in Kentucky went up last week, at much the same acceleration as the week before, the share of...