Author: Al Cross
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Health foundation names Melissa Patrick, Kentucky Health News reporter, one of several Healthy Kentucky Policy Champions
Melissa Patrick —– Melissa Patrick, the only staff reporter for Kentucky Health News, is one of several Kentuckians named a Healthy Kentucky Policy Champion this month by the Foundation for a...
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Positive-test rate drops for 6th straight day; Beshear talks about how to open schools; hospitals coordinate transfers to save beds
Lexington Herald-Leader map by Dan Desrochers, adapted by Ky. Health News; click to enlarge —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Although public-health experts worry when more than 5 percent...
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OPINION: Governor, legislative leaders need to collaborate
Gov. Andy Beshear and (clockwise) House Speaker David Osborne, Senate President Robert Stivers, House Minority Leader Joni Jenkins, Senate Minority Ldr. Morgan McGarvey —– By Bruce Maples Kentucky Forward I...
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White House task force urges testing of people without symptoms; Beshear says he will just keep encouraging them to do that
White House Coronavirus Task Force table; for a larger version, click on it. —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News This week’s White House Coronavirus Task Force report again used strong language...
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New virus cases keep slacking, but intensive-care units in three hospital regions are in ‘a very precarious situation,’ Beshear says
Kentucky Health News graph, based on unadjusted initial daily reports —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News As new cases of the novel coronavirus kept declining, Gov. Andy Beshear assured...
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‘The balancing of individual liberty and public health may now be the most contentious issue in American life,’ doctor writes
In 1905, Supreme Court Justice John M. Harlan, a Kentucky Republican, wrote a landmark decision affirming 11 states’ authority to require vaccinations. Kentucky has such a law, but no Kentucky...
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Coronavirus vaccines are safe and effective, after fast but careful development, says dean of UK’s College of Public Health
By Donna K. Arnett Dean, University of Kentucky College of Public Health Nearly nine months since the word “coronavirus” entered our daily vocabulary, hope may be on the horizon in the...
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Beshear says numbers show restrictions work, but awaits effect of Thanksgiving; defends ban on in-person schooling with examples
Dept. for Public Health graph, relabeled by Ky. Health News; for a larger version click on it. —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News After announcing that last week set a...
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Kentucky’s contact-tracing program lacks specific data sought by Beshear’s critics; he says its main purpose is to prevent disease
Terrie Burgan traces contacts for the Lincoln Trail District Health Department. (Photo by Pat McDonogh, Courier Journal) —– When Gov. Andy Beshear shut down indoor dining in restaurants and bars to...
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Sunday’s pandemic data suggest latest surge is slowing in Ky.; half of state’s 200,000 total cases came in last month and a half
Kentucky Health News graph, based on unadjusted initial daily reports of new cases —– By Al Cross Kentucky Health News Nine months to the day after Kentucky found its first...