Author: Al Cross
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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...
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Even a mild case of Covid-19 can cause long-term brain damage
Illustration from JAMA Network —– Brain changes could be a lingering outcome of even mild Covid-19 cases. Researchers at Oxford University in England reported that several months after study participants had Covid-19, they...
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FDA allows several more e-cig products to remain on market; decisions pending on products of several major makers
A newly approved product —– The Food and Drug Administration is allowing several more tobacco-flavored electronic cigarette products to remain on the market, it said Thursday. “The agency authorized several tobacco-flavored vape pods and...
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Beshear says Omicron BA.2 subvariant circulating in Kentucky; public-health advice is the same: get vaccinated and boosted
Illustration by the University of California at Los Angeles —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News While the pandemic continues to wane in Kentucky, Gov. Andy Beshear cautioned Thursday that the...