Author: Al Cross
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Beshear sends National Guard to 21 more hospitals as number of Covid-19 patients sets another record; only 80 ICU beds available
Slide from governor’s press conference; light blue hospitals were in first round of Guard assignments. —– By Al Cross Kentucky Health News Gov. Andy Beshear sent 310 more members of...
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FDA orders thousands of electronic cigarettes off the market, but delays a decision on Juul, the most popular brand
Photo by Eva Hambach, Agence France-Presse via Getty —– The Food and Drug Administration “delayed a high-stakes decision on whether to permit bestselling vaping brand Juul to stay on the market, while ordering thousands of other electronic...
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Positive-test rate, Covid-19 hospitalizations and ICU use in Ky. hit new highs; infection rate goes down but is third highest in nation
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The bad news is that Kentucky set another record for the percentage of Kentuckians testing positive for the disease and for the number of...
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Legislature moves to leave mask mandates up to local officials and businesses as state’s positive-test rate reaches a new high
State Department for Public Health graph; for a larger version, click on it. —– By Al Cross and Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The Kentucky General Assembly is quickly moving to leave...
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Research-based comic book at UK helps readers understand and fight use of electronic cigarettes by teens and young adults
Top of comic book cover, showing students as puppets of an electronic cigarette; story title is “The Villainous Vape” —– By Alicia Gregory University of Kentucky A team at the University...
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Insurance companies managing Medicaid start a sweepstakes for beneficiaries to win Disney World vacations for getting vaccinated
Washington Post chart, adapted by Ky. Health News, showing the latest available vaccination data. —– Kentucky’s health insurers have started a sweepstakes in which Medicaid beneficiaries can win vacation packages for...
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Public-health director asks people in his county to respect and trust people in health care, as they did when he was growing up
Joshua Embry —– By Joshua Embry In graduate school I wrote a paper about the violence that health-care workers experience at the hands of patients. I had witnessed such behavior...
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Beshear says setting a level of infection at which masks should be required shouldn’t be difficult because ‘It’s just basic science’
Beshear during his interview (Image from NBC) —– By Al Cross Kentucky Health News Requiring masks above a certain level of coronavirus infection shouldn’t be difficult “because it’s just basic science,” Gov....
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Beshear calls special session on pandemic; extent of his authority to issue mask mandates is likely most critical, contentious issue
State Dept. for Public Health map, adapted by Kentucky Health News; for a larger version, click on it. —– By Al Cross Kentucky Health News The Kentucky General Assembly will meet in...
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Beshear calls it ‘a scary time’ because Covid-19 case average and hospital numbers hit new high; many intensive-care units full
State Dept. for Public Health graph, adapted by Kentucky Health News —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Kentucky saw its fourth highest number of new coronavirus cases Friday and again set...