Category: CORONAVIRUS
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CDC says the Covid-19 risk level is high in 19 Kentucky counties and medium in 29; transmission levels are high in 111 counties
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention map, adapted by Kentucky Health News —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News This week’s federal Covid-19 community levels map shows a slightly increased...
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Ky. health-system performance ranked 41st, Covid-19 response 49th; highest hospitalization rate, relatively low vaccination rate
Chart from 2022 Scorecard on State Health System Performance, The Commonwealth Fund —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Kentucky ranks 41st among the states and Washington, D.C. in the...
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Kentucky’s Covid-19 cases and hospitalizations keep rising, somewhat steeply, but the positive-test rate is slightly lower
Kentucky Health News graph, from state data; click on it to enlarge. —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News While coronavirus cases and Covid-19 hospitalizations in Kentucky went up last...
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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...
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Changing virus poses challenges to updating Covid-19 vaccines
Efforts to update Covid-19 vaccines are struggling to keep up with mutations in the novel coronavirus, raising the question of whether updated vaccines will be outdated by the time they...
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CDC estimates that Covid-19 risk level is high in 19 Ky. counties, up from 7 last week; level is medium in 28, up from 21
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The federal government’s coronavirus map for Kentucky shows a higher level of virus transmission and an increased risk of the Covid-19 disease. Nineteen Kentucky...
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All of Kentucky’s Covid-19 metrics rose last week; state has attributed the deaths of more than 16,000 Kentuckians to the virus
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News All of the metrics to measure the coronavirus in Kentucky crept up in the last week, and the state passed the mark of 16,000...
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Covid-19 infection in pregnancy, even with no symptoms, could harm a developing baby, research at UK College of Medicine finds
UK staff scientist Brianna Doratt and Ihlem Messoudi, Ph.D., right, in their lab (UK photo by Mark Cornelison) —– By Elizabeth Chapin University of Kentucky Covid-19 infection during pregnancy, even with no symptoms,...
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Coronavirus positive-test rate in Ky. went up again, but more slowly, as cases, deaths and hospitalizations dropped last week
State Department for Public Health map, adapted by Kentucky Health News; to enlarge, click on it. —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Three key metrics of the coronavirus in Kentucky dropped...
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Covid-19 risk levels are high in 4 Ky. counties; medium in 21; officials discount transmission rates, high in many counties
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has 25 Kentucky counties with elevated Covid-19 risk. —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Four Kentucky counties are red on the latest Centers for...