Category: CORONAVIRUS
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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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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...
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Almost six months after going into hospital with Covid-19, and a double-lung transplant as a last resort, patient is heading home
Staff members congratulate Victor Gonzales-Villatoro on his discharge at UK. (Photo by Hilary Brown) —– By Hilary Brown University of Kentucky Staff at UK HealthCare gathered Wednesday to celebrate the discharge of patient...
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Republicans end state of emergency by overriding veto, say Beshear can get one more month of extra food benefits from feds
State Sen. Donald Douglas —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Kentucky’s overwhelmingly Republican legislature has overridden Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear’s veto of a resolution ending the Covid-19 state of...
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Most of Kentucky’s coronavirus measures continue to fall, but Covid-19 death reports continue to average about 40 per day
Kentucky Department for Public Health graph, adapted by Ky. Health News; click it to enlarge. —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Nearly 40 Kentuckians per day were recorded as...
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McConnell says more funds to fight the coronavirus should come from money in Democrats’ 2021 relief bill that hasn’t been spent
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell said Sunday that Democrats should be willing to reallocate some unspent money from their previous pandemic relief bill to get more money to fight the coronavirus....
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Ky. is mostly green on CDC map but partly in big cluster where masks still advised; Fauci says mutated virus may cause uptick
CDC map; click on it to enlarge. The state’s version of the map will be posted Friday. —– By Al Cross Kentucky Health News Almost half of Kentucky’s counties are...
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Beshear vetoes resolution that would end state of emergency and apparently reduce $243 monthly SNAP food benefit by $100
Beshear signing veto (Still image from Facebook video) —– By Al Cross and Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Gov. Andy Beshear has vetoed legislation that would end the state’s Covid-19 state...