Category: CORONAVIRUS
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Kentucky newspapers report more vaccination efforts
Kentucky newspapers continue to report extra efforts to increase coronavirus vaccinations in their communities, with news, opinion and advertising. Some newspapers have created ads with their local health departments. One...
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Ky. vaccination rate is more than 7 times the new-case rate, which keeps dropping, along with positive-test rate and hospitalizations
Chart by The Washington Post, adapted by Kentucky Health News —– By Al Cross Kentucky Health News Vaccinations are up, and new cases and hospitalizations are down, but Kentucky hospitals remain...
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State records 9,000th death from Covid-19
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News More than 9,000 Kentuckians have now died from Covid-19. “Today . . . marks a difficult day in our fight against Covid,” Gov. Andy...
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Suicide, ideas of it, depression, and anxiety have affected more Kentucky students since the Covid-19 pandemic began
Kentucky Youth Advocates image —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Kentucky’s students are experiencing more anxiety, depression and ideas of suicide in the pandemic, and schools need more resources...
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State reports 51 more Covid-19 deaths; other Kentucky pandemic metrics fall, but hot spots remain and hospitals are still stressed
Kentucky Health News graph; daily case numbers are from initial, unadjusted state reports —– By Al Cross Kentucky Health News The pandemic has been on the decline in Kentucky for...
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Poll: Vaccine holdouts come around for four big reasons, which are most effective in combination, not independently
Kaiser Family Foundation chart; click the image to enlarge it —– A Kaiser Family Foundation poll of Americans vaccinated against the coronavirus since June 1 showed the reasons people who weren’t sure about it...
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Ky. pandemic metrics down, except Covid-19 patients in hospitals; state’s infection rate still seventh in the nation
Ky. Dept. for Public Health chart, adapted by Ky. Health News; click on it to enlarge. —– By Al Cross Kentucky Health News All measures of the pandemic in Kentucky declined Tuesday,...
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As emergency rooms fill up across the country, two doctors give guidance on what to consider before going to an ER
Waiting in an emergency department (RogerStanmore.com) —– Emergency rooms across the country are overrun, largely due to Covid-19 and other respiratory diseases, and people who go to ERs face long wait...
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Beshear sees ‘rays of hope’ but says Kentucky hospitals are still struggling and need an even steeper decline in cases
State Department for Public Health graph, adapted by Kentucky Health News —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Gov. Andy Beshear said he sees “rays of hope” in Kentucky’s pandemic trends, but...
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Reports of anti-vaccine preachers spur weekly newspaper to use its ‘bully pulpit’ and forswear ‘neutrality in times of moral crisis’
The Press spotlighted the Covid-19 deaths of a local couple. —– Many Kentucky newspapers are making extra efforts to increase vaccination against the coronavirus, by fighting misinformation with the facts,...