Category: CORONAVIRUS
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FDA panel recommends updating Covid-19 vaccines; here’s why
The Food and Drug Administration‘s external scientific committee unanimously recommended Thursday that Covid-19 vaccines be updated to thwart new versions of the virus, which is mutating about twice as fast...
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University of Louisville gets $6.1 million in federal grants to study possible cause of serious illness and death from Covid-19
By Sarah Ladd Kentucky Lantern University of Louisville researchers announced Friday that three federal grants totalling $6.1 million will allow them to further study immune-system dysregulation, which they say causes...
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Researchers develop a scoring system to identify long Covid; ongoing study at 85 sites needs more rural participants
Researchers have developed a method to determine whether someone is suffering from long Covid-19, defined as “post-acute sequelae Covid.” Sequelae are conditions resulting from earlier disease or injury. “This symptom-based...
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In dedicating memorial, Beshear says he intended it partly as a response to those who discounted the pandemic for political ends
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News As he dedicated the state’s memorial to Kentucky’s 18,600-plus Covid-19 victims Wednesday, Gov. Andy Beshear said it was intended partly as a response to...
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Rabbi at dedication of pandemic memorial says ‘Denial can never cure disease, and … distortions can never change facts’
Wednesday’s dedication of the state’s pandemic memorial closed with a prayer from Rabbi David Wirtschafter of Lexington’s Temple Adath Israel, who first read his adaptation of Archibald MacLeish’s poem “The...
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Questions and answers about end of public-health emergency
By Kate Yandell SciCheck, a service of FactCheck May 11 marked the end of the federal public health emergency for Covid-19, bringing changes to health care and public benefits. These...
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End of public-health emergency means less frequent reporting, and Covid-19 is still circulating, so take care, doctors advise
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News Mostly-green maps have become a symbol of the decline of the Covid-19 pandemic. With the end of the national public-health emergency on Thursday, Kentucky...
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National public-health emergency for Covid-19 ends Thursday but experts warn that another Omicron-like outbreak is still possible
Covid-19 is no longer a global health emergency, and the U.S. public health emergency ends May 11, but the pandemic is not over and the disease remans a threat, the...
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All-day Immunization Summit to be held in Lexington May 10 to confront declining rates of vaccination in Kentucky
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News As vaccination rates in Kentucky decline, the Kentucky Rural Health Association is sponsoring an Immunization Summit on May 10 at the Embassy Suites in...
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Ky. Covid-19 numbers continue to improve; study says even mild cases of the disease can be hard on the cardiovascular system
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News State and federal measurements of Covid-19 in Kentucky continue to improve each week, but Kentuckians are still dying from the virus and new research...