Category: CORONAVIRUS
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Coronavirus cases up 8.7% over prior week; Covid-19 deaths fall, but remain above month’s average; state attributed 49 last week
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News New coronavirus cases in Kentucky rose last week and deaths attributed to Covid-19 went down, but remained above the recent average as Kentuckians continued...
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Almost all of Ky. has a low risk of Covid-19, CDC says; its data now rule: New York Times ends daily data reporting, citing less frequency of states’ data
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News All but five of Kentucky’s 120 counties have a low risk of Covid-19 transmission, according to the latest federal risk map. The Centers for Disease...
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New coronavirus cases dropped again last week in Kentucky, but state-recorded deaths from Covid-19 had another weekly increase
By Melissa Patrick Ky. Health News Last week, new coronavirus cases in Kentucky dropped 20 percent from the week before, but deaths from Covid-19 increased again. The state Department for...
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Vast majority of Kentucky continues to have low risk of Covid-19
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News All but 10 of Kentucky’s 120 counties have a low risk of Covid-19 infection on the latest federal risk map, and Menifee County is...
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Long Covid update: There’s still reason to avoid Covid-19, even if you’ve had it already; it’s ‘annoyingly stubborn,’ expert says
By Katelyn Jetelina Your Local Epidemiologist Covid-19 is not the common cold. Here’s an effort to keep you up to date on long-Covid developments. What we knew: Long Covid after...
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New coronavirus cases dropped in Ky. last week but Covid-19 deaths increased; N.Y. Times ranks new-case rate 2nd in nation
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Kentucky reported a 46 percent drop in new coronavirus cases last week, but its rate of new infections remained among the highest in the...
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CDC: 83% of Ky. counties have low risk of Covid-19 transmission
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Most of Kentucky again has a low risk of Covid-19 transmission on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention risk map, but when it...
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On the third anniversary of the pandemic’s arrival in Ky., the virus continues to infect and kill; state’s new-case rate still 3rd in nation
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Today, March 6, marks the third anniversary of the announcement of Kentucky’s first case of Covid-19, a disease that has infected more than 1.7...
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Bill to leave children’s Covid-19 vaccination decisions entirely with parents and guardians is approved by a House committee
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Kentucky lawmakers have sent the House a bill to ensure that the state’s children are not required to get a Covid-19 vaccine and that...
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CDC says no Ky. counties at high risk of Covid-19; state planning moves to adapt to May 11 end of federal public-health emergency
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News No Kentucky counties have a high risk of Covid-19, according to this week’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention‘s weekly risk map, and only...