Category: FEATURED
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Corbin mayor asks the unvaccinated to ‘shelter in place’ to keep city’s 273-bed regional hospital from being overwhelmed
Suzie Razmus (via Facebook) —– Voicing worry that Corbin’s regional hospital can’t cope with the raft of Covid-19 patients, Mayor Suzie Razmus is advising unvaccinated people to stay home. “I just...
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Beshear says legislature now ‘owns this pandemic’ and urges local school officials to impose their own mask mandates
Ky. Health News graph; case numbers are from initial, unadjusted reports; click it to enlarge. —– By Al Cross Kentucky Health News “The legislature owns this pandemic moving forward” because...
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Lawmakers pass bill to not allow statewide mask mandate until 2023, along with other health-related pandemic measures
Frankfort capitol building —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The Kentucky General Assembly has passed a bill to prevent a statewide mask mandate until June 2023, and shifting the...
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General Assembly leaves masking authority to school districts; Republicans block votes on Democrats’ amendments
Photo by Mary Altaffer, The Associated Press —– By Al Cross and Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The Kentucky House and Senate gave final passage Thursday night to a bill eliminating...
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Beshear sends National Guard to 21 more hospitals as number of Covid-19 patients sets another record; only 80 ICU beds available
Slide from governor’s press conference; light blue hospitals were in first round of Guard assignments. —– By Al Cross Kentucky Health News Gov. Andy Beshear sent 310 more members of...
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FDA orders thousands of electronic cigarettes off the market, but delays a decision on Juul, the most popular brand
Photo by Eva Hambach, Agence France-Presse via Getty —– The Food and Drug Administration “delayed a high-stakes decision on whether to permit bestselling vaping brand Juul to stay on the market, while ordering thousands of other electronic...
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Positive-test rate, Covid-19 hospitalizations and ICU use in Ky. hit new highs; infection rate goes down but is third highest in nation
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The bad news is that Kentucky set another record for the percentage of Kentuckians testing positive for the disease and for the number of...
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Legislature moves to leave mask mandates up to local officials and businesses as state’s positive-test rate reaches a new high
State Department for Public Health graph; for a larger version, click on it. —– By Al Cross and Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The Kentucky General Assembly is quickly moving to leave...
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Research-based comic book at UK helps readers understand and fight use of electronic cigarettes by teens and young adults
Top of comic book cover, showing students as puppets of an electronic cigarette; story title is “The Villainous Vape” —– By Alicia Gregory University of Kentucky A team at the University...
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Insurance companies managing Medicaid start a sweepstakes for beneficiaries to win Disney World vacations for getting vaccinated
Washington Post chart, adapted by Ky. Health News, showing the latest available vaccination data. —– Kentucky’s health insurers have started a sweepstakes in which Medicaid beneficiaries can win vacation packages for...