Category: FEATURED
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Campaign aims to get more kids 5 to 11 immunized for Covid-19
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News A new public-service campaign aimed at getting more of Kentucky’s young children vaccinated against the coronavirus places a strong focus on getting parents to...
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Virus cases still lag, but Beshear says a surge is coming, and its size will depend on how many people get booster shots
Times of India illustration —– By Al Cross Kentucky Health News As the fast-spreading Omicron variant of the coronavirus takes hold in some areas of the country, Gov. Andy Beshear says...
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New coronavirus cases in Kentucky continue slow decline, but hospitals’ Covid-19 numbers are still going up, and ICUs are filling
Ky. Cabinet for Health and Family Services table, adapted by Ky. Health News; click on it to enlarge. —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health NewsFor the eighth consecutive day, Kentucky saw a...
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New coronavirus cases in Ky. down 6.6% in the last seven days
Ky. Dept. for Public Health map, adapted by Ky. Health News; to enlarge, click on it. —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Kentucky has seen a slight daily decline in coronavirus...
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Tornadoes leave health issues, Beshear says; state’s 14-day average of Covid-19 deaths is 53.5 per day, the highest yet
Dept. for Public Health graph, adapted by Ky. Health News, shows case numbers flat; click to enlarge. —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The tornadoes that ripped through Western Kentucky...
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Evangelical Christians should balance their faith in God with faith in science, evangelical pastor writes
By Paul D. Prather I’ve been an evangelical Christian all my life, with the exception of my exuberantly misspent teenage years and early 20s. Raised a Southern Baptist, the son...
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Surgeon general sounds alarm about youth mental health; children’s hospital leader says this crisis also exists in Kentucky
Graphic is from the Protecting Youth Mental Health Advisory; to enlarge, click on it. —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy has issued his second...
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At term’s midpoint, Beshear reflects on pandemic work, saying he wishes he had prepared Kentuckians for a longer fight
Andy Beshear at a press conference earlier in the pandemic. —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News As Gov. Andy Beshear passed the mid-point of his four-year term, he spent...
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Omicron: Misinformation, some of it disinformation, is outpacing factual information; news media can help mitigate that
Photo illustration by The Daily Beast —– “In July, a fake slide deck with the logos of the World Health Organization and the World Economic Forum purporting to show a...
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Beshear declares emergency to help get more students into nursing schools to relieve state’s ‘dire’ shortage of nurses
Nurse Cydney Kanis at Baptist Health Lexington (Photo by Alex Slitz, Lexington Herald-Leader) —– Kentucky Health News Gov. Andy Beshear declared an emergency Thursday, allowing the state to take special...