Category: FEATURED
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New virus cases up for 5th day; covid-19 patients’ ICU use spikes; positive-test rate declines; studies don’t look good for school
By Al Cross and Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News New cases of the novel coronavirus in Kentucky increased for the fifth straight day, to 778, the fourth largest number yet,...
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Cases up, positive-test rate down; Beshear says mask mandate having effect, but suggests more people should work from home
State chart adapted by KHN; current period has 3 of 7 days remaining; at current rate would be 3845. —– By Al Cross and Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Thursday’s...
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Smoking and vaping can make covid-19 more severe
By Audrey Darville Associate professor of nursing University of Kentucky Though studies are still ongoing, more is known about the risks of smoking and covid-19. Early reports found people sickened...
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Beshear closes bars, cuts restaurant capacity, advises schools to delay in-person classes ’til 3rd week of Aug.; positive-test rate up
Kentucky Health News chart —– By Al Cross Kentucky Health News Bars will have to close and restaurants must cut their indoor capacity to 25 percent, from 50 percent, under...
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Data and health directors’ observations suggest that pandemic lockdown increased overdoses, which declined as state reopened
Graph from Kentucky Injury Prevention Research Center, University of Kentucky —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Apparent overdoses reported by Kentucky hospitals and ambulance services shot up in the...
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Pandemic depresses vaccination rates; doctors and insurer say parents should feel safe taking children for health-care providers
By Lisa Gillespie Kentucky Health News Not as many Kentucky children are getting critical vaccinations as they did previous years, tracking a nationwide trend of parents staying away from health-care...
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Beshear says he wouldn’t ask teachers to return to classrooms now, and may ask schools planning early-August starts to wait
By Al CrossKentucky Health NewsAs Kentucky’s coronavirus surge continued Thursday, Gov. Andy Beshear said he wouldn’t ask a teacher to resume teaching now, but “I want to see where we...
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Foundation’s annual policy forum shifts gears in pandemic, to be a series of monthly webinars on children’s health, starting Sept. 21
The Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky‘s 20th annual policy forum will focus on policies and programs that reduce the chances of disease and unhealthy behaviors that often begin in childhood, including...
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Voices from the coronavirus pandemic: Oral histories from just a few of the millions whose lives have been changed by it
Lori Wagoner at her work station in North Carolina (Photo by Eamon Queeney, The Washington Post) —– As the coronavirus continues to surge across Kentucky and the nation, The Washington Post is continuing...
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Hospitalizations and positive-test rates increase; daily cases fall, but 7-day average inches up; Beshear says deaths will rise
Rhonda King leaves the hospital. (Image from WLKY-TV) —– By Al Cross and Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News More Kentuckians are testing positive for the coronavirus and more of them are...