Category: HEALTH BUSINESS
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State’s infection rate still sixth in nation; Beshear blames later Omicron surge and legislature’s removal of his prevention powers
Chart shows how Kentucky’s daily vaccination rate has declined over the last two months. —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The metrics used to measure the pandemic in Kentucky...
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Appalachian youth use cameras in UK cancer center’s project to document and think about cancer in rural Kentucky
For 19-year-old Brianna Reyes Fry of Carter County, a butterfly represents a deeper meaning: “A butterfly resembles change. Kentucky needs change. We need a breakthrough.” (University of Kentucky photo by Pete...
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Virus cases keep falling, but not as quickly as in most states; Kentucky’s infection rate is seventh highest in the nation
New York Times map, adapted by Kentucky Health News; for a larger version, click on it. —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Like much of the nation, Kentucky’s coronavirus case...
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Louisville hospitals worry that shortage of nurses, worsened by the pandemic, will damage how they care for patients for years
Colleagues care for Becky Fulks, a nurse at University of Louisville Hospital nurse who nearly died from Covid-19 though she was vaccinated. Only 15% of Covid patients in hospitals are...
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New law protects consumers from surprise medical bills
Graphic from Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News As of Jan. 1, Americans who get surprise medical bills have new federal consumer protections....
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Kentucky Covid-19 hospitalizations have biggest one-day drop in months; virus new-case rate keeps falling but remains 2nd in U.S.
New York Times graphs show Kentucky’s new-case rate is second highest. Click on image to enlarge. —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News New coronavirus cases, Covid-19 hospitalizations and percentage of...
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New coronavirus cases in Ky. keep dropping, but it keeps killing; Ky. deaths over 13,000; new-vaccination rate continues decline
Chart by The Washington Post, adapted by Kentucky Health News; click on it to enlarge. —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News As the metrics used to measure the pandemic...
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Cases and positivity rate continue to drop, but 28% of new cases are again in 18-and-unders, and hospitalizations remain high
Kentucky Health News graph from state data —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News New coronavirus cases and the share of Kentuckians testing positive for the virus remain high, but...
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Case numbers show the pandemic in Kentucky is on a decline, but cases in children are more than a quarter of the daily total
Ky. Health News graph; daily case numbers are initial, unadjusted reports. (Click image to enlarge) —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Tuesday’s Covid-19 numbers in Kentucky offered yet another day...
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UK researcher who pioneered faith-based project to tackle cervical cancer has expanded her work to the national level
Nancy Schoenberg —– By Alicia Gregory and Ben Corwin University of Kentucky The best solutions begin when you listen to the people whose problems you’re trying to solve. That community-based...