Category: HEALTH BUSINESS
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Covid-19 hospital, intensive-care and ventilator cases keep setting new records; positive-test rate also jumps to new high
State Dept. for Public Health map, adapted by Kentucky Health News; to enlarge, click on it. —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The metrics to measure the coronavirus pandemic continue to...
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If you know someone who’s taking, or thinking about taking, horse de-wormer to fight Covid-19, please pass this along to them
Cartoon by Nick Anderson —– Demand is surging nationwide for ivermectin, an anti-parasitic drug typically used for livestock, based on unsubstantiated claims that it can help Covid-19 patients. How bad is...
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Every metric to measure the pandemic in Kentucky is worse, and cases in children are rising; vaccination is up, but less than cases
State Dept. for Public Health graph, adapted by Ky. Health News; for a larger version, click on it. —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Kentucky reported more Covid-19 cases last week...
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Coronavirus burning through low-vaccinated Breathitt County; ‘It’s like they’re blind … I don’t understand,’ local health official says
A sign in Jackson (Photos by Jamie Lucke) —– By Jamie Lucke Kentucky Health News JACKSON, Ky. – William Sizemore fights Covid-19 from the front lines in Breathitt County; he worries...
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Massie leads ‘Freedom Rally’ that includes man who says his wife, a UK hospital worker, will quit her job rather than get a shot
U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie, left, and state Rep. Josh Calloway spoke at the rally. (Courier Journal photo by Scott Utterback) —– Opponents of restrictions to fight the coronavirus pandemic, led by Fourth District U.S....
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More than half of state’s acute-care hospitals report critical staff shortages; 7-day average of new coronavirus cases sets a record
Ky. Health News graph; daily cases from initial, unadjusted reports. For a larger version, click on it. —– By Melissa Patrick and Al Cross Kentucky Health News Before celebrating the...
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State has second highest number of new cases; 1/3 of hospitals critically short of staff; Beshear says Ky. in ‘uncharted territory’
Screenshot of KHN-adapted New York Times map; for interactive version, with local data, click here. —– By Melissa Patrick and Al Cross Kentucky Health News As Kentucky hospitals struggle with enough beds and...
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Morehead hospital is so desperate for staff that it may put coronavirus-positive nurses back to work, in its Covid-19 units
Drs. Adam Howard and William Melahn (St. Claire photo) —– St. Claire Regional Medical Center in Morehead is so desperate for staff that it may bring back to work nurses who have...
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Today: 65 deaths reported, 2nd most of pandemic; 4,849 new cases, 3rd most; hospital and positive-test numbers at new highs
State Department for Public Health data and table, adapted by Kentucky Health News; for a larger version, click on it. Some hospitals have staffing shortages, so not all beds are available. —–...
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UofL Health-Jewish Hospital team is second in U.S. to implant a new type of artificial heart; Indiana man ‘doing well’ after 5 days
Mark Slaughter, M.D. (University of Louisville photo) —– The University of Louisville announced Wednesday that UofL Health-Jewish Hospital had implanted a new type of artificial heart in a Southern Indiana man, making it the second...