Category: HEALTH BUSINESS
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Fourth highest day of new cases; 49 deaths make average nearly 30 per day; two hospital regions report all intensive-care beds full
For the first time, more than one hospital-readiness region reported all its intensive-care beds full. Regions in white have fewer than 80% of their ICU beds occupied. (State chart; click to...
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Cases and hospital numbers tick up again; state’s 7-day infection rate is second in nation; positive-test rate declines again
State Department for Public Health graph; EUA is the acronym for emergency-use authorization. The federal government is now running the antibody supplies through states due to heavy demand. —– By Melissa Patrick...
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‘The only true cure for Covid is prevention,’ worker on Covid-19 unit says as record number of hospitals report staffing shortages
Dept. for Public Health graph, adapted by Ky. Health News; for a larger version, click on it. —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News With 69% of Kentucky’s acute-care hospitals reporting...
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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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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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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...
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Public-health director asks people in his county to respect and trust people in health care, as they did when he was growing up
Joshua Embry —– By Joshua Embry In graduate school I wrote a paper about the violence that health-care workers experience at the hands of patients. I had witnessed such behavior...
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Beshear calls it ‘a scary time’ because Covid-19 case average and hospital numbers hit new high; many intensive-care units full
State Dept. for Public Health graph, adapted by Kentucky Health News —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Kentucky saw its fourth highest number of new coronavirus cases Friday and again set...
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Agenda for session includes aid for hospitals and nursing homes, and making it easier for doctors’ offices to get and give vaccines
Sen. Ralph Alvarado —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News As the Kentucky General Assembly prepares to use its new powers in a special session to deal with the pandemic,...