Category: HEALTH BUSINESS
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Only 145 confirmed flu cases have been reported in state this season, but health commissioner says it’s too early to call it mild
State Department for Public Health map shows confirmed flu cases so far this season. —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Kentucky has confirmed one-sixth as many flu cases this season as...
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Dec. 15 is the deadline to sign up for federally subsidized health insurance; Kentucky enrollment is running behind last year’s
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The deadline to enroll in federally subsidized health insurance for 2021 is fast approaching, with the last day Tuesday, Dec. 15 to sign up...
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Washington Post story on nursing homes and the pandemic highlights the case of a Kentucky staffer who died of covid-19
Michelle Thompson —– A Kentucky nursing-home worker who died of covid-19 after volunteering to care for patients with the disease figures prominently in a national story about long-term-care facilities, their...
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Kentucky sees worst coronavirus day yet, with more than 4,000 new cases, 35 deaths and other record measurements of misery
From Gov. Andy Beshear’s Twitter page —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Gov. Andy Beshear announced record numbers for almost every metric the state uses to measure the coronavirus...
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Ky. expects first coronavirus vaccines in mid-December, for long-term-care residents and staff, and some frontline health workers
State Department for Public Health chart, relabeled by Kentucky Health News —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Gov. Andy Beshear announced Monday that Kentucky expects to get its first shipment of...
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Kentucky doubled its number of covid-19 patients on ventilators in the past month; total cases in intensive care resume uptick
Graph by Kentucky Health News —– By Al Cross Kentucky Health News More covid-19 patients than ever are on ventilators in Kentucky hospitals, the number having doubled in the last...
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Covid-19 hospitalizations in Kentucky are predicted to keep increasing; much depends on how people handled Thanksgiving
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention graph, relabeled by Kentucky Health News, shows predictions of various forecasters for new covid-19 hospitalizations in Kentucky for the next four weeks, in ranges...
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Hospitalization figures again set new records, but poll suggests Kentuckians are less likely to give thanks outside their households
Polling for The New York Times showed Kentuckians are less likely than people in neighboring states to have Thanksgiving dinner outside their household. —– By Al Cross Kentucky Health News The covid-19...
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Hospitalizations up 5% in one day; health-department workers are afraid to enforce orders because of threats, abuse, Beshear says
Beshear showed a video of nurse practitioner Katie Rogers asking Kentuckians to take care at Thanksgiving in order to keep hospitals from being overwhelmed. —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health...
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Sales pitches for Medicare Advantage don’t tell the whole story
Joe Namath is perhaps the most familiar spokesperson for Medicare Advantage plans. —– By Trudy Lieberman Community Health News Service It seems nothing ever changes when it comes to hawking...