Category: HEALTH POLICY
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Chain with 11 Ky. nursing homes stops visits when an employee tests positive, but still isn’t making employees get vaccinated
Christian Health Center in Hopkinsville (Photos by Jennifer P. Brown) —– Christian Care Communities, which operates 11 nursing homes in Kentucky, “is using what it learned to minimize the risk of...
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Community Health Days offering screenings and coronavirus vaccines in 32 Appalachian Ky. counties through November
The first Community Health Day was held in Hindman Friday, Aug. 6. (Photos by Melissa Slone, UK) —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News HINDMAN, Ky. — The first of 96 University...
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A six-week surge of the coronavirus has put Ky. about where it was six months ago, but then it was going down; now it’s going up
Ky. Health News graph, based on initial, unadjusted daily reports; to enlarge, click on it. —– By Al Cross Kentucky Health News Six weeks of the Delta variant have put...
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11 Ky. hospital systems require vaccine amid surge (2,000 new cases, 2nd day in a row); Beshear asks other sectors to follow suit
Health Commissioner Steven Stack drew red trendlines on this state Department for Public Health graph to show that the pandemic is accelerating in Kentucky more quickly now than it did last fall....
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‘Things will get worse before they get better, but we can fight this,’ Beshear says as pandemic accelerates again in Kentucky
State Dept. for Public Health map, adapted by Ky. Health News; for a larger version, click on it. —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News As the pandemic continues to surge in...
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Drug overdose deaths in Kentucky rose 49% in 2020; fentanyl and methamphetamine remained the biggest drivers of death
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Drug-overdose deaths in Kentucky rose 49% in 2020, according to the state’s latest annual report. “In addition to the stress caused by the pandemic, we...
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Pandemic keeps accelerating in Kentucky, more so than in the rest of the nation; hospitalizations have risen 58% in last week
New York Times new-case map shows Kentucky’s increase in the last 14 days is higher than most. —– By Al Cross Kentucky Health News The pandemic continued to accelerate in Kentucky...
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What you should know about the Delta variant of the coronavirus
peterschreiber.media, iStock/Getty Images Plus —– By Becky Dutch, Vince Venditto, Ashley Montgomery-Yates and Aaron Grubbs University of Kentucky As the SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant continues to spread across the United States and hospitals’ Covid-positive intake numbers...
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Beshear asks vaccinated Kentuckians to talk to their unvaccinated friends about getting immunized; virus is ‘spreading like wildfire’
State Dept. for Public Health graph, relabeled by Ky. Health News; for a larger version, click on it. —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News In a press conference focused on getting...
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Hospitals seeing many more Covid-19 cases, and more of them in younger people; four systems now require employee vaccination
Kentucky Health News graph, based on data from state Department for Public Health —– This story has been updated. When the pandemic resurged in Kentucky last month, Gov. Andy Beshear said he would...