Category: HEALTH POLICY
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Medicare and Medicaid will require nursing homes to make staff get a shot or lose funding; Ky. has 6th lowest staff vaccination rate
Health-care worker getting vaccinated. Temple Health photo —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The Biden administration announced Wednesday that all nursing homes who get Medicare and Medicaid payments must...
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Financial troubles may make Letcher County Health Department vacate the multi-million-dollar building it opened 12 years ago
Letcher County Health Department (Mountain Eagle photo) —– By Sam Adams The Mountain Eagle An unwillingness to raise tax rates, a declining tax base, reduction in federal and state funding, and...
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Ky. risks running out of hospital and ICU beds, governor warns
State Dept. for Public Health graph, relabeled by Ky. Health News; to enlarge, click on it. —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News As the surge of Covid-19 cases continues to escalate...
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Governor warns Covid-19 is filling up Kentucky hospitals; state’s positive-test rate is headed for a record right away
Kentucky Health News graphs, from state data —– By Al Cross Kentucky Health News With the pandemic in Kentucky about to exceed the record levels it set in December and...
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Surge in Covid-19 cases can make it hard to find an advanced-care hospital bed for rural patients who have other ailments
State Dept. for Public Health table from daily report, adapted by Ky. Health News; click it to enlarge. —– Skyrocketing Covid-19 hospitalizations mean hospitals are running out of beds. That’s hurting not just...
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Guthrie, whose 2nd District lags in vaccination, advocates it
Kentucky Health News chart from Wikimedia Commons base map; rates rounded to whole numbers. —- By Al Cross Kentucky Health News When the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended a third dose of...
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A tale of two Kentuckians: Sens. Rand Paul and Mitch McConnell diverge more on the coronavirus as cases in the state rise
Sen. Rand Paul, left, and Sen. Mitch McConnell —- By Melanie Zanona and Manu Raju, CNN U.S. Sen. Rand Paul just got temporarily kicked off YouTube for an inaccurate tirade against masks. Sen. Mitch McConnell, meanwhile, has been airing...
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10th highest day of new virus cases, almost 1/4 of them in 18 and younger; hospitals keep filling up, and deaths keep increasing
These New York Times maps were adapted by Kentucky Health News to show the growth of cases in the last 10 days. To enlarge the image, click on it. For the interactive version...
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‘Get your shot. Today!’ Rep. Rogers urges at groundbreaking for hospital-linked clinic in McCreary County, which has no hospital
“Get your shot. Today!” 5th District U.S. Rep. Harold “Hal” Rogers of Somerset says in a video circulated by the Kentucky Primary Care Association. He says he tells the unvaccinated that...
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Kentuckians hesitant or resistant to Covid-19 vaccines cite worry about side effects, and distrust of government and the vaccines
Kentucky Health News graph from Quote Wizard base —– Kentuckians’ lack of vaccination for the coronavirus stems mainly from worries about side effects, distrust of the vaccines and government. They’re also waiting...