Category: HEALTH POLICY
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Tax removed from e-cig hardware sold separately from liquid
Atlanta Journal-Constitution photo —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The General Assembly has passed legislation to remove the 15 percent wholesale tax on the hardware used in electronic smoking...
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Kentucky’s positive-test rate for the coronavirus falls to 2.85%
State Dept. for Public Health graph, relabeled by Ky. Health News; for a larger version, click on it. —– By Bruce Maples Kentucky Health News The percentage of Kentuckians testing positive for...
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Vaccinations hit new high, but several locations have hundreds of slots open, and the U.S. pandemic plateau may be coming to Ky.
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News As Gov. Andy Beshear said Kentucky broke another weekly record for coronavirus shots, he also announced that several vaccination sites have many slots open...
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Supporters of harm-reduction strategy say campaign against e-cigarettes has unintended consequences, many of them not good
Photo of e-cigarette pods by Scott Olson, Getty Images —– Billionaire Michael Bloomberg’s $160 million, three-year campaign to fight youth use of electronic cigarettes by young people may have had its...
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Governor signs 13 health-related bills into law, including one that caps co-payment for insulin at $30/month for an estimated 22,000
Reps. Minter and Bentley, Beshear and interpreter Virginia Moore —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Gov. Andy Beshear signed 13 health bills into law Monday, highlighting one that caps...
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Beshear blames high Covid-19 case numbers in prisons on testing, but death rate among state prisoners is third in U.S.
Marshall Project chart shows virus cases and deaths in state prisons. To enlarge, click on it. —– By Al Cross and Bruce Maples Kentucky Health News Gov. Andy Beshear said...
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Positive-test rate for novel coronavirus drops below 3% in Ky. as new cases continue their slow decline, but ICU ventilation rises
Twelve of the dozens of images in Hoptown Chronicle’s visual, vertical timeline of the pandemic —– By Al Cross Kentucky Health News The course of the Covid-19 pandemic in Kentucky crossed another...
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Veto-proof budget includes health-departments pension reforms, no money for health-related proposals made by governor
Rep. Jason Petrie discusses the state budget in the House. —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Kentucky legislators have sent Gov. Andy Beshear a conservative one-year budget, wrapping up...
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Positive-test rate falls to 3.07%, the lowest since June, but other measures of the pandemic in Kentucky remain on a rough plateau
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News The percentage of Kentuckians testing positive for the novel coronavirus in the last seven days fell to near 3 percent Saturday, while other measures...
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Pandemic continues its slow wane; positive-test rate shows a blip; state starts listing publicly the date of each Covid-19 death
“Covid” is a much more common search term than “coronavirus,” says this graph by Rick Lesaar, a health-communication expert. Covid-19 is the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2. —– By...