Category: HEALTH POLICY
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Kentucky’s positive coronavirus test rate drops below 6%, but state reports another spike in Covid-19 deaths: 51 listed today
Kentucky Health News graphic; click on it to enlarge —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health NewsThe percentage of Kentuckians testing positive for the novel coronavirus dropped below 6 percent for...
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Health bills dealing with insulin cost, substance-use disorder and long-term-care staffing pass legislative chambers Tuesday
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Health related bills are on the move in the General Assembly, with several of them passing out of their respective chambers Tuesday. House bills...
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Ky. to get more vaccine doses; Beshear recommends more in-person schooling; daily coronavirus metrics improving or stable
State Department for Public Health map, relabeled by Kentucky Health News; click it to enlarge. —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Gov. Andy Beshear announced 1,497 new coronavirus cases on Tuesday,...
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Vaccinations will move March 1 to the 1C category: People over 60, those with certain health conditions, and essential workers
Ky. Dept. for Public Health graph, relabeled by Ky. Health News; for a larger version, click on it —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Kentucky’s regional coronavirus vaccine sites will open...
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25% of Ky.’s community-health-center visits are via telehealth; bill would codify some temporary telehealth rules, such as audio visits
Rep. Kim Moser —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News A bill to codify telehealth provisions that were put into place during the pandemic to temporarily relax some of the...
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New coronavirus cases in Kentucky drop for 6th straight week, but state ranks 8th in U.S.; positive-test rate drops for 4th day in row
New York Times map, adapted; click it to enlarge; click here for interactive version with county data —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Cases of the novel coronavirus in Kentucky have declined...
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Harm reduction services, ‘that place between prevention and treatment,’ can make a difference in substance-abuse disorder
Daryl Hams, registered nurse and project director of the Regional Harm Reduction Collaborative (Photo: Amanda Rossman, Cincinnati Enquirer) —– In an article titled “The people who care: How harm reduction strategies for those who...
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Health experts are cautious about making pandemic predictions, but say that by fall, things will be much more like normal
Dr. Anthony Fauci —– Kentucky Health News Almost a year after it greatly changed life in Kentucky and the rest of the United States, the pandemic is waning, and vaccinations...
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Seven-day average of coronavirus cases is creeping up, and 11th in U.S., but positivity rate, a leading indicator, is inching down
Ky. Health News graph; case numbers are initial, unadjusted daily reports; click on it to enlarge. —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News While the seven-day average of coronavirus cases...
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Beshear says vaccines for Phase 1C could start soon; UK site already there, CJ says; new cases up but positive-test rate down
State Dept. for Public Health map, adapted by Kentucky Health News; to enlarge, click on it. —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The state announced 1,993 new cases of the novel...