Category: HEALTH POLICY
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State has highest single day for coronavirus cases, by far: 5,742; legislature starts moving bills to limit Beshear’s powers
Kentucky Health News graph, with daily case data from unadjusted reports; click it to enlarge. —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News As high-priority bills to limit his emergency powers...
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Dr. Anthony Fauci is ‘the Einstein of epidemic diseases,’ writes Kentucky State University professor who studied under him
Drs. Rajendran and Fauci (Photo provided to The State Journal) —– By Narayanan Rajendran Kentucky State University The physicist Albert Einstein wrote a letter in 1939 to President Franklin D. Roosevelt...
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16 Ky. counties lack pharmacies in HHS vaccine distribution plan
Nonmetropolitan county HHS vaccination partnership pharmacy availability RUPRI Center for Rural Health Policy and Analysis map; click on the image to enlarge it. —– Almost one-third of America’s rural counties, including...
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Fast virus spread raises fear that the U.S. has developed a more contagious strain; White House says if you gathered, get tested
White House Coronavirus Task Force table; for a larger version, click on it. —– By Al Cross Kentucky Health News The novel coronavirus is spreading so fast among Americans that...
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Positive-test rate keeps going up, but Beshear says Ky. schools can safely open to in-person learning if they follow guidelines
Kentucky Health News chart, based on state Department for Public Health data —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Even with the number of Kentuckians testing positive for the coronavirus...
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Legislators file bills to limit Beshear’s powers, citing lack of consultation; one accuses him of falsifying data to scare people
Sen. Stephen Meredith, R-Leitchfield (Legislative file photo) —– By Al Cross Kentucky Health News FRANKFORT, Ky. – On the first day of the General Assembly session, legislators filed bills to limit...
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Stivers says emergency-power limits won’t be aimed at Beshear, but Osborne says effort will ‘turn political’; governor stoutly objects
Beshear and (clockwise) Osborne, Stivers, McGarvey and Jenkins —– By Al Cross and Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The legislature’s planned changes in the governor’s emergency powers will address “an...
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Plans made to increase pace of vaccinations and who’s next in line to get it; meanwhile, cases and positive-test rates increase
Revised version of chart presented by Gov. Andy Beshear during press conference Monday —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Gov. Andy Beshear and the state’s top doctor announced Monday...
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Pandemic shows the picture of health in America is not so rosy
By Trudy Lieberman Community Health News Service For end-of-the-year columns, it’s customary to recap the events of the past 12 months, usually highlighting a mix of the good and the...
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New federal nutrition guides, which influence school lunches, food stamps and diabetes, ignore experts’ calls for less sugar, alcohol
New federal nutritional guidelines unveiled last week, which influence everything from school lunches and military rations to food stamps, ignored scientific advisers’ calls to lower recommended sugar and alcohol intake....