Category: HEALTH POLICY
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Republicans’ new relief plan has less for hospitals, nothing for Medicaid; McConnell ‘faces flak from both left and right’
Senate Republicans’ latest covid-19 relief proposal “sets up new fights over health funding even as the pandemic continues to overwhelm the country,” report Dan Diamond and Adam Cancryn of Politico. “There’s more hospital bailout cash,...
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Beshear sees signs that his mask mandate is slowing the spread of the coronavirus; both key seven-day averages show declines
Kentucky Health News chart; daily case numbers may be adjusted after initial report. —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Although the number of new coronavirus cases reported Tuesday in...
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Beshear closes bars, cuts restaurant capacity, advises schools to delay in-person classes ’til 3rd week of Aug.; positive-test rate up
Kentucky Health News chart —– By Al Cross Kentucky Health News Bars will have to close and restaurants must cut their indoor capacity to 25 percent, from 50 percent, under...
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Data and health directors’ observations suggest that pandemic lockdown increased overdoses, which declined as state reopened
Graph from Kentucky Injury Prevention Research Center, University of Kentucky —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Apparent overdoses reported by Kentucky hospitals and ambulance services shot up in the...
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Beshear promises ‘additional steps’ on virus; White House task force says to close bars and decrease restaurant capacity
Dr. Deborah Birx at the old governor’s mansion —– Story and photos by Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News After meeting in Kentucky with the response coordinator for the White House Coronavirus...
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Pandemic depresses vaccination rates; doctors and insurer say parents should feel safe taking children for health-care providers
By Lisa Gillespie Kentucky Health News Not as many Kentucky children are getting critical vaccinations as they did previous years, tracking a nationwide trend of parents staying away from health-care...
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Coronavirus cases surge again, pushing Kentucky into ‘red zone’ of White House task force that calls for more restrictions
Measures that state officials and health experts recommend to fight the coronavirus —– By Melissa Patrick and Al Cross Kentucky Health News As coronavirus cases in Kentucky surged into a...
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As case numbers hit a near-record and positive-test rate surges, Beshear asks churches to drop in-person services and says he will limit some business activity Monday if the surges don’t abate
By Melissa Patrick and Al Cross Kentucky Health News After reporting Kentucky’s second highest daily number of new coronavirus cases and a surging positive-test rate, Gov. Andy Beshear asked churches...
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Beshear says he wouldn’t ask teachers to return to classrooms now, and may ask schools planning early-August starts to wait
By Al CrossKentucky Health NewsAs Kentucky’s coronavirus surge continued Thursday, Gov. Andy Beshear said he wouldn’t ask a teacher to resume teaching now, but “I want to see where we...
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Foundation’s annual policy forum shifts gears in pandemic, to be a series of monthly webinars on children’s health, starting Sept. 21
The Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky‘s 20th annual policy forum will focus on policies and programs that reduce the chances of disease and unhealthy behaviors that often begin in childhood, including...