Category: HEALTH POLICY
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Ky. records second highest number of cases and most patients in intensive care in one day; Beshear defends statewide approach
Kentucky Health News chart; daily numbers may have been slightly adjusted since initial report. —– By Al Cross Kentucky Health News Gov. Andy Beshear reported Tuesday the second highest number...
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Beshear limits private gatherings to 10 people, issues travel-and-quarantine advisory for states with high rates of positive tests
Gov. Andy Beshear showed a version of this chart; current figure was added later by Kentucky Health News. —– Trying to tame the surging coronavirus, Gov. Andy Beshear limited private...
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Report prepared for task force says Ky. should tighten limits on gatherings and restaurants, close bars where positive tests are up
Screenshot from White House Coronavirus Task Force report —– A report prepared for the White House Coronavirus Task Force recommended that Gov. Andy Beshear should close bars in all counties with rising...
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With most new virus cases in a day by far, Beshear says it’s ‘a wake-up call’ and ‘We’re going to have to take some more action’
Kentucky Health News chart; daily numbers may have been adjusted slightly since the reporting date. —– By Melissa Patrick and Al Cross Kentucky Health News Gov. Andy Beshear reported nearly...
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Passport Health Plan, which lost its Medicaid contract in recent bidding, is selling key assets to one of the winners, Molina Health
By Lisa Gillespie Kentucky Health News Molina Health, in line to be one of Kentucky’s newest Medicaid managers, will be the successor to Kentucky’s oldest one, Passport Health Plan. Louisville-based Passport...
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With record number of new cases, and high positive test rates and hospitalizations, this could be Kentucky’s worst covid-19 day yet
Kentucky Health News chart; hospital data hasn’t been reported daily and recently changed systems. —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News With coronavirus cases at a new high, and hospitalizations...
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As Supreme Court keeps emergency orders in effect, state reports second largest number of cases found on one day
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News The news Friday that Gov. Andy Beshear’s emergency orders will remain in effect, until the Supreme Court of Kentucky decides their fate, overshadowed his...
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Attorney general asks court to block all of governor’s covid-19 pandemic orders, calling them arbitrary and unconstitutional
Kentucky Health News chart; daily case numbers may have been adjusted slightly —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News As coronavirus cases in Kentucky kept trending upward — hitting the...
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Volunteers of America gets grant for drug treatment and recovery services for pregnant and postpartum women in southeastern Ky.
Volunteers of America Mid-States received a $2.6 million federal grant, one of three in the nation, for treatment and recovery services for pregnant and postpartum women and their children in southeastern...
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Virus cases down for day, but on upward trend; state says about 3,000 have complained businesses aren’t enforcing mask order
Kentucky Health News chart; daily case numbers are often adjusted slightly later —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Gov. Andy Beshear announced 477 new cases of the coronavirus Wednesday,...