Category: HEALTH POLICY
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As cases surge in southeastern Ky., public-health and local officials join forces to combat it and tamp down the politics
The Bell County Health Department’s Leighann Baker brings groceries to Alan Smith, who is quarantined. (Photo by Pat McDonogh, Courier Journal) —– Like much of the nation, stopping the spread of the novel...
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Hospitals overall are losing money, and it’s likely to get worse; Cynthiana hospital says it’s ‘at a negative 25% margin’
A report prepared for the American Hospital Association predicts half of the nation’s hospitals will be losing money by the end of the year unless Congress gives them more relief money, and...
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New virus cases up for 5th day; covid-19 patients’ ICU use spikes; positive-test rate declines; studies don’t look good for school
By Al Cross and Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News New cases of the novel coronavirus in Kentucky increased for the fifth straight day, to 778, the fourth largest number yet,...
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Cases up, positive-test rate down; Beshear says mask mandate having effect, but suggests more people should work from home
State chart adapted by KHN; current period has 3 of 7 days remaining; at current rate would be 3845. —– By Al Cross and Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Thursday’s...
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Beshear says case numbers likely stabilizing, but positive test rate keeps rising, ‘a sure-fire sign you’ve got to be careful,’ Fauci says
Beshear showed this chart to illustrate what Kentucky needs to avoid: a spike like Oklahoma’s. —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Even though new cases of the coronavirus crept...
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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...