Category: HEALTH POLICY
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214 new covid-19 cases reported Monday, keeping trendline up; protests spread virus; experts say key is 80% wearing masks
Kentucky Health News chart shows two-week trendline about where it was on Saturday: up. —– As news develops about the coronavirus and its covid-19 disease, this item may be updated....
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Rural Kentucky writer blames Trump, toxic masculinity, for many red state residents’ dislike of wearing masks
When Kentucky slowly began to reopen businesses a few weeks ago, Gov. Andy Beshear, a Democrat, asked all Kentuckians to wear masks in public spaces. But many refused, seeming to...
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Plans are in the works to open schools in fall, despite some superintendents’ concerns that guidelines make it impossible
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Some Kentucky school superintendents say they wouldn’t be able to re-open schools under suggested state guidelines that require social distancing on school buses, rely...
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Virus cases are elevated for 2nd straight day in Ky., but Beshear attributes pattern to heavy testing in long-term-care facilities
Anonymous cell-phone tracking gauges mobility as the economy reopens. Selected counties’ numbers are shown; all are available on an interactive map from The Washington Post, with a story; click here. —– As...
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Rebidding of Medicaid managed-care contracts gets same result: Anthem and Passport to be out on Jan. 1; Passport plans protest
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News Hundreds of thousands of Kentuckians on Medicaid will have a new managed-care organizations to deal with when the new year rolls around, because two...
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Virus cases spike; Beshear says too early to draw conclusions; Butler, county with highest infection rate, reports 6 deaths in 1 day
Kentucky Health News chart shows how the spike in cases turned the two-week trendline almost flat. —– As news develops about the coronavirus and its covid-19 disease, this item may...
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Beshear offers statistics to show that his ‘drastic and significant steps’ saved thousands of lives, says to ‘remember the lessons’
This chart was topped with a headline, “Kentucky in Lockstep with White House/CDC Guidance;” Gov. Andy Beshear said May 4-10 included about 350 cases found by mass testing at a prison....
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Most of Kentucky’s Federally Qualified Health Centers and Rural Health Clinic are testing for the coronavirus; anyone can get a test
By David Bolt CEO, Kentucky Primary Care Association The covid-19 pandemic has amplified the importance of health-care providers, networks and collaborations in our local communities. In particular, the Federally Qualified...
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400 Kentuckians have died of covid-19; Beshear confronts the politics of masks and resistance of some local officials to testing
The governor’s mansion uses green lights to memorialize the deaths of Kentuckians from covid-19. —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News On the day when the national covid-19 death toll...
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Coronavirus cases decline, but more nursing homes are infected, and Kentuckians’ behavior and attitude worry health officials
Kentucky Health News chart shows daily cases and the trendline for the last two weeks. —– As news develops about the coronavirus and its covid-19 disease, this item may be...