Category: HEALTH POLICY
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Republican senators move legislation that would let GOP attorney general block abortions during Beshear’s pandemic emergency
Attorney General Daniel Cameron —– Kentucky Health NewsReacting to Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear’s order that apparently lets abortions continue during the covid-19 pandemic, Republican legislators have adopted a countermeasure.A Senate...
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Most Kentuckians with Alzheimer’s are over 65 and have chronic illness, putting them at greater risk of covid-19; tips for caretakers
UKNow photo —– People with Alzheimer’s disease are considered at high risk for covid-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus, not only because they have Alzheimer’s, but also because...
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Beshear says next two or three weeks are ‘absolutely critical;’ drive-through tests to begin on ‘very limited’ basis next week
As news develops in Kentucky about the coronavirus and its covid-19 disease, this item will be updated. Official state guidance is at https://kycovid19.ky.gov. “The next two to possibly three weeks is...
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Some conservative talkers, including a leading one heard in Ky., downplayed the covid-19 threat and criticized efforts to blunt it
President Trump and Mark Levin in the Oval Office on Oct. 8 (Photo by Leah Millis, Reuters) —– Several conservative radio talk-show hosts, including one who is heard most nights...
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As Trump envisions Easter reopening, Beshear clamps down, says country must ‘defeat the coronavirus on the very first try’
At his daily press conference, Gov. Andy Beshear addressed remarks by President Donald J. Trump. —– By Al Cross Kentucky Health News As President Trump openly hoped for “packed churches”...
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Beshear: Businesses that don’t sustain life must end in-person traffic, and hotline to report violators of his orders got 2,000 calls
As news develops in Kentucky about the coronavirus and its covid-19 disease, this item will be updated. Official state guidance is at https://kycovid19.ky.gov. Gov. Andy Beshear said Tuesday that he would...
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As surgeon general says this week will be bad, Beshear says ‘It’s game time’ and pushes social distancing; starts toll-free hotline for Kentuckians to report violators of his emergency orders
As news develops in Kentucky about the coronavirus and its covid-19 disease, this item will be updated. Official state guidance is at https://kycovid19.ky.gov. Monday, March 23, 2020 Reflecting the surgeon general’s warning that...
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March 11-15 poll found a third of Americans and almost half of Republicans had taken no precautions against coronavirus; surgeon general says it’s going to get bad this week
As news develops in Kentucky about the coronavirus and its covid-19 disease, this page will be updated. Official state guidance is at https://kycovid19.ky.gov. Monday, March 23, 2020 A Kaiser Family Foundation...
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UK public-health, surgery professors urge quick hospital and government action to limit deaths from covid-19 in rural Ky.
Tyrone Borders and Sam Tyagi (L-R) —– A public-health professor and a surgeon at the University of Kentucky are sounding the alarm that the covid-19 disease caused by the new coronavirus could...
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Beshear ends non-essential retail, elective medical procedures; calls out violators, including a church; Sen. Paul has the virus
As news develops in Kentucky about the coronavirus and its covid-19 disease, this page will be updated. Official state guidance is at https://kycovid19.ky.gov. Sunday, March 22, 2020 Gov. Andy Beshear said...