Category: HEALTH POLICY
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CDC lists only six Ky. counties – Harrison, Robertson, Clay, Knox, Laurel and Whitley – as those where masks might be needed
The latest Centers for Disease Control and Prevention map of risk posed by the coronavirus has every county at low risk except Harrison, Robertson, Clay, Knox, Laurel and Whitley. In those counties, residents...
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Latest bill to aid independent pharmacies stalls in Senate after running into one of the session’s heaviest lobbying campaigns
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News FRANKFORT – The latest bill to help independent pharmacies compete with pharmacy benefit managers sailed out of the House with overwhelming support but came...
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Legislature passes public-assistance reform bill with changes that please advocates; health cabinet secretary still sees ‘red tape’
Rep. David Meade, R-Stanford —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Legislation aimed at getting able-bodied adults off Medicaid and other public-assistance programs and back into the workforce, and decreasing...
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Beshear seeks one more month of pandemic food benefits, after leaving impression that the legislature hadn’t left that option open
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News On March 21, Republicans in Kentucky’s legislature overrode Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear’s veto of their resolution ending the Covid-19 state of emergency about a...
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Cameron, 20 other Republican attorneys general sue to overturn CDC’s mask mandate in public transportation hubs
Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron —– Attorney General Daniel Cameron has joined 20 of his Republican counterparts in a lawsuit to overturn the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention‘s rule requiring...
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House-passed bill to expand individuals’ vaccine privacy rights fails to make it out of Senate committee as session nears end
Rep. Savannah Maddox —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News A House-passed bill to keep state and local governments from asking employees and applicants if they have received a Covid-19...
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CDC rates fewer Ky. counties at high risk from virus, but levels in some have increased and state’s risk level is still relatively high
State version of CDC map, with additional label by Kentucky Health News —– Kentucky as a whole is at lower risk from the coronavirus than it was a week ago,...
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Legislature moving bills to address health-care worker shortage
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention illustration —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News In the final days of the 2022 legislative session, three bills to address Kentucky’s healthcare workforce...
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FDA allows several more e-cig products to remain on market; decisions pending on products of several major makers
A newly approved product —– The Food and Drug Administration is allowing several more tobacco-flavored electronic cigarette products to remain on the market, it said Thursday. “The agency authorized several tobacco-flavored vape pods and...
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Beshear says Omicron BA.2 subvariant circulating in Kentucky; public-health advice is the same: get vaccinated and boosted
Illustration by the University of California at Los Angeles —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News While the pandemic continues to wane in Kentucky, Gov. Andy Beshear cautioned Thursday that the...