Category: HEALTH POLICY
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Pandemic trend remains favorable; UK pediatrician encourages youth to get vaccinated, get antibody treatment if test positive
State Dept. for Public Health map, adapted by Kentucky Health News; to enlarge, click on it. —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Monday’s coronavirus numbers in Kentucky are all good: Cases...
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Anderson Co. schools paying teachers to get vaccinated, but one board member incorrectly calls vaccines ‘experimental drugs’
Anderson County (Wikipedia map) —– Editor’s note: None of the three vaccines approved for use in the U.S. are experimental. The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine has been permanently licensed, and the Moderna vaccine has applied for a...
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Ky. vaccination rate is more than 7 times the new-case rate, which keeps dropping, along with positive-test rate and hospitalizations
Chart by The Washington Post, adapted by Kentucky Health News —– By Al Cross Kentucky Health News Vaccinations are up, and new cases and hospitalizations are down, but Kentucky hospitals remain...
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State records 9,000th death from Covid-19
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News More than 9,000 Kentuckians have now died from Covid-19. “Today . . . marks a difficult day in our fight against Covid,” Gov. Andy...
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State reports 51 more Covid-19 deaths; other Kentucky pandemic metrics fall, but hot spots remain and hospitals are still stressed
Kentucky Health News graph; daily case numbers are from initial, unadjusted state reports —– By Al Cross Kentucky Health News The pandemic has been on the decline in Kentucky for...
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Ky. pandemic metrics down, except Covid-19 patients in hospitals; state’s infection rate still seventh in the nation
Ky. Dept. for Public Health chart, adapted by Ky. Health News; click on it to enlarge. —– By Al Cross Kentucky Health News All measures of the pandemic in Kentucky declined Tuesday,...
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Kentucky ditches federal exchange and moves back to Kynect, which will have two more insurers and its first vision-care plan
Cabinet for Health and Family Services map, adapted by Ky. Health News —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Kentucky is reopening Kynect, the state’s health-insurance exchange, as the portal for Kentuckians...
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Beshear sees ‘rays of hope’ but says Kentucky hospitals are still struggling and need an even steeper decline in cases
State Department for Public Health graph, adapted by Kentucky Health News —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Gov. Andy Beshear said he sees “rays of hope” in Kentucky’s pandemic trends, but...
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Most Ky. pandemic metrics down; CDC urges pregnant women to get vaccinated; 1 in 3 with Covid-19 report long-lasting effects
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Most measures of the pandemic in Kentucky dropped again Friday, but the numbers remain high overall and the newly reported deaths included two people...
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As hospital numbers keep falling, Senate again calls for special session on staffing shortages; Beshear says more work needed
Ky. Dept. for Public Health graph shows relative risk of coronavirus infection. To enlarge, click on it. —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News State Senate President Robert Stivers sent Gov. Andy...