Category: HEALTH POLICY
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Pandemic’s decline stalls in Kentucky; more schools drop masks; shots for kids 5-11 are days away; vaccination data corrected
Graphic from Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention —– By Al Cross Kentucky Health News The pandemic’s decline in Kentucky stalled Friday. On the state’s daily report,...
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‘Take It From Me’ campaign has 18 new video public-service announcements to promote coronavirus vaccination
The “Take It From Me” campaign of public service video announcements has released 18 more videos urging Kentuckians to get a coronavirus vaccine. The campaign is a partnership between the Kentucky...
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New toolkit aims to help rural organizations create medication-assisted therapy programs for opioid misuse
A new toolkit from the Rural Health Information Hub aims to help rural communities and organizations develop, implement, evaluate and sustain Medication for Opioid Use Disorder programs. MOUD programs, sometimes called Medication-Assisted Therapy, are...
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Kentucky’s decline from the peak of the pandemic has been steeper than the nation’s; vaccination rate now 24th among states
Washington Post map, adapted by Kentucky Health News, shows rates in bordering and nearby states and Puerto Rico, the national leader. —– Kentucky Health News The decline of new coronavirus cases...
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Most pandemic metrics are favorable, except intensive-care cases
Washington Post chart, adapted by Ky. Health News; click to enlarge. —– By Al Cross Kentucky Health News Most measures of the pandemic in Kentucky declined Wednesday, and vaccinations are on...
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Foundation gives $20,000 to spur vaccination in low-vax counties
State Department for Public Health vaccination-rate map, adapted by Kentucky Health News —- The Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky has awarded grants totaling $20,000 to increase uptake of the Covid-19 vaccines in counties with the...
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The pandemic map is mainly orange, but has plenty of red counties; kids could start getting Pfizer shots as early as Nov. 3
State Dept. for Public Health map, adapted by Ky. Health News; to enlarge any image, click on it. —– New York Times map shows how state compares. Interactive version here. By Al Cross Kentucky...
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Share of Kentuckians testing positive for the coronavirus drops below 6%, but Beshear says daily new cases are still too high
Dept. for Public Health graph, adapted by Ky. Health News; first-month figures are unreliable due to few tests. —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health NewsThe metrics to measure the coronavirus in...
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Kentucky’s 10- to 17-year-old youth rank No. 1 for obesity; high-school students rank fifth, 2-to-4-year-olds in WIC program sixth
Map from foundation report, adapted by Kentucky Health News to show rates in bordering states and the Southeast —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News In 2019-20, Kentucky had the...
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Daily vaccinations and new coronavirus cases in Ky. are falling at about the same rate, but jabs outnumber cases by almost 7 to 1
Chart by The Washington Post; for a larger version, click on it. —– By Al Cross Kentucky Health News As booster shots of all coronavirus vaccines approved in the U.S. become...