Category: HEALTH POLICY
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More than half of state’s acute-care hospitals report critical staff shortages; 7-day average of new coronavirus cases sets a record
Ky. Health News graph; daily cases from initial, unadjusted reports. For a larger version, click on it. —– By Melissa Patrick and Al Cross Kentucky Health News Before celebrating the...
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State has second highest number of new cases; 1/3 of hospitals critically short of staff; Beshear says Ky. in ‘uncharted territory’
Screenshot of KHN-adapted New York Times map; for interactive version, with local data, click here. —– By Melissa Patrick and Al Cross Kentucky Health News As Kentucky hospitals struggle with enough beds and...
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Today: 65 deaths reported, 2nd most of pandemic; 4,849 new cases, 3rd most; hospital and positive-test numbers at new highs
State Department for Public Health data and table, adapted by Kentucky Health News; for a larger version, click on it. Some hospitals have staffing shortages, so not all beds are available. —–...
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In one day, Covid-19 hospital cases increase 6.4%, surpassing 2,000; ICU cases rise 11.3%, ICU patients on ventilators 12.3%
Ky. Health News graph (click on it to enlarge); daily cases are from unadjusted initial reports. —– By Melissa Patrick and Al Cross Kentucky Health News Coronavirus cases continue to...
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As Covid-19 sets hospital records, Beshear calls out National Guard to help, meets with legislators empowered by high court
State Department for Public Health graph —– By Melissa Patrick and Al Cross Kentucky Health News As Gov. Andy Beshear shifts to a new role of executing and not making pandemic policy,...
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Sense of community and common sacrifice missing among many in pandemic, especially some politicians, Silas House writes
House (Berea College photo) —– In a 1,634-word article for The Atlantic, Appalachian Kentucky writer Silas House explores the resistance to masking to fight the coronavirus. He begins by recalling his grandmother’s stories of...
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State high court tells lower court to dissolve its injunction blocking laws legislature passed to limit governor’s emergency powers
Gov. Andy Beshear and Attorney General Daniel Cameron at the latter’s December 2019 swearing-in —– Kentucky Health News Laws that the legislature passed last winter to put time limits on...
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30% of new cases Fri. were 18 and younger; infections close schools; Ky. rate is 6th in U.S.; state’s ventilator count sets record
Screenshot of interactive New York Times map shows how Kentucky’s infection rate is sixth in U.S. —– By Al Cross Kentucky Health NewsAs the pandemic keeps accelerating in Kentucky, and almost all schools...
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Vaccination needed to keep hospitals from being overrun, they say; Beshear says he’s considering another mask mandate
State Department for Public Health graph; for a larger version, click on it. —– By Al Cross Kentucky Health News The pandemic in Kentucky keeps surging faster, so “At this rate we...
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Paul and Massie repeatedly use Twitter to cast doubt on public-health experts’ opinions on vaccination and masking, CJ reports
Massie and Paul (Huntington Herald-Dispatch photo) —– U.S. Sen. Rand Paul and Fourth District Rep. Thomas Massie have made repeated posts in Twitter “casting doubt on public health experts’ consensus that...