Category: YOUR HEALTH
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Pandemic numbers keep falling, except daily Covid-19 deaths
Ky. Health News graph; case numbers based on initial, unadjusted reports; click image to enlarge. —– By Al Cross Kentucky Health News The pandemic kept declining in Kentucky Friday, but...
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State’s infection rate still sixth in nation; Beshear blames later Omicron surge and legislature’s removal of his prevention powers
Chart shows how Kentucky’s daily vaccination rate has declined over the last two months. —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The metrics used to measure the pandemic in Kentucky...
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Overall, Ky. coronavirus numbers keep falling, but remain high; CDC director says it’s still too early to cut prevention efforts
Graph by Kentucky Health News; click to enlarge. —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Despite encouraging trends in coronavirus case rates, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Wednesday that...
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Virus cases keep falling, but not as quickly as in most states; Kentucky’s infection rate is seventh highest in the nation
New York Times map, adapted by Kentucky Health News; for a larger version, click on it. —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Like much of the nation, Kentucky’s coronavirus case...
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Covid-19 trend remains good, but governor says we have a way to go and cautions Kentuckians to not let their guard down
Ky. Dept. for Public Health graph, adapted by Ky. Health News; for a larger version, click on it. —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Kentucky’s Covid-19 metrics continue to move in...
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Another study shows that wearing a mask lowers the odds of getting Covid-19, and that the type of mask you wear matters
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention chart —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Two years into the pandemic, many people still refuse to wear a face mask as part...
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Louisville hospitals worry that shortage of nurses, worsened by the pandemic, will damage how they care for patients for years
Colleagues care for Becky Fulks, a nurse at University of Louisville Hospital nurse who nearly died from Covid-19 though she was vaccinated. Only 15% of Covid patients in hospitals are...
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Medicine treats individual patients; public health looks at causes and prevention of disease. Public-health dean explains her work.
Dean Donna Arnett, Ph.D. —– By Grace Colville UKNow, University of Kentucky Living in a pandemic has been an adjustment for everyone. Public health plays a larger role in the...
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Flu cases in Kentucky continue to drop, but could still rise; as long as there are any cases, it’s not too late to get vaccinated
State graph, adapted by Ky. Health News, shows flu-like illness at low level but higher than last year —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News After reaching a peak in...
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Tornado cleanup is more than physical; loss and suffering take emotional and psychological tolls that can be harder to deal with
Downtown Mayfield is pictured on Feb. 2. (Photo by William Widmer for The New York Times) —– About 40 percent of the debris from the gigantic tornado that plowed through 200...