Category: YOUR HEALTH
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Kentucky Covid-19 hospitalizations have biggest one-day drop in months; virus new-case rate keeps falling but remains 2nd in U.S.
New York Times graphs show Kentucky’s new-case rate is second highest. Click on image to enlarge. —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News New coronavirus cases, Covid-19 hospitalizations and percentage of...
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New coronavirus cases in Ky. keep dropping, but it keeps killing; Ky. deaths over 13,000; new-vaccination rate continues decline
Chart by The Washington Post, adapted by Kentucky Health News; click on it to enlarge. —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News As the metrics used to measure the pandemic...
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Cases and positivity rate continue to drop, but 28% of new cases are again in 18-and-unders, and hospitalizations remain high
Kentucky Health News graph from state data —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News New coronavirus cases and the share of Kentuckians testing positive for the virus remain high, but...
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Kentucky farmers, often beset by circumstances, can take advantage of a new program to support their mental health
Logo of the program, which began in 2020 —– The following story is from The Goldenrod, which normally covers rural Eastern and Central Kentucky. Editor Sarah Baird writes, “If you live...
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Case numbers show the pandemic in Kentucky is on a decline, but cases in children are more than a quarter of the daily total
Ky. Health News graph; daily case numbers are initial, unadjusted reports. (Click image to enlarge) —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Tuesday’s Covid-19 numbers in Kentucky offered yet another day...
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UK researcher who pioneered faith-based project to tackle cervical cancer has expanded her work to the national level
Nancy Schoenberg —– By Alicia Gregory and Ben Corwin University of Kentucky The best solutions begin when you listen to the people whose problems you’re trying to solve. That community-based...
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Kentucky’s weekly Covid-19 case numbers and positive-test rate are on the decline, offering hope for the weeks to come
State Dept. for Public Health graph, adapted by Ky. Health News; for a larger version, click on it. —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Kentucky got a hopeful Covid-19...
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Flu cases are declining in Kentucky, but season runs until May, and CDC says there’s still time and reasons to get vaccinated
State Dept. for Public Health map, adapted by Ky. Health News; to enlarge, click on it. —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Influenza cases in Kentucky have slowly declined...
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Legislature sends Beshear a bill to ban any ‘zero visitor’ policies in nursing homes other facilities, a legacy of the pandemic
State Sen. Julie Raque Adams (Legislative photo) —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News A bill to guarantee an essential caregiver’s right visit a resident at long-term care facilities, assisted-living communities...
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Pope Francis sees an “infodemic,” says access to accurate information about the coronavirus and vaccines is a human right
Pope Francis (Photo by Franco Origlia/Getty Images) —– Pope Francis said Friday that an “infodemic” is spreading, defining it as “a distortion of reality based on fear, falsified or invented news.”...