Category: YOUR HEALTH
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Baptist seminary president’s guidance to Christians on vaccines still drawing high readership, eight months after publication
Albert Mohler —– When the first coronavirus vaccine was released in December, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary President Albert Mohler published an article in Kentucky Today, an online news service of the Kentucky Baptist Convention, giving...
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Beshear orders all in schools to wear masks, says he’s willing to re-institute broader indoor mask mandate ‘if necessary’
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News Citing what his health chief called “the fastest and steepest rise of the entire pandemic” Tuesday, Gov. Andy Beshear issued an emergency order requiring...
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Covid-19 hospitalizations in Kentucky have increased by 400% in the last month, and have risen for 26 consecutive days
Ky. Health News graph, from initial, unadjusted daily reports; to enlarge, click on it. —– By Al Cross Kentucky Health News The number of people hospitalized for the Covid-19 disease...
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Most Kentucky school districts are not requiring masks
NOTE: Oldham County decided Monday evening to require masks. (WFPL map) —– Nearly two-thirds of Kentucky school districts are not requiring masks in their buildings as the new school year begins,...
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Study in Kentucky concludes re-infection with the coronavirus is 2.34 times more likely if you’re not vaccinated than if you are
Sen. Rand Paul and Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky —– A new study, conducted in Kentucky during the two months before the Delta variant surge hit the state, says that...
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Community Health Days offering screenings and coronavirus vaccines in 32 Appalachian Ky. counties through November
The first Community Health Day was held in Hindman Friday, Aug. 6. (Photos by Melissa Slone, UK) —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News HINDMAN, Ky. — The first of 96 University...
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A six-week surge of the coronavirus has put Ky. about where it was six months ago, but then it was going down; now it’s going up
Ky. Health News graph, based on initial, unadjusted daily reports; to enlarge, click on it. —– By Al Cross Kentucky Health News Six weeks of the Delta variant have put...
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11 Ky. hospital systems require vaccine amid surge (2,000 new cases, 2nd day in a row); Beshear asks other sectors to follow suit
Health Commissioner Steven Stack drew red trendlines on this state Department for Public Health graph to show that the pandemic is accelerating in Kentucky more quickly now than it did last fall....
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‘Things will get worse before they get better, but we can fight this,’ Beshear says as pandemic accelerates again in Kentucky
State Dept. for Public Health map, adapted by Ky. Health News; for a larger version, click on it. —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News As the pandemic continues to surge in...
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Drug overdose deaths in Kentucky rose 49% in 2020; fentanyl and methamphetamine remained the biggest drivers of death
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Drug-overdose deaths in Kentucky rose 49% in 2020, according to the state’s latest annual report. “In addition to the stress caused by the pandemic, we...