Category: YOUR HEALTH
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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...
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Pandemic keeps accelerating in Kentucky, more so than in the rest of the nation; hospitalizations have risen 58% in last week
New York Times new-case map shows Kentucky’s increase in the last 14 days is higher than most. —– By Al Cross Kentucky Health News The pandemic continued to accelerate in Kentucky...
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What you should know about the Delta variant of the coronavirus
peterschreiber.media, iStock/Getty Images Plus —– By Becky Dutch, Vince Venditto, Ashley Montgomery-Yates and Aaron Grubbs University of Kentucky As the SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant continues to spread across the United States and hospitals’ Covid-positive intake numbers...
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Beshear asks vaccinated Kentuckians to talk to their unvaccinated friends about getting immunized; virus is ‘spreading like wildfire’
State Dept. for Public Health graph, relabeled by Ky. Health News; for a larger version, click on it. —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News In a press conference focused on getting...
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Hospitals seeing many more Covid-19 cases, and more of them in younger people; four systems now require employee vaccination
Kentucky Health News graph, based on data from state Department for Public Health —– This story has been updated. When the pandemic resurged in Kentucky last month, Gov. Andy Beshear said he would...
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Fauci: The vaccinated can be as infectious as the unvaccinated, so they need to wear masks indoors; pandemic will get worse
Chart by The Washington Post based on Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data —– As Gov. Andy Beshear issued a vaccination-promotion video with one of the latest student winners of the state’s vaccine...
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Special enrollment period for health insurance on healthcare.gov ends Aug. 15; subsidies are bigger, and more people qualify
AARP illustration —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Time is running out to sign up for low- or no-cost health insurance through the federal marketplace under the special enrollment...
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Neurosurgeon in a county at high risk from the coronavirus gets local paper to share the facts about the virus and the vaccines
Dr. Amr El-Naggar —– In a big Kentucky county with a low coronavirus vaccination rate, a critical infection rate and Covid-19 patients filling its intensive-care beds, a doctor reached out...
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Citing research showing virus is as contagious as chickenpox, Beshear again asks all schools to enforce universal masking
State Dept. for Public Health map, adapted by Ky. Health News; to enlarge, click on it. —– By Melissa Patrick and Al Cross Kentucky Health News Before announcing the new winners of...
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Beshear calls for universal masking in schools, following CDC; Stack calls Kentucky ‘horribly inflamed’ with coronavirus
Kentucky Health News graph, based on state’s initial, unadjusted daily reports; click on it to enlarge. —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Gov. Andy Beshear and Health Commissioner Steven...