Category: YOUR HEALTH
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Pediatricians cite rising cases of Covid-19 cases in youth as cause for worry, say vaccines make it largely preventable
Fayette County School Supt. Demetrus Liggins, center right, greeted second-grade students of Laura Crance, center left, on their first day of school. (Photo by Marcus Dorsey, Lexington Herald-Leader) —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky...
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State school board issues mask mandate; hospitals say they’re filling up; Beshear says he won’t reimpose limits on business
Kentucky Health News graph; for a larger version, click on it. —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The Kentucky Board of Education voted unanimously Thursday to approve an emergency regulation for...
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With almost 3,000 new coronavirus cases, Kentucky’s rate of increase is among the fastest in the nation; deaths are up too
State Dept. for Public Health map, relabeled by Ky. Health News; for a larger version, click on it. —– By Al Cross Kentucky Health News Kentucky reported almost 3,000 new cases of...
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Cameron challenges Beshear’s school masking order; state school board is set to issue its own mask mandate tomorrow
Photo from Salon.com —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The emergency order Gov. Andy Beshear issued Tuesday to require universal masking in all school districts is already being challenged...
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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...