Category: YOUR HEALTH
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Just 20% of Ky. adults say a health-care provider has contacted them about a Covid-19 shot; only 14% say their health insurer has
By Al Cross and Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Only one in five Kentuckians say they have been contacted by a health professional about getting a Covid-19 vaccine, and just...
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Some pandemic metrics inch down in Ky.; hospital numbers up
Ky. Health News graph; new daily cases are initial, unadjusted numbers; to enlarge, click on it. —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The state reported 3,391 new coronavirus cases...
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Poll and falling vaccination rates spark concern that Covid-19 conflicts make Kentuckians skeptical of long-accepted vaccines
Poll found that 27.3% of Kentucky adults said not all CDC-recommended vaccines are beneficial. —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The first day of the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky‘s...
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Beshear says he’s glad to see so many districts masking up, but predicts some will abandon mandates when county goes orange
Ky. Dept. for Public Health base map, adapted by Ky. Health News; for a larger version, click on it. —– By Al Cross Kentucky Health News Gov. Andy Beshear, who was skeptical...
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Kentucky is investing in several initiatives to address farmer suicide; National Suicide Prevention Day is Wednesday
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Kentucky is investing in efforts to prevent farmer suicide, including a program to teach people in farming communities how to recognize warning signs of...
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Kentucky hospitals report record number of Covid-19 patients on mechanical ventilation; most schools will keep masks
Since this map was published, Gallatin County has imposed a two-week mask mandate. —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The state reported 5,133 new cases of the coronavirus Friday,...
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Wrestlers promote coronavirus vaccine in Clay County
Tyler Matrix and Shane Mathews in an Ohio Valley Wrestling match in 2016 (Courier Journal photo by Pat McDonogh) —– “Pro wrestlers are going to the mat to try to boost Covid-19 vaccinations...
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Beshear says school officials who don’t require masks are making ‘an inexcusable decision’ and making themselves liable; health commissioner says misinformation spreaders ‘are killing people’
Kentucky Department for Public Health chart —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Top state officials’ pleas to get a Covid-19 vaccine, and for universal masking in schools, were as urgent as...
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Poll shows fewer Kentuckians hesitant about vaccines, but ‘hard core’ 20% are dead-set against; mask views, habits deeply split
The question above was asked of those poll respondents who had said they had not been vaccinated. —– By Al Cross Kentucky Health News When vaccines for the coronavirus were...
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Fourth highest day of new cases; 49 deaths make average nearly 30 per day; two hospital regions report all intensive-care beds full
For the first time, more than one hospital-readiness region reported all its intensive-care beds full. Regions in white have fewer than 80% of their ICU beds occupied. (State chart; click to...