Category: YOUR HEALTH
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Governor signs 13 health-related bills into law, including one that caps co-payment for insulin at $30/month for an estimated 22,000
Reps. Minter and Bentley, Beshear and interpreter Virginia Moore —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Gov. Andy Beshear signed 13 health bills into law Monday, highlighting one that caps...
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Positive-test rate for novel coronavirus drops below 3% in Ky. as new cases continue their slow decline, but ICU ventilation rises
Twelve of the dozens of images in Hoptown Chronicle’s visual, vertical timeline of the pandemic —– By Al Cross Kentucky Health News The course of the Covid-19 pandemic in Kentucky crossed another...
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Positive-test rate falls to 3.07%, the lowest since June, but other measures of the pandemic in Kentucky remain on a rough plateau
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News The percentage of Kentuckians testing positive for the novel coronavirus in the last seven days fell to near 3 percent Saturday, while other measures...
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Pandemic continues its slow wane; positive-test rate shows a blip; state starts listing publicly the date of each Covid-19 death
“Covid” is a much more common search term than “coronavirus,” says this graph by Rick Lesaar, a health-communication expert. Covid-19 is the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2. —– By...
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Several health bills passed by the General Assembly deal with insurance coverage: insulin costs, telehealth and more
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News A number of insurance-related bills on the governor’s desk deal with a wide range of topics including diabetes, telehealth, mental-health parity, co-payments for both...
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Two bills to improve care for Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias in Kentucky are on the governor’s desk
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Two bills to help improve care of Kentuckians living with Alzheimer’s disease have been delivered to Gov. Andy Beshear. One sets a base level...
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For first time, no new virus cases reported in Ky. long-term care
By Al Cross and Bruce Maples Kentucky Health News Almost all measures of the pandemic in Kentucky fell Wednesday, but one was especially remarkable: No new cases of the novel...
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Kentucky ranked high in per-capita rankings of new Covid-19 hospitalizations and reported deaths from the disease last week
White House Coronavirus Task Force map shows Covid-19 admissions by hospital admission zones. —– By Al Cross Kentucky Health News Kentucky has moved closer to the national average in new...
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Outbreak of new strain of the coronavirus at nursing home shows risk of variants, but also the effectiveness of vaccines
State Dept. for Public Health map, relabeled by Ky. Health News; for a larger version, click on it. —– By Bruce Maples Kentucky Health News An outbreak of Covid-19 in an Eastern...
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Child-care centers allowed to resume normal class sizes; state records 5,000th Covid-19 death and 1 millionth vaccination
State Dept. for Public Health graph, adapted by Ky. Health News; to enlarge, click on it. —– By Bruce Maples and Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News On the day Kentucky recorded its...