Category: YOUR HEALTH
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Ky. pandemic numbers hold mostly steady as vaccine is shipped
New York Times map (colors differ from map used by Ky. Department of Public Health); for county numbers, click here. —– By Al Cross Kentucky Health News The coronavirus pandemic in...
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Health officials encourage Kentuckians without symptoms to get coronavirus tests at testing sites, not hospital emergency rooms
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Lexington health officials are imploring Kentuckians without Covid-19 symptoms who want or need to get tested for the coronavirus to go to a testing...
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Positive-test rate drops below 9% after falling for eighth straight day; hospital cases decline, but a record number are ventilated
By Al Cross Kentucky Health NewsThe percentage of Kentuckians testing positive for the novel coronavirus dropped for the eighth consecutive day, to 8.86%, a decline of 1.21 percentage points since...
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Despite most new cases yet, and fuller hospitals, Beshear says pandemic trend remains better as he completes a year in office
Ky. Health News graph, based on unadjusted initial daily reports; to enlarge, click on it. —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News On the first anniversary of his governorship, which...
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Positive-test rate drops for 6th straight day; Beshear talks about how to open schools; hospitals coordinate transfers to save beds
Lexington Herald-Leader map by Dan Desrochers, adapted by Ky. Health News; click to enlarge —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Although public-health experts worry when more than 5 percent...
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White House task force urges testing of people without symptoms; Beshear says he will just keep encouraging them to do that
White House Coronavirus Task Force table; for a larger version, click on it. —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News This week’s White House Coronavirus Task Force report again used strong language...
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New virus cases keep slacking, but intensive-care units in three hospital regions are in ‘a very precarious situation,’ Beshear says
Kentucky Health News graph, based on unadjusted initial daily reports —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News As new cases of the novel coronavirus kept declining, Gov. Andy Beshear assured...
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‘The balancing of individual liberty and public health may now be the most contentious issue in American life,’ doctor writes
In 1905, Supreme Court Justice John M. Harlan, a Kentucky Republican, wrote a landmark decision affirming 11 states’ authority to require vaccinations. Kentucky has such a law, but no Kentucky...
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Coronavirus vaccines are safe and effective, after fast but careful development, says dean of UK’s College of Public Health
By Donna K. Arnett Dean, University of Kentucky College of Public Health Nearly nine months since the word “coronavirus” entered our daily vocabulary, hope may be on the horizon in the...
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Beshear says numbers show restrictions work, but awaits effect of Thanksgiving; defends ban on in-person schooling with examples
Dept. for Public Health graph, relabeled by Ky. Health News; for a larger version click on it. —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News After announcing that last week set a...