Category: YOUR HEALTH
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Beshear: Some local officials will enforce mask mandate, while others will only encourage; Fayette case backlog makes a record
Beshear wore a mask throughout the briefing and said in reply to a question that doing so might be a good example. —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Gov....
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Beshear asks mayors, county judge-executives to help enforce mask mandate; says he expects they will, ‘even though it is hard’
Table from White House Coronavirus Task Force report; for a larger version, click on it. —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Gov. Andy Beshear announced 1,054 new cases of the novel...
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Beshear to step up enforcement of mask mandate, says more would obey it if Trump wore one; criticizes the president’s tweet
State Department for Public Health graph, relabeled by Kentucky Health News —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News In response to an escalation in coronavirus case numbers, Gov. Andy Beshear and his...
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Second biggest Sunday, with 616 new coronavirus cases, drives the state’s seven-day rolling average above 900 for the first time
Kentucky Health News chart, based on initial, unadjusted reports of daily cases —– By Al Cross Kentucky Health News State officials reported 616 new cases of the novel coronavirus Sunday,...
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Record number of cases in one day and one week; 7-day rolling average of new cases is over 4 times what it was 3 months ago
Kentucky Health News graph, based on initial, unadjusted reports of daily cases —– By Al Cross Kentucky Health News Kentucky has never had more new cases of the novel coronavirus...
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Presence of the coronavirus makes it more important than ever to get an influenza vaccination, Kentucky medical experts say
Advisory from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine —– By Grace Colville University of Kentucky Flu season, like everything else this year, is looking a whole lot different....
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Federal guidelines for staff testing in nursing homes change again to account for low numbers of coronavirus tests in rural counties
State health cabinet map; for a larger version, click on it. —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The federal government has revised its coronavirus staff testing rules for nursing...
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More than 1 in 3 Kentuckians are on Medicaid, after many lost their jobs and the state made enrollment easier due to pandemic
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Kentucky has added more than 250,000 people to its Medicaid rolls since the coronavirus pandemic came to the state in early March, bringing the...
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Ky. records over 1,000 virus cases for 6th day, and 3rd out of the last 4; 7-day rolling average is 837, over 100 above week ago
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News Kentucky recorded 1,039 more cases of the coronavirus Friday, the third day out of the last four and only the sixth overall that the...
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As cases remain high and 17 deaths are added, Beshear issues Halloween guidelines; some schools flout him on fall breaks
Kentucky Health news chart, based on initial, unadjusted daily case reports —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Gov. Andy Beshear reported 910 new cases of the novel coronavirus Thursday,...