Category: CORONAVIRUS
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Youth-led study reveals mental-health, social challenges of Covid
By Sarah Ladd Kentucky Lantern A new study on how Kentucky’s youth have coped with Covid-19 reports mental-health challenges, negative views toward remote learning, and more. The report was published...
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UK gets $3.7 million to figure out why Ky. Appalachian counties have low Covid-19 vaccination rates, and how to get them up
By Christopher Carney University of Kentucky Researchers from three colleges at the University of Kentucky and the state Department for Public Health are leading a five-year, $3.7 million project to...
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Free online forum to discuss state health legislation Tue., Jan. 31
Kentucky Voices for Health, an advocacy group, will hold a legislative forum at 3 p.m. ET Tuesday, Jan. 31. The forum will be held online and is free to attend,...
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Coronavirus cases increase again in Ky.; state’s infection rate ranks fourth among the states; Covid-19 hospitalizations rank 21st
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News After going up 76% in the week just preceding, new coronavirus cases went up another 22% last week, and the number of deaths increased...
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University of Kentucky researchers find Covid-19 vaccinations and boosters protects mothers and babies
By Lindsay Travis University of Kentucky University of Kentucky researchers have found that maternal vaccination against COVID-19 works to protect both the mother and baby. National Institutes of Health grant,...
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Kentucky’s child-vaccination rates are sixth worst in the nation
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News When it comes to influenza and Covid-19 vaccinations, Kentucky’s children are less protected than children in other states. Kentucky’s children have the sixth lowest...
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Covid-19 cases up nearly 76% in Ky.; hospital numbers inched up
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Kentucky reported a nearly 76 percent increase in new coronavirus cases last week, and hospital numbers inched up. The state Department for Public Health‘s...
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Opinion: Covid-19 is mutating and apparently winning, so we need to take preventive measures well beyond vaccinations
By Kevin Kavanagh There is no such thing as “herd immunity” for Covid-19. In this context it is a concept as antiquated as “the Earth is flat.” The theory was...
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CDC says most of Ky. has medium risk of Covid-19 transmission; flu rates remain high; Beshear urges vaccinations and boosters
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News While the number of Kentucky counties with a high risk of Covid-19 transmission went down by two on the latest federal risk map, the...
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New coronavirus cases went down 60% in Kentucky last week, but new hospitalizations of patients with Covid-19 rose 18.5%
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Kentucky reported 60 percent fewer new coronavirus cases last week, but the positive-test rate rose a bit and hospitalizations jumped more than 18 percent....