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Covid-19 cases in Kentucky dropped 41% last week, after two weeks of steep increases; hospitalizations and deaths remain low

National Geographic map, adapted by Kentucky Health News, shows high infection rates during the last two weeks in McCracken, Boyle and Montgomery counties; for a larger version, click on it. —–...

By Al Cross Published June 21, 2022 CORONAVIRUS, FEATURED, HEALTH BUSINESS, HEALTH POLICY, YOUR HEALTH

FILE PHOTO: Test tubes labelled "COVID-19 Test Positive" are seen in front of displayed words "OMICRON SARS-COV-2" in this illustration taken December 11, 2021. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration

Booster needed to protect against Omicron variant; infection may provide as much immunity, but doctors say a booster is better

If you haven’t gotten a booster shot following your “full vaccination” with the Moderna or Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines against Covid-19, you probably are not protected against getting sick from the Omicron variant of the coronavirus,...

By Al Cross Published June 21, 2022 CORONAVIRUS, FEATURED, YOUR HEALTH

CDC says the Covid-19 risk level is high in 19 Kentucky counties and medium in 29; transmission levels are high in 111 counties

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention map, adapted by Kentucky Health News —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News This week’s federal Covid-19 community levels map shows a slightly increased...

By Al Cross Published June 17, 2022 CORONAVIRUS, FEATURED, YOUR HEALTH

Ky. health-system performance ranked 41st, Covid-19 response 49th; highest hospitalization rate, relatively low vaccination rate

Chart from 2022 Scorecard on State Health System Performance, The Commonwealth Fund —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Kentucky ranks 41st among the states and Washington, D.C. in the...

By Al Cross Published June 16, 2022 CORONAVIRUS, FEATURED, HEALTH BUSINESS, HEALTH POLICY

Kentucky’s Covid-19 cases and hospitalizations keep rising, somewhat steeply, but the positive-test rate is slightly lower

Kentucky Health News graph, from state data; click on it to enlarge. —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News While coronavirus cases and Covid-19 hospitalizations in Kentucky went up last...

By Al Cross Published June 16, 2022 CORONAVIRUS, YOUR HEALTH

Kentucky’s Covid-19 cases and hospitalizations keep rising, somewhat steeply, but the positive-test rate is slightly lower

By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News While coronavirus cases and Covid-19 hospitalizations in Kentucky went up last week, at much the same acceleration as the week before, the share of...

By Al Cross Published June 14, 2022 CORONAVIRUS, FEATURED, YOUR HEALTH

Changing virus poses challenges to updating Covid-19 vaccines

Efforts to update Covid-19 vaccines are struggling to keep up with mutations in the novel coronavirus, raising the question of whether updated vaccines will be outdated by the time they...

By Al Cross Published June 13, 2022 CORONAVIRUS, YOUR HEALTH

CDC estimates that Covid-19 risk level is high in 19 Ky. counties, up from 7 last week; level is medium in 28, up from 21

By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The federal government’s coronavirus map for Kentucky shows a higher level of virus transmission and an increased risk of the Covid-19 disease. Nineteen Kentucky...

By Al Cross Published June 9, 2022 CORONAVIRUS, FEATURED, HEALTH POLICY, YOUR HEALTH

All of Kentucky’s Covid-19 metrics rose last week; state has attributed the deaths of more than 16,000 Kentuckians to the virus

By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News All of the metrics to measure the coronavirus in Kentucky crept up in the last week, and the state passed the mark of 16,000...

By Al Cross Published June 9, 2022 CORONAVIRUS, HEALTH POLICY, YOUR HEALTH

Covid-19 infection in pregnancy, even with no symptoms, could harm a developing baby, research at UK College of Medicine finds

UK staff scientist Brianna Doratt and Ihlem Messoudi, Ph.D., right, in their lab (UK photo by Mark Cornelison) —– By Elizabeth Chapin University of Kentucky Covid-19 infection during pregnancy, even with no symptoms,...

By Al Cross Published June 2, 2022 CORONAVIRUS, FEATURED, YOUR HEALTH

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