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to keep up with mutations in the novel coronavirus, raising the question of whether updated vaccines will be outdated by the time they...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

Coronavirus positive-test rate in Ky. went up again, but more slowly, as cases, deaths and hospitalizations dropped last week

State Department for Public Health map, adapted by Kentucky Health News; to enlarge, click on it. —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Three key metrics of the coronavirus in Kentucky dropped...

By Al Cross Published June 2, 2022 CORONAVIRUS, HEALTH BUSINESS, HEALTH POLICY, YOUR HEALTH

Covid-19 risk levels are high in 4 Ky. counties; medium in 21; officials discount transmission rates, high in many counties

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has 25 Kentucky counties with elevated Covid-19 risk. —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Four Kentucky counties are red on the latest Centers for...

By Al Cross Published May 27, 2022 CORONAVIRUS, HEALTH BUSINESS, HEALTH POLICY, YOUR HEALTH

Study says one in five adult Covid-19 survivors in the U.S. may develop ‘long Covid;’ for those over 65, it’s one in four

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report illustration —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News One in five adult Americans who have recovered from a Covid-19 infection have...

By Al Cross Published May 27, 2022 CORONAVIRUS, FEATURED, YOUR HEALTH

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