Category: CORONAVIRUS
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Coronavirus positive-test rate in Ky. rose from 3.12% to 4.35% last week, even as cases and Covid-19 hospital numbers dropped
Kentucky Health News map with Dept. for Public Health data on GISGeography base map —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The share of Kentuckians testing positive for the coronavirus...
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Latest CDC map shows all of Kentucky has low level of Covid-19
CDC map shows all of Kentucky in green, for low levels of Covid-19 transmission. —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Every county in Kentucky has a low level of...
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Kentucky gets $4.19 million to expand AmeriCorps work in public health, with the hope it will funnel more people into such work
Kentucky has received nearly $4.2 million to expand the public-health role of the AmeriCorps program in the state. The grant comes from the American Rescue Plan Act, last year’s pandemic relief...
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Coronavirus cases and positive-test rate in Kentucky are rising, but deaths and hospital numbers are declining more
Kentucky Health News chart from state data —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Daily cases and the share of Kentuckians testing positive for the coronavirus are rising again, apparently...
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Coronavirus cases in Kentucky dropped again, but the state’s positive-test rate and deaths attributed to Covid-19 ticked up a bit
Kentucky Health News graph from weekly state reports —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Coronavirus cases and hospitalizations dropped again in Kentucky last week, but deaths and the share...
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Beshear vetoes public-assistance, abortion bills; gets one more month of pandemic food benefits; more health bills could pass
Gov. Andy Beshear, signing and vetoing bills on Thursday, April 7 (KHN photo by Melissa Patrick) —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Kentucky lawmakers will return to Frankfort Wednesday...
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Anderson is the only county in Kentucky where the CDC says there are medical reasons for some people to wear a mask
Screenshot of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention map highlighting Kentucky —– This story has been updated. By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Anderson County is the only one in Kentucky with...
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Kentucky’s Covid-19 metrics continue to drop, almost to last June’s lows, as the state’s pandemic death toll passes 15,000
In yellow counties on this adapted Centers for Disease Control and Prevention map, the CDC says residents who are immuno-compromised or at high risk for severe illness should talk to a health-care provider about...
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CDC lists only six Ky. counties – Harrison, Robertson, Clay, Knox, Laurel and Whitley – as those where masks might be needed
The latest Centers for Disease Control and Prevention map of risk posed by the coronavirus has every county at low risk except Harrison, Robertson, Clay, Knox, Laurel and Whitley. In those counties, residents...
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Beshear seeks one more month of pandemic food benefits, after leaving impression that the legislature hadn’t left that option open
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News On March 21, Republicans in Kentucky’s legislature overrode Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear’s veto of their resolution ending the Covid-19 state of emergency about a...