Category: CORONAVIRUS
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Cameron, 20 other Republican attorneys general sue to overturn CDC’s mask mandate in public transportation hubs
Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron —– Attorney General Daniel Cameron has joined 20 of his Republican counterparts in a lawsuit to overturn the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention‘s rule requiring...
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Most in nationwide poll say they have contracted the coronavirus, but concern about serious Covid-19 illness in their family declines
Most Americans say they have contracted the coronavirus, and the infected are more likely to be Republicans, says a new poll by Monmouth University in New Jersey. “This appears to be the first poll to show...
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House-passed bill to expand individuals’ vaccine privacy rights fails to make it out of Senate committee as session nears end
Rep. Savannah Maddox —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News A House-passed bill to keep state and local governments from asking employees and applicants if they have received a Covid-19...
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Pandemic numbers nearing levels seen before Omicron variant hit
Kentucky Health News graph from weekly state reports —– By Al Cross Kentucky Health News The pandemic in Kentucky has declined to levels not seen since early last summer, when...
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CDC rates fewer Ky. counties at high risk from virus, but levels in some have increased and state’s risk level is still relatively high
State version of CDC map, with additional label by Kentucky Health News —– Kentucky as a whole is at lower risk from the coronavirus than it was a week ago,...
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Legislature moving bills to address health-care worker shortage
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention illustration —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News In the final days of the 2022 legislative session, three bills to address Kentucky’s healthcare workforce...
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Even a mild case of Covid-19 can cause long-term brain damage
Illustration from JAMA Network —– Brain changes could be a lingering outcome of even mild Covid-19 cases. Researchers at Oxford University in England reported that several months after study participants had Covid-19, they...
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Beshear says Omicron BA.2 subvariant circulating in Kentucky; public-health advice is the same: get vaccinated and boosted
Illustration by the University of California at Los Angeles —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News While the pandemic continues to wane in Kentucky, Gov. Andy Beshear cautioned Thursday that the...
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Almost six months after going into hospital with Covid-19, and a double-lung transplant as a last resort, patient is heading home
Staff members congratulate Victor Gonzales-Villatoro on his discharge at UK. (Photo by Hilary Brown) —– By Hilary Brown University of Kentucky Staff at UK HealthCare gathered Wednesday to celebrate the discharge of patient...
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Republicans end state of emergency by overriding veto, say Beshear can get one more month of extra food benefits from feds
State Sen. Donald Douglas —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Kentucky’s overwhelmingly Republican legislature has overridden Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear’s veto of a resolution ending the Covid-19 state of...