Category: CORONAVIRUS
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State and schools get new Covid-19 guidance; Beshear makes employee masks optional; state will go from daily to weekly report
State Dept. for Public Health graph, adapted by Kentucky Health News; to enlarge, click on it. —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News As Kentucky came close to leaving the statewide “red...
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Kentucky’s coronavirus infection rate is sixth among the states and its Covid-19 hospitalization rate ranks second
New York Times graphs show top nine states in infection rates, and the national rate. Click to enlarge. —– By Al Cross Kentucky Health News The waning pandemic continues to...
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Rate of new vaccination against coronavirus in U.S. at new low; new and additional vaccinations in Kentucky also at record low
Rates of new and additional vaccination against the coronavirus in Kentucky and the nation have hit new lows. Over the last seven days, the average number of Covid-19 vaccinations in...
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Under new masking guidance, CDC says people in all but 18 Kentucky counties should still wear masks in indoor public spaces
Centers for Disease Control map, adapted by Kentucky Health News; to enlarge, click on it. —– By Al Cross Kentucky Health News The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has relaxed...
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44 of 120 counties are now out of the high-infection red zone, but Kentucky still ranks high in new cases and hospitalizations
Kentucky Dept. for Public Health map, adapted by Kentucky Health News; to enlarge, click on it. —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News As the Omicron variant’s surge in Kentucky...
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Pandemic state of emergency would end March 7 under a resolution the state Senate sent to the House on a party-line vote
Sen. Donald Douglas (Legislative photo) —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The Senate has sent the House a resolution to end the Covid-19 state of emergency in Kentucky on March...
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UK medical and engineering teams will take new technology for testing wastewater for coronavirus to rural Kentucky this summer
University of Kentucky researchers will be using a mobile lab to test wastewater in rural Kentucky for Covid-19. (UK photo by Pete Comparoni) —– By Elizabeth Chapin University of Kentucky...
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Latest Covid-19 surge seems over in Kentucky, but state still has second highest infection rate among states, well into the red zone
Ky. Health News graph from state data; click on it to enlarge. —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Kentucky’s pandemic metrics have largely returned to where they were before...
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House passes bill to add incentives and expand Rural Hospital Loan Program to include closed hospitals that reopen
Graphic from Gov. Andy Beshear’s December press conference —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News A bill to update the Kentucky Rural Hospital Loan Program to add incentives and include...
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Herd immunity from Covid-19? Not likely. Herd resistance? Yes.
Modern Healthcare illustration —– A recent report estimated that 73 percent of Americans have immunity to the coronavirus, either from being infected by it or by getting vaccinated against it. That has made...