Category: CORONAVIRUS
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State’s weekly respiratory-virus update shows hospitalizations of Kentucky children for RSV are increasing
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The state Department for Public Health‘s weekly respiratory virus update, released Thursday, Nov. 2, showed that Covid-19 and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) activity was...
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Flu and RSV cases increasing in Kentucky, but Covid-19 cases are still by far the leader in lab tests and emergency-room visits
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The state Department for Public Health‘s weekly Respiratory Virus Update, released Thursday, Oct. 26 showed that Covid-19 activity was moderate, and influenza and respiratory syncytial...
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A Covid-19 reporter gets the disease, and learns some lessons
By Sarah Ladd Kentucky Lantern For more than three years, I’ve written about Covid-19. The people who caught it and those who kept it longer than they should have. The...
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Beshear defends pandemic work as Cameron cites learning loss, makes false claim about founder of Planned Parenthood
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News In their next-to-last debate before the Nov. 7 election, Gov. Andy Beshear defended his response to the Covid-19 pandemic against criticism from Republican...
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Election prompts a look at Beshear’s pandemic restrictions, and Cameron’s challenges to them; Kentucky fared better than feared
By Sarah Ladd Kentucky Lantern On March 6, 2020, a Kentuckian tested positive for the novel coronavirus, Covid-19, and Gov. Andy Beshear declared a state of emergency. The...
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Each household can get four free Covid-19 tests through the mail; online chart will help you see if tests you have are still effective
By Kentucky Voices for Health Just in time for the respiratory virus season — that harrowing time of year when you’re sick and it could be about seven different things — the federal government...
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Fall is vaccine season; doctors say it’s OK to get immunizations for Covid-19 and flu at same time; new RSV vaccine available
Covid-19, influenza and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) are circulating, so the vaccine season is upon us. To get the maximum protection, start with a game plan. “Doctors generally suggest getting...
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Answers to questions about the updated Covid-19 vaccines
Updated Covid-19 vaccines from Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna have rolled out to pharmacies. The Food and Drug Administration approved the mRNA vaccines for everyone 6 months and older. The Centers for Disease...
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The pandemic is over; now Covid-19 is endemic but is still a leading cause of death. When we will stop treating it differently?
As new coronavirus variants make the headlines and Covid-19 hospitalizations are are on the rise, experts told Carolyn Y. Johnson of The Washington Post that this is the new normal in a...
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Federal government relaunches free, at-home Covid-19 tests, to be available Monday, Sept. 25, for up to 4 tests per household
Kentucky Health News The Biden administration announced Wednesday that it is providing $600 million to make new at-home tests for Covid-19 and relaunch the program that allows Americans to order...