Events, trends, issues, ideas and journalism about health care and health in Kentucky
By Katelyn Jetelina Your Local Epidemiologist Covid-19 is not the common cold. Here’s an effort to keep you up to date on long-Covid developments. What we knew: Long Covid after...
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Kentucky reported a 46 percent drop in new coronavirus cases last week, but its rate of new infections remained among the highest in the...
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Most of Kentucky again has a low risk of Covid-19 transmission on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention risk map, but when it...
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Today, March 6, marks the third anniversary of the announcement of Kentucky’s first case of Covid-19, a disease that has infected more than 1.7...
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Kentucky lawmakers have sent the House a bill to ensure that the state’s children are not required to get a Covid-19 vaccine and that...
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News No Kentucky counties have a high risk of Covid-19, according to this week’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention‘s weekly risk map, and only...
Haven’t the questions about masking been asked and answered? “Or at least that we had all agreed to disagree, but no such luck,” writes Felice J. Freyer of The Boston...
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News New coronavirus cases in Kentucky last week were 9 percent lower than the week before. It is the fourth week in a row that...
By Kevin Kavanagh for Infection Control Today I am at high risk for severe Covid-19, being 65 years or older, with additional health problems. I received my bivalent booster as...
The Department of Energy has concluded that the Covid-19 pandemic “most likely arose from a laboratory leak, according to a classified intelligence report recently provided to the White House and key...