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By Al Cross Kentucky Health News As he dedicated the state’s memorial to Kentucky’s 18,600-plus Covid-19 victims Wednesday, Gov. Andy Beshear said it was intended partly as a response to...
Wednesday’s dedication of the state’s pandemic memorial closed with a prayer from Rabbi David Wirtschafter of Lexington’s Temple Adath Israel, who first read his adaptation of Archibald MacLeish’s poem “The...
By Kate Yandell SciCheck, a service of FactCheck May 11 marked the end of the federal public health emergency for Covid-19, bringing changes to health care and public benefits. These...
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News Mostly-green maps have become a symbol of the decline of the Covid-19 pandemic. With the end of the national public-health emergency on Thursday, Kentucky...
Covid-19 is no longer a global health emergency, and the U.S. public health emergency ends May 11, but the pandemic is not over and the disease remans a threat, the...
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News As vaccination rates in Kentucky decline, the Kentucky Rural Health Association is sponsoring an Immunization Summit on May 10 at the Embassy Suites in...
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News State and federal measurements of Covid-19 in Kentucky continue to improve each week, but Kentuckians are still dying from the virus and new research...
By Krista Mahr and Daniel Payne Politico Pulse As the Covid-19 public health emergency enters its final weeks, Washington is still gripped by debate over how the pandemic started and...
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Now that Covid-19 has gone beyond the pandemic phase to the endemic phase, how did Kentucky handle the pandemic? A study has found that...
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The state and federal Covid-19 reports remain good this week, but Kentuckians are still dying from the disease. Over the last four weeks, the...