Category: CORONAVIRUS
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Governor finalizes school reopening rules, makes them only advisory for private schools; all pandemic metrics down for day
State Dept. for Public Health map, relabeled by Ky. Health News; to enlarge, click on it. —– By Al Cross Kentucky Health News As the novel coronavirus ebbed slightly in...
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Beshear announces most Covid-19 deaths yet in one day, 54; hospitalizations and ventilator use are also at all-time highs
White House Coronavirus Task Force table; for a larger version, click on it. —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The state announced more deaths, by far, from Covid-19 on...
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U.S. Supreme Court, 7-2, allows Beshear’s ban on in-person schooling to apply to religious schools, at least for the time being
Danville Christian Academy was the lead plaintiff. —– By Al Cross Kentucky Health News The U.S. Supreme Court declined Thursday to reinstate a Kentucky federal judge’s order exempting religious schools...
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7-day average of new virus cases drops again, but ICUs have more patients than ever, and 23 more are dead from Covid-19
Kentucky Health News graph; new-case numbers are unadjusted initial daily reports —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News As Kentucky’s seven-day average of new coronavirus cases fell for the fifth...
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Plain talk’s understood: ‘Snot and spit … spread infection,’ health chief says as he advises us to ‘hunker down’ during the holidays
White House task force graph shows national numbers; Kentucky’s trends have been similar. —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Coronavirus cases in Kentucky appear to have plateaued, but infection...
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Public-health officials and workers are ‘a public punching bag’ in a politicized pandemic; 1 in 10 in Ky. have left since it began
Kaiser Health News map; to enlarge, click on it. —– Local public-health officials and workers “have found themselves at the center of a political storm as they combat the worst pandemic...
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Good news: First coronavirus vaccines given in Ky.; plan to re-open schools is announced; state saw a drop in cases last week
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Calling it a “heck of a week,” Gov. Andy Beshear hailed the first coronavirus vaccinations, announced plans to resume in-person schooling and said last...
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With first vaccinations expected Monday, but only the beginning of long rollout that will run well into summer, Beshear urges caution
A container with insulated boxes of vaccine is rolled from a plane into UPS Worldport in Louisville. (Photo provided by governor’s office) —– By Al Cross Kentucky Health News As the first shipments...
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Ky. pandemic numbers hold mostly steady as vaccine is shipped
New York Times map (colors differ from map used by Ky. Department of Public Health); for county numbers, click here. —– By Al Cross Kentucky Health News The coronavirus pandemic in...
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Health officials encourage Kentuckians without symptoms to get coronavirus tests at testing sites, not hospital emergency rooms
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Lexington health officials are imploring Kentuckians without Covid-19 symptoms who want or need to get tested for the coronavirus to go to a testing...