For the first time, more than one hospital-readiness region reported all its intensive-care beds full. Regions in white have fewer than 80% of their ICU beds occupied. (State chart; click to...
State Department for Public Health graph; EUA is the acronym for emergency-use authorization. The federal government is now running the antibody supplies through states due to heavy demand. —– By Melissa Patrick...
Dept. for Public Health graph, adapted by Ky. Health News; for a larger version, click on it. —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News With 69% of Kentucky’s acute-care hospitals reporting...
Slide from governor’s press conference; light blue hospitals were in first round of Guard assignments. —– By Al Cross Kentucky Health News Gov. Andy Beshear sent 310 more members of...
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The bad news is that Kentucky set another record for the percentage of Kentuckians testing positive for the disease and for the number of...
Top of comic book cover, showing students as puppets of an electronic cigarette; story title is “The Villainous Vape” —– By Alicia Gregory University of Kentucky A team at the University...
Washington Post chart, adapted by Ky. Health News, showing the latest available vaccination data. —– Kentucky’s health insurers have started a sweepstakes in which Medicaid beneficiaries can win vacation packages for...
Joshua Embry —– By Joshua Embry In graduate school I wrote a paper about the violence that health-care workers experience at the hands of patients. I had witnessed such behavior...
State Dept. for Public Health graph, adapted by Kentucky Health News —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Kentucky saw its fourth highest number of new coronavirus cases Friday and again set...
Sen. Ralph Alvarado —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News As the Kentucky General Assembly prepares to use its new powers in a special session to deal with the pandemic,...