Category: HEALTH POLICY
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Coronavirus vaccinations being delivered at an increasing rate; Beshear says state incentives are helping, not sure how much
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News Vaccination for the coronavirus is on the rise in Kentucky, as the state’s seven-day rolling average of daily shots has risen to more than 16,500 after...
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Beshear says Supreme Court ruling upholding Obamacare should end challenges to law that let his father expand Medicaid in Kentucky
A slide Beshear displayed at his press conference By Al Cross Kentucky Health News Gov. Andy Beshear said Thursday that the latest U.S. Supreme Court ruling upholding the Patient Protection...
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Ky. averaging more than 15,000 coronavirus vaccine doses per day in last seven days, more than half again as previous week
Vaccinations for the coronavirus continue to increase in Kentucky, according to data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as analyzed and displayed by The Washington Post in a chart adapted...
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Local collaborations help tackle Ky.’s health problems, and can be guided by hospitals’ and health departments’ needs assessments
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Collaborations in individual communities can play a critical role when it comes to improving Kentucky’s poor health outcomes, largely because those outcomes are grounded...
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Rural Ky. needs more community health workers and medical-school residents, legislators and UK hospital executive say
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News Improving health care and health in rural Kentucky will take more people in the health-care workforce, specifically at the top and bottom of the...
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At last regular Covid-19 press briefing, Beshear says crisis is over but pandemic is not; rescinds most restrictions, reflects on fight
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News In his last regular Covid-19 press conference, Gov. Andy Beshear lifted the statewide mask mandate for most settings, ended capacity limits for businesses and...
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‘Only in our anti-truth hellscape could Dr. Anthony Fauci become a super-villain,’ says headline on Washington Post column
By Margaret Sullivan The Washington Post Right-wing commentators are pretending that thousands of newly released emails from Dr. Anthony S. Fauci represent some kind of smoking gun against the government’s...
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Rural and conservative congressional districts, in Kentucky and the nation as a whole, have lower coronavirus vaccination rates
Map from Harvard University study; click here for the interactive version. —– More conservative and more rural Americans – and Kentuckians – are more likely to remain unvaccinated against the coronavirus, and the divide...
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End of Beshear’s Covid-19 press briefings Friday will signal, if not the end of the pandemic, the turning of a page and moving on
Beshear at a briefing the first week of the pandemic, with interpreter Virginia Moore at left and Health Commissioner Steven Stack at right. (Photo by Michael Clevenger, Louisville Courier Journal) —–...
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Spencer County residents with ‘country spirit’ cite mistrust of government, side effects, perceived links to abortion as reasons they’re not vaccinated
Spencer County stands out in an adapted screenshot of the Dept. for Public Health interactive map. —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News TAYLORSVILLE, Ky. – In 21 of Kentucky’s 120 counties...