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By Al Cross Kentucky Health News This was originally published as a column in KyForward.com. Norman Chaffins and Donnie Keeton probably never expected to see their name in a column about...
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By Al Cross Kentucky Health News This was originally published as a column in KyForward.com. Norman Chaffins and Donnie Keeton probably never expected to see their name in a column about...
Kentucky Health News chart; for a larger version, click on it. —– By Al Cross Kentucky Health News Kentucky reported 463 new cases of the novel coronavirus Sunday, a little...
Kentucky Health News chart —– By Al Cross Kentucky Health News Kentucky’s coronavirus numbers were almost all improved Saturday. The number of new cases, 572, was more than 200 less...
The Bell County Health Department’s Leighann Baker brings groceries to Alan Smith, who is quarantined. (Photo by Pat McDonogh, Courier Journal) —– Like much of the nation, stopping the spread of the novel...
A report prepared for the American Hospital Association predicts half of the nation’s hospitals will be losing money by the end of the year unless Congress gives them more relief money, and...
By Al Cross and Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News New cases of the novel coronavirus in Kentucky increased for the fifth straight day, to 778, the fourth largest number yet,...
State chart adapted by KHN; current period has 3 of 7 days remaining; at current rate would be 3845. —– By Al Cross and Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Thursday’s...
Beshear showed this chart to illustrate what Kentucky needs to avoid: a spike like Oklahoma’s. —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Even though new cases of the coronavirus crept...
Senate Republicans’ latest covid-19 relief proposal “sets up new fights over health funding even as the pandemic continues to overwhelm the country,” report Dan Diamond and Adam Cancryn of Politico. “There’s more hospital bailout cash,...
Kentucky Health News chart; daily case numbers may be adjusted after initial report. —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Although the number of new coronavirus cases reported Tuesday in...