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  Legislature passes bill to support state response to covid-19; includes many suspensions and changes in health-care rules

  Rep. Patti Minter, D-Bowling Green, wears a mask as she uses her phone on the House floor during a recess. At right is Rep. Chris Fugate, R-Chavies. (Kentucky Health News photos...

  By Al Cross Published March 30, 2020 HEALTH BUSINESS, HEALTH POLICY, YOUR HEALTH

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  Beshear rejects Trump idea of scaling distancing by county risk; hospitals cut staff in ‘lull’; Ky. board limits drugs Trump promoted

  As news develops in Kentucky about the coronavirus and its covid-19 disease, this item will be updated. Official state guidance is at https://kycovid19.ky.gov. Kentucky confirmed 50 more cases of covid-19 Thursday,...

  By Al Cross Published March 27, 2020 HEALTH BUSINESS, HEALTH POLICY, YOUR HEALTH

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  Republican senators move legislation that would let GOP attorney general block abortions during Beshear’s pandemic emergency

  Attorney General Daniel Cameron —– Kentucky Health NewsReacting to Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear’s order that apparently lets abortions continue during the covid-19 pandemic, Republican legislators have adopted a countermeasure.A Senate...

  By Al Cross Published March 27, 2020 HEALTH BUSINESS, HEALTH POLICY, YOUR HEALTH

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  Most Kentuckians with Alzheimer’s are over 65 and have chronic illness, putting them at greater risk of covid-19; tips for caretakers

  UKNow photo —– People with Alzheimer’s disease are considered at high risk for covid-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus, not only because they have Alzheimer’s, but also because...

  By Al Cross Published March 27, 2020 HEALTH POLICY, YOUR HEALTH

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  Beshear says next two or three weeks are ‘absolutely critical;’ drive-through tests to begin on ‘very limited’ basis next week

  As news develops in Kentucky about the coronavirus and its covid-19 disease, this item will be updated. Official state guidance is at https://kycovid19.ky.gov. “The next two to possibly three weeks is...

  By Al Cross Published March 27, 2020 HEALTH BUSINESS, HEALTH POLICY, YOUR HEALTH

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  Some conservative talkers, including a leading one heard in Ky., downplayed the covid-19 threat and criticized efforts to blunt it

  President Trump and Mark Levin in the Oval Office on Oct. 8 (Photo by Leah Millis, Reuters) —– Several conservative radio talk-show hosts, including one who is heard most nights...

  By Al Cross Published March 27, 2020 HEALTH POLICY, YOUR HEALTH

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  As Trump envisions Easter reopening, Beshear clamps down, says country must ‘defeat the coronavirus on the very first try’

  At his daily press conference, Gov. Andy Beshear addressed remarks by President Donald J. Trump. —– By Al Cross Kentucky Health News As President Trump openly hoped for “packed churches”...

  By Al Cross Published March 25, 2020 HEALTH BUSINESS, HEALTH POLICY, YOUR HEALTH

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  Beshear: Businesses that don’t sustain life must end in-person traffic, and hotline to report violators of his orders got 2,000 calls

  As news develops in Kentucky about the coronavirus and its covid-19 disease, this item will be updated. Official state guidance is at https://kycovid19.ky.gov. Gov. Andy Beshear said Tuesday that he would...

  By Al Cross Published March 24, 2020 HEALTH BUSINESS, HEALTH POLICY, YOUR HEALTH

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  As surgeon general says this week will be bad, Beshear says ‘It’s game time’ and pushes social distancing; starts toll-free hotline for Kentuckians to report violators of his emergency orders

  As news develops in Kentucky about the coronavirus and its covid-19 disease, this item will be updated. Official state guidance is at https://kycovid19.ky.gov. Monday, March 23, 2020 Reflecting the surgeon general’s warning that...

  By Al Cross Published March 24, 2020 HEALTH BUSINESS, HEALTH POLICY, YOUR HEALTH

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  March 11-15 poll found a third of Americans and almost half of Republicans had taken no precautions against coronavirus; surgeon general says it’s going to get bad this week

  As news develops in Kentucky about the coronavirus and its covid-19 disease, this page will be updated.  Official state guidance is at https://kycovid19.ky.gov.  Monday, March 23, 2020 A Kaiser Family Foundation...

  By Al Cross Published March 23, 2020 HEALTH BUSINESS, HEALTH POLICY, YOUR HEALTH