Category: OPINION
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Public-health director asks people in his county to respect and trust people in health care, as they did when he was growing up
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...
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Broadcasters group releases 30-second public-service spot with 10 seconds from Sen. Mitch McConnell promoting vaccination
As a boy I fought polio. Today, America’s been polio-free for 40 years thanks to vaccination. We’ll beat COVID-19 with vaccines too. Protect yourself and your family. Get vaccinated. pic.twitter.com/7rtr7cqOD2...
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Is it your time? Only if you let it be; the Lord works in mysterious ways, except when He doesn’t, writer says, urging vaccination
This photo, by Nicole Hester of mlive.com, appeared with Whitmire’s column on al.com. —– By Kyle Whitmire Alabama Media Group I was 10 years old when my mom died. She was killed...
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Sense of community and common sacrifice missing among many in pandemic, especially some politicians, Silas House writes
House (Berea College photo) —– In a 1,634-word article for The Atlantic, Appalachian Kentucky writer Silas House explores the resistance to masking to fight the coronavirus. He begins by recalling his grandmother’s stories of...
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Dear Covid: I’d like to say goodbye, but if even if you linger, ‘I’ve taken some positives’ from your intrusion, pastor writes
David Whitlock —– By David Whitlock Republished from The Lebanon Enterprise Dear Covid et al., I’ve hesitated about writing, but you might as well know how I feel about you...
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Baptist seminary president’s guidance to Christians on vaccines still drawing high readership, eight months after publication
Albert Mohler —– When the first coronavirus vaccine was released in December, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary President Albert Mohler published an article in Kentucky Today, an online news service of the Kentucky Baptist Convention, giving...
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What you should know about the Delta variant of the coronavirus
peterschreiber.media, iStock/Getty Images Plus —– By Becky Dutch, Vince Venditto, Ashley Montgomery-Yates and Aaron Grubbs University of Kentucky As the SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant continues to spread across the United States and hospitals’ Covid-positive intake numbers...
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Neurosurgeon in a county at high risk from the coronavirus gets local paper to share the facts about the virus and the vaccines
Dr. Amr El-Naggar —– In a big Kentucky county with a low coronavirus vaccination rate, a critical infection rate and Covid-19 patients filling its intensive-care beds, a doctor reached out...
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Somerset doctor says spread, strength of Delta variant mean it’s too late to ‘vax it or mask it’; both needed in high-spread areas
By Kevin Kavanagh Republished from Infection Control Today Dr. Jerome Adams, surgeon general in the Trump administration, said this month that the guidelines the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued in May...
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Opinion: Unvaccinated people needed vaccine information should get it from health-care providers, who should be proactive about it
By Dale Toney and Sarah Moyer There’s no doubt it’s been an incredibly difficult year for health care providers around the world. Stories of nurses, doctors and other medical professionals...