Category: OPINION
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Pandemic shows the picture of health in America is not so rosy
By Trudy Lieberman Community Health News Service For end-of-the-year columns, it’s customary to recap the events of the past 12 months, usually highlighting a mix of the good and the...
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State’s poor health rankings are a caution flag in pandemic, but virus shouldn’t keep you from making regular visits to doctors
By Ben Chandler President and CEO, Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky A new state-by-state comparison of the nation’s health ranks Kentucky near the bottom in a variety of significant categories....
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Eastern Ky.’s lost generation and echoes that remain: Aftermath of the opioid epidemic, by an expatriate doctor who lost a friend
By Brian S. Barnett, M.D. Dept. of Psychiatry and Psychology, Center for Behavioral Health, Neurological Institute, Cleveland Clinic Published in JAMA Internal Medicine My friend drew his last breath alone, in the predawn...
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OPINION: Governor, legislative leaders need to collaborate
Gov. Andy Beshear and (clockwise) House Speaker David Osborne, Senate President Robert Stivers, House Minority Leader Joni Jenkins, Senate Minority Ldr. Morgan McGarvey —– By Bruce Maples Kentucky Forward I...
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‘The balancing of individual liberty and public health may now be the most contentious issue in American life,’ doctor writes
In 1905, Supreme Court Justice John M. Harlan, a Kentucky Republican, wrote a landmark decision affirming 11 states’ authority to require vaccinations. Kentucky has such a law, but no Kentucky...
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Coronavirus vaccines are safe and effective, after fast but careful development, says dean of UK’s College of Public Health
By Donna K. Arnett Dean, University of Kentucky College of Public Health Nearly nine months since the word “coronavirus” entered our daily vocabulary, hope may be on the horizon in the...
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OPINION: Government needs to engage with religious communities, not fight with them, retired Somerset physician says
Kevin Kavanagh, M.D —– By Dr. Kevin Kavanagh The news media has extensively reported the federal courts’ reversal of government’s attempt to mandate the closing of church services and schools...
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OPINION: Beshear needs a new approach to get Kentuckians to heed warnings and follow rules to prevent spread of the virus
By Al Cross It’s rare for a high-ranking official to seek advice publicly, but that’s exactly what Gov. Andy Beshear did Wednesday at his daily coronavirus briefing, seemingly at wit’s...
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OPINION: Governor’s school orders go against design of human beings, to live in relationships, faith-based policy leader says
By Jordan Tong Commonwealth Policy Center As numbers of new covid-19 cases have risen in Kentucky, Gov. Andy Beshear has once again put the clamps on the commonwealth. The newest...
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Citing his near-death experience, Pope Francis asks you to be touched by others’ pain, so we can all gain from the pandemic
By Pope Francis In this past year of change, my mind and heart have overflowed with people. People I think of and pray for, and sometimes cry with, people with...