Events, trends, issues, ideas and journalism about health care and health in Kentucky
Johnson & Johnson has completed studies of its one-shot vaccine and is expected to ask the FDA for emergency-use authority late next week. (Photo by Dado Ruvic, Reuters) —– By Al Cross...
Photo by Joe Raedle, Getty Images —– “Anti-vaccine groups are exploiting the suffering and death of people who happen to fall ill after receiving a covid shot, threatening to undermine...
Ky. Health News graph; dates are those on which deaths were added to the list after review of cases. —– Kentucky Health News chart, from state data By Melissa Patrick...
White House Coronavirus Task Force table; for a larger version, click on it. —– Kentucky was a pandemic hot spot in the week covered by the first White House Coronavirus Task...
President Biden is reopening enrollment for federally subsidized health insurance policies under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act for three months, giving Kentuckians another chance to get help from...
Kentucky Department for Public Health graphic; URL leads to list of testing sites —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News While numbers of new coronavirus cases and percentage of Kentuckians testing...
Illustration by Hannah Brown, Kaiser Health News, Kaiser Family Foundation —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News A new study shows that rural schools holding in-person classes with heavy masking,...
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The federal government will be increasing Kentucky’s supply of Covid-19 vaccines by 17 percent, Gov. Andy Beshear announced Tuesday. He had asked the new...
Ky. Dept. for Public Health graph, relabeled by Ky. Health News; for a larger version, click on it. —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News In an effort to return children...
By Marc T. Kiviniemi and Donna K. Arnett University of Kentucky College of Public Health With Covid-19 vaccines becoming more widely available, we may finally be seeing some light at the...