Events, trends, issues, ideas and journalism about health care and health in Kentucky
The latest Centers for Disease Control and Prevention map of risk posed by the coronavirus has every county at low risk except Harrison, Robertson, Clay, Knox, Laurel and Whitley. In those counties, residents...
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News On March 21, Republicans in Kentucky’s legislature overrode Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear’s veto of their resolution ending the Covid-19 state of emergency about a...
Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron —– Attorney General Daniel Cameron has joined 20 of his Republican counterparts in a lawsuit to overturn the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention‘s rule requiring...
Most Americans say they have contracted the coronavirus, and the infected are more likely to be Republicans, says a new poll by Monmouth University in New Jersey. “This appears to be the first poll to show...
Rep. Savannah Maddox —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News A House-passed bill to keep state and local governments from asking employees and applicants if they have received a Covid-19...
Kentucky Health News graph from weekly state reports —– By Al Cross Kentucky Health News The pandemic in Kentucky has declined to levels not seen since early last summer, when...
State version of CDC map, with additional label by Kentucky Health News —– Kentucky as a whole is at lower risk from the coronavirus than it was a week ago,...
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention illustration —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News In the final days of the 2022 legislative session, three bills to address Kentucky’s healthcare workforce...
Illustration from JAMA Network —– Brain changes could be a lingering outcome of even mild Covid-19 cases. Researchers at Oxford University in England reported that several months after study participants had Covid-19, they...
Illustration by the University of California at Los Angeles —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News While the pandemic continues to wane in Kentucky, Gov. Andy Beshear cautioned Thursday that the...