Events, trends, issues, ideas and journalism about health care and health in Kentucky
Chart by The Washington Post, adapted by Kentucky Health News —– By Al Cross Kentucky Health News Vaccinations are up, and new cases and hospitalizations are down, but Kentucky hospitals remain...
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News More than 9,000 Kentuckians have now died from Covid-19. “Today . . . marks a difficult day in our fight against Covid,” Gov. Andy...
Kentucky Youth Advocates image —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Kentucky’s students are experiencing more anxiety, depression and ideas of suicide in the pandemic, and schools need more resources...
Kentucky Health News graph; daily case numbers are from initial, unadjusted state reports —– By Al Cross Kentucky Health News The pandemic has been on the decline in Kentucky for...
Kaiser Family Foundation chart; click the image to enlarge it —– A Kaiser Family Foundation poll of Americans vaccinated against the coronavirus since June 1 showed the reasons people who weren’t sure about it...
Ky. Dept. for Public Health chart, adapted by Ky. Health News; click on it to enlarge. —– By Al Cross Kentucky Health News All measures of the pandemic in Kentucky declined Tuesday,...
Cabinet for Health and Family Services map, adapted by Ky. Health News —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Kentucky is reopening Kynect, the state’s health-insurance exchange, as the portal for Kentuckians...
Waiting in an emergency department (RogerStanmore.com) —– Emergency rooms across the country are overrun, largely due to Covid-19 and other respiratory diseases, and people who go to ERs face long wait...
State Department for Public Health graph, adapted by Kentucky Health News —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Gov. Andy Beshear said he sees “rays of hope” in Kentucky’s pandemic trends, but...
The Press spotlighted the Covid-19 deaths of a local couple. —– Many Kentucky newspapers are making extra efforts to increase vaccination against the coronavirus, by fighting misinformation with the facts,...