Pandemic numbers nearing levels seen before Omicron variant hit
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...
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CDC rates fewer Ky. counties at high risk from virus, but levels in some have increased and state’s risk level is still relatively high
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,...
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Even a mild case of Covid-19 can cause long-term brain damage
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...
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Beshear says Omicron BA.2 subvariant circulating in Kentucky; public-health advice is the same: get vaccinated and boosted
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...
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Bill near final passage would delay lab results of cancer or genetic markers from going on electronic health records for 72 hours
Rep. Killian Timoney —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The legislature is nearing final passage of a bill that would give health-care providers a chance to contact patients to...
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Most of Kentucky’s coronavirus measures continue to fall, but Covid-19 death reports continue to average about 40 per day
Kentucky Department for Public Health graph, adapted by Ky. Health News; click it to enlarge. —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Nearly 40 Kentuckians per day were recorded as...
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Flu cases in Kentucky have ticked up a bit in the last few weeks, and it’s not too late to get a flu shot; season can go through May
Kentucky Department for Public Health graph —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Following nine weeks of decline, influenza cases in Kentucky ticked back up. The state Department for Public Health reports that...
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Bill to reform public-assistance programs, including Medicaid, is approved by a committee and the House in the same day
House Speaker David Osborne and Speaker Pro Tem David Meade presented House Bill 7 in committee. (LRC photo) —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Legislation aimed at tightening Kentucky’s rules for...
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Ky. is mostly green on CDC map but partly in big cluster where masks still advised; Fauci says mutated virus may cause uptick
CDC map; click on it to enlarge. The state’s version of the map will be posted Friday. —– By Al Cross Kentucky Health News Almost half of Kentucky’s counties are...
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UK begins world’s first clinical trial to slow a form of dementia recently discovered by a team co-chaired by a UK faculty member
Drs. Pete Nelson and Gregory Jicha discuss their research. (University of Kentucky photo by Mark Cornelison) —– By Hilary Smith University of Kentucky The motivation driving the work of Pete...