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Overall health of Kentuckians lags far behind national average
BY MELISSA PATRICK Kentucky Health News After not ranking states for two years due to the pandemic, America’s Health Rankings again placed Kentucky among the ...
BY MELISSA PATRICK Kentucky Health News After not ranking states for two years due to the pandemic, America’s Health Rankings again placed Kentucky among the ...
MELISSA PATRICK Kentucky Health News The weekly pandemic risk map for Kentucky improved again Thursday, as the number of counties at elevated risk of Covid-19 ...
MELISSA PATRICK Kentucky Health News Kentucky still has more syringe service programs than any other state, but 57 counties still don’t have one, including 21 ...
Drug-overdose deaths in Kentucky rose 14.6 percent in Kentucky in 2021, according to the state’s annual report released Monday. “The drug epidemic is not a ...
All of the metrics to measure the coronavirus in Kentucky crept up in the last week, and the state passed the mark of 16,000 Kentuckians ...
MELISSA PATRICK Kentucky Health News Drug-overdose deaths in Kentucky rose 13.55 percent in 2021, according to a recent federal report. The preliminary data from the ...
Even as Kentucky’s daily new-case rate, infection rate, positive-test rate and Covid-19 hospital numbers are steadily trending down, its seven-day rate of daily new cases ...
With coronavirus cases and positive-test rate skyrocketing just as students head back to school, Gov. Andy Beshear and his health commissioner urged more parents to ...
After a four-week pandemic plateau, Kentucky reported a high number of coronavirus cases Tuesday, as well as an increasingly high share of residents testing positive ...
The pandemic continued to accelerate in Kentucky Monday, especially in hospitals but also in new cases. Kentucky reported 2,728 new cases of the coronavirus Tuesday, ...