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Data shows Kentucky ODs rose in 2021
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 ...
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Covid infection rate remains top among states; Most metrics used to measure the pandemic trending downward
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 ...
by Melissa Patrick, Tuesday, February 22, 2022 11:02 am
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Covid cases escalate as schools begin to re-open; Beshear and Stack urge universal masking in schools
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 ...
by Melissa Patrick, Tuesday, January 4, 2022 7:14 am
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COVID cases take post-holiday jump in Kentucky
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 ...
by Melissa Patrick, Wednesday, December 29, 2021 7:00 am
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As coronavirus cases increase, so do hospitalizations and deaths
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, ...
by Melissa Patrick, Wednesday, December 8, 2021 11:13 am
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State’s COVID positivity rate climbing after holiday weekend
Kentucky’s coronavirus metrics took another jump Tuesday, with new cases and the share of Kentuckians testing positive up, and the fallout from that reflected in ...
by Melissa Patrick, Wednesday, December 1, 2021 6:38 am
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Kentucky ranks first in lung-cancer cases; State is low in survival and early diagnosis
Lung Cancer Awareness Month falls in November, but in Kentucky, the promotion of prevention and early detection of lung cancer is needed all year because ...
by Melissa Patrick, Monday, November 29, 2021 7:50 am
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Pandemic numbers continue to tick up; 53 more deaths reported, raising recent average
As Kentucky heads into a cold Thanksgiving weekend that is sure to keep family gatherings indoors, the metrics to measure the coronavirus continue to go ...
by Melissa Patrick, Wednesday, November 24, 2021 7:50 am
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Kentucky’s 10- to 17-year-old youth rank No. 1 for obesity
In 2019-20, Kentucky had the highest obesity rate in the nation for children between the ages of 10 and 17, 23.8 percent; almost half again ...
by Melissa Patrick, Friday, October 29, 2021 9:13 am
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Poll, falling vaccination rates spark concern that Covid-19 conflicts make Kentuckians skeptical of long-accepted vaccines
The first day of the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky‘s annual health policy forum addressed vaccine hesitancy, which the foundation’s latest poll and other information ...
