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Changes in Covid reporting come with end of emergency
BY AL CROSS Kentucky Health News Mostly green maps have become a symbol of the decline of the Covid-19 pandemic. With the end of the ...
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Medical cannabis law goes into effect, but getting it is not that easy
BY AL CROSS Kentucky Health News People with a medical provider’s statement saying they have at least one of 21 specified medical conditions can now ...
by Al Cross, Tuesday, January 10, 2023 4:30 am
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Many factors play into oral health
AL CROSS Kentucky Health News While brushing your teeth is important to maintaining good oral health, dental-health experts say it’s not the only thing responsible ...
by Al Cross, Friday, October 7, 2022 7:58 am
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Kentucky lacks enough primary care physicians: Shortage is worst in rural counties
AL CROSS Kentucky Health News Most of Kentucky’s rural counties and some of its metropolitan areas have too few primary-care doctors and they are leaving ...
by Al Cross, Friday, September 30, 2022 6:03 pm
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Covid numbers drop except in eastern Kentucky
AL CROSS Kentucky Health News The weekly Covid-19 risk map for Kentucky took a solid turn for the better last week, as more than a ...
by Al Cross, Monday, September 19, 2022 3:26 pm
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Program offers free produce for Kentucky seniors
AL CROSS Kentucky Health News Low-income seniors who are at risk of poor nutrition have been unable to get free fruits and vegetables from Kentucky ...
by Al Cross, Thursday, June 23, 2022 3:00 pm
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Kentucky’s new-case COVID rate falls more than any other state’s in last 2 weeks
As the United States sees the highest number of new cases of the coronavirus since the surge in late summer, Kentucky is an outlier. In ...
by Al Cross, Monday, December 27, 2021 6:59 am
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Covid-19 is killing 40 Kentuckians a day
Most measures of the pandemic in Kentucky inched down Wednesday, except the most serious: deaths and Covid-19 patients on mechanical ventilation. The state reported 52 ...
by Al Cross, Friday, September 24, 2021 9:07 am
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Beshear says mask requirement at set infection level is ‘just basic science’
Requiring masks above a certain level of coronavirus infection shouldn’t be difficult “because it’s just basic science,” Gov. Andy Beshear told a national television audience ...
by Al Cross, Tuesday, September 7, 2021 10:30 am
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State reports 1,054 new COVID cases, raising weekly infection rate by 18% in one day; State as a whole is ‘orange’
If there was any doubt that the coronavirus is surging in Kentucky, it was dispelled by Tuesday’s daily report from the state Department for Public ...