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Kentucky Covid numbers hold steady past two weeks
MELISSA PATRICK Kentucky Health News The pandemic in Kentucky remains on a rough plateau, but it’s a high plateau. Seventy of Kentucky’s 120 counties have ...
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Covid metrics up across Kentucky
MELISSA PATRICK Kentucky Health News All measures of Covid-19 in Kentucky kept rising last week, with new cases up 24 percent, with a higher share ...
by Melissa Patrick, Friday, July 29, 2022 8:43 am
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Study says one in five adult Covid-19 survivors in the U.S. may develop ‘long Covid’
One in five adult Americans who have recovered from a Covid-19 infection have experienced a health condition that may be related to a previous infection, ...
by Melissa Patrick, Wednesday, June 8, 2022 12:31 pm
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FDA chief says baby formula supply is expected to run short through July
The baby formula shortage continues to worsen in Kentucky, with the state’s out-of-stock rate increasing by 20 percentage points since May 8, according to the ...
by Melissa Patrick, Friday, June 3, 2022 5:11 pm
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Ky. Covid cases up 63%; experts warn new variants threaten the vaccinated and unvaccinated
Kentucky’s weekly Covid-19 report largely mimics what is going on across the nation: 63 percent more new cases than the prior week, a rising positive-test ...
by Melissa Patrick, Saturday, May 28, 2022 7:14 pm
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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 9:02 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 ...