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Beshear urges ‘immediacy’ when it comes to getting vaccine or booster shot as Thanksgiving nears

As coronavirus infection rates in Kentucky kept inching up, Gov. Andy Beshear kept urging Kentuckians to get a Covid-19 vaccine or a booster and to ... Read more

by Melissa Patrick, Saturday, November 20, 2021 6:55 am

Health

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 ... Read more

by Melissa Patrick, Tuesday, October 26, 2021 10:47 am

COVID-19

State’s positive rate drops, hospital numbers rise

More unvaccinated pregnant women getting sick, premature The share of Kentuckians testing positive for the coronavirus in the last seven days dropped to 8 percent ... Read more

by Melissa Patrick, Saturday, October 16, 2021 9:00 am

News

FDA authorizes (but doesn’t ‘approve’) three vaping products

Says benefits of helping smokers quit outweigh risk to youth The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has authorized three electronic-cigarette products for sale in the ... Read more

by Melissa Patrick, Friday, October 15, 2021 8:54 am

COVID-19

Covid-19 deaths in Kentucky are at record levels

Kentucky reported 82 more deaths from Covid-19 Wednesday, the most in a single day. The state’s death toll from the coronavirus disease is now 8,717. ... Read more

by Melissa Patrick, Thursday, September 30, 2021 1:27 pm

Kentucky

Kentucky program, first of its kind in the nation, makes it less risky for employers to hire people with substance-use disorder

Kentucky has launched a new program that will lessen the risk of liability to employers who hire or retain people with substance-use disorder — if ... Read more

by Melissa Patrick, Tuesday, September 21, 2021 4:22 pm

COVID-19 vaccine

Answers about coronavirus, COVID-19 disease, and vaccines

One of the many challenges facing Kentuckians who remain unvaccinated against the coronavirus is that they still have unanswered questions about vaccines, some based on ... Read more

by Melissa Patrick, Tuesday, July 27, 2021 4:30 pm

News

Only 25% of Ky. students have received COVID vaccine

With only one-fourth of Kentucky’s eligible school children vaccinated against COVID-19, Gov. Andy Beshear said it best when he said “that’s not enough.” “As we ... Read more

by Melissa Patrick, Monday, July 12, 2021 1:24 pm

Danville Sports

Ads’ historic season comes to an end

LEXINGTON — Ten runs usually makes for a pretty good game, but it makes for an even better inning. It made for the kind of ... Read more

by Melissa Patrick, Monday, June 21, 2021 1:26 pm

COVID-19

End of Beshear’s Covid-19 briefings will signal the turning of a page and moving on

Gov. Andy Beshear’s regular press conferences about the coronavirus “provided a steady source of information, comforted some people and annoyed others and inadvertently spawned memes, ... Read more

by Melissa Patrick, Friday, June 11, 2021 7:41 am

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