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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 ...
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by Melissa Patrick, Saturday, November 20, 2021 6:55 am
Health
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 ...
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by Melissa Patrick, Tuesday, October 26, 2021 10:47 am
COVID-19
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 ...
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by Melissa Patrick, Saturday, October 16, 2021 9:00 am
News
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 ...
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by Melissa Patrick, Friday, October 15, 2021 8:54 am
COVID-19
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. ...
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by Melissa Patrick, Thursday, September 30, 2021 1:27 pm
Kentucky
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 ...
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by Melissa Patrick, Tuesday, September 21, 2021 4:22 pm
COVID-19 vaccine
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 ...
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by Melissa Patrick, Tuesday, July 27, 2021 4:30 pm
News
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 ...
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by Melissa Patrick, Monday, July 12, 2021 1:24 pm
Danville Sports
LEXINGTON — Ten runs usually makes for a pretty good game, but it makes for an even better inning. It made for the kind of ...
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by Melissa Patrick, Monday, June 21, 2021 1:26 pm
COVID-19
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, ...
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by Melissa Patrick, Friday, June 11, 2021 7:41 am
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