Gov. Andy Beshear said Monday that masking in state offices will be optional beginning Tuesday, March 1. But some agencies will still be required to wear them.
The governor's executive order will allow for increases in nursing school enrollment, permit nurses licensed in other states to work in Kentucky, and provide bonus pay to nurses.
Pediatricians from across the Ohio Valley say this new wave of COVID-19 is sickening children with severe symptoms that require hospitalizations, as school districts continue to try to maintain in-person learning without closures.
More than 2.5 million people in Kentucky, Ohio and West Virginia have been vaccinated with at least one dose of the Moderna or Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines. Little by little, states have received more vaccine doses, but the national supply remains low.
The research teams say this stage of the trial means the vaccine has been through testing that makes it safer for broader use. Specifically, they're looking for people at high risk for the virus.
With just a little more than a week before Election Day and with a challenge to the health care law coming before the high court, health care is on both the ballot and the docket. And for the Ohio Valley — a region with some of the nation’s worst health outcomes — the stakes are high.
