In Kentucky, all residents of long-term care facilities are also eligible to get a Moderna or Pfizer booster shot, the state health commissioner announced.
The Republican from Marion, who represents a portion of Christian County, sponsors the bill that would bar state and local governments from requiring “the wearing of any type of facial covering on any public school premises.”
Part of the challenge in understanding long COVID is that many of the symptoms, like fatigue and brain fog, can stem from a variety of conditions — which can make it difficult to determine a direct line between cause and effect.
In a virtual press conference Thursday, doctors and hospital leaders with Baptist Health Paducah and Mercy Health-Lourdes Hospital described packed emergency rooms, with doctors having to decide who gets treated expediently and who waits for hours.
As health care workers grapple with the pandemic’s most recent wave, a few things are clear: patients hospitalized with COVID are getting sick quicker, are younger than before and are mostly unvaccinated.
After experiencing devastating infections and deaths during earlier waves of the pandemic, a local nursing home is using what it learned to minimize the risk of a surge in COVID-19 cases — especially as a surge in the delta variant suggests long-term care facilities may not have seen the last of the virus.
