The county health director announced her plans to resign during a health board meeting Monday. Her role during the pandemic made Bebout one of the county's most visible public officials.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who had polio as a child, urged Kentuckians to take the COVID-19 vaccine — a protection that wasn't offered against the pandemic of his childhood until decades later.
Making what they called the best argument for vaccination against the coronavirus, state officials said Thursday that only 0.08% of recent virus cases in Kentucky were among people who hadn't received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine.
The phenomenon — where traditional yoga performed alongside baby goats — is popping up across Western Kentucky, including locations in Hopkinsville, Oak Grove, Pembroke and Crofton, as well as Clarksville, Tennessee.
In addition to killing 600,000 individuals in the United States and afflicting an estimated 3.4 million or more with persistent symptoms, the COVID-19 pandemic threatens the health of vulnerable people devastated by the loss of jobs, homes and opportunities for the future.
A physician who testified Wednesday before legislature’s Interim Committee on Health and Welfare said maternal deaths aren’t nearly as common as they used to be, but the increase is concerning.
To many people, the idea of no longer to wearing masks or physically distancing is hard to reconcile with so many long months of taking precautions and sacrificing our social lives for fear of COVID-19.
The UK study is led by Dr. George J. Fuchs III, chief of pediatric gastroenterology and vice chair of pediatric clinical affairs at Kentucky Children’s Hospital.
