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Public health experts are voicing concern about the pullback of COVID-19 data, particularly during a surge in delta cases.

Several groups participated in recognizing employees at the hospital for their work during the pandemic.

The second-shot Pfizer clinic is for people who got their first shot from a district clinic on Aug. 5 or 16.

After the building is cleaned, officials expect to reopen the courthouse Monday morning.

The approval was seen as a milestone in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic — in part because it could provide reassurance to those who have delayed getting vaccinated.

Participants will be encouraged to walk at least 100 miles between Sept. 1 and Nov. 30.

House, a Kentucky author, wrote an article for The Atlantic that begins with a recollection of his grandmother's stories of sacrifice during the Great Depression.

In an unusual Saturday ruling, the timing of which was not explained, all seven justices agreed that Franklin Circuit Judge Phillip Shepherd abused his discretion in blocking the laws, which limit emergency orders to 30 days and call for his emergency pandemic declaration to expire on June 28.

Betsy Johnson, president of the Kentucky Association of Health Care Facilities, said nursing home industry leaders strongly support their workers getting vaccinated, but many employees don’t want to.

Local ambulance crews transported 25 COVID patients between Aug. 2 and 15, which is a significant increase in coronavirus-related calls previously this summer.

The bill would expand Kentucky’s civil rights code, forbidding employers from requiring proof of vaccination in order to work or apply for a job.

The boosters are needed to address waning immunity as a result of the highly contagious delta variant. For now, it will apply only to the Pfizer BioNTech and Moderna vaccines.