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.
A Nashville company that has done extensive stained glass work in a Hopkinsville church is restoring the decorative glass window for the South Main Street property.
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.
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.”
