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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.

In one study by The Covid States Project, respondents were asked to identify four misinformation items as true or false.

Superintendent Steve Miracle said he made the decision to not discipline students following a Wednesday morning meeting with concerned parents at the school district’s board of education office.

The legal action comes a day before the state school board is expected to issue its own mask mandate.

The clinic is open community members. Wild Health will administer the Pfizer vaccine approved for people 12 and older.

Award-winning author and former Kentucky Poet Laureate Gurney Norman recounts a life rich with stories—from Hazard, Kentucky to Palo Alto, California and back—while "shooting the breeze" with an old friend.

Local farm grains and milling company products inspired a new town slogan that is the brainchild of tourism director Brooke Jung.

Kentucky Commissioner of Agriculture Ryan Quarles was the keynote speaker for the Salute to Agriculture breakfast.

Christian County Public Schools had previously announced a plan to require masks in schools, following a school board vote on Thursday.

University officials said they would distribute $4.5 million for students to pay for costs including tuition, food, child care, housing and COVID-19 related expenses. Current students received awards last week. Incoming students will be notified of awards later this month.

President Joe Biden, who must issue a waiver for the Department of Defense to mandate vaccines without full approval from the Food and Drug Administration, said on Monday he backs Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s plan to require all U.S. military members to get the vaccine.