HENDERSON, Ky. - University of Kentucky Cooperative Extension Service offices are partnering with local, state and federal agencies to serve as host sites for Covid-19 vaccine clinics.
Fox News medical contributor Dr. Marc Siegel weighs in on the possible Johnson & Johnson blood clot link.
A so-called R.1 coronavirus lineage variant was detected in an outbreak at a Kentucky nursing facility where nearly all residents were vaccinated, according to one of the latest reports from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Health departments noted that coronavirus infections cropped up in a quarter of vaccinated residents, raising concerns about vaccine impact.
The unnamed skilled nursing facility offered all residents and staff vaccinations beginning in January, with 90.4% of 83 residents taking up a vaccine and just over half of staffers accepting doses as well.
Michael Taylor thought he might die alone in the Shelby County Detention Center.
Taylor had been sick with the coronavirus for weeks. It was early March, and he was living in a cell with 19 other people, some of whom had not yet tested positive for the virus. Taylor’s symptoms got worse and worse until medical staff quarantined him in the cell usually reserved for people in solitary confinement.
On March 3, the first night he spent in what he calls the hole, Taylor said he was having trouble breathing.
“I could die in here and nobody’s ever even come around and said anything,” Taylor said the next day, when jail staff let him out for an hour to make phone calls. “I feel like this little sentence that I got just turned into a life sentence.”
Capacity limits increased at Kentucky stadiums and arenas
More than 400k vaccine doses are currently available, with 150k more due in Kentucky on Tuesday.
LIVE: Gov. Beshear updates vaccinations, COVID-19 response in Kentucky By Brian Planalp | April 19, 2021 at 3:37 PM EDT - Updated April 19 at 5:50 PM
FRANKFORT, Ky. (FOX19) - New guidance from the Kentucky Department of Public Health on Monday increases capacity limits at stadiums and arenas in Kentucky to 50 percent.
Only facilities with total capacities over 1,000 are affected by the new guidance, which Gov. Andy Beshear announced, along with supplemental documents for various industries, on Monday.
“They have done a very good job at ensuring everyone remains masked,” Beshear said of how large venues have performed so far in the pandemic. “We have seen very little spread through them. In fact, we have seen some of the best mask adherence at them, so they’ll go to 50 percent.”