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On March 6, 2020, a Kentuckian in Lexington tested positive for the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, and Gov. Andy Beshear declared a state of emergency.

On March 6, 2020, a Kentuckian in Lexington tested positive for the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, and Gov. Andy Beshear declared a state of emergency.

The Lantern is looking at the COVID-19 pandemic, a time of fear and economic upheaval, rapidly-changing guidance and rampant misinformation.

By Sarah LaddKentucky LanternSeveral of Kentucky’s major health care providers made the case that the state’s certificate of need process should remain, for the most part, as it is, before a

The Eastern Kentucky nursing home where an unvaccinated worker started an outbreak of a COVID-19 variant that infected 46 people and killed three residents has been identified as the Life Care Center in Morehead. The March COVID-19 outbreak triggered a federal-state investigation that stressed the "critical" importance of increasing COVID-19 vaccination rates among staff at such facilities. Kentucky, with only 44% of nursing home workers vaccinated, trails national trends. About 50% of work...

View Comments The Eastern Kentucky nursing home where an unvaccinated worker started an outbreak of a COVID-19 variant that infected 46 people and killed three residents has been identified as the Life Care Center in Morehead. The March COVID-19 outbreak triggered a federal-state investigation that stressed the "critical" importance of increasing COVID-19 vaccination rates among staff at such facilities. Kentucky, with only 44% of nursing home workers vaccinated, trails national trends. Abo...

An outbreak of COVID-19 at a Kentucky nursing home where most residents were vaccinated is cited in a new federal study as an example of why it is "imperative" that more staff get vaccinated as new variants of the virus emerge. The study, released Wednesday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, found 18 residents and four workers at the nursing home who had been vaccinated tested positive for COVID-19 after an unvaccinated worker brought a variant, or new strain of the vi...