Pending approval, Johnson & Johnson vaccine praised by local trial participant, health officials
No hospitalizations or deaths were reported by participants that received the single-dose vaccine. Additionally, it only requires basic refrigeration for storage and has mild side effects like the vaccines already available. Share Updated: 8:08 PM EST Feb 24, 2021
Pending approval, Johnson & Johnson vaccine praised by local trial participant, health officials
No hospitalizations or deaths were reported by participants that received the single-dose vaccine. Additionally, it only requires basic refrigeration for storage and has mild side effects like the vaccines already available. Share Updated: 8:08 PM EST Feb 24, 2021
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Big Sandy RECC
As of Wednesday afternoon, Kentucky electric cooperative crews, contractors and mutual aid line technicians had restored power to 95 percent of the consumer-members who lost service during the historic back-to-back-to back winter storms that walloped Kentucky earlier this month.
About 5,200 co-op consumer-members were still without power Wednesday, down from the 100,000 without power at the peak of the natural disaster.
From the beginning of the eight-day weather event, co-ops in Northeastern Kentucky were hardest hit, with Grayson RECC most abused by the succession of crippling ice storms. The cooperative, which serves about 15,000 members in six counties, reports a staggering 200 broken poles in its service territory. Each pole replacement is a separate construction project.
Credit Pete Comparoni | UK Photo.
Brooke Hudspeth, PharmD, is Chief Practice Officer (CPO) for the UK College of Pharmacy. Hudspeth, the acting secretary for the Kentucky Pharmacist Association (KphA) oversees all community pharmacy efforts for the college while working to elevate the care available to those in the Commonwealth.
Hudspeth is an alumnus of the college’s PharmD and Community Residency programs and serves as a preceptor for pharmacy students and residents. In addition, she is known for her collaboration with the American Pharmacists Association Foundation, The Kroger Co., and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for her work on the National Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP). Hudspeth helped secure a $7.5M grant from the CDC to expand the National DPP to five states, using the model she developed for Kentucky.
Credit Pete Comparoni | UK Photo.
Brooke Hudspeth, PharmD, is Chief Practice Officer (CPO) for the UK College of Pharmacy. Hudspeth, the acting secretary for the Kentucky Pharmacist Association (KphA) oversees all community pharmacy efforts for the college while working to elevate the care available to those in the Commonwealth.
Hudspeth is an alumnus of the college’s PharmD and Community Residency programs and serves as a preceptor for pharmacy students and residents. In addition, she is known for her collaboration with the American Pharmacists Association Foundation, The Kroger Co., and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for her work on the National Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP). Hudspeth helped secure a $7.5M grant from the CDC to expand the National DPP to five states, using the model she developed for Kentucky.
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With a commitment to provide equitable access to COVID-19 vaccinations across Kentucky, Gov. Andy Beshear is working with the Lexington chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Today at Shiloh Baptist Church, 10 members of the community voiced confidence in and rolled up their sleeves to receive the Moderna vaccine.
Gov. Beshear joined five local leaders to help overcome hesitancy and distrust.
“Thought leaders from many communities are stepping forward from all over the state, asking what they can do and how they can help,” said Gov. Beshear. “Today, prominent African-Americans in Lexington are speaking out. Their words of encouragement for receiving the shot help break down some of the barriers that can lead to vaccine inequity.”