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The CDC relaxed guidelines Thursday for wearing masks and social distancing indoors in a decision with major implications, and Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear said the commonwealth will immediately follow the new rules.
The new guidance allows fully vaccinated people to safely stop wearing masks and maintaining a certain distance from others inside most places. Anyone who is fully vaccinated can participate in indoor and outdoor activities, large or small, without wearing a mask or physical distancing, CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said. If you are fully vaccinated, you can start doing the things that you had stopped doing because of the pandemic.
FRANKFORT, Ky. â State government in Kentucky will receive more than $2.1 billion from the latest round of federal coronavirus aid â a smaller-than-projected amount due to the state s improving economic performance, Gov. Andy Beshear said Monday.
The U.S. Treasury announced state allocations based on a formula that included each state s share of the nation s unemployed from October through December 2020, Beshear said. Kentucky performed better than expected during that period, he said.
As a result, Kentucky s allotment will be $2.18 billion, down from an initial estimate that state government would receive $2.44 billion, he said. In other words, Kentucky has recovered stronger than the federal government anticipated, faster than most and it impacted a little bit on the dollars that will be available to us, Beshear said Monday at a news conference.
Close When settlement with opioid makers and distributors is reached, Kentucky and local governments will split it half and half
By Melissa Patrick
Kentucky Health News May 10, 2021
May 10, 2021
When a global settlement with opioid manufacturers and distributors is settled, Kentucky will allocate half of any proceeds to the state and the other half to local governments â and all of it must be spent to fight the opioid epidemic, under a new law.Â
 It s a victory against the opioid crisis epidemic, Rep. Danny Bentley, R-Russell, sponsor of the legislation, told Kentucky Health News. The bill gets the money to people who need it the most.