COVID-19 pandemic

In the first two full calendar weeks of August — the latest period for which figures are available — Kentucky saw a 110% increase in daily COVID hospital admissions, with an average of 28 patients per day.

As students of all ages across Kentucky go back to school, COVID-19 case counts are on the rise.

The “vast majority” of Kentucky’s COVID-19 cases are now the variant EG.5 – also known as “Eris” – according to Louisville infectious disease expert Dr. Mark Burns.

Parents of kids with disabilities challenged a Gov. Bill Lee executive order allowing grade-school students to opt out of masks

More than 31,000 Tennesseans have lost TennCare coverage after federal regulations expanding access to the healthcare program during the COVID-19 pandemic ended earlier this year.

Hundreds of thousands of people may no longer be eligible

Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear expanded Medicaid coverage for dental, hearing and vision services this year. But GOP lawmakers rejected the change, saying the way he did it was improper.

The main thing people with Medicaid coverage can do to prepare for the change is update their contact information with the state.

Still fuming over pandemic-era shutdowns, Kentucky Republicans are pushing to obtain behind-the-scenes correspondence that Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear and his inner circle had about school closures at the height of the COVID-19 outbreak.

A federal appeals court upheld a ruling that struck down the vaccine mandate for federal government contractors in three states – Kentucky, Tennessee and Ohio.