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Kentucky governor says he had busy work day in quarantine

October 12, 2020

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky’s governor said Monday that he kept up a busy work schedule despite being confined to the governor’s mansion after being around someone who later tested positive for COVID-19.

Gov. Andy Beshear said he will follow the advice of state public health officials in determining how long he and his family remain quarantined at the mansion. His next COVID test is expected to be Tuesday and then Friday, he said. He added he tested negative last week.

“I’ve asked them (health officials) to treat me like anybody else out there,” the Democratic said. “So I’m going to follow all the rules and all the guidelines.”

Beshear said he had one of his busiest Mondays in a while, and that the biggest challenge of working in quarantine — away from his staff — was all the time he spent “staring at a screen.”

“I’m working,” he said.

Kentucky Brings Back “One-Stop” Kynect Health Benefits Portal

October 12, 2020

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Grview717021 More than a half-million residents signed up for ‘kynect,’ Kentucky’s state-based health insurance exchange, when it first launched in 2014Photo: AdobeStock

Last week, Kentucky revived the online health-benefits portal ‘kynect.ky.gov’ as a one-stop shop for Kentuckians who need health insurance.

The new portal will also host the state-based health-insurance exchange known as Kynect, starting next year. Kynect allows people who don’t have work-based health insurance to enroll in a plan, or sign up for Medicaid if they qualify.

The program was dismantled in 2017 by then Gov. Matt Bevin. Cara Stewart, director for policy advocacy for Kentucky Voices for Health, called the restart a game-changer for helping families stay healthy and avoid medical debt as the pandemic stretches on.

“Since we’re in a global pandemic right now, it’s become even more clear that people need health coverage, and need health coverage options,” said Stewart. “And having one place where

LFCHD works with Kentucky Department for Public Health to catch up on more than 1,900 backlogged COVID-19 cases

October 8, 2020

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LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) – In a COVID-19 world, eyes stay fixed on the numbers, the total confirmed cases, the positivity rate, and the COVID-related death toll.

But, the numbers from the Lexington-Fayette County Health Department and the state’s daily report weren’t adding up.

More than 2,000 cases of COVID-19 were announced Wednesday by Governor Andy Beshear, but more than half of those are from a backlog of cases from Fayette County.

“We were using one system initially in this pandemic and the state uses a federal system to enter data,” LFCHD Communications Officer Kevin Hall said.

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That means the health department’s limited staff had to enter those numbers twice.

“As the number of cases increased in Lexington so did the number of cases we had to double enter,” Hall said.

What really brought more attention to this backlog of numbers in Fayette County was how it

Kentucky launches kynect website for Medicaid access, benefits

October 5, 2020

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FRANKFORT, Ky. — “Kynect” is back, repurposed as a one-stop, online shop for people to apply for Medicaid and a host of other resources such as food and child care assistance, job training and help for the elderly and people with disabilities.

Gov. Andy Beshear announced the launch of the state website Monday, initially created under his father, former Gov. Steve Beshear, as a state-run site where people could shop for health insurance plans under the Affordable Care Act.

Kynect won’t feature commercial insurance plans in time for this year’s open enrollment for health coverage in November.

Background: Beshear says restoring Kentucky’s health insurance exchange will save more than expected

But Andy Beshear, a Democrat, said kynect will include it by next year as part of his plan to restore the site shut down by his predecessor, Gov. Matt Bevin, a Republican. Meanwhile, people can find a link to

Kentucky governor takes action as state fights becoming next COVID-19 hot spot

October 2, 2020

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Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear vowed to halt a recent escalation of COVID-19 cases after reporting 17 more coronavirus-related deaths on Thursday, marking one of the state’s highest one-day death tolls since the outbreak began earlier this year.

a man and a woman standing in front of a building: Emergency medical personnel transport a patient into the emergency department of Norton Women's and Children's Hospital, as all wear masks to avoid the spread of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Louisville, Ky., March 24, 2020.

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Emergency medical personnel transport a patient into the emergency department of Norton Women’s and Children’s Hospital, as all wear masks to avoid the spread of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Louisville, Ky., March 24, 2020.

“What that shows is we are — in our total case count — in an escalation, meaning last week was more; this week will be more than that, it appears,” Beshear told reporters at a press conference Thursday.

State health officials reported 910 new coronavirus cases on Thursday after shattering records earlier this week, with rural and urban areas seeing massive spikes in new infections. Of the newly reported cases, 146 were children

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