As news develops in Kentucky about the coronavirus and its covid-19 disease, this item will be updated. Official state guidance is at https://kycovid19.ky.gov.
- "Among those lucky enough to have access to food and safe housing, and not be sickened by covid-19, there are indicators that the pandemic itself, and the massive shutdown it has triggered, is forcing the adoption of more-healthful behaviors,"Dr. Daphne Miller, a family physician and author, writes for The Washington Post. To support this claim she writes that many are exercising more, spending more time nature, eating out less and cooking from scratch at home, mental health apps are showing a dramatic increase in downloads, and a slowing of manufacturing and vehicles off the roads and airplanes out of the sky have resulted in air pollutants and gas emissions plummeting.
- Blood donation centers across the nation are ramping up their efforts to collect plasma from people who have recovered from covid-19 in hopes it can be used to save the lives of others infected with the virus, JoNel Aleccia reports for Kaiser Health News. "The treatment is not a sure thing," she writes, adding that studies show injecting the plasma from those who have recovered into those who are still suffering has had some success in reducing symptoms and death in past outbreaks, but has not been proven to be effective in clinical trials.
- Betty Nunn, a patient at Norton HealthCare in Louisville, tells Deborah Yetter with the Louisville Courier Journal that she was very happy with her decision to do a telehealth visit, which she did through an app on her phone. "I was really happy with it," she said. "I would do it again." This sentiment comes as Kentucky primary care providers and behavioral health providers transition to caring for their patients through telehealth during the covid-19 outbreak.
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