Health Archives - Ohio Valley ReSource

May 28

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Questions And Anxiety Mount Over COVID-19 Workplace Safety As More Businesses Reopen

Gail Fleck is a school cafeteria worker in the greater Cincinnati area and lives with her 90-year-old father. She loves her job because she gets to work with kids. But she is worried she won’t be able to keep her dad safe if her work exposes her to the coronavirus and she unknowingly brings it […]

By Becca Schimmel

May 28

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Questions And Anxiety Mount Over COVID-19 Workplace Safety As More Businesses Reopen

By Becca Schimmel

May 22

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Pandemic Could Make Food Insecurity Worse Among Older Adults In Ohio Valley

A new study shows the Ohio Valley has some of the nation’s highest rates of food insecurity among older adults, and anti-hunger advocates say that situation could be made worse by the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic. The annual study was published May 21 in partnership with researchers from the University of Kentucky, researchers […]

By Liam Niemeyer

May 22

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Pandemic Could Make Food Insecurity Worse Among Older Adults In Ohio Valley

Liam Niemeyer

May 20

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Rural Ohio Valley Counties Lack Sufficient Coronavirus Tests, Report Says

Just 15 percent of Kentucky counties meet minimum recommended coronavirus testing levels, according to a new report from health care company Castlight. Sixty-seven percent of West Virginia counties and 31 percent of Ohio counties met the threshold. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that states have the capacity to test 1 percent of […]

By Sydney Boles

May 20

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Rural Ohio Valley Counties Lack Sufficient Coronavirus Tests, Report Says

Sydney Boles

May 12

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“Will It Be Enough?”: Meatpacking Workers Fear For Safety As Coronavirus Cases Mount

It’s the uncertainty that gets to Darlene Davis. The uncertainty of when she’ll see her 87-year-old mother in person again. The uncertainty of her co-workers’ health. The uncertainty that comes with the novel coronavirus. When a co-worker of hers at the JBS Swift meatpacking plant in Louisville died from COVID-19, she said that uncertainty turned […]

By Liam Niemeyer

May 12

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“Will It Be Enough?”: Meatpacking Workers Fear For Safety As Coronavirus Cases Mount

Liam Niemeyer

May 7

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Are Ohio Valley States Ready To Reopen? Analysis Finds More Coronavirus Testing Needed

An analysis by Harvard scientists and NPR finds that most states — including Kentucky and Ohio — are not testing enough residents for coronavirus in order to meet recommended benchmarks to safely begin to reopen their economies. That analysis by Harvard’s Global Health Institute found that West Virginia is roughly meeting the minimum targets for […]

By Jeff Young and Becca Schimmel

May 7

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Are Ohio Valley States Ready To Reopen? Analysis Finds More Coronavirus Testing Needed

Jeff Young and Becca Schimmel

May 7

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How Ohio Valley States Are Reopening Their Economies

The coronavirus pandemic continues to spread across the Ohio Valley Region. But stay at home orders and social distancing restrictions reduced the number of cases modelers projected without them. Now there is pressure to ease the restrictions and open states’ economies back up as the businesses that were closed struggle to find relief and record […]

By Aaron Payne

May 7

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How Ohio Valley States Are Reopening Their Economies

Aaron Payne

May 5

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West Virginia Small Businesses Face Tough Decisions As State Reopens

West Virginia is among the states beginning to loosen restrictions meant to reduce the spread of coronavirus, allowing for some non-essential businesses to reopen beginning this week. On Monday, May 4, West Virginia entered the second week of Gov. Jim Justice’s six-week reopening plan, which he calls “the comeback.” During week two, businesses with fewer […]

By Brittany Patterson

May 5

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West Virginia Small Businesses Face Tough Decisions As State Reopens

Brittany Patterson

May 4

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Coal and COVID-19: Lung Impairment Makes Miners Especially Vulnerable To Coronavirus

Underground coal miners start their shifts getting changed in closely packed changing rooms. They ride rail cars to their worksite, shoulder-to-shoulder, sometimes for more than an hour. And once they’re underground, ventilation designed to tamp down coal dust blows air through the mine. All that makes a coal mine the kind of place where the […]

By Sydney Boles

May 4

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Coal and COVID-19: Lung Impairment Makes Miners Especially Vulnerable To Coronavirus

Sydney Boles

Apr 27

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One Worker Dead, More Than 200 Infected As Coronavirus Hits KY Meatpackers

The Kentucky Department for Public Health has confirmed 220 employees at meatpacking plants across Kentucky have tested positive for the coronavirus, with one employee death related to the virus in Louisville. Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services spokeswoman Susan Dunlap in an email Monday afternoon said the Beshear administration is aware of cases and […]

By Liam Niemeyer

Apr 27

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One Worker Dead, More Than 200 Infected As Coronavirus Hits KY Meatpackers

Liam Niemeyer

Apr 23

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Kentucky Meatpacking Plants New Coronavirus Hotspots With Dozens Of Cases

Dozens of coronavirus cases have been confirmed at two west Kentucky meatpacking plants, following concerns Ohio Valley worker safety advocates have raised about the spread of the coronavirus in these kind of facilities. Green River District Health Department Director Clay Horton said as of Thursday afternoon at least 62 people associated with a Tyson Foods […]

By Liam Niemeyer

Apr 23

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Kentucky Meatpacking Plants New Coronavirus Hotspots With Dozens Of Cases

Liam Niemeyer