- An inmate at the Federal Medical Center prison in Lexington has died, and 113 inmates and one employee have tested positive for the coronavirus.
- Health Commissioner Steven Stack said on Saturday that limited visitation will be allowed in hospitals starting Wednesday, as part of the third phase of reopening the health-care system. The guidance says a facility may permit a patient to have a single visitor of support person. Also Wednesday, in-patient surgeries can resume at half of pre-shutdown volume.
- A group of high-school students, part of The Prichard Committee Student Voice Team, has created a survey, with expert guidance, to investigate their peers' experiences of learning from home during pandemic, a committee news release said. "At the heart of our work is amplifying the stories of students who are most marginalized within the public education system," Emanuelle Sippy, a junior at Henry Clay High School in Lexington and the team’s student director, said in the release. "Almost immediately upon schools closing, it became clear that the students who are all too often unheard would be the same ones most severely impacted by the covid-19 crisis." All Kentucky high school students are encouraged to take the 10-minute survey, which can be found at surveymonkey.com/r/svtcovid19. The survey is available in Spanish at surveymonkey.com/r/svtcovid19espanol.
- Several research labs and core facilities in the University of Kentucky's colleges of Medicine and Pharmacy will be testing the antibodies of recovered covid-19 patients to see how long they are protected against reinfection, working to answer two questions about covid-19 immunity, "How strong is it and how long will it last?" UK Now reports. The release says UK was among the first universities in the U.S. to create coronavirus antibody tests using 'DNA from the virus.
- The University of Kentucky Hospital has asked the Federal Emergency Management Agency for reimbursement for the $6.7 million, "just-in-case, 400-bed hospital it build at the Nutter Field House, UK football's indoor training facility that has not been needed. FEMA has received the request, but made no decision, UK officials told Leigh Searcy of WLEX-TV. The university paid Emergency Disaster Services of Lexington for the work.
- Almost every day Gov. Andy Beshear encourages Kentuckians to take care of their mental health. Toward that end, one health expert tells the Lexington Herald-Leader that it's important to do self check-ins as well as chekcing in on others, including kids, because acknowledge feelings of fear and discomfort is the first step in determining what is within your control.
- The Herald-Leader reported on May 9 that nationally, about 100 children have been diagnosed with a rare inflammatory syndrome that could be related to the coronavirus, and that NBC News reports that three young New York children have died from "what may be a covid-related illness in children." Symptoms of the potentially fatal syndrome include high fever, abdominal pain and cardiac inflammation. The World Health Organization is now investigating the rare condition.
- Independent living facilities that serve as more traditional apartment complexes do not have to track the number of people who test positive for the coronavirus in their facilities because they are not licensed or certified by the state. This is causing concern among many who live in them and their families, Bailey Loosemore reports for the Louisville Courier Journal.
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