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Each county contracts with a health care provider and collaborates with the local health department to manage medical care at the jail, including testing and quarantine guidelines for COVID-19.
WKU Public Radio reporter Rhonda Miller talked with Warren County Jailer Steven Harmon about his personal experience being sick with COVID-19, and about the number of positive cases at the jail and the ongoing testing.
Harmon: We re about percent through testing the inmate population. There were approximately 250 positive inmates. We ve had as many as 20 staff members out positive through probably the first part of December. We are still testing at this point. We re back to retesting the folks that were negative in the cells in the beginning of December. Very few of the inmates had any symptoms. We have had a couple that were hospitalized. However, they were a little older in age and had other health issues, but they are being cared for. And most all of the staff have recovered and w
VICTOR GLOVER
Compiled by Jim Nieman
Victor Glover, an astronaut now serving a six-month mission on the International Space Station, recently was chosen as one of 18 members of NASA’s Artemis team, which the space agency said “will help pave the way for the next astronaut missions on and around the moon,” the
Christian Chronicle reported. Glover is a member of a noninstrumental church of Christ in the Houston area. In an earlier article, the
Chronicle wrote that Glover sent up Communion cups and a Bible to the space station before blasting off on his mission Nov. 15.
Gallup found that those who rated their mental health as excellent or good was 76 percent this year down from the 81 to 89 percent range where people had classified themselves every other year since 2001. Just last year, 85 percent of those surveyed rated their mental health as excellent or good. The COVID-19 pandemic is believed to be a major factor in the decline.