Covid-19 update - Health News

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.

• The coronavirus and social distancing haven't kept many Americans from reaching out to their neighbors "with gifts, music and whatever they have to offer," The Washington Post reports.
• Republican Mitch McConnell, leader of the U.S. Senate's Republican majority, got advice from Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear in drafting the $2 trillion coronavirus rescue package, Eric Bradner reports for CNN. "It has been really helpful to get ground truth on this while developing a bill of this magnitude," Phil Maxson, McConnell's chief of staff, told Bradner.
• U.S. Reps. John Yarmuth (D-Louisville) and Andy Barr (R-Lexington) say they are leading a bipartisan effort to get the Food and Drug Administration to allow distillers to keep making hand sanitizer with their current supplies of undenatured alcohol. FDA's current guidance requires use of denatured alcohol, which has been chemically altered to be unfit for human consumption. "This will ensure distillers do not face a tax bill for filling a vital need in their communities," they wrote. The letter was signed by 87 House members, including five of the six from Kentucky; Rep. Thomas Massie was not a signatory.

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