Andy Beshear (D) announces the state’s first confirmed case of the new coronavirus at a press conference on March 6, 2020, in Frankfort, Kentucky. Andy Beshear, a Democrat who is only four months into his term, has held near-daily news conferences to update reporters and Kentucky residents on the state’s response to the COVID-19 outbreak. But it was another public health crisis that might have marked the low point of Bevin’s single term in office and his shoot-from-the-hip style of governing. From 2017 to 2019, a nationwide outbreak of hepatitis A hammered Kentucky, which by mid-2018 had experienced the worst of the epidemic. Vice President Mike Pence, as governor of Indiana, once oversaw an HIV outbreak that his response only made worse.

Source: Huffington Post March 14, 2020 12:00 UTC