This is Part 1 of “Breathless,” a Courier Journal special report on the burden of asthma on Kentucky families. This project was supported by the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism‘s 2026 National Fellowship, the Fund for Reporting on Child Well-being and the Dennis A. Hunt Fund for Health Journalism.
Asthma is putting people in the hospital for days or weeks at a time, pulling children out of the classroom, keeping adults out of work, trapping people in their homes, and driving a preventable, uneven and overlooked cost in Louisville…