Covid-19 update: Attorney General Cameron says Beshear's order banning interstate travel by Kentuckians is unconstitutional-HEALTHYLIVE

Beshear and Cameron at the latter's appointment

Attorney General Daniel Cameron says in a federal-court filing that Gov. Andy Beshear's order banning interstate travel by Kentuckians is unconstitutional.

Cameron filed a motion in a lawsuit that was started by a woman in Campbell County, which borders Ohio, against Beshear and Cameron. The woman has dropped out of the case, but two other plaintiffs remain; now Cameron wants to join them.

His attorneys wrote in the motion that “his interests coincide with those of the existing plaintiffs” and “The governor’s travel ban impermissibly violates the fundamental right of every Kentucky citizen to interstate travel. This being the attorney general’s position, he should be realigned as a plaintiff.”

Morgan Eads of the Lexington Herald Leader notes that "After the lawsuit was filed, Beshear said in a press conference, "I’m not worried about it, and we will win it.'" Beshear, a Democrat who was attorney general when elected governor, appointed Cameron, a Republican who was elected the same day but took office almost a month later, to fill his unexpired term.

In other covid-19 news Tuesday:

• Doctors say older adults with covid-19 have some unusual symptoms, "complicating efforts to ensure they get timely and appropriate treatment, according to physicians," Kaiser Health News reports. "Seniors may seem 'off' — not acting like themselves ― early on after being infected by the coronavirus. They may sleep more than usual or stop eating. They may seem unusually apathetic or confused, losing orientation to their surroundings. They may become dizzy and fall. Sometimes, seniors stop speaking or simply collapse."

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