Latest KFF Health News Stories
Critics Say Administration Not Helping Unemployed Find New Health Coverage
As job loss jeopardizes health coverage for millions of people, advocates say the administration should do more to publicize the availability of Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance Program or health plans being sold on marketplaces. Meanwhile, the administration filed a brief with the Supreme Court asking that Arkansas’ Medicaid work requirements be reinstated.
Trump Abandons Plan To Kick Out Online-Only Foreign Students
The abrupt reversal came a little more than a week after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement issued an edict that left educational leaders scrambling and prompted immediate lawsuits.
White House Infighting: Fauci Defends Record While Navarro Goes On Attack
Intra-Trump administration conflict goes public as one official writes an op-ed criticizing Dr. Anthony Fauci and another posts a mocking cartoon. In response to White House efforts to undermine his credibility, Fauci responds: “I believe, for the most part, you can trust respected medical authorities. I believe I’m one of them, so I think you can trust me.”
CDC Leadership Urges Mask Wearing
The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention strongly urges Americans to wear masks to limit the spread of the coronavirus while President Donald Trump’s reluctance to wear one influences the public more.
COVID Vaccine Developed In U.S. Shows Promising Immune System Reaction
The experimental vaccine — made by the biotech company Moderna with assistance from the National Institutes of Health — prompted participants in the study to develop neutralizing antibodies that have been shown to kill the virus. Larger trials are now planned.
Trump Administration Orders Hospitals To Bypass CDC With Data On COVID
Instead, the coronavirus patient data will go to HHS. Public health experts voice concern that the change could lead to less transparency and accuracy about the state of the pandemic. The National Guard’s possible role also alarms hospitals.
Outbreak Escalates In Even More States As US Continues To Break Case Records
While recent attention has focused on hot spots like Texas, Florida and Arizona, cases are starting to soar in other states like Oklahoma and Nevada as well. In total, over 62,000 Americans were reported sick Tuesday — another record. Death rates also continue to climb.
Today’s early morning highlights from the major news organizations.
Different Takes: Pros And Cons Of Reopening Schools Debated
Opinion pages focus on the best and safest ways to educate children and young adults during the pandemic.
Editorial pages focus on these pandemic issues and others.
New York Sets Fines For Travelers Who Refuse To Give Airport Officers Details Of Quarantine Plans
Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Monday that people flying into New York will be required to fill out forms with contact information and travel plans and provide them to police officers at the airport.
Hong Kong Disneyland Faces Re-Closing Even As Disney Eyes More Openings In Florida
Global news reports are from Hong Kong, England, Germany, Spain, Italy, Greece, The Democratic Republic of Congo, Australia, Japan, and France.
Coronavirus hits the NBA; meanwhile, the first Major League Baseball player who tested positive has rejoined teammates.
FDA Deals Setback To CytoDyn’s HIV Drug; Gilead Reprimanded By British Firms For HIV Drug Claims
The Food and Drug Administration’s refusal to accept CytoDyn’s drug application could cause a lengthy setback for the drug. Meanwhile, Britain’s pharmaceutical trade group spoke out against Gilead for disseminating information that unfairly compared one of its HIV drugs with a rival medicine sold by ViiV Healthcare, which is working toward an injectable medicine that prevents AIDS.
Miami Becoming New ‘Epicenter Of The Pandemic’
More than 2,000 people are hospitalized the in South Florida city. In the past 13 days, Miami-Dade County has reported increases in Covid-19 hospitalizations (68%), in the number of ICU beds being used (69%) and in the use of ventilators (109%). News outlets look at the situation in Miami and elsewhere in Florida, as well as rising cases in Texas and other states.
Dallas Officials Take COVID Testing Into Own Hands
Also: Quest Diagnostics works on turnaround times; testing in Montana and California; former Trump aide Mick Mulvaney now says testing snafus are inexcusable.
Air-Quality Warning Issued In San Diego Amid Navy Ship Fire
Other public health news is on a memory care unit, prisons, college health centers, health care workers, mask-wearing and more.
Researchers Salvage Damaged Lungs For Transplants By Attaching Them To Live Pigs
The scientists from Vanderbilt and Columbia connected lungs deemed too damaged to be used for transplants to a large vein in the neck of a live pig, so that its blood flowed through the vessels. In one case, that circulation allowed the human lung to heal enough to meet transplant requirements.
Dramatic Increase In Drug-Resistant Infections Reported
News outlets also cover the latest research on diabetes, strokes, sexually transmitted infections and rabies.
‘Shocking’: One-Third Of Young Adults May Face Severe COVID-19 Risks, Especially If Smoking
“I think most young adults don’t think they’re at risk,” author Dr. Charles Irwin Jr., director of the UCSF Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine, told The San Francisco Chronicle. “To me, that was shocking to find that smoking contributed so much to being at risk. ” Research-related news is on strokes, rheumatoid arthritis drugs, cardiac injuries, and dengue fever, as well.
