Journalists Tell How Covid Complicates Organ Transplants and the Health of Rural America

October 16, 2021

KHN senior correspondent JoNel Aleccia discussed organ transplants and the covid-19 vaccine on NBC’s “NBC Now” on Oct. 8.

Click here to watch Aleccia on “NBC Now”
Read Aleccia’s “Organ Centers to Transplant Patients: Get a Covid Shot or Move Down on Waitlist”

KHN Midwest correspondent Lauren Weber discussed covid deaths in rural America on Iowa Public Radio’s “River to River” on Oct. 7.

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Read Weber’s “Covid Is Killing Rural Americans at Twice the Rate of Urbanites”

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Journalists Tell How Covid Complicates Organ Transplants and the Health of Rural America

October 16, 2021

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<p>KHN senior correspondent JoNel Aleccia discussed organ transplants and the covid-19 vaccine on NBC’s “NBC Now” on Oct. 8. </p>

<ul><li><a href="https://twitter.com/nbcnewsnow/status/1446597437351768071?s=21">Click here to watch Aleccia on “NBC Now</a>”</li><li>Read Aleccia’s “<a href="https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/organ-centers-to-transplant-patients-get-a-covid-shot-or-move-down-on-waitlist/">Organ Centers to Transplant Patients: Get a Covid Shot or Move Down on Waitlist</a>”</li></ul>

<p>KHN Midwest correspondent Lauren Weber discussed covid deaths in rural America on Iowa Public Radio’s “River to River” on Oct. 7. </p>

<ul><li><a href="https://www.iowapublicradio.org/podcast/river-to-river/2021-10-08/30-years-after-her-senate-hearings-anita-hill-says">Click here to hear Weber on “River to River</a>”</li><li>Read Weber’s “<a href="https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/covid-death-rate-rural-america/">Covid Is Killing Rural Americans at Twice the Rate of Urbanites</a>”</li></ul>

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