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LA County Authorities Cautious Despite Declining COVID Numbers

By Bernard J. Wolfson September 3, 2020 KFF Health News Original

The county, a hotbed of coronavirus infection in California, has seen a steady reduction in positive test results, new cases, hospitalizations and deaths over the past few weeks. But officials are concerned about public behavior over the Labor Day holiday weekend and wary of relaxing strictures too soon.

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How Is COVID-19 Altering Cancer Care? We Want To Hear From You.

May 6, 2020 Page

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Listen: Why It Takes So Long To Get COVID-19 Test Results

April 1, 2020 KFF Health News Original

KHN’s Julie Appleby talks about the behind-the-scenes steps that can add time to the process of testing for the coronavirus.

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Just 10 Days: That’s How Long It Takes Cases Of UK Strain To Double In The US

February 8, 2021 Morning Briefing

Researchers predict the B.1.1.7 variant likely will become the predominant strain in the United States in just a month. Public health measures that work on other strains may not be enough to stop B.1.1.7, experts say.

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Six Drugmakers Warned To Reinstate 340B Discounts Or Face Steep Fines

May 18, 2021 Morning Briefing

The Health Resources and Services Administration sent letters to AstraZeneca, Eli Lilly, Novartis, Novo Nordisk, Sanofi and United Therapeutics. They could face a $5,000 penalty for every violation.

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Underfunded And Understaffed Public Health Workforce To Get $7.4B Injection

May 14, 2021 Morning Briefing

The White House announced that the funds come from the recent relief bill and will be used to hire additional public health workers and modernize the existing departments.

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Epidemia de obesidad en los Estados Unidos amenaza la eficacia de una vacuna contra COVID

By Sarah Varney August 6, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Otras vacunas han demostrado ser menos efectivas en adultos obesos que en la población general, dejándolos más vulnerables a infecciones y enfermedades.

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Ever Heard of a Surgical Assistant? Meet a New Boost to Your Medical Bills

By Markian Hawryluk July 22, 2020 KFF Health News Original

A college student’s bill for outpatient knee surgery is a whopper — $96K — but the most mysterious part is a $1,167 charge from a health care provider she didn’t even know was in the operating room.

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Alaska’s Health Services Still Recovering From Cyberattack

June 3, 2021 Morning Briefing

In other news, Arizona’s plans to use a poison labelled Zyklon B by the Nazis for executions draw condemnation; smokable medical marijuana is backed by Louisiana lawmakers; and a Dallas high school valedictorian spoke out over Texas’ new anti-abortion laws.

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Clots, Strokes and Rashes: Is COVID a Disease of the Blood Vessels?

By Will Stone November 13, 2020 KFF Health News Original

COVID-19 can cause symptoms that go well beyond the lungs, from strokes to organ failure. To explain these widespread injuries, researchers are studying how the virus affects the vascular system.

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‘We’re In A Race Against Time’ As Mutations On The Rise

January 19, 2021 Morning Briefing

B.1.1.7; B.1.351; P.1: While viruses commonly mutate, worried scientists rush to keep up with all of the emerging coronavirus variants — fearing one that could prove to be even deadlier.

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Huge Windfall: Pfizer Will Rake In $26B For Covid Vaccine Sales In 2021

May 5, 2021 Morning Briefing

That would make it the biggest-selling pharmaceutical product in the world. The company, which splits its covid vaccine earnings 50-50 with BioNTech, expects demand to continue for years.

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Will Labor Day Weekend Bring Another Holiday COVID Surge?

By Blake Farmer, Nashville Public Radio September 4, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Epidemiologists are having a hard time predicting whether Labor Day will be like the Fourth of July and Memorial Day, when celebrations fanned the flames in coronavirus hot spots around the South and West.

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‘It Seems Systematic’: Doctors Cite 115 Cases of Head Injuries From Crowd Control Devices

By Jordan Culver, USA Today September 14, 2020 KFF Health News Original

In the most comprehensive tally of such injuries to date, the Physicians for Human Rights scoured publicly available data — including social media, news accounts and lawsuits — to document and name victims of summer protests. Still, the group cautions, it’s likely an undercount.

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OxyContin Settlement Grows To $4.28B

March 16, 2021 Morning Briefing

The restructuring plan with Purdue Pharma includes another $1.5 billion and also ensures that the money will largely be spent to help curb the nation’s opioid crisis, rather than going into states’ general coffers, The Wall Street Journal reported.

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Un sistema de salud pública devastado enfrenta más recortes en medio del virus

By Lauren Weber and Laura Ungar and Michelle R. Smith, The Associated Press and Hannah Recht and Anna Maria Barry-Jester July 1, 2020 KFF Health News Original

El sistema de salud pública de los Estados Unidos ha subsistido en la precariedad durante décadas y carece de los recursos necesarios para enfrentar la peor crisis de salud en un siglo.

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When Green Means Stop: How Safety Messages Got So Muddled

By Nina Feldman, WHYY August 4, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Philadelphia is in the “restricted green” reopening phase. What does that mean? And why does the U.S. have so many different pandemic safety rules? 

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Trump-Biden Race Could Hinge on How Florida’s Pinellas County Swings

By Phil Galewitz and Margo Snipe, Tampa Bay Times September 21, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Few places loom as large in the race for the White House as here in Pinellas County, the largest swing county in the ultimate swing state. And polls show that many people will have the pandemic and its public health and economic consequences on their minds when they cast their votes.

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California’s Deadliest Spring in 20 Years Suggests COVID Undercount

By Phillip Reese September 21, 2020 KFF Health News Original

California’s death count for the first five months of the pandemic was 13% higher than average for the same period during the prior three years. Subtract the deaths officially attributed to COVID-19 and experts say that still leaves scores of “excess” deaths among people of color that likely were mistakenly excluded from the coronavirus death tally.

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Congressional Candidates Go Head-To-Head On Health Care — Again

By Ana B. Ibarra February 24, 2020 KFF Health News Original

The California Democratic members of Congress who flipped seven Republican seats two years ago made health care a major campaign issue, criticizing their opponents for voting to repeal the Affordable Care Act. As the Democrats defend their seats in this year’s elections, they are coming back to health care — but the issues are different.

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