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First Edition: Friday, Feb. 7, 2025

February 7, 2025 Morning Briefing

Today’s early morning highlights from the major news organizations. Note to readers: We’d like to speak with personnel from the Department of Health and Human Services or its component agencies — whether you’re currently working or have recently left — who believe the public should understand the impact of what’s happening within the federal health bureaucracy. Please get in touch: https://kffhealthnews.org/hhs-tips/, or contact reporter Arthur Allen directly by email or Signal, the encrypted messaging app, at ArthurA@kff.org or 202-365-6116.

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States Fight Student Mental Health Crisis With Days Off

By Giles Bruce June 13, 2022 KFF Health News Original

In early 2022, Illinois joined a growing number of states where lawmakers and school leaders are trying to combat the ongoing student mental health crisis by granting days off for mental health needs.

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After Medical Bills Broke the Bank, This Family Headed to Mexico for Care

By Paula Andalo April 27, 2022 KFF Health News Original

The Fierro family owed a Yuma, Arizona, hospital more than $7,000 for care given to mom and dad, so when a son dislocated his shoulder, they headed to Mexicali. The care was quick, good, and affordable.

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Tuberculosis Cases In Toddlers Increased 26% In 2022

May 9, 2023 Morning Briefing

A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report says there were 202 cases of TB in children ages 4 and younger last year, up from 160 cases in that age group in 2021. In other news, health officials are warning of a recent increase in mpox cases in Chicago.

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Beneficiarios de Medicaid se vacunan mucho menos contra covid

By Phil Galewitz August 27, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Si bien más de 202 millones de estadounidenses están vacunados al menos en parte contra covid, casi el 30% de las personas mayores de 12 años siguen sin vacunarse. Las encuestas muestran que los más pobres tienen menos probabilidades de recibir una vacuna.

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Luego de enfrentar terribles cuentas médicas, familia decide cruzar la frontera para recibir atención

By Paula Andalo April 27, 2022 KFF Health News Original

La familia Fierro le debe a un hospital de Yuma, Arizona, más de $7,000 por dos situaciones médicas. Así que cuando uno de los hijos se dislocó el hombro, fueron a Mexicali, México. La atención fue rápida, buena y económica.

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A Daily Pill to Treat Covid Could Be Just Months Away, Scientists Say

By JoNel Aleccia September 24, 2021 KFF Health News Original

At least three promising antiviral treatments for covid-19 are being tested in clinical trials, with results expected as soon as late fall or winter.

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Medicaid Vaccination Rates Founder as States Struggle to Immunize Their Poorest Residents

By Phil Galewitz August 27, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Efforts by states and the private health plans that many states pay to cover low-income Americans has been scattershot and hampered by a lack of data.

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Científicos dicen que una píldora diaria para tratar covid estaría a meses de distancia

By JoNel Aleccia September 24, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Los medicamentos que se están investigando tendrían el potencial de interferir con la capacidad del virus para replicarse en las células humanas.

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Despite Covid, Many Wealthy Hospitals Had a Banner Year With Federal Bailout

By Jordan Rau and Christine Spolar April 5, 2021 KFF Health News Original

As the crisis crushed smaller providers, some of the nation’s richest health systems thrived, reporting hundreds of millions of dollars in surpluses after accepting huge grants for pandemic relief. But poorer hospitals — many serving rural and minority populations — got a smaller slice of the pie and limped through the year with deficits and a bleak fiscal future.

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As Schools Spend Millions on Air Purifiers, Experts Warn of Overblown Claims and Harm to Children

By Lauren Weber and Christina Jewett May 3, 2021 KFF Health News Original

A KHN investigation found that more than 2,000 schools have spent millions of dollars for systems, lured by air purifier companies’ claims that experts say mislead or obscure the potential for harm from toxic ozone.

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Business Is Booming for Dialysis Giant Fresenius. It Took a $137M Bailout Anyway.

By Jordan Rau and Rachana Pradhan August 10, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Half of the money the Trump administration gave dialysis companies was collected by Fresenius, an international juggernaut with a robust balance sheet, a KHN analysis has found.

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Amid Surge, Hospitals Hesitate To Cancel Nonemergency Surgeries

By Samantha Young July 9, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Unlike earlier in the year, most hospitals are not proactively canceling elective surgeries, even in some places seeing spikes in coronavirus patients.

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In An Exchange About Coronavirus, Homeland Security Chief Gets Flu Mortality Rate Wrong

By Victoria Knight March 2, 2020 KFF Health News Original

The Homeland Security secretary missed the mark with his estimate of the flu’s annual U.S. mortality rate.

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Compression Garments Can Ease Lymphedema. Covering Costs? Not So Easy.

By Carmen Heredia Rodriguez October 23, 2019 KFF Health News Original

Private insurance plans vary in coverage for compression garments, and some fall short of meeting patients’ needs. Although Medicaid programs cover some of these expenses, Medicare does not.

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Shock, Rage Flare Over Trump’s ‘Reckless’ Tweet Downplaying COVID Danger

October 6, 2020 Morning Briefing

After spending three days in the hospital treated by an army of doctors and receiving cutting-edge care, President Donald Trump told Americans: “Don’t be afraid of Covid, Don’t let it dominate your life.” Doctors and scientists were aghast at the advice that counters all public health messaging about a disease that has killed over 202,000 Americans so far. Many families of victims voiced devastation over the president’s words.

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Federal Experts’ Advice On HPV Vaccine Could Leave Adults Confused

By Michelle Andrews August 8, 2019 KFF Health News Original

A federal advisory panel says people between ages 27 and 45 may benefit from the vaccine to fight the human papillomavirus. But some public health advocates worry that the advice doesn’t provide doctors and patients clear guidance about who in this large age group are good candidates for the vaccine.

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Recomendación sobre la vacuna contra el VPH para adultos puede generar confusión

By Michelle Andrews August 8, 2019 KFF Health News Original

El virus del papiloma humano es la infección de transmisión sexual más común en los Estados Unidos; casi todas las personas sexualmente activas lo contraerán en algún momento.

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February 12, 2019 Page

KFF Health News is a national newsroom that produces in-depth journalism about health issues. Together with policy analysis and polling, KFF Health News is one of the three major operating programs at KFF. KFF is an endowed nonprofit organization providing information on health issues to the nation. KFF Health News reports on how the health […]

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Lost on the Frontline

By The Staffs of KHN and The Guardian August 10, 2020 KFF Health News Original

“Lost on the Frontline” is an ongoing project by Kaiser Health News and The Guardian that aims to document the lives of health care workers in the U.S. who died from COVID 19, and to investigate why so many are victims of the disease.

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