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Change to Gilead Assistance Program Threatens PrEP Access, HIV Advocates Say

By Carmen Heredia Rodriguez June 10, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Safety-net clinics especially are bracing for how the drugmaker’s policy shift could reduce their budgets and hamstring their ability to provide care to an at-risk population.

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What Does Approval of the Pfizer Vaccine for Teens and Preteens Mean for My Child?

By Carmen Heredia Rodriguez May 14, 2021 KFF Health News Original

The federal government has extended the emergency use of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine to preteens and young adolescents, adding nearly 17 million more Americans to the pool of those eligible to be immunized against covid-19.

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Vacuna de Pfizer para adolescentes: lo que tienes que saber

By Carmen Heredia Rodriguez May 14, 2021 KFF Health News Original

El gobierno federal aprobó para uso de emergencia la vacuna de Pfizer para adolescentes de 12 a 15 años. ¿Qué significa esto para tu hijo? La ampliación del uso de emergencia de la vacuna de Pfizer-BioNTech para preadolescentes y adolescentes jóvenes añade casi 17 millones de estadounidenses más al grupo de personas elegibles para ser […]

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Si me recuperé de covid, ¿por qué tengo que seguir usando máscara?

By Carmen Heredia Rodriguez April 16, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Más de 120 millones de estadounidenses se han unido al club más selecto de la Tierra: los inmunizados contra el coronavirus. Cómo siguen las pautas de seguridad.

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Ask KHN-PolitiFact: I’ve Recovered From Covid. Why Do I Still Have to Mask Up?

By Carmen Heredia Rodriguez April 16, 2021 KFF Health News Original

The simple answer is that enough remains unknown about covid transmission, post-infection immunity and the threat of emerging variants that masks are still advisable.

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Ask KHN-PolitiFact: How Can Covid Vaccines Be Safe When They Were Developed So Fast?

By Carmen Heredia Rodriguez March 30, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Experts say there’s nothing new about the research underpinning the covid vaccines and that they were tested in more participants than many other approved vaccines.

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Tratamiento con aceites esenciales para niños que perdieron el olfato por covid

By Carmen Heredia Rodriguez March 25, 2021 KFF Health News Original

A medida que la pandemia de covid ha ido evolucionando en los últimos 12 meses, un número creciente de niños han desarrollado la enfermedad. Y un grupo cada vez mayor sufre síntomas de larga duración.

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Nosing In on Kids Who Had Covid and Lost Their Sense of Smell

By Carmen Heredia Rodriguez March 25, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Clinicians at pediatric hospitals are experimenting with “smell training” among children who had covid-19 and have now lost this sense.

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Can Vaccination and Infection Rates Add Up to Reach Covid Herd Immunity?

By Carmen Heredia Rodriguez March 17, 2021 KFF Health News Original

A financial research firm offered its take on when states might be reaching the sought-after status of herd immunity. But some experts say the analysis is oversimplified.

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Hospitales infantiles enfrentan los casos de niños con covid “de largo plazo”

By Carmen Heredia Rodriguez March 3, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Aunque las estadísticas indican que la mayoría de los niños se han librado de los peores efectos de covid, se sabe poco sobre los que desarrollan una enfermedad grave.

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Children’s Hospitals Grapple With Young Covid ‘Long Haulers’

By Carmen Heredia Rodriguez March 3, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Pediatric hospitals are creating clinics for the increasing number of children reporting lingering covid symptoms similar to those that plague some adults long after they have recovered.

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Caring for an Aging Nation

By Lydia Zuraw and Carmen Heredia Rodriguez May 28, 2021 KFF Health News Original

The number of Americans 65 and older is expected to nearly double in the next 40 years. Finding a way to provide and pay for the long-term health services they need won’t be easy.

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S.D. Governor Gives State High Marks in Handling the Pandemic. Are They Deserved?

By Carmen Heredia Rodriguez February 12, 2021 KFF Health News Original

While South Dakota is excelling in vaccine distribution and in keeping its economy intact, some health measures show the state is also dealing with one of the highest per capita covid death rates in the country.

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Children’s Hospitals Grapple With Wave of Mental Illness

By Carmen Heredia Rodriguez January 6, 2021 KFF Health News Original

The disruption to daily life caused by the pandemic has increased the number of children seeking mental health care, further straining a system that already struggled to meet the need.

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Feds Look to Pharmacists to Boost Childhood Immunization Rates

By Carmen Heredia Rodriguez December 3, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Fears over COVID-19 have contributed to a slump in inoculations among children. Now the federal government is looking to pharmacists for help, but many of them do not participate in a program that offers free shots to half the kids in the U.S.

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Connecticut Is Doling Out Vaccines Based Strictly on Age. It’s Simpler, but Is it Fair?

By Phil Galewitz and Carmen Heredia Rodriguez March 1, 2021 KFF Health News Original

On Monday, Connecticut will be the first state to begin vaccinating anyone from age 55 to 64 — instead of people with chronic health issues and essential workers.

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For People With Visual Impairments, Truly Secret Ballots Are Elusive

By Carmen Heredia Rodriguez October 27, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Voters in several states who live with visual impairments must rely on family and friends to fill out their mail-in or absentee paper ballots, compromising their privacy. More states are relying on mail-in and absentee voting to reduce the spread of COVID-19.

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Con la escuela virtual… ¿qué pasa con las vacunas obligatorias?

By Carmen Heredia Rodriguez September 8, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Las escuelas juegan un papel fundamental en los esfuerzos de vacunación en los Estados Unidos. Ahora el desafío es mantener la inmunización con la instrucción a distancia.

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With Schools Starting Online, Vaccinations Head for Recess

By Carmen Heredia Rodriguez September 8, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Traditionally, requirements that kids undergo certain immunizations before attending school have been a critical public health tool. Health officials are scrambling to make sure children don’t fall through the cracks.

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KHN’s ‘What The Health?’: SCOTUS Decides An ACA Case. No, Not THAT Case.

April 30, 2020 KFF Health News Original

The Supreme Court this week, in an 8-1 decision, ruled that insurers are due the roughly $12 billion that Congress several years ago tried to cut off in payments under the Affordable Care Act’s “risk corridors” provision. And while the COVID-19 pandemic continues to rage in many places around the country, states are starting to reopen their economies at the urging of President Donald Trump and over objections of public health officials. Caitlin Owens of Axios and Mary Ellen McIntire of CQ Roll Call join KHN’s Julie Rovner to discuss this and more. Also, Rovner interviews KHN’s Carmen Heredia Rodriguez, who wrote the latest KHN-NPR “Bill of the Month” installment about COVID testing that should have been free but was not.

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