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Déjà Vu? Consumers Scramble for Covid Tests in Hard-Hit Areas

By Phil Galewitz and Rachel Bluth and Rae Ellen Bichell August 6, 2021 KFF Health News Original

As the nation confronts the delta variant, many consumers are again facing delays getting tested. The problem appears most acute in the South and Midwest, where new infections are growing the fastest.

This Health Care Magnate Wants to Fix Democracy, Starting in Colorado

By Rae Ellen Bichell December 14, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Kent Thiry, the former CEO of dialysis giant DaVita, has clear ideas about how democracy should work. By backing ballot measures in Colorado, he’s shaping the power of voters in that state.

People Proving to Be Weakest Link for Apps Tracking COVID Exposure

By Rae Ellen Bichell November 19, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Contact tracers in many states are stretched thin. Colorado is among the latest states to launch an app that aims to help, based on the COVID contact-tracing tool built by Apple and Google. But there’s a chicken-and-egg problem: More people will use them if they prove to work, but the apps become effective only if more people use them.

Dialysis Industry Spends Millions, Emerges as Power Player in California Politics

By Samantha Young December 10, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Over the past four years, the dialysis industry has spent $233 million on both political offense and defense in California. Most of it went toward protecting its revenues against ballot initiatives, but the industry also strategically worked the corridors of the state Capitol.

The Best COVID Warning System? Poop and Pooled Spit, Says One Colorado School

By Rae Ellen Bichell November 3, 2020 KFF Health News Original

About 6% of large universities with in-person classes are routinely testing all students. For many institutions, that strategy is out of reach. To get ahead of the virus, Colorado State University is experimenting with a combination of sewage monitoring and a lesser-known approach to pool testing.

In Los Angeles and Beyond, Oxygen Is the Latest Covid Bottleneck

By Rae Ellen Bichell and Lauren Weber January 7, 2021 KFF Health News Original

The oxygen delivery infrastructure is crumbling under pressure in Los Angeles and other covid hot spots, jeopardizing patients’ access to precious air and limiting hospital turnover.

Need a COVID-19 Nurse? That’ll Be $8,000 a Week

By Markian Hawryluk and Rae Ellen Bichell November 24, 2020 KFF Health News Original

A shortage of nurses has turned hospital staffing into a sort of national bidding war, with hospitals willing to pay exorbitant wages to secure the nurses they need. That threatens to shift the supply of nurses toward more affluent areas.

Helping Ex-Inmates Stay Out Of The ER Brings Multiple Benefits

By Rae Ellen Bichell, NPR News December 6, 2016 KFF Health News Original

Each year, millions of Americans leave jail and prison. When they do, they’re likely to have a hard time managing their health. Some clinics are trying to provide ex-inmates with better, cheaper care.

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Elisabeth Rosenthal, Editor-in-Chief, joined KFF Health News in September 2016 after 22 years as a correspondent with The New York Times, where she covered a variety of beats from health care to environment and did a stint in the Beijing bureau. While in China, she covered SARS, bird flu, and the emergence of HIV/AIDS in […]

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