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Expertos en salud pública temen que los fondos desaparezcan cuando termine la pandemia

By Michelle R. Smith, The Associated Press and Lauren Weber and Hannah Recht April 19, 2021 KFF Health News Original

El Congreso ha enviado miles de millones a los departamentos de salud para luchar contra covid. Pero históricamente, esta financiación se acaba cuando termina la emergencia sanitaria.

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La pandemia presenta riesgos a corto y largo plazo para bebés, especialmente varones

By Liz Szabo December 21, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Las embarazadas con covid tienen cinco veces más probabilidades que las que no lo están de necesitar cuidados intensivos. Pero las consecuencias para el bebé pueden ser a largo plazo.

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Zika Simmers On Back Burner As World Copes With String Of Viral Menaces

August 16, 2022 Morning Briefing

A frightening outbreak of the mosquito-borne illness in 2015 and 2016 left many children around the world with devastating brain damage. The New York Times reports on how families and researchers are struggling to find a cure as attention dried up in the wake of the covid-19 pandemic.

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Doctors Scramble to Understand Long Covid, but Causes and Prognosis Are Elusive

By Michelle Andrews and Lydia Zuraw April 22, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Medical experts are struggling to define or explain the lingering, debilitating symptoms some covid patients experience. Part of the problem is the wide range of symptoms, but doctors say getting a better understanding will mean tracking patients and their outcomes and establishing clinical trials.

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Morning Briefing for Tuesday, August 16, 2022

August 16, 2022 Morning Briefing

Tuesday’s roundup covers the health and climate bill, covid vaccines, mask mandates, abortion, maternal health, monkeypox, Zika, and more.

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Disease-Carrying Mosquitoes Fly Free as Health Departments Focus on Coronavirus

By Anna Maria Barry-Jester and Lauren Weber July 16, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Health departments and other public agencies tasked with protecting the nation from disease-carrying mosquitoes are overstretched amid the coronavirus pandemic — even as the nation is told it’s safest to be outside.

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Moderna Soon Will Begin Vaccine Trials For 15 Other Diseases

March 8, 2022 Morning Briefing

The company’s efforts will include prototype vaccines against Middle East respiratory syndrome, the Ebola and Marburg viruses, Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever, chikungunya, and dengue. The company has already begun trials for HIV and Zika vaccines, Bloomberg reported.

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Drugmakers Tout COVID-19 Vaccines To Refurbish Their Public Image

By Jay Hancock May 18, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Vaccines and antivirals have long been an afterthought but Johnson & Johnson and other firms are widely publicizing how they might stop COVID 19.

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KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: What Would Dr. Fauci Do?

November 19, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Anthony Fauci is one of the nation’s most trusted voices during public health emergencies. As the head of the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases since 1984, Fauci has helped guide the nation through the HIV/AIDS epidemic and more recent outbreaks of Ebola and Zika. In this special episode of KHN’s “What the Health?” podcast, Fauci sits down with KHN Editor-in-Chief Elisabeth Rosenthal to talk about how to navigate the next phase of the coronavirus pandemic and what the incoming Biden administration should do first.

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Biden Falsely Blames Trump Administration For Rejecting WHO Coronavirus Test Kits (That Were Never Offered)

By Victoria Knight and Jon Greenberg, PolitiFact March 16, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Biden’s statement leaves out context about how countries decided on which test they’d use to identify the presence of the coronavirus.

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Many US Health Experts Underestimated the Coronavirus … Until It Was Too Late

By Liz Szabo December 21, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Scientists learned the wrong lesson from past outbreaks, but Dr. Anthony Fauci doesn’t cast blame.

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Evidence Shows Obama Team Left A Pandemic ‘Game Plan’ For Trump Administration

By Victoria Knight May 15, 2020 KFF Health News Original

There’s an actual paper trail.

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Analysis: How A COVID-19 Vaccine Could Cost Americans Dearly

By Elisabeth Rosenthal July 8, 2020 KFF Health News Original

The United States is the only developed nation unable to balance cost, efficacy and social good in setting prices.

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Mientras los departamentos de salud se enfocan en COVID, mosquitos vuelan libres

By Anna Maria Barry-Jester and Lauren Weber July 16, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Todos los recursos de salud pública están enfocados en COVID, dejando volar libres a millones de mosquitos, sin control, que pueden transmitir enfermedades potencialmente mortales.

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Análisis: expertos desestimaron al coronavirus, hasta que fue demasiado tarde

By Liz Szabo December 21, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Muchos de los principales especialistas en enfermedades infecciosas subestimaron el veloz brote en sus primeras semanas y meses, asumiendo que Estados Unidos, otra vez, saldría ileso.

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Invasive Mosquitoes Plunge Deeper Into California

By Harriet Blair Rowan September 20, 2019 KFF Health News Original

Invasive mosquito species capable of carrying dangerous viruses such as Zika, dengue and yellow fever have been detected in 16 California counties. There’s no evidence the mosquitoes have transmitted these diseases within the state, but health officials urge residents to take steps to slow their spread.

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Keeping The COVID Plague At Bay: How California Is Protecting Older Veterans

By Dan Morain May 11, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Even as COVID-19 has ravaged nursing homes around the country, California has managed to keep the virus at bay at its eight state-run homes for frail and older veterans. What exactly went right?

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Something Far Deadlier Than The Wuhan Virus Lurks Near You

By Liz Szabo January 24, 2020 KFF Health News Original

There is a virus that has already sickened at least 13 million Americans this winter, hospitalizing 120,000 and killing 6,600 people. You may even know of it.

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Must-Reads Of The Week From Brianna Labuskes

By Brianna Labuskes April 17, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Newsletter editor Brianna Labuskes wades through hundreds of health care policy stories each week, so you don’t have to.

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Un virus mucho más mortal que el de Wuhan acecha en los Estados Unidos

By Liz Szabo January 24, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Se trata del virus de la influenza, que causa la gripe, y que representa una amenaza mucho mayor para los estadounidenses que el brote de coronavirus.

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