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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
Hollowed-Out Public Health System Faces More Cuts Amid 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
The U.S. public health system has been starved for decades and lacks the resources necessary to confront the worst health crisis in a century. An investigation by The Associated Press and KHN has found that since 2010, spending for state public health departments has dropped by 16% per capita and for local health departments by 18%. At least 38,000 public health jobs have disappeared, leaving a skeletal workforce for what was once viewed as one of the world’s top public health systems. That has left the nation unprepared to deal with a virus that has sickened at least 2.6 million people and killed more than 126,000.
Research Roundup: COVID-19; Flu-Like Illness; Bariatric Surgery; Zika
October 15, 2020
Morning Briefing
Each week, KHN compiles a selection of recently released health policy studies and briefs.
FAQ: How Does New Trump Fetal Tissue Policy Impact Medical Research?
By Michelle Andrews
June 7, 2019
KFF Health News Original
The scientific use of tissue from aborted fetuses has frequently been a hot point of contention between anti-abortion forces and researchers. It heats up again as federal officials announced this week they were ending NIH research using the tissue.
Cómo impacta a la ciencia las nuevas normas del gobierno sobre el uso de tejido fetal
By Michelle Andrews
June 7, 2019
KFF Health News Original
El anuncio de que el gobierno federal está cambiando su política sobre el uso de tejido fetal humano en la investigación médica podría retrasar importantes avances.
Partisan Bickering In Congress Crippled Response To Zika In 2016. Experts Warn Lawmakers: Don’t Repeat History.
March 2, 2020
Morning Briefing
Lawmakers are discussing emergency funding for the coronavirus, but there’s not even a draft of the legislation yet. Public health experts worry that the funding will get held up in the gridlock created by a hyper-partisan Congress, leaving cash-strapped state health departments underwater. Meanwhile, Democrats seize on the Trump administration’s response to the crisis as a talking point on the campaign trail.
Must-Reads Of The Week From Brianna Labuskes
By Brianna Labuskes
August 10, 2018
KFF Health News Original
Newsletter editor Brianna Labuskes wades through hundreds of health articles from the week so you don’t have to.
Must-Reads Of The Week From Brianna Labuskes
By Brianna Labuskes
June 8, 2018
KFF Health News Original
KHN’s newsletter editor, Brianna Labuskes, wades through hundreds of health articles from the week so you don’t have to.