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¿Qué sabemos realmente sobre la eficacia de las vacunas contra covid?

By Julie Appleby November 2, 2021 KFF Health News Original

¿Lo esencial? Vacunarse con cualquiera de las tres vacunas disponibles en los Estados Unidos disminuye la posibilidad de infectarse en primer lugar y reduce de manera significativa el riesgo de hospitalización o muerte si se contrae el coronavirus y se desarrolla covid-19.

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Claims That CDC’s PCR Test Can’t Tell Covid From Flu Are Wrong

By Victoria Knight July 30, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Posts circulating on Facebook and Instagram incorrectly claim that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is withdrawing its covid test because it can’t differentiate between that virus and flu viruses. These statements could be an attempt to blur the high cumulative numbers of covid cases.

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To the Bat Cave: In Search of Covid’s Origins, Scientists Reignite Polarizing Debate on Wuhan ‘Lab Leak’

By Arthur Allen May 19, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Leading virologists, including Dr. Anthony Fauci, are demanding a deeper probe into China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology as they try to identify the source of the deadly coronavirus.

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Wildfire Smoke Drives People in Low-Vaccinated Areas Indoors, Raising Outbreak Fears

By Aaron Bolton, MTPR July 22, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Unvaccinated Westerners are flocking to movie theaters, malls and other indoor spaces to beat the smoke and heat. Health officials worry that may fuel covid outbreaks.

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Cuando se desestima o estigmatiza a las muertes por covid, el dolor se mezcla con ira y vergüenza

By Brett Sholtis, WITF September 21, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Las víctimas de covid están sufriendo la misma estigmatización que los que mueren por sobredosis o suicidio. Ellos son los responsables, piensan algunos.

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Coronavirus ‘Lab Leak’ Theory Supported By FBI Director

March 1, 2023 Morning Briefing

FBI Director Christopher Wray said the source of covid was likely a laboratory leak in China, The Wall Street Journal reports. China’s government maintains it has been “open and transparent” on its own efforts to trace covid’s origin. Other news includes efforts to prevent the next pandemic.

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They Lost Medicaid When Paperwork Was Sent to an Empty Field, Signaling the Mess to Come

By Brett Kelman August 3, 2022 KFF Health News Original

Tennessee expects to soon disenroll about 300,000 people from its Medicaid program. But families like the Lesters have suffered when bureaucracy and clerical mistakes caused them to unfairly lose coverage under the same program.

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Health Officials See Bright Future in Poop Surveillance

By Anna Maria Barry-Jester March 24, 2022 KFF Health News Original

Sewage surveillance is proving so useful in mapping covid trends that many public health officials say it should become standard practice in tracking infectious diseases. Whether that happens will depend on the nation’s ability to make it viable in communities rich and poor.

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Biden Kept His Promise to Increase Covid-Testing Capacity, Even as Demand for Testing Drops

By Victoria Knight June 11, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Experts told us that the system’s capacity has improved and people now have access to different testing options.

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New Laws Let Visitors See Loved Ones in Health Care Facilities, Even in an Outbreak

By Stephanie Colombini, WUSF April 8, 2022 KFF Health News Original

To contain the spread of covid, hospitals and nursing homes barred visits. The separation and isolation took a toll on patients and families. Florida is one of the latest states to ensure access for visitors.

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One Year In: How Covid’s Toll Compares With Other Causes of Death

By Louis Jacobson, PolitiFact March 11, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Covid-19 has become the country’s third-leading cause of death, and isn’t far behind cancer.

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Montana Mice May Hold the Secret to Virus Spillover

By Jim Robbins February 10, 2022 KFF Health News Original

Researchers in Montana are working to figure out how climate change and biodiversity affect viruses’ jump from animals to people.

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El regreso de la poliomielitis y la vuelta a clases: lo que debes saber

By Céline Gounder September 16, 2022 KFF Health News Original

Ahora que la poliomielitis vuelve a aparecer décadas después de que se considerara eliminada en Estados Unidos, los que no están familiarizados con la temida enfermedad necesitan una guía para protegerse a sí mismos y a sus hijos

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HHS’ $5B ‘Project NextGen’ Aims To Develop New Coronavirus Shots, Drugs

May 12, 2023 Morning Briefing

Axios reports that the majority of that funding will go to the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority for public-private partnerships — similar to the Operation Warp Speed model — to create next generation covid treatments and “pan-coronavirus vaccines.”

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Firefighters on Front Lines, No Strangers to Risk, Push Back Against Covid Vaccine Mandates

By Sandy West September 27, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Among the people still reluctant to get vaccinated — and pushing against mandates — are firefighters, many of whom also respond to medical calls as paramedics and EMTs and have witnessed the ravages of the pandemic firsthand.

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Wildfires and Omicron Prompt a Special Health Insurance Enrollment Period in Colorado

By Markian Hawryluk January 20, 2022 KFF Health News Original

Disasters have previously prompted special enrollment periods in California, Maine, and the South. Now, Colorado is extending the state insurance marketplace sign-up period by two months.

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Different Virus, ‘Same Mistakes’: Birx Sounds Alarm About Bird Flu Response

June 5, 2024 Morning Briefing

Deborah Birx, the former federal coronavirus response coordinator, thinks the U.S. should be testing cows and people often for the H5N1 bird flu virus so that we don’t reach pandemic stage. Meanwhile, Michigan pumps the breaks on field trips to dairy farms. Mpox and covid are also in the news.

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Ask KHN-PolitiFact: Is My Cloth Mask Good Enough to Face the Delta Variant?

By Amanda Michelle Gomez September 20, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Public health experts increasingly urge people to upgrade to surgical masks, but also maintain that cloth masks still offer protection.

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Rows of at-home rapid covid tests are seen disappearing in this photo illustration.

States Were Sharing Covid Test Kits. Then Omicron Hit.

By Katheryn Houghton January 31, 2022 KFF Health News Original

The omicron variant upended a system in which states shared rapid covid tests with those that needed them more. Cooperation has turned into competition as states run out of supplies, limit which organizations get them, or hold on to expired kits as a last resort.

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Lie of the Year: The Downplay and Denial of the Coronavirus

By Daniel Funke, PolitiFact and Katie Sanders, PolitiFact December 16, 2020 KFF Health News Original

It’s no worse than the flu, and other deadly disinformation about the coronavirus

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