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When Covid Deaths Are Dismissed or Stigmatized, Grief Is Mixed With Shame and Anger

By Brett Sholtis, WITF September 16, 2021 KFF Health News Original

After their brother died, two sisters faced a barrage of misinformation, pandemic denialism and blaming questions. Grief experts say that makes covid-19 the newest kind of “disenfranchising death.”

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A pair of surgically gloved hands signs a covid-19 vaccination card.

Patients With Vulnerable Immune Systems Worry Vaccine Exemptions May Put Them in Peril

By Aaron Bolton, MTPR March 22, 2022 KFF Health News Original

Montana’s governor pushed the state’s health workers to seek religious exemptions to a federal mandate to be vaccinated against covid, but the number who have done so is unknown.

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A group of reporters hold microphones to RaDonda Vaught, who is standing to the left of her lawyer, Peter Strianse.

As a Nurse Faces Prison for a Deadly Error, Her Colleagues Worry: Could I Be Next?

By Brett Kelman March 22, 2022 KFF Health News Original

Former nurse RaDonda Vaught is on trial for reckless homicide, and her case raises consequential questions about how nurses use computerized medication-dispensing cabinets.

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Evictions Continue Despite CDC Moratorium As COVID-19 Ravages U.S. Economy

Black and Hispanic Americans Suffer Most in Biggest US Decline in Life Expectancy Since WWII

By Liz Szabo June 24, 2021 KFF Health News Original

The pandemic will undermine Americans’ health for years. Even those not infected by the coronavirus could suffer health problems related to poverty, job loss, eviction — or all of the above.

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I Got a ‘Mild’ Breakthrough Case. Here’s What I Wish I’d Known.

By Will Stone September 20, 2021 KFF Health News Original

I was miserable for five days, am fully recovered a month later and have learned even more about what we do and don’t know about covid now.

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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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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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An illustration in pencil. A medical-gloved hand holds an hour glass. Inside the hourglass, pills with question marks fall down to become pills with dollar signs. A finger points to the dollar-sign pills.

Why Cheap, Older Drugs That Might Treat Covid Never Get Out of the Lab

By Arthur Allen April 19, 2022 KFF Health News Original

The hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin fiascoes have soured many doctors on repurposing drugs for covid. A few inexpensive old drugs may be as good as some of the new antivirals, but they face complex obstacles to get to patients.

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Getting a Covid Vaccine During Pregnancy Even More Urgent as ICU Beds Fill Up

By Ashley Lopez, KUT August 12, 2021 KFF Health News Original

The CDC recommends that pregnant people be vaccinated against covid-19, based on new safety and effectiveness evidence on the covid vaccines.

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Coronavirus Deranges the Immune System in Complex and Deadly Ways

By Liz Szabo March 4, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Researchers are testing treatments to overcome autoimmune reactions that begin when the body’s defenses respond to the coronavirus.

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Who Qualifies for a Covid Booster? The List Is Growing Longer

September 27, 2021 KFF Health News Original

KHN’s Sarah Jane Tribble and Arthur Allen join Science Friday host Ira Flatow to recap the evolving news in the run-up to offering booster shots for the covid vaccine.

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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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A digital illustration in pencil and watercolor. A woman wearing vivid orange and yellow stands in the center of the frame, cloaked by a deep purple blanket covered in distorted yellow clocks. Behind her head is a crescent moon, which radiates light out from behind her figure. The background is composed of cloudy purple and blues, scattered with bright yellow stars. She holds a book, and is mid-page turn.

Noctámbulos mejoran su salud por la flexibilidad laboral durante la pandemia

By Krishna Sharma April 5, 2022 KFF Health News Original

Suelen sufrir a causa del mito de que “al que madruga, Dios lo ayuda”. Por la pandemia, lograron un mayor equilibrio físico y emocional.

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Longer Looks: Interesting Reads You Might Have Missed

February 17, 2023 Morning Briefing

Each week, KHN finds longer stories for you to enjoy. This week’s selections include stories on the Marburg virus, coronavirus, the Great Epizootic, psychedelics, and more.

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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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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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Más embarazadas con covid en cuidados intensivos, expertos enfatizan que deben vacunarse

By Ashley Lopez, KUT August 12, 2021 KFF Health News Original

La baja tasa de vacunación en este grupo es sorprendente, señalan médicos. Al 31 de julio, solo el 23% de las embarazadas habían recibido al menos una dosis de la vacuna contra el coronavirus, según estadísticas de los CDC.

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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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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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What the Health? From KFF Health News: Au Revoir, Public Health Emergency

February 2, 2023 Podcast

The Biden administration this week announced it would let the covid-19 public health emergency lapse on May 11, even as the Republican-led House was voting to immediately eliminate the special authorities of the so-called PHE. Meanwhile, anti-abortion forces are pressuring legislators to both tighten abortion restrictions and pay for every birth in the nation. Margot Sanger-Katz of The New York Times, Rachel Roubein of The Washington Post, and Victoria Knight of Axios join KHN’s chief Washington correspondent Julie Rovner to discuss these issues and more. Also this week, Rovner interviews Hannah Wesolowski of the National Alliance on Mental Illness about the rollout of the national 988 suicide prevention hotline.

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