Amid Covid Booster Debate, West Virginia to Check Immunity of Vaccinated Nursing Home Residents
By Phil Galewitz
July 30, 2021
KFF Health News Original
The state says it will look at the levels of disease-fighting antibodies among nursing home residents vaccinated against covid, which could help indicate whether they need a booster shot.
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.
After Pandemic Ravaged Nursing Homes, New State Laws Protect Residents
By Susan Jaffe
August 20, 2021
KFF Health News Original
This year, 23 states passed more than 70 pandemic-related provisions affecting nursing homes, including measures setting minimum staffing levels, expanding visitation protections and limiting owners’ profit margins.
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.
With No End in Sight to Pandemic Life, Parents Find Disruption Is the New Normal
By Katharine Gammon
January 14, 2022
KFF Health News Original
Amid covid-related staffing shortages and testing requirements, school systems are stretched thin. And so are parents’ nerves.
Labor Department Issues Emergency Rules to Protect Health Care Workers From Covid
By Christina Jewett
June 10, 2021
KFF Health News Original
Citing the deaths of thousands of health care workers, the new rules will force employers to report fatalities or hospitalizations to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, and provide higher-quality protective gear, among other actions.
House Covid Panel Releases Final Report Critical Of Pandemic Response
December 3, 2024
Morning Briefing
The House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic criticized efforts of the WHO, as well as social distancing and mask mandates, and credited Operation Warp Speed. Also in covid-related news, Donald Trump’s health agency nominees, nursing homes, and more.
A ‘Dose of Hope’? Fact-Checking President Joe Biden’s First Speech to Congress
By Louis Jacobson, PolitiFact Amy Sherman, PolitiFact Miriam Valverde, PolitiFact Victoria Knight
April 29, 2021
KFF Health News Original
In his first speech before a joint session of Congress, President Joe Biden argued it was time to turn the coronavirus pandemic into a historic opportunity to expand government for the benefit of a wider range of Americans, urging investments in jobs, climate change, child care, infrastructure and more.
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
Pandemic Imperiled Non-English Speakers More Than Others
By Martha Bebinger, WBUR
April 27, 2021
KFF Health News Original
Covid patients who did not speak English well were 35% more likely to die, data from one Boston hospital shows.
Analysis: Why We’ll Likely Never Know Whether a Covid Lab Leak Happened in China
By Elisabeth Rosenthal
June 29, 2021
KFF Health News Original
If international scientific sleuths are hoping to see a lab log or find a whistleblower, that sort of information won’t be revealed. In China today, it is dangerous to say what you know if it challenges the official government narrative.
Bounties and Bonuses Leave Small Hospitals Behind in Staffing Wars
By Bram Sable-Smith
February 7, 2022
KFF Health News Original
A hospital in Wisconsin sued to keep seven employees from taking jobs with a competitor. A health system in South Dakota is offering nurses $40,000 signing bonuses. Facilities with fewer resources are finding it difficult or impossible to compete for health care workers.
‘Project Next Gen’ Aims To Expedite Vaccines To Combat Future Coronaviruses
April 11, 2023
Morning Briefing
As the successor to “Operation Warp Speed,” the White House is kicking off a new $5 billion initiative to develop vaccines and treatments for future covid variants as well as new coronaviruses that might emerge as public health threats. Also, President Joe Biden signs the bill ending the covid national emergency. The public health emergency remains in place until May 11.
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.
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.
Prominent Scientists Call on CDC to Better Protect Workers From Covid
By Christina Jewett
February 17, 2021
KFF Health News Original
The academics insist that more workers should get top-rated N95 masks, the best defense against airborne coronavirus particles.
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.
To Help Farmworkers Get Covid Tests and Vaccine, Build Trust and a Safety Net
By Christine Herman, WILL / Illinois Public Media Dana Cronin, WILL / Illinois Public Media
March 4, 2021
KFF Health News Original
Testing and vaccinating essential workers on commercial farms and in meatpacking plants requires more than a pop-up clinic miles away. Missing work to get a test, or to quarantine after a positive result, can be financially devastating.
One California University Has Unified Town and Gown to Fight Covid. Why Haven’t Others?
By Mark Kreidler
March 9, 2022
KFF Health News Original
The University of California-Davis has spent close to $50 million preventing the spread of covid on campus — and among residents and workers in the adjacent city of Davis. By most accounts, this town-gown experiment has paid off nicely.
High Obesity Rates in Southern States Magnify Covid Threat
By Sarah Varney
March 11, 2021
KFF Health News Original
In the American South — home to nine of the nation’s 12 heaviest states — obesity is playing a role not only in covid outcomes, but in the calculus of the vaccination rollout.
