Stop Blaming Tuskegee, Critics Say. It’s Not an ‘Excuse’ for Current Medical Racism.
By April Dembosky, KQED
March 25, 2021
KFF Health News Original
The Tuskegee syphilis study is often cited as a reason Black Americans might hesitate to take the covid-19 vaccine. But many people say that current racism in health care and lack of access deserve more attention to move more Black Americans toward vaccine protection.
Fear of Flying Is a COVID-Era Conundrum
By Victoria Knight
November 20, 2020
KFF Health News Original
As coronavirus cases take off across the U.S., airlines promote holiday deals and encourage travel. But are flyers throwing caution to the wind?
Clots, Strokes and Rashes: Is COVID a Disease of the Blood Vessels?
By Will Stone
November 13, 2020
KFF Health News Original
COVID-19 can cause symptoms that go well beyond the lungs, from strokes to organ failure. To explain these widespread injuries, researchers are studying how the virus affects the vascular system.
Why You Can’t Find Cheap At-Home Covid Tests
By Rachana Pradhan Hannah Norman
November 22, 2021
KFF Health News Original
You probably won’t be testing everyone at your Thanksgiving table for covid because the tests are expensive and hard to find. Why? The federal government is partly to blame.
Covid Is Killing Rural Americans at Twice the Rate of Urbanites
By Lauren Weber
September 30, 2021
KFF Health News Original
The pandemic is devastating rural America, where lower vaccination rates are compounding the already limited medical care.
KFF Health News' 'What the Health?': 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.
Vaccine Wars Ignite in California as Lawmakers Seek Stronger Laws
By Angela Hart
January 24, 2022
KFF Health News Original
Anti-vaccination activists say California’s Democratic lawmakers are helping strengthen their movement nationally by pushing for tougher vaccine requirements — without exemptions for religious or personal beliefs. But a new pro-vaccine lobbying force is vowing to fight back.
KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: Sharing Vaccines With the World
May 6, 2021
KFF Health News Original
The Biden administration is bucking the drug industry and backing a waiver of covid-19 vaccine patent protections to help the rest of the world vaccinate its populations. Here at home, the Food and Drug Administration wants to ban menthol flavorings for cigarettes, setting off a fight with the tobacco industry. Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico, Tami Luhby of CNN and Kimberly Leonard of Business Insider join KHN’s Julie Rovner to discuss these issues and more. Plus, for extra credit, the panelists recommend their favorite health policy stories of the week they think you should read, too.
A Year Into Pandemic, Federal Officials Move to Better Protect Front-Line Workers
By Christina Jewett
April 14, 2021
KFF Health News Original
Changes would allow N95 sales for industries other than health care and signal an end to the hospital practice of reusing the masks considered essential for worker safety.
El futuro en la vigilancia de enfermedades infecciosas puede estar… en el popó
By Anna Maria Barry-Jester
March 24, 2022
KFF Health News Original
El lodo que se recolecta de las aguas residuales, adonde se arrojan las heces de la comunidad, puede ser clave para detectar no solo covid, sino otras enfermedades infecciosas.
Even in Red States, Colleges Gravitate to Requiring Vaccines and Masks
By Michelle Andrews
September 9, 2021
KFF Health News Original
As students return to campus, schools across the country are taking steps to enforce public health advice to keep people safe from covid. In deeply conservative South Carolina when elected officials tried to stop that, a professor took on the establishment and won.
Democratic Convention, Night 1: Hitting Trump Team on Pandemic Preparedness
August 18, 2020
KFF Health News Original
The coronavirus was a critical theme throughout the evening.
Behind The Byline: How Do You Say …?
By Victoria Knight
November 5, 2020
KFF Health News Original
Check out KHN’s video series — Behind The Byline: How the Story Got Made. Come along as journalists and producers offer an insider’s view of health care coverage that does not quit.
Going Home for the Holidays? For Many Americans, That’s a Risky Decision
By Victoria Knight
December 11, 2020
KFF Health News Original
Public health officials have urged Americans to hunker down, but people are still planning trips and contemplating ways to mitigate the risk of catching or spreading the coronavirus.
‘Nine Months Into It, the Adrenaline Is Gone and It’s Just Exhausting’
By Anna Maria Barry-Jester
December 21, 2020
KFF Health News Original
A UCSF emergency room physician reflects on California’s response to COVID-19 and on lessons learned — or not — as the coronavirus makes its second devastating surge.
Long-Term Care Workers, Grieving and Under Siege, Brace for COVID’s Next Round
By Judith Graham
November 16, 2020
KFF Health News Original
As the coronavirus surges around the country, workers in nursing homes and assisted living centers are watching cases rise in long-term care facilities with a sense of dread. Many of these workers struggle with grief over the suffering they’ve witnessed.
Government Oversight of Covid Air Cleaners Leaves Gaping Holes
By Lauren Weber Christina Jewett
July 12, 2021
KFF Health News Original
Thousands of schools have spent millions of federal covid relief dollars snapping up air cleaning technology that claims to inactivate covid-19. But the devices fall into a regulatory gap.
After ‘Truly Appalling’ Death Toll in Nursing Homes, California Rethinks Their Funding
By Samantha Young
December 16, 2021
KFF Health News Original
California wants to hold nursing homes accountable for the quality of care they provide by tying Medicaid funding more directly to performance. But the nursing home industry, an influential player in the Capitol, is gearing up for a fight.
Home Births Gain Popularity in ‘Baby Bust’ Decade
By Phillip Reese
September 22, 2021
KFF Health News Original
Over the past decade, California has seen a sustained rise in the proportion of people who opt to give birth at home or in midwife-run birthing centers rather than in a hospital. Covid has further fueled that trend.
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.
