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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.

Vacuna de Pfizer para adolescentes: lo que tienes que saber

By Carmen Heredia Rodriguez May 14, 2021 KFF Health News Original

El gobierno federal aprobó para uso de emergencia la vacuna de Pfizer para adolescentes de 12 a 15 años. ¿Qué significa esto para tu hijo? La ampliación del uso de emergencia de la vacuna de Pfizer-BioNTech para preadolescentes y adolescentes jóvenes añade casi 17 millones de estadounidenses más al grupo de personas elegibles para ser […]

As Biden Gets Sworn In, White House Will Get Scrubbed Down

By Phil Galewitz December 21, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Fears about lingering coronavirus at the White House are prompting a massive disinfection initiative before the Bidens move in.

It’s Time to Get Back to Normal? Not According to Science.

By Victoria Knight February 23, 2021 KFF Health News Original

With covid, and its newly emerging variants, still circulating throughout the nation and the world, experts say it is definitely not the time to abandon efforts to control the virus’s spread.

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.

S.D. Governor Gives State High Marks in Handling the Pandemic. Are They Deserved?

By Carmen Heredia Rodriguez February 12, 2021 KFF Health News Original

While South Dakota is excelling in vaccine distribution and in keeping its economy intact, some health measures show the state is also dealing with one of the highest per capita covid death rates in the country.

Peligran avances contra el VIH por la lucha contra covid, en especial en el sur del país

By Sarah Varney April 21, 2021 KFF Health News Original

El impacto exacto de una pandemia sobre la otra todavía está por evaluarse, pero los datos preliminares inquietan a expertos que hasta hace poco celebraban los enormes avances en el tratamiento del VIH.

For Covid ‘Long Haulers,’ Battling for Disability Benefits Adds Aggravation to Exhaustion

By David Tuller March 10, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Early in the pandemic, many patients couldn’t be tested. The lack of a covid diagnosis complicates disability insurance for those whose illness continues.

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.

DC’s Harllee Harper Is Using Public Health Tools to Prevent Gun Violence. Will It Work?

By Amanda Michelle Gomez October 21, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Expectations are high for the city’s first-ever gun violence prevention director to curb the surging murder rate with interventions outside of traditional law enforcement.

Trump’s Wrong. 15% ‘Herd Immunity’ Is Not on Par With Strength of a Vaccine

By Victoria Knight December 15, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Experts agree that more than 70% of a population needs to be inoculated to reach “herd immunity.”

Sleep Well Before Getting Vaccines — It May Alter The Shot’s Effectiveness

March 14, 2023 Morning Briefing

A study found startling implications concerning vaccine effectiveness, whether for covid or the flu: Sleeping less than six hours was found to limit the body’s response to the shot, reducing protection. Also: How little we still know about the coronavirus.

Covid: 5 razones para seguir usando máscara después de vacunarse

By Liz Szabo January 15, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Las vacunas se probaron en ensayos clínicos, en los mejores centros médicos, en condiciones óptimas. Pero en el mundo real, suelen ser un poco menos efectivas.

Black Doctors Work to Make Coronavirus Testing More Equitable

By Nina Feldman, WHYY October 13, 2020 KFF Health News Original

The Black Doctors COVID-19 Consortium has increased access to coronavirus testing in the Philadelphia region, testing more than 10,000 people. The group’s mobile unit and pop-up testing sites also offer patients an opportunity to connect with African American health care providers.

Labs With No One to Run Them: Why Public Health Workers Are Fleeing the Field

By Anna Maria Barry-Jester November 2, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Across California, public health departments are losing experienced staffers to exhaustion, partisan politics and jobs that pay more for less work. The public health nurses, epidemiologists and microbiologists who work to keep our communities healthy are abandoning the field.

Do-It-Yourself Contact Tracing Is a ‘Last Resort’ in Communities Besieged by Covid

By Brett Dahlberg, WCMU January 8, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Covid-19 cases are spreading so fast that they’re outpacing the contact-tracing capacities of some local health departments. Faced with mounting caseloads, those departments are asking people who test positive for the coronavirus to do their own contact tracing.

Mientras el país se acerca a un millón de muertes por covid, un condado enfrenta terribles pérdidas

By Phil Galewitz April 1, 2022 KFF Health News Original

En Pennsylvania, el condado de Mifflin, mayormente anti vacunas, está procesando un duelo por fuera de las estadísticas: 337 muertes por covid. De estas personas, 311 no habían recibido ninguna dosis.

Last Call for COVID: To Avoid Bar Shutdowns, States Serve Up Curfews

By Jordan Rau December 4, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Authorities are ordering early closures — generally around 10 p.m. — to curb the spread of COVID-19. But will the coronavirus observe this curfew?

Government Oversight of Covid Air Cleaners Leaves Gaping Holes

By Lauren Weber and 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.

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.

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