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Firefighters — ‘Health Care Providers on a Truck’ — Signal Pandemic Burnout

By Sandy West March 5, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Grappling with stagnant pay and a lack of personal protective equipment, firefighters are even more frustrated to find they are lower down the vaccine priority list than health care workers despite serving on the front lines of the medical system.

Nosing In on Kids Who Had Covid and Lost Their Sense of Smell

By Carmen Heredia Rodriguez March 25, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Clinicians at pediatric hospitals are experimenting with “smell training” among children who had covid-19 and have now lost this sense.

Pathogen Research Limits Raised On Day 1 Of House Covid Origins Hearings

March 9, 2023 Morning Briefing

The curtain raised Wednesday on the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic’s hearings into the covid origins, with theories about a possible lab leak discussed. Dr. Robert Redfield, who was the director of the CDC during the Trump administration, suggested lawmakers should limit or ban scientific research that alters pathogens.

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.

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.

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.

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.

De puerta en puerta para crear confianza en las vacunas contra covid en la Pequeña Habana

By Verónica Zaragovia, WLRN January 21, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Varias razones sociales y económicas hacen que sea difícil para algunos residentes de Miami hacerse la prueba o recibir tratamiento, o aislarse si están enfermos de covid.

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 […]

‘An Arm and a Leg’: How to Avoid a Big Bill for Your COVID Test

By Dan Weissmann November 30, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Tests for the coronavirus are supposed to be free. And, usually, they are. But sometimes … things happen. Here’s how to avoid getting a surprise bill for a test.

Nurses in Crisis Over Covid Dig In for Better Work Conditions

By Christine Spolar and Mark Kreidler and Rae Ellen Bichell December 16, 2021 KFF Health News Original

In tough labor negotiations across the nation, here’s what nurses don’t want: “appreciation that is lip service,” “marketing campaigns” and “shiny new buildings.” And this year might well prove to be a turning point in efforts to organize health care’s essential workers.

Por qué los piojos siguen acechando, a pesar del distanciamiento social

By Rae Ellen Bichell November 19, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Desafortunadamente, las medidas que han tomado muchas escuelas para prevenir la transmisión del covid-19 al reabrir hacen poco para prevenir la propagación del piojo de la cabeza.

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.

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.

Analysis: When Is a Coronavirus Test Not a Coronavirus Test?

By Elisabeth Rosenthal July 29, 2020 KFF Health News Original

If it takes 12 days to get results, testing is basically pointless.

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.

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.

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.

Analysis: Winter Is Coming for Bars. Here’s How to Save Them. And Us.

By Elisabeth Rosenthal October 22, 2020 KFF Health News Original

To stop the coronavirus, we need to stop super-spreader events.

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.

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