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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.

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.

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 […]

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.”

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

What Is the Risk of Catching the Coronavirus on a Plane?

By Noah Y. Kim September 10, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis says airplanes are not vectors for the spread of COVID-19 and that flying is “something that is safe for people to do.” Is the evidence really so clear?

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.

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.

Live Free or Die if You Must, Say Colorado Urbanites — But Not in My Hospital

By Rae Ellen Bichell December 29, 2020 KFF Health News Original

In a fracas between a largely rural county and neighboring cities, class and politics are just as relevant as the coronavirus. People are getting “stupid and mean,” as one mayor put it.

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.

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