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Solitary Confinement Condemns Many Prisoners to Long-Term Health Issues

By Katja Ridderbusch October 5, 2021 KFF Health News Original

An estimated 300,000 people were held in solitary confinement in U.S. jails and prisons at the height of the pandemic. An international movement is pushing to limit the form of incarceration due to its damaging physical and psychological effects.

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.

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?

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.

In Philadelphia, a Scandal Erupts Over Vaccination Startup Led by 22-Year-Old

By Nina Feldman, WHYY and Max Marin, WHYY and Alan Yu, WHYY February 2, 2021 KFF Health News Original

City officials gave coronavirus vaccines to Philly Fighting Covid, whose brash CEO had no health care experience. After a WHYY investigation, the city cut ties with the group over alleged mismanagement.

‘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.

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.

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.

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.

Hard Lessons From a City That Tried to Privatize Public Health

By Anna Maria Barry-Jester August 6, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Facing bankruptcy, Detroit largely dismantled its public health department in 2012, and the city essentially went two years without a government-run public health system. Five years later, this major American city offers a grim cautionary tale.

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.

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.

Health Care Unions Defending Newsom From Recall Will Want Single-Payer Payback

By Angela Hart September 13, 2021 KFF Health News Original

If Gov. Gavin Newsom survives Tuesday’s recall election, the health care unions that have campaigned on his behalf intend to pressure him to follow through on his promise to establish a government-run health system in California.

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.

At Texas Border, Pandemic’s High Toll Lays Bare Gaps in Health and Insurance

By René Kladzyk, El Paso Matters and Phil Galewitz and Elizabeth Lucas June 23, 2021 KFF Health News Original

In Texas’ border communities, which are overwhelmingly Hispanic, covid-19 death rates for people under age 65 were double those in the rest of the state and three times the national average. They were also significantly higher than rates in New Mexico border areas.

Trump White House Interfered With CDC Covid Reports, House Panel Finds

October 18, 2022 Morning Briefing

Routine “bullying” and job threats by Trump administration officials led to changes in pandemic-related public health guidance to suit the White House’s political message on issues like masking and travel bans, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officials told the House select subcommittee on the coronavirus crisis.

Cancer Vaccine Possible By 2030, BioNTech Co-Founders Say

October 17, 2022 Morning Briefing

BioNTech’s Uğur Şahin and Özlem Türeci say mRNA technology at the heart of their company’s covid vaccine could be repurposed so that it primed the immune system to attack cancer cells instead of invading coronaviruses, The Guardian reports. Plus, the latest efforts to eradicate polio worldwide.

California’s Highest Covid Infection Rates Shift to Rural Counties

By Phillip Reese July 7, 2021 KFF Health News Original

As vaccination rates rise across the state, the overall numbers of covid cases and deaths have plunged. But health officials are still reporting nearly 1,000 new cases and more than two dozen deaths a day. So, where does covid continue to simmer in California? And why?

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.

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.

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