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‘It Doesn’t Feel Worth It’: Covid Is Pushing New York’s EMTs to the Brink

By Martha Pskowski, The Guardian February 24, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Struggling with low pay and high stress, New York paramedics and EMTs are reaching a breaking point.

Ask KHN-PolitiFact: How Can Covid Vaccines Be Safe When They Were Developed So Fast?

By Carmen Heredia Rodriguez March 30, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Experts say there’s nothing new about the research underpinning the covid vaccines and that they were tested in more participants than many other approved vaccines.

Religiosos enferman de covid mientras confortan a enfermos y moribundos

By Bruce Alpert February 23, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Esta labor espiritual es la clave del trabajo de los capellanes de los hospitales, pero puede exponerlos a la propagación de virus en el aire o, a veces, a través del tacto.

Covid Forever? Most Think Virus Will Be Around For Rest Of Their Lives

July 20, 2022 Morning Briefing

When asked if “we will never fully be rid of the coronavirus in my lifetime,” 78% of the Americans surveyed agreed. Meanwhile, the dominance of the omicron BA.5 subvariant grows.

Paying Billions for Controversial Alzheimer’s Drug? How About Funding This Instead?

By Judith Graham July 6, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Aduhelm, approved by the Food and Drug Administration last month despite questions about its efficacy, could be prescribed to at least 1 million patients a year, for a price tag of about $56 billion. Experts suggest there might be better ways to spend that money.

Covid-Certified Businesses Try to Woo Leery Patrons

By Christie Aschwanden February 4, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Public health officials in Colorado have joined forces with local businesses in a new program meant to encourage people to shop and dine in a covid-crippled economy.

Paciente de transplante muere después de recibir pulmones infectados con covid

By JoNel Aleccia February 22, 2021 KFF Health News Original

El incidente parece ser aislado, el único caso confirmado entre casi 40,000 trasplantes realizados en 2020. Pero ha generado el pedido de que se hagan pruebas más exhaustivas a los donantes.

In Debate, Pence and Harris Offer Conflicting Views of Nation’s Reality

By the staffs of KHN and PolitiFact October 8, 2020 KFF Health News Original

During this, the first and only vice presidential debate of the 2020 election season, the two candidates clashed over the coronavirus and other health care issues, as well as a range of other topics.

In Rural Missouri, Latinos Learn to Contain and Cope With the Coronavirus

By Sebastián Martínez Valdivia, KBIA August 7, 2020 KFF Health News Original

In a town in the southwestern corner of Missouri, where COVID-19 has disproportionately affected Latino immigrants, language barriers and economic pressures among factory workers have stymied efforts to slow the virus that causes the disease.

La pandemia de covid-19 está devastando a los profesionales de salud de color

By Danielle Renwick, The Guardian January 5, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Las personas de color representan aproximadamente el 65% de las muertes en los casos en los que hay datos registrados de raza y etnia.

‘It’s Science, Stupid’: A School Subject Emerges as a Hot-Button Political Issue

By Victoria Knight October 30, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Science is becoming increasingly politicized, so how will it fare on the campaign trail — in 2020 and beyond?

Telemedicine Is a Tool — Not a Replacement for Your Doctor’s Touch

By Elisabeth Rosenthal May 6, 2021 KFF Health News Original

The pandemic has demonstrated that virtual medicine is great for simple visits. But many new types of telemedicine promoted by start-ups more clearly benefit providers’ and investors’ pockets, rather than yielding more convenient, high-quality and cost-effective medicine for patients.

Frente a la próxima pandemia

By Jim Robbins January 4, 2021 KFF Health News Original

La creciente invasión de entornos naturales a medida que aumenta la población mundial hace que la pregunta sea cuándo ocurrirá otra pandemia mortal, no si ocurrirá.

A Primary Care Physician for Every American, Science Panel Urges

By Noam N. Levey May 4, 2021 KFF Health News Original

It’s time to consider primary care a “common good” akin to public education and shore up the foundation of the pandemic-battered U.S. health system, report says.

NIH ‘Very Concerned’ About Serious Side Effect in Coronavirus Vaccine Trial

By Arthur Allen and Liz Szabo September 14, 2020 KFF Health News Original

The AstraZeneca trial is on hold in the U.S. as scientists try to unravel whether a rare neurological condition is linked to the vaccine. But regulators are frustrated by a lack of information from the drugmaker.

Facebook Live: Helping COVID’s Secondary Victims: Grieving Families and Friends

November 16, 2020 KFF Health News Original

More than 246,000 people in the U.S. have been killed by the coronavirus, leaving hundreds of thousands of others grieving. Judith Graham, author of KHN’s Navigating Aging column, hosted a discussion on these unprecedented losses and dealing with bereavement. She was joined by Holly Prigerson, co-director of the Center for Research on End-of-Life Care at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City, and Diane Snyder-Cowan, leader of the bereavement professionals steering committee of the National Council of Hospice and Palliative Professionals.

Deadly Mix: How Bars Are Fueling COVID-19 Outbreaks

By Will Stone August 21, 2020 KFF Health News Original

In some states, bars and taverns have brought legal challenges to the coronavirus restrictions that have slowed sales and business.

At Risk of Extinction, Black-Footed Ferrets Get Experimental COVID Vaccine

By JoNel Aleccia December 23, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Months before federal officials authorized experimental vaccines to ward off the coronavirus in humans, scientists tried a veterinary vaccine in endangered ferrets. Drugmakers are researching similar efforts for other animals proving vulnerable to the virus, such as farmed minks, in part to guard against virus mutations that could pose new risks to people.

Misterioso remedio: vacunas ayudan a enfermos de covid de largo plazo

By Will Stone April 16, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Es posible que las vacunas eliminen restos del virus o sus fragmentos, que interrumpan una respuesta autoinmune perjudicial o que, de alguna otra manera, “restablezcan” el sistema inmunitario.

Tracking COVID’s Spread Inside a Tight-Knit Latino Community

By Markian Hawryluk December 8, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Contact tracing for COVID-19 in a Latino immigrant community has some unique challenges. But as public health officials in Telluride, Colorado, are showing, using resources from inside those communities can help track and contain the coronavirus.

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