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“La reina de la vacunación”: enfermera lleva las dosis contra covid de casa en casa en Puerto Rico

By Caroline Almy and Alicia Carter August 9, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Abigail Matos-Pagán, experta en cuidados críticos que ha impulsado tareas de ayuda tras huracanes y terremotos, se ha propuesto vacunar al mayor número posible de residentes de Puerto Rico.

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.

In Los Angeles, Latinos Hit Hard By Pandemic’s Economic Storm

By Jackie Fortiér, LAist September 25, 2020 KFF Health News Original

A new poll finds 71% of Latino households in Los Angeles County experienced serious financial problems because of the coronavirus.

How COVID-19 Highlights the Uncertainty of Medical Testing

By Ishani Ganguli December 1, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Widespread COVID testing has revealed uncomfortable truths about medical tests: A test result is rarely a definitive answer, but instead a single clue. A result may be falsely positive or negative, or it may show an abnormality that doesn’t matter. And as COVID testing has made too clear, even an accurate, meaningful result is useless unless it’s acted on appropriately.

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.

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.

How Fauci and the NIH Got Ahead of the FDA and CDC in Backing Boosters

By Sarah Jane Tribble and Arthur Allen September 16, 2021 KFF Health News Original

With real-time data streaming in from highly specialized researchers in the U.S. and abroad, NIH scientists became convinced that boosting the covid-19 vaccine was needed to save lives, prompting the president to announce a plan with a Sept. 20 start date. Scientists at the regulatory agencies weren’t yet convinced. A meeting Friday will determine what happens next. Here’s the story from behind the scenes.

Crooked Media and KHN’s ‘No Mercy’ Dissect Fallout After Rural Hospital Shuts

November 12, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Crooked Media’s “America Dissected” explores the rural health crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic. Podcast guest KHN Editor-in-Chief Elisabeth Rosenthal said: “I expect we’ll see a lot more rural hospital failures.”

KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: Transition Interrupted

November 12, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Former Vice President Joe Biden is now the president-elect nearly everywhere but inside the Trump administration, where the president refuses to concede and has ordered officials not to begin a formal transition. That is a particular problem for health care as the COVID-19 pandemic surges. Meanwhile, there’s good news on the vaccine front, but it’s unlikely one will arrive by winter. And the ACA was back before the Supreme Court — again. Joanne Kenen of Politico, Stephanie Armour of The Wall Street Journal and Shefali Luthra of the 19th News join KHN’s Julie Rovner to discuss these issues and more. Plus, for extra credit, the panelists recommend their favorite health stories of the week they think you should read, too.

Prayers and Grief Counseling After COVID: Trying to Aid Healing in Long-Term Care

By Judith Graham November 13, 2020 KFF Health News Original

With employees emotionally drained and residents suffering from loss, many nursing homes and assisted living centers are working with chaplains, social workers and mental health professionals to help people deal with the effects of the coronavirus.

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.

‘It’s a Mission’: Volunteers Treat Refugees Massing at the Border

By Heidi de Marco June 21, 2021 KFF Health News Original

A growing number of Mexican and Central American migrants are trying to cross into the U.S. at the southern border. Volunteers at one free clinic in Tijuana tend to the health needs of migrants waiting for their immigration cases to come up — and simply trying to survive in packed and dangerous encampments.

Montana Tribe Welcomes Back Tourists After Risky Shutdown Pays Off

By Aaron Bolton, MTPR June 21, 2021 KFF Health News Original

When the Blackfeet tribe shut down the roads leading to the eastern side of Glacier National Park, businesses worried for their future. But it worked, and with one of the nation’s highest covid vaccination rates, the reservation has reopened to visitors.

What It Means When Celebrities Stay Coy About Their Vaccine Status

By Eric Berger June 21, 2021 KFF Health News Original

St. Louis Blues leading scorer David Perron took 10 days to explain he had indeed been vaccinated before he caught covid-19, which knocked him from playing in the NHL playoffs against the Colorado Avalanche. His case and those of other public figures raise questions about the role of celebrity in enticing people to get covid vaccinations.

Análisis: el invierno llega para los bares. Cómo salvarlos. Y salvarnos.

By Elisabeth Rosenthal October 22, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Son lugares de alto riesgo de propagación. ¿Por qué no compensar a los propietarios para que cierren sus negocios para proteger la salud pública?

What Does Approval of the Pfizer Vaccine for Teens and Preteens Mean for My Child?

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

The federal government has extended the emergency use of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine to preteens and young adolescents, adding nearly 17 million more Americans to the pool of those eligible to be immunized against covid-19.

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.

‘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.

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.

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.

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