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Older COVID Patients Battle ‘Brain Fog,’ Weakness and Emotional Turmoil

By Judith Graham October 20, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Seniors tend to have more serious symptoms than younger coronavirus patients, including the aftereffects of hospital-based delirium. Doctors recommend physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy and cognitive rehabilitation.

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KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: Democrats May Lose on SCOTUS, But Hope to Win on ACA

October 15, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Barring something unexpected, Democrats in the Senate appear to lack the votes to block the confirmation of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court. So, instead they used the high-profile confirmation hearings to hammer on Republicans for again putting the Affordable Care Act in peril. Mary Ellen McIntire of CQ Roll Call, Shefali Luthra of The 19th and Sarah Karlin-Smith of Pink Sheet join KHN’s Julie Rovner to discuss these issues and more. Plus, Rovner interviews Dr. Ashish Jha, dean of the Brown University School of Public Health, about public health challenges in dealing with COVID-19.

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‘Is This When I Drop Dead?’ Two Doctors Report From the COVID Front Lines

By Danielle Renwick, The Guardian August 14, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Two emergency room doctors, one in New York and the other in Houston, discuss their cities’ coronavirus outbreaks — and responses.

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Evictions Continue Despite CDC Moratorium As COVID-19 Ravages U.S. Economy

La esperanza de vida de los hispanos y afroamericanos ha sufrido la peor baja desde la Segunda Guerra Mundial

By Liz Szabo June 24, 2021 KFF Health News Original

La pandemia proyectará una larga sombra sobre la salud estadounidense, lo que hará que millones de personas vivan más enfermas y mueran más jóvenes debido a las crecientes tasas de pobreza, hambre e inseguridad en la vivienda.

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¿Leones, tigres y visones? Analizan a distintas especies en busca de COVID

By JoNel Aleccia November 4, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Mientras resurgen los casos de COVID-19 en los Estados Unidos, científicos y veterinarios investigan el virus en animales domésticos y salvajes. Ya han realizado miles de pruebas.

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Carpas, iglús, domos: ¿cuán seguro es comer al aire libre este invierno?

By Will Stone January 21, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Los propietarios recurren a estas opciones como un salvavidas para ayudar a llenar algunas mesas, y tener al menos la posibilidad de ofrecer una experiencia gastronómica más segura.

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Covid Fears Keep Many Latino Kids out of Classrooms

By Heidi de Marco May 12, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Latinos got hit disproportionately hard by covid-19. When faced with the choice of sending their kids back to school or keeping them in online classes, many Latino parents say their kids are safer at home.

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KHN on the Air This Week

October 16, 2020 KFF Health News Original

KHN and California Healthline staff made the rounds on national and local media this week to discuss their stories. Here’s a collection of their appearances.

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Long Drives, Air Travel, Exhausting Waits: What Abortion Requires in the South

By Sarah Varney August 3, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Restrictive abortion regulations enacted across the South require women to drive across state lines to find safe services. With the U.S. Supreme Court set to hear a challenge to Roe v. Wade, abortion rights defenders say long drives and wait times could become the norm across much of America.

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Swab, Spit, Stay Home? College Coronavirus Testing Plans Are All Over the Map

By Michael McAuliff and Sebastián Martínez Valdivia, KBIA and Christine Herman, Side Effects Public Media and Stephanie O'Neill August 21, 2020 KFF Health News Original

2020 will be a year like no other on college campuses, as every institution makes its own rules. Some have no plans to routinely test students for the coronavirus; others aim to test every student and staff member twice a week.

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KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: Open Enrollment, One More Time

February 18, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Keeping a campaign promise, President Joe Biden has reopened enrollment for health coverage under the Affordable Care Act on healthcare.gov — and states that run their own health insurance marketplaces followed suit. At the same time, the Biden administration is moving to revoke the Trump administration’s permission for states to impose work requirements for some adults on the Medicaid health insurance program. Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico, Kimberly Leonard of Business Insider and Rachel Cohrs of Stat join KHN’s Julie Rovner to discuss these issues and more. Also, Rovner interviews medical student Inam Sakinah, president of the new group Future Doctors in Politics.

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Why Even Presidential Pressure Might Not Get More Vaccine to Market Faster

By Liz Szabo and Sarah Jane Tribble and Arthur Allen and Jay Hancock January 26, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Even invoking the widely heralded Defense Production Act to pressure drugmakers wouldn’t overcome vast obstacles.

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Making Gyms Safer: Why the Virus Is Less Likely to Spread There Than in a Bar

By Will Stone September 11, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Gyms are reopening with fewer people and more protocols, and they want to rehabilitate their pandemic-battered image. Although there’s not much evidence, they say science is on their side.

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One Ambulance Ride Leads to Another When Packed Hospitals Cannot Handle Non-Covid Patients

By Sandy West January 11, 2021 KFF Health News Original

A Kansas woman thought she’d find help at her local emergency room. What she found instead was a packed hospital and an ambulance ride to someplace else.

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Parents Complain That Pediatricians, Wary of COVID, Shift Sick Kids to Urgent Care

By Kristy P. Kennedy November 23, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Referrals of children to urgent care clinics or emergency rooms have become so prevalent that the American Academy of Pediatrics came out with interim guidance on how practices can safely continue to see patients. The academy recommended that pediatricians strive “to provide care for the same variety of visits that they provided prior to the public health emergency.”

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As Pandemic Eases, Many Seniors Have Lost Strength, May Need Rehabilitative Services

By Judith Graham May 21, 2021 KFF Health News Original

A little-discussed, long-term toll of the pandemic is that large numbers of older adults have become physically and cognitively debilitated and less able to care for themselves after sheltering in place.

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No hay que sufrir efectos secundarios con la vacuna contra covid para estar protegido

By Arthur Allen April 28, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Si bien los síntomas muestran que el sistema inmune está respondiendo a la vacuna y que protegerá contra la enfermedad, las personas con pocos o ningún síntoma también estaban protegidas.

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Ask KHN-PolitiFact: I’ve Recovered From Covid. Why Do I Still Have to Mask Up?

By Carmen Heredia Rodriguez April 16, 2021 KFF Health News Original

The simple answer is that enough remains unknown about covid transmission, post-infection immunity and the threat of emerging variants that masks are still advisable.

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Disease-Carrying Mosquitoes Fly Free as Health Departments Focus on Coronavirus

By Anna Maria Barry-Jester and Lauren Weber July 16, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Health departments and other public agencies tasked with protecting the nation from disease-carrying mosquitoes are overstretched amid the coronavirus pandemic — even as the nation is told it’s safest to be outside.

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When the Pandemic Closes Your Gym, ‘Come for the Party, Stay for the Workout’

By Elizabeth Lawrence September 2, 2020 KFF Health News Original

As gyms throughout New York City had to close because of the coronavirus pandemic, some trainers just moved outdoors to the parks.

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