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California and Texas Took Different Routes to Vaccination. Who’s Ahead?

By Anna Almendrala and Sandy West April 22, 2021 KFF Health News Original

California stresses equity for minority groups. Texas is all about personal choice and liberty. Both are struggling to vaccinate Latinos and contending with vaccine hesitancy among conservative communities.

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Feeling Anxious and Depressed? You’re Right at Home in California.

By Phillip Reese August 26, 2020 KFF Health News Original

In a series of July U.S. Census Bureau surveys, nearly half of California adult respondents reported levels of anxiety and gloom typically associated with diagnoses of generalized anxiety disorder or major depressive disorder, a stunning figure that rose through the summer alongside the menacing spread of the coronavirus.

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US Nurses At For-Profit Hospital Chain To Strike Over Cuts And PPE Shortages

By Michael Sainato, The Guardian June 23, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Health care workers report understaffing, long hours and protective equipment shortages at HCA Healthcare hospitals.

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California Is Overriding Its Limits on Nurse Workloads as Covid Surges

By April Dembosky, KQED January 20, 2021 KFF Health News Original

As covid patients flood California emergency rooms, hospitals are increasingly desperate to find enough staffers to care for them all. But some nurses worry hospitals will use the pandemic as an excuse to permanently roll back their hard-won nurse-patient ratios.

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Amid COVID Chaos, California Legislators Fight for Major Health Care Bills

By Rachel Bluth August 11, 2020 KFF Health News Original

There’s less time, less attention and fewer resources this year, but that isn’t stopping lawmakers from acting on controversial health care legislation not directly related to the coronavirus pandemic.

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Listen: How Coronavirus Looms Over Prisons

March 16, 2020 KFF Health News Original

KHN Midwest correspondent Lauren Weber joined WAMU’s “1A” show to talk about the unique threats coronavirus is putting on those who are behind bars and those who guard them.

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Covid Vaccination Uptake Receding With Omicron

February 28, 2022 Morning Briefing

Demand for vaccinations and booster shots is dipping to its lowest levels, even among vulnerable groups. Meanwhile, new research points to the Wuhan animal markets as the origin of the novel coronavirus.

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Coronavirus Patients Caught In Conflict Between Hospital And Nursing Homes

By Judith Graham March 30, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Hospitals need to clear out patients who no longer need acute care. But nursing homes are alarmed at the prospect of taking patients who may have the coronavirus.

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El miedo a covid mantiene a muchos niños latinos fuera de las aulas

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

En California, los latinos constituyen el 39% de la población del estado, pero representan el 47% de las muertes por covid, según el Departamento de Salud Pública estatal. A nivel nacional, su riesgo de morir por covid es 2,3 veces mayor que el de los blancos no hispanos.

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Tu restaurant o tienda favorita están abiertas. ¿Cómo saber si está bien ir?

By Julie Appleby August 7, 2020 KFF Health News Original

El hecho de que muchas empresas vuelvan a abrir no significa que la pandemia haya terminado. El coronavirus todavía anda suelto, y hay que tomar decisiones difíciles cada día.

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Birx Joins Air-Cleaning Industry Amid Land Grab for Billions in Federal Covid Relief

By Christina Jewett and Lauren Weber March 24, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Air-cleaning companies with limited oversight are targeting a growing market of schools desperate for covid-19 protection. Donald Trump’s former covid adviser lands with one that built its business, in part, on ozone-emitting technology.

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‘Last Responders’ Seek To Expand Postmortem COVID Testing In Unexplained Deaths

By Michelle Andrews May 19, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Early in the outbreak, some coroners and medical examiners didn’t have enough tests to use for people who died unexpectedly at home to see whether the coronavirus was a factor. Now, as testing gradually becomes widely available, more such mysteries could be solved.

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Workers Fired, Penalized for Reporting COVID Safety Violations

By Michelle Andrews October 23, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Many workers are resisting what they feel are unsafe, unhealthy conditions as companies restart. A few states have passed laws specifically aimed at protecting workers who face COVID-related safety risks and retaliation for speaking up, but advocates say stronger federal protections are needed.

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Trying Out LA’s New Coronavirus Testing Regime

By Bernard J. Wolfson May 8, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Los Angeles is the first big U.S. city to offer COVID-19 testing to anyone who wants it. Will it help restore normal life to the 10 million residents of the city and surrounding county?

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Científica genera imágenes del coronavirus para que todos vean al “enemigo invisible”

By Markian Hawryluk May 21, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Algunas de las imágenes más impresionantes del coronavirus, que es 10,000 veces más pequeño que el ancho de un cabello humano, provienen del microscopio de Elizabeth Fischer.

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Seniors In Low-Income Housing Live In Fear Of COVID Infection

By Judith Graham June 26, 2020 KFF Health News Original

On their own in dirty buildings with little guidance or support, vulnerable older residents worry about unchecked transmission of the potentially deadly virus. “We felt abandoned.”

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Consumer Beware: Coronavirus Antibody Tests Are Still A Work In Progress

By JoNel Aleccia April 27, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Public officials are putting high hopes on new blood tests as a means of determining who has developed antibodies to COVID-19, and with those antibodies, presumed immunity. But experts caution the tests are largely unreliable and the science is still catching up.

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Behind The Byline: ‘Contactless Reporting’

By Cara Anthony June 18, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Check out the revamped video series from KHN — Behind The Byline: How The Story Got Made. Come along as journalists and producers offer an insider’s view of health care coverage that does not quit.

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Casi la mitad de las personas han retrasado su atención médica por la pandemia

By Elizabeth Lawrence May 27, 2020 KFF Health News Original

La mayoría espera recibir atención en los próximos tres meses. Casi el 40% dijo que el estrés relacionado con el coronavirus ha afectado negativamente su salud mental.

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Democratic Convention, Night 2: Defending the ACA and Attacking Trump on Pandemic

August 19, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Democrats continued the virtual extravaganza. Health care was a hot topic.

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