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KHN’s ‘What The Health?’: The Pandemic Shifts; The Politics, Not So Much

June 25, 2020 KFF Health News Original

While federal and state officials continue to wrangle over coronavirus testing, the population testing positive is skewing younger. Meanwhile, the Trump administration wins a round in court over its requirements for hospitals to publicly reveal their prices, and the fight over the fate of the Affordable Care Act heats up once again. Margot Sanger-Katz of The New York Times, Paige Winfield Cunningham of The Washington Post and Kimberly Leonard of Business Insider join KHN’s Julie Rovner to discuss this and more. Also, Rovner interviews former Obama administration health aide Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, who has written a new book comparing international health systems.

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As Pandemic Surged, Contact Tracing Struggled; Biden Looks to Boost It

By Steven Findlay February 10, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Reaching people who may have been in contact with covid patients has helped cut the number of infections, but these tracing efforts become less effective as the number of cases grows.

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Jails And Prisons Spring Thousands To Prevent Coronavirus Outbreaks

By Mark Kreidler April 16, 2020 KFF Health News Original

As wardens across the country grapple with COVID-19 outbreaks, inmates are being released to prevent widespread contagion in overcrowded prisons.

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Where Mask-Wearing Isn’t Gospel: Colorado Churches Grapple With Reopening

By Jakob Rodgers July 29, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Long considered one of the country’s evangelical strongholds, Colorado Springs cautiously returned to church after nearly two months without religious gatherings. But how congregations are handling Colorado’s new mask rules varies in this conservative city.

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El miedo al coronavirus motiva a fumadores a dejar el hábito

By April Dembosky April 30, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Los primeros estudios sugieren que los fumadores que desarrollan COVID-19 tienen 14 veces más probabilidades de necesitar un tratamiento intensivo en comparación con los no fumadores.

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Longtime Health Advocate Donna Shalala Loses House Reelection Race

By Emmarie Huetteman November 5, 2020 KFF Health News Original

In a notable loss for Democrats, Shalala, who represented a Miami district, was defeated by Maria Elvira Salazar — a Republican former TV journalist who compared Democratic policy proposals to leftist oppression in countries like Cuba.

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Public Health Officials Are Quitting or Getting Fired in Throes of Pandemic

By Michelle R. Smith, The Associated Press and Lauren Weber August 11, 2020 KFF Health News Original

A review by KHN and the Associated Press finds at least 49 state and local public health leaders have resigned, retired or been fired since April across 23 states. One of the latest departures came Sunday, when California’s public health director was ousted.

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Inmigrantes y personas de minorías entre los más de 1,000 trabajadores de salud muertos por COVID

By Danielle Renwick, The Guardian and Shoshana Dubnow August 26, 2020 KFF Health News Original

El virus ha cobrado un precio desproporcionado en las comunidades de color y entre los inmigrantes, y los trabajadores de salud no se han librado de esa tendencia.

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Activistas antivacunas difunden falsas teorías de que las dosis de covid son letales

By Liz Szabo January 25, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Los grupos antivacunas están desinformando y difundiendo falsas noticias, lo que amenaza con socavar la campaña de vacunación más grande en la historia de los Estados Unidos.

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Epidemia de obesidad en los Estados Unidos amenaza la eficacia de una vacuna contra COVID

By Sarah Varney August 6, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Otras vacunas han demostrado ser menos efectivas en adultos obesos que en la población general, dejándolos más vulnerables a infecciones y enfermedades.

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Coronavirus Skyrockets In California

July 23, 2021 Morning Briefing

On Thursday, the state reported nearly 5,600 new cases, and the average positive-test rate over seven days was 4.9% — a nearly five-fold increase over last week. Despite the spike, two parents’ groups are suing Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom over a mask mandate in public schools.

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Trabajadora esencial recibe una factura pandémica de $1,840 por COVID

By Sarah Varney June 30, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Ten cuidado si tu médico te envía a la sala de emergencias para una prueba de COVID, porque cualquier atención adicional que recibas allí podría tener un alto precio.

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COVID-19 Overwhelms Border ICUs

By Heidi de Marco June 5, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Some California hospitals near the Mexican border have received so many COVID-19 patients the past few weeks that they have had to divert some to other facilities. Hospital officials say most of the infected patients are U.S. citizens or legal residents who live in, or recently traveled to, Mexico and came to the U.S. for care.

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Confianza, miedo y solidaridad marcarán el éxito de una vacuna contra COVID

By Arthur Allen August 17, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Cuando una vacuna contra el coronavirus esté disponible, ¿la recibirán con una gran ovación, como la vacuna contra la polio, o con cierto letargo, como la vacuna contra el sarampión?

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Reopening of Long-Term Care Facilities Is ‘an Absolute Necessity for Our Well-Being’

By Judith Graham March 4, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Relatives and advocates are calling for federal authorities to relax restrictions in long-term care institutions and grant special status to “essential caregivers” — family members or friends who provide critically important hands-on care — so they have the opportunity to tend to relatives in need.

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CVS and Walgreens Have Wasted More Vaccine Doses Than Most States Combined

By Joshua Eaton and Rachana Pradhan May 3, 2021 KFF Health News Original

More than 200,000 doses of covid vaccine have gone to waste since December, KHN has learned. Two national pharmacy chains account for most of it.

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Children’s Hospitals Grapple With Young Covid ‘Long Haulers’

By Carmen Heredia Rodriguez March 3, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Pediatric hospitals are creating clinics for the increasing number of children reporting lingering covid symptoms similar to those that plague some adults long after they have recovered.

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Watch: Are Administration Medical Experts Muzzled?

June 18, 2020 KFF Health News Original

KHN Editor-in-Chief Elisabeth Rosenthal joins a panel of health journalists on CNN to discuss the lack of public briefings on coronavirus by key medical experts in the Trump administration.

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One School, Two Choices: A Study in Classroom vs. Distance Learning

By John M. Glionna October 7, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Most students at one Marin County school attend in person, while a dozen study from home. Those on campus are constantly nagged to use hand sanitizer and submit to the thermometer. Home-schoolers yell to their parents for help, while the parents pray that Zoom doesn’t freeze.

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Six Takeaways Of The KHN-AP Investigation Into The Erosion Of Public Health

July 1, 2020 KFF Health News Original

KHN and The Associated Press sought to understand how decades of cuts to public health departments by federal, state and local governments has affected the system meant to protect the nation’s health. Here are six key takeaways from the KHN-AP investigation.

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