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Syphilis Cases in California Drive a Record-Setting Year for STDs Nationwide

By April Dembosky, KQED April 13, 2021 KFF Health News Original

New data released Tuesday from the CDC shows sexually transmitted infections reached an all-time high in 2019. The biggest spike was in syphilis cases, which rose 74% between 2015 and 2019. Leading the country in syphilis is California, where men who have sex with men make up half the cases.

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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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Promises Kept? On Health Care, Trump’s Claims of ‘Monumental Steps’ Don’t Add Up

By Julie Rovner and Phil Galewitz September 28, 2020 KFF Health News Original

The president entered office seeking to overturn the Affordable Care Act, revamp Medicaid and drive down prescription drug prices, among other things. He’s hit some stone walls.

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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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Orange County Hospital Seeks Divorce From Large Catholic Health System

By Bernard J. Wolfson April 13, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Frustration with the standardization of care across 51 hospitals, loss of local control and restrictions on reproductive health care have pitted Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian against the Providence chain.

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Nueva York enfrenta la segunda ola de COVID con disparidades y controversia

By Fred Mogul, WNYC December 3, 2020 KFF Health News Original

El personal médico de Nueva York sabe exactamente lo difíciles y peligrosos que pueden ser los hospitales abrumados y se preparan con cautela cuando las infecciones aumentan.

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As Demand for Mental Health Care Spikes, Budget Ax Set to Strike

By Matt Volz February 5, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Legislators in statehouses across the U.S. face the dual challenge of budgeting in a covid-crippled economy while planning for the pandemic’s long-term effects on mental health and substance abuse services.

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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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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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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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Is Your Covid Vaccine Venue Prepared to Handle Rare, Life-Threatening Reactions?

By JoNel Aleccia January 11, 2021 KFF Health News Original

More than two dozen people who have received the new covid vaccines in U.S. hospitals and health centers suffered anaphylaxis, a potentially fatal allergic reaction. While such severe reactions are rare, experts warn that the drugstores and drive-thru clinics considered integral to the vaccine rollout must be prepared.

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Family Caregivers, Routinely Left Off Vaccine Lists, Worry What Would Happen ‘If I Get Sick’

By Judith Graham February 16, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Tens of thousands of middle-aged sons and daughters — too young to qualify for a vaccine — care for older relatives with serious ailments and want to get the shots to protect their loved ones and themselves.

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Hard Bargain: Biden and Congress Agree on Basic Relief, but Chasms Remain on Covid Plan

By Emmarie Huetteman February 4, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Agreement between the president and Republican senators on funding for basic public health matters such as vaccine distribution and covid testing was an easy target. That money can’t move out, though, until accord is reached on some of the president’s big-ticket economic plans.

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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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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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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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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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Learning to Live Again: A Lazarus Tale From the Covid Front Lines

By Bernard J. Wolfson Photos by Heidi de Marco February 26, 2021 KFF Health News Original

The staff at L.A. County’s public rehabilitation hospital is helping mostly Latino, low-income patients recover the basic functions of daily life robbed from them during weeks or months of critical covid illness.

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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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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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