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Nearly Half Of Americans Delayed Medical Care Due To Pandemic

By Elizabeth Lawrence May 27, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Of those who went without seeing a doctor or other medical provider, 11% experienced a worsened medical condition, according to the poll by the Kaiser Family Foundation. In addition, nearly 40% said stress related to the coronavirus crisis has negatively impacted their mental health.

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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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Los mercados de seguros de salud reabrieron. Esto es lo que necesitas saber

By Michelle Andrews February 16, 2021 KFF Health News Original

En enero, el presidente Joe Biden firmó una orden ejecutiva para abrir el mercado federal de seguros de salud durante tres meses, hasta el 15 de mayo.

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Fewer Traffic Collisions During Shutdown Means Longer Waits For Organ Donations

By April Dembosky, KQED May 19, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Accident deaths are typically the biggest source of donor organs nationwide. But when the coronavirus forced Californians indoors, accidents declined.

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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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Big Business Boosts Vaccine Effort, but It’s ‘Complex Choreography’ to Get Shots in Arms 

By Will Stone January 26, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Corporations like Starbucks, Honeywell, Microsoft, Costco and Google are lining up to help with vaccine logistics. But the problem of the moment is supply, not systems.

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Readers and Tweeters Fight Stigma and Salute Front-Line Workers

January 26, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Kaiser Health News gives readers a chance to comment on a recent batch of stories.

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More Than 2,900 Health Care Workers Died This Year — And the Government Barely Kept Track

By Christina Jewett and Robert Lewis and Melissa Bailey December 23, 2020 KFF Health News Original

The National Academy of Sciences cites journalists’ “Lost on the Frontline” project in a push to expand federal tracking of worker fatalities.

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LA Hospital Seeks Vaccine Trial Participants Among Its Own High-Risk Patients

By Arthur Allen August 26, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Harbor-UCLA Medical Center serves patients who are especially vulnerable to the coronavirus: They are essential workers, have chronic diseases and are members of underrepresented racial and ethnic groups. When the safety-net hospital kicks off enrollment for its COVID-19 vaccine trial Wednesday, it will look to those patients to participate.

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Why Doctors Keep Monitoring Kids Who Recover From Mysterious COVID-Linked Illness

By Fred Mogul, WNYC and Maria Godoy, NPR News July 16, 2020 KFF Health News Original

About 1,000 children worldwide have had the condition known as MIS-C — Multisymptom Inflammatory Syndrome in Children. Children’s hospitals around the U.S. are trying to keep tabs on young people after they recover from the ailment, to gauge any long-term effects.

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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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Forced Sports Timeout Puts Squeeze on College Coffers, Scholarships and Towns

By Mark Kreidler August 3, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Sports events — with their sprays of sweat and spit, not to mention large crowds — are ideal settings for the coronavirus to spread. Although some college leagues have canceled their fall seasons, schools with big athletic programs are still hoping for a partial return to the gridiron and the hardwood.

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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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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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Online Coronavirus Tests Are Just The Latest Iffy Products Marketed To Anxious Consumers

By Victoria Knight March 31, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Americans are worried about the novel coronavirus, so they are turning to the internet for solutions to stem their fears. Buyer, beware. It could be dangerous.

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Musicians Improvise Masks for Wind Instruments to Keep the Band Together

By Laura Ungar October 16, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Instrumentalists in ensembles, marching bands and other groups are getting creative with pantyhose, air filters, fabric and sewing machines to reduce the risk of COVID without silencing the music.

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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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Coronavirus Fuels Explosive Growth In Telehealth ― And Concern About Fraud

By Fred Schulte April 22, 2020 KFF Health News Original

“Unscrupulous providers” could take advantage of the boom in treatment delivered via voice or video calls.

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Among Those Disrupted By COVID-19: The Nation’s Newest Doctors

By Julie Rovner July 1, 2020 KFF Health News Original

For new medical residents, this has been a year like no other. In part that’s because getting from here to there — from medical school to residency training sites — has been complicated by the coronavirus.

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Científicos advierten que se espera demasiado de una vacuna para COVID

By Liz Szabo and JoNel Aleccia October 28, 2020 KFF Health News Original

La Casa Blanca y muchos estadounidenses han depositado sus esperanzas de derrotar a la pandemia en una vacuna. Pero científicos advierten que se espera demasiado, y demasiado pronto.

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