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Covid Vaccine Websites Violate Disability Laws, Create Inequity for the Blind

By Lauren Weber and Hannah Recht February 25, 2021 KFF Health News Original

A KHN investigation found covid vaccine registration and information websites at the federal, state and local levels are flouting disability rights laws and limiting the ability of people who are blind or visually impaired to sign up for shots.

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Help Wanted: Retired Doctors And Nurses Don Scrubs Again In Coronavirus Fight

By Michelle Andrews March 27, 2020 KFF Health News Original

As they prepare for an onslaught of coronavirus patients, health officials in New York and other states urge retired medical professionals to rejoin the ranks.

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Why Black Aging Matters, Too

By Judith Graham Photos by Heidi de Marco September 3, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Older Blacks are perishing quietly, out of sight, victims of the pandemic and a lifetime of racism and its attendant adverse health effects.

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Beating the Pavement to Vaccinate the Underrepresented — And Protect Everyone

By Anna Almendrala April 2, 2021 KFF Health News Original

In poor neighborhoods and desert towns, community activists — some unpaid — are signing up hard-to-reach people for vaccination appointments. Experts say these campaigns are key to building the country’s immunological armor against new outbreaks.

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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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KHN’s ‘What The Health?’: All Coronavirus All The Time

April 2, 2020 KFF Health News Original

The COVID-19 pandemic is forcing changes to the U.S. health system that were previously unthinkable. Yet some fights ― including over the Affordable Care Act and abortion — persist even in this time of national emergency. Joanne Kenen of Politico, Margot Sanger-Katz of The New York Times and Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico join KHN’s Julie Rovner to discuss this and more. Also, Rovner interviews KHN’s Liz Szabo about the latest installment of KHN-NPR’s “Bill of the Month.”

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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 Coronavirus Strikes, Crucial Data In Electronic Health Records Hard To Harvest

By Fred Schulte April 30, 2020 KFF Health News Original

The U.S. government spent $36 billion computerizing health records, yet they’re of limited help in the COVID-19 crisis.

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Listen: How the Pandemic Further Politicized Public Health

July 22, 2020 KFF Health News Original

KHN Midwest correspondent Lauren Weber joined Texas Public Radio’s David Martin Davies on “The Source” show to talk about the politicization of public health during the COVID pandemic.

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Palliative Care Helped Family Face ‘The Awful, Awful Truth’

By Will Stone May 5, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Elizabeth and Robert Mar would have celebrated 50 years of marriage in August. Instead, they died within a day of each other. Their two very different deaths illustrate how palliative care is changing to help patients and families cope with the coronavirus pandemic.

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Fox News’ Jesse Watters Said Travel Bans ‘More Critical In Saving Lives’ Than COVID Testing. He’s Wrong.

By Shefali Luthra April 3, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Travel restrictions came after the coronavirus had reached the U.S.

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COVID-19 abruma a las terapias intensivas en la frontera

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

A pesar que la mayoría de los hospitales de California no tuvieron un aumento dramático de pacientes, algunas instalaciones cerca de la frontera con México se han visto desbordadas.

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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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Refuge in the Storm? ACA’s Role as Safety Net Is Tested by COVID Recession

By Steven Findlay October 7, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Relentlessly knocked around by politics and now headed again to the Supreme Court, the ACA is covering millions who have lost their jobs during the pandemic. But not everyone.

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Drugmakers Tout COVID-19 Vaccines To Refurbish Their Public Image

By Jay Hancock May 18, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Vaccines and antivirals have long been an afterthought but Johnson & Johnson and other firms are widely publicizing how they might stop COVID 19.

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Campus Dorm Resident Assistants Adjust to a New Role: COVID Cop

By Anna Almendrala and Carmen Heredia Rodriguez October 6, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Students charged with keeping their peers in line on college campuses say they are dealing with hostility, unclear policies and health risks as they try to enforce policies to prevent COVID-19.

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Analysis: ‘Don’t Be Afraid of COVID’? Not Buying It, Unless Businesses Do Job Right

By Elisabeth Rosenthal October 6, 2020 KFF Health News Original

COVID precautions may seem like overkill. But I won’t set foot in a store unless certain steps are taken.

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New Single-Payer Bill Intensifies Newsom’s Political Peril

By Angela Hart and Rachel Bluth February 19, 2021 KFF Health News Original

With the introduction of a single-payer bill Friday, a group of California Democratic lawmakers set the terms of the health care debate in the Capitol this year. The move puts Gov. Gavin Newsom in a delicate political position, threatening to alienate voters as he faces a likely recall election.

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As Deaths Mount, Coronavirus Testing Remains Wildly Inconsistent In Long-Term Care

By Laura Ungar May 12, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Testing for COVID-19 varies widely across nursing homes and assisted living facilities, even within the same states and communities — increasing the risks for some of America’s most vulnerable seniors.

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As Californians Get Older and Less Mobile, Fires Get Hotter and Faster

By Rachel Scheier October 14, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Retirement areas are increasingly being built in the idyllic wooded fringe of towns and cities. Being close to nature also means being in the path of wildfires.

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