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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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Without a Pandemic Safety Net, Immigrants Living Illegally in US Fall Through the Cracks

By LJ Dawson March 9, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Many undocumented immigrants are essential workers at high risk of exposure to the virus — and the pandemic’s economic crash — with no direct access to federal financial lifelines available to U.S. citizens.

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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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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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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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In The COVID Age, Bring A Mask And Gloves To A Protest

By Tarena Lofton May 18, 2020 KFF Health News Original

After a police shooting in Indianapolis, activists held a protest — but, recognizing the dangers of the coronavirus in a crowd, many worked to make sure demonstrators took proper precautions.

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Los NIH, “muy preocupados” por efectos secundarios en ensayo de vacuna para COVID

By Arthur Allen and Liz Szabo September 15, 2020 KFF Health News Original

La Administración de Alimentos y Medicamentos está evaluando la posibilidad de seguir a los reguladores británicos y reanudar el ensayo de la vacuna. Pero hay dudas.

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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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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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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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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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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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Isolation, Disruption and Confusion: Coping With Dementia During a Pandemic

By Heidi de Marco August 18, 2020 KFF Health News Original

COVID-19 has upended the lives of people with dementia, limiting their interactions with others and complicating matters for their caregivers.

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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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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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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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Universal Covid Shot Underway, But It May ‘Take Years,’ Says Fauci

January 28, 2022 Morning Briefing

Media outlets cover developments in covid vaccines, including research into a “pan-coronavirus” shot that can tackle multiple variants of the virus. Moderna, meanwhile, warns that omicron will be a persistent problem this year and that its targeted vaccine won’t be ready before summer.

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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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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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