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Coronavirus Patients Caught In Conflict Between Hospital And Nursing Homes

By Judith Graham March 30, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Hospitals need to clear out patients who no longer need acute care. But nursing homes are alarmed at the prospect of taking patients who may have the coronavirus.

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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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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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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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Biden’s Covid Challenge: 100 Million Vaccinations in the First 100 Days. It Won’t Be Easy.

By Victoria Knight January 20, 2021 KFF Health News Original

But keeping campaign promises regarding the nation’s covid response will go beyond stepping up the rollout of the vaccines.

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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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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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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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Must-Reads Of The Week

By Damon Darlin July 10, 2020 KFF Health News Original

KHN executive editor Damon Darlin wades through mounds of health care policy stories — so you don’t have to.

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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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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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Coronavirus Cases Surging From Coast To Coast

July 21, 2021 Morning Briefing

Outlets report on the rise in coronavirus cases from Virginia, Maryland, Arkansas, California, Massachusetts, Texas and Alaska; plus, travel advisories and contact tracing.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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