Biden Says OSHA Isn’t Doing Enough To Protect Workers’ From COVID-19
By Victoria Knight
April 23, 2020
KFF Health News Original
Labor unions have called for the agency to issue an emergency standard that would define what steps employers must take to protect their workers from the coronavirus. It has not done that, although it offered guidance that it said does not create a “new legal obligation” for employers.
Tourists, Beware: Foreign Visitors’ Travel Health Insurance Might Exclude Pandemics
By Carmen Heredia Rodriguez
May 18, 2020
KFF Health News Original
Many travel insurance plans offer health care coverage, but they could limit how much the insurer will pay or exclude coverage for health crises like the coronavirus pandemic. That may leave foreign travelers — unfamiliar with the way the American health system works ― on the hook for major expenses.
Coronavirus Tests Public Health Infrastructure In The Heartland
By Lauren Weber
February 13, 2020
KFF Health News Original
While Missouri has yet to have a confirmed case of coronavirus, the threat of the disease is siphoning resources from an already stretched-thin public health system.
COVID Cuts A Lethal Path Through San Quentin’s Death Row
By Dan Morain
July 8, 2020
KFF Health News Original
Executions have been on hold in California since 2006, stalled by a series of legal challenges. But COVID-19 is proving a lethal presence on San Quentin’s death row.
Rapid Changes To Health System Spurred By COVID Might Be Here To Stay
By Julie Rovner
June 8, 2020
KFF Health News Original
The coronavirus pandemic has forced the nation’s doctors and hospitals to reevaluate how they work. At least three major changes may have a lasting impact.
NYC Nurse Says He’s Not Scared: ‘I Am Only Doing My Job’ For COVID-19 Patients
By Paula Andalo
April 17, 2020
KFF Health News Original
Francisco Díaz ordinarily works educating seniors about their diabetes, but he has moved to the emergency room, on the front line in the battle against coronavirus. He said his Latino background helps him communicate with the many Spanish-speaking patients and understand their culture.
When Green Means Stop: How Safety Messages Got So Muddled
By Nina Feldman, WHYY
August 4, 2020
KFF Health News Original
Philadelphia is in the “restricted green” reopening phase. What does that mean? And why does the U.S. have so many different pandemic safety rules?
In An Exchange About Coronavirus, Homeland Security Chief Gets Flu Mortality Rate Wrong
By Victoria Knight
March 2, 2020
KFF Health News Original
The Homeland Security secretary missed the mark with his estimate of the flu’s annual U.S. mortality rate.
KHN’s ‘What The Health?’: SCOTUS Decides An ACA Case. No, Not THAT Case.
April 30, 2020
KFF Health News Original
The Supreme Court this week, in an 8-1 decision, ruled that insurers are due the roughly $12 billion that Congress several years ago tried to cut off in payments under the Affordable Care Act’s “risk corridors” provision. And while the COVID-19 pandemic continues to rage in many places around the country, states are starting to reopen their economies at the urging of President Donald Trump and over objections of public health officials. Caitlin Owens of Axios and Mary Ellen McIntire of CQ Roll Call join KHN’s Julie Rovner to discuss this and more. Also, Rovner interviews KHN’s Carmen Heredia Rodriguez, who wrote the latest KHN-NPR “Bill of the Month” installment about COVID testing that should have been free but was not.
El coronavirus pone a prueba el valor de la inteligencia artificial en la atención médica
By Ashley Gold
May 22, 2020
KFF Health News Original
Algunos sistemas de salud están utilizando programas de inteligencia artificial para ayudar a los médicos a decidir sobre el curso de tratamiento en pacientes con COVID-19.
Warning Sign Of Next Wave? Experts Monitor Rise In Europe’s Covid Cases
March 14, 2022
Morning Briefing
Coronavirus infections are up in places like the United Kingdom and the Netherlands — spots that have experienced spikes just before similar ones hit the U.S.
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.
California and Texas Took Different Routes to Vaccination. Who’s Ahead?
By Anna Almendrala Sandy West
April 22, 2021
KFF Health News Original
California stresses equity for minority groups. Texas is all about personal choice and liberty. Both are struggling to vaccinate Latinos and contending with vaccine hesitancy among conservative communities.
Children’s Mental Health Is In Its Own Pandemic: Study
August 9, 2022
Morning Briefing
The coronavirus pandemic dramatically increased anxiety and depression in kids ages 3 to 17, according to the recent annual “Kids Count” study from child welfare charity the Annie E. Casey Foundation. Separately, The Washington Post highlights increasing mental health issues in tween girls.
To ‘Keep The Lights On,’ Doctors And Hospitals Ask For Advance Medicare Payments
By Phil Galewitz
April 10, 2020
KFF Health News Original
As part of the federal response to the coronavirus crisis, Medicare is offering to give hospitals and doctors accelerated payments.
As Pandemic Surged, Contact Tracing Struggled; Biden Looks to Boost It
By Steven Findlay
February 10, 2021
KFF Health News Original
Reaching people who may have been in contact with covid patients has helped cut the number of infections, but these tracing efforts become less effective as the number of cases grows.
Tirarle gas lacrimógeno a manifestantes en medio de la pandemia es un “desastre”
By Will Stone
June 5, 2020
KFF Health News Original
Su uso generalizado, mientras que una enfermedad infecciosa, para la cual no hay vacuna, continúa propagándose en los Estados Unidos, ha sorprendido a expertos y médicos.
In Coronavirus Relief Bill, Hospitals Poised To Get Massive Infusion Of Cash
By Julie Rovner
March 27, 2020
KFF Health News Original
The legislation scheduled to go before the House for a vote Friday provides nearly $200 billion in aid for hospitals. That includes payments for expenses or lost revenues from the coronavirus pandemic, interest-free loans and changes in Medicare reimbursements.
Falsas promesas de curas, tratamientos y pruebas caseras para COVID-19 por internet
By Victoria Knight
March 31, 2020
KFF Health News Original
Pruebas no aprobadas por la FDA y varios informes cuestionables de Internet relacionados con pruebas de coronavirus, vacunas y curas “milagrosas” han estado circulando por las redes sociales.
