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Schools Walk the Tightrope Between Ideal Safety and the Reality of Covid

By Laura Ungar and Samantha Young February 8, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Across the country, politics have muddied the question of when and how to reopen schools. Even though teachers continue to fear for their safety, lawmakers and parents are demanding that schools take advantage of declining infection rates to open safely and quickly.

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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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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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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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Can the US Keep Covid Variants in Check? Here’s What It Takes

By Anna Maria Barry-Jester January 28, 2021 KFF Health News Original

The U.S. has fumbled almost every step of its public health response in its battle against covid-19. Experts say that must change if we’re going to outflank the variants emerging as the virus continues to mutate.

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Illinois Is First in the Nation to Extend Health Coverage to Undocumented Seniors

By Giles Bruce January 7, 2021 KFF Health News Original

As the pandemic hits Latino communities especially hard, Illinois is expanding public health insurance to all low-income noncitizen seniors. Advocates hope other states follow its lead.

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A health worker prepares a dose of AstraZeneca’s covid-19 vaccine

Why AstraZeneca and J&J’s Vaccines, In Use Elsewhere, Are Still on Hold in America

By Sarah Jane Tribble February 26, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Covid has pressed the Food and Drug Administration into its fastest vaccine reviews ever — which are still painfully slow, critics say.

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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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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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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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Where Mask-Wearing Isn’t Gospel: Colorado Churches Grapple With Reopening

By Jakob Rodgers July 29, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Long considered one of the country’s evangelical strongholds, Colorado Springs cautiously returned to church after nearly two months without religious gatherings. But how congregations are handling Colorado’s new mask rules varies in this conservative city.

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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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US Nurses At For-Profit Hospital Chain To Strike Over Cuts And PPE Shortages

By Michael Sainato, The Guardian June 23, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Health care workers report understaffing, long hours and protective equipment shortages at HCA Healthcare hospitals.

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Expertos en salud pública temen que los fondos desaparezcan cuando termine la pandemia

By Michelle R. Smith, The Associated Press and Lauren Weber and Hannah Recht April 19, 2021 KFF Health News Original

El Congreso ha enviado miles de millones a los departamentos de salud para luchar contra covid. Pero históricamente, esta financiación se acaba cuando termina la emergencia sanitaria.

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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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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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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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Readers and Tweeters Shed Light on Vaccine Trials and Bias in Health Care

October 28, 2020 KFF Health News Original

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

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Scientists Discover Why Covid Is Worse For Those Who Are Overweight, Obese

December 9, 2021 Morning Briefing

Researchers have found that the coronavirus infects both fat cells and certain immune cells within body fat, prompting a damaging defensive response in the body, The New York Times writes. The findings could lead to new covid treatments that target body fat.

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