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Las muertes ocultas de la pandemia de COVID

By Markian Hawryluk June 23, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Mientras funcionarios tratan de sumar cuántas personas dan positivo para el coronavirus y cuántas mueren por COVID, la pandemia ha dejado un número incalculable de muertes en las sombras.

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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? 

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Is Your Covid Vaccine Venue Prepared to Handle Rare, Life-Threatening Reactions?

By JoNel Aleccia January 11, 2021 KFF Health News Original

More than two dozen people who have received the new covid vaccines in U.S. hospitals and health centers suffered anaphylaxis, a potentially fatal allergic reaction. While such severe reactions are rare, experts warn that the drugstores and drive-thru clinics considered integral to the vaccine rollout must be prepared.

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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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Spurred by Pandemic, Little Shell Tribe Fast-Tracks Its Health Service Debut

By Katheryn Houghton February 19, 2021 KFF Health News Original

As the newest federally recognized tribe, the Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians of Montana is starting from scratch to deliver health care to members. While covid-19 has been devastating, it has sped up the tribe’s ability to build a clinic. Yet, lacking a reservation, the tribe faces challenges reaching its scattered members.

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Companies Pan for Marketing Gold in Vaccines

By Sarah Kwon February 19, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Some assisted living facilities, pharmacy chains and health care providers are luring new customers with covid shots.

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Montana Rodeo Goes On, Bucking Fears on Fort Peck Reservation

By Katheryn Houghton July 17, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Fort Peck Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes initially opposed the Wolf Point Wild Horse Stampede this year, worrying about hundreds of people coming to their reservation for the rodeo amid coronavirus concerns. But the annual event was on private land and went ahead, highlighting the reopening tensions between resuming normal economic activities and protecting the vulnerable.

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Conspiracy Theories Aside, Here’s What Contact Tracers Really Do

By Julie Appleby July 15, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Recently, the idea has triggered a lot of conspiracy-theory talk. But it’s actually a tried-and-true public health tool being applied to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus.

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‘I Wanted to Go in There and Help’: Nursing Schools See Enrollment Bump Amid Pandemic

By Michelle Andrews February 18, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Enrollment in baccalaureate nursing programs reportedly grew nearly 6% percent in 2020.

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As Demand for Mental Health Care Spikes, Budget Ax Set to Strike

By Matt Volz February 5, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Legislators in statehouses across the U.S. face the dual challenge of budgeting in a covid-crippled economy while planning for the pandemic’s long-term effects on mental health and substance abuse services.

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Coronavirus Crisis Opens Access To Online Opioid Addiction Treatment

By Phil Galewitz April 23, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Under the national emergency, the government has waived a law that required patients to have an in-person visit with a physician before they could be prescribed drugs that help quell withdrawal symptoms, such as Suboxone. Now they can get those prescriptions via a phone call or videoconference with a doctor. That may give video addiction therapy a kick-start.

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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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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.

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Hard Bargain: Biden and Congress Agree on Basic Relief, but Chasms Remain on Covid Plan

By Emmarie Huetteman February 4, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Agreement between the president and Republican senators on funding for basic public health matters such as vaccine distribution and covid testing was an easy target. That money can’t move out, though, until accord is reached on some of the president’s big-ticket economic plans.

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Exclusive: Over 900 Health Workers Have Died of COVID-19. And the Toll Is Rising.

By Danielle Renwick, The Guardian and Shoshana Dubnow August 11, 2020 KFF Health News Original

KHN and The Guardian unveil an interactive database documenting front-line health care worker deaths. The majority of them are people of color — and nurses face the highest toll.

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Social Media Image About Mask Efficacy Right In Sentiment, But Percentages Are ‘Bonkers’

By Victoria Knight July 6, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Skip the numbers. Focus on the mask.

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Must-Reads Of The Week

By Damon Darlin May 22, 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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Scam Alert: Things a COVID Contact Tracer Wouldn’t Say

By Julie Appleby August 20, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Criminals are finding ways to reap gains under the guise of this public health intervention.

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Family Caregivers, Routinely Left Off Vaccine Lists, Worry What Would Happen ‘If I Get Sick’

By Judith Graham February 16, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Tens of thousands of middle-aged sons and daughters — too young to qualify for a vaccine — care for older relatives with serious ailments and want to get the shots to protect their loved ones and themselves.

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Pandemia resalta la necesidad de clínicas de atención de urgencia para mujeres

By Rachel Scheier April 16, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Las clínicas de atención de urgencia especializadas en ginecología y obstetricia han comenzado a surgir en todo el país en los últimos años, y la pandemia de covid ha aumentado la demanda.

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