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Vaping, Opioid Addiction Accelerate Coronavirus Risks, Says NIDA Director

By Shefali Luthra April 24, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Dr. Nora Volkow, who heads the National Institute on Drug Abuse, details how emerging science points to added challenges for these patient populations and the public health system.

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Wealthy Hospital Taps Craft Breweries For Aid To Buy Masks, Gloves

By Phil Galewitz June 16, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Although the federal government has poured billions of dollars into hospitals to defray their losses from the coronavirus outbreak, new streams of fundraising have emerged — including health worker-themed beer that adds “a drop in the bucket.”

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Coronavirus Threatens The Lives Of Rural Hospitals Already Stretched To Breaking Point

By Lauren Weber March 21, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Almost half of the nation’s rural hospitals operate in the red on a good day. But amid the coronavirus pandemic, rural hospital CEOs warn that soon some may be unable to pay their workers. And their doors may close when the community most needs them.

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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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Avoiding Care During the Pandemic Could Mean Life or Death

By John M. Glionna July 31, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Americans are avoiding hospitals and clinics by the millions, even when they shouldn’t, and many experts expect a jump in preventable disease diagnoses after the COVID crisis eases. Paradoxically, the pandemic may have been good for some heart patients, however.

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In California, Nursing Home Owners Can Operate After They’re Denied a License

By Aaron Mendelson, KPCC and Elly Yu, KPCC May 28, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Nursing home chain ReNew Health continues to care for hundreds of patients even after the state attempted to crack down. Before and during the pandemic, homes connected to ReNew had safety violations.

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New Laws Keep Pandemic-Weary California at Forefront of Health Policy Innovation

By Samantha Young and Angela Hart October 1, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Gov. Gavin Newsom approved many consequential health care bills by his bill-signing deadline Wednesday, including a ban on the sale of menthol and other flavored tobacco products, the creation of a state generic drug label and better coverage for mental health disorders.

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Trump Wrongly Said Health Insurers Will Pay For All Coronavirus Treatment

By Shefali Luthra and Amy Sherman, PolitiFact March 13, 2020 KFF Health News Original

There are important distinctions between how insurance companies will cover the test and the treatment. This makes the president’s statement an exaggeration, at best.

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Sanders: In Coronavirus Relief Effort, Congress Fell Short On Paid Sick Leave

By Shefali Luthra April 13, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Capitol Hill’s guarantee does not pertain to many “essential” workers.

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To Stem COVID, This Small Indiana City Decided To Test All Public-Facing Employees

By Carter Barrett, Side Effects Public Media May 19, 2020 KFF Health News Original

An affluent suburb looked to Iceland’s and South Korea’s widespread testing in an effort to slow the spread of the coronavirus. The method is pricey, but leaders are convinced it is worthwhile.

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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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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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Learning to Live Again: A Lazarus Tale From the Covid Front Lines

By Bernard J. Wolfson Photos by Heidi de Marco February 26, 2021 KFF Health News Original

The staff at L.A. County’s public rehabilitation hospital is helping mostly Latino, low-income patients recover the basic functions of daily life robbed from them during weeks or months of critical covid illness.

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Job-Based Health Insurance Costs Are Up 4% This Year, 55% in Past Decade

By Phil Galewitz October 8, 2020 KFF Health News Original

A family plan costs, on average, more than $21,000 this year and workers pay nearly $5,600 toward that cost, the annual KFF survey of employers finds.

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Syphilis Cases in California Drive a Record-Setting Year for STDs Nationwide

By April Dembosky, KQED April 13, 2021 KFF Health News Original

New data released Tuesday from the CDC shows sexually transmitted infections reached an all-time high in 2019. The biggest spike was in syphilis cases, which rose 74% between 2015 and 2019. Leading the country in syphilis is California, where men who have sex with men make up half the cases.

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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.

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Orange County Hospital Seeks Divorce From Large Catholic Health System

By Bernard J. Wolfson April 13, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Frustration with the standardization of care across 51 hospitals, loss of local control and restrictions on reproductive health care have pitted Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian against the Providence chain.

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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.

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Business Is Booming for Dialysis Giant Fresenius. It Took a $137M Bailout Anyway.

By Jordan Rau and Rachana Pradhan August 10, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Half of the money the Trump administration gave dialysis companies was collected by Fresenius, an international juggernaut with a robust balance sheet, a KHN analysis has found.

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Forced Sports Timeout Puts Squeeze on College Coffers, Scholarships and Towns

By Mark Kreidler August 3, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Sports events — with their sprays of sweat and spit, not to mention large crowds — are ideal settings for the coronavirus to spread. Although some college leagues have canceled their fall seasons, schools with big athletic programs are still hoping for a partial return to the gridiron and the hardwood.

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