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.
El miedo a covid mantiene a muchos niños latinos fuera de las aulas
By Heidi de Marco
May 12, 2021
KFF Health News Original
En California, los latinos constituyen el 39% de la población del estado, pero representan el 47% de las muertes por covid, según el Departamento de Salud Pública estatal. A nivel nacional, su riesgo de morir por covid es 2,3 veces mayor que el de los blancos no hispanos.
Analysis: We Knew The Coronavirus Was Coming, Yet We Failed 5 Critical Tests
By Elisabeth Rosenthal
May 11, 2020
KFF Health News Original
The vulnerabilities that COVID-19 has revealed were a predictable outgrowth of our market-based health care system.
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.
Liberan a miles de presos para prevenir brotes de coronavirus
By Mark Kreidler
April 16, 2020
KFF Health News Original
Las cárceles estatales y de los condados confinan a los presos muy cerca uno del otro, tanto que es casi imposible seguir las pautas establecidas por los CDC.
Economic Blow Of The Coronavirus Hits America’s Already Stressed Farmers
By Sandy West
May 7, 2020
KFF Health News Original
At the start of the spring planting season, farmers across the U.S. heartland were already trying to recover from last year’s flooding amid worsening economic conditions when the pandemic struck. Farm bankruptcies and suicides continue to climb. A lack of mental health resources in rural America makes finding help more complicated.
Baltimore’s ‘Squeegee Boys’: ‘If We Don’t Go Out, We Don’t Eat’
By Chaseedaw Giles
June 8, 2020
KFF Health News Original
The federal government’s relief package left behind many of America’s poorest workers struggling to make ends meet as the coronavirus ravaged and unemployment rose. Baltimore’s “squeegee boys” are among them.
Business Is Booming for Dialysis Giant Fresenius. It Took a $137M Bailout Anyway.
By Jordan Rau 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.
Packed Bars Serve Up New Rounds Of COVID Contagion
By Jordan Rau Elizabeth Lawrence
June 25, 2020
KFF Health News Original
State officials are pointing to reopened bars as a cause of local spikes in coronavirus cases. Bars are tailor-made for the spread of the virus, with a cacophony of conversations that require raised voices and alcohol, which can impede judgment.
Employers Require COVID Liability Waivers as Conflict Mounts Over Workplace Safety
By Harris Meyer
July 27, 2020
KFF Health News Original
While Congress negotiates liability protection for reopening businesses as part of its latest pandemic bailout package, some employers are already requiring workers to sign waivers agreeing not to sue if they get COVID-19 on the job.
Nueva York enfrenta la segunda ola de COVID con disparidades y controversia
By Fred Mogul, WNYC
December 3, 2020
KFF Health News Original
El personal médico de Nueva York sabe exactamente lo difíciles y peligrosos que pueden ser los hospitales abrumados y se preparan con cautela cuando las infecciones aumentan.
Mientras los departamentos de salud se enfocan en COVID, mosquitos vuelan libres
By Anna Maria Barry-Jester Lauren Weber
July 16, 2020
KFF Health News Original
Todos los recursos de salud pública están enfocados en COVID, dejando volar libres a millones de mosquitos, sin control, que pueden transmitir enfermedades potencialmente mortales.
Reopening of Long-Term Care Facilities Is ‘an Absolute Necessity for Our Well-Being’
By Judith Graham
March 4, 2021
KFF Health News Original
Relatives and advocates are calling for federal authorities to relax restrictions in long-term care institutions and grant special status to “essential caregivers” — family members or friends who provide critically important hands-on care — so they have the opportunity to tend to relatives in need.
Before ‘Tidal Wave’ Of Illness, Nursing Home Thought It Had COVID-19 Contained
By Blake Farmer, Nashville Public Radio
April 20, 2020
KFF Health News Original
Though it already had one staff member testing positive for the coronavirus, the Gallatin Center for Rehabilitation and Healing did not tell 911 operators this fact as it called ambulances to take residents in respiratory distress to the hospital, a WPLN investigation reveals.
Listen: Which Is The Greater Threat — The Coronavirus Or The Flu?
February 4, 2020
KFF Health News Original
Kaiser Health News reporter Liz Szabo talked to Connecticut Public Radio about the risks of the novel coronavirus compared with influenza.
Children’s Hospitals Grapple With Young Covid ‘Long Haulers’
By Carmen Heredia Rodriguez
March 3, 2021
KFF Health News Original
Pediatric hospitals are creating clinics for the increasing number of children reporting lingering covid symptoms similar to those that plague some adults long after they have recovered.
Científicos advierten que se espera demasiado de una vacuna para COVID
By Liz Szabo 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.
Was The Novel Coronavirus Really Sneaky In Its Spread To The U.S.? Experts Say No.
By Shefali Luthra
March 19, 2020
KFF Health News Original
Public health professionals dismissed the president’s claims that the spread of the coronavirus, in particular, and the threat of a pandemic, in general, snuck up on us as being “simply astonishing” and “simply untrue.”
Shortfall Of Comfort Care Signals Undue Suffering For Coronavirus Patients
By Liz Szabo
March 26, 2020
KFF Health News Original
Families worry that overwhelmed hospitals won’t be able to provide palliative care for loved ones stricken with COVID-19.
New Laws Keep Pandemic-Weary California at Forefront of Health Policy Innovation
By Samantha Young 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.
