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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.

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.”

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.

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.

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.

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.

Usa una máscara. Como si fuera tan simple…

By Michael McAuliff and Julio Ochoa, WUSF and Jackie Fortiér, LAist and Blake Farmer, Nashville Public Radio October 2, 2020 KFF Health News Original

La forma más simple y fácil de combatir una nueva ola de infecciones es lograr que la mayoría de las personas usen máscaras la mayor parte del tiempo.

COVID Plans Put to Test as Firefighters Crowd Camps for Peak Wildfire Season

By Matt Volz August 20, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Thousands of firefighters from across the U.S. have converged on the West as the wildfire season enters its peak. The inherently dangerous job now carries the additional risk of COVID-19 transmission, and fire managers are adapting their plans for crowded fire camps in the hope of preventing outbreaks that could sideline crews and weaken the nation’s firefighting infrastructure.

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.

Farmworker Camps to Urban Tent Cities: Tailoring Vaccine Info to Where It’s Most Needed

By Aneri Pattani February 10, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Concerns arising in western North Carolina provide a window into the challenges facing health workers across the country as they seek to persuade vulnerable populations to be inoculated against covid.

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.

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.

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.

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.

COVID Catch-22: They Got A Big ER Bill Because Hospitals Couldn’t Test For Virus

By Julie Appleby July 7, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Americans who had coronavirus symptoms in March and April are getting big hospital bills — because they were not sick enough to get then-scarce COVID tests. Some insurers say they are trying to correct these bills, but patients may have to put up a fight.

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.

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.

Mientras los departamentos de salud se enfocan en COVID, mosquitos vuelan libres

By Anna Maria Barry-Jester and 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.

Aunque preferiría cerrar, la cadena de tiendas COVID-19 Essentials se expande

By Markian Hawryluk October 14, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Las máscaras han evolucionado de ser un producto utilitario a una forma de expresar la personalidad, las inclinaciones políticas o el fanatismo deportivo.

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.

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