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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.

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.

Longer Looks: Interesting Reads You Might Have Missed

October 15, 2021 Morning Briefing

Each week, KHN finds longer stories for you to enjoy. This week’s selections include stories on a TikTok bone salesman, plant-based diets, Selma Blair, the coronavirus, the Nipah virus and more.

COVID Vaccines Appear Safe and Effective, but Key Questions Remain

By Bernard J. Wolfson December 23, 2020 KFF Health News Original

The federal government expects vaccinations to be available to everyone who wants them by summer — though glitches are inevitable. If enough of us get vaccinated, we could wave goodbye to the pandemic in 2021.

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.

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.

Listen: How the Pandemic Further Politicized Public Health

July 22, 2020 KFF Health News Original

KHN Midwest correspondent Lauren Weber joined Texas Public Radio’s David Martin Davies on “The Source” show to talk about the politicization of public health during the COVID pandemic.

Coronavirus Puts Prisons In Tight Spot Amid Staff Shortages, Threats Of Lockdown

By Lauren Weber March 12, 2020 KFF Health News Original

As the coronavirus threat rises, prisons are grappling with the possibility of nationwide lockdowns and calls for prisoner releases.

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.

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.

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.

CVS y Walgreens desperdician cerca de 130,000 dosis de vacunas contra covid

By Joshua Eaton and Rachana Pradhan May 3, 2021 KFF Health News Original

De los datos de los CDC, no resulta claro por qué las dos cadenas desperdiciaron mucha más vacuna que las agencias estatales y federales.

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.

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.

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.

‘Terrible Role-Modeling’: California Lawmakers Flout Pandemic Etiquette

By Samantha Young and Rachel Bluth September 14, 2020 KFF Health News Original

As California workers and schoolchildren struggled to work from home, state lawmakers met in person. And as their legislative session came to a close in late August, they broke COVID rules: They huddled, let their masks slip below their noses, removed their masks to drink coffee — and required a new mom to vote in person while toting her hungry newborn.

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.”

In Fast-Moving Pandemic, Health Officials Try to Change Minds at Warp Speed

By Katheryn Houghton December 28, 2020 KFF Health News Original

It typically takes years of persuasion to change habits in the name of health safety. Local officials who are stuck with the responsibility of enforcing statewide pandemic-related mandates are trying to transform behavior fast.

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.

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.

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