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How Pharma Money Colors Operation Warp Speed’s Quest to Defeat COVID

By Rachana Pradhan November 30, 2020 KFF Health News Original

A Trump administration maneuver allows executives who are leading the federal effort to keep investments in drug companies that would benefit from the pandemic response.

These 4 Things May Raise Your Chance Of Getting Long Covid, Researchers Say

January 26, 2022 Morning Briefing

They are: 1) the level of coronavirus RNA in the blood early in the infection; 2) the presence of certain autoantibodies that mistakenly attack tissues in the body; 3) the reactivation of Epstein-Barr virus; and 4) having Type 2 diabetes.

NYC Nurse Says He’s Not Scared: ‘I Am Only Doing My Job’ For COVID-19 Patients

By Paula Andalo April 17, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Francisco Díaz ordinarily works educating seniors about their diabetes, but he has moved to the emergency room, on the front line in the battle against coronavirus. He said his Latino background helps him communicate with the many Spanish-speaking patients and understand their culture.

La pandemia interrumpe una mina de oro: las cirugías de reemplazo articular

By Bernard J. Wolfson August 10, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Las pérdidas de ingresos en hospitales y centros de cirugía ambulatoria pueden haber superado los $5,000 millones sólo por las cancelaciones de los reemplazos de rodilla y cadera.

Without a Pandemic Safety Net, Immigrants Living Illegally in US Fall Through the Cracks

By LJ Dawson March 9, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Many undocumented immigrants are essential workers at high risk of exposure to the virus — and the pandemic’s economic crash — with no direct access to federal financial lifelines available to U.S. citizens.

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.

Packed Bars Serve Up New Rounds Of COVID Contagion

By Jordan Rau and 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.

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.

Coronavirus Cases Surging From Coast To Coast

July 21, 2021 Morning Briefing

Outlets report on the rise in coronavirus cases from Virginia, Maryland, Arkansas, California, Massachusetts, Texas and Alaska; plus, travel advisories and contact tracing.

In Reversal, Kansas Will Count All Positive COVID Cases, Even Asymptomatic Ones

By Alex Smith, KCUR May 14, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Following a KCUR report, Kansas officials said the state’s public reporting of pandemic trends will count all tests that come back positive for the new coronavirus, even when the patient has no symptoms.

With Coronavirus Lurking, Conferences Wrestle With Whether To Cancel

By Liz Szabo March 6, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Concerns over Comic Con in Seattle mount as HIMSS and other huge conferences halt their plans.

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.

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.

¿Funcionarán las aplicaciones de rastreo para COVID?

By Bernard J. Wolfson July 8, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Para que los celulares puedan ayudar a frenar la propagación del coronavirus, muchas personas deben usar las aplicaciones. Y eso todavía está en duda.

KHN’s ‘What The Health?’: Whom Do We Trust For COVID Info?

April 23, 2020 KFF Health News Original

The messaging from the White House coronavirus press briefings is becoming more confusing as President Donald Trump and his science advisers appear to not see eye to eye. Meanwhile, Congress is ready to approve more money to address both the health and economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic. And the virus is taking an almost unimaginable toll on the nation’s nursing homes and putting strain on patients and health care providers with non-COVID ailments. Joanne Kenen of Politico, Jennifer Haberkorn of the Los Angeles Times and Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico join KHN’s Julie Rovner to discuss these topics and more.

In Coronavirus Relief Bill, Hospitals Poised To Get Massive Infusion Of Cash

By Julie Rovner March 27, 2020 KFF Health News Original

The legislation scheduled to go before the House for a vote Friday provides nearly $200 billion in aid for hospitals. That includes payments for expenses or lost revenues from the coronavirus pandemic, interest-free loans and changes in Medicare reimbursements.

‘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.

To ‘Keep The Lights On,’ Doctors And Hospitals Ask For Advance Medicare Payments

By Phil Galewitz April 10, 2020 KFF Health News Original

As part of the federal response to the coronavirus crisis, Medicare is offering to give hospitals and doctors accelerated payments.

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.

Next Showdown in Congress: Protecting Workers vs. Protecting Employers in the Pandemic

By Christina Jewett and Melissa Bailey July 13, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Democrats want to bind employers to follow a safety plan, while Republicans seek to shield employers and doctors from lawsuits.

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