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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.

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.

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.

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.

Hospitals Scramble to Prioritize Which Workers Are First for COVID Shots

By JoNel Aleccia December 14, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Even as the federal Food and Drug Administration engaged in intense deliberations ahead of Friday’s authorization of the nation’s first COVID vaccine, and days before the initial doses were to be released, hospitals have been grappling with how to distribute the first scarce shots. Their plans vary broadly.

More Than 200M People In The World Have Had The Coronavirus

August 5, 2021 Morning Briefing

It took about a year to reach 100 million cases, but only six months to double that.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

Analysis: He Got Tested For Coronavirus. Then Came The Flood Of Medical Bills.

By Elisabeth Rosenthal and Emmarie Huetteman April 1, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Hidden costs for ER visits and other fees could cost people thousands of dollars.

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.

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.

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.”

KHN’s ‘What The Health?’: All Coronavirus All The Time

April 2, 2020 KFF Health News Original

The COVID-19 pandemic is forcing changes to the U.S. health system that were previously unthinkable. Yet some fights ― including over the Affordable Care Act and abortion — persist even in this time of national emergency. Joanne Kenen of Politico, Margot Sanger-Katz of The New York Times and Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico join KHN’s Julie Rovner to discuss this and more. Also, Rovner interviews KHN’s Liz Szabo about the latest installment of KHN-NPR’s “Bill of the Month.”

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.

COVID-19 abruma a las terapias intensivas en la frontera

By Heidi de Marco June 5, 2020 KFF Health News Original

A pesar que la mayoría de los hospitales de California no tuvieron un aumento dramático de pacientes, algunas instalaciones cerca de la frontera con México se han visto desbordadas.

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