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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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New California Coronavirus Case Reveals Problems with U.S. Testing Protocols

By Anna Maria Barry-Jester and Rachel Bluth February 27, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Disease experts say a new coronavirus case in California underscores the need for more widespread community testing for the illness, as well as problems caused by the delays in getting functional coronavirus test kits to state and local public health agencies. 

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Different Takes: Steps Health Care Leaders Can Take To Ease Employee Burnout; Ways To Manage Covid-19

October 7, 2021 Morning Briefing

Opinion writers tackle covid burnout, how to defeat the coronavirus and vaccinating while pregnant.

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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.

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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.

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¿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.

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Temperature Check: Tips For Tracking A Key Symptom Of Coronavirus Contagion

By Shefali Luthra April 1, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Taking one’s temperature is not as easy as it sounds. For one reporter, the first challenge was finding a thermometer.

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Se hizo la prueba de coronavirus. Luego vino la catarata de facturas médicas

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

Nadie está haciendo mucho para rescatar a pacientes que necesitan desesperadamente protección contra este tipo de facturas, en un sistema que cobra libremente por cada atención que dispensa.

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Los mercados de seguros de salud reabrieron. Esto es lo que necesitas saber

By Michelle Andrews February 16, 2021 KFF Health News Original

En enero, el presidente Joe Biden firmó una orden ejecutiva para abrir el mercado federal de seguros de salud durante tres meses, hasta el 15 de mayo.

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Coronavirus Tests Public Health Infrastructure In The Heartland

By Lauren Weber February 13, 2020 KFF Health News Original

While Missouri has yet to have a confirmed case of coronavirus, the threat of the disease is siphoning resources from an already stretched-thin public health system.

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In An Exchange About Coronavirus, Homeland Security Chief Gets Flu Mortality Rate Wrong

By Victoria Knight March 2, 2020 KFF Health News Original

The Homeland Security secretary missed the mark with his estimate of the flu’s annual U.S. mortality rate.

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Falsas promesas de curas, tratamientos y pruebas caseras para COVID-19 por internet

By Victoria Knight March 31, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Pruebas no aprobadas por la FDA y varios informes cuestionables de Internet relacionados con pruebas de coronavirus, vacunas y curas “milagrosas” han estado circulando por las redes sociales.

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As Coronavirus Spreads, Workers Could Lean On ACA Coverage Protection

April 3, 2020 KFF Health News Original

KHN’s Julie Rovner discusses the role of the Affordable Care Act in helping to provide coverage to people affected by the virus’ economic repercussions.

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