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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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Viewpoints: Allow A Covid Booster Now For Immunocompromised Who Need It; Tennessee Is Putting Kids In Danger

July 14, 2021 Morning Briefing

Opinion writers tackle covid-19 and the coronavirus vaccine.

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KHN’s ‘What The Health?’: ‘Open The Schools, Close The Bars’

July 9, 2020 KFF Health News Original

While COVID-19 cases continue to surge in more than half the country, the Trump administration has decided its top priority is for schools to open for in-person learning this fall. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court hands Trump a victory in a case to limit the reach of the birth control benefit under the Affordable Care Act. Joanne Kenen of Politico, Mary Ellen McIntire of CQ Roll Call and Kimberly Leonard of Business Insider join KHN’s Julie Rovner to discuss this and more. Also, Rovner interviews KHN’s Sarah Varney about the latest KHN-NPR “Bill of the Month.”

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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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El coronavirus pone a prueba el valor de la inteligencia artificial en la atención médica

By Ashley Gold May 22, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Algunos sistemas de salud están utilizando programas de inteligencia artificial para ayudar a los médicos a decidir sobre el curso de tratamiento en pacientes con COVID-19.

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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.

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Tourists, Beware: Foreign Visitors’ Travel Health Insurance Might Exclude Pandemics

By Carmen Heredia Rodriguez May 18, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Many travel insurance plans offer health care coverage, but they could limit how much the insurer will pay or exclude coverage for health crises like the coronavirus pandemic. That may leave foreign travelers — unfamiliar with the way the American health system works ― on the hook for major expenses.

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Coronavirus Casts New Shadow Over Capitol Dome

July 21, 2021 Morning Briefing

The recent surge in cases is slowing work on Capitol Hill and shattering a sense of calm. Adding to the jitters was news yesterday that a White House employee and a member of Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s staff tested positive even though they were fully vaccinated.

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El sistema de pruebas para COVID de la Casa Blanca no protegió al presidente

By Rachana Pradhan and Lauren Weber and Liz Szabo October 2, 2020 KFF Health News Original

El diagnóstico de COVID-19 del presidente Donald Trump está generando nuevas preguntas sobre la estrategia de la Casa Blanca para realizar pruebas y contener la propagación del virus.

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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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Worst Covid Cases Concentrated In Six States

December 8, 2021 Morning Briefing

Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Pennsylvania, New York and Illinois account for the majority of the country’s increase in covid hospitalizations. And an Illinois lawmaker wants unvaccinated hospital patients in Illinois to pay their own coronavirus medical bills out of pocket.

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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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A Pandemic Upshot: Seniors Are Having Second Thoughts About Where to Live

By Judith Graham September 18, 2020 KFF Health News Original

More than 70,000 residents and staff members at nursing homes and assisted living facilities have died of COVID-19, and others are under strict rules designed to keep the disease from spreading. That has evoked concern that living in a communal facility could be dangerous.

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Pence Praises Trump’s ‘Seamless’ COVID Response, Leaves Out His State Feuds

By Jon Greenberg, PolitiFact and Amy Sherman, PolitiFact and Victoria Knight August 27, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Early in the pandemic, Trump feuded with governors over whose responsibility it was to secure supplies and states sometimes found themselves competing with each other and the federal government for scarce personal protective equipment and testing materials.

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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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Pediatricians Want Kids to Be Part of COVID Vaccine Trials

By Arthur Allen December 15, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Some years from now, infants and school-aged children will probably be the mainstay of a universal vaccination program against COVID-19 in the United States. But first, doctors want to be sure that newfangled vaccines won’t harm them.

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Sanders: In Coronavirus Relief Effort, Congress Fell Short On Paid Sick Leave

By Shefali Luthra April 13, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Capitol Hill’s guarantee does not pertain to many “essential” workers.

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KHN’s ‘What The Health?’: Coronavirus Goes Viral

March 12, 2020 KFF Health News Original

The rapidly spreading coronavirus has led to the cancellation of sporting events, conferences and travel, with Congress and President Donald Trump scrambling to catch up to the spiraling public health crisis. Meanwhile, the Trump administration has issued long-awaited rules aimed at making it easier for patients to carry copies of their medical records. Margot Sanger-Katz of The New York Times, Paige Winfield Cunningham of The Washington Post and Kimberly Leonard of Business Insider join KHN’s Julie Rovner to discuss this and more. Also, for extra credit, the panelists suggest their favorite health policy stories of the week they think you should read, too.

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Plastic Barriers May Actually Worsen Spread Of Coronavirus, Research Finds

August 20, 2021 Morning Briefing

The dividers can impede the natural air flow of a room, leading to aerosol buildup and potentially higher concentrations of the virus that causes covid, recent studies suggest. However, they appear to be beneficial at slowing the transmission of larger particles from sneezing and coughing.

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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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