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Liberan a miles de presos para prevenir brotes de coronavirus

By Mark Kreidler April 16, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Las cárceles estatales y de los condados confinan a los presos muy cerca uno del otro, tanto que es casi imposible seguir las pautas establecidas por los CDC.

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.

With Coronavirus Rare In Rural Florida, Experts Dispute Way Forward

By Phil Galewitz April 1, 2020 KFF Health News Original

At least 30 states have issued statewide stay-at-home orders. Florida, one of the eight states with the highest number of COVID-19 cases recorded so far, is the only one in that group not to have such an order.

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.

‘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.

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.

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.”

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.

How Intrepid Lab Sleuths Ramped Up Tests As Coronavirus Closed In

By JoNel Aleccia March 16, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Drs. Keith Jerome and Alex Greninger fast-tracked a test for the deadly new coronavirus weeks before it began spreading in the U.S. Their work has been key to detecting community transmission and ramping up the nation’s testing capacity.

Before ‘Tidal Wave’ Of Illness, Nursing Home Thought It Had COVID-19 Contained

By Blake Farmer, Nashville Public Radio April 20, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Though it already had one staff member testing positive for the coronavirus, the Gallatin Center for Rehabilitation and Healing did not tell 911 operators this fact as it called ambulances to take residents in respiratory distress to the hospital, a WPLN investigation reveals.

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.

Behind The Byline: ‘Reporting From a Distance’

By Anna Almendrala July 21, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Check out KHN’s video series — Behind The Byline: How the Story Got Made. Come along as journalists and producers offer an insider’s view of health care coverage that does not quit.

Life Beyond COVID Seclusion: Seniors See Challenges And Change Ahead

By Judith Graham July 7, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Some are grieving the loss of precious time in late life. Others are adjusting their ideas of what is possible and making the best of it.

How Those With Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Cope With Added Angst Of COVID

By Elizabeth Lawrence June 22, 2020 KFF Health News Original

During the coronavirus pandemic, people with obsessive-compulsive disorder and other serious anxieties may struggle to distinguish concerns brought on by their conditions from the fears shared by the general public. But some patients say successful treatment has armed them to handle COVID-19’s uncertainties.

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.

Listen: Navigating The Pandemic And Protests As The U.S. Reopens

June 22, 2020 KFF Health News Original

KHN Midwest correspondent Cara Anthony spoke with “The 21st” host Brian Mackey about the implications of reopening the U.S. and recent protests.

Cancer Patients Face Treatment Delays And Uncertainty As Coronavirus Cripples Hospitals

By Will Stone April 7, 2020 KFF Health News Original

As hospitals across the country are forced to delay or cancel certain medical procedures in response to the surge in patients with COVID-19, those hard choices are disrupting care for some people with serious illnesses.

Farmworker Camps to Urban Tent Cities: Tailoring Vaccine Info to Where It’s Most Needed

By Aneri Pattani February 10, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Concerns arising in western North Carolina provide a window into the challenges facing health workers across the country as they seek to persuade vulnerable populations to be inoculated against covid.

Analysis: Get Ready For The Vaccine — They’re Never Simple

By Arthur Allen May 21, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Trials are an immense undertaking involving tens of thousands of participants. They’re likely to start this summer — but don’t expect quick results. And what’s a successful result, anyway?

Shortfall Of Comfort Care Signals Undue Suffering For Coronavirus Patients

By Liz Szabo March 26, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Families worry that overwhelmed hospitals won’t be able to provide palliative care for loved ones stricken with COVID-19.

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