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Must-Reads Of The Week From Brianna Labuskes

By Brianna Labuskes May 1, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Newsletter editor Brianna Labuskes wades through hundreds of health care policy stories each week, so you don’t have to.

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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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Hisopado bucal tomado por el paciente, próximo paso para detectar el coronavirus

By David Tuller May 1, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Algunos expertos sugieren que este enfoque de auto recolección puede proporcionar una forma más fácil de tener pruebas masivas en los Estados Unidos.

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100 Million Covid Shots in 100 Days Doesn’t Get Us Back to Normal

By Victoria Knight February 3, 2021 KFF Health News Original

President Joe Biden’s promise to reach this milestone is an important step forward in vaccine rollout. But it is only the beginning of the sweeping vaccination effort required.

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Testing In California Still A Frustrating Patchwork Of Haves And Have-Nots

By Anna Maria Barry-Jester and Angela Hart and Rachel Bluth May 4, 2020 KFF Health News Original

It’s hard to overstate how uneven access to critical coronavirus test kits remains in the nation’s largest state. Even as some Southern California counties are opening drive-thru sites to make testing available to any resident who wants it, a rural northern county is testing raw sewage to determine whether the coronavirus has infiltrated its communities.

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For EMTs, There’s No ‘Rule Book’ For Facing A Pandemic And Protests At Once

By Carmen Heredia Rodriguez June 9, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Emergency medical technicians, who have been on the front lines against the coronavirus, also play a key role in helping provide care during protests sparked by the death of George Floyd.

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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.

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Bingeing on Doom: Expert on the ‘Black Death’ Attracts Cult Following

By JoNel Aleccia July 22, 2020 KFF Health News Original

A 2016 series on the 14th-century plague became must-see TV during spring’s COVID-19 outbreak — and flooded Purdue medievalist Dorsey Armstrong with questions about parallels between that pandemic and the current crisis.

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The COVID-19 Downturn Triggers Jump in Medicaid Enrollment

By Phil Galewitz July 28, 2020 KFF Health News Original

For the first time since 2017, Medicaid enrollment has begun increasing again, but not by as much as many analysts expected.

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Behind The Byline: ‘Everybody Hit Record’

July 9, 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.

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Why AstraZeneca and J&J’s Vaccines, In Use Elsewhere, Are Still on Hold in America

By Sarah Jane Tribble February 26, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Covid has pressed the Food and Drug Administration into its fastest vaccine reviews ever — which are still painfully slow, critics say.

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The COVID-19 Bailout That’s Left Every Hospital Unhappy In Its Own Way

By Rachana Pradhan and Lauren Weber April 16, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Despite intense lobbying for a piece of the $100 billion bailout pot, big New York hospitals and rural systems alike say they aren’t getting a fair share.

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Biden Falsely Blames Trump Administration For Rejecting WHO Coronavirus Test Kits (That Were Never Offered)

By Victoria Knight and Jon Greenberg, PolitiFact March 16, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Biden’s statement leaves out context about how countries decided on which test they’d use to identify the presence of the coronavirus.

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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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Big Brother Wants To Track Your Location And Health Data. And That’s Not All Bad.

By Julie Appleby and Victoria Knight April 16, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Big data plays a critical role in the success of current public health efforts to control the spread of the coronavirus. Privacy advocates, though, are watching closely.

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Es difícil decir si es COVID, síntomas por inhalar humo… o la gripe que ya llega

By Mark Kreidler September 16, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Por los incendios en California, pacientes llegan a los centros de salud con síntomas similares a los de COVID. Y hay que seguir los protocolos.

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Older Adults Without Family or Friends Lag in Race to Get Vaccines

By Judith Graham February 1, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Public health officials have singled out seniors as key candidates for the covid-19 vaccines but too many of these seniors are not able to get shots because they don’t use computers, don’t have internet services or transportation, or don’t have someone to help them with the process.

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Coronavirus: ¿todos los mayores de 60 años necesitan tomar las mismas precauciones?

By Judith Graham March 24, 2020 KFF Health News Original

¿Son necesarias las precauciones como las que respaldan los CDC para todos los adultos mayores?, ¿Incluso en áreas donde el nuevo coronavirus todavía no parece estar circulando ampliamente?

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Médicos forenses buscan rastros de COVID-19 en muertes inexplicables

By Michelle Andrews May 19, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Durante la pandemia, muchas personas enfermas se quedaron en casa y murieron en sus hogares en lugar de ir a hospitales abrumados por pacientes con coronavirus.

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Racial Status And The Pandemic: A Combustible Mixture

By Anna Almendrala May 13, 2020 KFF Health News Original

The novel coronavirus is affecting black Americans disproportionately, which some community leaders and public health experts say is not surprising. So why didn’t anyone sound an alarm?

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