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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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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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¿Puede Estados Unidos controlar las nuevas mutaciones de covid?

By Anna Maria Barry-Jester January 28, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Cuando una mutación hace sonar las alarmas de salud pública, normalmente se debe a que se ha combinado con otras mutaciones y, en conjunto, ha cambiado la forma en que se comporta el virus.

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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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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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Por el bienestar de los abuelos, buscan reabrir hogares de adultos mayores

By Judith Graham March 4, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Ahora es el momento de aliviar a los residentes del abrumador y brutal aislamiento, dice un grupo cada vez más grande de expertos, cuidadores, consumidores y médicos.

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What Covid Means for the Athlete’s Heart

By Markian Hawryluk April 6, 2021 KFF Health News Original

As athletes at all levels resume their sports, what risks do their hearts carry if they’ve had covid? Initial data shows the risk may be low but still possibly deadly.

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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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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 Threatens The Lives Of Rural Hospitals Already Stretched To Breaking Point

By Lauren Weber March 21, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Almost half of the nation’s rural hospitals operate in the red on a good day. But amid the coronavirus pandemic, rural hospital CEOs warn that soon some may be unable to pay their workers. And their doors may close when the community most needs them.

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KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: What Would Dr. Fauci Do?

November 19, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Anthony Fauci is one of the nation’s most trusted voices during public health emergencies. As the head of the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases since 1984, Fauci has helped guide the nation through the HIV/AIDS epidemic and more recent outbreaks of Ebola and Zika. In this special episode of KHN’s “What the Health?” podcast, Fauci sits down with KHN Editor-in-Chief Elisabeth Rosenthal to talk about how to navigate the next phase of the coronavirus pandemic and what the incoming Biden administration should do first.

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Hospitales infantiles enfrentan los casos de niños con covid “de largo plazo”

By Carmen Heredia Rodriguez March 3, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Aunque las estadísticas indican que la mayoría de los niños se han librado de los peores efectos de covid, se sabe poco sobre los que desarrollan una enfermedad grave.

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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.

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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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Pandemic-Related Paid Sick Days and Leave to Expire Dec. 31 — With No Extension in Sight

By Steven Findlay December 18, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Enacted in March, an emergency measure covers about half of full-time workers nationwide, permitting 10 days of paid sick leave for all who fall ill or need to quarantine, and 50 more days of extended leave for parents who need to care for a child at home due to COVID-related school or day care closures.

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‘We’re Not Controlling It in Our Schools’: Covid Safety Lapses Abound Across US

By Laura Ungar January 26, 2021 KFF Health News Original

As President Biden calls for more support to help schools hold in-person classes, public health experts say schools can be relatively safe if they take well-known steps to prevent covid. But a KHN investigation shows many districts and states have ignored health advice or written their own questionable safety rules for schools.

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Fear and Loathing as Colleges Face Another Season of Red Ink

By Mark Kreidler December 7, 2020 KFF Health News Original

When campuses stay open, COVID infections spread widely, and sometimes kill. But by closing dorms and dining halls, scores of smaller schools face finances so ruinous they could be fatal for their institutions.

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California Lawmakers to Newsom: Give All Immigrants Health Coverage

By Angela Hart December 7, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Given the pandemic’s disproportionate hit on minority communities, two Democratic lawmakers are pushing Newsom to agree to offer health care to all unauthorized immigrants. They planned to unveil legislation Monday — and a new strategy to make it happen.

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Dispatch From A Country Doctor: Seeing Patients Differently In The Time Of Coronavirus

By Julie Appleby April 7, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Emergency rule changes by the federal government and some insurers have made telemedicine a useful tool.

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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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