CDC Coronavirus Testing Decision Likely To Haunt Nation For Months To Come
By Rachana Pradhan
March 23, 2020
KFF Health News Original
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention gave huge cities roughly the same number of test kits as some rural spots, which crippled efforts by health officials to contain the virus.
Pandemia resalta la necesidad de clínicas de atención de urgencia para mujeres
By Rachel Scheier
April 16, 2021
KFF Health News Original
Las clínicas de atención de urgencia especializadas en ginecología y obstetricia han comenzado a surgir en todo el país en los últimos años, y la pandemia de covid ha aumentado la demanda.
Big Business Boosts Vaccine Effort, but It’s ‘Complex Choreography’ to Get Shots in Arms
By Will Stone
January 26, 2021
KFF Health News Original
Corporations like Starbucks, Honeywell, Microsoft, Costco and Google are lining up to help with vaccine logistics. But the problem of the moment is supply, not systems.
Readers and Tweeters Fight Stigma and Salute Front-Line Workers
January 26, 2021
KFF Health News Original
Kaiser Health News gives readers a chance to comment on a recent batch of stories.
California Prisons Are COVID Hotbeds Despite Billions Spent On Inmate Health
By Dan Morain
June 29, 2020
KFF Health News Original
At $3.6 billion a year, California spends more on prison health care than other states spend to run their entire prison systems. But despite the spending, and federal court oversight, prisons across California are struggling to contain deadly outbreaks of COVID-19.
California Shies Away From Calls To Eliminate Restrictions On Nurse Practitioners
By Rachel Bluth
April 17, 2020
KFF Health News Original
Many states are dramatically loosening regulations on nurse practitioners as the coronavirus pandemic increases demand for health care workers. But not California.
Covid Vaccination Uptake Receding With Omicron
February 28, 2022
Morning Briefing
Demand for vaccinations and booster shots is dipping to its lowest levels, even among vulnerable groups. Meanwhile, new research points to the Wuhan animal markets as the origin of the novel coronavirus.
Nursing Home Outbreak Spotlights Coronavirus Risk In Elder Care Facilities
By JoNel Aleccia
March 1, 2020
KFF Health News Original
The spread of coronavirus disease to a skilled nursing facility in Washington state underscores the risk the deadly new virus poses in elder care facilities, where illnesses caused by more common pathogens, like seasonal influenza, often spread rapidly.
Airlines Want Flyers To Feel Safe, But Grab Bag Of COVID Policies Adds Turbulence
By Victoria Knight
June 25, 2020
KFF Health News Original
Building consumer confidence in air travel is a major challenge for airlines. Some experts think they aren’t doing enough to make their case.
Massachusetts Recruits 1,000 ‘Contact Tracers’ To Battle COVID-19
By Martha Bebinger, WBUR
April 14, 2020
KFF Health News Original
“I know we will succeed somewhat and we will fail somewhat,” says one of the plan’s chief architects. “We won’t be able to find every single person — but we will hopefully prevent a lot of deaths.”
Syphilis Cases in California Drive a Record-Setting Year for STDs Nationwide
By April Dembosky, KQED
April 13, 2021
KFF Health News Original
New data released Tuesday from the CDC shows sexually transmitted infections reached an all-time high in 2019. The biggest spike was in syphilis cases, which rose 74% between 2015 and 2019. Leading the country in syphilis is California, where men who have sex with men make up half the cases.
Chasing The Elusive Dream Of A COVID Cure
By Liz Szabo
May 15, 2020
KFF Health News Original
Thousands of researchers worldwide are looking for a treatment that will go beyond what remdesivir can do for COVID patients.
Orange County Hospital Seeks Divorce From Large Catholic Health System
By Bernard J. Wolfson
April 13, 2021
KFF Health News Original
Frustration with the standardization of care across 51 hospitals, loss of local control and restrictions on reproductive health care have pitted Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian against the Providence chain.
Must-Reads Of The Week
By Damon Darlin
May 29, 2020
KFF Health News Original
KHN executive editor Damon Darlin wades through mounds of health care policy stories — so you don’t have to.
Listen: Front-Line Health Care Workers Face Shortage Of Protective Gear
March 20, 2020
KFF Health News Original
As California ramps up capacity at hospitals in response to the coronavirus pandemic, health care workers face an inadequate supply of masks.
Not So Fast Using CPAPs In Place Of Ventilators. They Could Spread The Coronavirus.
By Markian Hawryluk
March 27, 2020
KFF Health News Original
U.S. pandemic planning envisioned the possibility of using CPAP machines for milder cases of COVID-19 when ventilators are in short supply. But evidence suggests that the machines, commonly used by people with sleep apnea, can aerosolize and possibly spread the virus. That leaves hospitals with few good alternatives if the demand for ventilators exceeds the supply.
Hate Unmasked In America
By Anna Almendrala
May 29, 2020
KFF Health News Original
As a journalist, she wrote during the winter about the hostility shown toward Asian Americans for wearing masks. In May, she got cursed at for not wearing a mask herself.
Blood Drives — And Donors — Fall Off As Coronavirus Worries Grow
By JoNel Aleccia
March 6, 2020
KFF Health News Original
Cancellations and no-shows for blood drives in states where the virus is spreading — and in ones where it’s not — pose risks for the nation’s inventories.
Must-Reads Of The Week
By Jordan Rau
June 5, 2020
KFF Health News Original
KHN senior correspondent Jordan Rau takes a spin through this week’s essential health care news.
Covid Testing, Critical To Halting Spread Of Virus, Has Slumped
May 11, 2022
Morning Briefing
Experts say coronavirus testing has dropped anywhere from 70% to 90% worldwide from the first to second quarter of 2022, AP reports. In other news, Bill Gates — the target of anti-vaccine conspiracists — has tested positive for covid.
