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An Ickier Outbreak: Trench Fever Spread by Lice Is Found in Denver

By Markian Hawryluk July 20, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Three people around Denver have confirmed cases of trench fever, and another person is suspected of having the rare disease, carried by body lice. A scourge during World War I, the illness is the latest problem to emerge as everyone’s attention is diverted to COVID-19.

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Coronavirus Tests Public Health Infrastructure In The Heartland

By Lauren Weber February 13, 2020 KFF Health News Original

While Missouri has yet to have a confirmed case of coronavirus, the threat of the disease is siphoning resources from an already stretched-thin public health system.

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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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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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Ex-West Virginia Health Chief Says Cuts Hurt Virus Response

By Michelle R. Smith, The Associated Press and Anthony Izaguirre, The Associated Press July 10, 2020 KFF Health News Original

The former West Virginia public health leader forced out by the governor says decades-old computer systems and cuts to staff over a period of years had made a challenging job even harder during a once-in-a-century pandemic.

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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.

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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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As Problems Grow With Abbott’s Fast COVID Test, FDA Standards Are Under Fire

By Rachana Pradhan June 22, 2020 KFF Health News Original

After the FDA issues a public warning about the test, one of its senior officials says point-of-care coronavirus tests can miss 20% of cases and still be considered useful. Public health experts are split.

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Listen: What Counts In Measuring The Full COVID Death Toll? It’s Complicated

June 26, 2020 KFF Health News Original

KHN senior Colorado correspondent Markian Hawryluk joined KUNC’s Erin O’Toole on “Colorado Edition” and appeared on WNHN’s “The Attitude with Arnie Arnesen” to discuss his recent story on how difficult it is to measure the full death toll from the pandemic.

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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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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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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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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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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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Battling A Pandemic Across 4,750 Square Miles And 10 Million People

By Bernard J. Wolfson April 13, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Los Angeles County’s health leader describes the struggle for data and resources in the coronavirus fight.

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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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Coronavirus Has Upended Our World. It’s OK To Grieve.

By Stephanie O'Neill March 27, 2020 KFF Health News Original

To weather uncertain times, it’s important to acknowledge and grieve losses — even if they seem small in the scheme of the global pandemic, psychologists and grief experts say.

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Telemedicine Surges, Fueled By Coronavirus Fears And Shift In Payment Rules

By Phil Galewitz March 27, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Millions of Americans are suddenly seeking care by connecting with a doctor electronically. Helping drive that trend, medical providers can now charge as much as they would for an office visit.

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Thousands of Doctors’ Offices Buckle Under Financial Stress of COVID

By Laura Ungar November 30, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Across the nation, primary care practices that were already struggling are closing, victims of the pandemic’s financial fallout. And this is reducing access to health care, especially in rural and other regions already short on doctors.

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As Congress Weighs COVID Liability Protections, States Shield Health Providers

By Susan Jaffe May 15, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Under pressure from organizations representing doctors, nurses, hospitals and other care providers, a handful of states are offering them protections from civil lawsuits over medical treatment.

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