Viral Post Alleging Obama-Era Device Tax Caused Current PPE Shortage Is Way Off
By Victoria Knight
May 5, 2020
KFF Health News Original
Nothing in this viral meme is accurate. And there are other places to place blame.
Bringing ‘Poogie’ Home: Hospice In The Time Of COVID-19
By Melissa Bailey
May 26, 2020
KFF Health News Original
One family took up the challenge of taking their mother, who had serious medical problems and the coronavirus, from the hospital to die at home. But because of the risk of infection, home hospice can be a daunting experience.
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.
Dr. J. Ronald Verrier Was Busy Saving Lives Before The Pandemic
By Sarah Varney
April 15, 2020
KFF Health News Original
Dr. J. Ronald Verrier, a surgeon at St. Barnabas Hospital in the Bronx, spent the final weeks of his audacious, unfinished life tending to a torrent of patients inflicted with COVID-19. He died April 8 at Mount Sinai South Nassau Hospital in Oceanside, New York, at age 59, after falling ill from the novel coronavirus.
Reopening Dental Offices For Routine Care Amid Pandemic Touches A Nerve
By Phil Galewitz
May 21, 2020
KFF Health News Original
Most states ordered dental offices to close except for emergency patient care when the coronavirus hit the U.S. But the shutdown drilled deep into dentists’ finances, and they have been eager to reopen as states have relaxed their closures.
Escasez de cuidados paliativos provoca dolor extra a pacientes con coronavirus
By Liz Szabo
March 26, 2020
KFF Health News Original
A algunos expertos les preocupa que la escasez de estos profesionales pueda dejar a muchos pacientes de COVID-19 en estado grave en una situación de angustia.
Med Students ‘Feel Very Behind’ Because of COVID-Induced Disruptions in Training
By Julie Rovner
August 31, 2020
KFF Health News Original
The pandemic has led medical schools to cancel many of the rotations in hospitals and clinics that students perform to see a broad mix of patients with a diverse mix of problems.
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.
Schools Walk the Tightrope Between Ideal Safety and the Reality of Covid
By Laura Ungar Samantha Young
February 8, 2021
KFF Health News Original
Across the country, politics have muddied the question of when and how to reopen schools. Even though teachers continue to fear for their safety, lawmakers and parents are demanding that schools take advantage of declining infection rates to open safely and quickly.
Tengo que estar en casa por el coronavirus, ¿me pagarán mi salario?
By Michelle Andrews
March 12, 2020
KFF Health News Original
A medida que el coronavirus se propaga por todo el país, surge una pregunta crítica: ¿Qué pasa con sus salarios si el trabajador está enfermo o tiene que estar en cuarentena?
California Hits Up Libraries and Tax Offices To Recruit 20,000 New Disease Detectives
By April Dembosky, KQED
June 17, 2020
KFF Health News Original
As California begins one of the largest contact-tracing training programs in the country, many of the new recruits will be librarians: who are known to be curious, tech-savvy and really good at getting people they barely know to open up.
‘Please Tell Me My Life Is Worth A LITTLE Of Your Discomfort,’ Nurse Pleads
By Anna Almendrala
July 7, 2020
KFF Health News Original
Health care workers on the front lines of the COVID crisis have spent exhausting months working and self-quarantining off-duty to keep from infecting others, including their families. Encountering people who indignantly refuse face coverings can feel like a slap in the face.
‘Staying Away From Grandma’ Isn’t An Option In Multigenerational Homes
By Cara Anthony
April 6, 2020
KFF Health News Original
About 1 in 5 U.S. residents live in multigenerational households. Many of those have three or more generations all under one roof. While the living arrangement has financial and emotional benefits, those families face a unique set of challenges as COVID-19 continues to spread.
Alerta por fraude: cosas que un rastreador de contactos de COVID nunca preguntaría
By Julie Appleby
August 20, 2020
KFF Health News Original
Los rastreadores de contactos legítimos no solicitan pagos ni buscan otra información financiera, advierten defensores de los consumidores y funcionarios.
Long-Standing Racial And Income Disparities Seen Creeping Into COVID-19 Care
By Blake Farmer, Nashville Public Radio
April 6, 2020
KFF Health News Original
Many health officials around the nation have not released data on the ethnic and racial demographics of people tested for the new coronavirus. But public health experts said the anecdotes are adding up, and they fear the response to the pandemic will result in predictable health care disparities.
Massachusetts recluta a 1,000 rastreadores de contactos en su batalla contra COVID-19
By Martha Bebinger
April 14, 2020
KFF Health News Original
El ambicioso plan es no solo retrasar, sino frenar, el poder destructivo de COVID-19 a través de la tediosa pero poderosa herramienta de salud pública llamada rastreo de contactos.
Take A Deep Breath: Making Risk-Based Decisions In The Coronavirus Era
By Julie Appleby
March 18, 2020
KFF Health News Original
There’s an array of recommendations about how to adjust our lives to reduce the spread of the novel virus. All are motivated by the same guiding principle: The better the public does in these efforts, the better off everyone will be.
Must-Reads Of The Week From Brianna Labuskes
By Brianna Labuskes
March 27, 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.
A Recipe for Trouble? Reversal of California Outdoor Dining Ban Has Heads Spinning
By Anna Almendrala
February 4, 2021
KFF Health News Original
Who knows whether banning outdoor dining was a good idea in the first place. But even the experts aren’t sure it was smart to bring it back.
Listen: Updates On Coronavirus Outbreak And How It Affects Chinese Immigrants
February 5, 2020
KFF Health News Original
California Healthline reporters Anna Maria Barry-Jester and Anna Almendrala spoke with WNHN’s “The Attitude w/ Arnie Arnesen” about the novel coronavirus and its impact on Asian immigrants in the United States.
