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How To Avoid Coronavirus? Lessons From People Whose Lives Depend On It

By Anna Maria Barry-Jester March 11, 2020 KFF Health News Original

As the new coronavirus continues its spread through the U.S., the general public can look for guidance from millions of Americans with weakened immune systems who long ago adopted the rules of infection control that officials tout to avoid contagion.

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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.

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‘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.

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Listen: Why It Takes So Long To Get COVID-19 Test Results

April 1, 2020 KFF Health News Original

KHN’s Julie Appleby talks about the behind-the-scenes steps that can add time to the process of testing for the coronavirus.

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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.

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CVS y Walgreens desperdician cerca de 130,000 dosis de vacunas contra covid

By Joshua Eaton and Rachana Pradhan May 3, 2021 KFF Health News Original

De los datos de los CDC, no resulta claro por qué las dos cadenas desperdiciaron mucha más vacuna que las agencias estatales y federales.

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Open (Your Wallet) Wide: Dentists Charge Extra For Infection Control

By Phil Galewitz June 3, 2020 KFF Health News Original

A growing number of dental offices across the country are now charging patients an “infection control fee” of $10 to $20 to pay for masks, face shields, gowns and air purifiers to help keep the offices free of the coronavirus.

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Montana’s Tribal Nations Preserve COVID Restrictions To Preserve Their Cultures

By Kathleen McLaughlin June 5, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Some of Montana’s Native American nations are holding firm on coronavirus protections even as the rest of Montana reopens. They’ve got more at stake, they say, in protecting their elders who preserve their endangered culture.

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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.”

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Democratic Super PAC Uses Familiar Political Play To Hit Trump On Medicare

By Victoria Knight June 1, 2020 KFF Health News Original

This is a tactic that we’ve seen before.

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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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¿Viajas para el Día de Acción de Gracias? Deberás atravesar la barrera de COVID

By Anna Almendrala October 23, 2020 KFF Health News Original

En todo el mundo, los feriados nacionales han impulsado la propagación de COVID-19 de manera explosiva. Expertos comparten consejos y sus propias experiencias.

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Worst Covid Cases Concentrated In Six States

December 8, 2021 Morning Briefing

Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Pennsylvania, New York and Illinois account for the majority of the country’s increase in covid hospitalizations. And an Illinois lawmaker wants unvaccinated hospital patients in Illinois to pay their own coronavirus medical bills out of pocket.

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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.

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Listen: A New Hope In The Battle Against COVID-19

May 1, 2020 KFF Health News Original

KHN’s Julie Rovner joins a panel of journalists on “1A” to talk about promising results in a study of the drug remdesivir and other developments in the battle against the coronavirus.

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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.

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Last Thing Patients Need During Pandemic: Being Last to Know a Doctor Left Network

By Michelle Andrews July 27, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Health plan network changes occur all the time as doctors retire, relocate or leave networks. Unfortunately, patients may be the last to find out about such changes because there are often few requirements that either providers or insurers inform them.

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Health Insurers Prosper As COVID-19 Deflates Demand For Elective Treatments

By Julie Appleby and Steven Findlay April 28, 2020 KFF Health News Original

With most nonemergency procedures shelved for now, many health insurers are expected to see profits in the near term, but the longer view of how the coronavirus will affect them is far more complicated and could well impact what people pay for coverage next year.

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Farmworkers, Firefighters and Flight Attendants Jockey for Vaccine Priority

By Rachel Bluth and Phil Galewitz December 11, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Everyone — from toilet paper manufacturers to patient advocates — is lobbying state advisory boards, arguing their members are essential, vulnerable or both — and, thus, most deserving of an early vaccine.

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Más de 900 trabajadores de salud han muerto por COVID-19 en los Estados Unidos. Y la cifra aumenta

By Danielle Renwick, The Guardian and Shoshana Dubnow August 11, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Con más casos de COVID, y la grave escasez de equipos de protección, trabajadores de salud se enfrentan de nuevo a peligros mortales, en especial en los estados del sur y el oeste.

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