¿Ha llegado el momento de cambiar la definición de “totalmente vacunado”?
By Victoria Knight
December 7, 2021
KFF Health News Original
Científicos y funcionarios de salud pública debaten cuándo será el momento de cambiar la definición de “totalmente vacunado” para que incluya una vacuna de refuerzo.
Analysis: Mounting Pressure on China About Covid ‘Lab Leak’ Could Backfire
By Arthur Allen
June 4, 2021
KFF Health News Original
Where the coronavirus originated remains a mystery and the Chinese are bucking demands to let investigators see more.
Las misteriosas mutaciones que hacen de delta la variante del virus de covid más contagiosa hasta ahora
By Liz Szabo
July 28, 2021
KFF Health News Original
Delta ha mantenido algunas de las mutaciones más exitosas encontradas en variantes anteriores, pero también contiene nuevos cambios genéticos que le permiten propagarse dos veces más rápido.
KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: The Invisible Pandemic
May 12, 2022
KFF Health News Original
Covid cases are again climbing, but you wouldn’t know it from the behavior of public health and elected officials, much less the general public, all of whom seem to want to put the pandemic in the rearview mirror. Meanwhile, the fallout over the leaked Supreme Court draft opinion on abortion continues even as the Senate fails — again — to muster the votes to write abortion rights into law. Joanne Kenen of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Politico, Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico, and Sandhya Raman of CQ Roll Call join KHN’s Julie Rovner to discuss these issues and more. Plus, for extra credit, the panelists suggest their favorite health policy stories of the week they think you should read, too.
What Older Americans Need to Know About Taking Paxlovid
By Judith Graham
January 18, 2023
KFF Health News Original
Covid-19 continues to hit seniors with disproportionate severity. Experts say Paxlovid is an effective therapy that is being underprescribed for people 65 and older.
La pandemia presenta riesgos a corto y largo plazo para bebés, especialmente varones
By Liz Szabo
December 21, 2021
KFF Health News Original
Las embarazadas con covid tienen cinco veces más probabilidades que las que no lo están de necesitar cuidados intensivos. Pero las consecuencias para el bebé pueden ser a largo plazo.
Why Won’t More Older Americans Get Their Covid Booster?
By Liz Szabo
May 12, 2022
KFF Health News Original
Approximately 1 in 3 Americans 65 and older who completed their initial vaccination round still have not received a first booster shot. The numbers dismay researchers, who say the lag has cost tens of thousands of lives.
Científicos analizan los sistemas inmunes únicos de los niños mientras más son víctimas de covid
By Liz Szabo
September 17, 2021
KFF Health News Original
Aunque no hay evidencia de que la variante delta cause una enfermedad más grave, el virus es tan infeccioso que los niños están siendo hospitalizados en gran número, principalmente en estados con bajas tasas de vacunación.
Científicos buscan la causa de una misteriosa inflamación en niños relacionada con covid
By Liz Szabo
October 20, 2021
KFF Health News Original
Más de 5,200 de los 6,2 millones de niños estadounidenses a los que se les ha diagnosticado covid han desarrollado MIS-C. Un 80% de los pacientes con MIS-C son tratados en unidades de cuidados intensivos, el 20% requiere ventilación mecánica y 46 han muerto.
Burnout Threatens Primary Care Workforce and Doctors’ Mental Health
By Lauren Sausser
June 7, 2023
KFF Health News Original
Burnout is a widespread problem in the health care industry. Although the pandemic made things worse, burnout among doctors is a long-standing concern that health systems have become more focused on as they try to stop doctors from quitting or retiring early.
California’s Public Health Tax Is Dead for the Year
By Angela Hart
July 15, 2022
KFF Health News Original
A ballot measure that would have taxed California millionaires to boost public health funding will not be on the November ballot. But the tech titans who bankrolled the effort say they are negotiating with Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration to get more money without imposing new taxes.
Congress Told HHS to Set Up a Health Data Network in 2006. The Agency Still Hasn’t.
By Sam Whitehead
February 9, 2023
KFF Health News Original
Since 2006, federal officials have been charged with setting up a network to let various parts of the U.S. health system share information during emergencies. It still hasn’t been built or even planned, even after the communication and data-sharing failures put on display during the pandemic.
La neumonía adquirida en el hospital está matando pacientes. Aunque es fácil de prevenir
By Brett Kelman
July 12, 2022
KFF Health News Original
Esta forma de neumonía generalmente se desarrolla cuando bacterias en los dientes “viajan” a los pulmones. Por eso la higiene bucal es esencial en los hospitales.
As Covid Infections Rise, Nursing Homes Are Still Waiting for Vaccines
By Jordan Rau and Tony Leys
September 27, 2023
KFF Health News Original
“People want covid-19 to be in the rearview mirror,” one nursing home official says. Faced with a slow rollout of the updated covid vaccines, and without state mandates for workers to get vaccinated, most skilled nursing facilities are relying on persuasion to boost vaccination rates among staff and residents.
Lie of the Year: The Downplay and Denial of the Coronavirus
By Daniel Funke, PolitiFact and Katie Sanders, PolitiFact
December 16, 2020
KFF Health News Original
It’s no worse than the flu, and other deadly disinformation about the coronavirus
One Year In: How Covid’s Toll Compares With Other Causes of Death
By Louis Jacobson, PolitiFact
March 11, 2021
KFF Health News Original
Covid-19 has become the country’s third-leading cause of death, and isn’t far behind cancer.
Cinco cosas que deberías saber sobre las pruebas caseras “gratis” para covid
By Damon Darlin
January 19, 2022
KFF Health News Original
Los estadounidenses siguen escuchando que es importante hacerse pruebas caseras para covid con frecuencia. El problema es encontrar tests que sean lo suficientemente asequibles para poder comprarlos a menudo.
As US Nears 1 Million Covid Deaths, One Hard-Hit County Grapples With Unthinkable Loss
By Phil Galewitz
April 1, 2022
KFF Health News Original
The United States is nearing 1 million deaths from covid — an almost incomprehensible number of lives lost that few thought possible when the pandemic began. Pennsylvania’s Mifflin County offers a snapshot into how one hard-hit community, with over 300 dead, is coping.
Mental Health Care by Video Fills Gaps in Rural Nursing Homes
By Tony Leys
March 21, 2023
KFF Health News Original
In-person mental health care is hard to arrange in rural nursing homes, so video chats with faraway professionals are filling the gap.
Florida Gov. DeSantis Falsely Claims Bivalent Booster Boosts Chances of Covid Infection
By Yacob Reyes, PolitiFact
January 26, 2023
KFF Health News Original
Experts say the Florida governor’s conclusion could not be drawn from the study he cited, adding that the research focused on health care workers, who are likelier to be exposed to covid and more likely to be vaccinated. Those findings should not be applied to the general public.