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Medi-Cal Agency’s New Head Wants to Tackle Disparities and Racism

By Samantha Young July 30, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Will Lightbourne, the new director of the California Department of Health Care Services, says government must address the racial disparities laid bare by COVID-19 and improve care for the state’s most vulnerable residents.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Feds Look to Pharmacists to Boost Childhood Immunization Rates

By Carmen Heredia Rodriguez December 3, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Fears over COVID-19 have contributed to a slump in inoculations among children. Now the federal government is looking to pharmacists for help, but many of them do not participate in a program that offers free shots to half the kids in the U.S.

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Democratic Convention, Night 3: Making the Party Lines Clear

August 20, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Sen. Kamala Harris accepted the Democratic nomination for vice president amid strong arguments against Donald Trump.

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Pandemic Forced Insurers To Pay For In-Home Treatments. Will They Disappear?

By Julie Appleby June 23, 2020 KFF Health News Original

With stay-at-home orders in place, hospitals experimented with delivering many treatments to patients where they lived. They were a success. As society reopens, the return of old payment practices may prevent the adoption of this new, efficient model of care.

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In Shutting Out Threat, Seniors In Continuing Care Communities Feel Shut In

By Judith Graham April 14, 2020 KFF Health News Original

For older adults in retirement communities ― a population especially vulnerable to COVID-19 — striking a balance between reducing the risk of contracting the coronavirus and maintaining the quality of life is a new frontier.

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In Search of a Baby, I Got Covid Instead

By Anna Almendrala January 14, 2021 KFF Health News Original

As the pandemic raged, I made dozens of visits to a fertility clinic. Did I catch covid on one of those visits? I’ll never know, but the guilt is still there.

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As the Terror of COVID Struck, Health Care Workers Struggled to Survive. Thousands Lost the Fight.

By Christina Jewett and Robert Lewis December 23, 2020 KFF Health News Original

At least 2,900 health workers have died since the pandemic began. Many were minorities with the highest levels of patient contact.

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Centros de salud comunitarios enfrentan al coronavirus, bajo presión financiera

By Will Stone March 27, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Alrededor de 29 millones de personas en el país dependen de estos centros, que ofrecen atención médica a pacientes de bajos ingresos y sin seguro. Millones de latinos utilizan estas clínicas.

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And Then There Were Two: Biden, Sanders Debate With Coronavirus On Everyone’s Mind

By Emmarie Huetteman March 16, 2020 KFF Health News Original

The candidates talked about their views on how this public health crisis should be managed. Though they disagreed on many points, they shared disapproval of the Trump administration’s response.

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Looking For Answers After Coronavirus Contact? Welcome To The Gray Zone

By Laura Ungar March 13, 2020 KFF Health News Original

The COVID-19 outbreak has spawned confusion among health officials, doctors and the public, especially for people who fall into the gray area for testing and deciding whether they need to quarantine themselves. Where to turn for answers about isolation and quarantine varies by locale. All this means agencies are sometimes delaying needed advice and giving people incorrect information.

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Under Financial Strain, Community Health Centers Ramp Up Coronavirus Response

By Will Stone March 27, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Many of the nation’s safety-net clinics for low-income patients are having to turn their model of care upside down overnight to deal with the realities of the pandemic — a challenge both financially and logistically. Federal funding is on the way.

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KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: What Would Dr. Fauci Do?

November 19, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Anthony Fauci is one of the nation’s most trusted voices during public health emergencies. As the head of the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases since 1984, Fauci has helped guide the nation through the HIV/AIDS epidemic and more recent outbreaks of Ebola and Zika. In this special episode of KHN’s “What the Health?” podcast, Fauci sits down with KHN Editor-in-Chief Elisabeth Rosenthal to talk about how to navigate the next phase of the coronavirus pandemic and what the incoming Biden administration should do first.

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I Found My Secret to Feeling Younger and Stronger. The Pandemic Stole It Away.

By Bruce Horovitz December 11, 2020 KFF Health News Original

What’s a 67-year-old to do when COVID-19 shuts down the volunteering gigs that were his personal fountain of youth?

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Must-Reads Of The Week From Brianna Labuskes

By Brianna Labuskes May 15, 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.

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Ships, Planes, Trains, Scooters All Need A Virus Wipe. But What Does A ‘Deep Clean’ Mean?

By Victoria Knight and Carmen Heredia Rodriguez March 17, 2020 KFF Health News Original

There is no universal protocol for a “deep clean” in trying to eradicate the novel coronavirus. Industries are tailoring sanitation efforts in accordance with what makes sense for them.

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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.

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Evidence Shows Obama Team Left A Pandemic ‘Game Plan’ For Trump Administration

By Victoria Knight May 15, 2020 KFF Health News Original

There’s an actual paper trail.

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