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A box of 'Paxlovid' is in the center of the image. The box is white with blue text, with a thick a blue and red stripe on its left.

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.

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The outline of Vermont is seen superimposed with syringes.

In Super-Vaxxed Vermont, Covid Strikes — But Packs Far Less Punch

By Sarah Varney January 28, 2022 KFF Health News Original

With its highest-in-the-nation vaccination rates, Vermont offers a glimpse of what’s possible as the U.S. learns to live with coronavirus.

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Judge to Fine California Each Day It Fails to Complete Prisoner Suicide Prevention Measures

By Don Thompson March 1, 2023 KFF Health News Original

More than 200 inmates killed themselves during eight years in which state prison officials failed to complete court-ordered suicide prevention safeguards. Inmates, the judge writes, have “waited far too long” for adequate mental health care.

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Omicron and Other Coronavirus Variants: What You Need to Know

By Louis Jacobson, PolitiFact November 30, 2021 KFF Health News Original

This new variant has set off alarm bells in the public health community, but much remains to be learned about it.

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Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia Is Killing Patients. Yet There Is a Simple Way to Stop It.

By Brett Kelman July 12, 2022 KFF Health News Original

Hospital-acquired pneumonia not tied to ventilators is one of the most common infections that strike within health care facilities. But few hospitals take steps to prevent it, which can be as simple as dutifully brushing patients’ teeth.

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A Guide to Help You Keep Up With the Omicron Subvariants

By Louis Jacobson, PolitiFact May 6, 2022 KFF Health News Original

How different are the seemingly endless stream of emerging omicron subvariants from one another and how protected are we?

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House Covid Panel Releases Final Report Critical Of Pandemic Response

December 3, 2024 Morning Briefing

The House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic criticized efforts of the WHO, as well as social distancing and mask mandates, and credited Operation Warp Speed. Also in covid-related news, Donald Trump’s health agency nominees, nursing homes, and more.

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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.

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Tech Titans Want the Richest Californians to Pay for Pandemic Preparedness

By Angela Hart April 26, 2022 KFF Health News Original

A measure likely to be on California’s November ballot would tax the state’s wealthiest residents to rebuild crumbling public health infrastructure and try to head off another pandemic. But are inflation-weary Californians willing to vote for new taxes?

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Lo que debes saber sobre Paxlovid para tratar covid, en especial, ¿debes tomarlo?

By Michelle Andrews July 28, 2022 KFF Health News Original

Desde que Paxlovid comenzó a estar disponible hace siete meses, ha eclipsado otras terapias disponibles para prevenir los síntomas graves de covid en pacientes de alto riesgo. Algunos médicos se apresuran a recetarlo, pero como ocurre con tanto sobre la pandemia de covid, hay controversia.

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Public Health Agencies Try to Restore Trust as They Fight Misinformation

By Lauren Sausser January 4, 2023 KFF Health News Original

As public health departments work on improving their message, the skepticism and mistrust often reserved for covid-19 vaccines now threaten other public health priorities, including flu shots and childhood vaccines.

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Lo que necesitan saber los adultos mayores sobre covid y Paxlovid

By Judith Graham January 18, 2023 KFF Health News Original

Expertos dicen que la terapia de primera elección debe ser Paxlovid, un tratamiento antiviral para personas con covid leve a moderado con alto riesgo de enfermarse gravemente.

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Everything You Need to Know About Paxlovid — Especially, Should You Take It?

By Michelle Andrews July 28, 2022 KFF Health News Original

Paxlovid has eclipsed other available therapies for preventing life-threatening covid symptoms in high-risk patients. But even as doctors praise its effectiveness, many say they have unanswered questions about prescribing the drug and want more and better data about it.

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Travel in the Time of Covid: Getting There Is Easy — It’s Getting Home That’s Hard

By Damon Darlin April 4, 2022 KFF Health News Original

The part of my London visit that I didn’t plan was testing positive for the coronavirus. I couldn’t get back to the U.S., but the U.K. didn’t care what I did or where I went.

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KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: A Big Week for Biden

August 11, 2022 KFF Health News Original

Congress is leaving for its annual summer break having accomplished far more than many expected, including, barring unforeseen snags, a bill to address the cost of prescription drugs for Medicare beneficiaries and extend the enhanced subsidies for insurance premiums under the Affordable Care Act. Meanwhile, the abortion issue continues to roil the nation as Indiana becomes the first state to ban the procedure in almost all cases since the Supreme Court overruled the constitutional right to abortion in June. Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico, Sarah Karlin-Smith of the Pink Sheet, and Rachel Cohrs of Stat join KHN’s Julie Rovner to discuss these issues and more.

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Covid Tracking: Unpredictable Funding Could Jeopardize Sewage Surveillance

March 18, 2024 Morning Briefing

Wastewater testing is one of the most reliable ways to track the spread of the novel coronavirus. Currently, covid infections are on the decline across the U.S., but the flu remains elevated.

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Nicholas Kelly is seen on the left looking out a window, holding his hand to his chin. Bright daylight shines in from the window, casting dramatic shadows on the left side of his body.

Covid’s ‘Silver Lining’: Research Breakthroughs for Chronic Disease, Cancer, and the Common Flu

By Liz Szabo March 17, 2022 KFF Health News Original

Billions of dollars invested in mRNA vaccines and covid research could yield health care dividends for decades to come.

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Widely Used Hospital Gowns Show Signs of Exposing Workers to Infection

By Brett Kelman July 6, 2022 KFF Health News Original

Isolation gowns are supposed to protect health care workers from splattered bodily fluids. But new studies suggest that too much liquid seeps through some disposable gowns, creating a risk of infection.

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Pfizer CEO Pushes Yearly Shots for Covid. Not So Fast, Experts Say.

By Arthur Allen March 21, 2022 KFF Health News Original

A corporate CEO’s call for a fourth mRNA shot struck those closely watching the pandemic as self-serving. It creates public pressure for a fourth dose of vaccine before government experts have time to assess the evidence and settle on the best course forward.

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A digital illustration in watercolor and pencil shows a Jamaican fruit bat flying in the center of the image. It holds a fig in its mouth, and is moving between two clusters of dying leaves, representing the habitat and food loss the bats are experiencing. In the background, highlighting the bat, is a large interpretation of the covid-19 virus, which also looks like the moon.

Un arma secreta para prevenir la próxima pandemia: los murciélagos frugívoros

By Jim Robbins February 7, 2023 KFF Health News Original

En Montana, investigarán cómo los murciélagos de la fruta, albergan virus que, bajo determinadas condiciones del medio ambiente, pueden pasar a los seres humanos.

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