The Elevator Arises As The Latest Logjam In Getting Back To Work
By Lauren Weber
June 9, 2020
KFF Health News Original
As more and more people drift back into their workplaces, they face a very small space that can create a large logjam: the elevator.
Now On The Menu At Closed Schools: Drive-Thru Lunches
By Anna Almendrala
March 20, 2020
KFF Health News Original
As schools shutter to stem the spread of the novel coronavirus, many districts are still offering free meals to their most vulnerable students. In two Southern California districts, families roll through school lunch drive-thrus to grab hot meals.
Searching For Safety: Where Children Hide When Gunfire Is All Too Common
By Cara Anthony
May 28, 2020
KFF Health News Original
The overall crime rate has dropped during the pandemic, but unfortunately gun violence has not. In St. Louis, at least 11 children have been killed by gunfire so far this year. Living in neighborhoods with frequent violence has forced some families to improvise ways to keep their children safe, even in the place they are supposed to be most secure: their home. The stress of growing up in these conditions could lead to chronic health problems into adulthood.
Airborne Coronavirus Transmission Officially Recognized By CDC
May 10, 2021
Morning Briefing
The revised Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s official guidance now acknowledges that the virus can be transmitted through aerosolized particles and that people indoors could become infected even when more than 6 feet away.
Ataques a la salud pública generan éxodo de funcionarios en medio de la pandemia
By Anna Maria Barry-Jester Hannah Recht Michelle R. Smith, The Associated Press Lauren Weber
December 15, 2020
KFF Health News Original
Estas partidas son una erosión adicional a la ya frágil infraestructura de salud pública del país, antes de la campaña de vacunación más grande en la historia de los Estados Unidos.
‘When It Starts Getting Into Your Local Hospital, It Becomes Real’
By Lauren Weber
April 8, 2020
KFF Health News Original
Located about 45 minutes from New Orleans in one of the hardest-hit counties nationally, the 25-bed rural St. James Parish Hospital has hunkered down as staffers became infected, patient intake numbers have doubled, and intubations have skyrocketed. This is what it looks like inside a rural hospital when COVID-19 hits.
School Districts Grapple With Quarantines, Face Masks And Fear
By Anna Almendrala
February 19, 2020
KFF Health News Original
In the wake of the coronavirus outbreak, school districts, especially those with large Chinese student populations, are in uncharted territory as they apply new federal travel rules to their students. Some also are weighing requests from parents that are more about fear than science, such as whether to allow students with no travel history to stay home from school.
Health Care Workers of Color Nearly Twice as Likely as Whites to Get COVID-19
By Christina Jewett
August 6, 2020
KFF Health News Original
Harvard research shows minorities are most likely to report inadequate PPE and to work with COVID-positive patients.
El discurso anti inmigrante complica la vacunación contra covid en estados del sur
By Sarah Varney
February 16, 2021
KFF Health News Original
Mientras el país se embarca en la abrumadora tarea de vacunar, a muchos funcionarios de salud se les dificulta la tarea de vacunar a 11 millones de indocumentados.
Post-COVID Clinics Get Jump-Start From Patients With Lingering Illness
By Julie Appleby
September 30, 2020
KFF Health News Original
Pop-up care facilities bring together a range of specialists to address the needs of patients who survive but continue to wrestle with COVID-19’s physical or mental effects, including lung damage, heart or neurological concerns, anxiety and depression.
¿Viajas por las Fiestas? Para muchos es una decisión arriesgada
By Victoria Knight
December 11, 2020
KFF Health News Original
Muchos estadounidenses todavía piensan en viajar para las Fiestas en diciembre, a pesar de que las cifras de casos de COVID-19 y muertes en el país empeoran día a día.
Longer Looks: Interesting Reads You Might Have Missed
October 15, 2021
Morning Briefing
Each week, KHN finds longer stories for you to enjoy. This week’s selections include stories on a TikTok bone salesman, plant-based diets, Selma Blair, the coronavirus, the Nipah virus and more.
Scientists Discover Why Covid Is Worse For Those Who Are Overweight, Obese
December 9, 2021
Morning Briefing
Researchers have found that the coronavirus infects both fat cells and certain immune cells within body fat, prompting a damaging defensive response in the body, The New York Times writes. The findings could lead to new covid treatments that target body fat.
During A Pandemic, States’ Patchwork Of Crisis Strategies Could Mean Uneven Care
By Markian Hawryluk
March 5, 2020
KFF Health News Original
If a coronavirus pandemic were to hit the U.S., only 36 states have blueprints for “crisis standards of care” to sort out who gets what kind of medical care amid scarce resources. And not all the plans are of high quality. That means health care providers in some states will be better prepared for a crisis than others — but all could face tough decisions.
Voces de la comunidad para rastrear contactos de COVID entre latinos
By Markian Hawryluk
December 8, 2020
KFF Health News Original
Las disparidades en la atención de salud de larga data, la inseguridad laboral, el estatus migratorio, las barreras del idioma, entre otros, complican la ya difícil tarea
KHN’s ‘What The Health?’: Remaking Medicaid — Maybe
January 30, 2020
KFF Health News Original
The Trump administration is proposing to let states have more control of their Medicaid programs in exchange for potentially less money from the federal government. Meanwhile, the dangerous respiratory virus spreading from China is starting to affect trade and transportation along with public health. Kimberly Leonard of the Washington Examiner, Erin Mershon of Stat and Joanne Kenen of Politico join KHN’s Julie Rovner to discuss this and more.
A View From The Front Lines Of California’s COVID-19 Battle
By Anna Maria Barry-Jester
March 18, 2020
KFF Health News Original
California physicians dealing with COVID-19 offer a sobering portrait of a health care system bracing for the worst of a pandemic that could be months from peaking.
UVA Health Still Squeezing Money From Patients — By Seizing Their Home Equity
By Jay Hancock
October 19, 2020
KFF Health News Original
The University of Virginia promised reforms but has stopped short of announcing them, while hospital giant VCU Health has freed tens of thousands from property liens.
Demócratas agudizan ataques al sistema de salud, al ritmo de las primarias
By Emmarie Huetteman Shefali Luthra Victoria Knight
February 26, 2020
KFF Health News Original
En el debate número 10 realizado en Charleston, Carolina del Sur, también se unieron para atacar al senador por Vermont Bernie Sanders, actual favorito.
Signs of an ‘October Vaccine Surprise’ Alarm Career Scientists
By Liz Szabo JoNel Aleccia
September 21, 2020
KFF Health News Original
President Donald Trump has the legal power to authorize a COVID vaccine over the objections of the Food and Drug Administration and vaccine manufacturers. Such a move could further erode public trust in a vaccine and foist an unsafe shot on Americans.
