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Must-Reads Of The Week From Brianna Labuskes

By Brianna Labuskes February 7, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Happy Friday! In news that is technically really good and exciting but is also kind of icky: yarn made from human skin could eventually be used to stitch up surgical wounds as a way to cut down on detrimental reactions from patients. As CNN reports, “The researchers say their ‘human textile,’ which they developed from […]

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Viewpoints: No, The Virus Was Not The Great Equalizer; Vaccine Rollout Must Prioritize Intellectual Disabilities

March 12, 2021 Morning Briefing

Opinion writers weigh in on the effects of the coronavirus pandemic.

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No enmascares la mejor forma de evitar el aterrador coronavirus: lávate las manos

By Elisabeth Rosenthal January 31, 2020 KFF Health News Original

La editora de KHN cubrió para The New York Times el brote de SARS en China. Y sabe de primera mano lo que funcionó entonces, y lo que funcionaría ahora para prevenir al coronavirus.

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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.

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Coronavirus Crisis Dominates Biden’s First 100 High-Stakes Days

April 26, 2021 Morning Briefing

From the pandemic response and vaccination program to the expansion of access to Obamacare, President Joe Biden has made a flurry of moves that impact U.S. health care policy. News organizations audit his first 100 days in office.

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‘An Arm And A Leg’: Health Care Takes A Financial Hit In The Midst Of Pandemic

By Dan Weissmann May 11, 2020 KFF Health News Original

In the first quarter of 2020, half the country’s economic devastation happened in the health care sector. Much of the slowdown came after hospitals postponed elective surgeries and as Americans skipped routine doctor’s office visits.

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Un virus mucho más mortal que el de Wuhan acecha en los Estados Unidos

By Liz Szabo January 24, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Se trata del virus de la influenza, que causa la gripe, y que representa una amenaza mucho mayor para los estadounidenses que el brote de coronavirus.

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Para combatir el COVID-19, usan drogas contra el VIH, la malaria y el Ébola

By Carmen Heredia Rodriguez February 13, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Cuando surge un nuevo virus y pone en peligro a un gran número de personas, los científicos a veces recurren a medicamentos ya existentes que pueden readaptarse.

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Durante la inscripción de ACA, elegir un plan genera nuevas complicaciones de COVID

By Julie Appleby December 3, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Las personas que compran su propio seguro médico enfrentan desafíos, en particular los pacientes que tuvieron COVID-19 y que presentan problemas de salud persistentes.

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In Face of COVID Threat, More Dialysis Patients Bring Treatment Home

By Heidi de Marco September 18, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Since the COVID-19 pandemic hit, more patients are administering dialysis to themselves at home rather than receiving it in a clinic. Although home dialysis limits exposure to the virus, it comes with its own challenges.

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Must-Reads Of The Week From Brianna Labuskes

By Brianna Labuskes January 31, 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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Health on Wheels: Tricked-Out RVs Deliver Addiction Treatment to Rural Communities

By Markian Hawryluk September 28, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Even when COVID-19 forced many addiction treatment clinics to scale back, Colorado continued to serve patients with addiction problems through an innovative program that married low-tech with high-tech. The state brought clinics on wheels to remote, underserved towns and used telehealth to connect patients with doctors.

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Hospital Suppliers Take To The Skies To Combat Dire Shortages Of COVID-19 Gear

By Christina Jewett and Lauren Weber March 25, 2020 KFF Health News Original

As the coronavirus sweeps the nation, a new survey reveals widespread medical gear shortages while hospitals give up on a fractured supply chain and take matters into their own hands with planes sprinting past cargo ships.

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Nurse At Nevada VA Dies After Caring For Infected Colleague

By Melissa Bailey April 15, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Nurse Vianna Thompson, 52, spent two night shifts caring for a fellow Veterans Affairs health care worker who was dying from COVID-19. Two weeks later, she too was lying in a hospital intensive care unit, with a co-worker holding her hand as she died.

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En la línea de batalla, socorristas se preparan para el coronavirus, y para protegerse

By Carmen Heredia Rodriguez March 6, 2020 KFF Health News Original

En Seattle, al jueves 5 de marzo, 27 bomberos y tres policías estaban en cuarentena. Doce mostraban síntomas parecidos a la gripe. A otros dos los sacaron del aislamiento.

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Si perdiste tu seguro de salud por la crisis de COVID-19, tienes opciones

By Julie Appleby June 12, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Algunos pueden adquirir un seguro de salud bajo ACA apelando a un período especial de inscripción. Otros descubren que pueden aplicar para Medicaid. Hay alternativas pero el tiempo corre.

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Something Far Deadlier Than The Wuhan Virus Lurks Near You

By Liz Szabo January 24, 2020 KFF Health News Original

There is a virus that has already sickened at least 13 million Americans this winter, hospitalizing 120,000 and killing 6,600 people. You may even know of it.

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Wildfires Provide Another Reason to Mask Up

By Bernard J. Wolfson August 25, 2020 KFF Health News Original

As the long U.S. fire season gets underway, it’s even more important for Western residents to have a good face mask. Unfortunately, most of the masks we’re wearing for COVID-19 aren’t great for smoke.

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Born Into A Pandemic: Virus Complicates Births For Moms And Babies

By JoNel Aleccia and Laura Ungar April 24, 2020 KFF Health News Original

COVID-19 is changing medical care, not only for vulnerable elders but also for pregnant women and their babies entering the world.

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New Zealand’s Covid Outbreak Grows; China Again Hits Zero Cases

August 23, 2021 Morning Briefing

In other news, Latin American nations are offering boosters; the U.K. has launched a surveillance program to measure antibodies in people with covid; Lebanese hospitals have run out of everything; India approves the world’s first DNA-based coronavirus vaccine; and more.

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