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Trump’s Claim That U.S. Tested More Than All Countries Combined Is ‘Pants On Fire’ Wrong

By Shefali Luthra May 1, 2020 KFF Health News Original

When you factor in population size, the U.S. is still behind.

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Mysterious Heart Damage, Not Just Lung Troubles, Befalling COVID-19 Patients

By Markian Hawryluk April 6, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Most of the attention in the COVID-19 pandemic has been on how the virus affects the lungs. But evidence shows that up to 1 in 5 hospitalized patients have signs of heart damage and many are dying due to heart problems.

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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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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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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.

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¿Puede este fin de semana de vacaciones disparar otra ola de casos de COVID?

By Blake Farmer, Nashville Public Radio September 4, 2020 KFF Health News Original

El doctor Anthony Fauci advirtió el miércoles 2 de septiembre que los estadounidenses deben tener cuidado para evitar otro aumento en las tasas de infección.

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Former Federal Virus Hunter Says U.S. Needs To Act Before New Germs ‘Kick Your Door In’

By Carmen Heredia Rodriguez March 16, 2020 KFF Health News Original

In an interview, Dennis Carroll, who until last fall headed up the emerging threats unit at USAID, spoke about the threat of more germs, like the novel coronavirus, appearing and whether the world is prepared for this pandemic.

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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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Rationing Of Care Worsens In Alaska

September 30, 2021 Morning Briefing

A second hospital, this one in Bethel, is now cutting back on care. Coronavirus infections in the state have risen 42% in the past week, AP reported. Other covid news is from Idaho, Maine, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania and elsewhere. Also, a covid outbreak brings a halt to one Broadway show.

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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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Is The Bay Area’s ‘Unprecedented’ Lockdown The First Of Many?

By Jenny Gold and Rachel Bluth March 17, 2020 KFF Health News Original

About 7 million people across the San Francisco Bay Area began to “shelter in place” Tuesday to limit the spread of the new coronavirus. Although public health officials acknowledged the orders were drastic, they also agreed they were necessary.

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Analysis: One Sure Thing About COVID-19: No Telling How Many People Have It

By Elisabeth Rosenthal March 3, 2020 KFF Health News Original

In an era when we get flash-flood warnings on our phones and weekly influenza statistics from every state, vital knowledge about the coronavirus outbreak is being kept under wraps.

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Without Ginsburg, Judicial Threats to the ACA, Reproductive Rights Heighten

By Julie Rovner September 21, 2020 KFF Health News Original

With the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a lawsuit brought by Republican state officials has become the latest existential threat against the federal health law, scheduled for oral arguments at the Supreme Court a week after the general election in November.

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India’s Covid Variant May Be Cause Of Faster Spread

May 19, 2021 Morning Briefing

Scientists try to understand the variant that might be behind the fast and uncontrolled spread of the coronavirus in India. Nepal is also getting hit.

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Cumplimos reglas con el cinturón de seguridad o el cigarillo. ¿Por qué no con las máscaras?

By Elisabeth Rosenthal October 1, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Treinta y cuatro estados y Washington, D.C., tienen algún tipo de mandato sobre el uso de máscara, pero muchos ciudadanos y agencias del orden los ignoran descaradamente.

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PPE Shortage Could Last Years Without Strategic Plan, Experts Warn

By Jessica Glenza, The Guardian August 17, 2020 KFF Health News Original

The rolling shortages of personal protective gear continue even in hospitals, as buyers look directly for manufacturers — often through a maze of companies that have sprung up overnight.

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Búsqueda de un suero antiofídico también podría conducir a un tratamiento para COVID

By Jim Robbins November 9, 2020 KFF Health News Original

El varespladib, un medicamento contra la mordedura de serpientes, tiene un efecto positivo en el síndrome de dificultad respiratoria aguda asociado con COVID-19.

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Must-Reads Of The Week From Brianna Labuskes

By Brianna Labuskes March 6, 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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¿Pueden los pacientes de COVID tener el tratamiento de Trump? Está bien preguntar

By JoNel Aleccia October 20, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Muchos pacientes desconocen estas opciones o simplemente no pueden, o no saben, cómo acceder a ellas. Otros desconfían de los tratamientos no probados.

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How Well Does Your Nursing Home Fight Infections? Look It Up Here

By Jordan Rau and Elizabeth Lucas March 13, 2020 KFF Health News Original

More nursing homes have been faulted for failing to follow practices designed to prevent and control infections than for any other type of error. Such lapses have become matters of heightened concern with the spread of the coronavirus this spring, especially as the virus is a bigger threat to the elderly.

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