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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.

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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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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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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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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.

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As Threat of Valley Fever Grows Beyond the Southwest, Push Is On for Vaccine

By Jim Robbins September 4, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Efforts are underway to bring to market a vaccine for valley fever, a fungal infection with COVID-like symptoms that occurs in the deserts of the Southwest. The illness is getting more attention as cases rise and a warming climate threatens to spread it through the West.

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COVID Exodus Fills Vacation Towns With New Medical Pressures

By Markian Hawryluk and Katheryn Houghton and Michelle Andrews September 15, 2020 KFF Health News Original

As people leave COVID-stricken cities to settle semi-permanently in vacation communities, locals assess how these new residents are changing demands on medical services.

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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.

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‘It’s Like Walking Into Chernobyl,’ One Doctor Says Of Her Emergency Room

By Will Stone and Leila Fadel, NPR News April 10, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Lack of protective gear and fears about all the unknown aspects of COVID-19 are parts of the mosaic of stress facing doctors and nurses on the front lines of the pandemic.

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Agrícolas, bomberos y azafatas buscan estar entre los primeros en recibir la vacuna

By Rachel Bluth and Phil Galewitz December 14, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Trabajadores de salud de primera línea, y residentes y personal de hogares de adultos mayores, recibirán las dosis de la vacuna contra COVID primero, pero… ¿quiénes le seguirán?

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With No Legal Guardrails for Patients, Ambulances Drive Surprise Medical Billing

By Laura Ungar September 14, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Studies show that at least half of ground ambulance rides across the nation leave patients with “surprise” medical bills. And a $300-a-mile ride is not unusual. Yet federal legislation to stem what’s known as balance billing has largely ignored ambulance costs.

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Why Hoarding Of Hydroxychloroquine Needs To Stop

By Martha Bebinger, WBUR March 25, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Six states — Idaho, Louisiana, Nevada, North Carolina, Ohio and Texas —  have taken steps to limit inappropriate prescriptions for the medicine and preserve supplies for patients who take it for lupus and rheumatoid arthritis.

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Hype Collides With Science As FDA Tries To Rein In ‘Wild West’ of COVID Blood Tests

By JoNel Aleccia and Anna Maria Barry-Jester June 3, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Amid questions about the accuracy of the COVID-19 antibody tests flooding the market — and the usefulness of the results they provide — the FDA has belatedly stepped in to try to rein in the chaos.

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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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Demócratas agudizan ataques al sistema de salud, al ritmo de las primarias

By Emmarie Huetteman and Shefali Luthra and 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.

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Señales de una “vacuna sorpresa en octubre” alarma a científicos de carrera

By Liz Szabo and JoNel Aleccia September 21, 2020 KFF Health News Original

El presidente Donald Trump, que parece decidido a anunciar una vacuna para COVID-19 antes de las elecciones, podría autorizarla legalmente a pesar de las objeciones.

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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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Con reportes parciales de los estados, el panorama de COVID-19 en el país es borroso

By Fred Schulte March 25, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Varios estados informan solo resultados positivos de la prueba para COVID-19 de laboratorios privados, una práctica que pinta una imagen engañosa del ritmo de propagación de la enfermedad.

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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.

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Missouri Voters Approve Medicaid Expansion Despite GOP Resistance

By Alex Smith, KCUR August 5, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Missouri is the sixth state to use a ballot initiative to extend Medicaid eligibility. Most of the remaining states that have not expanded Medicaid are Republican-leaning states in the South.

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