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Rush Is On To Detect And Study Virus Mutations

January 20, 2021 Morning Briefing

News outlets sum up what scientists know so far about emerging coronavirus strains and what you can do to try to avoid them.

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California AG Seeks More Power To Battle Merger-Hungry Health Care Chains

By Rachel Bluth June 2, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Xavier Becerra has made battling health care consolidation a priority since he became attorney general. Now that COVID-19 threatens vulnerable health care practices, he’s pushing to expand his authority to slow health care mergers.

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Federal Help Falters As Nursing Homes Run Short Of Protective Equipment

By Jordan Rau June 11, 2020 KFF Health News Original

More than 3,000 nursing homes reported less than a week’s worth of supplies, and 653 said they had run out entirely at some point. Stopgap FEMA equipment has not reached many facilities, and packages that have arrived have fallen short of promises.

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Mexico Set To Legalize Personal, Medical Marijuana Use

March 11, 2021 Morning Briefing

Mexico nears legalizing personal cannabis use, with strict limits, as the lower house of Congress approved a decriminalization bill. Around the globe, the EU approves Johnson & Johnson’s coronavirus vaccine, but Denmark pauses AstraZeneca vaccines over clotting worries.

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Moderna Now Testing Updated Vaccine As UK Variant Proves More Deadly

March 11, 2021 Morning Briefing

A new study suggests the UK coronavirus variant is 64% more deadly than previous versions of the virus, at least for people over 30. Meanwhile, a worldwide hunt for adapted vaccines is underway as variants cause chaos in Brazil, New York and elsewhere.

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Ray Of Hope: Models For Future Covid Deaths Revised More Optimistically

February 24, 2021 Morning Briefing

But a big variable is the impact of coronavirus variants on the trajectory of infections. Disease experts fear the U.S. may be just weeks away from cases spiking back up for a spring surge before falling again by summer.

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The 30-Somethings Who Fled Big Cities To Shelter With Mom And Dad

By Sharon Jayson May 22, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Seeking comfort in the COVID outbreak is a major disruption for everyone that sometimes proves “lovely.”

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Variant Detected In South Africa Now In The US

January 29, 2021 Morning Briefing

Two adults in South Carolina, who aren’t connected to one another and hadn’t traveled to South Africa, were identified as having the more contagious strain of coronavirus.

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Federal Judge Rules Medicare Patients Can Challenge ‘Observation Care’ Status

By Susan Jaffe March 30, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Hundreds of thousands of people will be able to appeal hospitals’ decisions to classify them as “observation care” patients instead of inpatients, under a ruling last week in a class action suit.

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Ex cazador de virus federal dice que no hay que esperar que el gérmen toque a la puerta

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

El proyecto para descubrir virus zoonóticos creció bajo los presidentes George W. Bush y Barack Obama, pero la administración Trump optó por cerrarlo.

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COVID + Influenza: éste es un buen año para vacunarse, aconsejan expertos

By Julie Appleby and Michelle Andrews August 28, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Con el país en medio de una pandemia, expertos dicen que nadie sabe qué sucedería si se contrae influenza y COVID simultáneamente porque nunca ocurrió antes.

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Winter’s Coronavirus Deluge Already Straining Health Systems To Breaking Point

December 7, 2020 Morning Briefing

From new infections to hospitalizations to deaths, the U.S. COVID trends all continue to rapidly spiral up and experts say the worst is yet to come. “This is going to be the biggest stress test of American health care in history,” a doctor tells NPR.

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Nearly 100K Died In January; Spread Of Variants Signal ‘Race Against Time’

February 1, 2021 Morning Briefing

On the good news front: Hospitalizations are dropping from their peak. But health officials warn that any progress may be reversed by the spread of mutant coronavirus strains and that the vaccination pace needs to pick up.

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Minimum Wage Hike Nixed From Relief Bill By Senate Parliamentarian

February 26, 2021 Morning Briefing

The decision dashed Democrats’ hopes to bump the hourly minimum wage up to $15 through the budget reconciliation process that they’re using to push through the coronavirus stimulus package. The measure will still be in the version that the House votes on today.

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Some Ivory Towers Are Ideal For A Pandemic. Most Aren’t.

By Mark Kreidler May 28, 2020 KFF Health News Original

As reopening decisions approach for the fall semester, colleges and universities are casting about for strategies to keep students safe without bankrupting their institutions. A few have natural advantages.

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Revised AstraZeneca Vaccine Data Still Shows Shot Is Very Effective

March 25, 2021 Morning Briefing

Following questions raised by U.S. safety board officials, AstraZeneca updated its clinical trial analysis — finding its coronavirus vaccine to be 76% effective, rather than the 79% reported Monday. The report maintains that it is 100% effective at protecting against severe covid.

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‘A Catastrophic Moral Failure’: WHO Chief Slams Rich Nations For Hogging Covid Vaccine

January 19, 2021 Morning Briefing

The World Health Organization also criticized China for its slow response to the initial coronavirus outbreak. Other global news is from India, Pakistan, Israel, China and Slovakia.

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Más pruebas para COVID, pero esperas demasiado largas por los resultados

By Phil Galewitz July 9, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Con la demanda en alza, los resultados de las pruebas para COVID-19 están tardando hasta 10 días, lo que dificulta los esfuerzos de salud pública para frenar la propagación.

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UK Approves A Coronavirus Vaccine, The First Western Nation To Do So

December 2, 2020 Morning Briefing

Britain authorized emergency use for the COVID-19 shot developed by Pfizer and BioNTech.

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Merck Halts Work On Both Its Covid Vaccine Candidates

January 26, 2021 Morning Briefing

Merck says that neither of its experimental vaccines produced adequate immune responses against the coronavirus in its clinical trial testing. The drugmaker says it will focus its efforts on developing treatments.

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