When Symptoms Linger for Weeks, Is It Long Covid?
By Nina Feldman, WHYY
April 13, 2022
KFF Health News Original
Patients with symptoms that last three to 12 weeks after an acute covid infection should adopt a “watchful waiting” approach to recovery, an expert says. Keep in contact with a primary care doctor and take it easy.
¿Por qué más adultos mayores no reciben los refuerzos contra covid?
By Liz Szabo
May 12, 2022
KFF Health News Original
Según los CDC, aproximadamente 1 de cada 3 estadounidenses mayores de 65 años que completaron su ronda inicial de vacunación aún no han recibido la primera vacuna de refuerzo. Investigadores enfatizan que este grupo sigue teniendo el mayor riesgo de enfermedad grave y muerte por covid-19.
Why Nurses Are Raging and Quitting After the RaDonda Vaught Verdict
By Brett Kelman and Hannah Norman
April 5, 2022
KFF Health News Original
The former Tennessee nurse faces prison time for a fatal error. Reaction from her peers was swift and fierce on social media and beyond ― and it isn’t over.
Análisis: expertos desestimaron al coronavirus, hasta que fue demasiado tarde
By Liz Szabo
December 21, 2020
KFF Health News Original
Muchos de los principales especialistas en enfermedades infecciosas subestimaron el veloz brote en sus primeras semanas y meses, asumiendo que Estados Unidos, otra vez, saldría ileso.
Firefighters on Front Lines, No Strangers to Risk, Push Back Against Covid Vaccine Mandates
By Sandy West
September 27, 2021
KFF Health News Original
Among the people still reluctant to get vaccinated — and pushing against mandates — are firefighters, many of whom also respond to medical calls as paramedics and EMTs and have witnessed the ravages of the pandemic firsthand.
Viaje a la cueva de los murciélagos: mientras buscan el origen de covid, científicos reavivan el debate sobre la “fuga de laboratorio” de Wuhan
By Arthur Allen
May 19, 2021
KFF Health News Original
La idea de que el virus que causa covid escapó de un laboratorio chino, una teoría que en su momento se consideró conspirativa, está cobrando fuerza. Al mismo tiempo, peligra la reputación de renombrados científicos, al igual que su seguridad personal.
Analysis: When Is a Coronavirus Test Not a Coronavirus Test?
By Elisabeth Rosenthal
July 29, 2020
KFF Health News Original
If it takes 12 days to get results, testing is basically pointless.
Ask KHN-PolitiFact: Is My Cloth Mask Good Enough to Face the Delta Variant?
By Amanda Michelle Gomez
September 20, 2021
KFF Health News Original
Public health experts increasingly urge people to upgrade to surgical masks, but also maintain that cloth masks still offer protection.
Rural Hospital Rescue Program Is Met With Skepticism From Administrators
By Sarah Jane Tribble and Tony Leys
July 14, 2022
KFF Health News Original
A new federal rescue program that pays rural hospitals to shutter underused inpatient units and focus solely on emergency rooms and outpatient care hasn’t generated much interest yet.
La gripe aviar es mala para las aves de corral y las vacas lecheras. No es una amenaza grave para la mayoría de nosotros… por ahora
By Amy Maxmen
May 6, 2024
KFF Health News Original
Las pruebas han detectado el virus en el ganado en nueve estados, principalmente en Texas y Nuevo México, y más recientemente en Colorado. Una persona ha dado positivo para el H5N1.
A Travel Nurse Leaves Fears of Hospital Drug Tampering Across Three States
By Brett Kelman
April 14, 2022
KFF Health News Original
Kentucky nurse Jacqueline Brewster is accused of tampering with opioids in Tennessee and West Virginia, possibly contaminating drugs given to hospital patients.
Buy and Bust: When Private Equity Comes for Rural Hospitals
By Sarah Jane Tribble
June 15, 2022
KFF Health News Original
Noble Health swept into two small Missouri towns promising to save their hospitals. Instead, workers and vendors say it stopped paying bills and government inspectors found it put patients at risk. Within two years — after taking millions in federal covid relief and big administrative fees — it locked the doors.
Prominent Scientists Call on CDC to Better Protect Workers From Covid
By Christina Jewett
February 17, 2021
KFF Health News Original
The academics insist that more workers should get top-rated N95 masks, the best defense against airborne coronavirus particles.
A Daily Pill to Treat Covid Could Be Just Months Away, Scientists Say
By JoNel Aleccia
September 24, 2021
KFF Health News Original
At least three promising antiviral treatments for covid-19 are being tested in clinical trials, with results expected as soon as late fall or winter.
To Help Farmworkers Get Covid Tests and Vaccine, Build Trust and a Safety Net
By Christine Herman, WILL / Illinois Public Media and Dana Cronin, WILL / Illinois Public Media
March 4, 2021
KFF Health News Original
Testing and vaccinating essential workers on commercial farms and in meatpacking plants requires more than a pop-up clinic miles away. Missing work to get a test, or to quarantine after a positive result, can be financially devastating.
High Obesity Rates in Southern States Magnify Covid Threat
By Sarah Varney
March 11, 2021
KFF Health News Original
In the American South — home to nine of the nation’s 12 heaviest states — obesity is playing a role not only in covid outcomes, but in the calculus of the vaccination rollout.
Why Long-Term Care Insurance Falls Short for So Many
By Jordan Rau and JoNel Aleccia
November 22, 2023
KFF Health News Original
The private insurance market has proved wildly inadequate in providing financial security for millions of older Americans, in part by underestimating how many policyholders would use their coverage.
A ‘Dose of Hope’? Fact-Checking President Joe Biden’s First Speech to Congress
By Louis Jacobson, PolitiFact and Amy Sherman, PolitiFact and Miriam Valverde, PolitiFact and Victoria Knight
April 29, 2021
KFF Health News Original
In his first speech before a joint session of Congress, President Joe Biden argued it was time to turn the coronavirus pandemic into a historic opportunity to expand government for the benefit of a wider range of Americans, urging investments in jobs, climate change, child care, infrastructure and more.
Pandemic Imperiled Non-English Speakers More Than Others
By Martha Bebinger, WBUR
April 27, 2021
KFF Health News Original
Covid patients who did not speak English well were 35% more likely to die, data from one Boston hospital shows.
Anti-Vaccine Ideology Gains Ground as Lawmakers Seek to Erode Rules for Kids’ Shots
By Sandy West
April 21, 2022
KFF Health News Original
Legislators in Kansas are pushing bills to expand exemptions for school vaccines, allowing religious exemptions for all vaccine requirements in the state’s schools without families having to provide any proof of their beliefs. Similar bills are being introduced around the nation as the anti-vaccine movement gains traction among politicians.