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Researchers Mapped Covid Virus 2 Weeks Before China Disclosed To World

January 18, 2024 Morning Briefing

The Wall Street Journal reports that a Chinese lab sequenced the coronavirus in December 2019. The Chinese government did not reveal details for another 2 weeks, raising further questions about information transparency in the early days of the pandemic.

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Pandemic Poses Short- and Long-Term Risks to Babies, Especially Boys

By Liz Szabo December 21, 2021 KFF Health News Original

A mother’s immune response to covid can be a greater danger to the fetus than the virus itself.

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Vials of covid vaccine and syringes are arranged on a metal tray.

Polio, Chickenpox, Measles, Now Covid. It’s Time to Consult History on School Vaccine Mandates

By Elisabeth Rosenthal February 9, 2022 KFF Health News Original

As some states adopt covid vaccine requirements, not everyone agrees mandates for children are the way forward. Taking a page from history: We have two paths to putting the pandemic behind us: a quicker, more certain one of mandatory vaccination or a stuttering, drawn-out, likely more deadly affair.

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5 Things You Should Know About ‘Free’ At-Home Covid Tests

By Damon Darlin January 19, 2022 KFF Health News Original

Telling insurance companies to pay for rapid covid-19 tests is just the latest covid-related cost the federal government expects them to bear. But who really ends up paying for it?

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Different Virus, ‘Same Mistakes’: Birx Sounds Alarm About Bird Flu Response

June 5, 2024 Morning Briefing

Deborah Birx, the former federal coronavirus response coordinator, thinks the U.S. should be testing cows and people often for the H5N1 bird flu virus so that we don’t reach pandemic stage. Meanwhile, Michigan pumps the breaks on field trips to dairy farms. Mpox and covid are also in the news.

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As US Nears 1 Million Covid Deaths, One Hard-Hit County Grapples With Unthinkable Loss

By Phil Galewitz April 1, 2022 KFF Health News Original

The United States is nearing 1 million deaths from covid — an almost incomprehensible number of lives lost that few thought possible when the pandemic began. Pennsylvania’s Mifflin County offers a snapshot into how one hard-hit community, with over 300 dead, is coping.

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Colorado Hospitals in ‘Critical Condition’ as State Weathers Another Surge

By John Daley, Colorado Public Radio December 15, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Patients with other ailments are frustrated, and nurses and doctors are stressed and burned out, as unvaccinated covid-19 patients fill ICU and acute care beds.

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Centro comunitario hispano lidera la vacunación infantil contra covid en Chicago

By Giles Bruce November 10, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Esperanza Health Centers ha liderado la vacunación contra covid en la población infantil y adolescente de Chicago, ayudando a grupos que han sido más vulnerables al coronavirus.

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Scientists Search for Cause of Mysterious Covid-Related Inflammation in Children

By Liz Szabo October 20, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Scientists treating kids for MIS-C point to rare genes, leaky guts and a “superantigen.”

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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.

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La pandemia presenta riesgos a corto y largo plazo para bebés, especialmente varones

By Liz Szabo December 21, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Las embarazadas con covid tienen cinco veces más probabilidades que las que no lo están de necesitar cuidados intensivos. Pero las consecuencias para el bebé pueden ser a largo plazo.

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‘Project Next Gen’ Aims To Expedite Vaccines To Combat Future Coronaviruses

April 11, 2023 Morning Briefing

As the successor to “Operation Warp Speed,” the White House is kicking off a new $5 billion initiative to develop vaccines and treatments for future covid variants as well as new coronaviruses that might emerge as public health threats. Also, President Joe Biden signs the bill ending the covid national emergency. The public health emergency remains in place until May 11.

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¿Ha llegado el momento de cambiar la definición de “totalmente vacunado”?

By Victoria Knight December 7, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Científicos y funcionarios de salud pública debaten cuándo será el momento de cambiar la definición de “totalmente vacunado” para que incluya una vacuna de refuerzo.

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KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: We May Be Done With Covid, But Covid’s Not Done With Us

March 17, 2022 KFF Health News Original

The White House makes a move as a new wave of covid threatens. President Joe Biden brings in Dr. Ashish Jha to take over the executive branch effort. Meanwhile, it remains unclear if and when Congress can come up with the funds to continue much of the federal anti-covid effort. Joanne Kenen of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Politico, Sandhya Raman of CQ Roll Call, and Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico join KHN’s Julie Rovner to discuss these issues and more.

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Cinco cosas que deberías saber sobre las pruebas caseras “gratis” para covid

By Damon Darlin January 19, 2022 KFF Health News Original

Los estadounidenses siguen escuchando que es importante hacerse pruebas caseras para covid con frecuencia. El problema es encontrar tests que sean lo suficientemente asequibles para poder comprarlos a menudo.

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What the Health? From KFF Health News: A Colorful Cast Could Lead Key Health Agencies

December 5, 2024 Podcast

President-elect Donald Trump has made his choices to fill some top jobs at the Department of Health and Human Services. They include controversial figures who were vocal critics of the Biden administration’s handling of the covid pandemic and have proposed sweeping changes to the agencies they would lead. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court heard its first two health-related cases of the term, challenging a Tennessee law barring transgender medical care for minors and, separately, challenging the FDA’s handling of e-cigarettes. Joanne Kenen of the Johns Hopkins University and Politico, Shefali Luthra of The 19th, and Sarah Karlin-Smith of the Pink Sheet join KFF Health News’ Julie Rovner to discuss these stories and more. Also this week, Rovner interviews KFF Health News’ Bram Sable-Smith, who reported and wrote the latest KFF Health News-Washington Post Well+Being “Bill of the Month” feature, about an emergency room bill for a visit that didn’t get past the waiting room.

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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.

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Scientists Examine Kids’ Unique Immune Systems as More Fall Victim to Covid

By Liz Szabo September 17, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Doctors are trying to figure out why some kids become much sicker than others and, in rare cases, don’t survive.

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¿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.

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An employee collects a wastewater sample from an open manhole. A plastic bottle at the end of a long, yellow pole contains the water sample as it's lifted from the manhole.

Laboratorios de análisis de aguas residuales para covid se suman a la caza de la viruela del simio

By Mark Kreidler August 9, 2022 KFF Health News Original

Las mismas técnicas de vigilancia de aguas residuales para detectar brotes de covid-19 se están adaptando para monitorear la alarmante propagación de la viruela del simio.

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