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KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: A Health-Heavy State of the Union

March 3, 2022 KFF Health News Original

President Joe Biden spent a large portion of his first State of the Union address talking about foreign affairs, but he also spent time on an array of health topics, including mental health, nursing home regulation, and toxic burn pits. Also this week, the administration unveiled a strategy to address the covid pandemic going forward. Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico, Amy Goldstein of The Washington Post, and Sarah Karlin-Smith of the Pink Sheet join KHN’s Julie Rovner to discuss these issues and more. Plus, for extra credit, the panelists recommend their favorite health policy stories of the week they think you should read, too.

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A collage of photos shows nurses filming selfie videos of their reactions to RaDonda Vaught's conviction.

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.

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Las misteriosas mutaciones que hacen de delta la variante del virus de covid más contagiosa hasta ahora

By Liz Szabo July 28, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Delta ha mantenido algunas de las mutaciones más exitosas encontradas en variantes anteriores, pero también contiene nuevos cambios genéticos que le permiten propagarse dos veces más rápido.

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Patients Seek Mental Health Care From Their Doctor but Find Health Plans Standing in the Way

By Aneri Pattani June 8, 2022 KFF Health News Original

Despite a consensus that patients should be able to get mental health care from primary care doctors, insurance policies and financial incentives may not support that.

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With Federal Covid Sick Leave Gone, Workers Feel Pressure to Show Up at Work

By Rae Ellen Bichell November 30, 2021 KFF Health News Original

National paid sick leave provisions for covid expired, and an uncertain covid winter is around the corner. Colorado, Los Angeles and Pittsburgh are among the places trying to fill the gap, but many employees still face financial pressure to go to work while sick.

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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.

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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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When Covid Deaths Are Dismissed or Stigmatized, Grief Is Mixed With Shame and Anger

By Brett Sholtis, WITF September 16, 2021 KFF Health News Original

After their brother died, two sisters faced a barrage of misinformation, pandemic denialism and blaming questions. Grief experts say that makes covid-19 the newest kind of “disenfranchising death.”

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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.

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Analysis: Mounting Pressure on China About Covid ‘Lab Leak’ Could Backfire

By Arthur Allen June 4, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Where the coronavirus originated remains a mystery and the Chinese are bucking demands to let investigators see more.

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These Schools Use Weekly Testing to Keep Kids in Class — And Covid Out

By Christine Herman, WILL / Illinois Public Media September 27, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Coronavirus outbreaks have shuttered K-12 classrooms across the U.S., affecting tens of thousands of K-12 students. To avoid the same fate, some school districts are tapping federal dollars to set up testing programs and step up their vigilance against the virus.

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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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Getting a Covid Vaccine During Pregnancy Even More Urgent as ICU Beds Fill Up

By Ashley Lopez, KUT August 12, 2021 KFF Health News Original

The CDC recommends that pregnant people be vaccinated against covid-19, based on new safety and effectiveness evidence on the covid vaccines.

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I Got a ‘Mild’ Breakthrough Case. Here’s What I Wish I’d Known.

By Will Stone September 20, 2021 KFF Health News Original

I was miserable for five days, am fully recovered a month later and have learned even more about what we do and don’t know about covid now.

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Coronavirus Deranges the Immune System in Complex and Deadly Ways

By Liz Szabo March 4, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Researchers are testing treatments to overcome autoimmune reactions that begin when the body’s defenses respond to the coronavirus.

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Coronavirus ‘Lab Leak’ Theory Supported By FBI Director

March 1, 2023 Morning Briefing

FBI Director Christopher Wray said the source of covid was likely a laboratory leak in China, The Wall Street Journal reports. China’s government maintains it has been “open and transparent” on its own efforts to trace covid’s origin. Other news includes efforts to prevent the next pandemic.

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Who Qualifies for a Covid Booster? The List Is Growing Longer

September 27, 2021 KFF Health News Original

KHN’s Sarah Jane Tribble and Arthur Allen join Science Friday host Ira Flatow to recap the evolving news in the run-up to offering booster shots for the covid vaccine.

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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 a Nurse Faces Prison for a Deadly Error, Her Colleagues Worry: Could I Be Next?

By Brett Kelman March 22, 2022 KFF Health News Original

Former nurse RaDonda Vaught is on trial for reckless homicide, and her case raises consequential questions about how nurses use computerized medication-dispensing cabinets.

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A pair of surgically gloved hands signs a covid-19 vaccination card.

Patients With Vulnerable Immune Systems Worry Vaccine Exemptions May Put Them in Peril

By Aaron Bolton, MTPR March 22, 2022 KFF Health News Original

Montana’s governor pushed the state’s health workers to seek religious exemptions to a federal mandate to be vaccinated against covid, but the number who have done so is unknown.

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