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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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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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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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Fauci Faces Combative Questioning On Covid Origins, Masks, And Vaccines

June 4, 2024 Morning Briefing

During his much-anticipated public appearance Monday at a hearing of the House Oversight and Accountability Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, Dr. Anthony Fauci defended the federal government’s response to the health crisis in fiery exchanges with Republican members of the panel.

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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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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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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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Republicans Target NIH For Changes If They Win Senate Control Next Year

May 10, 2024 Morning Briefing

Sen. Bill Cassidy, a Republican from Louisiana, says reforms at the federal health agency are “overdue.” Separately, an NIH official will appear later this month before the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic to answer questions about the covid pandemic timeline.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Evictions Continue Despite CDC Moratorium As COVID-19 Ravages U.S. Economy

Black and Hispanic Americans Suffer Most in Biggest US Decline in Life Expectancy Since WWII

By Liz Szabo June 24, 2021 KFF Health News Original

The pandemic will undermine Americans’ health for years. Even those not infected by the coronavirus could suffer health problems related to poverty, job loss, eviction — or all of the above.

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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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Más embarazadas con covid en cuidados intensivos, expertos enfatizan que deben vacunarse

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

La baja tasa de vacunación en este grupo es sorprendente, señalan médicos. Al 31 de julio, solo el 23% de las embarazadas habían recibido al menos una dosis de la vacuna contra el coronavirus, según estadísticas de los CDC.

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Claims That CDC’s PCR Test Can’t Tell Covid From Flu Are Wrong

By Victoria Knight July 30, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Posts circulating on Facebook and Instagram incorrectly claim that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is withdrawing its covid test because it can’t differentiate between that virus and flu viruses. These statements could be an attempt to blur the high cumulative numbers of covid cases.

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A group of reporters hold microphones to RaDonda Vaught, who is standing to the left of her lawyer, Peter Strianse.

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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