Amid Covid Booster Debate, West Virginia to Check Immunity of Vaccinated Nursing Home Residents
By Phil Galewitz
July 30, 2021
KFF Health News Original
The state says it will look at the levels of disease-fighting antibodies among nursing home residents vaccinated against covid, which could help indicate whether they need a booster shot.
Concert Venues Are Banking on Proof of Vaccines or Negative Tests to Woo Back Fans
By Eric Berger
August 30, 2021
KFF Health News Original
Two days before hosting an outdoor Wilco concert, the St. Louis Music Park announced it would require proof of vaccination or a negative covid test for all ticket holders, sending some attendees scrambling and upending plans. Concertgoers, promoters and venues nationwide are all having to pivot quickly to find safer ways of enjoying live music amid the pandemic’s delta surge.
Journalists Dissect Covid Vaccines and Variants
March 6, 2021
KFF Health News Original
KHN and California Healthline staff made the rounds on national and local media this week to discuss their stories. Here’s a collection of their appearances.
Labor Department Issues Emergency Rules to Protect Health Care Workers From Covid
By Christina Jewett
June 10, 2021
KFF Health News Original
Citing the deaths of thousands of health care workers, the new rules will force employers to report fatalities or hospitalizations to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, and provide higher-quality protective gear, among other actions.
California Vaccine Mandate Extends to Aides for People With Disabilities
By Jackie Fortiér, LAist
October 6, 2021
KFF Health News Original
Even though they perform the same intimate tasks as nursing home and hospital workers, in-home health aides initially were left out of California’s vaccine mandate. They must be fully vaccinated by Nov. 30.
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.
Will ‘Dr. Disinformation’ Ever Face the Music?
By Victoria Knight
September 22, 2021
KFF Health News Original
Some of the top spreaders of spurious covid-19 and vaccine information are physicians with active medical licenses. Are medical oversight boards ready to step up to stop them?
Door to Door in Miami’s Little Havana to Build Trust in Testing, Vaccination
By Verónica Zaragovia, WLRN
January 21, 2021
KFF Health News Original
It’s time-consuming but worthwhile: Residents respond to messages about Covid testing and vaccines when outreach teams speak their language and make a personal connection.
After Pandemic Ravaged Nursing Homes, New State Laws Protect Residents
By Susan Jaffe
August 20, 2021
KFF Health News Original
This year, 23 states passed more than 70 pandemic-related provisions affecting nursing homes, including measures setting minimum staffing levels, expanding visitation protections and limiting owners’ profit margins.
The Horrors of TMJ: Chronic Pain, Metal Jaws, and Futile Treatments
By Brett Kelman and Anna Werner, CBS News
April 4, 2024
KFF Health News Original
TMJ disorders affect as many as 1 in 10 Americans and yet remain poorly understood and ineffectively treated. Many common treatments used by dentists lack scientific evidence.
Analysis: Winter Is Coming for Bars. Here’s How to Save Them. And Us.
By Elisabeth Rosenthal
October 22, 2020
KFF Health News Original
To stop the coronavirus, we need to stop super-spreader events.
Why the U.S. Is Underestimating Covid Reinfection
By JoNel Aleccia
February 8, 2021
KFF Health News Original
Hundreds of Americans suspect they contracted covid early in the pandemic and recovered, only to get infected again months later. But because the U.S. does so little genetic sequencing of covid samples, we don’t know much about reinfection rates.
Analysis: Why We’ll Likely Never Know Whether a Covid Lab Leak Happened in China
By Elisabeth Rosenthal
June 29, 2021
KFF Health News Original
If international scientific sleuths are hoping to see a lab log or find a whistleblower, that sort of information won’t be revealed. In China today, it is dangerous to say what you know if it challenges the official government narrative.
‘An Arm and a Leg’: How to Avoid a Big Bill for Your COVID Test
By Dan Weissmann
November 30, 2020
KFF Health News Original
Tests for the coronavirus are supposed to be free. And, usually, they are. But sometimes … things happen. Here’s how to avoid getting a surprise bill for a test.
Michigan’s Outbreak Worries Scientists. Will Conservative Outposts Keep Pandemic Rolling?
By Julie Appleby
April 23, 2021
KFF Health News Original
The covid outbreak in Michigan stands out on the U.S. contagion map, but odds are it will be repeated elsewhere. How vaccine hesitancy, relaxed restrictions and a coronavirus variant combined to create the worst outbreak in the country.
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.
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.
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.
Con el fin de las licencias pagas por covid, empleados sienten la presión de ir a la oficina
By Rae Ellen Bichell
November 30, 2021
KFF Health News Original
Economistas y expertos en salud pública dicen que la licencia por enfermedad paga es una herramienta esencial, tanto como las pruebas, las máscaras y las vacunas, para prevenir la infección por covid-19 y mantener seguros los lugares de trabajo.
Wildfires and Omicron Prompt a Special Health Insurance Enrollment Period in Colorado
By Markian Hawryluk
January 20, 2022
KFF Health News Original
Disasters have previously prompted special enrollment periods in California, Maine, and the South. Now, Colorado is extending the state insurance marketplace sign-up period by two months.