The Friday Breeze
Newsletter editor Lauren Olsen wades through hundreds of health care policy stories each week, so you don’t have to.
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Test Sites Quickly Attract Thousands for COVID-19 Vaccine Study
People have flooded U.S. testing sites with requests to participate in the pivotal, late-stage clinical trials of the first two COVID-19 vaccine candidates.
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Your Favorite Store or Restaurant Is Open. How Do You Know It’s OK to Go In?
We gathered tips from experts on what to look for — masks are a constant theme — when trying to decide if you will be comfortable visiting various establishments.
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In Rural Missouri, Latinos Learn to Contain and Cope With the Coronavirus
In a town in the southwestern corner of Missouri, where COVID-19 has disproportionately affected Latino immigrants, language barriers and economic pressures among factory workers have stymied efforts to slow the virus that causes the disease.
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America’s Obesity Epidemic Threatens Effectiveness of Any COVID Vaccine
Vaccines engineered to protect the public from influenza, hepatitis B, tetanus and rabies are less effective for obese people, leaving them more vulnerable to serious illness. As scientists race to develop a COVID-19 vaccine, experts say obesity could prove an impediment — a sobering prospect for a nation in which nearly half of all adults are obese.
KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: Still Waiting for That Trump Health Plan
Health Care Workers of Color Nearly Twice as Likely as Whites to Get COVID-19
With Caveats, Hopeful News for Preschools Planning Young Kids’ Return
Pandemic's Bumps and Backlash Shape Montana Race Poised to Steer US Senate
Missouri Voters Approve Medicaid Expansion Despite GOP Resistance
Could Labs That Test Livestock Ease COVID Testing Backlog for People? Well ... Maybe.
Maryland County Pledges Investigation of Health Worker's Coronavirus Death
Covered California Announces Record-Low Rate Hike for 2021
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The Guardian and KHN collaborate to document the lives of health care workers in the U.S. who die from COVID-19, and to understand why so many are falling victim to the pandemic.
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