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As Omicron Surges, Effort to Vaccinate Young Children Stalls
Just 18% of 5- to 11-year-olds are fully vaccinated, with rates varying significantly across the country, a KHN analysis of federal data shows. Pediatricians say the slow pace and geographic disparities are alarming, especially against the backdrop of record numbers of cases and pediatric hospitalizations.
Justices Block Broad Worker Vaccine Requirement, Allow Health Worker Mandate to Proceed
The Supreme Court temporarily blocked a federal rule requiring larger businesses to mandate employees be vaccinated or wear masks and undergo weekly testing. At the same time, however, it allowed a federal order that health care workers be vaccinated.
What Patients Can Learn With Confidence From One Negative Rapid Test (Hint: Very Little)
Although at-home antigen testing remains a useful tool, experts warn it is often used inappropriately and can provide false confidence for people concerned about safety.
With No End in Sight to Pandemic Life, Parents Find Disruption Is the New Normal
Amid covid-related staffing shortages and testing requirements, school systems are stretched thin. And so are parents’ nerves.
KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: Dealing With Drug Prices
Medicare officials tentatively plan to restrict the use of a controversial Alzheimer’s drug to only those patients participating in clinical trials, while the Department of Health and Human Services looks into lowering the monthly Medicare Part B premium. Meanwhile, covid confusion still reigns, as the Biden administration moves, belatedly, to make more masks and tests available. Joanne Kenen of Politico and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Sarah Karlin-Smith of the Pink Sheet and Rachel Cohrs of Stat join KHN’s Julie Rovner to discuss these issues and more.
Incidental Cases and Staff Shortages Make Covid’s Next Act Tough for Hospitals
Long-Excluded Uterine Cancer Patients Are a Step Closer to 9/11 Benefits
Watch and Listen: Examining the Risks of Covid’s Spread Within Hospitals
Ask KHN-PolitiFact: Is My Cloth Mask Good Enough? The 2022 Edition
Left Behind: Medicaid Patients Say Rides to Doctors Don't Always Come
App Attempts to Break Barriers to Bankruptcy for Those in Medical Debt
Clinics Say State’s New Medicaid Drug Program Will Force Them to Cut Services
Fire Closes Hospital and Displaces Staff as Colorado Battles Omicron
Black-Owned Hospice Seeks to Bring Greater Ease in Dying to Black Families
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Some Montana Nonprofit Hospitals Fall Short of Peers in Required Charitable Giving
Montana nonprofit hospitals receive millions of dollars in tax exemptions as charities each year in exchange for giving back to their communities. A KHN review found that some of Montana’s richest medical centers are falling behind most state and national hospitals.
