Cinco cosas que deberías saber sobre las pruebas caseras “gratis” para covid
By Damon Darlin
January 19, 2022
KHN Original
Los estadounidenses siguen escuchando que es importante hacerse pruebas caseras para covid con frecuencia. El problema es encontrar tests que sean lo suficientemente asequibles para poder comprarlos a menudo.
Pandemic Imperiled Non-English Speakers More Than Others
By Martha Bebinger, WBUR
April 27, 2021
KHN Original
Covid patients who did not speak English well were 35% more likely to die, data from one Boston hospital shows.
Behind The Byline: How Do You Say …?
By Victoria Knight
November 5, 2020
KHN Original
Check out KHN’s video series — Behind The Byline: How the Story Got Made. Come along as journalists and producers offer an insider’s view of health care coverage that does not quit.
Clots, Strokes and Rashes: Is COVID a Disease of the Blood Vessels?
By Will Stone
November 13, 2020
KHN Original
COVID-19 can cause symptoms that go well beyond the lungs, from strokes to organ failure. To explain these widespread injuries, researchers are studying how the virus affects the vascular system.
Everything You Need to Know About Paxlovid — Especially, Should You Take It?
By Michelle Andrews
July 28, 2022
KHN Original
Paxlovid has eclipsed other available therapies for preventing life-threatening covid symptoms in high-risk patients. But even as doctors praise its effectiveness, many say they have unanswered questions about prescribing the drug and want more and better data about it.
What Is the Risk of Catching the Coronavirus on a Plane?
By Noah Y. Kim
September 10, 2020
KHN Original
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis says airplanes are not vectors for the spread of COVID-19 and that flying is “something that is safe for people to do.” Is the evidence really so clear?
Widely Used Hospital Gowns Show Signs of Exposing Workers to Infection
By Brett Kelman
July 6, 2022
KHN Original
Isolation gowns are supposed to protect health care workers from splattered bodily fluids. But new studies suggest that too much liquid seeps through some disposable gowns, creating a risk of infection.
Michigan’s Outbreak Worries Scientists. Will Conservative Outposts Keep Pandemic Rolling?
By Julie Appleby
April 23, 2021
KHN 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.
Decisiones financieras de los hospitales juegan un papel en la escasez de camas pediátricas para pacientes con VRS
By Liz Szabo
December 9, 2022
KHN Original
Los hospitales optimizan los ingresos tratando de mantener sus camas llenas al 100 %, y llenas de pacientes con condiciones que las aseguradoras reembolsan bien.
KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: Expanding the ACA in an Unpredicted Way
March 11, 2021
KHN Original
Beyond the billions of dollars aimed squarely at the pandemic, the covid relief bill cleared by Congress this week includes significant changes to health policy. Among them are the first major expansions to the Affordable Care Act since its enactment 11 years ago and changes that could expand coverage for the Medicaid program. Tami Luhby of CNN, Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico and Rachel Cohrs of Stat 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.
KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: The Invisible Pandemic
May 12, 2022
KHN Original
Covid cases are again climbing, but you wouldn’t know it from the behavior of public health and elected officials, much less the general public, all of whom seem to want to put the pandemic in the rearview mirror. Meanwhile, the fallout over the leaked Supreme Court draft opinion on abortion continues even as the Senate fails — again — to muster the votes to write abortion rights into law. Joanne Kenen of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Politico, Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico, and Sandhya Raman of CQ Roll Call join KHN’s Julie Rovner to discuss these issues and more. Plus, for extra credit, the panelists suggest their favorite health policy stories of the week they think you should read, too.
These Schools Use Weekly Testing to Keep Kids in Class — And Covid Out
By Christine Herman, WILL / Illinois Public Media
September 27, 2021
KHN 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.
Novavax Missed Its Global Moonshot but Is Angling to Win Over mRNA Defectors
By Arthur Allen Sarah Jane Tribble
May 26, 2022
KHN Original
After years of failure, the Maryland company aims to attract the vaccine-hesitant with an alternative to mRNA shots. But will it find a market?
With Federal Covid Sick Leave Gone, Workers Feel Pressure to Show Up at Work
By Rae Ellen Bichell
November 30, 2021
KHN 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.
Más embarazadas con covid en cuidados intensivos, expertos enfatizan que deben vacunarse
By Ashley Lopez, KUT
August 12, 2021
KHN 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.
Cuando se desestima o estigmatiza a las muertes por covid, el dolor se mezcla con ira y vergüenza
By Brett Sholtis, WITF
September 21, 2021
KHN Original
Las víctimas de covid están sufriendo la misma estigmatización que los que mueren por sobredosis o suicidio. Ellos son los responsables, piensan algunos.
Covid: 5 razones para seguir usando máscara después de vacunarse
By Liz Szabo
January 15, 2021
KHN Original
Las vacunas se probaron en ensayos clínicos, en los mejores centros médicos, en condiciones óptimas. Pero en el mundo real, suelen ser un poco menos efectivas.
Why Won’t More Older Americans Get Their Covid Booster?
By Liz Szabo
May 12, 2022
KHN Original
Approximately 1 in 3 Americans 65 and older who completed their initial vaccination round still have not received a first booster shot. The numbers dismay researchers, who say the lag has cost tens of thousands of lives.
Labor Department Issues Emergency Rules to Protect Health Care Workers From Covid
By Christina Jewett
June 10, 2021
KHN 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.
KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: A Big Week for Biden
August 11, 2022
KHN Original
Congress is leaving for its annual summer break having accomplished far more than many expected, including, barring unforeseen snags, a bill to address the cost of prescription drugs for Medicare beneficiaries and extend the enhanced subsidies for insurance premiums under the Affordable Care Act. Meanwhile, the abortion issue continues to roil the nation as Indiana becomes the first state to ban the procedure in almost all cases since the Supreme Court overruled the constitutional right to abortion in June. Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico, Sarah Karlin-Smith of the Pink Sheet, and Rachel Cohrs of Stat join KHN’s Julie Rovner to discuss these issues and more.
