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Coronavirus Crisis Disrupts Treatment For Another Epidemic: Addiction
The coronavirus has forced drug rehabilitation centers to scale back operations or temporarily close, leaving people who have another potentially deadly disease 鈥 addiction 鈥 with fewer opportunities for help.
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Social Media Image About Mask Efficacy Right In Sentiment, But Percentages Are 鈥楤onkers鈥
Skip the numbers. Focus on the mask.
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Hollowed-Out Public Health System Faces More Cuts Amid Virus
The U.S. public health system has been starved for decades and lacks the resources necessary to confront the worst health crisis in a century. An investigation by The Associated Press and KHN has found that since 2010, spending for state public health departments has dropped by 16% per capita and for local health departments by 18%. At least 38,000 public health jobs have disappeared, leaving a skeletal workforce for what was once viewed as one of the world鈥檚 top public health systems. That has left the nation unprepared to deal with a virus that has sickened at least 2.6 million people and killed more than 126,000.
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How We Reported ‘Underfunded And Under Threat’
To assess the state of the public health system in the United States, KHN and The Associated Press analyzed data on government spending and staffing at national, state and local levels. Here's what data we used and how we did it.
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Six Takeaways Of The KHN-AP Investigation Into The Erosion Of Public Health
KHN and The Associated Press sought to understand how decades of cuts to public health departments by federal, state and local governments has affected the system meant to protect the nation鈥檚 health. Here are six key takeaways from the KHN-AP investigation.
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As Cases Spike, California Pauses Multimillion-Dollar Testing Expansion
California is cutting off funding for COVID-19 testing just when counties say they need more resources in rural and disadvantaged areas.
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Essential Worker Shoulders $1,840 Pandemic Debt Due To COVID Cost Loophole
Carmen Quintero had symptoms of COVID-19, couldn鈥檛 get tested and ended up with a huge bill. She also was told to self-isolate and assume she had the coronavirus 鈥 which is hard when you live with elders.
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‘More Than Physical Health’: Gym Helps 91-Year-Old Battle Isolation
For Art Ballard, the local gym was like his second home. The 91-year-old former jeweler relied on his near-daily workouts to stay healthy and for social interaction. But when California instituted its stay-at-home order, Ballard鈥檚 physical health suffered. So did his mental health.
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Workers Filed More Than 4,100 Complaints About Protective Gear. Some Still Died.
As health workers were dying of COVID-19, federal work-safety officials filed just one citation against an employer and rapidly closed complaints about protective gear.
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California Prisons Are COVID Hotbeds Despite Billions Spent On Inmate Health
At $3.6 billion a year, California spends more on prison health care than other states spend to run their entire prison systems. But despite the spending, and federal court oversight, prisons across California are struggling to contain deadly outbreaks of COVID-19.
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In Arizona Race, McSally Makes Health Care Pledge At Odds With Track Record
The use of the word 鈥渁lways鈥 makes this claim a stretch.
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How Mis- And Disinformation Campaigns Online Kneecap Coronavirus Response
The pandemic has been marked by a significant amount of misinformation 鈥 some spread on purpose 鈥 that could prove deadly.
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Must-Reads Of The Week
Easy-breezy guest writer Rachel Bluth fills you in on a healthy dose of news from this past week.
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Watch: Teaching Teens How To Navigate Racism In America
KHN Midwest correspondent Cara Anthony appeared on KSDK鈥檚 鈥淭oday in St. Louis鈥 with host Rene Knott to discuss the unwritten rules that Black teens learn to try to safely navigate other people鈥檚 racist assumptions.
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Listen: What Counts In Measuring The Full COVID Death Toll? It鈥檚 Complicated
KHN senior Colorado correspondent Markian Hawryluk joined KUNC鈥檚 Erin O鈥橳oole on 鈥淐olorado Edition鈥 and appeared on WNHN鈥檚 鈥淭he Attitude with Arnie Arnesen鈥 to discuss his recent story on how difficult it is to measure the full death toll from the pandemic.
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Seniors In Low-Income Housing Live In Fear Of COVID Infection
On their own in dirty buildings with little guidance or support, vulnerable older residents worry about unchecked transmission of the potentially deadly virus. 鈥淲e felt abandoned.鈥
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Sweeps Of Homeless Camps Run Counter To COVID Guidance And Pile On Health Risks
Authorities continue to dismantle homeless encampments despite recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to hold off during the pandemic to limit the spread of the coronavirus.
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KHN鈥檚 鈥榃hat The Health?鈥: The Pandemic Shifts; The Politics, Not So Much
While federal and state officials continue to wrangle over coronavirus testing, the population testing positive is skewing younger. Meanwhile, the Trump administration wins a round in court over its requirements for hospitals to publicly reveal their prices, and the fight over the fate of the Affordable Care Act heats up once again. Margot Sanger-Katz of The New York Times, Paige Winfield Cunningham of The Washington Post and Kimberly Leonard of Business Insider join KHN鈥檚 Julie Rovner to discuss this and more. Also, Rovner interviews former Obama administration health aide Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, who has written a new book comparing international health systems.
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Watch: Fauci, Other Health Officials Weigh California鈥檚 COVID Response
California Healthline鈥檚 Samantha Young helped lead a discussion about the state鈥檚 response to the novel coronavirus. Infections and hospitalizations are surging across the state.