Isolation, Disruption and Confusion: Coping With Dementia During a Pandemic
COVID-19 has upended the lives of people with dementia, limiting their interactions with others and complicating matters for their caregivers.
Public Health
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Politics Slows Flow of US Pandemic Relief Funds to Public Health Agencies
Congress has allocated trillions of dollars to ease the coronavirus crisis. A joint KHN and AP investigation finds that many communities with big outbreaks have spent little of that federal money on local public health departments for work such as testing and contact tracing.
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Trust, Fear and Solidarity Will Determine the Success of a COVID Vaccine
Polio terrified Americans, and in 1955, when Jonas Salk鈥檚 vaccine became available, they snapped it up like candy. Sixty-five years later, COVID is the latest dread virus, but many undercurrents could inhibit its acceptance.
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With COVID Vaccine Trial, Rural Oregon Clinic Steps Onto World Stage
A small allergy clinic in Medford, Oregon, might seem an unlikely place to recruit hundreds of volunteers to test the Moderna vaccine against COVID-19. But its steward has a record of leading hundreds of clinical trials.
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PPE Shortage Could Last Years Without Strategic Plan, Experts Warn
The rolling shortages of personal protective gear continue even in hospitals, as buyers look directly for manufacturers 鈥 often through a maze of companies that have sprung up overnight.
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‘Is This When I Drop Dead?’ Two Doctors Report From the COVID Front Lines
Two emergency room doctors, one in New York and the other in Houston, discuss their cities鈥 coronavirus outbreaks 鈥 and responses.
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COVID Data Failures Create Pressure for Public Health System Overhaul
Poor information-sharing between hospitals and public health agencies has hurt the response to the pandemic. Some health care systems and IT companies are making inroads, but an overhaul would cost billions.
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KHN鈥檚 鈥榃hat the Health?鈥: Kamala Harris on Health
The Democratic presidential ticket is complete, with Joe Biden鈥檚 selection of California Sen. Kamala Harris as his running mate. Health has not been a major issue for Harris, whose career priority has been the criminal justice system. But expect Republicans to pounce on her on-again, off-again support for 鈥淢edicare for All.鈥 Meanwhile, with Congress still in a stalemate over another round of COVID-19 relief, President Donald Trump is trying to use his executive power to do what lawmakers have not 鈥 with mixed success. Kimberly Leonard of Business Insider, Joanne Kenen of Politico and Mary Agnes Carey of KHN join KHN鈥檚 Julie Rovner to discuss this and more. Plus, for extra credit, the panelists recommend their favorite health stories of the week they think you should read, too.
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Dying Young: The Health Care Workers in Their 20s Killed by COVID-19
A database of deaths compiled by KHN and The Guardian includes a significant minority under 30, leaving shattered dreams and devastated families.
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Contact Tracers in Massachusetts Might Order Milk or Help With Rent. Here’s Why.
Massachusetts offers support and resources for people isolating because of COVID-19 鈥 helping them make choices that keep everyone safe. Experts say that is work that more states need to fund.
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Turning Anger Into Action: Minority Students Analyze COVID Data on Racial Disparities
About 70 college students are enrolled this summer in a program developed by San Francisco researchers and funded by the National Institutes of Health that allows them to explore the pandemic鈥檚 impact on communities facing health disparities.
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Listen: Will Telemedicine Outlast the Pandemic?
KHN's Julie Rovner appears on WDET's "Detroit Today" to discuss the future of telemedicine.
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Postcard from San Rafael
In Health-Conscious Marin County, Virus Runs Rampant Among 鈥楨ssential鈥 Latino Workers
The pandemic is racing through packed apartment blocks as Mexican and Central American workers bring the virus home to their families.
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Primary Care Doctors Look at Payment Overhaul After Pandemic Disruption
Many physicians were forced to close their offices 鈥 or at least see only emergency cases 鈥 when the pandemic struck. Because they are generally paid piecemeal for every service, they suffered big losses, leading to layoffs and pay cuts. Some doctors say they now are looking to overhaul the way they get paid.
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Nurses and Doctors Sick With COVID Feel Pressured to Get Back to Work
Hospital employees say they must choose between their paychecks and their health or that of their families. Returning to work with symptoms also risks infection among the patients they are meant to heal.
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Public Health Officials Are Quitting or Getting Fired in Throes of Pandemic
A review by KHN and the Associated Press finds at least 49 state and local public health leaders have resigned, retired or been fired since April across 23 states. One of the latest departures came Sunday, when California鈥檚 public health director was ousted.
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Behind The Byline: The Count 鈥 And the Toll
Check out KHN鈥檚 video series Behind the Byline: How the Story Got Made. Come along as journalists and producers offer an insider鈥檚 view of health care coverage that does not quit.
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Exclusive: Over 900 Health Workers Have Died of COVID-19. And the Toll Is Rising.
KHN and The Guardian unveil an interactive database documenting front-line health care worker deaths. The majority of them are people of color 鈥 and nurses face the highest toll.
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Lost on the Frontline
鈥淟ost on the Frontline鈥 is an ongoing project by Kaiser Health News and The Guardian that aims to document the lives of health care workers in the U.S. who died from COVID 19, and to investigate why so many are victims of the disease.
By The Staffs of 吃瓜不打烊 and The Guardian, Christina Jewett, Maureen O鈥橦agan, Laura Ungar, Melissa Bailey, Katja Ridderbusch, JoNel Aleccia, Alastair Gee, The Guardian, Danielle Renwick, The Guardian, Carmen Heredia Rodriguez, Eli Cahan, Shefali Luthra, Michaela Gibson Morris, Sharon Jayson, Mary Chris Jaklevic, Natalia Megas, The Guardian, Cara Anthony, Michelle Crouch, Sarah Jane Tribble, Anna Almendrala, Michelle Andrews, Samantha Young, Sarah Varney, Victoria Knight, Christina M. Oriel, Asian Journal, Alex Smith, KCUR, and Elizabeth Lawrence -
Business Is Booming for Dialysis Giant Fresenius. It Took a $137M Bailout Anyway.
Half of the money the Trump administration gave dialysis companies was collected by Fresenius, an international juggernaut with a robust balance sheet, a KHN analysis has found.
By Jordan Rau and Rachana Pradhan