Prominent Scientists Call on CDC to Better Protect Workers From Covid
The academics insist that more workers should get top-rated N95 masks, the best defense against airborne coronavirus particles.
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Family Caregivers, Routinely Left Off Vaccine Lists, Worry What Would Happen 鈥業f I Get Sick鈥
Tens of thousands of middle-aged sons and daughters 鈥 too young to qualify for a vaccine 鈥 care for older relatives with serious ailments and want to get the shots to protect their loved ones and themselves.
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Anti-Immigrant Vitriol Complicates Vaccine Rollout in Southern States
Inoculating the millions of undocumented workers who produce America鈥檚 agricultural bounty will be key to achieving herd immunity against covid-19. But garnering the trust of these workers is proving complicated, particularly in the South, where the last four years have been marked by workplace raids and anti-immigrant vitriol.
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The ACA Marketplace Is Open Again for Insurance Sign-Ups. Here鈥檚 What You Need to Know.
On Monday, the federal insurance exchange reopened for an unusual midyear special enrollment period. People who are uninsured can buy a plan, and those who want to change their marketplace coverage can do so. Here are some answers about how it works.
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Vaccines Go Mobile to Keep Seniors From Slipping Through the Cracks
A strike team of nurses and others is vaccinating Contra Costa County鈥檚 hardest-hit populations right where they live.
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Can Pfizer and Moderna End the Pandemic by Sharing Their Vaccine Designs? It’s Not that Simple
Industry experts say it鈥檚 highly unlikely that dozens of pharmaceutical companies that aren鈥檛 already producing covid vaccines stand ready to do so.
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鈥楢n Arm and a Leg鈥: Viral TikTok Video Serves Up Recipe to 鈥楥rush鈥 Medical Debt
A video on the social media platform TikTok explains how consumers can 鈥渃rush鈥 their hospital bills using charity care policies. This won鈥檛 work for all medical bills, but it might be a good place to start.
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S.D. Governor Gives State High Marks in Handling the Pandemic. Are They Deserved?
While South Dakota is excelling in vaccine distribution and in keeping its economy intact, some health measures show the state is also dealing with one of the highest per capita covid death rates in the country.
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Health Policy Valentines to Warm the Heart
Tweeters lit up our timeline in recent days with Health Policy Valentines about a variety of health topics. Here are some of our favorites.
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Journalists Broach Topics From Vaccines and Super Bowl to True Love
KHN and California Healthline staff made the rounds on national and local media this week to discuss their stories. Here鈥檚 a collection of their appearances.
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Lack of Covid Data on People With Intellectual Disabilities 鈥楥omes With a Body Count鈥
People with intellectual and developmental disabilities are more likely to have medical conditions that make covid especially dangerous. But a lack of federal tracking means no one knows how many people in disability group housing have fallen ill or died from the virus.
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As Drug Prices Keep Rising, State Lawmakers Propose Tough New Bills to Curb Them
The measures would impose taxes on increases in the price of drugs that don鈥檛 reflect improved clinical value and set the rates paid by state-run and commercial health plans to a benchmark based on prices in Canada.
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Counterfeit N95 Scam Widens as Senator Demands FTC Investigation
Authorities seized 1.7 million fake masks in New York and U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell called for a national probe.
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KHN鈥檚 鈥榃hat the Health?鈥: All About Budget Reconciliation
Even while the Senate is busy with Donald Trump鈥檚 impeachment trial, the House has gotten down to work on a covid relief bill using the budget reconciliation process. Meanwhile, the watchword for covid this week among the public is confusion 鈥 over masks, vaccines and just about everything else science-related. Joanne Kenen of Politico, Paige Winfield Cunningham of The Washington Post and Sarah Karlin-Smith of the Pink Sheet join KHN鈥檚 Julie Rovner to discuss these issues and more. Also this week, the panelists recommend their favorite 鈥渉ealth policy valentines鈥 along with their favorite health policy stories they think you should read, too.
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Vaccine Equity Is ‘North Star,’ Feds Say, and Clinics Are Key to Fair Distribution
Community health clinics are key to getting more Black and Hispanic Americans vaccinated, federal officials say. In Nashville, a vaccination push at federally funded clinics is underway.
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Flurry of Bills Aim to Set Limits on Transgender Kids 鈥 And Their Doctors
Lawmakers across the U.S. are pushing bills to restrict transgender kids from participating in sports and ban doctors from treating them.
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Tech Companies Mobilize to Schedule Vaccine Appointments, But Often Fall Short
Techies and startups have thrown together vaccine appointment websites to address the chaotic rollout of covid shots. But software can鈥檛 replace vaccines, and for many people the sites are just another piece of the vaccination 鈥淗unger Games.鈥
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Health Workers and Hospitals Grapple With Millions of Counterfeit N95 Masks
Masks imitating the real thing are flooding U.S. ports, and authorities can hardly keep pace.
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As Pandemic Surged, Contact Tracing Struggled; Biden Looks to Boost It
Reaching people who may have been in contact with covid patients has helped cut the number of infections, but these tracing efforts become less effective as the number of cases grows.
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Farmworker Camps to Urban Tent Cities: Tailoring Vaccine Info to Where It鈥檚 Most Needed
Concerns arising in western North Carolina provide a window into the challenges facing health workers across the country as they seek to persuade vulnerable populations to be inoculated against covid.
