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COVID-Tracking Apps Proliferate, But Will They Really Help?
Public health authorities had hoped digital technology would supplement the work of contact tracers seeking to control the spread of COVID-19. But technical uncertainties and public health failures have dimmed the apps鈥 potential.
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鈥楶lease Tell Me My Life Is Worth A LITTLE Of Your Discomfort,鈥 Nurse Pleads
Health care workers on the front lines of the COVID crisis have spent exhausting months working and self-quarantining off-duty to keep from infecting others, including their families. Encountering people who indignantly refuse face coverings can feel like a slap in the face.
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What Seniors Should Know Before Going Ahead With Elective Procedures
People who put off care as COVID-19 surged are easing back into the medical system. Here鈥檚 how to know if it鈥檚 safe.
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Among Those Disrupted By COVID-19: The Nation鈥檚 Newest Doctors
For new medical residents, this has been a year like no other. In part that鈥檚 because getting from here to there 鈥 from medical school to residency training sites 鈥 has been complicated by the coronavirus.
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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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Hospital Executive Charged In $1.4B Rural Hospital Billing Scheme
In an investigation last year, KHN detailed the rise and fall of Miami businessman Jorge A. Perez鈥檚 rural hospital empire, which spanned eight states and encompassed half of the rural hospital bankruptcies in 2019.
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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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Ghost Bill: UVA Siphons Couple鈥檚 Tax Refund To Pay 20-Year-Old Medical Debt
Jane Collins and Anthony Blow were stunned to learn last fall that their state tax refund was being reduced by $110 because the Charlottesville medical center said they owed money for care their son received in 2001 and 2002.
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US Nurses At For-Profit Hospital Chain To Strike Over Cuts And PPE Shortages
Health care workers report understaffing, long hours and protective equipment shortages at HCA Healthcare hospitals.
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Readers And Tweeters Ponder Racism, Public Health Threats And COVID’s Cost
Kaiser Health News gives readers a chance to comment on a recent batch of stories.
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As Problems Grow With Abbott鈥檚 Fast COVID Test, FDA Standards Are Under Fire
After the FDA issues a public warning about the test, one of its senior officials says point-of-care coronavirus tests can miss 20% of cases and still be considered useful. Public health experts are split.
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Trump鈥檚 Take On COVID Testing Misses Public Health Realities
Experts used terms like 鈥渕isleading鈥 and 鈥渃ounterproductive鈥 to describe the president's words.
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Listen: Pandemic Shifts Health Care And It May Be Hard To Get Genie Back In Bottle
KHN's Julie Rovner visits 鈥淗ere & Now鈥 to discuss the outlook for fundamental changes in the health care industry triggered by the coronavirus outbreak.
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California Hits Up Libraries and Tax Offices To Recruit 20,000 New Disease Detectives
As California begins one of the largest contact-tracing training programs in the country, many of the new recruits will be librarians: who are known to be curious, tech-savvy and really good at getting people they barely know to open up.
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Citing COVID, Sutter Pushes To Revisit Landmark Antitrust Settlement
Six months after agreeing to a $575 million settlement in a landmark antitrust case, Sutter Health has yet to pay a single dollar and now says the terms may be untenable, given the strain caused by the pandemic.
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Health Experts Link Rise In Arizona COVID Cases To End Of Stay-At-Home Order
Arizona is a coronavirus hot spot, with the average of daily cases聽more than doubling聽from two weeks ago.
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At A Time Of Great Need, Public Health Lacks 鈥楲obbying Muscle鈥
Public health officials are asking for more money in California鈥檚 state budget. But unlike some rich and powerful health care interests, they don鈥檛 have an army of lobbyists to curry favor with lawmakers.
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Must-Reads Of The Week
KHN senior correspondent Jordan Rau spins through this week鈥檚 essential health care news.
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Federal Help Falters As Nursing Homes Run Short Of Protective Equipment
More than 3,000 nursing homes reported less than a week鈥檚 worth of supplies, and 653 said they had run out entirely at some point. Stopgap FEMA equipment has not reached many facilities, and packages that have arrived have fallen short of promises.
By Jordan Rau