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As Deaths Mount, Coronavirus Testing Remains Wildly Inconsistent In Long-Term Care
Testing for COVID-19 varies widely across nursing homes and assisted living facilities, even within the same states and communities 鈥 increasing the risks for some of America鈥檚 most vulnerable seniors.
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Millions Stuck At Home With No Plumbing, Kitchen Or Space To Stay Safe
In 470,000 American homes spread across every state, washing hands to prevent COVID-19 may not be as easy as turning on a faucet. They don鈥檛 have showers or toilets or, in some cases, even water piped into their homes. Nearly a million U.S. homes don鈥檛 have complete kitchens and millions more are overcrowded, making it much tougher for people to shelter in place and avoid infection.
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鈥楴o Intubation鈥: Seniors Fearful Of COVID-19 Are Changing Their Living Wills
Still, medical experts say, it鈥檚 not a black-and-white decision of either go on a ventilator or die.
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Postcard From Colorado
How COVID Colors The Salon Experience
As Colorado gradually reopens, a beauty salon in Loveland is swamped as its clients clamor for haircuts, trims and color. But business isn鈥檛 exactly back to normal as new precautions slow every step.
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Analysis: We Knew The Coronavirus Was Coming, Yet We Failed 5 Critical Tests
The vulnerabilities that COVID-19 has revealed were a predictable outgrowth of our market-based health care system.
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Keeping The COVID Plague At Bay: How California Is Protecting Older Veterans
Even as COVID-19 has ravaged nursing homes around the country, California has managed to keep the virus at bay at its eight state-run homes for frail and older veterans. What exactly went right?
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Southwest CEO鈥檚 Boast About Airplanes鈥 Low COVID Risk Flies By Key Concerns
Airplanes are small enclosed spaces where social distancing poses special challenges, making this statement an overstatement.
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COVID Survivors鈥 Blood Plasma Is A Sought-After New Commodity
A possibility that the blood of people who had COVID could save others has set off a mad scramble for donors 鈥 with top-dollar offers and a plan that relies on the blood of 10,000 Orthodox Jewish women.
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Must-Reads Of The Week From Brianna Labuskes
Newsletter editor Brianna Labuskes wades through hundreds of health care policy stories each week, so you don't have to.
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Trying Out LA鈥檚 New Coronavirus Testing Regime
Los Angeles is the first big U.S. city to offer COVID-19 testing to anyone who wants it. Will it help restore normal life to the 10 million residents of the city and surrounding county?
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Reopening In The COVID Era: How To Adapt To A New Normal
States and the federal government are experimenting with steps that will allow people to start working again and returning to more typical lifestyles. But public health experts offer their thoughts on the related risk-benefit calculations.
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Eerie Emptiness Of ERs Worries Doctors As Heart Attack And Stroke Patients Delay Care
Emergency department volumes are down 40 to 50 percent across the country. Doctors worry a new wave of cardiac patients is headed their way 鈥 people who have delayed care and will be sicker and more injured when they finally seek care.
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KHN鈥檚 鈥榃hat The Health?鈥: Blowing The Whistle On Trump Team鈥檚 COVID Policies
Frustration from inside the Trump administration over the management of the COVID-19 pandemic is starting to become public, as whistleblowers 鈥 some anonymous, some named 鈥 tell how the effort is being undermined by favoritism, incompetence and a disdain for science. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court heard a case that could threaten the Affordable Care Act鈥檚 birth control benefit. Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico, Anna Edney of Bloomberg News and Rachana Pradhan of Kaiser Health News join KHN鈥檚 Julie Rovner to discuss this and more. Also, for 鈥渆xtra credit,鈥 the panelists recommend their favorite stories of the week they think you should read, too.
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Economic Blow Of The Coronavirus Hits America鈥檚 Already Stressed Farmers
At the start of the spring planting season, farmers across the U.S. heartland were already trying to recover from last year鈥檚 flooding amid worsening economic conditions when the pandemic struck. Farm bankruptcies and suicides continue to climb. A lack of mental health resources in rural America makes finding help more complicated.
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Postcard from Kalispell, Montana
How The Pandemic And An Anti-Vax Health Official Are Roiling A Montana Community
In one conservative pocket of Montana, a local health board member who opposes vaccinations helped fight the state鈥檚 stay-at-home rules. But now, as the state slowly reopens, she faces a backlash of her own.
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When Prisons Are 鈥楶etri Dishes,鈥 Inmates Can鈥檛 Guard Against COVID-19, They Say
Indiana prisoners said they can't protect themselves from the virus, as the governor resists calls to reduce overcrowding. "Scared for our lives," said an inmate.
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Palliative Care Helped Family Face ‘The Awful, Awful Truth’
Elizabeth and Robert Mar would have celebrated 50 years of marriage in August. Instead, they died within a day of each other. Their two very different deaths illustrate how palliative care is changing to help patients and families cope with the coronavirus pandemic.
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COVID-Plagued California Nursing Homes Often Had Problems In Past
Nursing homes with COVID-19 infections tend to violate health rules more often and have more complaints and fines, records show. But infections also plague highly rated facilities 鈥 while sparing some low-ranked ones.
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Testing In California Still A Frustrating Patchwork Of Haves And Have-Nots
It鈥檚 hard to overstate how uneven access to critical coronavirus test kits remains in the nation鈥檚 largest state. Even as some Southern California counties are opening drive-thru sites to make testing available to any resident who wants it, a rural northern county is testing raw sewage to determine whether the coronavirus has infiltrated its communities.