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Authorities are ordering early closures generally around 10 p.m. to curb the spread of COVID-19. But will the coronavirus observe this curfew?
Millions of people are looking for coverage on the federal and state marketplaces right now. Sometimes its hard to tell the difference between a comprehensive plan and a junk plan with limited benefits and coverage restrictions.
KHN and California Healthline staff made the rounds on national and local media this week to discuss their stories. Heres a collection of their appearances.
Hospitals across the country are struggling as staffers get infected with the coronavirus. It’s especially tough for small, rural hospitals, where even one doctor out sick can upend patient capacity.
Prince Georges County in Maryland is taking action after a coronavirus outbreak left veteran public health worker Chantee Mack dead and several colleagues with lasting medical problems. But some staffers say more still needs to be done to keep public health workers on the front lines of the COVID fight safe.
The official transition to a Joe Biden administration has finally begun, and he is expected to announce his health care team soon, including a new secretary of Health and Human Services. Meanwhile, as the COVID-19 pandemic worsens in the U.S., officials are preparing for the effort to get Americans vaccinated as soon as vaccines are approved by the FDA. Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico, Margot Sanger-Katz of The New York Times and Paige Winfield Cunningham of The Washington Post join KHNs Julie Rovner to discuss these issues and more. Also this week, Rovner interviews KHNs Julie Appleby, who wrote the latest KHN-NPR Bill of the Month installment.
Hospitals are in better shape now than in the spring, with more knowledge of how to handle COVID-19 and bigger stockpiles of protective equipment. Still, nurses worry about staffing shortages and unfilled jobs.
Even as L.A.s stay-at-home restrictions began, leaders across California took heat for their do-as-I-say-not-as-I-do pandemic behavior.
Fears over COVID-19 have contributed to a slump in inoculations among children. Now the federal government is looking to pharmacists for help, but many of them do not participate in a program that offers free shots to half the kids in the U.S.
Dentists and optometrists across the country are trying to join in the fight to get everyone vaccinated against COVID-19, the flu and other diseases.
COVID-19s long haulers patients with lingering effects of the disease have joined the ranks of Americans with preexisting conditions. For those shopping for health coverage on the individual market, heres help navigating an uncharted insurance landscape.
More than 93,000 COVID patients are hospitalized across the country. But beds and space aren’t the main concern for hospital administrators It’s the health care workforce.
Widespread COVID testing has revealed uncomfortable truths about medical tests: A test result is rarely a definitive answer, but instead a single clue. A result may be falsely positive or negative, or it may show an abnormality that doesnt matter. And as COVID testing has made too clear, even an accurate, meaningful result is useless unless its acted on appropriately.
Black Americans are less likely to receive mental health treatment than the overall population. But as needs soar this year, faith leaders are tapping health professionals to share coping skills churchgoers and the community can use immediately.
State and local public health officials are sure that bars and restaurants are spreading COVID. But they dont always have much concrete evidence to support their convictions.
Four workers died at a facility with one of the largest U.S. outbreaks, but the Occupational Safety and Health Administration never conducted an inspection. Its a pattern thats played out across the nation, a KHN investigation finds.
Tests for the coronavirus are supposed to be free. And, usually, they are. But sometimes things happen. Heres how to avoid getting a surprise bill for a test.
Across the nation, primary care practices that were already struggling are closing, victims of the pandemics financial fallout. And this is reducing access to health care, especially in rural and other regions already short on doctors.
A Trump administration maneuver allows executives who are leading the federal effort to keep investments in drug companies that would benefit from the pandemic response.
