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After his father died, artist Taiji Terasaki created a ritual to memorialize him. Now, Terasaki honors front-line health care workers who succumbed to covid with an exhibit inspired by āLost on the Frontline,ā the investigation by KHN and The Guardian.
An army of volunteers help people who otherwise would have had difficulty securing a covid vaccination because of cumbersome computer or telephone registration systems.
As the recent winter storm disaster in Texas showed, many long-term care sites arenāt required to have backup power supplies or other redundancies to keep residents safe when disaster strikes.
After nearly a decadeās worth of federal inspections, reprimands and corrective action plans, has Pfizer fixed the facility that will be filling vials of its covid vaccine?
Hesitancy toward routine childhood vaccines doesnāt necessarily predict hesitancy toward a covid shot.
Dozens of open appointment slots in the three Southern states last week stood in sharp contrast to states such as Delaware, Connecticut and Pennsylvania, where spots generally were claimed by midmorning or earlier.
Many undocumented immigrants are essential workers at high risk of exposure to the virus ā and the pandemicās economic crash ā with no direct access to federal financial lifelines available to U.S. citizens.
The pictures are on the nightly news, on billboards, bus stop posters and all over social media. How can people who fear needles manage to get their covid shots?
Check out KHNās video series ā Behind The Byline: How the Story Got Made. Come along as journalists and producers offer an insiderās view of health care coverage that does not quit.
States are passing laws that would prevent people with Down syndrome, autism and other disabilities from being denied transplants solely because of their conditions.
When considering whether to meet up with someone who is vaccinated versus unvaccinated, vaccinated sounds somewhat safer. But before you give pandemic dating a shot, heed these warnings from experts.
Under the Trump administration, the U.S. had agreed to buy at least 1 billion doses of covid vaccine, enough to vaccinate 550 million people. Those agreements, though, applied to vaccines that were authorized as well as those still in development. And the Biden team had the advantage of 20/20, experts say.
Experts give poor usability ratings to My Turn, the new statewide sign-up app for covid vaccination. But with so many problems plaguing the vaccination effort, it seems unreasonable to have expected this one to work perfectly.
Grappling with stagnant pay and a lack of personal protective equipment, firefighters are even more frustrated to find they are lower down the vaccine priority list than health care workers despite serving on the front lines of the medical system.
California officials have been leery of reopening schools without tight protocols, a position favored by teachers unions that has met growing flak from local officials and parents. In Roseville, a suburb of Sacramento, the struggle has come to a head.
The FDA authorized the emergency use of a one-shot vaccine made by Johnson & Johnson, which could help accelerate the pace of vaccinations to prevent covid-19. But after a dramatic decline, case numbers are again rising, and several states are rolling back public health mitigation efforts. Mary Ellen McIntire of CQ Roll Call, Joanne Kenen of Politico and Sarah Karlin-Smith of the Pink Sheet join KHNās Julie Rovner to discuss these issues and more. Also this week, Rovner interviews KHNās Jordan Rau about the latest KHN-NPR āBill of the Monthā episode.
Older patients in several states where the California-based managed care giant operates complain theyāve had difficulty scheduling appointments and spotty communication from the health system. Some report itās getting better, though.
Researchers are testing treatments to overcome autoimmune reactions that begin when the bodyās defenses respond to the coronavirus.
As the speed of covid vaccinations picks up, so do the reports of doses going to waste. Health officials are trying to rein in waste without slowing down vaccinations.
Relatives and advocates are calling for federal authorities to relax restrictions in long-term care institutions and grant special status to āessential caregiversā ā family members or friends who provide critically important hands-on care ā so they have the opportunity to tend to relatives in need.
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