If I Have Cancer, Dementia or MS, Should I Get the Covid Vaccine?
Older patients with cancer, dementia or other serious illnesses should check with their doctors, but medical experts recommend the vaccine for most people.
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Remdesivir, Given to Half of Hospitalized Covid Patients in U.S., Is Big Win for Gilead 鈥 Boosted by Taxpayers
With U.S. cases skyrocketing, demand for Gilead鈥檚 dark horse antiviral is only growing. Biden appointees propose potential legal tactics to tamp down the price for patients.
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Poll: Nearly Half of American Adults Now Want the Covid Vaccine 鈥 ASAP
The number of adults seeking to get inoculated has risen since December, according to a new poll.
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California鈥檚 Top Hospital Lobbyist Cements Influence in Covid Crisis
Carmela Coyle, who represents California鈥檚 hospitals in the state Capitol, is a power player whose clout has grown during the pandemic. Though she hasn鈥檛 won every battle, she has helped shape the state鈥檚 response to the crisis.
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鈥榃e鈥檙e Not Controlling It in Our Schools鈥: Covid Safety Lapses Abound Across US
As President Biden calls for more support to help schools hold in-person classes, public health experts say schools can be relatively safe if they take well-known steps to prevent covid. But a KHN investigation shows many districts and states have ignored health advice or written their own questionable safety rules for schools.
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Readers and Tweeters Fight Stigma and Salute Front-Line Workers
Kaiser Health News gives readers a chance to comment on a recent batch of stories.
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Big Business Boosts Vaccine Effort, but It鈥檚 鈥楥omplex Choreography鈥 to Get Shots in Arms聽
Corporations like Starbucks, Honeywell, Microsoft, Costco and Google are lining up to help with vaccine logistics. But the problem of the moment is supply, not systems.
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Why Even Presidential Pressure Might Not Get More Vaccine to Market Faster
Even invoking the widely heralded Defense Production Act to pressure drugmakers wouldn鈥檛 overcome vast obstacles.
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Amid Covid Health Worker Shortage, Foreign-Trained Professionals Sit on Sidelines
Hospitals dealing with staff shortages during the current covid surge are unable to tap into one valuable resource: foreign-trained doctors, nurses and other health workers, many with experience treating infectious diseases. Colorado, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York and Nevada are the only states to have eased credentialing requirements during the pandemic.
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Anti-Vaccine Activists Peddle Theories That Covid Shots Are Deadly, Undermining Vaccination
Thousands of people died shortly after inoculation, but their deaths weren鈥檛 related to getting a vaccine.
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Vaccine Ramp-Up Squeezes Covid Testing and Tracing
The ability of California health officials to multitask in a pandemic will be severely tested as they scramble to find staff for vaccination sites while maintaining testing and contact tracing.
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Health Issues Carried Weight on the Campaign Trail. What Could Biden Do in His First 100 Days?
KHN has teamed up with PolitiFact to track what becomes of President Joe Biden鈥檚 2020 campaign promises over the next four years. As he moves into the West Wing, what are his chances of making progress on health care?
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Trump鈥檚 Pardons Included Health Care Execs Behind Massive Frauds
Those walking away free were facing years in prison for crimes of 鈥渦nbounded greed.鈥
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Covid Vaccine Rollout Leaves Most Older Adults Confused Where to Get Shots
Nearly 6 in 10 people 65 and older say they don鈥檛 have enough information about how to get vaccinated, according to a new 麻豆女优 poll.
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KHN鈥檚 鈥榃hat the Health?鈥: The Biden Health Agenda
President Joe Biden is wasting no time getting to work. On his first day in office, Biden signed a series of executive orders addressing the covid pandemic, promising more to come. But even with Democrats taking the barest majority in the Senate, the new president鈥檚 ambitious proposals on covid and other health issues could be in for a rough ride. Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico, Tami Luhby of CNN and Sarah Karlin-Smith of the Pink Sheet join KHN鈥檚 Julie Rovner to discuss these issues and more. Plus, for 鈥渆xtra credit,鈥 the panelists recommend their favorite health policy stories of the week they think you should read too.
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Yurts, Igloos and Pop-Up Domes: How Safe Is ‘Outside’ Restaurant Dining This Winter?
All kinds of new structures are popping up to extend the outdoor dining season. Some are safer than others.
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After a Decade of Lobbying, ALS Patients Gain Faster Access to Disability Payments
In late December, then-President Donald Trump signed a law that eliminates 鈥 only for people with Lou Gehrig鈥檚 disease 鈥 the required five-month waiting period before benefits begin under the Social Security Disability Insurance program. Gaining SSDI also gives these patients immediate Medicare health coverage.
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Door to Door in Miami鈥檚 Little Havana to Build Trust in Testing, Vaccination
It’s time-consuming but worthwhile: Residents respond to messages about Covid testing and vaccines when outreach teams speak their language and make a personal connection.
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Biden Takes the Reins, Calls for a United Front Against Covid and Other Threats
On health care, President Joe Biden made it clear that combating the covid-19 pandemic will be his top priority. 鈥淲e must set aside politics and finally face this pandemic as one nation,鈥 he said. 鈥淲e will get through this together.鈥
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Advocates View Health Care as Key to Driving LGBTQ Rights Conversation
A state ban preventing local governments from enacting nondiscrimination ordinances expired Dec. 1, opening the door for a new wave of local nondiscrimination laws.
