Millions Of Older Americans Live In Counties With No ICU Beds As Pandemic Intensifies
A Kaiser Health News analysis shows that counties with ICUs average one ICU bed for every 1,300 older residents, those most at risk for needing hospitalization.
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Where Gun Violence Defines Daily Life
The Final Cut
Baltimore barber Antoine Dow helps bring dignity to young black men whose lives were cut short by gun violence.
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Mask Shortage Straps Pharmacists Who Need Them To Keep Medicines Pure
Fifteen percent of hospital pharmacists who prepare injectable drugs are going without the protective masks they typically use or are using substitutes for masks.
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Gig Economy Workers Hurt By Coronavirus Eye New Federal Funds For Relief
A law signed by Trump on Wednesday will provide financial help for self-employed workers, who generally don鈥檛 have paid leave. Some states also have family and medical leave programs that can be helpful.
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Was The Novel Coronavirus Really Sneaky In Its Spread To The U.S.? Experts Say No.
Public health professionals dismissed the president鈥檚 claims that the spread of the coronavirus, in particular, and the threat of a pandemic, in general, snuck up on us as being 鈥渟imply astonishing鈥 and 鈥渟imply untrue.鈥
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KHN鈥檚 鈥榃hat The Health?鈥: The Affordable Care Act Turns 10
Next week is the 10th anniversary of the Affordable Care Act. Millions of Americans have benefited from the law, yet its future is in the hands of both the Supreme Court and voters in November. For this special episode of 鈥淲hat the Health?鈥 host Julie Rovner interviews Kathleen Sebelius, who was Obama鈥檚 secretary of Health and Human Services when the law was passed. Then Rovner, Joanne Kenen of Politico and Mary Agnes Carey of Kaiser Health News discuss its history, impact and prospects for the future.
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Sebelius, Looking Back At ACA, Says The Country鈥檚 Never 鈥楽een This Kind Of Battle鈥
On KHN鈥檚 鈥淲hat the Health? 鈥 podcast, the former secretary of Health and Human Services says she continued to believe during the debate 10 years ago on the health law that it would eventually gain some Republican support. But that never happened.
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Funeral Homes, Families Ponder Deaths In The Age Of COVID-19
As the novel coronavirus marches across the country, it is upending how families and funeral homes honor the dead 鈥 and, ultimately, put them to rest.
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A View From The Front Lines Of California鈥檚 COVID-19 Battle
California physicians dealing with COVID-19 offer a sobering portrait of a health care system bracing for the worst of a pandemic that could be months from peaking.
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Take A Deep Breath: Making Risk-Based Decisions In The Coronavirus Era
There鈥檚 an array of recommendations about how to adjust our lives to reduce the spread of the novel virus. All are motivated by the same guiding principle: The better the public does in these efforts, the better off everyone will be.
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Amid Pandemic, Programs Struggle To Reach Vulnerable Seniors Living At Home
Older adults are at serious risk during this pandemic and have been advised to avoid contact with others. Yet many still need essential services, and programs are scrambling to adapt.
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Is The Bay Area鈥檚 鈥楿nprecedented鈥 Lockdown The First Of Many?
About 7 million people across the San Francisco Bay Area began to 鈥渟helter in place鈥 Tuesday to limit the spread of the new coronavirus. Although public health officials acknowledged the orders were drastic, they also agreed they were necessary.
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As Coronavirus Testing Gears Up, Specialized Swabs Running Out
Nationwide, testing for coronavirus is ramping up. But the supply of specialty swabs needed to collect potential coronavirus specimens can鈥檛 keep up with demand, creating a bottleneck in testing capabilities. So two top manufacturers are working with U.S. and Italian governments to increase production.
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Near Trump鈥檚 Florida Home, Drive-Thru COVID-19 Testing Gets Off To Rocky Start
Just 5 miles from Mar-a-Lago, the POTUS鈥 outpost, Florida residents find that the president鈥檚 pledge to make testing accessible hasn鈥檛 materialized.
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In Face Of Coronavirus, Many Hospitals Cancel On-Site Training For Nursing And Med Students
Hospitals and nursing homes say they are acting to protect students and patients, but nursing educators worry the pipeline of new nurses could be slowed at a time when they may be needed most. Some doctors in training have also seen their clinical rotations canceled.
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Many Schools Have Closed 鈥 But Not All. What Parents Need To Know About That Tough Call.
Closing K-12 schools is part of a broad strategy to limit public interactions and slow the spread of COVID-19 cases. But the decision is far from easy, with conflicting science about how effective such closures are weighed against the massive disruption to families鈥 lives.
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Ships, Planes, Trains, Scooters All Need A Virus Wipe. But What Does A 鈥楧eep Clean鈥 Mean?
There is no universal protocol for a 鈥渄eep clean鈥 in trying to eradicate the novel coronavirus. Industries are tailoring sanitation efforts in accordance with what makes sense for them.
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Biden Falsely Blames Trump Administration For Rejecting WHO Coronavirus Test Kits (That Were Never Offered)
Biden鈥檚 statement leaves out context about how countries decided on which test they鈥檇 use to identify the presence of the coronavirus.
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Listen: How Coronavirus Looms Over Prisons
KHN Midwest correspondent Lauren Weber joined WAMU鈥檚 鈥1A鈥 show to talk about the unique threats coronavirus is putting on those who are behind bars and those who guard them.
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To Stop Coronavirus In Its Tracks, Here鈥檚 Your Guide To 5 Degrees Of Separation
If someone tells you, 鈥淚鈥檇 love to go to dinner, but I鈥檓 socially distancing,鈥 don鈥檛 be offended. It鈥檚 likely they are trying to do a good deed for public health.
