DON'T EVER GIVE UP
2021-09-19 When Covid Deaths Are Dismissed or Stigmatized, Grief Is Mixed With Shame and Anger Brett Sholtis, WITF [Editor’s note: This story contains language references that some readers may find offensive.] Months after Kyle Dixon died, his old house in Lanse, Pennsylvania, is full of reminders of a life cut short. His tent and hiking […]
2021-09-17 Over Half of States Have Rolled Back Public Health Powers in Pandemic Lauren Weber and Anna Maria Barry-Jester Republican legislators in more than half of U.S. states, spurred on by voters angry about lockdowns and mask mandates, are taking away the powers state and local officials use to protect the public against infectious […]
2021-09-10 ‘Religious’ Exemptions Add Legal Thorns to Looming Vaccine Mandates Mark Kreidler In Northern California, the pastor of a megachurch hands out religious exemption forms to the faithful. A New Mexico state senator will “help you articulate a religious exemption” by pointing to the decades-old use of aborted fetal cells in the development of […]
2021-09-06 Delta Cutting ‘Like a Buzzsaw’ Through Oregon-California Border Counties Erik Neumann, Jefferson Public Radio If you live in one of the rural communities tucked into the forested hillsides along the Oregon-California border and need serious medical care, you’ll probably wind up at Asante Rogue Regional Medical Center. It serves about nine counties on […]
2018-09-02 To Quarantine or Not: The Hard Choices Schools Are Leaving to Parents and Staff Amanda Michelle Gomez and Rachana Pradhan On the second day of high school in Texas, Natosha Daniels’ 14-year-old daughter went all day without eating because she did not want to remove her mask. The teen’s school has a couple […]
2021-08-30 Medicaid Vaccination Rates Founder as States Struggle to Immunize Their Poorest Residents Phil Galewitz, Kaiser Health News Medicaid enrollees are getting vaccinated against covid-19 at far lower rates than the general population as states search for the best strategies to improve access to the shots and persuade those who remain hesitant. Efforts by […]
2021-08-29 States Pull Back on Covid Data Even Amid Delta Surge Andy Miller Two state government websites in Georgia recently stopped posting updates on covid-19 cases in prisons and long-term care facilities, just as the dangerous delta variant was taking hold. Data has been disappearing recently in other states as well. Florida, for example, […]
2021-08-24 Pandemic Unveils Growing Suicide Crisis for Communities of Color Aneri Pattani This story is a collaboration between KHN and “Science Friday.” Listen to the conversation between KHN national correspondent Aneri Pattani and John Dankosky, Science Friday’s director of news and radio projects. Rafiah Maxie has been a licensed clinical social worker in the Chicago […]
2021-08-23 Journalists Investigate Vaccine Mandates and Health Worker Burnout KHN Midwest correspondent Lauren Weber discussed how public health workers are struggling to deal with the pandemic on the “Healthy You: Surviving a Pandemic” podcast on Aug. 12. She also spoke about covid-19 news on WAMU’s “1A” on Aug. 13. Click here to hear Weber on […]
2021-08-22 After Pandemic Ravaged Nursing Homes, New State Laws Protect Residents Susan Jaffe When the coronavirus hit Martha Leland’s Connecticut nursing home last year, she and dozens of other residents contracted the disease while the facility was on lockdown. Twenty-eight residents died, including her roommate. “The impact of not having friends and family come in […]