DON'T EVER GIVE UP
2021-08-20 If the Unvaccinated Want to Work, They Face a Series of Hurdles Julie Appleby, Kaiser Health News With the delta variant surging, a growing number of employers are tiring of merely cajoling workers to get vaccinated against covid-19 and are following President Joe Biden’s protocol for federal workers: Either show proof of vaccination, […]
Rush to Boosters Sparks Confusion, Differing Recommendations Sarah Jane Tribble, Kaiser Health News August 18, 2021 When the Food and Drug Administration announced last week that a third dose of Moderna or Pfizer-BioNTech covid-19 vaccine may boost the immunity of some people who are immunocompromised, officials repeated their stance that fully vaccinated, healthy people do […]
‘Tainted’ Blood: Covid Skeptics Request Blood Transfusions From Unvaccinated Donors JoNel Aleccia, Kaiser Health News August 17, 2021 The nation’s roiling tensions over vaccination against covid-19 have spilled into an unexpected arena: lifesaving blood transfusions. With nearly 60% of the eligible U.S. population fully vaccinated, most of the nation’s blood supply is now coming from […]
2021-08-17 In Rural America, Twisting Arms to Take a Covid Vaccine First Takes Trust Cara Anthony CAIRO, Ill. — Lee Wright was hard at work, constructing a nail salon near the city’s abandoned hospital, when Jody Johnson stopped by to introduce himself on a recent afternoon. Johnson, who works for the University of Illinois […]
2021-08-16 ‘I Don’t Want to Risk My Life for a Paycheck’: Immunosuppressed People Grapple With Returning to Work Victoria Knight ey transplant 14 years ago. She now takes several medications to prevent her body from rejecting her transplant organ. But these medications also weaken her immune system, putting her at higher risk of becoming seriously […]
2021-08-14 Pfizer CEO to Public: Just Trust Us on the Covid Booster Sarah Jane Tribble, Kaiser Health News Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla was confident in June about the ability of his company’s vaccine to protect against the highly contagious delta variant, as it marched across the globe and filled U.S. hospitals with patients. “I […]
2021-08-11 A Quarter of US Hospitals, and Counting, Demand Workers Get Vaccinated. But Not Here. Katheryn Houghton Hospitals coast to coast are demanding their employees get vaccinated against covid as the highly contagious delta variant tears through populations with low vaccination rates. Nearly 1,500 hospitals — roughly a quarter of all hospitals in the […]
2021-08-09 Clarity on Covid Count: Pandemic’s Toll on Seniors Extended Well Beyond Nursing Homes Judith Graham As covid-19 resurges across the country, driven by the highly infectious delta variant, experts are extending our understanding of the pandemic’s toll on older adults — the age group hit hardest by the pandemic. New research offers unexpected insights. […]
2021-08-08 Déjà Vu? Consumers Scramble for Covid Tests in Hard-Hit Areas Phil Galewitz, Kaiser Health News and Rachel Bluth, Kaiser Health News and Rae Ellen Bichell Andrea Mosterman, an associate professor of history at the University of New Orleans, was already dismayed that she had to wait three days to secure a covid-19 test at […]
2021-08-05 ‘Wisdom and Fear’ Lead 90% of U.S. Seniors to Covid Vaccines Phil Galewitz, Kaiser Health News Amid the latest surge in covid-19 cases and hospitalizations, the United States on Tuesday hit a milestone that some thought was unattainable: 90% of people 65 and older are at least partly vaccinated against the disease. That’s more […]