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Covid-19: AAP Advocates for Safe, Equitable Reopening Strategy

Aug 20, 2020

Doc organization demands action on virtual learning disparities, calls for ’layered’ approach to student/faculty safety The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) released updated guidance calling ...

Trust, Fear and Solidarity Will Determine the Success of a COVID Vaccine

Aug 20, 2020

Thousands of letters stuffed with money flooded Jonas Salk’s mailbox the week after his polio vaccine was declared safe and effective in 1955. Everybody wanted his vaccine. Desperate parents clogged...

Teen Artist’s Portraits Help Frame Sacrifice of Health Care Workers Lost to COVID

Aug 20, 2020

As Xinyi Christine Zhang watched the COVID-19 death toll among health care workers rise this spring, she wanted to find a way to give solace — and thanks — to their families. The teenager, of S...

Black Race Not a Factor in Covid-19 Deaths Among Hospitalized Patients

Aug 19, 2020

Findings argue against biologic cause for racial disparities Black race was not found to be a contributing factor in mortality among patients hospitalized for Covid-19 after controlling for sociodemo...

Covid-19: FDA Approves New Saliva Test

Aug 19, 2020

Yale School of Public Health offering ’open source’ protocol to labs WASHINGTON — The FDA granted an emergency use authorization (EUA) for a fifth saliva test for Covid-19, this time from the...

‘Is This When I Drop Dead?’ Two Doctors Report From the COVID Front Lines

Aug 19, 2020

Health workers across the country looked on in horror when New York became the global epicenter of the coronavirus. Now, as physicians in cities such as Houston, Phoenix and Miami face their own COVID...

With COVID Vaccine Trial, Rural Oregon Clinic Steps Onto World Stage

Aug 19, 2020

MEDFORD, Ore. — From the outside, it appears to be just another suburban allergy clinic, a tidy, tan brick-and-cinder-block building set back from a busy highway and across the road from an auto par...

Dying Young: The Health Care Workers in Their 20s Killed by COVID-19

Aug 18, 2020

Jasmine Obra believed that if it wasn’t for her brother Joshua, she wouldn’t exist. When 7-year-old Josh realized that his parents weren’t going to live forever, he asked for a sibling so he wou...

COVID Data Failures Create Pressure for Public Health System Overhaul

Aug 18, 2020

After terrorists slammed a plane into the Pentagon on 9/11, ambulances rushed scores of the injured to community hospitals, but only three of the patients were taken to specialized trauma wards. The r...

Back to Life: COVID Lung Transplant Survivor Tells Her Story

Aug 18, 2020

Mayra Ramirez remembers the nightmares. During six weeks on life support at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, Ramirez said, she had terrifying nightmares that she couldn’t distinguish fr...

Conference Highlights: ATS 2020 Virtual

Aug 17, 2020

New research was presented at ATS 2020 Virtual, the online annual American Thoracic Society International Conference, from August 5-10. The features below highlight some of the studies presented via t...

Covid-19: AAP Issues Guidance for Keeping Kids Safe as Pandemic Continues

Aug 17, 2020

Documents outline recommendations for face coverings, testing protocols, and PPE for pediatricians The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) issued a trio of interim guidance documents offering recomm...

Bereaved Families Are ‘the Secondary Victims of COVID-19’

Aug 17, 2020

[khn_slabs slabs="789584" view="pull-right" /] [khn_slabs slabs="1083075" view="pull-right" /] Every day, the nation is reminded of COVID-19’s ongoing impact as new death counts are published. W...

Turning Anger Into Action: Minority Students Analyze COVID Data on Racial Disparities

Aug 17, 2020

As the coronavirus swept into Detroit this spring, Wayne State University junior Skye Taylor noticed something striking. On social media, many of her fellow Black classmates who live or grew up in the...

Nurses and Doctors Sick With COVID Feel Pressured to Get Back to Work

Aug 14, 2020

[khn_slabs slabs="1147240" view="pull-right" /]The first call in early April was from the testing center, informing the nurse she was positive for COVID-19 and should quarantine for two weeks. The ...

Practicing a New Kind of Primary Care in COVID-19 America

Aug 13, 2020

Helping patients practice self-care and embracing telehealth to build a new model.   The devastation of the coronavirus pandemic has disrupted our healthcare system—and our private me...

Covid-19: AMA Asks HHS to Reconsider Testing Priorities

Aug 13, 2020

Public health organizations emphasize saving resources for medically-indicated tests CHICAGO — The AMA, along with other public health organizations, asked Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary...

Exclusive: Over 900 Health Workers Have Died of COVID-19. And the Toll Is Rising.

Aug 13, 2020

More than 900 front-line health care workers have died of COVID-19, according to an interactive database unveiled Tuesday by The Guardian and KHN. Lost on the Frontline is a partnership between the tw...

Test Sites Quickly Attract Thousands for COVID-19 Vaccine Study

Aug 12, 2020

Dr. Eric Coe jumped at the chance to help test a COVID-19 vaccine. At his urging, so did his girlfriend, his son and his daughter-in-law. All received shots last week at a clinical research site in...

Without Federal Protections, Farm Workers Risk Coronavirus Infection to Harvest Crops

Aug 12, 2020

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — It’s a busy time for the tomato-producing farms in this part of the state. Farms have staffed up with hundreds of workers, most of whom are Latino. Some live locally. Others are...

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