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Lost On The Frontline
Health Workers Resort To Etsy, Learning Chinese, Shady Deals To Find Safety Gear
The shortages are so dire that nursing homes and other health centers are going to extraordinary lengths for masks, gowns and essential materials.
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COVID-19 Batters A Beloved Bay Area Community Health Care Center
Health clinics in isolated African American communities in the San Francisco Bay Area provide crucial services to neglected populations. But like thousands of other community clinics around the nation, their finances have been wrecked by the pandemic shutdown.
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KHN鈥檚 鈥榃hat The Health?鈥: Say What? The Spread Of Coronavirus Confusion
Months into the COVID-19 pandemic, the public seems more confused than ever. And health officials still are not all on the same page; this week the World Health Organization had to walk back an official鈥檚 statement about how commonly the virus is spread by people without symptoms. Margot Sanger-Katz of The New York Times, Paige Winfield Cunningham of The Washington Post and Mary Ellen McIntire of CQ Roll Call join KHN鈥檚 Julie Rovner to discuss this and more. Also, Rovner interviews Michael Mackert, a professor and health communications expert at the University of Texas-Austin, about how health information can best be translated to the public.
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Federal Help Falters As Nursing Homes Run Short Of Protective Equipment
More than 3,000 nursing homes reported less than a week鈥檚 worth of supplies, and 653 said they had run out entirely at some point. Stopgap FEMA equipment has not reached many facilities, and packages that have arrived have fallen short of promises.
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Fighting COVID And Police Brutality, Medical Teams Take To Streets To Treat Protesters
Off-duty medical professionals joined protests in Denver and elsewhere sparked by George Floyd鈥檚 death to treat injured protesters, risking injury themselves.
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A Family With Five Doctors 鈥 And Two COVID Deaths
A New Jersey family tried everything they could to save their father and sister, but faced shortages of protective gear and grim hospital conditions.
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At-Home Care Designed For COVID Likely Here To Stay At Cleveland Hospital
A public hospital in Cleveland has been trying to keep COVID patients out of its beds. It tried a number of innovations for developing better communication 鈥 even better relationships 鈥 with patients. Officials think this groundwork helped keep the outbreak at bay 鈥 and should be the new business model going forward.
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Barr Says Police Didn鈥檛 Use Chemical Irritants To Clear Area By DC Church. They Did.
The attorney general's assertion is directly at odds with the description of pepper balls offered by the manufacturer.
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Society Is Reopening. Prepare To Hunker Down At Home Again.
First, businesses started to reopen; then racial justice protesters flooded the streets. Social distancing is beginning to fade. Are you ready for a second wave of COVID-19 infections 鈥 and a renewed lockdown?
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The Elevator Arises As The Latest Logjam In Getting Back To Work
As more and more people drift back into their workplaces, they face a very small space that can create a large logjam: the elevator.
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At Lake Of The Ozarks, It鈥檚 (Almost) Business As Usual, Despite The Coronavirus
This popular resort area gained national attention for a viral video showing Memorial Day partiers disregarding guidelines to curb the spread of the coronavirus. Now, with summer looming and at least one COVID-19 case connected to the gathering, it reflects the difficult balance between safety and tourism.
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For EMTs, There鈥檚 No 鈥楻ule Book鈥 For Facing A Pandemic And Protests At Once
Emergency medical technicians, who have been on the front lines against the coronavirus, also play a key role in helping provide care during protests sparked by the death of George Floyd.
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Baltimore鈥檚 鈥楽queegee Boys鈥: 鈥業f We Don鈥檛 Go Out, We Don鈥檛 Eat鈥
The federal government鈥檚 relief package left behind many of America鈥檚 poorest workers struggling to make ends meet as the coronavirus ravaged and unemployment rose. Baltimore鈥檚 鈥渟queegee boys鈥 are among them.
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Rapid Changes To Health System Spurred By COVID Might Be Here To Stay
The coronavirus pandemic has forced the nation鈥檚 doctors and hospitals to reevaluate how they work. At least three major changes may have a lasting impact.
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Exclusive: Nearly 600 鈥 And Counting 鈥 US Health Workers Have Died Of COVID-19
The Guardian and KHN release new figures Saturday showing the harsh toll that the pandemic is taking on the front-line health workers.
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Tear-Gassing Protesters During An Infectious Outbreak ‘A Recipe For Disaster’
Health researchers are among the voices calling for police to stop using tear gas and pepper spray on protesters, because these chemical irritants can damage the body in ways that can spread the coronavirus and increase the severity of COVID-19. One example: Tear gas and pepper spray can sow confusion and panic in a crowd, causing people to rip off their masks and touch their faces, leading to more contamination.
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Must-Reads Of The Week
KHN senior correspondent Jordan Rau takes a spin through this week's essential health care news.
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Postcard From The Border
COVID-19 Overwhelms Border ICUs
Some California hospitals near the Mexican border have received so many COVID-19 patients the past few weeks that they have had to divert some to other facilities. Hospital officials say most of the infected patients are U.S. citizens or legal residents who live in, or recently traveled to, Mexico and came to the U.S. for care.
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Montana鈥檚 Tribal Nations Preserve COVID Restrictions To Preserve Their Cultures
Some of Montana鈥檚 Native American nations are holding firm on coronavirus protections even as the rest of Montana reopens. They鈥檝e got more at stake, they say, in protecting their elders who preserve their endangered culture.