Palliative Care Helped Family Face ‘The Awful, Awful Truth’
Seattle mourned the news: Elizabeth and Robert Mar died of COVID-19 within a day of each other. They would have...
Month: May 2020
Always The Bridesmaid, Public Health Rarely Spotlighted Until It’s Too Late
KHN's chief Washington correspondent, Julie Rovner, who has covered health care for more than 30 years, offers insight and analysis...
Testing In California Still A Frustrating Patchwork Of Haves And Have-Nots
This story also ran on NPR. This story can be republished for free (details). Months into the spread of the...
COVID-Plagued California Nursing Homes Often Had Problems In Past
When Jorge Newbery finally got through to his 95-year-old mother, Jennifer, on a video call April 18, she could barely...
California To Widen Pipeline Of Psychiatric Nurse Practitioners
Jane Gunter, a nurse practitioner in Tuolumne County, California, has long wanted to specialize in mental health so she can...
Do-It-Yourself Cheek Swab Tested As Next Best Thing To Detect Coronavirus
This story also ran on KPCC. This story can be republished for free (details). Coronavirus testing is commonly an unpleasant,...
Trump’s Claim That U.S. Tested More Than All Countries Combined Is ‘Pants On Fire’ Wrong
Responding to weeks of criticism over his administration’s COVID-19 response, President Donald Trump claimed at a White House briefing that...
