Workers Filed More Than 4,100 Complaints About Protective Gear. Some Still Died.
COVID-19 cases were climbing at Michigan’s McLaren Flint hospital. So Roger Liddell, 64, who procured supplies for the hospital, asked...
Month: June 2020
‘More Than Physical Health’: Gym Helps 91-Year-Old Battle Isolation
MONROVIA, Calif. — Most mornings, like clockwork, you could find Art Ballard pumping iron. At least five days a week,...
Essential Worker Shoulders $1,840 Pandemic Debt Due To COVID Cost Loophole
Carmen Quintero works an early shift as a supervisor at a 3M distribution warehouse that ships N95 masks to a...
Conflicting COVID Messages Create Cloud Of Confusion Around Public Health And Prevention
Regina Fargis didn’t know what to do. Fargis runs Summit Hills — a health and retirement community in Spartanburg, South...
In Arizona Race, McSally Makes Health Care Pledge At Odds With Track Record
Trailing Democratic challenger Mark Kelly in one of the country’s most hotly contested Senate races, Arizona Sen. Martha McSally is...
California Prisons Are COVID Hotbeds Despite Billions Spent On Inmate Health
From Corcoran and Avenal state prisons in the arid Central Valley to historical San Quentin on the San Francisco Bay,...
Sweeps Of Homeless Camps Run Counter To COVID Guidance And Pile On Health Risks
This story also ran on NPR. This story can be republished for free (details). DENVER — Melody Lewis lives like...
Seniors In Low-Income Housing Live In Fear Of COVID Infection
Davetta Brooks, 75, who has heart failure, a fractured hip and macular degeneration, is afraid. Conditions in her low-income senior...
KHN’s ‘What The Health?’: The Pandemic Shifts; The Politics, Not So Much
Can’t see the audio player? Click here to listen on SoundCloud. President Donald Trump caused a stir when he said at...
Watch: Fauci, Other Health Officials Weigh California’s COVID Response
June 25, 2020 Samantha Young, California Healthline’s California politics correspondent, helped moderate a discussion hosted by the Sacramento Press Club...
Packed Bars Serve Up New Rounds Of COVID Contagion
As states ease their lockdowns, bars are emerging as fertile breeding grounds for the coronavirus. They create a risky cocktail...
As COVID Cases Spike, California Shifts Its Strategy
Use Our Content This story can be republished for free (details). Coronavirus infections are rising so fast in Fresno County...
