Anti-Immigrant Vitriol Complicates Vaccine Rollout in Southern States
In eastern Tennessee, doctors have seen firsthand how a hard-line immigration policy can affect the health and well-being of a...
Month: February 2021
Can Pfizer and Moderna End the Pandemic by Sharing Their Vaccine Designs? It’s Not that Simple
Samantha Putterman, PolitiFact “Pfizer and Moderna could share their design with dozens of other pharma companies who stand ready to...
In Search of the Shot
Too little covid vaccine and too great a demand: That’s what KHN readers from around the country detail in their...
S.D. Governor Gives State High Marks in Handling the Pandemic. Are They Deserved?
Carmen Heredia Rodriguez, Kaiser Health News “We did have tragedies and we did have losses. But we also got through...
Counterfeit N95 Scam Widens as Senator Demands FTC Investigation
A key U.S. senator is calling on the Federal Trade Commission to investigate N95 mask fraud and federal agents announced...
Lack of Covid Data on People with Intellectual Disabilities ‘Comes With a Body Count’
Peter Prater’s family wasn’t thinking about covid-19 when the call came that he had been taken to the hospital with...
KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: All About Budget Reconciliation
Can’t see the audio player? Click here to listen on SoundCloud. President Joe Biden has said he still wants a bipartisan...
Vaccine Equity Is ‘North Star,’ Feds Say, and Clinics Are Key to Fair Distribution
Mary Barnett is one of about a dozen seniors who got a covid vaccine on a recent morning at Neighborhood...
Health Workers and Hospitals Grapple With Millions of Counterfeit N95 Masks
Thousands of counterfeit 3M respirators have slipped past U.S. investigators in recent months, making it to the cheeks and chins...
Pandemic-Fueled Alcohol Abuse Creates Wave of Hospitalizations for Liver Disease
As the pandemic sends thousands of recovering alcoholics into relapse, hospitals across the country have reported dramatic increases in alcohol-related...
As Pandemic Surged, Contact Tracing Struggled; Biden Looks to Boost It
Contact tracing, a critical part of efforts to slow the spread of the coronavirus, has fallen behind in recent months...
Scalise’s Claim That Unauthorized Immigrants Are Getting Priority for Vaccination Misses the Point
Victoria Knight “Now he is saying that people who came here illegally can jump ahead of other Americans who have...
