The Solution to Au Pairs’ Health Coverage Gaps May Be Simple: ACA Plans
In 2016, Isis Mabel, of Mexico, wanted to improve her English. On advice from an aunt, she enrolled with an...
Month: September 2021
Ask KHN-PolitiFact: Is My Cloth Mask Good Enough to Face the Delta Variant?
In recent months, some European airlines have banned the use of cloth face coverings to control the spread of the...
I Got a ‘Mild’ Breakthrough Case. Here’s What I Wish I’d Known.
The test results that hot day in early August shouldn’t have surprised me — all the symptoms were there. A...
Psychological Benefits Of Spending Time Alone
Many scientific studies accept the positive role that social connectivity plays in order to improve immunity, develop stress resilience and...
Scientists Examine Kids’ Unique Immune Systems as More Fall Victim to Covid
Liz Szabo, Kaiser Health News Eighteen months into the covid-19 pandemic, with the delta variant fueling a massive resurgence of...
Covid-Overwhelmed Hospitals Postpone Cancer Care and Other Treatment
It’s a bad time to get sick in Oregon. That’s the message from some doctors, as hospitals fill up with...
KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: Much Ado About Drug Prices
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How Fauci and the NIH Got Ahead of the FDA and CDC in Backing Boosters
In January — long before the first jabs of covid-19 vaccine were even available to most Americans — scientists working...
When Covid Deaths Are Dismissed or Stigmatized, Grief Is Mixed With Shame and Anger
Months after Kyle Dixon died, his old house in Lanse, Pennsylvania, is full of reminders of a life cut short....
Biden Releases a New Plan to Combat Covid, but Experts Say There’s Still a Ways to Go
Promise: “I’m never going to raise the white flag and surrender. We’re going to beat this virus. We’re going to...
Over Half of States Have Rolled Back Public Health Powers in Pandemic
Republican legislators in more than half of U.S. states, spurred on by voters angry about lockdowns and mask mandates, are...
Under Pressure, Montana Hospital Considers Adding Psych Beds Amid a Shortage
Gary Popiel had to drive more than 200 miles round trip to visit his adult daughters in separate behavioral health...
