KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: Why Health Care Is So Expensive, Chapter $22K
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Year: 2021
How One Health Center Is Leading Chicago on Kid Covid Shots
CHICAGO — As the medical assistant put on rubber gloves and readied the syringe, 5-year-old Victoria Macias, wearing a pink...
Western Boom Cities See Spike in Harmful Ozone
The reduction of harmful ground-level ozone across most of the U.S. over the past several decades has been an air...
As Overdose Deaths Soar, DEA-Wary Pharmacies Shy From Dispensing Addiction Medication
When Martin Njoku saw opioid addiction devastate his West Virginia community, he felt compelled to help. This was the place...
As Constituents Clamor for Ivermectin, Republican Politicians Embrace the Cause
When state senators in South Carolina held two hearings in September about covid-19 treatments, they got an earful on the...
Texas Providers See Increased Interest in Birth Control Since Near-Total Abortion Ban
In September, when Texas’ near-total abortion ban took effect, Planned Parenthood clinics in the Lone Star State started offering every...
Pacientes graves abarrotan las salas de emergencias, pero muchos no tienen covid
En el Hospital Sparrow de Lansing, Michigan, el personal de emergencias se esfuerza por atender a pacientes que llegan mucho...
Patients Went Into the Hospital for Care. After Testing Positive There for Covid, Some Never Came Out.
Christina Jewett They went into hospitals with heart attacks, kidney failure or in a psychiatric crisis. They left with covid-19...
Montana’s Governor Nixed a Kids’ Vaccine Campaign, So Health Officials Plan Their Own
Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte’s administration quashed plans for a public service campaign to promote covid-19 vaccinations for eligible teenagers over...
‘Not Quite on Board’: Parents Proving a Tough Sell on Covid Vax for Teens
Jenny Gold, Kaiser Health News and Samantha Young Even as the U.S. prepares to roll out a covid-19 vaccine to...
What Do We Really Know About Vaccine Effectiveness?
Julie Appleby, Kaiser Health News The politicization of covid vaccines — and, well, just about everything else having to do...
Labs With No One to Run Them: Why Public Health Workers Are Fleeing the Field
There were days, nights and weekends in the early months of the pandemic when Denise Von Bargen was the only...
