Rural Hospital Remains Entrenched in Covid ‘War’ Even Amid Vaccine Rollout
Lauren Weber Editor’s note: KHN wrote about St. James Parish Hospital in April, when it was experiencing its first surge...
Year: 2021
Bay Area Cities Go to War Over Gas Stoves in Homes and Restaurants
San Francisco restaurant owners, already simmering over covid-19 restrictions, are ready to boil over because of a city ban on...
Vaccines Go Mobile to Keep Seniors From Slipping Through the Cracks
ANTIOCH, Calif. — A mobile “strike team” is bringing vaccines to some of Northern California’s most vulnerable residents along with...
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...
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...
