Researchers say the billions in pandemic funding available for ventilation upgrades in U.S. schools provides a once-in-a-generation opportunity to combat covid-19, as well as making air more breathable for students living with allergies, asthma, and chronic wildfire smoke.
KHN and California Healthline staff made the rounds on national and local media this week to discuss their stories. Here’s a collection of their appearances.
The CDC is encouraging clinicians to look out for a broad range of symptoms that might be signs of a monkeypox infection as the national case tally grows, Politico reported June 10.
The nation’s seven-day average of new COVID-19 cases increased this week after falling slightly last week for the first time since late March, according to the CDC’s COVID-19 data tracker weekly review published June 10.
The Biden administration will no longer require international travelers to show proof of a negative COVID-19 test before boarding flights to the U.S. — a rule that had been in place since January 2021, The Washington Post reported June 10.
The World Health Organization’s advisory group studying the origins of COVID-19 said bats likely carried an ancestor of the coronavirus that may have then spilled over into a mammal sold at a market, but added that more data is needed to study how the …
The Biden administration is considering whether Medicaid, which pays the bills for 62% of nursing home residents, should require that most of that funding be used to provide care, rather than for maintenance, capital improvements, or profits.