Category: Public Health

KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: Health Care as Infrastructure

President Joe Biden’s infrastructure proposal includes items not traditionally considered “infrastructure,” including a $400 billion expansion of home and community-based services for seniors and people with disabilities, and a $50 billion effort to replace water pipes lined with lead. Meanwhile, the politics of covid-19 are turning to how or whether Americans will need to prove they’ve been vaccinated. Joanne Kenen of Politico, Tami Luhby of CNN and Sarah Karlin-Smith of the Pink Sheet join KHN’s Julie Rovner to discuss these issues and more. Plus, Rovner interviews KFF’s Mollyann Brodie about the KFF COVID-19 Vaccine Monitor.

1 in 4 US adults fully vaccinated; New Mexico, Connecticut, South Dakota lead the way

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‘Go Ahead and Vote Me Out’: What Other Places Can Learn From Santa Rosa’s Tent City

As cities across California wrestle with a crisis of homelessness that has drawn international condemnation, Santa Rosa’s bold experiment with a city-sanctioned encampment suggests a way forward.

Calls Mount for Biden to Track US Health Care Worker Deaths from Covid

As The Guardian and KHN end Lost on the Frontline, a yearlong project to count health care worker deaths in the pandemic, the White House is under pressure to take up the task.

12 Months of Trauma: More Than 3,600 US Health Workers Died in Covid’s First Year

Lost on the Frontline, a yearlong investigation by The Guardian and KHN to count health care worker deaths, ends today. This is what we learned in a year of tracing the lives of those who made the ultimate sacrifice.

Mount Sinai COVID-19 saliva tests to aid NYC’s reopening

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Do intense vaccine side effects point to past COVID-19 infection? 4 vaccine claims, fact-checked

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What a third of COVID-19 patients can expect within 6 months

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UK variant now most common strain in US, CDC head says

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Atlantic Health System rapid COVID-19 test can detect 3 variants

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