Category: Public Health

US hits 100K+ daily cases for 1st time; PPE strains felt nationwide — 4 COVID-19 updates

By Becker's Hospital Review - Healthcare News in Becker's Hospital Review, Channels, Featured, Public Health
November 5, 2020

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Poor and Minority Children With Food Allergies Overlooked and in Danger

By Sandy West in children's health, COVID-19, Kaiser Health News, Public Health
November 5, 2020

Having a child with a food allergy is terrifying for any parent, but for low-income families such allergies can be especially deadly. Food assistance programs and food pantries rarely take allergies into account. And access to specialists, support groups and lifesaving epinephrine can be hard to attain. This especially hurts low-income Black children, who have higher incidences of allergies to corn, wheat and soy than white kids.

Coming Abortion Fight Could Threaten Birth Control, Too

By Julie Rovner, Kaiser Health News in Abortion, Contraception, HealthBent, Kaiser Health News, Mississippi, Public Health, states
November 5, 2020

In discussions of the impact Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett could have on abortion rights, many overlook related issues, including the right to birth control that the court recognized in 1965. During her confirmation hearings, Barrett refused to say whether she felt that case was correctly decided.

Behind The Byline: How Do You Say …?

By Victoria Knight in Behind The Byline, COVID-19, Kaiser Health News, Public Health, states
November 5, 2020

Check out KHN’s video series — Behind The Byline: How the Story Got Made. Come along as journalists and producers offer an insider’s view of health care coverage that does not quit.