Category: Public Health

KHN’s ‘What The Health?’: Whom Do We Trust For COVID Info?

The messaging from the White House coronavirus press briefings is becoming more confusing as President Donald Trump and his science advisers appear to not see eye to eye. Meanwhile, Congress is ready to approve more money to address both the health and economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic. And the virus is taking an almost unimaginable toll on the nation’s nursing homes and putting strain on patients and health care providers with non-COVID ailments. Joanne Kenen of Politico, Jennifer Haberkorn of the Los Angeles Times and Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico join KHN’s Julie Rovner to discuss these topics and more.

80% of Americans support strict social distancing measures: 5 survey findings

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11 states resuming elective surgeries

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Pandemic was taking hold in US earlier than officials realized, researchers say

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10 states with fastest, slowest spread of COVID-19

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More Americans believe ‘the worst is behind us’ — 4 COVID-19 updates

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Messages from 6 hospital leaders to those resisting social distancing: ‘As healthcare workers, we urge you to reconsider’

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Coronavirus Crisis Opens Access To Online Opioid Addiction Treatment

Under the national emergency, the government has waived a law that required patients to have an in-person visit with a physician before they could be prescribed drugs that help quell withdrawal symptoms, such as Suboxone. Now they can get those prescriptions via a phone call or videoconference with a doctor. That may give video addiction therapy a kick-start.

Biden Says OSHA Isn’t Doing Enough To Protect Workers’ From COVID-19

Labor unions have called for the agency to issue an emergency standard that would define what steps employers must take to protect their workers from the coronavirus. It has not done that, although it offered guidance that it said does not create a “new legal obligation” for employers.

How Temple University Hospital is meeting COVID-19 care demands

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