California Healthline senior correspondent Anna Maria Barry-Jester appeared on KALW’s “Your Call” on Friday to discuss how hospitals are preparing for a surge in COVID-19 patients. Dr. Mark Ghaly, the state’s secretary of Health and Human Services, ... [Continue Reading]
California Lawmakers Struggle To Conduct Business Amid COVID-19 Lockdown
SACRAMENTO — The weekend before California shuttered its Capitol building, Senate leader Toni Atkins spent hours on the phone ― taking the roles of a student learning from epidemiologists and a legislator discussing with colleagues how the country’s ... [Continue Reading]
Con reportes parciales de los estados, el panorama de COVID-19 en el país es borroso
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New York Governor Cuomo’s Informed Daily Briefings Are Attracting Hordes Of Followers
In contrast to President Donald Trump's style at briefings, the governor is getting praise for his sense of urgency, tactics and ability to handle a crisis. News is from Texas, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Michigan, Maryland, Virginia and the ... [Continue Reading]
Millions Of Older Americans Live In Counties With No ICU Beds As Pandemic Intensifies
More than half the counties in America have no intensive care beds, posing a particular danger for more than 7 million people who are age 60 and up ― older patients who face the highest risk of serious illness or death from the rapid spread of ... [Continue Reading]
Is The Bay Area’s ‘Unprecedented’ Lockdown The First Of Many?
Life came to a grinding halt for millions of San Francisco Bay Area residents as the most stringent isolation orders in the country took effect Tuesday. To stem the spread of the new coronavirus, roughly 7 million people in seven counties were ... [Continue Reading]
Testing Shortages Force Extreme Shift In Strategy By Local Health Officials
Public health officials in California’s state capital region announced this week they have stopped tracing the contacts of patients diagnosed with the novel coronavirus. They’ve also ceased recommending quarantines for residents exposed to people ... [Continue Reading]
Looking For Answers After Coronavirus Contact? Welcome To The Gray Zone
ST. LOUIS — Liz Lucas got a call Tuesday afternoon from a friend she’d interacted with closely at a journalism conference in New Orleans days earlier who had tested presumptively positive for coronavirus. She wondered what this meant for her and ... [Continue Reading]
Look-Up: Check Out Infection Records Of 15,000 U.S. Nursing Homes
Click here to download KHN’s full data set. ... [Continue Reading]
Coronavirus Puts Prisons In Tight Spot Amid Staff Shortages, Threats Of Lockdown
Federal prison union officials and inmate advocates warn that the combination of chronic understaffing, a new leave policy and the realities of coronavirus quarantines could lead to the first nationwide federal prison lockdown since 1995. As ... [Continue Reading]
Donald Trump’s Wrong Claim That ‘Anybody’ Can Get Tested For Coronavirus
“Anybody that wants a test [for the coronavirus] can get a test.” — President Donald Trump, in remarks to reporters on March 6. ... [Continue Reading]
State Highlights: Utah’s Female Senators Walk Out Before Vote On ‘Invasive’ Abortion Bill; D.C. Mayor Signs Emergency Bill Banning ‘Ghost…
Media outlets report on news from Utah, District of Columbia, Ohio, and Colorado. SOURCE: Kaiser Health News - Read entire story here. ... [Continue Reading]
State Highlights: Medicaid Funding Distribution Battle Divides Dozens Of Hospitals In Illinois; California Orders Religious Group To Stop Selling…
Media outlets report on news from Illinois, California, Iowa, Ohio, Georgia, Alabama, and Virginia. SOURCE: Kaiser Health News - Read entire story here. ... [Continue Reading]
State Highlights: New York Officials Caught Up In Blame Game Over Rising Medicaid Spending, Debt; Chronic Pain Patients Suffer When North Carolina…
Media outlets report on news from New York, North Carolina, Michigan, Alabama, Georgia and Ohio. SOURCE: Kaiser Health News - Read entire story here. ... [Continue Reading]
Dental Shock: Six Pulled Teeth And One Unexpected Bill
STATESVILLE, N.C. — The ache in three of Kathy McCracken’s teeth started almost four years ago. It was hard for her to chew and swallow. She was sensitive to both hot and cold food. “Pain, pain, pain” was how McCracken, now 69, described the feeling. ... [Continue Reading]
State Highlights: Lawmakers In Colorado, Connecticut Make Moves On Public Option; Transgender Students In Virginia Gain Safeguards Adopted By A Dozen…
Media outlets report on news from Colorado, Connecticut, Missouri, Virginia, New Hampshire, and South Carolina. SOURCE: Kaiser Health News - Read entire story here. ... [Continue Reading]
Listen: How Paramedical Tattoos Provide Healing
https://khn.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/56653-21st_03052020_segc.mp3 Can’t see the audio player? Click here to download. KHN Midwest correspondent Cara Anthony appeared on Illinois Public Media’s “The 21st” with host Jenna Dooley to ... [Continue Reading]
‘Wellbeing Of Maine Children Prevailed’: Voters Decide To Keep Vaccine Requirements
Democratic Gov. Janet Mills had strongly encouraged voters to not reject the new law, which eliminates religious and philosophical exemptions. Opt-out rates in Maine had reached the sixth highest in the nation. SOURCE: Kaiser Health News - Read ... [Continue Reading]
State Highlights: States From Pennsylvania To Hawaii Brace For Food Stamps Rule Change; Highway Signage For Suicide Prevention Added To Maryland Bill
Media outlets report on news from Illinois, Hawaii, Delaware, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Georgia, Washington, California, Alabama and Tennessee. SOURCE: Kaiser Health News - Read entire story here. ... [Continue Reading]
Virginia Governor Signs Bill Banning Discredited Practice Of Conversion Therapy For Minors
Gov. Ralph Northam, a pediatric physician, said “No one should be made to feel they are not OK the way they are — especially not a child.” Virginia became the 20th state to ban the practice. SOURCE: Kaiser Health News - Read entire story here. ... [Continue Reading]
State Highlights: Maine Voters Consider Overturning Vaccination Law Banning Religious Exemptions; Los Angeles Officials Study Ways To Overhaul Or…
Media outlets report on news from Maine, California, Illinois, Georgia, Oklahoma, North Carolina, Maryland and Missouri. SOURCE: Kaiser Health News - Read entire story here. ... [Continue Reading]