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As Omicron Surges, Effort to Vaccinate Young Children Stalls
Two months after Pfizer’s covid vaccine was authorized for children ages 5 to 11, just 27% have received at least one shot, according to Jan. 12 data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Only 18%, or 5 million kids, have both ... [Continue Reading]
Una prueba rápida negativa no significa que se está libre de covid
Julie Ann Justo, farmacéutica clínica de enfermedades infecciosas para un sistema hospitalario de Carolina del Sur, esperaba que la semana de Navidad finalmente fuera el momento en que su familia pudiera reunirse de manera segura. ... [Continue Reading]
What Patients Can Learn With Confidence From One Negative Rapid Test (Hint: Very Little)
Julie Ann Justo, an infectious disease clinical pharmacist for a South Carolina hospital system, hoped Christmas week would finally be the time her family could safely gather for a reunion. Before the celebration, family members ... [Continue Reading]
Watch and Listen: Examining the Risks of Covid’s Spread Within Hospitals
KHN Midwest correspondent Lauren Weber appeared on Newsy’s “Evening Debrief” program to discuss her recent investigative series on the risks of covid’s spread within hospitals. The series, reported with Christina Jewett, ... [Continue Reading]
La máscara de tela, ¿es lo suficientemente buena contra omicron?
La super contagiosa variante omicron se está extendiendo por los Estados Unidos, provocando un dramático aumento de casos y saturando muchos sistemas hospitalarios. Además de instar a los estadounidenses a vacunarse y recibir el ... [Continue Reading]
Ask KHN-PolitiFact: Is My Cloth Mask Good Enough? The 2022 Edition
The highly transmissible omicron variant is sweeping the U.S., causing a huge spike in covid-19 cases and overwhelming many hospital systems. Besides urging Americans to get vaccinated and boosted, public health officials are recommending that people ... [Continue Reading]
With Sexually Transmitted Infections Off the Charts, California Pushes At-Home Tests
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California has become the first state to require health insurance plans to cover at-home tests for sexually transmitted infections such as HIV, chlamydia and syphilis — which could help quell the STI epidemic that has raged ... [Continue Reading]
Con récord de infecciones de transmisión sexual, California impulsa las pruebas caseras
Sacramento, California. – California se ha convertido en el primer estado en exigir que los seguros médicos cubran las pruebas caseras para infecciones de transmisión sexual (ITS) como el VIH, la clamidia y la sífilis. ... [Continue Reading]
Why an HBCU Med School Decided to Put CARES Act Money Into Students’ Pockets
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Just before students at Meharry Medical College went home for Thanksgiving, Dr. James Hildreth, the school’s president, emailed them a video message that he acknowledged seemed hard to believe. Or at least they had to give it ... [Continue Reading]
A shortcut to immunity: Saving lives through early-stage COVID-19 treatment
By Arden Bagni-Fast What images come to mind when you think about treating patients with COVID-19? Likely patients on ventilators, family members separated from loved ones, overwhelmed staff and overrun hospitals. It’s a disheartening picture, but ... [Continue Reading]
Laws Shield Hospitals From Families Who Believe Loved Ones Contracted Covid as Patients
After Amanda Wilson lost her son, Braden, 15, to covid-19 in early 2021, she tried to honor his memory. She put up a lending library box in his name. She plans to give the money she saved for his college education to other teens who love the arts and ... [Continue Reading]