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In Hard-Hit Areas, COVID’s Ripple Effects Strain Mental Health Care Systems

In late March, Marcell’s girlfriend took him to the emergency room at Henry Ford Wyandotte Hospital, about 11 miles south of Detroit. “I had [acute] paranoia and depression off the roof,” said Marcell, 46, who asked to be identified only by his first name because he wanted to maintain confidentiality about some aspects of his […]

Newsom Likes To ‘Go Big’ But Doesn’t Always Deliver

Newsom Likes To ‘Go Big’ But Doesn’t Always Deliver

Gavin Newsom knew it was a political gamble when, as the newly elected mayor of San Francisco, he promised to eradicate chronic homelessness. “I recognize that I’m setting myself up. I’m not naive to that,” he told his hometown newspaper in 2003 as he embarked on a campaign to sell his controversial plan. It hinged

Searching For Safety: Where Children Hide When Gunfire Is All Too Common

Searching For Safety: Where Children Hide When Gunfire Is All Too Common

Justice Buress, 4, demonstrates how she hides under a table during a drill at Little Explorers Learning Center in St. Louis. Day care director Tess Trice carries out monthly drills to train the children to get on the floor when they hear gunfire.(Carolina Hidalgo/St. Louis Public Radio) ST. LOUIS — Champale Greene-Anderson keeps the volume

KHN’s ‘What The Health?’: Still Seeking A Federal Coronavirus Strategy

KHN’s ‘What The Health?’: Still Seeking A Federal Coronavirus Strategy

What The Health? · Still Seeking A Federal Coronavirus Strategy Can’t see the audio player? Click here to listen on SoundCloud. Julie Rovner Kaiser Health News @jrovner Read Julie’s Stories Anna Edney Bloomberg @annaedney Read Anna’s Stories Joanne Kenen Politico @JoanneKenen Read Joanne’s Stories Erin Mershon STAT @eemershon Read Erin’s Stories The Trump administration sent its

For Seniors, COVID-19 Sets Off A Pandemic Of Despair

For Seniors, COVID-19 Sets Off A Pandemic Of Despair

Navigating Aging Navigating Aging focuses on medical issues and advice associated with aging and end-of-life care, helping America’s 45 million seniors and their families navigate the health care system. To contact Judith Graham with a question or comment, click here. Join the Navigating Aging Facebook Group. See All Columns We Want To Hear From You Are you

Some Ivory Towers Are Ideal For A Pandemic. Most Aren’t.

Saint Mary’s College in Moraga, California, is open for business this fall — but to get there, you really have to want it. Tucked amid verdant hills 23 miles east of San Francisco, accessible by a single road and a single entrance, the small, private Roman Catholic school receives almost no visitors by accident. This,

Antibody Tests Were Hailed As Way To End Lockdowns. Instead, They Cause Confusion.

Aspen was an early COVID-19 hot spot in Colorado, with a cluster of cases in March linked to tourists visiting for its world-famous skiing. Tests were in short supply, making it difficult to know how the virus was spreading. So in April, when the Pitkin County Public Health Department announced it had obtained 1,000 COVID-19

KHN’s ‘What The Health?’: Still Seeking A Federal Coronavirus Strategy

KHN’s ‘What The Health?’: When It Comes To COVID-19, States Are On Their Own

What The Health? · States And COVID-19: You’re On Your Own Can’t see the audio player? Click here to listen on SoundCloud. Julie Rovner Kaiser Health News @jrovner Read Julie’s Stories Kimberly Leonard Business Insider @leonardkl Read Kimberly’s Stories Alice Miranda Ollstein Politico @AliceOllstein Read Alice’s Stories Margot Sanger-Katz The New York Times @sangerkatz Read Margot’s

Scientist Has ‘Invisible Enemy’ In Sights With Microscopic Portraits Of Coronavirus

Scientist Has ‘Invisible Enemy’ In Sights With Microscopic Portraits Of Coronavirus

From her laboratory in the far western reaches of Montana, Elizabeth Fischer is trying to help people see what they’re up against in COVID-19. Over the past three decades, Fischer, 58, and her team at the Rocky Mountain Laboratories, part of the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, have captured

Reopening Dental Offices For Routine Care Amid Pandemic Touches A Nerve

Tom Peeling wanted his teeth cleaned and wasn’t going to let the coronavirus pandemic get in the way. Luckily, his six-month regular appointment was scheduled for earlier this month, just days after dental offices were allowed to reopen in Florida for routine services. In late March the state ordered dentists to treat only emergency cases

Analysis: Get Ready For The Vaccine — They’re Never Simple

If there is a silver lining to the flawed U.S. response to the coronavirus pandemic, it is this: The relatively high number of new cases being diagnosed daily — upward of 20,000 — will make it easier to test new vaccines. To determine whether a vaccine prevents disease, the study’s subjects need to be exposed

Another Coronavirus Casualty: California’s Budget

SACRAMENTO — The coronavirus has claimed another victim: California’s finances. Gov. Gavin Newsom unveiled his revised 2020-21 state budget plan Thursday at a somber briefing punctuated by bleak talk of deficits, program cuts and record unemployment. His $203 billion spending proposal — nearly $19 billion less than his ambitious January budget blueprint — includes a

In Reversal, Kansas Will Count All Positive COVID Cases, Even Asymptomatic Ones

In Reversal, Kansas Will Count All Positive COVID Cases, Even Asymptomatic Ones

Kansas leaders will include asymptomatic COVID-19 cases in their assessments of virus trends as they evaluate when to take further steps to ease stay-at-home orders and other social distancing measures. The move represents a reversal after NPR station KCUR in Kansas City, Missouri, reported last week that the state was omitting these cases from its

KHN’s ‘What The Health?’: Still Seeking A Federal Coronavirus Strategy

KHN’s ‘What The Health?’: What’s In The Next Round Of COVID-19 Relief?

Can’t see the audio player? Click here to listen on SoundCloud. Julie Rovner Kaiser Health News @jrovner Read Julie’s Stories Rebecca Adams CQ Roll Call @RebeccaAdamsDC Read Rebecca’s Stories Joanne Kenen Politico @JoanneKenen Read Joanne’s Stories House Democrats are moving ahead with another round of COVID-19 relief, including additional funding for state Medicaid programs, an open

In Reversal, Kansas Will Count All Positive COVID Cases, Even Asymptomatic Ones

Despite Pandemic, Trauma Centers See No End To ‘The Visible Virus Of Violence’

CHICAGO — On an early March day at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the emergency room at the University of Chicago Medical Center teemed with patients. But many weren’t there because of the coronavirus. They were there because they’d been shot. Gunshot victims account for most of the 2,600 adult trauma patients a year

Trump’s Comparison Of COVID-19 Death Rates In Germany, US Is Wrong

Trump’s Comparison Of COVID-19 Death Rates In Germany, US Is Wrong

“Germany and the United States are the two best in deaths per 100,000 people, which, frankly, to me, that’s perhaps the most important number there is.”  — President Donald Trump in comments during a Rose Garden press briefing on May 11.   Following weeks of criticism over his administration’s COVID-19 response, President Donald Trump pulled

KHN’s ‘What The Health?’: Blowing The Whistle On Trump Team’s COVID Policies

KHN’s ‘What The Health?’: Blowing The Whistle On Trump Team’s COVID Policies

Can’t see the audio player? Click here to listen on SoundCloud. Julie Rovner Kaiser Health News @jrovner Read Julie’s Stories Anna Edney Bloomberg @annaedney Read Anna’s Stories Alice Miranda Ollstein Politico @AliceOllstein Read Alice’s Stories Rachana Pradhan Kaiser Health News @rachanadixit Read Shefali’s Stories Those working inside the Trump administration are getting so frustrated with the

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