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KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: Health Care as Infrastructure
Can’t see the audio player? Click here to listen on SoundCloud. Health care makes some surprising appearances in President Joe Biden’s $2 trillion infrastructure plan, even though more health proposals are expected in a second proposal later this month. The bill that would help rebuild roads, bridges and broadband capabilities also includes $400 billion to help pay for home and community-based care and boost the wages of those who do that very taxing work. An additional $50 billion is earmarked for replacing water service lines that still contain lead, an ongoing health hazard. Meanwhile, more...
Kaiser Health News
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Events of 2020 Moved Medical Students to Political Activism
Inam Sakinah and her classmates will forever be known as the students who started medical school during the 2020 covid-19 pandemic. Use Our Content It can be republished for free. All of them had prepared for this step for years, taking hours of hard science classes in college, studying for the medical school admissions test and often volunteering, working or even getting master’s or other advanced degrees before starting on the long path to earning a medical degree. But their decisions to become doctors seemed to carry even more weight when set against the backdrop of the events of 2020. “Peo...
Kaiser Health News
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Events of 2020 Moved Medical Students to Political Activism
Inam Sakinah and her classmates will forever be known as the students who started medical school during the 2020 covid-19 pandemic. Use Our Content It can be republished for free. All of them had prepared for this step for years, taking hours of hard science classes in college, studying for the medical school admissions test and often volunteering, working or even getting master’s or other advanced degrees before starting on the long path to earning a medical degree. But their decisions to become doctors seemed to carry even more weight when set against the backdrop of the events of 2020. “Peo...
California Healthline
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De auto en auto y de puerta en puerta para vacunar a los más desprotegidos
ADELANTO, California. – Leonor García sostuvo su carpeta cerca de su pecho y golpeó la ventana del auto con los nudillos. Había docenas de vehículos alineados en un tramo tranquilo de la carretera en Adelanto, California, una pequeña ciudad cerca del borde suroeste del desierto de Mojave. El conductor estaba esperando que la fila del banco de alimentos comenzara a moverse y bajó la ventanilla del pasajero lo suficiente para escuchar a García. La mujer dijo en español: “¡Buenos días! ¡Hoy estamos aquí para hablar sobre covid-19! ¿Tienes un minuto?. Después de una breve conversación, García supo...
Kaiser Health News (Espanol)
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Montana Sticks to Its Patchwork Covid Vaccine Rollout as Eligibility Expands
MISSOULA, Mont. — Montana’s covid-19 vaccine distribution is among the most efficient in the nation, but closer examination reveals a patchwork of systems among counties and tribal governments that will be put to the test as the state opens vaccine eligibility to all people 16 and older starting this month. This story also ran on Montana Free Press. It can be republished for free. KHN, Montana Free Press and the University of Montana School of Journalism surveyed all 56 counties and eight tribal governments to find out how vaccine distribution has worked over the past four months and what resi...
Kaiser Health News
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Vermont to Give Minority Residents Vaccine Priority
States have tried with limited success to get covid vaccines to people of color, who have been disproportionately killed and hospitalized by the virus. Use Our Content It can be republished for free. Starting Thursday, Vermont explicitly gave Black adults and people from other minority communities priority status for vaccinations. It follows Montana, which in January announced that Native Americans and other people of color, because they are at higher risk of complications from covid-19, would be allowed to receive the vaccine. All Black, Indigenous residents and other people of color who are ...
Kaiser Health News
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Vermont to Give Other Minority Residents Vaccine Priority
[UPDATED at 5:15 p.m. PT] States have tried with limited success to get covid vaccines to people of color, who have been disproportionately killed and hospitalized by the virus. Use Our Content It can be republished for free. Starting Thursday, Vermont explicitly gave Black adults and people from other minority communities priority status for vaccinations. It follows Montana, which in January announced that Native Americans and other people of color, because they are at higher risk of complications from covid-19, would be allowed to receive the vaccine. All Black, Indigenous residents and othe...
California Healthline
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Beating the Pavement to Vaccinate the Underrepresented — And Protect Everyone
Leonor Garcia held her clipboard close to her chest and rapped on the car window with her knuckles. The driver was in one of dozens of cars lined up on a quiet stretch of road in Adelanto, California, a small city near the southwestern edge of the Mojave Desert. He was waiting for the food bank line to start moving and lowered the passenger window just enough to hear what Garcia wanted. Then she launched into her pitch. This story also ran on Black Voice News. It can be republished for free. “Good morning! We’re here to talk about covid-19 today! Do you have a minute?” she said in Spanish. Aft...
Kaiser Health News
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Beating the Pavement to Vaccinate the Underrepresented — And Protect Everyone
ADELANTO — Leonor Garcia held her clipboard close to her chest and rapped on the car window with her knuckles. The driver was in one of dozens of cars lined up on a quiet stretch of road in Adelanto, California, a small city near the southwestern edge of the Mojave Desert. He was waiting for the food bank line to start moving and lowered the passenger window just enough to hear what Garcia wanted. Then she launched into her pitch. This story also ran on Black Voice News. It can be republished for free. “Good morning! We’re here to talk about covid-19 today! Do you have a minute?” she said in S...
California Healthline
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Covid Vaccine Hesitancy Drops Among All Americans, New Survey Shows
A new poll of attitudes toward covid vaccinations shows Americans are growing more enthusiastic about being vaccinated, with the most positive change in the past month occurring among Black Americans. Use Our Content It can be republished for free. About 55% of Black adults said they had been vaccinated or plan to be soon, up 14 percentage points from February, according to a poll released Tuesday by KFF. The rate now approaches that of Hispanics, at 61%, and whites at 64%. (Asian Americans were not polled in sufficient numbers to compare their responses with other racial and ethnic groups.) B...
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