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A California Bill Would Limit Protests at Vaccination Sites. Does It Violate the First Amendment?
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A proposal sailing through the California legislature that aims to stop people from getting harassed outside of vaccination sites is raising alarms among some First Amendment experts.
If it becomes law, SB…
‘The Vaccination Queen’: Nurse Practitioner Takes Covid Shots House to House in Puerto Rico
MAYAGÜEZ, PUERTO RICO — Abigail Matos-Pagán entered a bright-blue house in Mayagüez earlier this summer and was met by Beatriz Gastón, who quietly led the way to her mother’s small room. Matos-Pagán had come to provide a covid-19…
Journalists Assess the Latest Covid Surge and the Nation’s Vaccination Effort
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Déjà Vu? Consumers Scramble for Covid Tests in Hard-Hit Areas
Phil Galewitz, Kaiser Health News and Rachel Bluth, Kaiser Health News and Rae Ellen Bichell
Andrea Mosterman, an associate professor of history at the University of New Orleans, was already dismayed that she had to wait three days to…
Clarity on Covid Count: Pandemic’s Toll on Seniors Extended Well Beyond Nursing Homes
Judith Graham
As covid-19 resurges across the country, driven by the highly infectious delta variant, experts are extending our understanding of the pandemic’s toll on older adults — the age group hit hardest by the pandemic.…
Hard Lessons From a City That Tried to Privatize Public Health
If you were growing up in Detroit in the 1970s or ’80s, chances are you knew the city’s Herman Kiefer public health complex by both sight and reputation.
Opened at the turn of the century and later enhanced by renowned…
Pharmacies Face Extra Audit Burdens That Threaten Their Existence
The clock was about to strike midnight, and Scott Newman was desperately feeding pages into a scanner, trying to prevent thousands of dollars in prescription payments from turning into a pumpkin.
As the owner of Newman Family…
KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: Delta Blues
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The U.S. is experiencing another surge…
2+2=? Senate Uses Murky Math as It Shelves Drug Pricing Rule to Fund Infrastructure
The Senate’s release of its bipartisan infrastructure plan signals that lawmakers are poised to throw former President Donald Trump’s belated bid to lower Medicare drug prices under the bus — not to mention trains, bridges,…
Providence-KP Team Up to Attract Patients in California’s Growing High Desert Region
A plan by Providence and Kaiser Permanente to build a new medical center in the High Desert region of California is the latest example of leading hospital chains seeking market advantage.
They intend to spend up to $1 billion…