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Our Covid Cocoon: The Parents Aren鈥檛 Alright (But Help May Be Coming)
After experiencing multiple quarantines and school closures in less than two months, covid vaccine approvals for 5- to 11-year-olds can鈥檛 come soon enough for a KHN editor in Montana.
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Racism a Strong Factor in Black Women鈥檚 High Rate of Premature Births, Study Finds
Dr. Paula Braveman, director of UCSF鈥檚 Center on Social Disparities in Health, shares her insights on a provocative new study that identifies racism as a decisive factor in the gap in preterm birth rates between Black and white women.
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These Schools Use Weekly Testing to Keep Kids in Class 鈥 And Covid Out
Coronavirus outbreaks have shuttered K-12 classrooms across the U.S., affecting tens of thousands of K-12 students. To avoid the same fate, some school districts are tapping federal dollars to set up testing programs and step up their vigilance against the virus.
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Mounting Covid Deaths Fuel School Bus Drivers鈥 Fears
Since August, school bus drivers and monitors have died of covid-19 in at least 10 states, including Georgia and Florida. Masks are required on school buses, but enforcing the rules in districts without school mask mandates is especially hard to do.
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Home Births Gain Popularity in 鈥楤aby Bust鈥 Decade
Over the past decade, California has seen a sustained rise in the proportion of people who opt to give birth at home or in midwife-run birthing centers rather than in a hospital. Covid has further fueled that trend.
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California鈥檚 Reboot of Troubled Medi-Cal Puts Pressure on Health Plans
The nine commercial insurers in Medi-Cal must reapply by submitting bids for new contracts. The state hopes the process will improve care for low-income residents and tighten accountability, something critics say has been missing.
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Scientists Examine Kids鈥 Unique Immune Systems as More Fall Victim to Covid
Doctors are trying to figure out why some kids become much sicker than others and, in rare cases, don鈥檛 survive.
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Even in Red States, Colleges Gravitate to Requiring Vaccines and Masks
As students return to campus, schools across the country are taking steps to enforce public health advice to keep people safe from covid. In deeply conservative South Carolina when elected officials tried to stop that, a professor took on the establishment and won.
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Listen: Many Schools Are Buying High-Tech Air Purifiers. What Should Parents Know?
Studies have shown that better ventilation and air circulation can greatly reduce covid-19 transmission. But rather than stocking up on HEPA filters, some school districts are turning to high-tech air purification strategies.
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The Pandemic Almost Killed Allie. Her Community鈥檚 Vaccination Rate Is 45%.
As the delta variant overtakes Mississippi and other undervaccinated parts of the country, one 13-year-old girl鈥檚 experience with covid and MIS-C shows a community鈥檚 reluctance to embrace public health precautions and continued vulnerability to the pandemic.
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To Quarantine or Not: The Hard Choices Schools Are Leaving to Parents and Staff
Back-to-school season has fueled immediate covid outbreaks. Instead of beefing up protections, some districts are letting students go without masks, physical distancing and quarantines. And parents are left to make impossibly tough decisions.
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KHN鈥檚 鈥榃hat the Health?鈥: Vaccine Approval Moves the Needle on Covid
The FDA鈥檚 formal approval of the first vaccine to prevent covid-19 may or may not prompt doubters to go out and get shots, but it has clearly prompted employers to make vaccination a work requirement. Meanwhile, moderates and liberals in the U.S. House put aside their differences long enough to keep a giant social-spending bill on track, at least for now. Joanne Kenen of Politico, Tami Luhby of CNN and Sarah Karlin-Smith of the Pink Sheet join KHN鈥檚 Julie Rovner to discuss these issues and more. Plus, for 鈥渆xtra credit,鈥 the panelists suggest their favorite health policy stories of the week they think you should read, too.
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What Missouri Learned the Hard Way About Rapid Covid Testing in Schools
Missouri鈥檚 ambitious school testing plan landed with a thud. What it can teach us now about keeping the delta variant out of classrooms.
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New Montana Law Sows Confusion, Defiance Over School Quarantines
Some counties are changing their covid quarantine policies in line with a law that bans discrimination based on a person鈥檚 vaccine status. But one county has decided to defy the rule.
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Pandemic Unveils Growing Suicide Crisis for Communities of Color
Suicides have risen among Black, Hispanic and other communities of color during covid. But the rates were already escalating before the pandemic struck.
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School or 鈥楻ussian Roulette鈥? Amid Delta Variant and Lax Mask Rules, Some Parents See No Difference
Students in many places are starting the new school year with their masks off 鈥 even in one Colorado county that was one of the nation鈥檚 first delta variant hot spots.
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How a Hospital and a School District Teamed Up to Help Kids in Emotional Crisis
A Long Island, New York, school system has partnered with a hospital to create a mental health safety net for children. The heart of the initiative is a new behavioral health center, which the hospital opened to help children avoid unnecessary hospitalization.
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KHN鈥檚 鈥榃hat the Health?鈥: The Senate Acts
The U.S. Senate worked well into its scheduled August recess to pass a bipartisan infrastructure bill and a budget blueprint that outlines a much larger bill 鈥 covering key health priorities 鈥 to be written this fall. Meanwhile, the latest surge of covid is making both employers and schools rethink their opening plans. Joanne Kenen of Politico, Mary Ellen McIntire of CQ Roll Call and Yasmeen Abutaleb of The Washington Post join KHN鈥檚 Julie Rovner to discuss these issues and more. Also, for 鈥渆xtra credit,鈥 the panelists suggest their favorite health policy stories of the week they think you should read, too.
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Reading, 鈥橰ithmetic and Resisting Covid: The New 3 R鈥檚 as Kids Head Back to School
Children under 12 can鈥檛 get a vaccine, so parents are concerned about how to keep them safe as classes resume 鈥 especially as the delta variant spreads.