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No major religionâs teachings denounce vaccination, but that hasnât kept individual churches and others from providing religious âcoverâ for people to avoid submitting to vaccination as a workplace requirement.
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.
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.
V-safe is a new safety monitoring system that lets anyone who has been vaccinated against covid-19 report possible side effects directly to federal health officials. Experts believe the smartphone tool has so far helped demonstrate the vaccines are safe.
As the delta variant overtakes Mississippi and other undervaccinated parts of the country, one 13-year-old girlâs experience with covid and MIS-C shows a communityâs reluctance to embrace public health precautions and continued vulnerability to the pandemic.
Fall and football go hand in hand. But with covid-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths soaring from the delta variant, is it safe to go to the stadium? KHN asks the experts.
Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsomâs pandemic policies are effectively on Californiaâs Sept. 14 recall ballot â and the electorate views them with a mix of resentment, gratitude and disillusionment.
Lynn Casteel Harper, a minister at the interdenominational Riverside Church in New York City, discusses the spiritual dimension of aging.
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.
Televisits took off during the worst days of the pandemic, but states are now rolling back the temporary rules that facilitated them. Thatâs adding fuel to debates about statesâ authority over medical licensing.
After months of burnout from the pandemic, hospitals are scrambling to fill nursing and other jobs. Some administrators, particularly in rural areas, are afraid to implement vaccine mandates that alienate their short-handed staffs.
Zoom in on states with overall good vaccination rates and you see a checkerboard effect, with rural areas far lagging urban zones. Thatâs allowed the pandemic to rage in places like Jackson County, Oregon, overwhelming hospitals.
Two days before hosting an outdoor Wilco concert, the St. Louis Music Park announced it would require proof of vaccination or a negative covid test for all ticket holders, sending some attendees scrambling and upending plans. Concertgoers, promoters and venues nationwide are all having to pivot quickly to find safer ways of enjoying live music amid the pandemicâs delta surge.
KHN and California Healthline staff made the rounds on national and local media this week to discuss their stories. Hereâs a collection of their appearances.
Efforts by states and the private health plans that many states pay to cover low-income Americans has been scattershot and hampered by a lack of data.
As covid case numbers rise nationwide, Georgia and some other states have restricted the case count data they share publicly.
The FDAâs 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 KHNâs Julie Rovner to discuss these issues and more. Plus, for âextra credit,â the panelists suggest their favorite health policy stories of the week they think you should read, too.
Missouriâs ambitious school testing plan landed with a thud. What it can teach us now about keeping the delta variant out of classrooms.
Some counties are changing their covid quarantine policies in line with a law that bans discrimination based on a personâs vaccine status. But one county has decided to defy the rule.
Governors in Southern states, amid a surge of delta-variant infections, are rushing to provide an experimental antibody cocktail therapy, even as they oppose measures like mask mandates and vaccine passports that health officials say can prevent infection in the first place.
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