Why Even Presidential Pressure Might Not Get More Vaccine to Market Faster
Even invoking the widely heralded Defense Production Act to pressure drugmakers wouldn鈥檛 overcome vast obstacles.
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Health Issues Carried Weight on the Campaign Trail. What Could Biden Do in His First 100 Days?
KHN has teamed up with PolitiFact to track what becomes of President Joe Biden鈥檚 2020 campaign promises over the next four years. As he moves into the West Wing, what are his chances of making progress on health care?
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Are Public Health Ads Worth the Price? Not if They鈥檙e All About Fear
Public service announcements about drug use or other public health problems often fall short, public health marketing experts say, because they incite people鈥檚 worst fears rather than giving people solutions.
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KHN鈥檚 鈥榃hat the Health?鈥: On Capitol Hill, Actions Have Consequences
Several large business groups, including health industry organizations, are cutting off contributions to Republicans who voted against the certification of Joe Biden鈥檚 election even after riots shut down the Capitol on Jan. 6. Meanwhile, the outgoing Trump administration not only approved a Medicaid block grant for Tennessee, but also made it difficult for the incoming Biden administration to undo. Joanne Kenen of Politico, Margot Sanger-Katz of The New York Times and Kimberly Leonard of Business Insider join KHN鈥檚 Julie Rovner to discuss these issues and more. Plus, Rovner interviews KHN鈥檚 Victoria Knight about the latest KHN-NPR 鈥淏ill of the Month鈥 episode.
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Delicate Covid Vaccines Slow Rollout 鈥 Leading to Shots Given Out of Turn or, Worse, Wasted
鈥淭haw. Rest 15 minutes. Do not shake. Do not refreeze.鈥滵o not shake. Do not refreeze.鈥 Moderna鈥檚 vaccine comes with complicated instructions. And both available vaccines are good for only six hours once the vial is open. So at day鈥檚 end, health workers are left to either throw out precious doses or get shots into any arm that鈥檚 available.
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Is Your Covid Vaccine Venue Prepared to Handle Rare, Life-Threatening Reactions?
More than two dozen people who have received the new covid vaccines in U.S. hospitals and health centers suffered anaphylaxis, a potentially fatal allergic reaction. While such severe reactions are rare, experts warn that the drugstores and drive-thru clinics considered integral to the vaccine rollout must be prepared.
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Biden鈥檚 First Order of Business May Be to Undo Trump鈥檚 Policies, but It Won鈥檛 Be Easy
President Donald Trump made substantial changes to the nation鈥檚 health care system using executive branch authority. But reversing policies that Democrats oppose would take time and personnel resources, competing with other priorities of the new administration.
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KHN鈥檚 鈥榃hat the Health?鈥: Georgia Turns the Senate Blue
Democratic victories in two runoff elections in Georgia will give Democrats control of the Senate starting Jan. 20, which means they will be in charge of both houses of Congress and the White House for the first time since 2010. Meanwhile, covid continues to run rampant while vaccine distribution lags. Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico, Anna Edney of Bloomberg News and Mary Ellen McIntire of CQ Roll Call join KHN鈥檚 Julie Rovner to discuss these issues and more. Plus, for extra credit, the panelists recommend their favorite health policy stories of the week they think you should read, too.
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San Francisco Wrestles With Drug Approach as Death and Chaos Engulf Tenderloin
Covid-19, distrust of police and cheap narcotics have turned parts of the wealthy city into cesspools of filth and drug overdose. City officials and residents profoundly disagree on what needs to be done.
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Listen: How Operation Warp Speed Became a Slow Walk
KHN Editor-in-Chief Elisabeth Rosenthal discusses the bottlenecks in distributing covid vaccines on NPR's 鈥淥n My Mind鈥 podcast with host Diane Rehm.
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Many Health Plans Now Must Cover Full Cost of Expensive HIV Prevention Drugs
Most private insurance will be required to cover drugs, like Truvada, that offer protection against HIV infection, without making plan members share the cost.
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Children鈥檚 Hospitals Are Partly to Blame as Superbugs Increasingly Attack Kids
A growing body of research shows that overuse and misuse of antibiotics in children鈥檚 hospitals is helping fuel superbugs, which typically strike frail seniors but are increasingly infecting kids. And the pandemic is making things worse.
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Seniors Face Crushing Drug Costs as Congress Stalls on Capping Medicare Out-Of-Pockets
While many private insurers cap what members pay in health costs, Medicare does not. Democrats and Republicans in Congress have proposed annual limits ranging from $2,000 to $3,100. But there鈥檚 disagreement about how to pay for that cost cap.
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Analysis: Some Said the Vaccine Rollout Would Be a 鈥楴ightmare.鈥 They Were Right.
There are already signs that the distribution of the COVID vaccines will be messy, confusing and chaotic.
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KHN鈥檚 鈥榃hat the Health?鈥: 2020 in Review 鈥 It Wasn鈥檛 All COVID
The coronavirus pandemic colored just about everything in 2020. But there was other health policy news that you either never heard or might have forgotten about: the Affordable Care Act going before the Supreme Court with its survival on the line; ditto for Medicaid work requirements. And a surprise ending to the 鈥渟urprise bill鈥 saga. Joanne Kenen of Politico, Anna Edney of Bloomberg News and Sarah Karlin-Smith of Pink Sheet join KHN鈥檚 Julie Rovner to discuss these issues and more.
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At Risk of Extinction, Black-Footed Ferrets Get Experimental COVID Vaccine
Months before federal officials authorized experimental vaccines to ward off the coronavirus in humans, scientists tried a veterinary vaccine in endangered ferrets. Drugmakers are researching similar efforts for other animals proving vulnerable to the virus, such as farmed minks, in part to guard against virus mutations that could pose new risks to people.
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Inside the First Chaotic Days of the Effort to Vaccinate America
After missteps in Washington, each state and county is left to juggle where to send vaccines first and how to get them to each nursing home, hospital local health department and even school.
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Supply Is Limited and Distribution Uncertain as COVID Vaccine Rolls Out
Hospitals and nursing homes must decide who gets the initial doses as the U.S. heads into the biggest vaccination effort in history. There鈥檚 a lot left to figure out.
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Farmworkers, Firefighters and Flight Attendants Jockey for Vaccine Priority
Everyone 鈥 from toilet paper manufacturers to patient advocates 鈥 is lobbying state advisory boards, arguing their members are essential, vulnerable or both 鈥 and, thus, most deserving of an early vaccine.
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Demand for COVID Vaccines Expected to Get Heated 鈥 And Fast
With two vaccines against coronavirus disease poised for release within weeks, experts say they expect attitudes to shift dramatically from hesitancy to 鈥淏eanie Baby鈥-level urgency.