Health Oct 01 COVID is killing rural Americans at twice the rate of urbanites The pandemic is devastating rural America, where lower vaccination rates are compounding the already limited medical care.
Health May 21 Stark racial disparities persist in vaccinations, state-level CDC data shows Black Americans’ vaccination rates still trail all other groups, while Hispanics show improvement.
Health May 03 As schools spend millions on air purifiers, experts warn of overblown claims and harm to children A KHN investigation found that more than 2,000 schools have spent millions of dollars for systems, lured by air purifier companies’ claims that experts say mislead or obscure the potential for harm.
Health Mar 26 Birx joins air-cleaning industry amid land grab for billions in federal COVID relief The former top White House coronavirus adviser under President Donald Trump, Dr. Deborah Birx, has joined an air-cleaning company that built its business, in part, on technology that is now banned in California due to health hazards.
Health Feb 25 COVID vaccine websites violate disability laws, create inequity for the blind Many COVID vaccination registration and information websites at the federal, state and local levels violate disability rights laws, hindering the ability of blind people to sign up for a potentially lifesaving vaccine, a KHN investigation has found.
Health Jan 19 Black Americans are getting vaccinated at lower rates than white Americans In 16 states that have released data by race, white residents are being vaccinated at significantly higher rates than Black residents, according to a new Kaiser Health News analysis — in many cases two to three times higher.
Health Dec 17 Pandemic backlash drives exodus of public health leaders At least 181 state and local public health leaders in 38 states have resigned, retired or been fired since April 1, according to an ongoing investigation by The Associated Press and Kaiser Health News.
Politics Aug 17 Politics slows flow of U.S. virus funds to local public health Since the pandemic began, Congress has set aside trillions of dollars to ease the crisis. A joint Kaiser Health News and Associated Press investigation finds that many communities with big outbreaks have spent little of that federal money on local…
Nation Aug 10 Health officials are quitting or getting fired amid outbreak Vilified, threatened with violence and in some cases suffering from burnout, dozens of state and local public health officials around the U.S. have resigned or have been fired amid the coronavirus outbreak.