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Read MoreListen: COVID Stresses Rural Hospitals Already ‘Teetering on the Brink’
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Read MoreWhen False Information Goes Viral, COVID-19 Patient Groups Fight Back
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Read MoreCrooked Media and KHN’s ‘No Mercy’ Dissect Fallout After Rural Hospital Shuts
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Read MoreThey Work in Several Nursing Homes to Eke Out a Living, Possibly Spreading the Virus
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Read MoreEvictions Damage Public Health. The CDC Aims to Curb Them ― For Now.
In August, Robert Pettigrew was working a series of odd jobs. While washing the windows of a cellphone store he
Read MoreMaking Gyms Safer: Why the Virus Is Less Likely to Spread There Than in a Bar
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Read MoreWill Labor Day Weekend Bring Another Holiday COVID Surge?
Hopefully, summer won’t end the way it began. Memorial Day celebrations helped set off a wave of coronavirus infections across
Read MoreDeadly Mix: How Bars Are Fueling COVID-19 Outbreaks
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Read MoreSwab, Spit, Stay Home? College Coronavirus Testing Plans Are All Over the Map
Yousuf El-Jayyousi, a junior engineering student at the University of Missouri, wanted guidance and reassurance that it would be safe
Read MorePublic Health Officials Face Wave Of Threats, Pressure Amid Coronavirus Response
Emily Brown was stretched thin. As the director of the Rio Grande County Public Health Department in rural Colorado, she
Read MoreEerie Emptiness Of ERs Worries Doctors As Heart Attack And Stroke Patients Delay Care
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Read MoreWhen Prisons Are ‘Petri Dishes,’ Inmates Can’t Guard Against COVID-19, They Say
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Read MoreListen: Pandemic Stresses Already Fragile Rural Health Care Systems
KHN Midwest correspondent Lauren Weber joined WAMU’s “1A” show with guest host Sasha-Ann Simons to talk about the unique challenges
Read MoreMassachusetts Recruits 1,000 ‘Contact Tracers’ To Battle COVID-19
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Read More‘It’s Like Walking Into Chernobyl,’ One Doctor Says Of Her Emergency Room
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Read MoreWhy Hoarding Of Hydroxychloroquine Needs To Stop
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Read MoreListen: The Hard-Knock Health Law Turns 10 Amid Pandemic
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Read MoreThey Fell In Love Helping Drug Users. But Fear Kept Him From Helping Himself.
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Read MoreTrusting Injection Drug Users With IV Antibiotics At Home: It Can Work
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Read MoreHormone Blocker Shocker: Drug Costs 8 Times More When Used For Kids
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Read MoreIt’s Not Just Hospitals That Sue Patients Who Can’t Pay
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Read MoreAppendicitis Is Painful — Add A $41,212 Surgery Bill To The Misery
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Read MoreListen: Colorado Ski Area Opts For Novel Effort To Stop Avalanche Of Health Costs
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Read MoreResponse To Nation’s 1st Coronavirus Case Draws On Lessons From Measles Outbreak
When the first U.S. case of a new coronavirus spreading throughout China was confirmed last week in Washington state, public
Read MoreConceived Through ‘Fertility Fraud,’ She Now Needs Fertility Treatment
When Heather Woock was in her late 20s, she started researching her family history. As part of the project, she
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“I’m not anti-hospice at all,” said Joy Johnston, who relocated to New Mexico years ago at age 40 to care
Read MoreListen: How Vaping Regulations Are Playing Out In The States
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