Politics & Policy

Covid-19: New York City Faulted for Delay in Social Distance Order

Oct 28, 2020

Model highlights problems implementing uniform mitigation strategy Even a one-week delay in the...

COVID Spikes Exacerbate Health Worker Shortages in Rocky Mountains, Great Plains

Oct 28, 2020

COVID-19 infections and quarantines are pulling health professionals off the front lines, exacerbating staffing woes that existed in large, rural states well before the pandemic.

Hospitals Straining Under Weight of Surging COVID-19 Case Counts

Oct 27, 2020

MONDAY, Oct. 26, 2020 (HealthDay News) — As the United States witnessed record-breaking...

ACP: Trump Claim that Docs are Inflating Covid-19 Death Count ’Reprehensible’

Oct 27, 2020

Physician organizations push back following president’s statements at Wisconsin rally The American...

FDA Needs More Safety Data on COVID-19 Vaccines, Experts Say

Oct 26, 2020

FRIDAY, Oct. 23, 2020 (HealthDay News) — At a meeting of the U.S. Food and Drug...

CDC Plans Cellphone COVID-19 Vaccine Tracking System

Oct 26, 2020

FRIDAY, Oct. 23, 2020 (HealthDay News) — When a COVID-19 vaccine becomes available, the U.S....

Trump Says He Saved 2 Million Lives From COVID. Really?

Oct 26, 2020

The number is taken from a hypothetical modeling scenario that doesn’t offer a realistic comparison.

FDA Convenes Advisors to Get ’Ducks in a Row’ for Covid-19 Vaccine

Oct 23, 2020

Advisory committee will set the bar for acceptable evidence for vaccine EUA The FDA’s Vaccines and...

Despite Pandemic Threat, Gubernatorial Hopefuls Avoid COVID Nitty-Gritty

Oct 23, 2020

As the pandemic continues to cast shadows on everyday life, some candidates for governor are talking about everything except the specifics of how they would manage COVID-19 into the future.

Emergency Sick Leave Helped to Flatten the U.S. COVID-19 Curve

Oct 20, 2020

MONDAY, Oct. 19, 2020 (HealthDay News) — The U.S. emergency sick leave provision in the...

No Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine Expected Before Election

Oct 20, 2020

MONDAY, Oct. 19, 2020 (HealthDay News) — Pfizer will not apply for emergency authorization...

Covid-19: Pfizer Nixes Hopes for Vaccine Before Election Day

Oct 19, 2020

Letter from CEO dashes president’s hopes for pre-election vaccine Pfizer and BioNTech will not...

The tale of the Masks during Covid 19

Oct 13, 2020

The outbreak of the COVID-19 has been able to take a toll on the lives of many people across the...

Covid-19: Regeneron Files for EUA for REGN-COV-2

Oct 12, 2020

Experimental cocktail touted by President Trump as one of the ’miracles handed down by God’ On the...

As Trump Touts His ‘Great’ COVID Drugs, the Pharma Cash Flows to Biden, Not Him

Oct 11, 2020

President Donald Trump has been heralding drugmakers as “great companies.” Yet in the final stretch of the presidential campaign, Trump is not feeling the love in pharma contributions. Former Vice President Joe Biden is, even though his proposed policies could dent the industry’s profitability.

KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: Trump vs. COVID

Oct 11, 2020

President Donald Trump is one of at least two dozen people tied to the White House who have tested positive for COVID-19. Negotiations on the next round of COVID relief are off again — maybe. And the FDA and CDC continue to fight for scientific credibility. Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico, Kimberly Leonard of Business Insider and Erin Mershon of Stat News join KHN’s Julie Rovner to discuss these issues and more. Plus, Rovner interviews Amy Howe of SCOTUSblog about what the Supreme Court might do with the latest case challenging the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act.

Hard Lives Made Harder by COVID: Homeless Endure a ‘Slow-Moving Train Wreck’

Oct 11, 2020

This was supposed to be the year California finally did something about its homelessness epidemic. COVID-19 upended that promise, along with the cobbled-together services many homeless people rely on for survival. Interviews across the state reveal a new magnitude of hardship and indignity for tens of thousands of people living on the streets.