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• COVID Fears Keep Many Latino Kids out of Classrooms When faced with the choice of sending their kids back to school or keeping them in online classes, many Latino parents say their kids are safer at home.
  Kaiser Health News, May 2021
• Is There Really No Disparity by Race in the 65+ Vaccine Rate?
  Kaiser Health News, May 2021
• COVID Testing a Windfall for Hospitals, Labs, and Others As the pandemic enters its second year, no procedure has been more frequent than tests for the virus causing it. And it's serving as a financial bonanza for some.
  Kaiser Health News, May 2021
• Telemedicine Is a Tool — Not a Replacement for a Doctor's Touch Many new types of telemedicine promoted by start-ups more clearly benefit providers' and investors' pockets, rather than yielding more convenient, high-quality and cost-effective medicine for patients.
  Kaiser Health News, May 2021
• COVID Shot in the Arm Not Enough to Keep Pharmacies in Business Pandemic lockdowns exacerbated long-standing economic pressures on pharmacies — and forced many owner-operated shops to evolve or risk closing their doors.
  Kaiser Health News, May 2021
• Hit by Higher Prices for Gear, Doctors Want Insurers to Pay The costs of personal protective equipment and disinfecting offices while seeing fewer patients have some doctors and dentists demanding that insurance companies step up.
  Kaiser Health News, May 2021
• Covid 'Doesn't Discriminate by Age': Cases Rising in Young Adults With older adults vaccinated, doctors say a growing share of their COVID patients are in their 20s, 30s, 40s, and 50s, as more contagious variants circulate among people who remain unvaccinated.
  Kaiser Health News, May 2021
• Fact-Checking President Joe Biden's First Speech to Congress "My fellow Americans, trickle-down economics has never worked. It's time to grow the economy from the bottom up and middle out," Biden said.
  Kaiser Health News, April 2021
• Doctors More Likely to Prescribe Opioids to COVID 'Long Haulers,' Raising Addiction Fears MDs Prescribing Opioids to 'Long Haulers' Raising Addiction Fears
  Kaiser Health News, April 2021
• Pandemic Imperiled Non-English Speakers More Than Others COVID patients who did not speak English well were 35% more likely to die, data from one Boston hospital show.
  Kaiser Health News, April 2021
• Evaluating President Joe Biden's First 100 Days in Office Presidential historians say that Joe Biden's first 100 days in office -- a somewhat arbitrary but frequently cited milestone -- have included an above-average number of major accomplishments.
  Kaiser Health News, April 2021
• Say Goodbye to Some Insurers' Waivers for COVID Treatment Fees Insurers voluntarily set the charges aside earlier in the pandemic-- but that means those same health plans can decide to reinstate them.
  Kaiser Health News, April 2021
• Vaccine OK'd for Older Teens Is Hardest to Manage in Rural US Of the three COVID vaccines the US government has authorized, only one is available to 16- and 17-year-olds: the Pfizer shot. It's also the most complicated to manage in rural settings.
  Kaiser Health News, April 2021
• Will Michigan's Conservative Outposts Keep Pandemic Rolling? The COVID outbreak in Michigan stands out on the US contagion map, but odds are it will be repeated elsewhere.
  Kaiser Health News, April 2021
• Virtual Care Spreads in Missouri, Home to 'Hospital Without Beds' In 2015, St Louis-based Mercy health system opened what officials called the world's first "hospital without beds."
  Kaiser Health News, April 2021
• Doctors Scramble to Understand Long COVID Medical experts are struggling to define or explain the lingering, debilitating symptoms that some COVID patients experience.
  Kaiser Health News, April 2021
• California and Texas Took Different Vaccine Routes. Who's Ahead? California stresses equity for minority groups. Texas is all about personal choice and liberty. Both are struggling to vaccinate Latinos and contending with vaccine hesitancy among conservative communities.
  Kaiser Health News, April 2021
• Strides Against HIV/AIDS Falter, as Nation Battles COVID Public health resources have shifted from one pandemic to the other, and experts fear steep declines in testing and diagnoses mean more people will contract HIV and die of AIDS.
  Kaiser Health News, April 2021
• DeSantis and YouTube Spar Over COVID Roundtable Takedown The Florida governor considers the pushback he received from the online video platform to be 'Orwellian.' Scientists featured at the event made specific statements YouTube deemed as 'misinformation.'
  Kaiser Health News, April 2021
• Humana Health Plan Overcharged Medicare by Nearly $200 Million The Medicare Advantage company may face a record penalty over alleged billing errors.
  Kaiser Health News, April 2021

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