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  • Kaiser Health News and Guardian US Partner to Honor American Health Care Workers Lost on the Frontline of the COVID-19 Pandemic

    News Release

    KFF’s Kaiser Health News (KHN) and Guardian US today launched Lost on the Frontline, a special project aiming to document the life of every health care worker in America who dies from COVID-19 during the pandemic. This includes medical professionals like doctors, nurses and paramedics, and others working at hospitals, nursing homes and other medical facilities, including aides, administrative employees and cleaning and maintenance staff. Lost on the Frontline, a digital memorial, will initially launch…

  • When State Stay-at-Home Orders Due to Coronavirus Went into Effect

    Feature

    Implementation of state stay-at-home orders in response to the coronavirus pandemic have been staggered. Here's a timeline of when each state's mandates went into effect as cases climbed across the United States. Learn more in this Chart of the Week.

  • Kaiser Health News to Expand Coverage in the Mountain West

    News Release

    KFF’s Kaiser Health News (KHN) will hire a full-time Montana-based correspondent and recruit a team of freelance reporters to expand its coverage of health care policy and politics in the region, including the unfolding COVID-19 pandemic. The expansion is made possible by a new long-term partnership among KFF, the Montana Healthcare Foundation, and the Headwaters Foundation, and follows the opening last year of KHN’s Mountain States Bureau in Denver and its Midwest Bureau in St. Louis. Media outlets from…

  • Why the U.S. Doesn’t Have More Hospital Beds

    From Drew Altman

    With much of the news focused on the surge capacity of the nation’s hospitals during the COVID-19 pandemic, Drew Altman’s Axios column today examines why the nation has a shortage of hospital beds and what can be done about it. He writes, “It’s a result of past policies aimed at reducing hospital beds to control costs," he writes. "If we want to have surge capacity of hospital beds and equipment in place for the next crisis,…

  • Early Testing Decisions and the Potential Lasting Impact to the Nation

    Policy Watch

    A KHN article describes how government decisions in the early days of the nation’s coronavirus outbreak have already impacted the magnitude of the pandemic and may affect the country for months to come. The article explains, for the first time, how the CDC initially sent the same number of test kits to public health labs in all 50 states, even though the outbreaks were highly localized at that point — meaning that the tests didn’t go…

  • Media Briefing on Coronavirus: KFF Experts Explore Public’s Views and Nation’s Response

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    On March 18, 2020, KFF held a reporters-only web briefing with its key policy and public opinion experts to discuss the nation’s rapidly changing public and policy responses to contain the COVID-19 novel coronavirus pandemic across the country and the world. After the presentation on the public's views of the coronavirus, KFF experts took questions from viewers addressing: Populations in nursing homes and assisted living facilities - advance to 9:53 ACA and employer plans and…