Special Coverage: COVID-19 Coronavirus

The latest news and analysis on the coronavirus outbreak. You can find a complete list of recent releases on KFF.org and KHN.org.

 

‘We’re Coming for You’: For Public Health Officials, a Year of Threats and Menace (KHN, This American Life) Time to Say Goodbye to Some Insurers’ Waivers for Covid Treatment Fees (KHN, NBC News) Pandemic Imperiled Non-English Speakers More Than Others (KHN, NPR) Some County Jail Inmates See Vaccination as Ticket to a Better Life — In the State Pen (CHL) You Don’t Have to Suffer to Benefit From Covid Vaccination — But Some Prefer It (KHN, NPR) Ohio’s Amish Suffered a Lot From Covid, but Vaccines Are Still a Hard Sell (KHN, NPR) Big Investors Push Nursing Homes to Upgrade Care and Working Conditions (KHN) Doctors More Likely to Prescribe Opioids to Covid ‘Long Haulers,’ Raising Addiction Fears (KHN) Latest Data on COVID-19 Vaccinations Race/Ethnicity (Issue Brief) KFF’s Kaiser Health News and “This American Life” Team Up for a Chilling Account of the Threats and Menace Upending the Lives of Local Health Officials (News Release)  Federal Medicaid Outlays During the COVID-19 Pandemic (Issue Brief) Updated: COVID-19 Coronavirus Tracker – Updated as of April 28, 2021 (Interactive) Updated: State COVID-19 Data and Policy Actions (Interactive) Tracking COVID-19 New Global Confirmed Cases (on 4/27): 844,470 Administered Vaccines (as of 4/27): 247,030,791 Total U.S. Deaths (as of 4/27): 572,850