Special Coverage: COVID-19 Coronavirus

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

 

Scientists Search for Cause of Mysterious Covid-Related Inflammation in Children (KHN, NBC) What Will It Take to Boost Vaccinations? The Scene From Kentucky’s Back Roads (KHN, NPR) Journalists Tell How Covid Complicates Organ Transplants and the Health of Rural America (KHN) Children With Disabilities Face Special Back-to-School Challenges (KHN, LA Opinion) Insurer Filings Suggest COVID-19 Pandemic Will Not Drive Health Spending In 2022 (Issue Brief) U.S. International COVID-19 Vaccine Donations Tracker – Updated as of October 20 (Issue Brief) State COVID-19 Data and Policy Actions (Interactive) Updated: COVID-19 Coronavirus Tracker – October 20, 2021 (Interactive) Tracking COVID-19 New Global Confirmed Cases (on 10/19): 436,256 New Confirmed Cases in the U.S. (on 10/19): 81,238 Total U.S. Full Vaccinations (as of 10/14):187,937,559

News and Headlines News and headlines from Kaiser Health News (KHN) and California Healthline (CHL). Follow KHN on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn, and CHL on Facebook  and Twitter, for the latest updates.

 

‘They Treat Me Like I’m Old and Stupid’: Seniors Decry Health Providers’ Age Bias (KHN, CNN) Hygienists Brace for Pitched Battles With Dentists in Fights Over Practice Laws (KHN, Chicago Tribune) ‘An Arm and a Leg’: Hello? We Spend 12 Million Hours a Week on the Phone With Insurers (KHN) California’s Mental Health Crisis: What Went Wrong? And Can We Fix It? (KHN) KFF’s Kaiser Health News, Associated Press Win Online News Association Award for Investigative Data Journalism (News Release) Oct. 21 Web Event: Confronting Ageism in Health Care: A Conversation for Patients, Caregivers and Clinicians (Event) Latest news summaries from the KHN Morning Briefing

Data and Analysis The latest policy analysis and data from KFF.

 

Watch: Going Beyond the Script of ‘Dopesick’ and America’s Real-Life Opioid Crisis (News Release, Event) Public Opinion on Prescription Drugs and Their Prices (Poll Finding) The U.S. & The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (Fact Sheet)