Michael Keasling of Lakewood, Colorado, was an electrician who loved big trucks, fast cars, and Harley-Davidsons. He’d struggled with diabetes since he was a teenager, needing a kidney transplant from his sister to stay alive. He was already quite sick in August when he contracted West Nile virus after being bitten by an infected mosquito. […]
Michael Keasling, de Lakewood, Colorado, era un electricista al que le gustaban las camionetas grandes, los autos rápidos y las Harley-Davidson. Había luchado contra la diabetes desde la adolescencia y necesitó un trasplante de riñón de su hermana para seguir vivo. En agosto ya estaba bastante enfermo cuando contrajo el virus del Nilo Occidental, tras […]
KHN Midwest correspondent Lauren Weber discussed how the covid-19 pandemic has affected home health care and those with disabilities on WBEZ’s “Reset With Sasha-Ann Simons” on March 21. Listen to Weber on “Reset With Sasha-Ann Simons” Read Weber and Andy Miller’s “Desperate for Cash: Programs for People With Disabilities Still Not Seeing Federal Funds” Read […]
Sean Deines and his wife, Rebekah, were road-tripping after he lost his job as a bartender when the pandemic hit. But while visiting his grandfather in a remote part of Wyoming, Sean started to feel very ill. Rebekah insisted he go to an urgent care center in Laramie. “‘Your white blood count is through the […]
Two prominent Democratic senators have requested a Government Accountability Office study of why covid vaccination rates remain far lower among Medicaid enrollees than the general population and what barriers are impeding state efforts to increase immunizations among program beneficiaries, low-income people who have been disproportionately affected by the virus. Sens. Robert Casey Jr. of Pennsylvania […]
Dr. Céline Gounder, KHN editor-at-large for public health, discusses that new omicron subvariant, how to know if your runny nose is spring allergies or covid-19 (that’s hard!), and the debate over whether Americans will need a fourth vaccination.
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For three exhausting years, Lauren Lockwood tried to get her son Rex to sleep through the night. As an infant, he couldn’t sleep without a blanket over his carrier to drown out the world around him. At age 2, it sometimes took hours for him — and her — to fall asleep, only for him […]
MODESTO, Calif. — One of Patrick Green’s first orders of business each day is to open a tap and fill a bottle with sludge. A utilities plant operator in Modesto, a city of nearly a quarter-million people in California’s San Joaquin Valley, Green helps keep the city’s sewers flowing and its wastewater treated to acceptable […]
MODESTO, California.- Una de las primeras tareas del día de Patrick Green es abrir un grifo y llenar una botella con lodo. Como operador de una planta de servicios públicos en Modesto, una ciudad de casi un cuarto de millón de habitantes en el Valle de San Joaquín, en California, Green ayuda a mantener el […]
