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Families who believe their loved ones contracted covid-19 while hospitalized are finding they have little recourse following a wave of liability shield legislation pushed by business interests. → Read More
A KHN investigation finds that hospitals with high rates of covid patients who didn’t have the diagnosis when they were admitted have rarely been held accountable due to multiple gaps in government… → Read More
About 21% of patients diagnosed with covid during a hospital stay died, according to data analyzed for KHN. In-hospital rates of spread varied widely and patients had no way of checking them. → Read More
The House oversight committee is requesting conflict-of-interest disclosure forms from a National Academies committee studying organ transplants. KHN previously reported on apparent conflicts among… → Read More
Congress tapped a national academies committee to examine a drug cost issue. It got a report that includes “egregious” failures to disclose conflicts of interest. → Read More
Thousands of schools have spent millions of federal COVID-19 relief dollars snapping up air cleaning technology that claims to inactivate COVID-19. But the devices fall into a regulatory gap. → Read More
The new rules would require employers to notify workers of possible exposure to the disease and to report deaths or hospitalizations to the government → Read More
A KHN investigation found that more than 2,000 schools have spent millions of dollars for systems, lured by air purifier companies’ claims that experts say mislead or obscure the potential for harm… → Read More
Changes would allow N95 sales for industries other than health care and signal an end to the hospital practice of reusing the masks considered essential for worker safety. → Read More
Dr. Robert Redfield, Trump’s CDC director, lends his scientific credibility to its Clean Air Systems subsidiary, which touts a “virus-killing ion technology” added to its fans. But indoor air quali… → Read More
Lost on the Frontline, a yearlong investigation by The Guardian and KHN to count health care worker deaths, ends today. This is what we learned in a year of tracing the lives of those who made the … → Read More
Air-cleaning companies with limited oversight are targeting a growing market of schools desperate for covid-19 protection. Donald Trump’s former covid adviser lands with one that built its business… → Read More
Researchers say “very low”-quality research from the 2003 SARS outbreak drove guidelines on who got the best PPE, leaving those most at risk exposed. → Read More
As experts race to get an approved test for covid variants, officials are severely restricted from sharing information about the cases. That makes it harder to protect others. → Read More
In the hours before President Joe Biden was inaugurated, the Federal Emergency Management Agency allowed a Texas mask maker to ship the high-quality masks overseas. → Read More
The academics insist that more workers should get top-rated N95 masks, the best defense against airborne coronavirus particles. → Read More
Authorities seized 1.7 million fake masks in New York and U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell called for a national probe. → Read More
Masks imitating the real thing are flooding U.S. ports, and authorities can hardly keep pace. → Read More
End of holiday gatherings or fear of the virus may be at play – or hope for the vaccine → Read More
The National Academy of Sciences cites journalists’ “Lost on the Frontline” project in a push to expand federal tracking of worker fatalities. → Read More