1/8 History holds lessons for why low vaccination rates for children are so risky and why officials should strongly consider school mandates for the covid vaccine.

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📝: @RosenthalHealth
khn.org/news/article/p… 2/8 When explorers brought diseases like measles to Native populations of the New World, they killed up to an estimated 80% to 95% of the Indigenous population in repeated outbreaks over the ensuing 100 to 150 years.

Daniel Prude’s family knew he needed psychiatric care and tried to get it for him. Instead, his encounter with police hours after he was released from Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester, New York, proved deadly.

📝: @BrettDahlberg khn.org/news/youre-goi… Police would find Daniel minutes later ― naked, acting irrationally. Because he spat in the direction of officers and allegedly said he had the novel #coronavirus, officers placed a white hood, called a “spit hood,” over his head.

“The biggest crime you can commit in America is being sick.”

📝: @laura_ungar, KHN/@NPR #BillofTheMonth khn.org/news/heartbrea… Matthew Fentress was just 25 when he passed out while stuffing cannolis as a cook for a senior living community six years ago. Doctors diagnosed him with viral cardiomyopathy, #heartdisease that developed after a bout of the flu. #BilloftheMonth

📸: @MegVogelphoto

🚨New episode of alert 🚨 Host @jrovner is joined by @MelMcIntire, @annaedney, and @leonardkl to discuss the latest news in health. Also this week, Rovner interviews KHN’s @sjtribble, whose new podcast, “Where It Hurts,” drops Sept. 29. #WTHealth khn.org/news/podcast-k… The rundown. 👇

We're back with a new jam-packed episode of KHN's "What the Health?" Host @jrovner is joined by panelist @JoanneKenen, @MelMcIntire, and @SarahKarlin to discuss the latest news in health care and health policy. khn.org/news/podcast-k… The rundown. 👇

NEW on #LostOnTheFrontline: As of 9 September, journalists from KHN & @GuardianUS have profiled 193 health workers and included them in our database. Read their stories below. theguardian.com/us-news/ng-int… Jody Mares is the fourth healthcare worker from New Mexico that KHN/The Guardian have confirmed and added to our database. He kept residents in nursing homes laughing for decades.

Florida is a cautionary tale. #PublicHealth funding dropped precipitously, leaving the state especially unprepared for the worst health crisis in a century, according to an KHN/@AP investigation. 1/7

📝: @laura_ungar /@JHDearen/@hannah_recht
🔗: bit.ly/34vSsOm Florida slashed local health departments’ staffing from 12,422 in 2010 to 9,125 in 2019, our analysis of state data showed #UnderfundedUnderThreat. 2/7

Audrey Kuehl, a study coordinator at the Clinical Research Institute of Southern Oregon, inoculates Trish Malone with Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine on Aug. 6.

📝: @JoNel_Aleccia khn.org/news/with-covi… Dr. Edward Kerwin, medical director of the Clinical Research Institute of Southern Oregon. Kerwin, an allergist and immunologist, was tapped as the principal investigator for Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine trial at the Medford test site.

📸: Jim Craven

#NewOnKHN: More than 900 front-line health care workers have died of COVID-19, according to an interactive database unveiled Wednesday by The @GuardianUS and KHN. #LostOnTheFrontline

📝: @daniellerenwick/@shoshanadubnow

khn.org/MTE0NzIyMQ The tally includes doctors, nurses and paramedics, as well as crucial support staff such as hospital custodians, administrators and nursing home workers, who put their own lives at risk during the pandemic to care for others. #LostOnTheFrontline

Tune in to a new podcast episode of KHN's "What the Health?" jam-packed with the latest news in health care and health policy. Host @jrovner is joined by @MelMcIntire, @AliceOllstein, and @annaedney! khn.org/news/khn-podca… The rundown 👇

#NewOnKHN: Time and again over the past two decades, peace officers have targeted civilian demonstrators with munitions designed to stun and stop, rather than kill. KHN/@USATODAY

📝:@DonovanSlack/ @azrover/ @jayhancock1/ @kmccoynyc
🔗: khn.org/MTEzNzcwNg While locations and demonstration types vary, a pattern has emerged: Shooting victims file lawsuits, cities pay out millions of dollars, police departments try to adopt reforms. And, a few years later, it happens again.

#NewOnKHN: After Izzy had surgery to repair a torn meniscus in her knee, her father, Steve, noticed that a surgical assistant had billed their insurance plan for $1,167.

📝: @MarkianHawryluk, KHN/@NPR #BilloftheMonth khn.org/news/ever-hear… Even before any other medical bills showed up, Izzy received a notice: “I’m writing this letter as a courtesy to remind you of my presence during your surgery,” the letter read.

NEW: 3/4 of Americans live in states that spend under $100 per person on #PublicHealth annually. A @KHNews @AP investigation tracks the systematic underfunding that left the U.S. ill-equipped for #covid19.
#UnderfundedUnderThreat

🔗: khn.org/MTEyNzAyNw Public health workers sometimes earn so little, they qualify for public aid programs like #Medicaid. They rely on faxes to share #COVID19 records. They work seven-day weeks, yet fear losing their jobs. #UnderfundedUnderThreat

NEW: In a joint investigation, KHN & @USATODAY found that some officers appear to have violated their department’s own rules when they fired “less lethal” projectiles a protesters.

📝: @LizSzabo,@jayhancock1, @kmccoynyc, @DonovanSlack & @azrover khn.org/news/rubber-bu… Photos and videos posted on social media show protesters with large bruises or deep gashes on the throat, hands, arms, legs, chest, rib cage and stomach, all caused by “kinetic impact projectiles” also known as “rubber bullets.”

📹: @jaspercolt
usatoday.com/videos/news/na…

🚨THREAD🚨: A review by KHN and @AP finds at least 27 state and local health leaders have resigned, retired or been fired since April across 13 states. This comes amid the #CoronavirusPandemic.

📝: @LaurenWeberHP @annabarryjester @MRSmithAP khn.org/news/public-he… They have left their posts due to a mix of backlash and stressful, nonstop working conditions, all while dealing with chronic staffing and funding shortages.

NEW: We're back with another jam-packed episode of KHN's #WTHealth. Host @jrovner is joined by panelist @pw_cunningham, @sangerkatz, and @MelMcIntire to discuss the latest news in health care and health policy. khn.org/MTExNTkzMg On this episode...

Hospital officials say most of the infected patients are U.S. citizens or legal residents who live in, or recently traveled to, Mexico and came to the U.S. for care. #COVID19

📝: @heidi_demarco khn.org/news/covid-19-… Even as most California hospitals have avoided an incapacitating surge in coronavirus patients, some facilities near the Mexican border have been overwhelmed.

In Indianapolis, although protesters recognized the dangers of the coronavirus that come with assembling in close quarters, they said they felt the cause was more important.

📝: @tarena_social khn.org/news/in-the-co… That’s partly because Indianapolis is no stranger to violence. In 2020, police have opened 52 criminal homicide investigations. This number does not include accidental or self-defense shootings

NEW: Thursdays are for new episodes of KHN's #WTHealth! Host @jrovner is joined by @JoanneKenen, @annaedney and @eemershon to discuss the latest news in health care and health policy. khn.org/news/khn-podca… On this episode...

#Thread: Despite the risk of the #coronavirus in public places, people are still boarding public buses and trains because they have no other options to get to work, go shopping and fill prescriptions.

📝& 📸: @heidi_demarco khn.org/MTEwNjQ5OQ Mary Pierson, 69, uses a wheelchair and relies on public transportation to get around. She takes the bus a few times a week from Long Beach to various parts of Los Angeles to run errands and shop for groceries.

📸: @heidi_demarco

Those spectacular photos of the #coronavirus you’ve seen? They probably came from Elizabeth Fischer’s microscope 🔬. It's not exactly #agarart, but the pictures are still worth 1,000 #microbes!

📝: @MarkianHawryluk, KHN/@TIME khn.org/news/scientist… For Elizabeth Fischer, looking through an electron microscope was like many of the outdoor adventures she enjoys: “You’re looking at a world that most people don’t get to see.”