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Employers Require COVID Liability Waivers as Conflict Mounts Over Workplace Safety
By Harris Meyer
While Congress negotiates liability protection for reopening businesses as part of its latest pandemic bailout package, some employers are already requiring workers to sign waivers agreeing not to sue if they get COVID-19 on the job.
Lost on the Frontline
By The Staffs of KHN and The Guardian
A lab assistant who spoke out about employee safety. A disease intervention specialist who hoped to follow her mother into nursing. A father of three who juggled jobs at three nursing homes. These are the people just added to "Lost on the Frontline," a special series from The Guardian and KHN that profiles health care workers who died of COVID-19. These are some of the people just added to "Lost on the Frontline," a special series from The Guardian and KHN that profiles health care workers who died of COVID-19.
Technology Divide Between Senior 'Haves' and 'Have-Nots' Roils Pandemic Response
By Judith Graham
Older adults with the ability to use technology have more access to virtual social interactions and telehealth services, and more opportunities to secure essential supplies online. Those who don't know how to use it or can't afford it are at greater risk of social isolation, forgoing medical care and being without food or other necessary items.
As Long Waits for Results Render COVID Tests 'Useless,' States Seek Workarounds
By Matt Volz and Phil Galewitz
With COVID-19 tests bogged down in backlogs, some states that relied on private laboratories, such as Quest Diagnostics, are trying to adapt as caseloads rise.
Medicaid Mystery: Millions of Enrollees Haven't Materialized
By Rachel Bluth and Angela Hart
State officials had projected that 2 million Californians would join Medi-Cal, the state's health insurance program for low-income people, by July because of the economic devastation wrought by COVID-19. Yet enrollment has barely budged, and why is unclear.
NIH Project Homes In on COVID Racial Disparities
By Ashley Gold
The pandemic has given the National Institutes of Health an opportunity to show the value of its $1.5 billion "All of Us" research program. A major effort to make the platform's database representative of America resulted in minorities making up more than half of its more than 270,000 volunteers.
Behind The Byline: 'Reporting From a Distance'
By Anna Almendrala
Check out KHN's video series — Behind The Byline: How the Story Got Made. Come along as journalists and producers offer an insider's view of health care coverage that does not quit.
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