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By Anna Maria Barry-Jester, Kaiser Health News The turning point for Dr. Paula Braveman arrived when a long-time patient of hers at a community clinic in the Mission District of San Francisco slipped past the front desk and knocked on her office door to say goodbye. He would not come back to the clinic, he […]
By Lauren Weber, Kaiser Health News Rural Americans are more than twice as likely to die from Covid as their urban counterparts – a gap health experts say is likely to widen as access to health care shrinks for a population that tends to be older, sicker, heavier, poorer and less vaccinated . During the […]
As if finding out that something was expecting her amid a global pandemic wasn’t enough, Merrick Smith said her surprise came to a shock last year when she later learned she was carrying twins on Christmas Day. Her pregnancy started out fairly normally, and working from home, which many resorted to during the shutdown, proved […]