Journalists weigh Biden’s HHS selection
Noam Levey, senior correspondent for KHN, discussed the nomination of Xavier Becerra as head of the US Department of Health with the “Forum” of KQED on Tuesday.
- Click here to hear Levey on KQED
- Read “It’s A Minefield: Biden Health Pick Must Be Careful With Abortion And Family Planning” by Rachel Bluth, a correspondent for Levey and California Healthline
JoHel Aleccia, senior correspondent for KHN, discussed the story of an organ transplant patient who died after receiving lungs infected with Covid-19 on the KFI podcast “The Daily Dive” on Wednesday.
- Click to listen to Aleccia on “The Daily Dive” (her section starts about 17 minutes in)
- Read Aleccia’s “Organ transplant patient dies after receiving a Covid-infected lung”
California Healthline’s senior correspondent Anna Maria Barry-Jester discussed the distribution of vaccines in California with KALW’s “Your Call” on Thursday. She was also part of a panel discussion on inequalities in vaccine adoption with the Venice Family Clinic’s Health and Justice series on Wednesday.
- Click here to hear Barry-Jester on KALW
- Click here to watch the Venice Family Clinic panel discussion
Bernard Wolfson, Senior Correspondent for California Healthline, discussed the Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center in Downey, California and its program for patients with Long Covid on Thursday with KCRW’s Press Play With Madeleine Brand.
- Click here to listen to Wolfson on KCRW
- Read Wolfson’s “Learning to Live Again: A Lazarus Story from the Covid Front”
KHN Navigating Aging columnist Judith Graham discussed with Newsy on Thursday about the need to vaccinate family carers against Covid.
- Click here to see Graham on Newsy
- Read Graham’s “Family Caregivers Routinely Out of Vaccination Lists Worry What Would Happen If I Got Ill”.
Kaiser Health News (KHN) is a national health policy news service. It is an editorially independent program of the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation that is not affiliated with Kaiser Permanente.
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