Children and Covid: Journalists Explore Grief and Vaccine Side Effects

KHN and California Healthline staff made the rounds on national and local media this week to discuss their stories. Here’s a collection of their appearances.

June 26, 2021

KHN senior correspondent JoNel Aleccia discussed grief among the estimated 46,000 children in the U.S. who lost a parent to covid-19 on NBC News NOW on Tuesday.

Click here to watch Aleccia on NBC News NOW
Read Aleccia’s “Thousands of Young Children Lost Parents to Covid. Where’s Help for Them?”

KHN senior correspondent Sarah Varney discussed one family’s reckoning with racism after a police shooting on NPR/WBUR’s “Here & Now” on Monday.

Click here to hear Varney on “Here & Now”
Read “The Making of Reluctant Activists: A Police Shooting in a Hospital Forces One Family to Rethink American Justice”

California Healthline editor Arthur Allen discussed children and the covid vaccine on KGO-810’s “The Chip Franklin Show” on Monday.

Click here to hear Allen on “The Chip Franklin Show”
Read Allen’s “Not All Experts Are Ready to Vaccinate Kids Against Covid”

KHN chief Washington correspondent Julie Rovner discussed the Supreme Court’s decision to reject a challenge to the Affordable Care Act on WDET’s “Detroit Today With Stephen Henderson” and WBUR/NPR’s “Here & Now” on Monday and June 18.

Click here to hear Rovner on “Detroit Today With Stephen Henderson”
Click here to hear Rovner on “Here & Now”
Read Rovner’s “Supreme Court Declines to Overturn ACA — Again”

KHN senior correspondent Julie Appleby discussed the week in covid news on NPR’s “1A” on June 18. Appleby also joined Newsy to discuss the Supreme Court ruling on the Affordable Care Act on June 17.

Click here to hear Appleby on “1A”
Click here to watch Appleby on Newsy

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<p>KHN senior correspondent JoNel Aleccia discussed grief among the estimated 46,000 children in the U.S. who lost a parent to covid-19 on NBC News NOW on Tuesday. </p>

<ul><li><a href="https://twitter.com/NBCNewsNow/status/1407448424828506114?s=20">Click here to watch Aleccia on NBC News NOW</a></li><li>Read Aleccia’s “<a href="https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/thousands-of-young-children-lost-parents-to-covid-wheres-help-for-them/">Thousands of Young Children Lost Parents to Covid. Where’s Help for Them?</a>”</li></ul>

<p>KHN senior correspondent Sarah Varney discussed one family’s reckoning with racism after a police shooting on NPR/WBUR’s “Here & Now” on Monday. </p>

<ul><li><a href="https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2021/06/21/june-21-2021-hn-two">Click here to hear Varney on “Here & Now</a>”</li><li>Read “<a href="https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/racism-reluctant-activists-police-shooting-hospital-family-rethinks-american-justice/">The Making of Reluctant Activists: A Police Shooting in a Hospital Forces One Family to Rethink American Justice</a>”</li></ul>

<p>California Healthline editor Arthur Allen discussed children and the covid vaccine on KGO-810’s “The Chip Franklin Show” on Monday. </p>

<ul><li><a href="https://www.kgoradio.com/chipfranklin/">Click here to hear Allen on “The Chip Franklin Show</a>”</li><li>Read Allen’s “<a href="https://californiahealthline.org/news/article/covid-vaccination-children-rare-side-effects-myocarditis-experts-caution/">Not All Experts Are Ready to Vaccinate Kids Against Covid</a>”</li></ul>

<p>KHN chief Washington correspondent Julie Rovner discussed the Supreme Court’s decision to reject a challenge to the Affordable Care Act on WDET’s “Detroit Today With Stephen Henderson” and WBUR/NPR’s “Here & Now” on Monday and June 18. </p>

<ul><li><a href="https://wdet.org/posts/2021/06/21/91103-supreme-court-decision-further-solidifies-affordable-care-act/">Click here to hear Rovner on “Detroit Today With Stephen Henderson</a>”</li><li><a href="https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2021/06/18/obamacare-supreme-court">Click here to hear Rovner on “Here & Now</a>”</li><li>Read Rovner’s “<a href="https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/supreme-court-declines-to-overturn-aca-again/">Supreme Court Declines to Overturn ACA — Again</a>”</li></ul>

<p>KHN senior correspondent Julie Appleby discussed the week in covid news on NPR’s “1A” on June 18. Appleby also joined Newsy to discuss the Supreme Court ruling on the Affordable Care Act on June 17.</p>

<ul><li><a href="https://www.npr.org/2021/06/18/1008137063/the-news-roundup-for-june-18-2021">Click here to hear Appleby on “1A</a>”</li><li><a href="https://video.snapstream.net/Play/64cuIsiD0YWETFTgcNciVu?accessToken=7t8wxdwgrn8i">Click here to watch Appleby on Newsy</a></li></ul>

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