New health podcast will explore cracks in U.S. health care

Kaiser Health News and St. Louis Public Radio have teamed up to launch a new podcast — called "Where It Hurts" — to explore gaps in the U.S. health system, and the first episode was just released. This first season will take listeners to Fort Scott, Kan., to learn what happened after the town's only hospital shuttered in 2018. The seven-episode season explores what emergency care without a hospital now looks like in Fort Scott, how some patients now have to travel more than an hour to get chemotherapy, as well as how the major hospital's shuttering has only widened health disparities. Episodes will be released weekly through Nov. 10, and you can listen to them and learn more about the series here.

Correction: Yesterday's item on antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 misstated the study's findings. Only about 10% of the general population had antibodies to Covid-19, but of this group, fewer than 10% had actually been diagnosed with Covid-19. Thanks to the readers who wrote in to help correct the record.