ProPublica

• St. Jude Hoards Billions While Its Families Drain Their Savings The cost of having a child at the hospital for cancer care leaves some families so strapped for money that parents share tips on spending nights in the parking lot.
  ProPublica, November 12, 2021
• How Genomic Sequencing Data Tracked a Salmonella Outbreak Data on bacterial DNA helped reveal how a once-rare salmonella strain spread through the chicken industry. Salmonella infantis is multidrug-resistant and is still making people sick.
  ProPublica, November 05, 2021
• Babies Are Dying of Syphilis. It's 100% Preventable. The United States' inability to curb a treatable sexually transmitted disease shows the failures of a cash-strapped public health system. Increasingly, newborns are paying the price.
  ProPublica, November 01, 2021
• Where Did Government's Billions to Schools for COVID Relief Go? The Education Department's limited tracking of $190 billion in pandemic support funds sent to schools has left officials in the dark about how effective the aid has been in helping students.
  ProPublica, October 21, 2021
• How One District's First 4 Weeks of School Went Bad In their own words, parents, faculty, and a student chronicle the beginning of the school year in Georgia's Cobb County, where leadership loosened COVID-19 protocols and a wave of children were infected.
  ProPublica, October 06, 2021
• A Boy in a COVID-Swamped ER Waited for Hours; His Appendix Burst Non-COVID patients are paying a price as the Delta variant and low vaccination rates overwhelm hospitals across the country. "Wait times can now be measured in days," said an expert.
  ProPublica, September 15, 2021
• Only a Fraction of Breakthrough Infections as Cases Surge A May 1 decision by the CDC to only track breakthrough infections that lead to hospitalization or death has left the nation with a muddled understanding of COVID-19's impact on the vaccinated.
  ProPublica, August 20, 2021
• The FDA Knew the Heart Pumps Could Be Unsafe, Yet They Were Used Inspectors repeatedly found manufacturing and device quality problems with the HeartWare heart pump. The FDA did not penalize the company, and the device was implanted without patients knowing the facts.
  ProPublica, August 05, 2021
• Hospitals Sued Patients Over Medical Debt Through the Pandemic A new study says some of the nation's largest hospital systems kept filing lawsuits, liens, and garnishments during the pandemic -- and most were nonprofit.
  ProPublica, June 15, 2021
• Investigating Decades of Untested Rape Kits A reporter goes behind the scenes of her serialized investigation into the outrage and promise of untested DNA from rape victims.
  ProPublica, June 03, 2021
• 'You Save as Long as You Have To' Distressed by authorities' poor treatment of rape victims and destruction of evidence, one doctor became a DNA archivist long before we had the technology to test it. His faith is science is paying off.
  ProPublica, May 25, 2021
• Parents Want Justice for Birth Injuries Florida hospitals rely on the state's NICA program for protection from lawsuits. When parents resist, some of those hospitals ask a judge to appoint an 'independent guardian' to take the decision away.
  ProPublica, April 27, 2021
• Why Are a Tiny Number of Vaccinated People Being Hospitalized? Experts say we should investigate "breakthrough infections" to look out for variants and understand who's vulnerable. In many cases, that's not happening.
  ProPublica, April 15, 2021
• The Broken Front Line As the winter's surge of coronavirus cases overwhelmed Los Angeles hospitals, EMTs were forced to take previously unthinkable measures. What lasting impact will the pandemic have on America's first responders?
  ProPublica, April 13, 2021
• False Barriers Should Not Prevent You Getting a COVID Vaccine Vaccinations for the coronavirus are supposed to be free and available to all Americans regardless of insurance or immigration status. For some, that isn't how it has been playing out.
  ProPublica, April 01, 2021
• How Inequity Gets Built Into America's Vaccination System People eligible for the coronavirus vaccine say they are running up against barriers that are designed into the very systems meant to serve those most at risk of dying of the disease.
  ProPublica, March 01, 2021
• Fauci: Vaccines for Kids Could Be Authorized by September Children as young as first graders may be able to get the coronavirus vaccine by the time school starts in September, presuming trials are successful in those age groups, Anthony Fauci, MD, said.
  ProPublica, February 11, 2021
• How the CARES Act Forgot America's Most Vulnerable Hospitals COVID-19 relief was meant to give a lifeline to hospitals. But in states like Oklahoma, problems created by confusing guidelines could cause harm long after the pandemic.
  ProPublica, January 29, 2021
• How Many Vaccine Shots Go to Waste? Several States Aren't Counting. At a time when there aren't enough shots to meet demand, significant numbers may be going in the trash.
  ProPublica, January 21, 2021
• How Operation Warp Speed Created Vaccination Chaos States are struggling to plan their vaccination programs with just one week's notice for how many doses they'll receive from the federal government.
  ProPublica, January 19, 2021