ProPublica

• Illinois Will Share Data About COVID-19 Outbreaks in Schools As educators and parents assess the risk of returning to the classroom, some felt frustrated by the lack of public data about COVID-19 in schools.
  ProPublica, October 22, 2020
• The EPA Refuses to Reduce Pollutants Linked to Coronavirus Deaths The EPA is ignoring scientists who say stricter particulate matter limits could prevent tens of thousands of early deaths.
  ProPublica, October 21, 2020
• New Bill Aims to End Racial Disparities in Amputations ack Americans are three times more likely to undergo diabetic amputations. Five members of Congress are working to fund screening and enhance diagnostics in an effort to save limbs.
  ProPublica, October 19, 2020
• Fauci Plays a Key Role in Deciding When Vaccine Studies Are Done Dr Anthony Fauci will see data from government-funded vaccine trials before the FDA does. One caveat: Pfizer’s study, which is ahead of the others, isn't included in his purview.
  ProPublica, October 16, 2020
• Cleveland Hospitals' Private Police Comes Under Scrutiny Local elected officials and the NAACP are calling for tougher supervision of private police forces, after ProPublica found that the Cleveland Clinic officers disproportionately arrest Black people.
  ProPublica, October 16, 2020
• Inside the Fall of the CDC How the world's greatest public health organization was brought to its knees by a virus, the president, and the capitulation of its own leaders, causing damage that could last much longer than COVID-19.
  ProPublica, October 15, 2020
• A Hospital Chain Said Published Article Was Inaccurate. It's Not. Prospect Medical, whose facilities have repeatedly been found to pose threats to patients, is claiming ProPublica "ignored" its side — even though its views were cited in 30 places in the article.
  ProPublica, October 13, 2020
• Where Did the 44 Outbreaks in Illinois Schools Occur? More children are testing positive for COVID-19 than they were between March and mid-August, when schools shut down. Illinois has not published information about the virus's spread in schools.
  ProPublica, October 08, 2020
• What Happens After a Debt Collection Machine Grinds to a Halt The nonprofit hospital system erased more than $23,000 in debts owed by one of its own housekeepers who it sued for unpaid bills. And now she's dreaming of home ownership.
  ProPublica, October 06, 2020
• Investors Extracted $400 Million From a Failing Hospital Chain Prospect Medical, which mostly serves low-income patients, has suffered a litany of problems: broken elevators, dirty surgical gear, bedbugs and more while its investors cashed in.
  ProPublica, October 01, 2020
• What Trump and Biden Should Debate at the Cleveland Clinic Armed private police patrolling Cleveland's medical zone and nearby city streets disproportionately charge and cite Black people, even though most hospital employees, patients, and visitors are white.
  ProPublica, September 28, 2020
• A Real Vaccine Before the Election? It'd Take a Miracle. There is a small chance that Pfizer's vaccine trial will yield results by Nov. 3. Here's everything that has to happen and how to tell a political stunt from a real vaccine.
  ProPublica, September 28, 2020
• Trump’s Vaccine Czar Refuses to Give Up Stock in Drug Company The administration calls Moncef Slaoui, who leads its vaccine race, a "contractor" to sidestep rules against personally profiting from government positions.
  ProPublica, September 24, 2020
• CSL Staff Say Conditions at Plasma Donation Centers Aren't Safe FDA authorized emergency use of plasma therapy for COVID-19, despite a lack of proof that it saves lives. Staff raised alarms about faulty masks as donors flooded in; OSHA and FDA were slow to act.
  ProPublica, September 23, 2020
• The Hospital System Sent Patients With Coronavirus Home to Die Louisiana Legislative Black Caucus called the practice of sending infected coronavirus patients home to die "disturbing" after ProPublica found that a New Orleans hospital system had done so numerous times.
  ProPublica, September 15, 2020
• Hazardous Air Pollutants Make COVID-19 More Serious The type of pollution emitted by many chemical plants in Louisiana's industrial corridor is correlated with increased coronavirus deaths, according to new peer-reviewed research from SUNY and ProPublica.
  ProPublica, September 11, 2020
• A Doctor Was Charged $10,984 for a COVID-19 Antibody Test Physicians Premier ER charged Dr. Zachary Sussman's insurance $10,984 for his COVID-19 antibody test even though Sussman worked for the chain and knows the testing materials only cost about $8.
  ProPublica, September 08, 2020
• Sent Home to Die Before they died, about two dozen patients first sought care at a hospital, which then discharged them, in many cases sending them home to die with hospice care. All were Black.
  ProPublica, September 03, 2020
• Blacks With Diabetes Lose Limbs at 3x the Rate of Others The American Diabetes Association is creating an initiative to fight unnecessary amputations, which a ProPublica investigation found disproportionately affect Black patients with diabetes.
  ProPublica, August 28, 2020
• Federal Investigation Finds Hospital Violated Patients' Rights It remains unclear just how many newborns were separated from their mothers as a result of the policies. Lovelace Women's Hospital did not admit to any wrongdoing but reported that the practice has been halted.
  ProPublica, August 25, 2020