ProPublica

• 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
• A Crush of Patients, Dwindling Supplies, and the Nurse Who Lost Hope Almost a year into the pandemic, supply shortages remain so severe that nurse Kristen Cline reuses her N95 for several shifts while her hospital buckles.
  ProPublica, December 31, 2020
• States Are Spreading the Virus Beyond Their Borders Weary of Washington's restrictions, thousands of residents made the easy drive over the border to vacation, shop and dine in Idaho.
  ProPublica, December 01, 2020
• Rapid Testing Is Less Accurate Than the Government Wants to Admit These rapid and inexpensive coronavirus tests would identify highly infectious people while giving healthy Americans a green light to return to offices, schools, and restaurants.
  ProPublica, November 16, 2020
• 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