ProPublica

• 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
• 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