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Pulling Back the Curtain on the Health Industry and Regulation

878 stories published since 2008

Grieving Families Need Help Paying for COVID-19 Burials, but Trump Hasn’t Released the Money

by Lisa Song and Yeganeh Torbati,

What Happens When the Workers Who Make Hand Soap Get COVID-19? They Protest.

by Melissa Sanchez,

What Antibody Studies Can Tell You — and More Importantly, What They Can’t

by Caroline Chen,

Health Insurers to Investors: We’re Good. Health Insurers to Lawmakers: Please Help.

by Isaac Arnsdorf,

One Thing the Pandemic Hasn’t Stopped: Aggressive Medical-Debt Collection

by Alec MacGillis,

“There’s No Such Thing as Returning to Normal”: We Answered Your Questions About Reopening America

by Cynthia Gordy Giwa,

Sen. Richard Burr Is Not Just a Friend to the Health Care Industry. He’s Also a Stockholder.

by Robert Faturechi and Derek Willis,

The Amazon Lockdown: How an Unforgiving Algorithm Drives Suppliers to Favor the E-Commerce Giant Over Other Retailers

by Renee Dudley,

“Did I Mess This Up?” A Father Dying From Coronavirus, a Distraught Daughter and a Midnight Rescue.

by Joaquin Sapien,

Nursing Homes Violated Basic Health Standards, Allowing the Coronavirus to Explode

by Charles Ornstein and Topher Sanders,

Life and Death, But No Trash Pickup: Diary of a Young COVID-19 Nurse

by Ryan Gabrielson,

How We Used FOIA to Track Ventilator and Hospital Bed Availability in Illinois

by Ash Ngu,

This Hospital Has Only 8 Nurses. They Are Also the Janitors.

by Brianna Bailey, The Frontier,

How Jared Kushner Is Tackling the White House’s Coronavirus Response — Without Any Evident Experience

by Andrea Bernstein, WNYC,

NYC Mayor and Health Officials Misled Public About Plans to Move COVID-19 Patients Into Nursing Home, Advocates Say

by A.C. Thompson,

Coronavirus Entered My Father’s Nursing Home and Nobody Warned Me. I Did Not Get the Chance to Save Him.

by Jan Ransom for ProPublica,

Medical Staffing Companies Cut Doctors’ Pay While Spending Millions on Political Ads

by Isaac Arnsdorf,

Officials Knew Coronavirus Could Spread at the Houston Rodeo and Proceeded With the Event Anyway

by Perla Trevizo,

Health Officials Recommended Canceling Events with 10-50 People. Then 33,000 Fans Attended a Major League Soccer Game.

by Ken Armstrong, ProPublica, and David Gutman and Lewis Kamb, The Seattle Times,

Coronavirus Advice From Abroad: 7 Lessons America’s Governors Should Not Ignore as They Reopen Their Economies

by Stephen Engelberg, Caroline Chen and Sebastian Rotella,

A Nurse’s Hospital Wouldn’t Let Her Wear an N95 Mask. She Hasn’t Been Back to Work in Weeks.

by Marshall Allen,

Without Federal Help, New York Doctors Had to Ask Medical Supply Execs for Dialysis Supplies

by Jake Pearson, Joshua Kaplan and Sean Campbell,

Internal Documents Show Federal Agencies Supported the WHO Before Trump Was Against It

by Yeganeh Torbati,

Chicago Lakeshore Hospital Closes After Years of Abuse Allegations but Cites “the COVID-19 Pandemic”

by Duaa Eldeib,

Coronavirus in Illinois: Are There Enough Ventilators and Hospital Beds Near Me?

by Ash Ngu,

Millions of Essential Workers Are Being Left Out of COVID-19 Workplace Safety Protections, Thanks to OSHA

by Michael Grabell, Bernice Yeung and Maryam Jameel,

Congress Is Investigating Whether a Ventilator Company Is Gouging the U.S. — and Why the Government Is Letting It Happen

by Patricia Callahan and Sebastian Rotella,

Despite Federal Ban, Landlords Are Still Moving to Evict People During the Pandemic

by Jeff Ernsthausen, Ellis Simani and Justin Elliott,

The CDC and WHO Have Already Said Mosquitoes Don’t Spread Coronavirus. Now USDA Will Study It, Too.

by Yeganeh Torbati,

Al menos 37 menores en un albergue de Chicago para inmigrantes detenidos han dado positivo en pruebas de COVID-19

por Melissa Sanchez,

Ventilators Aren’t Going to Cure COVID-19. Here’s What They Can Do.

by Caroline Chen,

COVID-19 Put Her Husband in the ICU. She Had to Be Hospitalized Next. The State Demanded to Know: Who Would Care for Their Children?

by Topher Sanders and David Armstrong,

There’s Been a Spike in People Dying at Home in Several Cities. That Suggests Coronavirus Deaths Are Higher Than Reported.

by Jack Gillum, Lisa Song and Jeff Kao,

She Came to New York to Help Fight COVID. She Walked Into a “War Movie.”

by ProPublica,

Postal Workers Say USPS Isn’t Telling Them When Colleagues Test Positive for COVID-19, Despite Promising To

by Maryam Jameel,

At Least 19 Children at a Chicago Shelter for Immigrant Detainees Have Tested Positive for COVID-19

by Melissa Sanchez,

Climate Change Won’t Stop for the Coronavirus Pandemic

by Abrahm Lustgarten,

Lessons Learned From Running ICUs in Disaster Zones

by Lydia DePillis,

Coronavirus Tests Are Being Fast-Tracked by the FDA, but It’s Unclear How Accurate They Are.

by Lydia DePillis and Caroline Chen,

He Spent $500,000 to Buy Coronavirus Tests. Health Officials Say They’re Unreliable.

by Jeremy Schwartz,

The White House Pushed FEMA To Give its Biggest Coronavirus Contract to a Company That Never Had to Bid

by J. David McSwane and Yeganeh Torbati,

Medical Staffing Companies Owned by Rich Investors Cut Doctor Pay and Now Want Bailout Money

by Isaac Arnsdorf,

Rationing Protective Gear Means Checking on Coronavirus Patients Less Often. This Can Be Deadly.

by Joshua Kaplan, Lizzie Presser and Maya Miller,

Trump Removed the Head of the Coronavirus Bailout Oversight Board. Its Members Could Be Next.

by Isaac Arnsdorf,

Pharmacy Workers Are Coming Down With COVID-19. But They Can’t Afford to Stop Working.

by Ava Kofman,

We Still Don’t Know How Many People Are in the Hospital With COVID-19

by Charles Ornstein,

Inside the Union Where Coronavirus Put 98% of Members Out of Work

by James Bandler,

A Company Promised Cheap Ventilators to the Government, Never Delivered and Is Now Charging Quadruple the Price for New Ones

by Patricia Callahan and Sebastian Rotella,

Democratic Senators Demand Answers on Trump’s Secretive Border Expulsions

by Dara Lind,

A School on Navajo Nation Stayed Open. Then People Started Showing Symptoms.

by Alden Woods, The Arizona Republic,