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856 stories published since 2008

A Tiny Number of People Will Be Hospitalized Despite Being Vaccinated. We Have to Learn Why.

by Caroline Chen,

“We Are Not Here or Funded to ‘Promote the Best Interest’ of the Children,” Wrote the Head of a Program for Brain-Damaged Infants

by Daniel Chang and Carol Marbin Miller, Miami Herald,

Florida Plans Audit of Program That Blocks Parents of Brain-Damaged Newborns From Suing

by Carol Marbin Miller and Daniel Chang, Miami Herald,

She Can’t Sue Her Doctor Over Her Baby’s Death. When She Spoke Out, She Was Silenced Again.

by Carol Marbin Miller and Daniel Chang, Miami Herald,

When Births Go Horribly Wrong, Florida Protects Doctors and Forces Families to Pay the Price

by Carol Marbin Miller and Daniel Chang, Miami Herald,

The Broken Front Line

by Ava Kofman, photography by Kendrick Brinson and David Walter Banks, special to ProPublica,

I Received Tips to Look Into How a Hospital Treated Premature Babies. Getting Data Was Nearly Impossible.

by Bryant Furlow, New Mexico In Depth,

Cómo investigamos las tasas de mortalidad de los bebés extremadamente prematuros en los hospitales de maternidad más grandes de este estado

por Bryant Furlow, New Mexico In Depth,

Los dos hospitales tienen tasas de mortalidad infantil similares, hasta que se observa a los bebés extremadamente prematuros

por Bryant Furlow, New Mexico In Depth,

False Barriers: These Things Should Not Prevent You From Getting a COVID Vaccine

by Caroline Chen and Maryam Jameel,

No One in This State Is Officially Tracking the Quality of Care in Neonatal Centers

by Bryant Furlow, New Mexico In Depth,

How We Investigated Death Rates for Extremely Preterm Babies in This State’s Largest Maternity Hospitals

by Bryant Furlow, New Mexico In Depth,

The Two Hospitals Have Similar Infant Death Rates — Until You Look at Extremely Premature Babies

by Bryant Furlow, New Mexico In Depth,

Texans Recovering From COVID-19 Needed Oxygen. Then the Power Went Out.

by Mike Hixenbaugh, NBC News, and Perla Trevizo, ProPublica and The Texas Tribune,

How Inequity Gets Built Into America’s Vaccination System

by Maryam Jameel and Caroline Chen,

Mueren en la lista de espera

por David Armstrong y Marshall Allen,

Why We Can’t Make Vaccine Doses Any Faster

by Isaac Arnsdorf and Ryan Gabrielson,

Dying on the Waitlist

by David Armstrong and Marshall Allen,

Cuomo Still Underreporting the Total Count of COVID Nursing Home Deaths

by Joe Sexton,

Fauci: Vaccines for Kids as Young as First Graders Could Be Authorized by September

by Caroline Chen,

Why Opening Restaurants Is Exactly What the Coronavirus Wants Us to Do

Caroline Chen,

An illustration of a hand taking apart a hospital.

Rich Investors Stripped Millions From a Hospital Chain and Want to Leave It Behind. A Tiny State Stands in Their Way.

by Peter Elkind,

Contractor Who Was Awarded $34.5 Million in Government Money and Provided Zero Masks Pleads Guilty to Fraud

by J. David McSwane,

An illustration of a doctor navigating a maze made of $100 dollar bills.

How the CARES Act Forgot America’s Most Vulnerable Hospitals

by Brianna Bailey, The Frontier,

“We’ve Let the Worst Happen”: Reflecting on 400,000 Dead

by Logan Jaffe,

How Many Vaccine Shots Go to Waste? Several States Aren’t Counting.

by Ryan Gabrielson, Caroline Chen and Mollie Simon,

A Woman With Developmental Disabilities Was Abused in Arizona. The State Promised Changes. It Has Not Made Them Yet.

by Amy Silverman for Arizona Daily Star,

How Operation Warp Speed Created Vaccination Chaos

by Caroline Chen, Isaac Arnsdorf and Ryan Gabrielson,

A nurse in blue PPE preparing vaccines.

Memphis-Area Residents Without Internet Must Wait Days for Vaccination Appointments, While Others Go to the Front of the Line

by Wendi C. Thomas and Hannah Grabenstein, MLK50: Justice Through Journalism,

An illustration of President Donald Trump taking off his mask and shattering the logo for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

CDC Shut Down a Lab Involved in Making Faulty Coronavirus Tests

by James Bandler, Patricia Callahan and Sebastian Rotella,

The Nursing Home Didn’t Send Her to the Hospital, and She Died

by Sean Campbell,

Lavish Bonus? Luxury Trip? Health Benefits Brokers Will Have to Disclose What They Receive From the Insurance Industry

by Marshall Allen,

“Those of Us Who Don’t Die Are Going to Quit”: A Crush of Patients, Dwindling Supplies and the Nurse Who Lost Hope

by J. David McSwane,

After a Violent Crime, Arizona Promised Reforms for People With Developmental Disabilities. It Has Yet to Deliver.

by Amy Silverman for Arizona Daily Star,

Memorial Sloan Kettering Gave Top Doctor $1.5 Million After He Was Forced to Resign Over Conflicts of Interest

by Katie Thomas, The New York Times, and Charles Ornstein, ProPublica,

Rotoscoped ink on paper drawing of a Black man boarding a bus.

How COVID-19 Hollowed Out a Generation of Young Black Men

by Akilah Johnson and Nina Martin,

State Sen. Eddie Lucio Jr. receiving a vaccination at the Doctors Hospital at Renaissance’s conference center in Edinburg, Texas, on Saturday.

Rio Grande Hospital Workers Turned Down the Vaccine. A Senator and a Sheriff’s Deputy Lined Up Instead.

by Vianna Davila, ProPublica and The Texas Tribune, and Karen Brooks Harper, The Texas Tribune,

Restrictions on the South Texas Border Were Meant to Protect People From COVID-19. Then the Handcuffs Came Out.

by Vianna Davila and Ren Larson,

Only Seven of Stanford’s First 5,000 Vaccines Were Designated for Medical Residents

by Caroline Chen,

Vaccinating Black Americans Is Essential. Key States Aren’t Doing the Work to Combat Hesitancy

by Caroline Chen, Ryan Gabrielson and Topher Sanders,

The Family Court Judge Who Threatened a Mother With Contempt of Court for Getting Her Child a COVID-19 Test

by Marshall Allen, ProPublica, and Rachel Dissell for ProPublica,

For Years, JaMarcus Crews Tried to Get a New Kidney, but Corporate Healthcare Stood in the Way

by Lizzie Presser,

Nonprofit Hospital Almost Never Gave Discounts to Poor Patients During Collections, Documents Show

by Wendi C. Thomas, MLK50: Justice Through Journalism,

“We Don’t Even Know Who Is Dead or Alive”: Trapped Inside an Assisted Living Facility During the Pandemic

by Ava Kofman,

Rapid Testing Is Less Accurate Than the Government Wants to Admit

by Lisa Song,

The Enraging Deja Vu of a Third Coronavirus Wave

by Caroline Chen,

Most States Aren’t Ready to Distribute the Leading COVID-19 Vaccine

by Isaac Arnsdorf, Ryan Gabrielson and Caroline Chen,

Leader of Newark Beth Israel’s Troubled Heart Transplant Program Departs

by Caroline Chen,

The Questionable Line Items of Illinois’ COVID-19 Spending

by Ash Ngu,

Not Mentioned in Cuomo’s Coronavirus Book: How Many Nursing Home Residents Died in New York

by Joe Sexton,