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849 stories published since 2008

The Trump Administration Paid Millions for Test Tubes — and Got Unusable Mini Soda Bottles

by J. David McSwane and Ryan Gabrielson,

“Fast-Tracking” a Coronavirus Vaccine Sounds Great. It’s Not That Simple.

by Caroline Chen,

How — and When — Can the Coronavirus Vaccine Become a Reality?

by Caroline Chen,

“Fire Through Dry Grass”: Andrew Cuomo Saw COVID-19’s Threat to Nursing Homes. Then He Risked Adding to It.

by Joaquin Sapien and Joe Sexton,

“Somebody’s Gotta Help Me”

by Thalia Beaty, Ryan Gabrielson, Nadia Sussman and Lucas Waldron,

How America’s Hospitals Survived the First Wave of the Coronavirus

by Charles Ornstein,

State Investigating Hospital With Coronavirus Policy That Profiled Pregnant Native American Mothers and Separated Them From Newborns

by Bryant Furlow, New Mexico In Depth,

A Hospital’s Secret Coronavirus Policy Separated Native American Mothers From Their Newborns

by Bryant Furlow, New Mexico In Depth,

Emails Reveal Chaos as Meatpacking Companies Fought Health Agencies Over COVID-19 Outbreaks in Their Plants

by Michael Grabell, Claire Perlman and Bernice Yeung,

How Rich Investors, Not Doctors, Profit From Marking Up ER Bills

by Isaac Arnsdorf,

Did Your Job Give You Masks or Other Protective Gear? Send Us a Picture.

by Derek Willis and Yeganeh Torbati,

Federal Agencies Have Spent Millions on KN95 Masks, Often Without Knowing Who Made Them

by Yeganeh Torbati and Derek Willis,

Advocates Sue Trump Administration Over Mass Border Expulsions

by Dara Lind,

On the Minds of Black Lives Matter Protesters: A Racist Health System

by Akilah Johnson,

Tear Gas Is Way More Dangerous Than Police Let On — Especially During the Coronavirus Pandemic

by Lisa Song,

These Hospitals Pinned Their Hopes on Private Management Companies. Now They’re Deeper in Debt.

by Brianna Bailey, The Frontier,

A masked woman walking in front of an employment agency in Berlin.

How Germany Saved Its Workforce From Unemployment While Spending Less Per Person Than the U.S.

by Alec MacGillis,

Overdose Deaths Have Skyrocketed in Chicago, and the Coronavirus Pandemic May Be Making It Worse

by Melissa Sanchez and Duaa Eldeib,

ProPublica Files Lawsuit Seeking Medical Stockpile Records From HHS

by Yeganeh Torbati,

Nursing Homes Fought Federal Emergency Plan Requirements for Years. Now, They’re Coronavirus Hot Spots.

by Bryant Furlow, New Mexico In Depth, Carli Brosseau, The News & Observer and Isaac Arnsdorf, ProPublica,

Hidden in the New House Coronavirus Relief Bill: Billions for Defense Contractors

by Jake Pearson,

House Democrats Demand Trump Administration Stop Rushing Through Deportations of Migrant Children

by Lomi Kriel,

Masks Sold by Former White House Official to Navajo Hospitals Don’t Meet FDA Standards

by Yeganeh Torbati and Derek Willis,

100,000 Lives Lost to COVID-19. What Did They Teach Us?

by Caroline Chen,

Coronavirus Contracts: Tracking Federal Purchases to Fight the Pandemic

by Moiz Syed and Derek Willis,

The Billionaire Governor Who’s Been Sued Dozens of Times for Millions in Unpaid Bills

by Ken Ward Jr., ProPublica, and Alex Mierjeski for ProPublica,

Bill Barr Promised to Release Prisoners Threatened by Coronavirus — Even as the Feds Secretly Made It Harder for Them to Get Out

by Ian MacDougall,

Nike Turned Away a Public Health Official From Its Warehouse Days After a Worker With COVID-19 Died

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

What Parents Should Know About Coronavirus as Kids Return to Babysitters, Day Cares and Camps

by Marshall Allen, Megan Rose and Caroline Chen,

The Feds Gave a Former White House Official $3 Million to Supply Masks to Navajo Hospitals. Some May Not Work.

by Yeganeh Torbati and Derek Willis,

In Hard-Hit New Jersey, COVID-19 Saddles Some Small Health Departments With Crushing Workload

by Sean Campbell and Joshua Kaplan,

More Than 1 in 5 Illinoisans Living in State Homes for Adults With Disabilities Have Tested Positive for the Coronavirus

by Jennifer Smith Richards, Chicago Tribune, and Jodi S. Cohen, ProPublica Illinois,

A Nurse With One Lung Had COVID-19. Other Nurses Saved Her.

by Logan Jaffe,

States Are Reopening: See How Coronavirus Cases Rise or Fall

by Lena V. Groeger and Ash Ngu,

What Experts Say About Narrowing COVID-19 Racial Disparities

by ProPublica,

A person making a phone call with a question mark superimposed over their face, with a network grid hovering behind the figure.

Do I Know Enough to Get a Job as a Contact Tracer?

by Caroline Chen,

A woman wearing a phone headset in an office setting calling a person at home sick with COVID.

You Don’t Need Invasive Tech for Successful Contact Tracing. Here’s How It Works.

by Caroline Chen,

Wedding Planner, Caterer, “Brand Builder”: Trump’s Food Aid Program Is Paying $100+ Million to Unlicensed Dealers

by Isaac Arnsdorf,

The Black American Amputation Epidemic

by Lizzie Presser,

COVID-19 Killed at Least 25 Residents of One Illinois Nursing Home. The Family of One Victim Has Filed a Lawsuit, Alleging Negligence.

by Jodi S. Cohen,

Can I Be Evicted During Coronavirus?

by Al Shaw, Ellis Simani and Jeff Ernsthausen,

Can You Be Evicted During Coronavirus? Here’s How to Find Out.

by Jeff Ernsthausen, Ellis Simani and Al Shaw,

Substitute Pharmacists Warn Their Co-Workers: We’ll Probably Bring the Virus to You

by Ava Kofman,

“Immune to Evidence”: How Dangerous Coronavirus Conspiracies Spread

by Marshall Allen,

Two Coasts. One Virus. How New York Suffered Nearly 10 Times the Number of Deaths as California.

by Joe Sexton and Joaquin Sapien,

She Fought to Keep COVID-19 Out of Her Nursing Home. Then, She Got Sick.

by Lynn Arditi, The Public’s Radio,

Families Were Grieving and Planning Funerals. They Still Wanted to Share Their Stories.

by Duaa Eldeib,

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott Is Cracking Down on Cities’ Enforcement of COVID-19 Orders, but Many Already Took a Lax Approach

by Sally Beauvais, Lexi Churchill, Kiah Collier, Vianna Davila and Ren Larson,

Richard Burr Steps Down From Chairmanship of Senate Intelligence Committee

by Robert Faturechi and Derek Willis,

A Trump Official Tried to Fast-Track Funding for His Friend’s Unproven COVID-19 “Treatment,” Whistleblower Says

by Lisa Song,