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A Quarter of the Residents at This Nursing Home Died From COVID-19. Families Want Answers.

by Jodi S. Cohen and Haru Coryne,

Superintendent Bragged About VA Review of Short-Staffed Soldiers Home. Two Months Later, 73 Veterans Are Dead.

by David Armstrong,

Los New Yorkers: esenciales y desprotegidos en el epicentro de la pandemia

por Adriana Gallardo, ProPublica y Ariel Goodman, en reporte especial para ProPublica,

COVID-19 Took Black Lives First. It Didn’t Have To.

by Duaa Eldeib, Adriana Gallardo, Akilah Johnson, Annie Waldman, Nina Martin, Talia Buford and Tony Briscoe,

I’m an Investigative Journalist. These Are the Questions I Asked About the Viral “Plandemic” Video.

by Marshall Allen,

The State Attorney General Is Scrutinizing This Assisted Living Facility Over Its Handling of COVID-19. Some Residents Are Suing It, Too.

by Joaquin Sapien,

What Happened When Health Officials Wanted to Close a Meatpacking Plant, but the Governor Said No

by Michael Grabell,

How Climate Change Is Contributing to Skyrocketing Rates of Infectious Disease

by Abrahm Lustgarten,

How Safe Are Nursing Homes Near Me? This Tool Will Help You Find Out.

by Charles Ornstein and Lena V. Groeger,

She Made Every Effort to Avoid COVID-19 While Pregnant. Not a Single Thing Went According to Plan.

by Annie Waldman,

“Similar to Times of War”: The Staggering Toll of COVID-19 on Filipino Health Care Workers

by Nina Martin and Bernice Yeung,

Los New Yorkers: Essential and Underprotected in the Pandemic’s Epicenter

by Adriana Gallardo, ProPublica, and Ariel Goodman for ProPublica,

This ICE Detainee Caught Coronavirus After Asking to Be Released. A Judge Says He Still Shouldn’t Be Let Go.

by Yeganeh Torbati,

“I Do Not Want to Die in Here”: Letters From the Houston Jail

by Ian MacDougall,

How Profit and Incompetence Delayed N95 Masks While People Died at the VA

by J. David McSwane,

This Rural Nursing Home Has Lost Nearly a Quarter of Its Residents to COVID-19. Now Its State Is Reopening.

by Max Blau for Georgia Health News,

¿Qué pasa cuando los obreros que hacen jabón de manos contraen COVID-19? Protestan.

por Melissa Sanchez,

In Chicago, Urban Density May Not Be to Blame for the Spread of the Coronavirus

by Haru Coryne, ProPublica Illinois,

Texas Still Won’t Say Which Nursing Homes Have COVID-19 Cases. Families Are Demanding Answers.

by Lomi Kriel and Vianna Davila, ProPublica and The Texas Tribune, and Edgar Walters, The Texas Tribune,

Inside the Jail With One of the Country’s Largest Coronavirus Outbreaks

by Shannon Heffernan, WBEZ,

The Trump Administration Has Put Federal Workers at Coronavirus Risk, Senators Say

by Maryam Jameel,

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,