January 24, 2022
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| Plus, crystal-ball gazing amid COVID is a fool's errand — but who can resist?
January 24, 2022
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| A reporter knew reaching workers would be hard. It proved even harder than imagined.
January 21, 2022
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| STAT's Helen Branswell and The Atlantic's Katherine J. Wu talk COVID reporting and managing the overwhelm.
January 20, 2022
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| While the country awaits a Supreme Court ruling on Roe v. Wade, state lawmakers are busy chipping away at access to care.
January 18, 2022
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| Sustained coverage on surprise bills fueled public outrage and legislation. But the resulting regulations are far from perfect.
January 17, 2022
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| The fast-moving omicron wave may soon subside.
January 14, 2022
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| Finding families willing to talk was a daunting challenge: "Why would anyone want to speak about this, much less with a reporter?"
January 12, 2022
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| As the omicron surge disrupts schools nationwide, new research finds that kids forced to learn online instead of in person exhibited more behavioral issues.
January 10, 2022
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| How one reporter perservered to find the right people for bringing an overlooked story of the pandemic era to life.
January 10, 2022
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| The CDC leaves many scratching their heads in communications over isolation and quarantine.
January 07, 2022
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| As the Surgeon General warns of a youth mental health crisis, a psychotherapist asks: where are the policies that would help kids get care?
January 05, 2022
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| In Chicago, police routinely arrest people for possession of small quantities of drugs knowing the charges won’t stick. But the arrests have real consequences.
January 03, 2022
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| For decades now, oil companies have been pumping wastewater deep back underground across California, via wells penetrating the same oil field. What does the science tell us about the health risks?
December 29, 2021
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| For series on home births, a reporter recounts how she overcame a key challenge: "I felt I was missing the voices of people I was writing about, the women who opted for home birth."
December 23, 2021
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| There is no elder care system in California, and the options are particularly dire for families with scant resources.