Caitlin Antonios

I joined the Orange County Register/SoCal News Group in July 2021 as a crime and public safety reporter. I graduated from the Toni Stabile Investigative program at Columbia University's School of Journalism in 2020 and then worked as a researcher for multiple publications. I was a 2020 Center for Health Journalism Impact Fund grantee. I was born and raised in Southern California and received a bachelor's degree from the University of California, Irvine where I was a double major in English and literary journalism.

Articles

Reporting Strategies

Lessons from my long, winding road of public records requests

Consider these tips to make your public records requests more targeted and successful.

In late January, thousands of vaccine appointments were cancelled at an OptumServe clinic in the Rohnert Park Community Center

Health Equity & Social Justice

Environment & Climate

Healthcare Systems & Policy

Community & Public Health

A dozen Calif. counties criticized OptumServe for vaccine clinic problems, documents show

California authorized paying OptumServe up to $221 million. But the company has helped with only 1% of the state’s vaccinations since January.

Environmental Health

Poverty and Class

Health Insurance and Costs

Healthcare Regulation and Reform

Patient Safety and Ethics

Rodolfo Reyes receives a dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine during a distribution clinic specifically for farmworkers.

Health Equity & Social Justice

Environment & Climate

Healthcare Systems & Policy

Community & Public Health

How growers had to sidestep county and state programs to vaccinate farmworkers

As harvest season approached, growers begged county officials to vaccinate their workers. But the state and counties didn’t prioritize vaccine doses for farmworkers in February. So the growers and doctors stepped in and set up their own clinics.

Race and Equity

Poverty and Class

Environmental Health

Immigrant and Migrant Health

Health Insurance and Costs

Patient Safety and Ethics

Patients arrive at the St. John's Well Child And Family Center to get inoculated with the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine in South LA

Health Equity & Social Justice

Children & Families

Healthcare Systems & Policy

Community & Public Health

California left clinics off vaccine list, so low-income patients are underserved

A Los Angeles network of 19 community clinics had a plan to administer thousands of vaccine doses each week. But state officials said they’d have to wait.

Poverty and Class

Health Insurance and Costs

Healthcare Regulation and Reform

Patient Safety and Ethics