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Endurance Test: Underserved Desi Grocery Workers Go to the Front Lines

By Srishti Prabha
Masala Heroes is a three-part series on Santa Clara County’s South Asian (Desi) grocery stores and their contribution to their community’s health.
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Amputees Lost in the COVID-19 Shuffle

By Eli Cahan
“The treatment of amputees is in the dark ages, and COVID only made the dark ages darker,” said Dr. Demetrios Macris, a vascular surgeon in San Antonio, Texas.
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Part 2: In-home water and sanitation systems offer alternatives to serve remote Alaska villages

By Yereth Rosen
Faced with daunting gaps in water and sewer systems, some Alaska Native communities are thinking small.
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Part 1: For some Alaska villages, the lack of modern water and sewer service means more health risks

By Yereth Rosen
Many residents of rural Alaska suffer higher rates of illnesses because they lack basic infrastructure.

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5/25 Webinar: ‘Dying for Care’ in America’s Nursing Homes

Nowhere was the massive COVID wave of winter 2021 more devastating than in America’s nursing homes, where 71,000 residents died in the surge. In this webinar, we’ll hear from the lead reporter in the USA Today series "Dying for Care," who will show how an original data analysis and an exhaustive reporting effort revealed a pattern of unnecessary deaths that compounded the pandemic’s brutal toll. Sign-up here!

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