Roads in rural Fresno County are often neglected and underdeveloped. Potholes, flooding and basic safety measures go unfixed. There are no streetlights, sidewalks, bike lanes, crosswalks, center lines or even speed limit signs on many roads in rural towns, and public transit service is limited.
Thousands of Indigenous migrants toil on California farms, cut off from health care by language and cultural barriers.
Unhoused people who use drugs are reversing overdoses and saving hundreds of lives each year.
Nonprofits were less helpful than expected, but Florida school districts helped a journalist find families.
Emily DeRuy reported this story while participating in the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism’s 2021 California Fellowship.
Other work by her includes:
COVID forced Bay Area families to make agonizing elder-care decisions. Is there a fix?
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The number of patients with “unsalvageable” disease has ticked up. So too has the rate of amputations.
"If everybody in this community were vaccinated, we would have one person in the ICU. One," Marian Regional pulmonologist Zacharia Reagle said.
If drug price negotiation fails, Democrats lose funding for much of their current health care plans.
Unhoused people are reversing overdoses and saving lives on the street, but these efforts aren’t showing up in official counts.
This story was written by SweSwe Aye while participating in the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism's 2021 California Fellowship.
Her other stories include:
Part 1: Burmese American Community's Vaccination Efforts
