To put the Delta on the same playing field as other parts of the state for business growth, there needs to be a large-scale investment in infrastructure, health care, school systems and more, medical experts said.
Healthcare Regulation and Reform
The 1918 influenza epidemic is still remembered keenly in parts of rural Alaska.
Amner Martinez still doesn’t really know all the details from when his 74-year-old father Concepcion got really sick with COVID-19 near the beginning of the pandemic.
This project was produced as part of the 2021 National Fellowship with USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism.
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COVID struck the nation's meatpacking plants more than a year ago. But worker safety is still a contentious issue
“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.
A trio of reporters offer a masterful examination of the overuse, underuse and misuse of medical care in America.
This project was produced as part of the 2021 National Fellowship with USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism.
Other stories by Natalie Krebs include:
"There used to be a time when license plates had numbers on it for each county based on population and Pulaski County was one and Jefferson County and Mississippi County were two and three."
Home designs imported to the Arctic from elsewhere are contributing to health problems that disproportionately affect Alaska Natives.
Faced with daunting gaps in water and sewer systems, some Alaska Native communities are thinking small.