This article by Alissa Zhu was produced as a project for the Dennis A. Hunt Fund for Health Journalism, a program of the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism’s 2020 National Fellowship.
Healthcare Regulation and Reform
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The city has long struggled to make progress in improving the health of mothers and newborns. Do these shutdowns lead to worse care?