Emily DeRuy reported this story while participating in the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism’s 2021 California Fellowship.
Other work by her includes:
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Community & Public Health
The number of patients with “unsalvageable” disease has ticked up. So too has the rate of amputations.
The Eviction Lab's Peter Hepburn joined attorney Tina Rosales and Bloomberg CityLab's Kriston Capps to discuss the eviction crisis.
UCLA study answers some of the questions expectant mothers have had since early in the pandemic, when so much was unknown.
Many immigrant women were already vulnerable before due to their immigration status; the lockdown worsened their situation.
Muchas mujeres inmigrantes ya eran vulnerables al abuso conyugal, por ser indocumentadas y poco preparadas; la pandemia agudizó ese problema.
"If everybody in this community were vaccinated, we would have one person in the ICU. One," Marian Regional pulmonologist Zacharia Reagle said.
Birthing parents report isolation during the pandemic and stress after the closure of the labor and delivery center in Fort Bragg last year, revealing strains on maternal healthcare in Mendocino County.
This article was produced as a project for the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism’s 2021 California Fellowship.
Unhoused people are reversing overdoses and saving lives on the street, but these efforts aren’t showing up in official counts.