Healthcare Systems & Policy

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.

Maiya Ossipova was a divorced woman in her early forties with three kids when she met her future American husband on a dating website.

“They often refer to us as a restorative justice court, where we focus on assisting repeat offenders and connecting them to services so that those repetitive offenses stop,” said the court's administrator.

This project was produced as part of the 2021 National Fellowship with USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism.
Other stories by Natalie Krebs include:
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."

This story was published in partnership with Mother Jones and The Fuller Project. Support for this reporting was provided by the USC Annenberg School of Communications and Journalism National Health Journalism Fellowship.

Home designs imported to the Arctic from elsewhere are contributing to health problems that disproportionately affect Alaska Natives.