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COVID-19

The COVID Tracking Project Part 3

by Jessica Malaty Rivera, Kara Oehler, Artis Curiskis, Michael I Schiller, Michael Montgomery, Steven Rascón, Nikki Frick, Jim Briggs, Fernando Arruda, Kathryn Styer Martínez, Taki Telonidis and Brett Myers April 29, 2023May 4, 2023

The final episode of our three-part series takes listeners inside the failed federal response to COVID-19 and explores the massive volunteer effort to collect data about the disease.

COVID-19

The COVID Tracking Project Part 2

by Jessica Malaty Rivera, Kara Oehler, Artis Curiskis, Michael I Schiller, Michael Montgomery, Taki Telonidis, Steven Rascón, Jim Briggs, Fernando Arruda, Kathryn Styer Martínez, Al Letson, Nikki Frick and Brett Myers April 22, 2023May 4, 2023

Part two of our three-part series takes listeners inside the failed federal response to COVID-19 and explores the massive volunteer effort to collect data about the disease.

Dr. Paloma Marin-Nevarez sits on concrete steps, looking at the camera. She wears pink scrubs.

Accountability

Into the COVID ICU

by Brett Myers, Amy Mostafa, Brett Simpson, Claire Mullen, Steven Rascón, Jim Briggs, Fernando Arruda, Kevin Sullivan and Al Letson July 24, 2021August 10, 2021

Dr. Paloma Marin-Nevarez graduated in the middle of the pandemic. We follow the rookie doctor through her first months working on the front lines.

Accountability

PPP aid flooded fast food outlets facing labor complaints

by Gabriel Thompson June 2, 2021June 30, 2021

One McDonald’s chain in Chicago received half a million dollars in forgivable federal loans. Then came complaints of COVID-19 safety failures and a deadly outbreak.

COVID-19

Remember me this way

by Brett Myers, Brett Simpson, Amy Mostafa, Al Letson, Kevin Sullivan, Fernando Arruda, Jim Briggs and Najib Aminy March 3, 2021July 1, 2021

Each life lost to COVID-19 leaves a hole. We hear the story of one man, a father of six and Latino community leader who loved to sing.

An illustration shows a woman with a facemask reading 2020 holding up her ballot. Behind her, in a blue and purple swirl of colors, are ballots, voters, and other figures.

Accountability

United, we’re not

by Kevin Sullivan, Najib Aminy, Laura Starecheski, Brett Simpson, Brett Myers, Fernando Arruda, Jim Briggs, Emily Harris, Amy Mostafa, Al Letson, Taki Telonidis, Michael Montgomery, Matt Thompson, Jen Chien, Patrick Michels, Laura C. Morel, Stan Alcorn, Jennifer Gollan, Katharine Mieszkowski, Aura Bogado, Elizabeth Shogren, Andy Donohue, Esther Kaplan, Sumi Aggarwal and Claire Mullen November 14, 2020July 1, 2021

Where does America go from here? We talk with an asylum-seeking family, Georgia women on abortion and West Virginians on the impact of Black Lives Matter.

A man wearing a face mask is strapped to a gurney pushed by a paramedic. The paramedic wears a full complement of personal protective equipment.

COVID-19

Poor infection controls turn deadlier at nursing homes during pandemic

by Elizabeth Shogren September 18, 2020June 30, 2021

Federal inspectors cited 80% of nursing homes for poor infection control in recent years. Now, 25% of U.S. nursing home residents have gotten COVID-19.