Overwhelmed Hospitals Face Staffing Firms Are Cutting Doctors’ Hours and Pay

Multiple private-equity-backed staffing companies have cut hours for thousands of emergency room doctors, physician assistants and nurse practitioners. That means there are fewer medical workers at a time in hospitals and they are receiving less pay. | Continue reading


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ProPublica’s health reporter Caroline Chen explains what the conversation around asymptomatic coronavirus carriers is missing, and what we need to understand if we’re going to beat this nefarious virus together. | Continue reading


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No, the coronavirus is not an “equalizer.” Black people are being infected and dying at higher rates. Here’s what Milwaukee is doing about it — and why governments need to start releasing data on the race of COVID-19 patients. | Continue reading


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New York State Pays Up to 15 Times the Normal Prices for Medical Equipment

State data shows that New York is paying enormous markups for vital supplies, including almost $250,000 for an X-ray machine. Laws against price gouging usually don’t apply. | Continue reading


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Medical Staffing Company Slashed Benefits for Doctors, Nurses Fighting Virus

Alteon Health, a staffing company backed by private-equity firm Frazier Healthcare Partners, will cut salaries, time off and retirement benefits for providers, citing lost revenue. Several hospital operators announced similar cuts. | Continue reading


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Taxpayers Paid Millions to Design a Low-Cost Ventilator for a Pandemic

As coronavirus sweeps the globe, there is not a single Trilogy Evo Universal ventilator — developed with government funds — in the U.S. stockpile. Meanwhile, Royal Philips N.V. has sold higher-priced versions to clients around the world. | Continue reading


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Taxpayers Paid Millions to Design a Low-Cost Ventilator for a Pandemic. Instead, the Company Is Selling Versions of It Overseas. - ProPublica

As coronavirus sweeps the globe, there is not a single Trilogy Evo Universal ventilator — developed with government funds — in the U.S. stockpile. Meanwhile, Royal Philips N.V. has sold higher-priced versions to clients around the world. | Continue reading


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As meatpackers rush to meet demand, their employees are starting to get COVID-19. But some workers say they’re going to work ill because they don’t have paid sick days and can be penalized for staying home. | Continue reading


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When the State Shifted to E-Learning, a Rural School Shifted to the Copy Machine

With schools closed because of coronavirus, students are expected to learn remotely. But what happens when your school district doesn’t have the internet access to keep you in school? Here’s one district’s paper trail. | Continue reading


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China Built a Twitter Propaganda Machine Then Let It Loose on Coronavirus

ProPublica analyzed thousands of fake and hijacked Twitter accounts to understand how covert Chinese propaganda spreads around the globe. | Continue reading


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Internal Emails Show Chaos at the CDC Slowed the Early Response to Coronavirus

The CDC fumbled its communication with public health officials and underestimated the threat of the coronavirus even as it gained a foothold in the United States, according to hundreds of pages of documents ProPublica obtained. | Continue reading


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Walmart Was Almost Charged Criminally Over Opioids. Trump Appointees Killed the Indictment. - ProPublica

Even as company pharmacists protested, Walmart kept filling suspicious prescriptions, stoking the country’s opioid epidemic. A Republican U.S. Attorney in Texas thought the evidence was damning. Trump’s political appointees? Not so much. | Continue reading


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Doctors hoard Covid-19 meds by writing prescriptions for selves, families

Pharmacists told ProPublica that they are seeing unusual and fraudulent prescribing activity as doctors stockpile unproven coronavirus drugs endorsed by President Donald Trump. | Continue reading


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ICE Detainees Are Going on a Hunger Strike for Soap

In audio obtained by ProPublica, an ICE detainee described harrowing conditions as fears over coronavirus spread. The ICE detention center in New Jersey gives detainees one bar of soap per week. If they want more, they have to buy it. | Continue reading


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A Medical Worker Describes Terrifying Lung Failure from Covid-19

“It first struck me how different it was when I saw my first coronavirus patient go bad. I was like, Holy shit, this is not the flu. Watching this relatively young guy, gasping for air, pink frothy secretions coming out of his tube.” | Continue reading


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Lupus Patients Can't Get Crucial Medication After President Trump Pushes Unproven Coronavirus Treatment - ProPublica

Trump’s unproven claim that hydroxychloroquine could be used to treat COVID-19 has led to hoarding, putting Lupus patients and others at even greater risk. As of Saturday afternoon, Anna Valdez had 27 pills left. That number is now down to 25. | Continue reading


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A Medical Worker Describes Terrifying Lung Failure From COVID-19 - Even in His Young Patients - ProPublica

“It first struck me how different it was when I saw my first coronavirus patient go bad. I was like, Holy shit, this is not the flu. Watching this relatively young guy, gasping for air, pink frothy secretions coming out of his tube.” | Continue reading


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“It first struck me how different it was when I saw my first coronavirus patient go bad. I was like, Holy shit, this is not the flu. Watching this relatively young guy, gasping for air, pink frothy secretions coming out of his tube.” | Continue reading


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Senator Dumped $1.7M of Stock After Reassuring Public About Coronavirus

Intelligence Chair Richard Burr’s selloff came around the time he was receiving daily briefings on the health threat. | Continue reading


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Senator Dumped Up to $1.6 Million of Stock After Reassuring Public About Coronavirus Preparedness - ProPublica

Intelligence Chair Richard Burr’s selloff came around the time he was receiving daily briefings on the health threat. | Continue reading


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This Coronavirus Is Unlike Anything in Our Lifetime, and We Have to Stop Comparing It to the Flu - ProPublica

Longtime health reporter Charles Ornstein says that comparing the novel coronavirus to the flu is dangerously inaccurate. Not one public health expert he trusts has called that comparison valid. Here’s why. | Continue reading


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Longtime health reporter Charles Ornstein says that comparing the novel coronavirus to the flu is dangerously inaccurate. Not one public health expert he trusts has called that comparison valid. Here’s why. | Continue reading


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Trump's Company Paid Bribes to Reduce Property Taxes, Assessors Say - ProPublica

Five former city employees and a former Trump Organization employee say the company used middlemen to pay New York City tax assessors to lower building assessments and pay less taxes in the 1980s and 1990s. | Continue reading


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What States Can Learn from What Happened in Illinois After It Legalized Gambling

Attention: Georgia, Indiana, Missouri, Mississippi and Pennsylvania. Accel Entertainment became the largest video gambling operator in Illinois. Now it has its eyes on you. | Continue reading


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For concerned civilians and journalists covering the coronavirus, the figures and projections can be overwhelming, frightening or confusing. Here’s what reporter Caroline Chen is focusing on to keep things as accurate and clear as possible. | Continue reading


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These Are the Questions We Should Be Asking About Coronavirus

For concerned civilians and journalists covering the coronavirus, the figures and projections can be overwhelming, frightening or confusing. Here’s what reporter Caroline Chen is focusing on to keep things as accurate and clear as possible. | Continue reading


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Family Behind the Opioid Crisis Needed PR Help, They Turned to Mike Bloomberg

Bloomberg gave media advice to the Sacklers and recommended his longtime mayoral spokesman to them. The relationship could shadow his presidential bid. | Continue reading


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Key Missteps at the CDC Have Set Back Its Ability to Detect the Potential Spread

The CDC designed a flawed test for COVID-19, then took weeks to figure out a fix so state and local labs could use it. New York still doesn’t trust the test’s accuracy. | Continue reading


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A Key FBI Photo Analysis Method Has Serious Flaws, Study Says

After ProPublica’s reporting last year, scientists at UC Berkeley tested one of the FBI Lab’s photo analysis techniques, identifying bluejeans by the pattern on their seams, and found flaws that challenge the method’s reliability. | Continue reading


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Trump's New Spy Chief Used to Work for a Foreign Politician the U.S. Accused of Corruption - ProPublica

Richard Grenell did not disclose payments for advocacy work on behalf of a Moldovan politician whom the U.S. later accused of corruption. His own office’s policy says that could leave him vulnerable to blackmail. | Continue reading


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The Profitable Business of Being Joe Biden's Brother - ProPublica

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Engineers warn of dangerous car seats; Evenflo ignores them

Internal video of side-impact tests shows that children could be injured or killed in Evenflo's “Big Kid” booster seats. But the company continued to market them as “side-impact tested.” | Continue reading


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Tax software companies made $1B charging people who can file for free

Tax software companies made around $1 billion in revenue by charging people who were eligible to file for free. | Continue reading


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Evenflo, Maker of the "Big Kid" Booster Seat, Put Profits Over Child Safety - ProPublica

Internal video of side-impact tests shows that children could be injured or killed in Evenflo's “Big Kid” booster seats. But the company continued to market them as “side-impact tested.” | Continue reading


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The Iowa Caucuses App Had Another Problem: It Could Have Been Hacked

While there is no evidence hackers intercepted or tampered with the results, a security firm consulted by ProPublica found that the app lacks key safeguards. | Continue reading


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Jail Officials Profit from Selling E-Cigarettes to Inmates

Many cash-strapped Kentucky jails prop up their budgets by selling e-cigarettes to inmates, making more than $1.3 million in 2018. Some jailers, or their friends and family, are making money while jails overlook the health concerns of vaping products. | Continue reading


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Help Us Cover the Election With Electionland 2020 - ProPublica

ProPublica is relaunching its collaborative project for a third time to cover voting during this crucial election year. We’re recruiting newsroom partners. | Continue reading


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A Secret History of the 9/11 Investigation

Behind the scenes, a small team of FBI agents spent years trying to solve a stubborn mystery — whether officials from Saudi Arabia, one of Washington’s closest allies, were involved in the worst terror attack in U.S. history. This is their story. | Continue reading


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Who’s Afraid of the IRS? Not Facebook

The social media behemoth is about to face off with the tax agency in a rare trial to capture billions that the IRS thinks Facebook owes. But onerous budget cuts have hamstrung the agency’s ability to bring the case. | Continue reading


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Microsoft had shifted at least $39B in U.S. profits to Puerto Rico

For years, the company has moved billions in profits to Puerto Rico to avoid taxes. When the IRS pushed it to pay, Microsoft protested that the agency wasn’t being nice. Then it aggressively fought back in court, lobbied Congress and changed the law. | Continue reading


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How Trump’s Trade War Is Making Lobbyists Rich and Slamming Small Businesses

Washington’s influence industry, including former Trump officials and allies, has made big money helping companies get exemptions from tariffs — sometimes by undercutting small business owners like Mike Elrod. | Continue reading


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Lawmakers Refused to Increase an Infamous Prison’s Funding. Then, Chaos Erupted

Understaffed and underfunded, Mississippi’s Parchman prison recently received media attention for its grisly violence, gang control and subhuman living conditions. However, lawmakers have known about these issues for years, and have done nothing to fix it. | Continue reading


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Inside A Course Where School Workers Learn How to Physically Restrain Students

While reporting on the use of physical restraint in schools, I wanted to understand if school workers properly used their training in the classroom. They often did not. | Continue reading


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The IRS Tried to Crack Down on Rich People Using an “Abusive” Tax Deduction

The tax agency, Justice Department and Congress have all taken aim at a much-abused deduction exploited by wealthy investors. Yet the crackdown is having minimal impact, costing the Treasury billions. | Continue reading


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The Family Wanted a Do Not Resuscitate Order. The Doctors Didn’t

Andy Jurtschenko told his children that he didn’t want to be a burden on them. But after he suffered brain damage during a heart transplant at a New Jersey hospital, his medical team deflected their request for a DNR. | Continue reading


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How Amazon Chose Speed over Safety in Building Its Delivery Network

Amazon ignored or dismissed safety concerns about its delivery network to prioritize speed and explosive growth, according to new documents and interviews with insiders. | Continue reading


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IRS Reforms Free File Program, Drops Agreement Not to Compete with TurboTax

The changes come after ProPublica’s reporting showed how TurboTax maker Intuit tricked customers into paying for tax prep they could have gotten for free. | Continue reading


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