Journalists Document True Toll of Covid on Health Care’s Front-Line Force

KHN and California Healthline staff made the rounds on national and local media this week to discuss their stories. Here’s a collection of their appearances.

April 10, 2021

Senior KHN correspondent Christina Jewett spoke on Thursday with NPR’s “Morning Edition” and the PBS NewsHour about the yearlong project, “Lost on the Frontline,” in which KHN and The Guardian counted and profiled health care workers who have died of covid-19.

Click here to hear Jewett on NPR
Click here to watch Jewett on PBS
Read “12 Months of Trauma: More Than 3,600 US Health Workers Died in Covid’s First Year” by Jewett and The Guardian’s Jane Spencer

Midwest correspondent Lauren Weber joined WAMU’s “1A” to discuss vaccination rates on April 2.

Click here to hear Weber on WAMU
Read Weber’s reporting on the covid-19 vaccine

Colorado correspondent Rae Ellen Bichell spoke with KUNC’s “Colorado Edition” about Durango’s covid cowboys enforcing mask mandates on April 1.

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Read Bichell’s “Durango’s Covid ‘Cowboy’ Rounds Up Spring Break Scofflaws, Lines ’Em Up for Shots”

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April 10, 2021

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<p>Senior KHN correspondent Christina Jewett spoke on Thursday with NPR’s “Morning Edition” and the PBS NewsHour about the yearlong project, “Lost on the Frontline,” in which KHN and The Guardian counted and profiled health care workers who have died of covid-19.</p>

<ul><li><a href="https://www.npr.org/2021/04/08/985253407/lost-on-the-front-line-tracks-health-workers-who-died-of-covid-19">Click here to hear Jewett on NPR</a></li><li><a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/frontline-casualties-the-health-care-workers-that-lost-their-lives-saving-covid-patients">Click here to watch Jewett on PBS</a></li><li>Read “<a href="https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/us-health-workers-deaths-covid-lost-on-the-frontline/">12 Months of Trauma: More Than 3,600 US Health Workers Died in Covid’s First Year</a>” by Jewett and The Guardian’s Jane Spencer</li></ul>

<p>Midwest correspondent Lauren Weber joined WAMU’s “1A” to discuss vaccination rates on April 2.   </p>

<ul><li><a href="https://the1a.org/segments/roundup-chauvin-covid-transgender/">Click here to hear Weber on WAMU</a></li><li>Read Weber’s <a href="https://kffhealthnews.org/news/author/lauren-weber/">reporting on the covid-19 vaccine</a></li></ul>

<p>Colorado correspondent Rae Ellen Bichell spoke with KUNC’s “Colorado Edition” about Durango’s covid cowboys enforcing mask mandates on April 1.   </p>

<ul><li><a href="https://www.kunc.org/show/kuncs-colorado-edition/2021-04-01/colorado-edition-back-in-time">Click here to hear Bichell on KUNC</a></li><li>Read Bichell’s <a href="https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/covid-cowboy-rounds-up-spring-break-mask-scofflaws-durango-colorado-tourist-vaccinations/">“Durango’s Covid ‘Cowboy’ Rounds Up Spring Break Scofflaws, Lines ’Em Up for Shots”</a></li></ul>

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