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

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

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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

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

• Click here to hear Bichell on KUNC
• Read Bichell’s “Durango’s Covid ‘Cowboy’ Rounds Up Spring Break Scofflaws, Lines ’Em Up for Shots”