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Blake Farmer

Patients rest in a hallway in the overloaded Emergency Room area at Providence St. Mary Medical Center on January 27, 2021 in Apple Valley, California. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)

Doctors are disappearing from emergency rooms as hospitals look to cut costs

Brett Kelman, Blake Farmer
Prescription medication is strewn about, with pill bottles in the deep background. (Getty Images)

Some addiction treatment centers turn big profits by scaling back care

Renuka Rayasam, Blake Farmer
A doctor with the Saxony-Anhalt Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians, takes a swab from a patient at the fever outpatient clinic in Halle/Saale. (Hendrik Schmidt/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Treating long COVID is rife with guesswork

Blake Farmer
Empty strip-mall parking lott (Getty Images/kevinjeon00)

In search of space, health systems take over malls

Blake Farmer
Demonstrators participate in a Defeat the Mandates march in Washington, DC, on January 23, 2022. - Demonstrators are protesting mask and Covid-19 vaccination mandates. (STEFANI REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

Medical boards pressured to let it slide when doctors spread Covid misinformation

Blake Farmer
In this photo illustration the Humana Inc. logo seen displayed on a smartphone screen. (Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

App attempts to break barriers to bankruptcy for those in medical debt

Blake Farmer
Close up view of a doctor wearing surgical mask and a face shield in a hospital COVID ward. (Getty Images)

As hospitals fill with COVID patients, medical reinforcements are hard to find

Blake Farmer, Carrie Feibel
People wearing face masks as a preventive measure walk along the Venice Beach. Los Angeles County reopened its beaches for active use while requiring people to wear face masks and maintain social distancing as the county tries to reduce COVID-19 infections. (Ronen Tivony / Echoes Wire/Barcroft Media via Getty Images)

New coronavirus hot spots emerge across South and in California, as Northeast slows

Martha Bebinger, Blake Farmer, Jackie Fortiér
President Donald Trump opens a box containing an Abbott Labs testing kit during a coronavirus briefing at the White House in March. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Congress said COVID-19 tests should be free — but who’s paying?

Blake Farmer