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Heidi De Marco

This photo shows a vial of the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine, Bivalent, at AltaMed Medical clinic in Los Angeles, California, on October 6, 2022. (RINGO CHIU/AFP via Getty Images)

Latino teens are deputized as health educators to sway the unvaccinated

Heidi De Marco
Smoke from Southern California wildfires drifts through the L.A. Basin, obscuring downtown skyscrapers in a view from a closed Griffith Observatory on Thursday, Sept. 17, 2020 in Los Angeles, CA. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Children in Northern California learn to cope with wildfire trauma

Heidi De Marco
Doctors and nurses taking care of patients in ICU at hospital during COVID-19 (Getty Images)

Etching the pain of COVID into the flesh of survivors

Heidi De Marco
Shot of a young man holding a crate of freshly picked produce on a farm (Getty Images)

As temperatures rise, so do the health risks for California’s farmworkers

Miranda Green, Heidi De Marco
Farmers being tested for COVID-19 (Coalition of Immokalee Workers)

COVID-19 overwhelms border ICUs

Heidi De Marco