A hospital, and a family, lost during the pandemic
For years, Latasha Taylor resisted her mother’s requests to join her in the garden at sunrise. She keeps this memory with her ever since her mother died from Covid-19 in …
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A community pioneer lost, and remembered
Sisters Martha Huggins (left) and Mary Moore (right) and their friend Ann attend the funeral of Daisy Pace, who died of Covid-19. “Ever since I knew her, she was a …
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The land as medicine
Physician Marlo Paul, seen in her Alabama home, has been making house calls during the pandemic in medically underserved Hale County. HALE COUNTY, Ala. — Small, cramped trailer homes and …
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The Guardian of the Glades
Emerson Hilas chases rabbits through a sugarcane field that was recently burned. To process the product and prepare the land, sugar companies openly burn hundreds of thousands of acres of …
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‘It’s soul-draining’: Health workers deployed to Covid hot zones are overwhelmed by deaths among the unvaccinated
BATON ROUGE, La. — Bren Ingle watched through a set of twin glass doors as her patient drew his final, halting breaths, a terrifyingly long pause separating each one. She …
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Watch: An unusual 30th birthday gift: Why I got a colonoscopy so young — and documented every step
The passing of Chadwick Boseman from colorectal cancer at the age of 43 devastated so many people who looked to the “Black Panther” star and saw a hero. His death …
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Chadwick Boseman’s tragedy is America’s tragedy: In colorectal cancer hot spots, young men are dying at higher rates
Three months before “Black Panther” star Chadwick Boseman died from stage 4 colon cancer at age 43, another young Black idol succumbed to the same scourge. Omhar Carter was a …
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More than two-thirds of Congress cashed a pharma campaign check in 2020, new STAT analysis shows
STAT’s tool allows users to visualize individual drug companies’ corporate PAC spending, mapped geographically based on each company’s U.S. headquarters, as listed on its website. WASHINGTON — Seventy-two senators and …
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Pharma funded more than 2,400 state lawmaker campaigns in 2020, new STAT analysis finds
Major pharmaceutical companies and trade groups helped fund the campaigns of more than 2,400 state legislators nationwide in the 2020 election. Lawmakers who don’t appear on the map did not …
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