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Christina Jewett

Christina Jewett covers end-of-life and acute care. She spent seven years with The Center for Investigative Reporting, where she worked with a partner and CNN on a series that uncovered widespread graft in Medicaid-funded drug rehab centers, spurring the closure of scores of centers and 11 arrests.

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A Year Into Pandemic, Federal Officials Move to Better Protect Frontline Workers

Christina Jewett Apr 15, 2021

National Nurses United demonstration at the U.S. Capitol Senate building in support of the HEROES Act to provide PPE for nurses in their fight against COVID-19. File photo credit: Phil Pasquini, Shutterstock.com, licensed. PFLUGERVILLE,…

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Did CDC Delays in Up-To-Date Masking Advice Cost Health Workers’ Lives?

Christina Jewett Mar 14, 2021

The growing body of studies showing aerosol spread of covid-19 during choir practice, on a bus, in a restaurant and at gyms have caught the eye of the public and led to widespread interest in better masks and ventilation. Photo credit…

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Feds OK’d Export of Millions of N95 Masks as U.S. Workers Cried for More

Christina Jewett Feb 19, 2021

Although prices fall considerably for those buying in bulk, prices for smaller lots of N95s have reached $4 to $7 each, according to Get Us PPE, a nonprofit meant to match front-line workers with needed gear. Editorial credit: Honeycruller…

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Prominent Scientists Call on CDC to Better Protect Workers From Covid

Christina Jewett Feb 17, 2021

A group of academics has sent a letter to the CDC insisting that more workers get access to top-rated N95 masks in an effort to help drive down the spread of the virus. Photo credit ShutterStock.com, licensed. WASHINGTON, D.C. - A…

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Hospitals, Nursing Homes Fail to Separate COVID Patients, Putting Others at Risk

Christina Jewett Sep 12, 2020

On July 21, 2020, registered nurses held a vigil at Sutter Health’s Alta Bates Summit Medical Center in Oakland, California, to remember their colleague Janine Paiste-Ponder, who died of COVID-19. California Nurses Association members had…

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Health Care Workers of Color Nearly Twice as Likely as Whites to Get COVID-19

Christina Jewett Aug 6, 2020

Harvard research shows minorities are more likely to report inadequate PPE and to work with COVID-positive patients. Photo credit Shutterstock licensed. SACRAMENTO, CA - Health care workers of color were more likely to care for patients…

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Next Showdown in Congress: Protecting Workers vs. Protecting Employers in the Pandemic

Christina Jewett Jul 13, 2020

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi in Brussels, Belgium. 18th Feb. 2019. File photo Editorial credit: Alexandros Michailidis / Shutterstock.com. WASHINGTON, D. C. - Congressional leaders are squaring off over the next pandemic relief…