New work for The New York Times. Me and Emily Baumgaertner document the ongoing challenges of a family and a community six months after the train derailment in East Palestine.

One Family’s Toxic Train Wreck Ordeal: Illness, Exile and Debt

nytimes.com/2023/08/16/hea…

The noisiness of daily life is more than annoying — it can have lasting effects on the body. We measured noise exposure in Mississippi, New York City, California and New Jersey, and consulted scientists to examine how noise could take years off your life. nytimes.com/interactive/20…

Rural hospitals are in crisis.

'The doctor woke the sheriff and sent him barreling north in his pickup truck with a cardboard box lined with ice packs and a mission to bring back blood.'

Stunning, meticulously reported story: Emily Baumgaertner

nytimes.com/2022/12/09/hea…

Great piece on the loss of pediatric hospital beds nationally by Emily Baumgaertner.

What happens when kids, especially those with special needs, get sick?

It’s a challenge for kids, parents, communities, & often adult ER docs who are the last line of defense

nytimes.com/2022/10/11/hea…

This story by Emily Baumgaertner about a #surrogacy service is 😯. In the Los Angeles Times #podcast , she tells Col. Gustavo Arellano, 'This was an absolutely fascinating case to report and a heartbreaking case to report, in part, because it wasn't a black or white story.' link.chtbl.com/dxnaW5d4

In the last years of smallpox eradication, frontline workers deployed 'ring vaccination' to throw an immunological fence around infected people. Now that's being tried for monkeypox — but we lack the contact info and testing to make it work. Me in WIRED: wired.com/story/ring-vac…

There have been recent signs that we may be forced to pay attention again to a plague we thought was safely in the rear-view mirror. Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 explains what you need to know about polio after first reported US case in a decade statnews.com/2022/07/26/wha… via STAT

I look for things I haven't seen before on the streets. I have never seen a homeless person ironing clothes outside. Jose Luis Camargo said most of his belongings had been thrown out during sweeps. He saved an old little iron. Connor Sheets Los Angeles Times

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Everything about this is excellent nytimes.com/interactive/20…

🚨I wrote about a new study that makes clear just how exceptional America is, compared to other wealthy nations, at killing its own people--in large numbers & at young ages, during the pandemic and long before it. 1/ theatlantic.com/health/archive…

obviously,

this piece is a banger

by Ed Yong is not here

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A journalist's recurring night terror just came true.

This story by Gale Holland, Christina House and Claire H Collins -- on a woman contending with homelessness, addiction and intergenerational trauma as she tries to build a life for her child -- will take time to read and process. It will also stay with you. latimes.com/california/sto…

ICYMI: Emily Baumgaertner on Good Morning America discussing her latest investigation into the mostly unregulated surrogacy industry and the California clinic that used surrogates in Mexico with often devastating results: abcn.ws/3c1BzRv

Months ago, we got a tip that someone was 'stealing life savings' from people desperate for kids.

But the truth turned out to be far more complicated⁠—and far more devastating: risky bets, quests for legacy and the blinding power of hope.

For Los Angeles Times:latimes.com/world-nation/s…

This investigation by Emily Baumgaertner is a really interesting read: She promised babies at bargain prices using surrogates in Mexico. Now FBI investigating latimes.com/world-nation/s…