US states with fewer restrictions to contain the spread of the coronavirus are attracting shoppers and students from stricter neighbours — and sending back Covid-19 cases. The imbalance underscores the lack of a national policy, reports US investigative newsroom ProPublica.
Physicians Premier ER charged Dr. Zachary Sussman’s insurance $10,984 for his Covid-19 antibody test even though Sussman worked for the chain and knows the testing materials only cost about $8. Even more surprising, reports online US investigative magazine ProPublica., the insurer paid in full.
Trump administration officials have been cited 13 times for violating the Hatch Act, a New Deal-era law prohibiting government officials from engaging in campaigning, co-reports online US investigative news magazine ProPublica and WNYC radio.
The US federal government is essentially providing seed money to PPE startups, including some run by people accused of fraud. Mask brokers describe a simple blueprint for buying masks from China to get rich, reveals US investigative online magazine ProPublica.
The US economy is in free fall but Wall Street is thriving, and stocks of big private equity firms are soaring dramatically higher which, as nonprofit investigative newsroom ProPublica details here, tells you who investors think is the real beneficiary of the federal government’s massive rescue efforts.
“It first struck me how different it was when I saw my first coronavirus patient go bad. I was like, Holy shit, this is not the flu." In an interview with US nonprofit investigative newsroom ProPublica, a New Orleans hospital respiratory therapist gives a frank and terrifying account of the effects of Covid-19 coronavirus infection.
After decades of shielding the identities of accused child abusers from the public, many Catholic leaders in the US are now releasing lists of their names. But the lists are inconsistent, incomplete and omit key details reveals US nonprofit newsroom ProPublica in a long-read investigation.
Hundreds of computer servers worldwide that store patient X-rays and MRIs are so insecure that anyone with a web browser or a few lines of computer code can view patient records, reveals US investigative online magazine ProPublica. One expert warned about it for years.
After talks with well-connected lawyers for Barclays and Royal Bank of Scotland, senior justice department officials in Washington last year told career prosecutors who’d been investigating the banks’ misdeeds to settle for less than they wanted, reports US investigative website ProPublica, in this joint report with American Banker.
Natural gas companies have cut down forests and paved over farms on West Virginia private lands, calling it “reasonably necessary” to access subsurface gas they own the rights to. A new documentary by US investigative news site ProPublica chronicles the legal battles.
