Sun Herald Clips
COVID-19 across the most vaccine-hesitant state.
Across the country’s COVID hotspot during the delta wave, I toured Gulf Coast ICUs and ERs with zero beds available to write stories — like one on the left, featured on McClatchy’s website— profiling the nurses who have hit “compassion fatigue,” and their analysis of “younger and sicker” patients.
The human toll of a political virus in a Red state.
I’ve detailed the employees of Ingalls Shipbuilding and Stennis Space Center— some of the nation’s largest federal contractors— ongoing battles with management and the federal government over the vaccine. I’ve followed how Mississippi lawmakers navigate the hot-button political issue and chronicled the near breakdown of the region’s health systems. I’ve written some sobering obituaries and chronicled skyrocketing ivermectin sales.