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Joshua Kaplan

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Joshua Kaplan is a reporter at ProPublica. Since joining the newsroom in January 2020, he has reported on the U.S. military’s withdrawal from Afghanistan, the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol and misconduct by undercover police officers in New York City, among other subjects.

Kaplan’s work with colleagues at ProPublica has received national honors including a George Polk Award, an Edward R. Murrow Award and the Al Nakkula Award for Police Reporting. He holds a degree in mathematics from the University of Chicago.

Los hospitales han dejado solos, confundidos y sin atención adecuada a muchos pacientes con COVID-19 que no hablan inglés

Este fue el comentario de un empleado de servicios médicos, “Esperamos diez minutos en el teléfono para obtener un intérprete, y ese es tiempo valioso cuando estamos inundados. Entonces, comenzamos a calcular en forma utilitaria y los pacientes más convencionales son los que reciben mejor atención.”

April 2, 2020, 12:18 p.m. EDT

Hospitals Have Left Many COVID-19 Patients Who Don’t Speak English Alone, Confused and Without Proper Care

One medical worker told us: “It takes 10 minutes of sitting on the phone to get an interpreter, and that’s valuable time when you’re inundated. So this utilitarian calculus kicks in. And the patients that are most mainstream get the best care.”

March 31, 2020, 4:57 p.m. EDT

Your Neighborhood Might Be a Coronavirus Hot Spot, but New York City Refuses to Release the Data

Some local governments have published where coronavirus cases appear, down to the neighborhood level. New York City has made public only county-by-county data, making it difficult to see which communities are being hardest hit.

March 25, 2020, 4:14 p.m. EDT

Here’s Why Florida Got All the Emergency Medical Supplies It Requested While Other States Did Not

The Department of Health and Human Services has come under fire as several states’ requests for supplies from the emergency medical stockpile go unfulfilled. A chaotic distribution plan is buckling under a big problem: Nobody has enough.

March 20, 2020, 10:36 a.m. EDT

Should I Quarantine Because of Coronavirus? It Depends on Who You Ask.

Agencies, local authorities and national governments do not agree on who should be quarantined or what that should actually look like. Here’s what we do know.

March 11, 2020, 6:09 p.m. EDT

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