Rae Ellen Bichell
Rae Ellen Bichell is a reporter for NPR's Science Desk. She first came to NPR in 2013 as a Kroc fellow and has since reported Web and radio stories on biomedical research, global health, and basic science. She won a 2016 Michael E. DeBakey Journalism Award from the Foundation for Biomedical Research. After graduating from Yale University, she spent two years in Helsinki, Finland, as a freelance reporter and Fulbright grantee.
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Obstetrical emergency departments are a new aspect of some hospitals that can inflate medical bills for even the easiest, healthiest births. Just ask baby Gus' parents about their $2,755 ER charge. -
La pandemia de COVID-19 ha puesto en el foco una dinámica de poder arraigada: los trabajadores agrícolas son "esenciales pero tratados como prescindibles", incluso cuando se trata de acceder a la atención médica. -
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought into focus an entrenched power dynamic: Farmworkers are “essential but treated as expendable,” including when it comes to accessing health care.
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Support for this story, reported in early 2020, came from The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, a non-profit news organization that partners with... -
Some of the first people to get vaccines — many of whom are in nursing homes — are seeing their lives get closer to the lives they led pre-pandemic. They say initial steps to normalcy feel great.
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Two Colorado counties are feuding as one has lax virus prevention rules which the other says are a problem because it has the hospitals that serve both populations.
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Early in the pandemic, hospitals were competing for ventilators, COVID tests and personal protective equipment. Now, sites across the country are competing for nurses. -
Winter is coming, and that means outdoor socializing is about to get harder. Health officials in other countries have endorsed something called a “social bubble,” also known as a “pandemic pod,” or “quaranteam.” An epidemiologist shares some tips on how to start one. -
Colorado researchers will soon begin growing two strains of the virus that causes COVID-19. They’ve contracted with the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to help stockpile the virus in case it’s needed in the future for a controversial kind of study. -
Twelve children, many showing mild symptoms or none at all, brought the virus home, infecting at least a dozen more people. One parent ended up in the hospital. -
A vaccine against the virus behind COVID-19 offers the only certain return to normalcy. Even so, misinformation and conspiracy theories abound – and a... -
A Utah-based company called Domo is showing public health agencies in the Mountain West where their COVID-19 transmission risk is coming from. Among...
