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Caroline Chen

Reporter

Caroline Chen covers health care for ProPublica. Previously, she worked at Bloomberg News, where she wrote about Valeant Pharmaceutical’s use of a mail order pharmacy to boost reimbursements for its drugs, the tactics used by a rare disease drugmaker to scare patients into staying on therapy, and the plight of medically complex babies who get stranded in hospitals because of a lack of home-care nurses. She received her Master’s degree from the Stabile Program in Investigative Journalism at Columbia University, where she was awarded a Pulitzer Traveling Fellowship.
Threats

Most States Aren’t Ready to Distribute the Leading COVID-19 Vaccine

State officials don’t know how they’ll deal with difficult storage and transport requirements, especially in rural areas seeing a spike in infections.

  • Isaac Arnsdorf, Ryan Gabrielson and Caroline Chen, ProPublica
Ideas

America Has No Coherent Strategy for Asymptomatic Testing

The federal guidance to not test asymptomatic carriers "is like saying we won’t fight the fire until it reaches the second floor.”

  • Caroline Chen, ProPublica
Threats

Missteps at CDC Set Back US Ability to Detect Coronavirus' Spread

The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention designed a flawed test for COVID-19, then took weeks to release a fix that allowed state and local labs to use it.

  • Caroline Chen, Marshall Allen, Lexi Churchill and Isaac Arnsdorf, ProPublica