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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Cities and counties across the country are declaring that racism is a public health crisis, including at least one city in the Mountain West.
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At a hearing last weekend about a Colorado bill on vaccination, Dr. Reginald Washington had originally planned to make several urgent points in support of the bill.
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Weekend protests drew crowds across the country including in the Mountain West, from hundreds in Boise and Reno to thousands in Denver. Some city...
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Researchers in Utah are in the process of testing about 10,000 people for COVID-19 and antibodies against the virus that causes it. “People have talked...
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Nursing home residents and workers account for about one-third of all coronavirus deaths in the U.S., as The New York Times reported last week. Testing...
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Everyone knows that living in the Rockies can get expensive. Headwaters Economics wanted to know why. The non-profit published new research this week...
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Depending on the estimate, the U.S. needs between 100,000 and 300,000 contact tracers to help fight COVID-19. Some say these new jobs could be an...
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Communities across the globe are trying to understand what percent of their population has been exposed to COVID-19 by searching random samples of...
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This week the governors of Colorado and Nevada joined West Coast states in something called the Western States Pact. Its stated aim is to bring together...
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This post was updated May 1 with additional information It's World Immunization Week , but there's evidence that vaccinations are down as checkups get...