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Barbara Feder Ostrov
Contributing Writer
Barbara Feder Ostrov, Contributing Writer for CalMatters, has reported on medicine and health policy for more than 15 years. She most recently covered California and national health issues for Kaiser Health News. Previously, she covered the medical beat for the San Jose Mercury News for eight years and edited the website of the Center for Health Journalism at the USC Annenberg School of Journalism. She also worked at The Palm Beach Post and the Miami Herald. Her work has been published in the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Atlantic.com, Salon, Scientific American, PBS NewsHour, NPR, CNN.com, Ms. Magazine and Women's Day among other media outlets. She has won awards from the Society for Women’s Health Research, the California Newspaper Publishers Association and the Florida Press Club. She is based in San Jose, California.
The latest by Barbara Feder Ostrov
California’s essential workers to get benefit of the doubt if they contract COVID
Los trabajadores esenciales de California contarán con el beneficio de la duda si contraen COVID
Cue the debunking: Two Bakersfield doctors go viral with dubious COVID test conclusions
Governor’s quandary: Who should get California workers’ comp benefits for COVID-19?
Predicting a pandemic’s path: What models can and can’t do
Will California nursing homes be forced to accept COVID-19 patients?
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