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Author Archives: Bram Sable-SmithMike Simonson Memorial Investigative Reporting Fellow

Bram Sable-Smith joined the Center in 2019 as the Wisconsin Public Radio Mike Simonson Memorial Investigative Reporting Fellow. Before moving to Wisconsin he spent five years reporting on health care at KBIA in Columbia, Missouri and as a founding reporter of Side Effects Public Media, a public media reporting collaborative in the Midwest. He also taught radio journalism at the University of Missouri School of Journalism. Bram’s contributed stories to National Public Radio’s Morning Edition and All Things Considered, American Public Media’s Marketplace and Kaiser Health News. His reporting has received two national Edward R. Murrow awards, two national Sigma Delta Chi awards, a health policy award from the Association of Health Care Journalists among others. Bram is a proficient Spanish speaker and a graduate of Washington University in St. Louis.

bsablesmith@wisconsinwatch.org

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Posted inHealth & Welfare, Outbreak Wisconsin

‘Season of rebirth’: A Madison ER nurse ponders life after the pandemic

by Bram Sable-Smith April 13th, 2021April 16th, 2021 Why you can trust WisconsinWatch.org

Mariah Clark reflects on the traumas she witnessed while treating COVID-19 patients and losing her own loved ones to the deadly disease.

Posted inHealth & Welfare

‘We’re not given the option to get vaccinated’: Advocates work to narrow racial and ethnic disparities in Wisconsin

by Bram Sable-Smith April 5th, 2021April 6th, 2021
Posted inHealth & Welfare

“No tenemos la opción de vacunarnos”: Defensores trabajan para reducir las disparidades raciales y étnicas en Wisconsin

by Bram Sable-Smith April 5th, 2021April 16th, 2021
Posted inOutbreak Wisconsin

Wisconsinites share how they are coping and adapting one year into the COVID-19 pandemic

by Bridgit Bowden, Coburn Dukehart and Bram Sable-Smith March 18th, 2021March 18th, 2021
Posted inCoronavirus Coverage

Wisconsin has wasted few COVID-19 vaccine doses, data show

by Bram Sable-Smith March 15th, 2021March 18th, 2021
Posted inCoronavirus Coverage

How to get a COVID-19 shot in Wisconsin: Vaccine hunters share tips

by Bram Sable-Smith March 12th, 2021March 12th, 2021
Posted inEconomy, Lives on Hold

‘I got nothing left’: Wisconsin’s jobless pushed to brink as ideas swirl for mending torn safety net

by Bram Sable-Smith February 18th, 2021March 1st, 2021
Posted inCoronavirus Coverage, Health & Welfare

So you’ve been diagnosed with COVID-19. What next?

by Bram Sable-Smith January 18th, 2021March 8th, 2021
Posted inCoronavirus Coverage, Health & Welfare, Outbreak Wisconsin

‘I’m happy to be part of history’: An ER nurse gets the coronavirus vaccine, offering example to others

by Bram Sable-Smith December 28th, 2020February 24th, 2021
Posted inCostly Care, Health & Welfare

‘I just kind of panicked’: Patients confused as hospitals file liens to recoup costs of treating injured uninsured

by Bram Sable-Smith December 22nd, 2020March 8th, 2021
Posted inCostly Care, Health & Welfare

A Wisconsin hospital promised to stop suing most patients during the pandemic. Then it filed 200 lawsuits.

by Bram Sable-Smith December 21st, 2020March 8th, 2021
Posted inOutbreak Wisconsin

Duane Bark — beloved educator and football coach who painted daughter’s nails, dies of COVID-19 at 61

by Bram Sable-Smith December 17th, 2020February 24th, 2021

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