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Carmen Heredia Rodriguez

Carmen Heredia Rodriguez, Reporter, recently graduated from Indiana University with bachelor’s degrees in journalism and political science. Her interest in health care during her collegiate years led her to volunteer in Panama and translate for patients at a local nonprofit clinic in Bloomington, Ind. Prior to becoming a KHN web reporter, Heredia Rodriguez also worked as an intern for South Bend Tribune and KHN, where her work was featured in KQED, Miami Herald and The Washington Post.

(Getty Images via Kaiser Health News) Schools play a pivotal role in U.S. vaccination efforts. Laws require children to have certain immunizations to enroll and attend classes.

With schools starting online, vaccinations head for recess

September 9, 2020 at 6:43 a.m.

Schools play a pivotal role in U.S. vaccination efforts. Laws require children to have certain immunizations to enroll and attend classes.

In Minneapolis, paramedics and police officers carry a demonstrator who fainted June 6 at a memorial to George Floyd, created at the site where he died in police custody. (Kerem Yucel/AFP via Getty Images)

For EMTs, there’s no ‘rule book’ for facing a pandemic and protests at once

June 11, 2020 at 6:08 a.m.

Emergency medical services across the country, already burdened by the high demands of COVID-19, have faced added pressure in the past week as they responded to protests ignited by the...

Dennis Carroll waits to be interviewed for the Netflix production of “Pandemic: How to Prevent an Outbreak.” Carroll for 15 years directed the pandemic influenza and emerging threats unit at the federal Agency for International Development (USAID) that helped identify more than 2,000 zoonotic viruses, or germs in animals. (Courtesy of Dennis Carroll)

Former federal virus hunter says US needs to act before new germs ‘kick your door in’

March 31, 2020 at 9:37 a.m.

In an interview, Dennis Carroll, who until last fall headed up the emerging threats unit at USAID, spoke about the threat of more germs, like the novel coronavirus, appearing and...

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