Marissa Evans

Staff Writer

Marissa Evans covers healthcare and communities of color in California for the Los Angeles Times. Before joining The Times in 2021, she worked for the Star Tribune in Minneapolis, where she covered housing, Black community trauma after George Floyd’s death, how communities of color have been affected by COVID-19 and how Minnesota allows private hospitals to seize tax refunds from consumers with unpaid medical bills. She also previously reported for the Texas Tribune, CQ Roll Call and Kaiser Health News. She won a 2018 Online News Assn. award for explanatory reporting for a project on Texas’s maternal mortality crisis. Her work has appeared in the Atlantic, Medium, Oprah Magazine and other outlets. Evans is also a trainer with the Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting, which aims to increase the ranks of journalists of color in the field of investigative reporting. She graduated from Marquette University with a degree in journalism.

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Books

Matthew Desmond wants to make you uncomfortable about poverty in America

Matthew Desmond’s ‘Evicted’ changed the conversation about housing insecurity. He explains why his new book, ‘Poverty, by America,’ is even more ambitious.
California

Las muertes maternas aumentaron durante la pandemia. Cómo California está luchando contra esa tendencia

Las muertes de mujeres embarazadas aumentaron un 40 % durante la pandemia, según nuevos datos federales. California ha sido líder en la reducción de la mortalidad materna.
California

Maternal deaths surged during the pandemic. How California is fighting that trend

Deaths of pregnant women surged by 40% during the pandemic, according to new federal data. California has been a leader in reducing maternal mortality.
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Big Bear bald eagles Jackie and Shadow’s eggs eaten by ravens, but new clutch is possible this year

Friends of Big Bear Valley said bald eagles Jackie and Shadow had a ‘romantic rendezvous,’ so more eggs could be in the offing.
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UCLA, UCSF hospital nurses voice complaints about overcrowding, staffing shortages

Nurses at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center and UCSF Medical Center at Parnassus say patients are doubled up in rooms or lie in gurneys in hallways.
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Los niños negros y latinos menores de 5 años de Los Ángeles están muy retrasados en la vacunación contra el COVID-19

Un nuevo informe de los CDC encontró que los niños menores de 5 años están siendo vacunados contra COVID-19 en tasas más bajas que los niños mayores.
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‘Sobering’: L.A.’s Black, Latino kids under 5 are far behind on COVID-19 vaccinations

A new CDC report found that children under 5 are being vaccinated for COVID-19 at lower rates than older children.
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Cooler temperatures, light rain expected to return to Los Angeles area this week, forecasters say

The National Weather Service says light rain could return to the Los Angeles area as early as Wednesday
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‘Profoundly disappointing’: Health inequities continue to hit Black Californians hardest

A new California Health Care Foundation survey found Black and Latino Californians were more likely to have negative health provider experiences and medical debt.
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California Department of Justice suing pharmaceutical companies over high insulin costs

California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta said that Eli Lilly, Sanofi and Novo Nordisk are finding ways to “aggressively hike” the price of insulin at the expense of many patients.