Paige Pfleger
Paige Pfleger is a reporter for WOSU, Central Ohio's NPR station. Before joining the staff of WOSU, Paige worked in the newsrooms of NPR, Vox, Michigan Radio, WHYY and The Tennessean. She spent three years in Philadelphia covering health, science, and gender, and her work has appeared nationally in The Washington Post, Marketplace, Atlas Obscura and more.
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Ohio's adult day care centers can finally open their doors again, six months after they were shuttered. They're among the last facilities permitted to reopen in the state, and operators and families alike say they've been suffering because of it. -
Across the Midwest and the nation, many COVID-19 cases have been concentrated in nursing homes. It's often the result of an outbreak. But sometimes, it's actually by design. -
Recent delivery delays have raised concerns about the U.S. Postal Service's handling ballots for November's election. They've also created immediate worries for those who rely heavily on the service to obtain life-saving medications. -
The nation's automakers are scrambling to keep assembly lines staffed during the COVID-19 crisis. At a Honda plant in Marysville, Ohio, that means calling on office workers to move to the line. And that has triggered anxiety among some workers. -
Health officials in the Ohio county that includes Columbus have apologized after releasing a document advising African-Americans to avoid face coverings that might be interpreted as being "associated with gang symbolism." -
While the pandemic has changed everyones lives, the disruption to normalcy can be disastrous for people dealing with drug addiction. -
The Midwest is home to one of the largest Amish populations in the nation. And many of these settlements overlap with rural Appalachian counties, where access to healthcare is hard to come by.
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If someone has stroke symptoms and calls 911, every minute matters. One Midwestern city is using a customized ambulance to bring help -- fast. -
In many Midwest states its illegal for someone with HIV to have sex without telling partners about the illness. Some public health experts are pushing to change those laws. -
One of the healthiest counties in the Midwest is also the least insured. About 40 percent of the people in Holmes County Ohio do not have health insurance, according to county estimates.
