Like many reporters, ProPublica Managing Editor Ginger Thompson went to Albany, Georgia, in 2020 to cover COVID-19. The sleepy, majority African American city had become one of the United States’ first hot spots.

But she soon realized there was a bigger story to tell.

The more she investigated Albany and Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital — the largest health care provider, employer and property owner around — the more she began to wonder: How is it that people in Albany are so sick when the dominant institution in town is a hospital?

Watch Thompson explore these questions and more, and read her full investigation at the link in bio.

Photos by Almudena Toral. Footage by Katie Campbell and Mauricio Rodríguez Pons. Graphics by Lucas Waldron.

Read the full story: https://propub.li/4rJ4f2R

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