Lauren Bavis
Digital editor, Side Effects and WFYILauren Bavis is a digital editor based at WFYI in Indianapolis. She was part of the Side Effects Public Media team named Indiana’s Journalists of the Year in 2019 by the Indiana Society of Professional Journalists. With Jake Harper she co-hosted Sick, a podcast about what goes wrong in the places meant to keep us healthy. Bavis graduated from Towson University and moved to Indiana in 2012, where she began her career as a newspaper reporter. She previously reported on health and social services and was the digital projects and social media editor for The Herald-Times in Bloomington. She can be reached at lbavis@wfyi.org.
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Kristina Ortiz and Tim Himes aren’t brother and sister by blood, but they might as well be. They’ve never known life apart. Ortiz was six months old when…
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This story was updated on July 24, 2020 to include additional information on deaths in group homes.One of the ways Mikaela Coppedge has coped during the…
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Brandon Duncan describes himself as fearless. So when he first heard news reports about the novel coronavirus, the 30-year-old wasn’t afraid for himself.…
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Treva Steele visited her father every day after he moved to Greenwood Healthcare Center in Greenwood, Indiana, in February. Joe Barton, who was 73, was…
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With more states reopening, public health experts worried that COVID-19 would continue to spread. Those concerns have been compounded recently as large…
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This is part of Essential Voices, a series of interviews with people confronting COVID-19.Nearly half of Indiana’s COVID-19 deaths have been in long-term…
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About 20 or so women were gathered for a late afternoon video conference. Some had glasses of wine, or cups of coffee. You could see pets in a few frames.…
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Continuamos respondiendo a tus preguntas acerca del coronavirus y la COVID-19. Si tienes preguntas, envíanos un correo electrónico a health@wfyi.org, un…
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Marvin Miles got a call from his mother on March 27. She had started rehabilitation about a month earlier at Bethany Pointe Health Campus, a skilled…
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This is part of Essential Voices, a series of interviews with people confronting COVID-19.Physicians Gabriel and Sarah Bosslet have been married almost 20…