Lauren Bavis
Lauren a reporter and editor based at WFYI in Indianapolis. She maintains Side Effects' website, social media accounts (which you can follow on and ) and newsletter (). Lauren graduated from Towson University and moved to Indiana in 2012, where she began her career as a newspaper reporter. She reported on health and social services for the Bloomington Herald-Times. Her work has been recognized by the Indiana chapters of the Society of Professional Journalists and Associated Press Media Editors, as well as the Hoosier State Press Association.
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Many U.S. colleges have lecture halls named after respected scientists who also promoted racial theories or practices that are now rejected. And increasingly, their names are being removed. -
At a news conference on Aug. 26, Indiana State Health Commissioner Dr. Kris Box said it鈥檚 crucial for Hoosiers to participate in contact tracing . 鈥淪o... -
Pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca announced Wednesday morning that its COVID-19 vaccine trial is on hold after a volunteer in the UK had an unexplained... -
Update, Sept. 9, 2020: AstraZeneca announced that its COVID-19 vaccine trial is on hold. Read more. The Indiana University School of Medicine announced...
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On a Friday evening in late June, Liliana Quintero received a call from one of the Spanish interpreters working at a COVID-19 testing site in Goshen,... -
Kristina Ortiz and Tim Himes aren鈥檛 brother and sister by blood, but they might as well be. They鈥檝e never known life apart. Ortiz was six months old... -
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... -
Brandon Duncan describes himself as fearless. So when he first heard news reports about the novel coronavirus, the 30-year-old wasn鈥檛 afraid for himself... -
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... -
Public health experts worried that COVID-19 would continue to spread even as states reopen. Those concerns have been compounded recently, as large crowds鈥�
