EN Depth

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The coronavirus has upended delicate conversations about end-of-life medical care. In this episode of EN-Depth, health reporter Lauren Caruba and photographer Lisa Krantz share the heart-wrenching experience of one San Antonio family.

Bexar County has suffered more deaths per capita from COVID-19 than any other large urban area in Texas, according to state and federal data. In his latest investigative report, Brian Chasnoff explains why.

Read more: San Antonio’s grim distinction: Highest COVID death rate among Texas’ major urban areas

Thousands of refugees and immigrants working for meatpacking plants in the Panhandle were repeatedly exposed to coronavirus after the plants were deemed essential. Immigration reporter Silvia Foster-Frau explains the impact of the order by President Trump for the plants to remain open: 

‘Everybody is getting sick’ — meatpacking workers in the Panhandle repeatedly exposed to the coronavirus

Every two hours, as kids and caregivers clear out of the DoSeum, about a dozen staff members wheel out carts filled with empty green bins and black and yellow sprayers filled with disinfectant. Arts reporter Deborah Martin elaborates on the In a 30-minute balletlike routine.

Read more: The DoSeum kids museum raises disinfecting to an artform

With 71 homicides in the first six months of 2020, San Antonio is on track to have one of its deadliest years in nearly three decades, a San Antonio Express-News analysis found. Criminal justice reporter Emilie Eaton breaks down the crime statistics in the city, in which an uptick in family violence is a significant factor.

Read more: Homicides spike in San Antonio, putting the city on track to have one of its deadliest years in decades

San Antonio Express-News immigration reporter Silvia Foster-Frau explains how decades of poverty and poor health care access in the Rio Grande Valley, has contributed to a coronavirus death rate and positivity rate that has amounted to a humanitarian crisis.

Read more: ‘A part of us died:’ Along the U.S-Mexico border, a coronavirus crisis

San Antonio ambulance crews respond an average of once an hour to transport COVID-19 patients to hospitals, long-term care facilities or to their homes. Investigative reporter Marina Starleaf Riker talks about her latest story for which she and photojournalist Lisa Krantz spent 24 hours with a local ambulance crew. 

Read more: ‘The closest thing medicine gets to war’: 24 hours inside a San Antonio ambulance

Courthouse reporter Elizabeth Zavala joins the show to talk about the latest developments involving the possible overturning of convictions related to disgraced and now imprisoned S.A. attorney Mark Henry Benavides.

You can read her article at the link below

"A Second Chance"

Two months ago, they accounted for 42 percent of all COVID-19 cases. Now, it’s up to 57 percent. Reporter Emilie Eaton explains why Bexar County young adults are contracting COVID-19 at higher rates.

Read more: Bexar County young adults are contracting COVID-19 at higher rates. Here’s why.