Amanda Michelle Gomez

KHN Peggy Girshman Fellow

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Amanda Michelle Gomez, KHN’s Peggy Girshman Fellow, reports on how public health policy impacts everyday people. She came from the Washington City Paper, where she wrote about the covid pandemic’s effects on D.C. residents. There, she broke countless stories related to the coronavirus, some of which helped change policies. Before working at the City Paper, she was a health policy reporter at ThinkProgress, and reported for PBS NewsHour on issues ranging from the Flint, Michigan, water crisis to the Affordable Care Act’s contraceptive mandate.

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Latest Stories by Amanda Michelle Gomez

Fact-check: Is replacing Joe Biden on the ticket ‘unlawful’? Election law experts say it’s not July 22, 2024
United Facts of America: Experts say facts alone won’t bridge the partisan divide September 27, 2022
Would Tom Hanks have qualified for a coronavirus test in the US? March 12, 2020
Fact-checking Donald Trump’s 2020 State of the Union address February 5, 2020
What we know about Shadow, Acronym and the Iowa caucuses February 4, 2020
A new look for the PolitiFact website February 2, 2020
PolitiFact answers the Senate’s impeachment questions January 31, 2020
Ask KHN-PolitiFact: Is my cloth mask good enough to face the delta variant? September 20, 2021
V-Safe: How everyday people help the CDC track COVID-19 vaccine safety with their phones August 26, 2021