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Liz Szabo, KHN

Liz Szabo is a senior correspondent for KHN who has covered health care for two decades. Her stories about cancer and overtreatment for KHN have won numerous awards, including first place in the National Headliner Awards.

Pandemic stress, gangs and utter fear fueled a rise in teen shootings

By: Liz Szabo, KHN - March 13, 2023

Diego never imagined he’d carry a gun. Not as a child, when shots were fired outside his Chicago-area home. Not at age 12, when one of his friends was gunned down. Diego’s mind changed at 14, when he and his friends were getting ready to walk to midnight Mass for the feast of Our Lady […]

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