Elly Yu
Elly Yu is a reporter at WABE, where she first got her start in public radio as angraduate student intern in 2013. Since then, she’s reported for WNYC, NPR’s Latino USA, and the New York Daily News among others.
In 2014, Elly was an immigration reporting fellow with the Institute of Justice and Journalism. Before her start in news, she worked at a non-profit in Los Angeles that worked with survivors of state-sponsored torture.
Elly holds a bachelor’s in international relations from the University of Southern California, and a master’s in journalism from the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, where she co-hosted a podcast. She’s a native of sunny Los Angeles, but is happy to call the South her new home.
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Nursing home chain ReNew Health continues to care for hundreds of patients even after the state attempted to crack down. Before and during the pandemic, homes connected to ReNew had safety violations. -
Public health experts are concerned about the spread of the coronavirus within multigenerational households. Families of color tend to live in such households more than white families. -
Is fear of the coronavirus causing ER avoidance? Doctors are seeing an alarming drop in cardiovascular emergency cases. They warn that delayed care can lead to brain damage or even death. -
Is fear of the coronavirus causing ER avoidance? Data indicates an alarming drop in cardiovascular emergency cases, and doctors say some patients waited too long and had brain damage or even died.
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One in 4 high school seniors say they have vaped in the past month. And for heavy users, scary headlines about serious illness and death are no match for nicotine addiction and peer pressure. -
Officials in Washington, D.C., are ramping up security for ahead of this weekend's white nationalist rally. It comes a year after the deadly "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, Va.
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Dr. Brenda Fitzgerald has been appointed as the new director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. She is an obstetrician-gynecologist who's led the Georgia state health department for six years. She succeeds Dr. Thomas Frieden.
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Evan Nodvin has lived on his own since after high school. But since he has Down syndrome, he does that with help from Medicaid. The Trump administration is threatening deep cuts to the program. -
Corporations in Atlanta have a long history of supporting a focus on business, not social conservatives' issues. Now the governor is vetoing a bill that LGBT groups say would lead to discrimination. -
In Atlanta's East Lake community, an organization called Purpose Built Communities is trying to make gentrification work for the residents who endured the tough times.
