Sebastián Martínez Valdivia
Health ReporterSebastián Martínez Valdivia was a health reporter at KBIA and is documentary filmmaker who focuses on access to care in rural and immigrant communities. A native Spanish speaker and lifelong Missouri resident, Sebastián is interested in the often overlooked and under-covered world of immigrant life in the rural midwest. He has a bachelor's degree in broadcast journalism from the University of Missouri and a master's degree in documentary journalism at the same institution. Aside from public health, his other interests include conservation, climate change and ecology.
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So-called cryptic lineages may hold clues to better understand how the virus that causes COVID mutates to evade our immune systems.
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University of Missouri School of Law professor Rigel Oliveri speaks to the potential ramifications of the leaked draft opinion on Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization
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Missourians are facing an average wait of more than 80 days to get applications processed, despite changes the state hopes will speed up the process.
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Medicaid applicants in Missouri are facing average wait times to get their applications processed of nearly four months: well over the 45 days required by the federal government.
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On March 18, 2020 the governor announced Missouri had lost its first resident to COVID-19. Two years on, leaders are taking stock of what has changed, and what's been lost.
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Legal advocates are going to court to seek benefits for Missourians who they say are being illegally shut out by a protracted application process.
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A new lawsuit alleges the Missouri Department of Social Services is failing to provide food assistance to eligible people.
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Republicans in the Missouri House are looking to get a constitutional amendment on the ballot in November which would allow them to control Medicaid expansion funding.