Mike Stobbe

Mike Stobbe, Associated Press

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  • A police officer inspects a Jimenez Arms brand .38-caliber semiautomatic pistol during a gun turn-in event at Kingdom Word Church in Chicago's Roseland neighborhood on Sept. 24, 2022. (John J. Kim/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)Health

    Gun injuries soared 40% early during the pandemic and have only slightly tapered off since

    By Mike Stobbe and The Associated Press
  • Deleah Payne, 12, center, spends time with her mother Delisa, right, and 6-year-old sister Delynn, left, as they watch movie clips on their living room television in Evansville, Ind., Tuesday evening, Aug. 27, 2019. Deleah and Delynn were both diagnosed with autism. For the first time, autism is being diagnosed more frequently in Black and Hispanic children than in white kids in the U.S., the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday, March 23, 2023.Family

    Autism is more common among Black and Hispanic kids for the first time ever—but only because screening is better

    By Mike Stobbe and The Associated Press
  • The pregnant woman in silhouette.Health

    ‘From the worst to the near worst’: Pregnancy deaths are declining after a horrific spike in 2021

    By Mike Stobbe and The Associated Press
  • This scanning electron microscope image made available by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows rod-shaped Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacteria. Experts are marveling at how U.S. disease detectives figured out how eyedrops were linked to dozens of infections.Health

    How officials cracked case of eyedrops that blinded people: ‘A public health victory’

    By Mike Stobbe and The Associated Press
  • Bird flu pelicansHealth

    Bird flu just became mink flu at a farm in Spain. That’s not the only jump the virus has made.

    By Mike Stobbe and The Associated Press
  • KindergartenersHealth

    Americans keep refusing to vaccinate their kindergarteners

    By Mike Stobbe and The Associated Press
  • Woman holding drinkHealth

    The shocking toll of alcohol abuse during the pandemic is just becoming clear: A 30% surge to the worst in 40 years, CDC says

    By Mike Stobbe and The Associated Press
  • Friends at barHealth

    ‘Liberated’ Americans are catching STDs at ‘out of control’ rates as the pandemic comes to an end

    By Mike Stobbe and The Associated Press
  • FILE – A sign asks those getting vaccinated to keep 6 feet apart during the vaccination event, Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2021, at Nevada Union High School in Grass Valley, Calif. The CDC has again revised its COVID guidelines, further relaxing quarantine recommendations and dropping the recommendation that people stay at least 6 feet away from each other. (Elias Funez/The Union via AP, File)Health

    CDC drops quarantine requirement for COVID exposure: ‘The current conditions of this pandemic are very different from those of the last two years’

    By Mike Stobbe, Collin Binkley, and others
  • PolioHealth

    New York reports first U.S. polio case in nearly a decade

    By Mike Stobbe and The Associated Press
  • Moderna's vaccine.Health

    FDA advisers back Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine for older kids

    By Mike Stobbe and The Associated Press
  • In this November 30, 2021 photo, syringes and vials of Naloxone are shown during the media tour of the supervised drug injection site OnPoint, in New York. – New York City has opened two supervised drug injection sites in the Harlem and Washington Heights neighborhoods in an effort to address the increase in overdose deaths. Operated by OnPoint NYC, a consortium of two nonprofit social welfare organizations, these centers are the first to be officially licensed in the United States. They offer opioid and other drug users a variety of services, including addiction treatment. (Photo by Yuki IWAMURA / AFP) (Photo by YUKI IWAMURA/AFP via Getty Images)Health

    Overdose deaths in the U.S. hit record 107,000 last year, CDC says

    By Mike Stobbe and The Associated Press
  • FILE – Medical staff prepare to move the body of a deceased COVID-19 patient to a funeral home van at the Willis-Knighton Medical Center in Shreveport, La., Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2021. Data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in April 2022 confirms that 2021 was the deadliest year in U.S. history. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)Health

    COVID-19 and overdoses contributed to the deadliest year in U.S. history, new CDC study shows

    By Mike Stobbe and The Associated Press
  • Firefighters from the Marins-Pompiers of Marseille extract samples of sewage water at a retirement home in Marseille, southern France, Thursday Jan. 14, 2021, to trace concentrations of COVID-19 and the highly contagious variant that has been discovered in Britain. As coronavirus infections rise in some parts of the world, experts are watching for a potential new COVID-19 surge in the U.S.—and wondering how long it will take to detect.Health

    Experts worry about how the U.S. will see the next COVID surge coming

    By Mike Stobbe and The Associated Press
  • A shopper at a grocery store wearing a proactive maskHealth

    The CDC says healthy people can stop wearing masks in places where transmission and hospitalizations are low

    By Carla K. Johnson, Mike Stobbe, and others