Rae Ellen Bichell
Rae Ellen Bichell reports for the Mountain West News Bureau out of KUNC in Colorado.
Before joining the team, she covered everything from Ebola to butterfly evolution and space toilets as a science reporter for NPR. She also tried freelancing for a couple years in Helsinki, Finland, originally under a Fulbright grant.
Now based in northern Colorado, she spends her free time reading, playing indoor soccer (not very well) and doing a crazy sport called canyoneering.
You can reach Rae Ellen at rae.bichell@kunc.org.
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Depending on the estimate, the U.S. needs between 100,000 and 300,000 contact tracers to help fight COVID-19. Some say these new jobs could be an...
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This post was updated May 1 with additional information It's World Immunization Week , but there's evidence that vaccinations are down as checkups get...
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Amid nationwide testing shortages and backlogs , one county in our region is offering COVID-19 tests to everyone. A local couple is bankrolling the...
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Billy Barr has lived alone in a cabin in a Colorado mountain ghost town for almost 50 years. He offers advice on how to find and maintain happiness in isolation.
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“The snow’s going sideways, it’s swirling,” said Billy Barr, from the abandoned silver mine he lives in almost 10,000 feet up in the Rocky Mountains. We...
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San Miguel County in Colorado announced this week it plans to test everyone in the county for COVID-19. And they’ll be using a blood test rather than...
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Sometime around Valentine's Day, a box arrived at a lab on the western edge of Fort Collins, Colorado. It contained vials full of coronavirus and it was...
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As the graph below shows, the number of COVID-19 cases reported by public health agencies in the Mountain West is climbing. But what do those numbers...
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Teams around the world -- including at least two labs in the Mountain West -- are racing to develop a vaccine against the new coronavirus. A group at...
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Support for our series Private Prisons: Locking Down The Facts came from The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, a non-profit news organization that...