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Andrea Suozzo @andreasuozzo.com · 15/09/2026

Of the three hospitals where Lowrimore alleges she did not receive timely care, two did not respond to requests for comment. The third, Mercy Hospital, said it provides “all medically indicated” treatment to save mothers.

Lowrimore’s lawsuit, in which an OB-GYN and six women who were denied care are seeking to block the Arkansas abortion ban, is ongoing. Lowrimore also filed complaints under the same emergency medicine law as Thurman against the three hospitals. Regulators cited Mercy Hospital in Fort Smith, Arkansas, for failing to provide care during the eight hours Lowrimore waited to be seen. The other two hospitals were not found to have violated that law, and they did not respond to requests for comment.

A spokesperson for Mercy Hospital declined to comment on the case, saying that, “in tragic situations when a mother suffers from an urgent, life-threatening condition during pregnancy, Mercy provides all medically indicated treatment to save her life.”

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Andrea Suozzo @andreasuozzo.com · 15/09/2026

Lawsuits describing delays in care in states that have banned abortion set us down another potential path. When we compared ectopic pregnancy death rates between states that implemented strict abortion bans after Dobbs and those that did not ban abortion, we saw a growing divide.

A chart comparing ectopic pregnancy death rates in states with strict abortion bans and ones without a ban. Prior to 2020, the rate is about 4 deaths per million in states with no ban, compared to about 5.5 in states that later implemented an abortion ban. By the 2023-2025 period, the rate is 13.1 in states with a strict ban, and 7.1 in states without a ban.

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Andrea Suozzo @andreasuozzo.com · 15/09/2026

When my colleagues and I started digging around in CDC data on pregnancy-related deaths, we noticed something surprising: the rate of ectopic pregnancy deaths had more than doubled in recent years. Nearly 200 women died between 2020 and 2025. So we set out to learn why 🧵

A chart showing an increase in the rate of deaths after an ectopic pregnancy, normalized by the number of live births. In the three-year period starting in 2014, the rate is a little above 4 deaths per million live births. The rate rises sharply for the 2020-2022 period and continues to increase, to 9.8 deaths per million births, in 2023-2025.

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Andrea Suozzo @andreasuozzo.com · 17/07/2026

Really read this newsletter subject line wrong

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Andrea Suozzo @andreasuozzo.com · 08/04/2026

Going into zoom picket hour 7, big progress on the strike embroidery!

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Andrea Suozzo @andreasuozzo.com · 08/04/2026

I’m sending solidarity from the virtual picket line to all my colleagues on the IRL picket lines in NY, DC and Chicago. And making this lil strike embroidery!

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Andrea Suozzo @andreasuozzo.com · 08/03/2026

What a whirlwind #nicar26 was. Sitting quietly in one place and knocking out the colorwork portion of this sock was a deeply satisfying way to pass the time on the flight(s) home.

An in-progress knit sock with a colorwork broccoli pattern

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Andrea Suozzo @andreasuozzo.com · 03/03/2026

This little bit of delight landed in my mailbox yesterday, thank you @christinetylerhill.bsky.social

A photo of a zine titled "The Cloud Report" by Christine Tyler Hill.

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Andrea Suozzo @andreasuozzo.com · 10/12/2025

Mended a hole in my jeans, but my phone thinks it's a bug.

A screenshot of the photo information screen on an iPhone. The photo is of a hole in a pair of jeans, mended with navy fabric and green thread. Apple's suggested prompt below the photo says "Look up Bug."

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Andrea Suozzo @andreasuozzo.com · 18/11/2025

This, from the methodology, made me laugh. Just so good. www.propublica.org/article/meth...

A screenshot of text from the linked article that reads, "I worked out a way to pinpoint which farms had been infected by taking a close look at the notices the USDA publishes detailing regions restricted from exporting poultry products due to bird flu outbreaks. These notices describe a 10-kilometer radius around an outbreak to avoid revealing the actual site. They do give the northernmost point of the circle, and I found that plotting 5 kilometers south of that point revealed the site of the outbreak."

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Andrea Suozzo @andreasuozzo.com · 12/11/2025

Truly do not know how to answer some of the questions on the World Trade Center Health Registry's annual survey.

A screenshot of a web survey form that asks, "How much of the time during the past 4 weeks did you feel full of pep?"

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Andrea Suozzo @andreasuozzo.com · 26/08/2025

There aren't very many books that I'd grab from a Little Free Library more than a mile from the end of a run, but it turns out this is one. Absolute flashback to middle-school me combing the YA shelves at every library branch near my house for more John Bellairs books.

A paperback copy of "The House With a Clock in Its Walls" by John Bellairs

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Andrea Suozzo @andreasuozzo.com · 30/07/2025

Me: I will make this small Nonprofit Explorer change. It will be an easy win for the day! Narrator: It was not, in fact, an easy win for the day.

A screenshot of commit messages in Github showing repeatedly failing unit tests.

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Andrea Suozzo @andreasuozzo.com · 01/07/2025

After Texas made performing abortions a felony, miscarriage became more dangerous. The number of blood transfusions in ED visits for first-trimester pregnancy loss shot up by 54%. My latest: www.propublica.org/article/texa...

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Andrea Suozzo @andreasuozzo.com · 08/05/2025

After Texas banned abortion, the rates of sepsis in 2nd-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations shot up by more than 50%, @sophiechou.bsky.social and I found. But that jump wasn't equal across the state; women in Houston fared far worse than those in Dallas: www.propublica.org/article/texa...

A chart showing sepsis rates in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations in Texas between 2017 and 2023. After the state banned abortion, rates increased by 29% in Dallas and 63% in Houston.

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Andrea Suozzo @andreasuozzo.com · 25/02/2025

Not me copyediting my child’s hand-me-down board books

A page of a picture book depicting a car crash with the text “Uh-oh, an accident!” The word “accident” is crossed out in sharpie and replaced with “crash.”

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Andrea Suozzo @andreasuozzo.com · 14/02/2025

When I taught data visualization, this was one of my favorite graphics to show my class. It's encoding a lot of data points, but it takes seconds to get the point. graphics.wsj.com/infectious-d...

A chart depicting annual measles cases in each U.S. state leading up to, and after, the introduction of the measles vaccine.

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Andrea Suozzo @andreasuozzo.com · 05/02/2025

requested an archive of my twitter data and this is what i got back in its entirety is this a joke

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Andrea Suozzo @andreasuozzo.com · 22/01/2025

Very disappointed that this book is not about surrealist art.

A stack of board books, with “Your Baby’s First Word Will Be Dada” by Jimmy Fallon at the center of the stack

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Andrea Suozzo @andreasuozzo.com · 14/11/2024

i’m not usually crafty on main but this coat is the best thing i’ve ever made

A quilt coat in a chambray background fabric with pink, orange and green piecing on the back, hood and pockets

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