How local leaders have taken vaccine distribution in underserved communities into their own hands.
Critics of the move to an age-based priority system say it defies evidence that workplace transmission is a major source of spread.
California farmworkers have been hit especially hard by the virus, as they often live in overcrowded housing, travel in groups to work, and lack access to health insurance.
Anointing San Francisco "the city that knows how to beat back covid" requires ignoring the plight of Latinxs and Blacks.
Even when sick, immigrant workers often feel like they have no choice but to show up at the job — they have to work to survive.
The surveys provide yet another look at how minorities and lower-income Americans have been disproportionately hurt by COVID-19.
Women are filing for unemployment and losing their businesses at higher rates than men.
Filipinos in Hawaii have the next-highest death rate, composing 24% of deaths but only 16% of the population.
