It can be hard for people returning from a prison sentence to secure the housing they need to successfully reenter communities. And the COVID-19 pandemic has made it even harder.
Environmental Health
Over the past five years, hundreds of California drinking water systems have suffered damage or destruction amid the state’s increasingly intense climate-driven wildfires.
The high numbers indicate a continuing surge, researchers said.
3,184 individuals were given rapid tests in the first five days.
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.
These groups, and others, will need to drop their opposition to vaccination for the shots to work statewide.
Thousands of U.S. Public Housing Residents Live in the Country’s Most Polluted Places
This story by Janine Zeitlin, a participant in the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism's 2020 Data Fellowship.
This story was produced by Ida Mojadad, a participant in the 2019 Data Fellowship, who is investigating the efficacy of the health access program Healthy SF in San Francisco....
The colonias of south Texas have been devastated by the pandemic, a crisis made worse by poverty and limited access to health care.