This article by Alissa Zhu was produced as a project for the Dennis A. Hunt Fund for Health Journalism, a program of the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism’s 2020 National Fellowship.
Health Insurance and Costs
This article by Alissa Zhu was produced as a project for the Dennis A. Hunt Fund for Health Journalism, a program of the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism’s 2020 National Fellowship.
The worst pandemic in a century has ravaged Newark and its Black community. It was a tragedy decades in the making.
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"Getting a vaccine is always an expression of brotherly love."
Ever-rising health care costs keep jeopardizing the law and its effectiveness as a backstop for the uninsured and uninsurable.
In California, Filipino Americans constitute about 25% of the state’s Asian population yet they represent at least 35% of COVID-19 deaths in that group.
Despite red flags, the city was slow to come up with a COVID-19 response targeting the Latinx community.
Much of rural Texas is a maternity care desert with few doctors to deliver babies. In some other states, licensed midwives fill in to handle uncomplicated births. But roadblocks limit their practice here.
The city has long struggled to make progress in improving the health of mothers and newborns. Do these shutdowns lead to worse care?