People of color are more likely to get sick and die from coronavirus. Will taking part in mass protests increase their risk — or force the nation to address bias and inequities that endanger Black lives?
Healthcare Regulation and Reform
The Covid-19 pandemic continues to disproportionately affect Latinos. Although doctors continue to advance with physical recovery therapies after infection, little is known about the consequences in mental health.
Now is the time to start building timelines and documenting how local governments are handling — or fumbling — the COVID-19 crisis.
“You can’t allow a lack of data to stop you from reporting," says Poynter's Al Tompkins. "Report what you don’t have and constantly pound on that.”
Activists in the Latinx immigrant community of Los Angeles share what they do to take care of their mental health.
Mimi Luther Dreads the Prospect of Flu Season Mixed With a Pandemic. She Begs You to Get a Flu Shot.
How Oregon can avoid the “super-duper trifecta of misery.”
This week we’re at home with Alexius Hill, a Memphis-based young mother who chose to give birth at home despite her family and friends’ concerns about doing so. We discuss the stigma around home births and explore the radical work of full-spectrum doulas.
A pandemic, a shift in homeless services and two new reports.
The ugly history of clandestine experiments and abuse of Black patients casts a long shadow.
A new study shows the impacts of a 2015 decision to cut health insurance for some of the state’s poorest and sickest residents.