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Coronavirus Files: Vaccine Debates and Dealing with Data

Each Monday, The Coronavirus Files provides tips and resources and highlight exemplary work to help you with your reporting.

Race and Equity, Poverty and Class, Environmental Health, Immigrant and Migrant Health, Mental Health, Healthcare Regulation and Reform, Housing and Homeslessness

A man wears a face mask as he check his phone in Times Square in New York City.

USC Annenberg names 23 National Fellows and awards grants for reporting on effects of COVID-19 on vulnerable children and families

This week, we’re proud to welcome 23 journalists from around the nation to our annual 2020 National Fellowship.

Race and Equity, Environmental Health, Immigrant and Migrant Health, Poverty and Class, Mental Health

SIX: BRITTANY’S STORY

An audio-first docuseries exploring what it means to be a Black person having a baby in the United States today.

Race and Equity, Poverty and Class, Mental Health, Women's and Maternal Health, Healthcare Regulation and Reform

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The coronavirus pandemic is reshaping the lives of young Americans

Underserved youth and the adults who care for them are wrestling with systemic inequities compounded by the coronavirus.

Race and Equity, Poverty and Class, Immigrant and Migrant Health, Mental Health, Food and Nutrition, Patient Safety and Ethics

Deflated balloons hang from a lamppost where a person was killed in Baltimore, Maryland. Neighborhoods that lack quality schools

Leading Harvard expert on disparities urges journalists to be a ‘tiny ripple of hope’

“We are fooling ourselves by tearing down monuments, for example, if we don’t unpack and counter these powerful mechanisms of racism and structural racism that exist in the United States,” says David Williams.

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In Newark, telling the story of one street under siege

Newark's COVID-19 death toll among Blacks seems to have been less severe compared to other urban hubs in the nation. Why?

Race and Equity, Poverty and Class, Environmental Health, Health Insurance and Costs, Community Safety, Patient Safety and Ethics

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How better reporting can change the way people think about race, crime, and communities

When journalists tell the stories police feed them, without question, they amplify bias, stereotypes and fear.

Race and Equity, Community Safety

A “colonia” community in Starr County, Texas.

The COVID-19 impact in South Texas could change the region forever

During the pandemic, the “colonias” along the border in south Texas have been devastated on multiple fronts.

Race and Equity, Poverty and Class, Environmental Health, Immigrant and Migrant Health, Health Insurance and Costs, Patient Safety and Ethics

Hospital room

COVID-19 Health Care Rationing: What You Need to Know

As we look to understand the public health response to COVID-19, Dr. Jan Gurley of the San Francisco Department of Public Health explains what it means when a state institutes Crisis Standards of Care, as Arizona has.

Race and Equity, Poverty and Class, Immigrant and Migrant Health, Patient Safety and Ethics, Aging

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New Law Aims to Expand Access to HIV Prevention — But Will It?

Social and bureaucratic hurdles have caused unnecessary delays in obtaining what can be a lifesaving antiretroviral medication.

Race and Equity, Poverty and Class, Environmental Health, Health Insurance and Costs, Healthcare Regulation and Reform, Community Safety