Each Monday, while the pandemic runs its course, The Coronavirus Files will provide tips and resources and highlight exemplary work to help you with your reporting.
Community & Public Health
Rural women in Alaska must travel long distances for prenatal care and hospital births. Now, COVID-19 has shut down major routes and reduced transportation.
Child welfare is an already stressed system in Native communities, leaving children even more susceptible to the impacts of COVID-19.
Now is the time to start building timelines and documenting how local governments are handling — or fumbling — the COVID-19 crisis.
How many other environmental disasters like the West Calumet Housing Complex are still undiscovered?
“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.”
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.”
A simple jog turns into an anxious minefield in the absence of clear guidance on COVID-19 transmission.
A reporter explores how the COVID-19 pandemic is disproportionately impacting the Bay Area's Asian communities.
A pandemic, a shift in homeless services and two new reports.