Community & Public Health

Florida’s agriculture commissioner asked the governor to open COVID-19 vaccinations to all farmworkers, noting they are “critical to producing safe, secure” food while being exposed to higher health risks during the pandemic.

 

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

President Biden has called the impact of COVID-19 on women a national emergency. Nearly 3 million women in the U.S. have left the labor force in the past year. Those who are employed make up an outsized share of the high-risk essential workforce, holding 78% of all hospital jobs, 70% of pharmacy job