Not only is the air quality decreasing, but the number of extreme heat events is on the rise. What will this mean for the health of nearby communities?
Health Equity & Social Justice
Also, Johns Hopkins and NYT curtail COVID tracking efforts, and new research on long COVID's unequal toll.
Finding people to actually talk about their experiences is tough. For many people, eviction is shrouded in shame.
Health experts point to the crippling influence of institutionalized racism as a looming roadblock to these efforts.
Also this week: Dearth of pandemic data on race, ethnicity ‘beyond bad,' and experts support additional oversight of pathogen research.
Financial distress is leading some immigrants into lives as professional guinea pigs.
A new commercial tax aims to do something novel in California: provide child care financial aid for middle-class families and set a minimum wage of $28 an hour for early education teachers.
Publishing shorter pieces on a regular basis helped keep sustained attention on the issue.
In other news, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis takes aim at vaccine and mask mandates.
This story was produced as a project for the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism's National Fellowship.