“Long before the coronavirus, the Indian Health Service, the government program that provides health care to the 2.2 million members of the nation’s tribal communities, was plagued by shortages of funding and supplies a lack of…
Eating indoors is about to start in several places in the U.S. There’s a particular risk for eating in poorly ventilated buildings where the aerosol concentration can build up. If you do decide to eat indoors at a restaurant in the near future…
As health economists Thomas Roades, Jenna Patterson, and Andrea Feigl-Ding write for the Health Finance Institute, the Trump administration’s work to remove the U.S. from World Health Organization (WHO)…
“The wanton indifference to human life that the president continues to show makes me sick.”
—Joann Paley Galst, My Husband Died of Covid-19 — And the President Allowed It to Happen
“More than HIV. More than dysentery. More than malaria, influenza, cholera and measles — combined.”
—Richard Pérez-Peña, Coronavirus Deaths Pass One Million Worldwide
There are several GOP politicians who contracted the coronavirus after dismissing its risks or the need to take personal prevention measures. In GEN, writer and editor Max Ufberg lists six conservatives who downplayed the virus — and then got it.
The Covid Audit is a project between Elemental and the Epidemiology Covid-19 Response Corps at the Boston University School of Public Health. In each column, a real person keeps a diary about what they’re doing to avoid Covid-19 and an…
In a story for The Atlantic, Sarah Zhang details why the Covid-19 vaccine is going to need “the largest, most complex vaccination program ever attempted in history.” The decisions in place to make a vaccine as fast as possible can also make the vaccine harder to…
As we reported last week, two new studies are shedding light on genetic factors that might help explain why some people have more severe Covid-19 infections than others. Nancy R. Gough, PhD has an in-depth look at the new findings…
