How racial bias is impacting coronavirus care
When resources are scarce, as they are in this pandemic, decisions about who gets which resources are fraught. How will people of color be affected? More
COVID-19 and insulin: How the virus could be worse for people with diabetes
Over the past few decades, the price of insulin has skyrocketed, creating a desperate situation for many Americans with diabetes. How has COVID-19 affected those who depend on insulin to survive? More
Coronavirus Hits Native American Groups Already Struggling With Poor Health Care
As tribal leaders around the country gear up for the pandemic’s spread in their communities, they worry the federal agencies that are supposed to help protect them aren’t ready. More
Coronavirus Threatens The Lives Of Rural Hospitals Already Stretched To Breaking Point
Rural hospitals may not be able to keep their doors open as the coronavirus pandemic saps their cash, their CEOs warn, just as communities most need them. More
Hunger strike in Newark, quarantine of Bergen guards highlight coronavirus fear in jails
A hunger strike in Newark and word of quarantined corrections officers in Hackensack offered a new source of COVID-19 anxiety on Thursday: whether New Jersey jails can protect the incarcerated amid the outbreak.
Prisons are poorly equipped to handle the disease, said Vikas Saini, president of the Lown Institute, a health care think tank in Brookline, Massachusetts. And a lack of testing in the U.S. is making it even harder to keep out, he said. “Once it’s out in the community and transmitting cryptically, you don’t have any real predictability,’’ Saini said. While most infections won't lead to a severe illness, others will, and "everything we are seeing in the literature is that it can come on relatively quickly," he said. "Prisons are not places that are really equipped to monitor people in terms of their medical status if it were to take a turn for the worse."
As Coronavirus Deepens Inequality, Inequality Worsens Its Spread
The pandemic is widening social and economic divisions that also make the virus deadlier, a self-reinforcing cycle that experts warn could have consequences for years to come.
An unexpected side effect of the coronavirus? A new urgency about helping homeless people
As public health officials scramble to manage the spread of the novel coronavirus, strategies are starting to be implemented across California and the rest of the country to protect the homeless population. More
The coronavirus pandemic reveals America’s skewed health care priorities
Why our market-driven health care system is failing against a new, fast-moving virus. More
When surgery becomes ‘women’s work’: the devaluation of gynecologic specialties
As women began entering medical schools in larger numbers during the 1970s, some specialties were welcoming to women, others weren’t. More
The Startling Inequality Gap That Emerges After Age 65
Seniors in urban areas and on the coasts are surviving longer than their counterparts in rural areas and the nation’s interior, according to an analysis from Samuel Preston of the University of Pennsylvania, one of the nation’s leading demographers. More