In U.S. cases of COVID-19 where race was identified, nearly 30 percent of patients were black -- even though African Americans make up only about 13 percent of the general population. More

The coronavirus has reached every corner of America. But data show African Americans are harder hit. Black Atlantans have several theories why. More

“It’s just gone haywire, I mean haywire,” thought Eddie Keith, a 65-year-old funeral home attendant standing in the back who was familiar with all the faces on the funeral programs piling up. “People dying left and right.” More

For millions of disabled people and their families, the coronavirus crisis has piled on new difficulties and ramped up those that already existed. Many are immunocompromised and therefore more vulnerable to infection, but terrified of new coronavirus-era hospital guidelines they fear could put them at risk. More

The number of cases and deaths in minority communities compared with white ones is staggering. More

The Navajo community has been hit especially hard by the COVID-19 crisis and is ill-equipped to care for patients. More

One of every four Filipinos in the New York-New Jersey area is employed in the health care industry. With at least 30 worker deaths and many more family members lost to the coronavirus, a community at the epicenter of the pandemic has been left reeling. More

Some state triage protocols explicitly deny treatment to people with disabilities like my daughter, Sesha, even though the law says they shouldn't do that. More

COVID-19 has exposed mistrust by African Americans in the health cares as well as health care inequality going back generations for the African American community. More

Because they are most likely to work in acute care, medical/surgical, and ICU nursing, many “FilAms” are on the frontlines of care for Covid-19 patients. More

States are releasing "Crisis Standards of Care" guidelines, aimed at helping desperate hospitals discern how to allocate scarce resources. But the guidance doesn't factor in health care inequalities. More

In early April, the U.S. surgeon general called COVID-19 "our Pearl Harbor moment, our 9/11 moment." But data from New York City suggested another analogy: It had become our Katrina moment. More

The fear of what's ahead is based on precedent. During the swine flu epidemic of 2009, Native Americans died at four to five times the rate of other Americans. More

Data shows people with certain chronic conditions are more likely to get severe COVID-19 symptoms. Why are they hit harder and what explains the disease's disproportionate affect on African Americans? More

As medical providers prepare for the possibility that they may have to ration care, many people with disabilities fear they will get lesser treatment. More

"We are seeing it hit people who are in poorly paid, yet risky jobs … jobs that cannot be done via Zoom meeting," one doctor said of Covid-19. More