It's too early to know how many Americans with HIV are dying of coronavirus. But the prospect of both incurable diseases racing through black neighborhoods has some black activists and health officials terrified. More
Across the U.S., states with older populations face special challenges during the global pandemic. More
Preliminary data suggest Covid-19 is hitting black and brown Americans particularly hard. More
Recent reports from the Navajo Nation, which straddles Arizona, Utah and New Mexico, have shown a sudden rise in cases, from about 10 people diagnosed two weeks ago to 216 on April 1, including 40 cases added in a single day. More
The new coronavirus doesn’t discriminate. But physicians in public health and on the front lines said they already can see the emergence of familiar patterns of racial and economic bias in the response to the pandemic. More
The state’s refusal to expand Medicaid is causing poor women to miss out on lifesaving screenings. More
This Viewpoint describes considerations for the care of people with serious mental illness during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic. More
As governments shutter cities, experts fear the long-term impacts of coronavirus: Suicides, domestic abuse, public health. More
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
In the U.S., health and wealth are often linked. As the coronavirus spreads, experts worry that low-income communities will be especially vulnerable — and ill-equipped to respond. More
A Duke team found a similar number of clinical trials but more scientific papers and drugs for cystic fibrosis than the more common sickle cell disease. More
If ignored, jails and prisons will become an epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic, Memaj writes. More
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
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
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
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."
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.
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
Why our market-driven health care system is failing against a new, fast-moving virus. More
As women began entering medical schools in larger numbers during the 1970s, some specialties were welcoming to women, others weren’t. More