This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. I don’t know anything about public health. And none of us know what the world is going to look like after COVID-19. Especially as loved ones and people around us…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. More than 100 Chicagoans are participating in a hunger strike against a scrapyard set to be relocated to his Southeast Chicago neighborhood to force the city to rethink the scrapyard’s proposed location.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Black Americans have been the least inclined of any racial or ethnic group to say they’d get vaccinated against the coronavirus. The proportion of Black people who said they’ll probably…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. 2020 will forever be remembered as the year COVID-19 laid bare the burdens of women. While different from one context to another, “the negative effects are disproportionate for women everywhere,”…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. More than 50 million Americans have received at least one dose of either the Pfizer or Moderna COVID-19 vaccine. So far, Americans have been largely brand-agnostic, but that’s about to…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Even outside of a pandemic, homelessness takes an extreme toll on health. A 2018 study published in The Lancet found mortality rates 3 to 11 times higher in unhoused populations. Other studies suggest this…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In the past 30 years, the world has made phenomenal progress in terms of ensuring more new-borns and infants survive the first few years of life. Between 1990 and 2019…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Epidemiologists – like oncologists and climate scientists – hate to be proved right. A year ago this week, the communications rush began from epidemiologists in academia to the public and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. One in every 645 Black people in the United States can expect to die from COVID-19, per data from February 2021. Blacks are 2.1 times more likely than whites to die…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. A close friend recently asked where she fits in the COVID-19 vaccination plan. She is the primary caregiver for her mother, providing round-the-clock care and emotional support—but is she a health…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Coronavirus cases are trending downward across the U.S., but the emergence of several concerning variant strains has dampened some of the optimism about where the pandemic is heading. Public health…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Deborah Fuller, University of Washington Editor’s note: So you’ve gotten your coronavirus vaccine, waited the two weeks for your immune system to respond to the shot and are now fully…