Native Americans Feel Double Pain of COVID and Fires ‘Gobbling Up the Ground’
When the first fire of the season broke out on the Hoopa Valley Reservation in Northern California in July, Greg...
Month: September 2020
Colleges’ Opening Fueled 3,000 COVID Cases a Day, Researchers Say
Reopening colleges drove a coronavirus surge of about 3,000 new cases a day in the United States, according to a...
Battle Rages Inside Hospitals Over How COVID Strikes and Kills
Front-line health care workers are locked in a heated dispute with many infection control specialists and hospital administrators over how...
It’s Not Just Insulin: Lawmakers Focus on Price of One Drug, While Others Rise Too
Michael Costanzo, a Colorado farmer diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2016, has a well-honed ritual: Every six months, he takes...
Signs of an ‘October Vaccine Surprise’ Alarm Career Scientists
This story also ran on NBC News. This story can be republished for free (details). President Donald Trump, who seems...
California’s Deadliest Spring in 20 Years Suggests COVID Undercount
The first five months of the COVID-19 pandemic in California rank among the deadliest in state history, deadlier than any...
Trump-Biden Race Could Hinge on How Florida’s Pinellas County Swings
CLEARWATER, Fla. — Betty Jones voted for President Donald Trump in 2016, but the lifelong Republican has her doubts she...
In Face of COVID Threat, More Dialysis Patients Bring Treatment Home
Maria Duenas, 60, has kidney failure and is on the kidney transplant list. But until she finds a match, she...
Wildfires’ Toxic Air Leaves Damage Long After the Smoke Clears
SEELEY LAKE, Mont. — When researchers arrived in this town tucked in the Northern Rockies three years ago, they could...
Black Women Turn to Midwives to Avoid COVID and ‘Feel Cared For’
From the moment she learned she was pregnant late last year, TaNefer Camara knew she didn’t want to have her...
COVID Vaccine Trials Move at Warp Speed, But Recruiting Black Volunteers Takes Time
Participation in clinical trials among Black people is low, according to Food and Drug Administration statistics. Still, including them in...
Lack of Antigen Test Reporting Leaves Country ‘Blind to the Pandemic’
This story also ran on USA Today. This story can be republished for free (details). More than 20 states either...
