Black Americans are disproportionately suffering from a set of dual ills: the novel coronavirus and systemic racism. Evidence shows Black Americans are more likely to fall sick from or die from Covid-19. Concurrently, they are also more likely to die from police brutality. These are just two symptoms of the systemic racism that has disadvantaged Black Americans for hundreds of years.
Four years into the pandemic, disabled people interviewed by The 19th described feeling isolated and hopeless.
Most LGBTQ+ adults are vaccinated, but the concerns are coming from a particularly vulnerable minority. There is no evidence the two treatments interact negatively, experts say.
Researchers agree more men are dying of COVID-19. But a new paper challenges whether biology is to blame.
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The threat of COVID to kids during back-to-school season varies widely, and quite literally depends on where you live.
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Directors talk about a difficult year of planning and how vaccines, early testing and quarantine helped some of them safely lift mask restrictions altogether.
Frazier was honored with a special citation for her video, which “spurred protests against police brutality around the world.”
The persisting wage gap has set Black women — and the American economy as a whole — back for the past six decades, according to a report by financial services firm S&P Global.