Anti-Immigrant Vitriol Complicates Vaccine Rollout in Southern States
In eastern Tennessee, doctors have seen firsthand how a hard-line immigration policy can affect the health and well-being of a community. In 2018, federal agents raided a meatpacking plant in...
View ArticleEl discurso anti inmigrante complica la vacunación contra covid en estados...
En el este de Tennessee, los médicos han visto de primera mano cómo una política de inmigración dura puede afectar la salud y el bienestar de una comunidad. En 2018, agentes federales allanaron una...
View ArticleHigh Obesity Rates in Southern States Magnify Covid Threat
In January, as Mississippi health officials planned for their incoming shipments of covid-19 vaccine, they assessed the state’s most vulnerable: health care workers, of course, and elderly people in...
View ArticleStrides Against HIV/AIDS Falter, Especially in the South, as Nation Battles...
Facing a yearlong siege from the coronavirus, the defenses in another, older war are faltering. For the last two decades, HIV/AIDS has been held at bay by potent antiviral drugs, aggressive testing...
View ArticlePeligran avances contra el VIH por la lucha contra covid, en especial en el...
Ante el asedio del coronavirus durante un año, las defensas de otra guerra más antigua están bajando. Durante las dos últimas décadas, el VIH/Sida se ha mantenido a raya gracias a potentes fármacos...
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The Making of Reluctant Activists: A Police Shooting in a Hospital Forces One...
The beer bottle that cracked over Christian Pean’s head unleashed rivulets of blood that ran down his face and seeped into the soil in which Harold and Paloma Pean were growing their three boys. At...
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De reacios a activistas: el tiroteo en un hospital obliga a una familia de...
La botella de cerveza que se rompió sobre la cabeza de Christian Pean desató hilos de sangre que cayeron por su rostro y se filtraron en la tierra en la que Harold y Paloma Pean estaban criando a sus...
View ArticleWatch: More Long-Covid Cases Seen in Kids
The vast majority of the pandemic’s 4.1 million covid infections in children have been mild. However, doctors are concerned about a growing number of long-haul covid cases and a rare but dangerous...
View ArticleWhy is the South the Epicenter of Anti-Abortion Fervor?
Not so long ago, laws governing abortion in Massachusetts and Rhode Island were far more restrictive than those in the Deep South, as state legislators throughout New England regularly banned the...
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Long Drives, Air Travel, Exhausting Waits: What Abortion Requires in the South
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Just a quick walk through the parking lot of Choices-Memphis Center for Reproductive Health in this legendary music mecca speaks volumes about access to abortion in the American...
View ArticleThe Pandemic Almost Killed Allie. Her Community’s Vaccination Rate Is 45%.
The Allie Henderson who stepped out of her mother’s car to a driveway full of cheering friends and family holding “Welcome Home” signs was a wisp of her former self. After 10 days in the hospital with...
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What Will It Take to Boost Vaccinations? The Scene From Kentucky’s Back Roads
SMILAX, Ky. — In the end it was the delta variant that drove Rose Mitchell, 89, down the winding mountain road to the Full Gospel Church of Jesus Christ to get the shot. Her pastor, Billy Joe Lewis,...
View ArticleWatch: No Extra Resources for Children Orphaned by Covid
The number of U.S. deaths from covid-19 has surpassed 778,000. Left behind are tens of thousands of children — some orphaned — after their parents or a grandparent who cared for them died. In this...
View ArticleWatch: One City’s Effort to Raise Vaccination Rates Among Black Residents
About 72% of Americans have received at least one dose of a covid-19 vaccine. During much of the vaccine rollout, Hispanic and Black Americans have been less likely than white Americans to get...
View ArticleNursing Homes Bleed Staff as Amazon Lures Low-Wage Workers With Prime Packages
ERLANGER, Ky. — The sleek corporate offices of one of Amazon’s air freight contractors looms over Villaspring of Erlanger, a stately nursing home perched on a hillside in this Cincinnati suburb....
View ArticleIn Super-Vaxxed Vermont, Covid Strikes — But Packs Far Less Punch
Even Eden, a snow-covered paradise in northern Vermont, is poisoned by omicron. The nearly vertical ascent of new coronavirus cases in recent weeks, before peaking in mid-January, affected nearly...
View ArticleHIV Preventive Care Is Supposed to Be Free in the US. So, Why Are Some...
Anthony Cantu, 31, counsels patients at a San Antonio health clinic about a daily pill shown to prevent HIV infection. Last summer, he started taking the medication himself, an approach called...
View ArticleLa medicación para prevenir el VIH debe ser gratis, pero las aseguradoras...
Anthony Cantu, de 31 años, aconseja a los pacientes de una clínica de salud de San Antonio, Texas, sobre una pastilla diaria que ha demostrado prevenir la infección por VIH. El verano pasado, él mismo...
View ArticleWhich Companies Aren’t Exiting Russia? Big Pharma
[UPDATED at 11:30 a.m. ET] Even as the war in Ukraine has prompted an exodus of international companies — from fast-food chains and oil producers to luxury retailers — from Russia, U.S. and global...
View ArticleAs States Impose Abortion Bans, Young Doctors Struggle — And Travel Far — To...
A barrage of abortion restrictions rippling across the country, from Florida to Texas to Idaho, is shrinking the already limited training options for U.S. medical students and residents who want to...
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