COVID-19
Vaccination Rates Lag In Communities Of Color, But It's Not Due To Hesitancy | The Last COVID-Free Counties In America | Massachusetts' COVID-19 Response Was Science-Based, So Why Are Cases Rising? | In April, This Educator Lost Her Mother To COVID. Now NYC Wants Her To Go Back To Work | Front-line COVID Doctor: We Want Student Loan Forgiveness, Not Hazard Pay
““Residents aren’t scared, but they’re cautious. Two people allowed into the polling place at a time. Residents can honk their car horn twice for curbside voting.””
Alicia A. Caldwell/AP, File
Firearms
Gun Violence Researchers Find Their Field At A Crossroads | You Can’t Understand The Brutal Reality Of Gun Violence Until You Hear It From Doctors | Doctor Groups Gave $162,000 To NRA’s Top Allies In Congress While Pushing Gun Reform | What Gun Violence Researchers Would Study If Congress Would Fund Their Efforts | More Than 90 Percent Of Gun Owners Don't Join the NRA | At A Troubled School In The Bronx, The Student Walkout Was A Miss
““That changed in November after the American College of Physicians issued new guidelines on how doctors can help protect patients from gun violence ― and the National Rifle Association responded by telling physicians to ‘stay in your lane.’” ”
Opioid crisis
Doctors And Policymakers Struggle To Keep Up As Opioid Use Surges Among Women | For These Florence Survivors, The Threat Of Drug Relapse Was Scarier Than Any Floodwaters | Opioids Have Sparked An HIV Outbreak In Massachusetts | Needle Exchanges, Once Radical, Need An Update To Survive In Rural America | America On Opioids: The Many Faces Of The Country's Addiction Crisis
““This time, her back and abdominal pain grew so severe that doctors prescribed Vicodin followed by Percocet during her pregnancy ― which wasn’t an unusual prescription for pregnant women at the time, prior to the onset of the opioid epidemic.””
Erin Schumaker/HuffPost
Policing
Police Reformers Push For De-Escalation Training, But The Jury Is Out On Its Effectiveness | 'Hire More Women' Has Been Touted As A Quick Fix To Police Brutality Since Rodney King. Here's Why Empty Calls For Equality Fail | What The Latest Research Tells Us About Racial Bias In Policing | Why 'Tough Guy' Policing Fails
““In the absence of statistics, each new study on police violence is treated like breakthrough research, when it’s actually a single data point in a field of study in its infancy.””
Erik McGregor / Pacific Press via Getty Images
Inequality
Mike Bloomberg Wants To Solve America's Black Doctor Shortage | In NYC, 'Stark Contrast' In COVID-19 Infection Rates Based On Education And Race | Growing Concern Over Anti-Vaccine Leaders Targeting African Americans | What It Would Take To End The Ban On Queer Blood Donation | Sexism In The Doctor's Office Starts Here
““The lack of Black doctors isn’t solely about equal access to education. If you’re Black in America, having a doctor who looks like you can mean the difference between life and death.””
Sue Ogrocki/AP, File