Coronavirus Files: Latest data shows prisoners were vulnerable to COVID
The death rate in state and federal prisons rose by almost 50% during the first pandemic year, according to a new UCLA data project.
Coronavirus Files: The beginning of the end
When a trio of health equity scholars set out to study racial and ethnic inequities during the pandemic, they failed, the researchers write in STAT. The data just weren’t there.
Coronavirus Files: The beginning of the end
When a trio of health equity scholars set out to study racial and ethnic inequities during the pandemic, they failed, the researchers write in STAT. The data just weren’t there.
Coronavirus Files: Pandemic endangers minority cancer patients, pregnant people
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is calling for long-term rules against school mask mandates and workplace vaccine requirements, reports John Kennedy at USA Today. The move is widely seen as part of his presumed candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination in 2024.
Coronavirus Files: Congress investigates pandemic response as White House eyes end of emergency
COVID-19 created a perfect storm of rising rents as people started moving when they emerged from lockdown. Those pandemic effects are still rippling across the nation, causing housing costs to rise even in cities that were once affordable, report Holly Fuong and Monica Potts at FiveThirtyEight.
