COVID infections are low to nonexistent in several countries, where life looks practically normal. Some people even occasionally forget there’s a pandemic going on. Article 2674 words 10 votes
Agents raid home of fired Florida data scientist who built COVID-19 dashboard Article 512 words 39 votes
"Do people understand what’s happening here? Do they care?" - On the excruciating wait for a vaccine inside a coronavirus-infected nursing home Article 1603 words 6 votes
University of Nebraska Medical Center, the best-prepared hospital in the US for a pandemic, is nearly overwhelmed healthcare Article 2172 words, published Nov 20 2020 10 votes
Rapid antigen testing is less accurate than the US government wants to admit healthcare Article 2801 words 5 votes
"No one is listening to us": More people than ever are hospitalized with COVID-19. Health-care workers can’t go on like this. healthcare Article 3028 words 27 votes
Once the disease of gluttonous aristocrats, gout is now tormenting the masses Article 2587 words 6 votes
Oregon legalizes psilocybin mushrooms (for therapeutic purposes) and decriminalizes all drugs ~health.mental Article 672 words 32 votes
Internal documents reveal COVID-19 hospitalization data the US government keeps hidden healthcare Article 1583 words 19 votes
America's Pandemic: In a three-part documentary, the Washington Post explores a failed response to the coronavirus pandemic that’s left 225,000 Americans dead, despite decades of preparation Article 494 words 10 votes
Inside the fall of the CDC: How the world’s greatest public health organization was brought to its knees, causing damage that could last much longer than the coronavirus Article 11 058 words 13 votes
A new program in Denver sends mental health professionals instead of police mental health Article 1039 words, published Sep 6 2020 9 votes
How an ill-fated fishing voyage that left Seattle in May provided a natural experiment that helped us understand Covid-19 Article 1364 words 4 votes
Pandemic spikes in rural states, where small hospitals are already in financial distress healthcare Article 3125 words 7 votes
What are we so afraid of? – Tony Green, on dismissing, denying, contracting and spreading the coronavirus Article 1634 words, published Oct 10 2020 19 votes
Texas doctor, 28, dies of Covid: "She wore the same mask for weeks, if not months" due to PPE shortages healthcare Article 1456 words 9 votes
Protest erupts in Orthodox Jewish community over NYC's new coronavirus restrictions Article 604 words 4 votes
Michigan Attorney General will no longer enforce governor’s executive orders after court ruling Article 637 words 11 votes
Tracker for coronavirus test results from officials in the US government and presidential campaigns Article 620 words 21 votes
CDC coronavirus testers pulled from Minnesota after hostile and racist encounters Article 793 words, published Sep 25 2020 5 votes
"Feels like they are just waiting for us to die" - On /r/unemployment, a community of desperate people has stepped in where the government failed Article 1553 words 13 votes
Joseph Goldberger’s filth parties: A crusading doctor’s stomach-churning efforts to beat back pellagra in the American South medicine Article 1898 words, published Sep 8 2020 9 votes
"What could possibly go wrong?": Chris Anderson, the supervisor of elections in Seminole County, Florida, on the risks of running a presidential election in a pandemic Article 1466 words 4 votes
How the pandemic forced mental health care to change for the better ~health.mental Article 2925 words 6 votes
White House abandoned plan to send 650 million face masks across the US in April Article 102 words 15 votes
What factors have made Germany relatively successful in managing the coronavirus crisis? Article 2455 words 4 votes
Whistleblower complaint alleges mass hysterectomies at ICE detention center Article 656 words 48 votes
Woodward book: Trump says he knew coronavirus was ‘deadly’ and worse than the flu while intentionally misleading Americans Article 2333 words 30 votes
With Canada and Mexico borders closed, Americans are trapped in their own health care system healthcare Article 18 votes
United States House subcommittee releases coronavirus task force reports kept secret by the White House Article 884 words 18 votes
The Life Care Center of Kirkland, Washington, was the first COVID hot spot in the US. Forty-six people associated with the nursing home died, exposing how ill-prepared we were for the pandemic Article 16 017 words, published Aug 14 2020 5 votes
Voices from the pandemic: Tusdae Barr, on being evicted from her home during the coronavirus crisis Article 1704 words, published Aug 15 2020 8 votes
University of North Carolina researchers were potentially exposed to lab-created coronaviruses in several incidents since 2015, highlighting the risks even in respected research facilities Article 2674 words 8 votes
US states seek $2.2 trillion from OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma: filings medicine Article 649 words 15 votes