Director of Tulane University's Master's of Public Health Program Dr. Susan Hassig commented on Louisiana's battle against the coronavirus and its impact on the African-American community. "You've got black residents…
“COVID-19 has fertile terrain to spread rapidly among the populations that live in Amazonia,” says president of prominent Brazilian rights group. Brazilian officials and rights activists are warning of an…
Across many parts of the U.S., black Americans are dying of COVID-19 at disproportionately high rates. In Milwaukee County, for example, nearly three quarters of those who have died of…
A teenager from an isolated Amazonian tribe who tested positive for Covid-19 has died, raising concerns about the coronavirus' impact on the region's indigenous people. The 15-year-old boy, a Yanomami…
The coronavirus has laid bare two societies divided on lines of class and race – a divide reflected in skewed death figures When Sean Petty walked into the emergency room…
Millions of jobs have been lost and extremists and authoritarian regimes are taking advantage of instability, said Secretary General Antonio Guterres. The United Nations Security Council was warned that the…
As parts of the United States settle in for what may be the worst weeks of their local covid-19 outbreaks, a familiar refrain is sure to emerge. Some people will…
After the COVID-19 outbreak, a museum suddenly finds itself in the spotlight as its now-online display on the religious and medical reactions to medieval plagues spikes in demand. BERLIN —…
On March 24, Timothy Wilson, 36, was shot and killed by the FBI as he prepared to attack a hospital in the Kansas City area where patients with the coronavirus…
Data on race and the coronavirus is too limited to draw sweeping conclusions, experts say, but disparate rates of sickness — and death — have emerged in some places. The…