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Health Inequity

World Health

Germany vs. The Virus

While Covid-19 deaths in the United States skyrocket, Germans have managed to largely contain the damage. What do we need to learn?

Annalisa Quinn Boston Globe Magazine Nov 2020 20min Permalink

Health

What to Do About Ahav?

A mother’s fight to save a Black, mentally ill 11-year-old boy in a time of a pandemic and rising racial unrest.

Hannah Dreier Washington Post Oct 2020 Permalink

Sent Home to Die

In New Orleans, hospitals sent patients infected with the coronavirus into hospice facilities or back to their families to die at home, in some cases discontinuing treatment even as relatives begged them to keep trying.

Annie Waldman, Joshua Kaplan ProPublica Aug 2020 30min Permalink

Best Article Health

The Black American Amputation Epidemic

Black patients were losing limbs at triple the rate of others. The doctor put up billboards in the Mississippi Delta. Amputation Prevention Institute, they read. He could save their limbs, if it wasn’t too late.

Lizzie Presser ProPublica May 2020 30min Permalink