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COVID-19
Denial Isn’t an Effective Health Care Strategy, Say People With Long COVID
Gaslighting and disbelief make long COVID worse for people living with long-term effects from the virus.
Expanding Use of Primates in Drug Testing Is a Threat to Public Health
Proposals to expand domestic breeding of primates for research overlook several ethical, scientific and safety woes.
Thousands Experience Lapses in Care as Medicaid Rules Expire
As South Dakota and North Carolina remove participants from Medicaid, the states also plan to add people to the program.
For-Profit Child Care Chains See Opportunity to Monopolize Imperiled Industry
The catastrophic state of U.S. child care is rooted in capitalism, not the pandemic.
Testosterone Access Could Be Limited as COVID-19 Public Health Emergency Ends
Options for patients in "care deserts" to remotely access gender-affirming care may soon dwindle.
WHO Declares End of COVID Emergency, But Pandemic Inequality Is Still Rampant
A 2022 study found that pharmaceutical companies' hoarding of vaccines cost over a million lives by the end of 2021.
Pandemic-Era Programs Are Coming to End — But the Fight for Justice Isn’t
The helpful programs, as well as the national missteps, can teach us how to chart a better path forward as a society.
University of California Workers Center Disability Justice in Union Organizing
Workers built solidarity by rejecting the “deserving vs. undeserving” disabled model and scarcity approach to access.
2 California Prisons Face Imminent Flooding. They Must Be Evacuated Now.
California prison authorities have a history of failing to evacuate incarcerated people for weather-related emergencies.
Millions Live With Long COVID as Biden Declares End to National Emergency
Science writer Ryan Prior discusses the movement to expand research and resources for those with long COVID.