Health | COVID-19

At a time of dire threat, activists reignite a movement to provide healing through "radical hope" and vow to organize and protect those most vulnerable.

How immigrant-led coalitions provide mental health support to fellow migrants fearing deportation.

One of the country's most diverse cities is helping migrants build a new life.

Latinos and African Americans suffer the nation’s highest rates of long COVID. Yet systemic health care inequality and poor outreach have resulted in clinics with mostly white patient lists.

A Texas Community is Being Bombarded by Cancer-Causing Benzene. State Officials Have Known for Nearly Two Decades.

A student journalist on how her team coped with the stress of covering a campus under siege.

Gun violence suffered by Latinos in the U.S. has increased. Survivors often face a difficult road ahead that includes medical bills and accessing mental health resources.

While thousands of undocumented immigrants are newly eligible for Medi-Cal, others have been disenrolled as pandemic-era policies wind down.

Toxic air lingers in a Texas Latino community, revealing failures in state’s air monitoring system and leaving residents in the dark.

Young Latinos challenge traditional notions about mental health.

California is one of three that allows those without full immigration status to get licensed as therapists.

It’s called a mass-disabling event: One in five COVID-19 infections results in long COVID, with Latinos the most affected. As society and medicine largely ignore this lingering crisis, how prepared are we to care for a looming avalanche of Latino long-haulers?

With an Aging Population that Needs Culturally Competent Care, Families Face A Caregiver Crunch.

In Mexico, the government ignores long COVID, and health systems belittle longhaulers suffering neurological and neuropsychiatric aftereffects.

A journalist details the loss of independence he’s learned to live with – and his exploration of why epilepsy is a growing problem among Latinos in the United States.

The pandemic has disproportionately affected Latinos, an impact made worse by the loss of fitness opportunities. Now, many are tightening the laces and blazing new paths toward healthy living

The COVID-19 pandemic pushed an immigrant mother to grab the kids and hit the road to discover their adopted country. Along the way the family rediscovered itself

A new community of journalists and activists, armed with facts, is working to block a wave of COVID misinformation aimed at immigrant communities

As controversy rages over the ‘immunization’ of football star Aaron Rodgers, Latino athletes have pushed through misinformation to lead community vaccination campaigns

Thousands of indigenous migrants toil on California farms, cut off from mainstream health care by language and cultural barriers. Amid the pandemic, new activists from within the community now work to bridge the gap

Two desert cities are united by history and culture, but divided by a border wall. Amid the pandemic, one Nogales flourishes, while the other suffers

Through public records requests, and journalism embedded in the community, Tina Vasquez exposes a sordid reality behind poultry plants during the pandemic

In Texas, at least 10,500 people died in nursing homes and assisted living facilities during the worst of the pandemic. Through it all, nurses have had to fight the virus twice as hard - on the job and among their families at home

A first responder looks back on a year of frontline work in a pandemic. At first, everyone was on edge, working against an unknown threat and under uncomfortable safety precautions. After thousands of COVID-19 deaths, protecting community and family are now this firefighter’s top priorities

Guatemalans infected with COVID and deported from the U.S. aggravated the country’s coronavirus outbreak. They have faced stigma and neglect at home. In 2020, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement moved to stop exporting the virus. But documents in Guatemala say infected deportees continue to arrive in planes sent by ICE

Desde que comenzó la pandemia, guatemaltecos infectados por el COVID y deportados se han enfrentado al estigma de la pandemia y al abandono en su país. Autoridades de los Estados Unidos actuaron para eliminar la exportación del virus. Pero informes indican que deportados infectados siguen regresando a Guatemala