Category: COVID-19

(CNN) Thousands of employeesat a hospital in the epicenter of America’s fight against the coronavirus are being rewarded for their hard work. More than 4,000 hospital staff — including doctors, physician assistants, nurses, and facilities and food service teams — at NYC Health + Hospitals/Elmhurst were surprised with a three-night complimentary vacation, Hyatt and American Airlines announced Friday. […]

Evelynn Hammonds, who chairs Harvard’s department of the history of science, has spent her career studying the intersection of race and disease. She wrote a history of New York City’s attempt, a century ago, to control diphtheria, and is currently at work on a book of essays on the history of race, from Jefferson to genomics. Hammonds’s […]

Data released Friday by the New York Police Department (NYPD) shows that 81 percent of coronavirus enforcement summonses from March 16 to May 5 were issued to black and Latino residents. “Of the 374 summonses issued in regard to social distancing, the respondents for 193 of those summonses are black and the respondents for 11 […]

Tim Bray says he raised concerns about the treatment of whistleblowers, but in the end, the company’s failure to change led him to resign. A former engineer and vice-president at Amazon is speaking out about the reasons he stepped down from a million-dollar salary position in the middle of a pandemic. Among them, he was […]

The family was hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic, afraid of losing business After being shut out of the initial round of forgivable federal loans, the Ali family — owners of the iconic Washington, D.C. diner, Ben’s Chili Bowl — got the news they’d been waiting weeks for, their emergency Paycheck Protection Program assistance had been approved. “We […]

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) — For two local doctors, who are on the frontlines in the fight against COVID-19, it’s more than a mission, it’s a family affair. It’s hard to see through their protective gear, but just in their white coats you get a better glimpse of the self-proclaimed Twin Sister Docs. Now, Dr. Elena McDonald […]

The Senate has approved a $484 billion relief package intended to aid flailing businesses. Critics of the bill say it doesn’t go far enough. On Tuesday the United States Senate approved a $484 billion coronavirus relief package that’s expected to pour billions more into the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) intended to give small businesses financial relief during pandemic-spurred shutdowns. […]

The CDC report highlights a disturbing trend throughout the country. The narrative coming out of the state of Georgia is disturbing. As Governor Brian Kemp relaxes restrictions on businesses, researchers are finding that the toll the coronavirus is taking on the Black community is even more troubling than previously stated. The Washington Post reports that a new study surveying […]

Since the White House announced this “historic public-private partnership,” 63 sites have opened nationwide. Just eight are in black neighborhoods.  Adarra Benjamin, a 26-year-old black social worker in Chicago, lacks the luxury of staying home during the Covid-19 pandemic. She assists several elderly patients. Her work demands travel by public transit. Her duties — picking up groceries, […]

Kaila Corrothers said that when she thinks of her mother, Deborah Gatewood, there is one thought that lingers: “This did not have to happen this way.” Deborah Gatewood had two years to go before she could retire from a Detroit hospital. But Gatewood, a phlebotomist for three decades, will never celebrate that milestone. She died […]