COVID-19’s Spotlight on Air Pollution
Pulitzer Center Reporting Fellow alum and MSW student at the University of Pennsylvania, Patrick Ammerman examines the connections between air pollution and the coronavirus pandemic.
Public health focuses on the systematic prevention of disease and prolonging of life by governments, NGO’s and other groups. Pulitzer Center stories tagged with “Public Health” feature reporting on communicable and non-communicable diseases, the development of medical systems and infrastructure to provide public access to health care services. Use the Pulitzer Center Lesson Builder to find and create lesson plans on public health.
Pulitzer Center Reporting Fellow alum and MSW student at the University of Pennsylvania, Patrick Ammerman examines the connections between air pollution and the coronavirus pandemic.
Most of the money in the House bill would be used to support research on COVID-19 or to offset its impact on federally funded research activities.
Ask Blew Kind when she knew the pandemic had hit her cafe, Franny Lou’s Porch in East Kensington, and she doesn’t hesitate: the second week of March, when sales went from more than $500 a week to just $88.
The U.S. government's Operation Warp Speed plans to have 300 million doeses of a COVID-19 vaccine for the United States by January 2021. Scientists and participants in existing initiatives to develop a vaccine note myriad logistical and ethical concerns with the outlined plan.
The international alarm about the COVID-19 pandemic was sounded first not by a human, but by a computer.
Science interviewed David King, a chemist who has criticized the way scientific advice has been handled by the Conservative U.K. government during the coronavirus pandemic.
In Ecuador, hundreds of patients urgently need their treatments in order to have a decent quality of life and—in many cases—in order to survive.
Courtnesha Rogers is raising three preschoolers in the shadow of the pandemic.
Wake Forest University Reporting Fellow alum Amanda Ulrich writes about the challenges faced by isolated California nursing home residents and their families amidst COVID-19.
Hundreds of cancer patients in Colombia are left without the radiopharmaceuticals needed for their treatments due to COVID-19’s impact on transportation.
The Navajo reservation has some of the highest rates of coronavirus in the country. If Navajos are susceptible to the virus' spread in part because they are so closely knit, that's also how many believe they will beat it.
Environmentalists in India are criticizing government moves to continue to approve major industrial projects.