Public Health

New York City-based NYC Health + Hospitals will lead the city's effort to track COVID-19 cases and contacts, according to The New York Times.

People of color and those from low-income households face a higher risk of developing a severe case of COVID-19 if infected with the new coronavirus, a Kaiser Family Foundation report shows.

Many Americans who have lost a loved one to opioid addiction are grappling with feelings of resentment amid the COVID-19 pandemic, according to PennLive.

Hartford (Conn.) HealthCare launched a mobile unit that will focus on testing people in underserved communities for COVID-19, including homeless shelters.

Two-thirds of new COVID-19 hospitalizations in New York are people who are coming in from their own homes, a surprising stat to the state's governor, according to NBC News.

As we all are dealing with the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic health crisis, it has raised an alarm: can we meet the demands of patient care in a way that we have never had to before at scale? This stems from…

Health officials say so-called "COVID-19 parties" may be causing an increase in new coronavirus cases in Walla Walla County, Wash., and pushing back efforts to reopen, according to the Walla Walla Union-Bulletin.

U.S. children are facing an unprecedented level of food insecurity for modern times due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to two new surveys cited by The New York Times.

The novel coronavirus has likely been circulating in humans since late last year, a new genetic analysis by British researchers shows, according to CNN.

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