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Public health experts and advocates have worried about correctional facilities since the beginning of the pandemic. In such close quarters, social...
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This story was updated on July 24, 2020 to include additional information on deaths in group homes. One of the ways Mikaela Coppedge has coped during...
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Gov. Eric Holcomb often brags about the Indiana Women’s Prison. Last year, Holcomb showed the prison off to Ivanka Trump. He’s mentioned the prison in...
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Seth Thompson learned about COVID-19 early. He’s an engineer in Carthage, Missouri, a town of just under 15,000 that sits along historic Route 66 in the...
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Maricel Mendoza is familiar with the work migrant and seasonal farmworkers do. Growing up, her family traveled from Texas to central Illinois every year...
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Ali Schroer was just out of college when she started her first teaching job, but her new insurance plan didn’t cover her allergy medication. "So this...
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Though many people who have been seriously ill from COVID-19 are older or have underlying health conditions, it’s still unclear what causes certain...
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Brandon Duncan describes himself as fearless. So when he first heard news reports about the novel coronavirus, the 30-year-old wasn’t afraid for himself...
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The Indiana Women’s Prison has taken hard measures to contain the coronavirus. Many inmates in the prison have spent long periods locked in their cells ...
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This spring, as it became clear COVID-19 was hitting African-Americans especially hard, Indianapolis-area health officials vowed to set up testing sites...
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When physician Erik Martin left his home in southwest Missouri to help with New York’s COVID-19 outbreak in April, his county had fewer than 10...
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Systemic racism has a huge impact on the health of Black Americans, and not just in the doctor’s office. In a Facebook Live event, Side Effects Public...