By Dennis Wagner, USA TODAY If COVID-19 follows a pattern set by the 1918 Spanish flu, the pandemic is likely to last up to two years and return with a vengeance this fall and winter – a second wave worse than the first, according to a study issued from the University of Minnesota. “States, territories and tribal […]
By Marilyn Silverman Your doctor has wonderful news for you—you’re pregnant. Both you and your partner happily count the days until you will welcome a tiny baby girl or a tiny baby boy into your domestic abode. But that happy day might be darkened with sadness and tragedy if you are a minority woman due […]
One of every four Filipinos in the New York-New Jersey area is employed in the health care industry. With at least 30 worker deaths and many more family members lost to the coronavirus, a community at the epicenter of the pandemic has been left reeling.
Sheryl Pabatao’s parents, Alfredo and Susana, were health care workers in one of the most COVID-19-ravaged parts of New Jersey. They were married 44 years. (Credit: Rosem Morton, special to ProPublica) By Nina Martin and Bernice Yeung, ProPublica When Alfredo Pabatao told his family that he had helped move a suspected coronavirus patient through the hospital where he’d […]