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New data suggest undocumented immigrants aren’t being tested enough for COVID-19. What’s standing in the way, and what’s being done to address it?

Early on, California was conducting just 2,000 coronavirus tests a day. Now the state is up to 60,000. How did they ramp up testing?

What are the public health impacts of police violence and what would a public health response look like?

With business models upended by COVID-19, hospitals are dusting off a decades-old model for bringing acute care into patients’ homes.

How racism makes wearing a mask in public much more complicated for one black doctor.

Some scientists argue we should intentionally infect volunteers with the coronavirus to get a vaccine sooner. How would it work?

The coronavirus has dashed Colorado Democrats’ dreams of passing a highly anticipated public option bill.

Public health departments find themselves fighting the coronavirus with phones and faxes rather than the real-time data that they need.

Inside one county’s efforts to use contact tracing to flatten the COVID-19 curve.

The coronavirus is straining our primary care system. But, for some, the situation is starting to look up.