After Denver jail COVID-19 cases spiked, officials scrambled to lower publicly reported counts. https://gazette.com/government/after-denver-jail-covid-19-cases-spike-officials-scrambled-to-lower-publicly-reported-counts/article_ab9b6568-cd40-11ea-8a6a-eb82648e3970.html

ICE transfers — and NC jail partnerships — have continued amid the pandemic https://www.northcarolinahealthnews.org/2020/07/24/six-nc-jails-entered-contracts-with-ice-amid-the-pandemic/

Dr. Krista Perreira, Professor of Social Medicine, recently published an article in the American Journal of Public Health on perceived access to abortion among women in the United States.  Perreira and her colleagues at the Urban Institute find that 27.6% of women aged 18-44 in U.S. households believed that access to medical abortion was difficult … Read more

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Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law JHPPL Call for Paper Proposals  Health Politics and Policy under COVID-19 The Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law (JHPPL) invites the submission of paper proposals for a special issue on health politics and policy under COVID-19. Sarah Gollust (University of Minnesota) and Julia Lynch (University of Pennsylvania) … Read more

How The Coronavirus Is Disproportionately Impacting Black Americans. The coronavirus pandemic is hitting some communities much harder than others. We’ll take a look at the disproportionate toll it’s taking on African Americans. Giselle Corbie-Smith appears on NPR to discuss impact of COVID-19 on African Americans. https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2020/04/09/coronavirus-african-americans

Jill Fisher, Professor of Social Medicine, has published a new book, Adverse Events: Race, Inequality, and the Testing of New Pharmaceuticals (NYU Press). https://nyupress.org/9781479862160/adverse-events/ Explores the social inequality of clinical drug testing and its effects on scientific results. Imagine that you volunteer for the clinical trial of an experimental drug. The only direct benefit of … Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) — We know COVID-19 doesn’t discriminate. Anyone can get it. But we also know this virus is impacting people differently. https://abc11.com/society/how-minorities-are-disproportionately-affected-by-covid-19-in-nc/6160850/

  Prisons Doing Mass Testing For COVID-19 Find Rampant Infections | The Marshall Project An Arkansas county so rural it has just three incorporated towns and not a single stretch of interstate suddenly emerged this week as one of the nation’s coronavirus hotspots.Ground zero in Lincoln County, about an hour’s drive south of Little Rock, … Read more