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Residents of the Auburn Gresham neighborhood in Chicago line up for boxes of food at a weekly pop-up food pantry.

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Chicago Tackles COVID-19 Disparities In Hard-Hit Black And Latino Neighborhoods

12:29pm June 09, 2020

by Cheryl Corley

The mayor calls the coronavirus a public health "red alarm." She has deployed a Racial Equity Rapid Response Team to fight the disease in black and Latinx neighborhoods.

Dr. Lauren Jenkins reads to her twin sons, Pierce and Ashton, while wearing her "hazmat" suit. Because lung cancer has compromised her husband's immune system, Jenkins moved out of her home and visited in the suit as a precaution.

She's A Frontline Doctor. Her Husband Has Lung Cancer. Now, A Simple Hug Is Dangerous

11:10am June 07, 2020

by Tom Dreisbach

When Lauren Jenkins learned a coworker had tested positive for the coronavirus, she did what once would've seemed unthinkable — separating from her two young boys and a husband with stage IV cancer.

Dr. Daniel Colon Hidalgo is a physician in the intensive care unit of a Chicago Hospital, where many of the COVID-19 patients he's tending are unconscious and terribly Ill from the minute he meets them.

On Dying Alone: 'Behind Every COVID-19 Case, There Is A Story'

7:00am June 06, 2020

The unconscious man was a Beatles fan, his sister said. When she couldn't be with him in his final ICU hours she asked Dr. Daniel Colón Hidalgo to play music and say the words she wanted him to hear.

Hand washing stations now share the casino floor with slot machines at the Bellagio. It's part of a move to ramp up hygiene protocols ahead of the establishment's reopening on June 4.

As Casinos Reopen In Las Vegas, Stakes Are High And Union Calls For Transparency

9:20am June 03, 2020

by David Fuchs

Casinos is Las Vegas are reopening Thursday, after being shuttered for more than two months. Workers there are eager to start getting paid again, but they're also worried about their health.

Traditional Diné medicine practitioner Jeneda Benally, pictured here with her daughter Dahi, is trying to preserve cultural wisdom in danger of being lost during the pandemic.

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Navajo Nation Loses Elders And Tradition To COVID-19

11:28am May 31, 2020

by Laurel Morales

COVID-19 is disproportionately affecting older tribal members throughout Indian Country. The deaths of these elders means the loss of ceremonies, stories, language and cultural wisdom.

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Margaret Sullivan looks out the windows of Goodwin House in Falls Church, Va.

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'I Find Myself Very Seriously Feeling Hollow': Documenting A Pandemic Experience

7:00am May 30, 2020

by Jacob Fenston

As the coronavirus sweeps the nation, 85-year-old Margaret Sullivan watches and records the changes from inside her retirement home in Virginia.

The IRS has announced that with employer approval, employees will be allowed to add, drop or alter some of their benefits — including flexible spending account contributions — for the remainder of 2020.

IRS Rule Shift Lets Workers Make Benefits Changes Midyear — If Their Employer Agrees

5:00am May 29, 2020

by Michelle Andrews

The new guidance amounts to a midyear open-enrollment period and applies to firms that buy health insurance to cover their workers as well as to those that self-insure — paying claims on their own.

Video artist Robin Bell projected the words "Covid Memorial," onto the brick wall of a Subway sandwich shop in Washington, D.C. Below them scrolled a slideshow of faces of COVID-19 victims, along with messages their loved ones had posted on social media.

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Memorializing Those Who Died In The Time Of COVID-19

11:42am May 26, 2020

by Melissa Block

Since it's impossible to hold mass public gatherings to mourn those who have died of COVID-19, people are creating new ways to memorialize the dead.

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Blood collection tubes sit in a rack on the first day of a free COVID-19 antibody testing event at the Volusia County Fairgrounds in DeLand, Fla., on May 4.

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Getting An Antibody Test For The Coronavirus? Here's What It Won't Tell You

3:50pm May 21, 2020

by Rob Stein

As more and more people get tested for antibodies to the coronavirus, infectious disease specialists worry that those tested — and their employers — may not understand the limits of the results.

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Ideal Nursing Homes: Individual Rooms, Better Staffing, More Accountability

5:01am May 21, 2020

by Ina Jaffe

Nursing home experts say priorities need to change, emphasizing quality of life over profits. The stunning COVID-19 death toll brings scrutiny to an industry that many believe is due for an overhaul.

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