LGBTQ+ people face myriad health disparities that put them at higher risk for complications from the virus. So why don’t we know how COVID has affected them?

My grandfather died of coronavirus two weeks short of receiving a vaccine. His death gave me a new appreciation for our great communal loss and the burdens so many of us now carry. 

Amira Carson-Carey has spent the past year fighting for equitable health care for her infant son — from repeat heart surgeries to COVID infections — amid a pandemic and a summer of racial reckoning.

In a conversation with The 19th, Sen. Lisa Murkowski and Dr. Anne Zink, chief medical officer, discuss the state’s successful vaccine distribution and concerns about a post-pandemic world.

In a conversation with The 19th, Drs. Rochelle Walensky and Marcella Nunez-Smith discuss the country’s vaccination distribution plan.

‘Breonna gave people a voice who didn’t know they had one, including me,’ Tamika Palmer says, calling for the Justice Department to investigate Taylor’s shooting by police.

A year after the start of the pandemic, women describe their lives on the front lines, the losses they’ve endured and the ways in which they are forever changed.

About half of all Black and Latinx children would benefit from the expansion of the child tax credit, which is also expected to help women return to work by providing funds for child care. 

The Duchess of Sussex’s experience with mental health crises, racism and tense family dynamics resonated.

The study showed women of color ages 15 to 24 were particularly vulnerable.