By Dan Diamond | Alarmed by the threat posed by the Covid-19 pandemic, lawmakers are urging congressional leaders to restore health coverage for tens of thousands of uninsured Pacific Islanders who were promised Medicaid after U.S. nuclear weapons testing but lost coverage in the 1996 welfare reform bill.
Read MoreBy Gaby Galvin | The country’s COVID-19 crisis has placed patients and interpreters alike in precarious positions, with consequences that could extend beyond the current pandemic.
Read MoreBy Theodora Yu | Despite the shelter-in-place policies across the nation to combat the coronavirus pandemic, the number of discriminatory incidents remain on the rise. The related stress could have health impacts on those targeted, experts say.
Read MoreBy Rafu | Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii): “My thoughts go out to the Yasutake and Inouye ohana today as we mourn the passing of Irene Hirano Inouye. Irene’s passion for serving her community on the local, national and international levels was profoundly evident in her life’s work.
Read MoreBy Language Magazine | Non-English-speaking communities in the U.S. have voiced concern that coronavirus information is being communicated to them after the rest of the country and in less detail, creating a divide that could put minority groups at risk.
Read MoreBy KTVZ news sources | WASHINGTON (KTVZ) — Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., said Tuesday they will introduce legislation that would ensure everyone in the United States can have access to health care and other critical resources that are needed to survive the coronavirus pandemic.
Read MoreBy Jason Oliver Chang | Officials and medical professionals predict that Fairfield and New Haven county will experience the COVID-19 peak outbreak by the end of April; Hartford County will follow in May. Our collective medical response to the unprecedented and catastrophic pandemic accentuated overall societal weaknesses, particularly with regard to inequality and marginalization.
Read MoreBy Julian Shen-Berro | As stay-home orders have arisen quickly across the country in an attempt to curb the spread of the coronavirus, local restaurants and businesses have seen drastically reduced customer traffic and plummeting profits.
Read MoreBy Yusra Murad | On Sunday afternoon, Sarah Williams lost her cousin amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Read MoreBy Erica Hellerstein | To bridge the language gap for people seeking coronavirus-related information in their native languages, the Oakland-based Asian & Pacific Islander American Health Forum has launched a crowdsourcing effort to compile resources about the pandemic in nearly 30 Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander languages.
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