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Texas's Persistent Problem

Texas's Persistent Problem

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Understanding why gaps in Texas's Medicaid coverage persist

A tattered U.S. flag damaged in Hurricane Harvey, flies in Conroe, Texas, on August 29, 2017. The photo shows a torn U.S. flag blowing against a dark grey sky. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri

Hurricanes, Pandemics, Floods, Frail Systems, and Failed Responses

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Imagining a post-Harvey, post-Irma, post-Hanna, post-COVID-19 world of pandemics, natural disasters, and U.S. resiliency

Coronavirus Epidemiology This Week

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We won't stop COVID-19 until we focus on the data that matter

The image shows a heat map of the United States with states colored according to the higher number of tests coming back positive

"Less a Leper Than I Have Been"

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Book of documentary poetry recalls Louisiana's Carville Hospital and early 20th century experience of leprosy in America

Attitudes toward leprosy are represented in this watercolor commissioned by Henry S. Wellcome around 1912 from Richard Cooper, a graphic artist known for his advertisements for the London Underground. Painting shows people scrambling to get away from a leper who strolls by, ringing a bell. In their haste, the crowd has left an infant on the roadside. CC-BY 4.0 from Wellcome Collection.