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Workers hold up their station signs to signal they are ready for a patient at a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccination site at Lumen Field Event Center in Seattle, Washington on March 13, 2021.

Reducing Inequity in the United States' Vaccine Rollout

by Katie Welgan, Robert C. Reiner

We need to rethink what vaccine access means

Migration
Amy, a two-year-old migrant from Honduras seeking asylum with her parents, crawls on a dirt road after crossing the Rio Grande river into the United States in Penitas, Texas, on April 1, 2019. The photo shows a small child craling on the ground near a giant border fence. REUTERS/Adrees Latif

Children of Immigrants and Their Mental Health Needs

by Hannah Todd, Eliza Martin

We should create more comprehensive, accessible, and culturally sensitive initiatives for U.S. children of immigrants

"We cannot afford to unsee domestic abuse after COVID-19," the authors write. Here women wearing masks take part in a protest against gender violence in Santiago, Chile, on December 6, 2019. The photo is a striking image of women wearing red masks lined up, each person holding a hand over one eye of the person in front of them. REUTERS/Andres Martinez Casares
Gender

Violence in Times of Coronavirus—The Ugly Truth

by Amber Peterman, Megan O’Donnell, Karen Devries, Alessandra Guedes

We cannot afford to unsee domestic abuse after COVID-19—we need a world free from violence against women and children

Migrants in the "Remain in Mexico" program queue in Juarez, Mexico, on July 8, 2020 to renew their permission to stay legally in Mexico to wait for their immigration hearing in the United States. This is a powerful image showing people lined up seated with their backs to a chain-link fence covered in barbed wire. Some of them hold packets of papers. One of them has his head resting in his hands. REUTERS/Jose Luis Gonzalez
Migration

The Ripple Effect of U.S. Immigration Policies During COVID-19

by Tomas Arango, Caroline Lee, Hannah Todd

Self-inflicted problems of unsafe detentions and deportations of people with coronavirus impede effective U.S. responses

People ride a motorbike amidst smoke from fumigation during a fumigation campaign while the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues, on the outskirts of Sanaa, Yemen, on April 13, 2020. This is a powerful photo showing two men on one motorbike driving through a thick cloud of disinfectant mist. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah
Migration

Coronavirus, War, and Yemen in Between: A Recipe for Disaster

by Walid A. Al-Soneidar, Nezar N. Al-Hebshi

Without a collective effort to suppress COVID-19 in conflict zones, people in those areas will pay the highest price

Residents look from behind a closed gate as members of the military patrol during a nationwide lockdown aimed at limiting the spread of novel coronavirus—in Soweto, South Africa on April 23, 2020. The photo shows several people congregated behind a closed fence though there is a very large gap between the fence and the adjacent wall. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko
Poverty

One Size Doesn’t Fit All

by Rumi Chunara, Rajesh Vedanthan, ​​​​​​​Olatunji Matthew Kolawole, Gbenga Ogedegbe

When collecting COVID-19 data and modeling epidemic curves, we need to take more into account—in Africa and elsewhere

Workers clean the area around the podium before a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak task force press conference in the briefing room at the White House in Washington, D.C. on April 13, 2020. This is a striking image for its subject matter. It's a shot of the podium we don't normally see—empty of politicians and instead a worker in protective gear is cleaning the White House emblem. REUTERS/Leah Millis
Governance

Politics May Kill Us, Not the Coronavirus

by Eduardo J. Gómez, Sandro Galea

In these times of pandemic, crisis, and despair we need more bipartisan support for rational actions informed by science