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Coronavirus: Identities

Vox's coverage of how the coronavirus crisis is impacting different communities of people around the country and around the world. To read more of Vox's coronavirus coverage, return to the hub here.

I’m a contact tracer. Trump’s advice not to fear Covid-19 is dangerous.

By Jahnavi Curlin

My family had the same virus as Trump, but not the same privilege

By Shanita Hubbard

Covid-19’s stunningly unequal death toll in America, in one chart

By Dylan Scott and Christina Animashaun

How Vienna’s opera houses are staying open in the pandemic

By Julia Belluz

The hell that is remote learning, explained in a comic

By Aubrey Hirsch

Meet the students thriving in remote learning

By Luke Winkie

Colleges are making last-minute changes as coronavirus cases spike. That’s tough for students.

By Riley Beggin

What it’s like working at the polls in the middle of a pandemic

By Benton Graham

1 in 3 Black Americans knows someone who died of Covid-19. These stories capture the toll taken by the disease.

By Tiffanie Drayton

College reopenings — and closures — are harming low-income students

By Terry Nguyen

3 renters on getting screwed over by landlords during the Covid-19 housing crisis

By Luke Winkie

College football’s coronavirus crisis, explained

By Jane Coaston

America is failing Black moms during the pandemic

By Anna North

How an Iowa summer resort region became a Covid-19 hot spot

By Emily Mendenhall

How coronavirus devastated Texas’s vulnerable borderlands

By Nicole Narea

Trump’s latest plan to use the census for political gain, explained

By Nicole Narea

Worried parents have become an easy target for online misinformation in this pandemic

By Katherine Goldstein

Covid-19 is exposing inequalities in college sports. Now athletes are demanding change.

By Anya van Wagtendonk

“There’s no way to socially distance in a strip club”: A dancer on working through the pandemic

By Luke Winkie

Why Cornel West is hopeful (but not optimistic)

By Sigal Samuel

The choice for immigrant families in detention: Separate or risk Covid-19

By Nicole Narea

America’s child care problem is an economic problem

By Anna North

What would Rumi do in a pandemic?

By Sigal Samuel

Housing segregation left Black Americans more vulnerable to Covid-19

By Dylan Scott

The debate over reopening America’s K-12 schools, explained

By Anna North

On Buddhism and Blackness

By Sigal Samuel

Indigenous communities have moved powwows to the internet

By Rory Taylor

“I am very scared”: What it’s like for pregnant essential workers in the pandemic

By Bryce Covert

Nursing homes are especially vulnerable to Covid-19. Here’s what it’s like to work in one.

By Luke Winkie

The Trump administration will now allow doctors to discriminate against LGBTQ people

By Katelyn Burns

“It may be that I never go back to the grading system”

By Isabella Simonetti

The Great Recession was called a “mancession.” This one could be devastating for women.

By Anna North

How wearing masks will change us

By Rachel Sugar

Stripped of its cultural rites, New Orleans is at a loss for how to mourn Covid-19 deaths

By Katy Reckdahl

2 health crises have collided in the protests

By Dylan Scott

What we know about Covid-19’s impact on black Minnesotans

By Dylan Scott

I will not reopen our church for Trump. I love our congregants too much to risk their lives.

By Rev. Jacqueline J. Lewis

The US should prioritize reopening schools, not salons and restaurants

By Matthew Yglesias

What is the point of dating now?

By Rebecca Jennings

Will summer camp be open this year? 4 directors weigh in.

By Michael Waters

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