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These groups are among the most vulnerable during the COVID-19 pandemic

  • Written by Chen Reis, Associate Clinical Professor and Director, Humanitarian Assistance Program, University of Denver
The nonprofit International Community Health Services medical clinic in Seattle provides care for uninsured people. Photo by Karen Ducey/Getty Images

How is the COVID-19 crisis impacting the most vulnerable among us?

Tens of millions of Americans fit that description – the poor, the homeless, immigrants, the detained and incarcerated, the prec...

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