COVID-19 takes aim at Chicago's Latino community, many without health care.
“I felt kind of helpless … because I knew that if one of us got it, we were all going to be exposed, no matter what we did,” Ramirez said.Ramirez believes it was her father who was first exposed to the virus and that he brought it home.
Ramirez got coronavirus inside the apartment she shares with her parents and two younger siblings. It’s a home full of essential workers -- Ramirez works at an Amazon warehouse and her father works at a meatpacking factory. In these black and brown neighborhoods, working from home isn’t an option for many residents, some of whom are undocumented immigrants. Their community is chronically underserved and often ignored.
“This thing is taking out entire families,” Del Rios told “Nightline.” “It's also the fact that when you're poor, you can't eat very well. When you're poor, you may not have access to medications to make you feel better. Physical distancing is a privilege and keeping yourself healthy is a privilege.”“I heard that you had to isolate from everybody, like stay in one room. Obviously, you wash everything that you touch,” Estefania Ramirez said.
“We wanted to bring more services into the community because we knew this pandemic was impacting the Latino and African American communities,” Montgomery said.Jerome Montgomery runs Project Vida, a fixture in the Little Village community for 28 years.“One of the things that I'm very proud of is that we're able to see an individual, regardless of their documentation status, regardless of their ability to speak English or regardless of their ability to pay,” Mario Treto Jr.
As long as the lines keep forming, Montgomery and his colleagues will keep working. Montgomery said he's been working from 6 a.m. to 11 p.m. Del Rios is part of the Illinois Latino COVID-19 initiative which launched last month in response to the crisis. “I think right now these two fears are so overwhelming to our families that it's becoming, you know, another pandemic that the Latino families ... are facing,” Rendon told “Nightline.”
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