Latinx communities have been disproportionately hit by the coronavirus. But helping recent immigrants understand how to protect themselves is complicated, especially in rural areas.
In the Midwest, some of the worst coronavirus outbreaks have occurred at meat or poultry processing plants, plants that are filled with Latinx workers. Helping them understand how to protect their families and community from COVID-19 is complicated, especially in rural areas. KBIA's Sebastian Martinez Valdivia reports.
TOPETE: My family came from having nothing. When we moved here, we literally had nothing - whatever we had in our U-Haul, and that was it, to owning a restaurant and selling it later and, you know, being well-established in the community. TOPETE: When I first moved out here, if you were Hispanic, you knew each other. It was very tight, very, very small group, and it's expanded tremendously these last few years.
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