As the coronavirus spreads deeper across America, it is ravaging Latino communities from the mid-Atlantic to the Southwest.
At least 27,000 DACA recipients work in healthcare, many of them on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic.
Her husband tested negative for the virus, but her sister, who was fetching their groceries, became ill. Her children were never tested.“Truthfully, they were the saddest moments of my life,” she said. “There was not a moment or an instant that I stopped asking God to give me a chance to live to see my children, to hug them, to take care of them.”
Researchers are pointing out another trend emerging in Latino cases. Because Latinos are much younger on average than U.S. whites, and the coronavirus kills older people at higher rates, researchers are using “age-adjusted” data to provide a more accurate picture of the disproportionate toll.A Brookings Institution study this week examined federal data to show that the age-adjusted COVID-19 death rate for African Americans is 3.6 times that for whites.
Many Latinos initially were reluctant to get tested, prompting authorities to bring testing sites into their communities, including setting them up at grocery stores.
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