Covid vaccinations among US Latinos are rising thanks to community outreach

Grassroots groups are mobilizing churches, soccer coaches and cartoon abuelas to reassure underserved Spanish-speaking communities and remove barriers to get them their shots

 Covid-19 Takes Outsize Toll on Mexican Health Workers

The country is among those with the highest mortality among health workers; ‘It’s been carnage’

 How the Virus Unraveled Hispanic American Families

Across the United States, the pandemic has shattered families like Mr. Ruby’s. Hispanic American communities have been pummeled by a higher rate of infections than any other racial or ethnic group and have experienced hospitalizations and deaths at rates exceeded only by those among Native Americans and Alaska Natives.

‘It decimated our staff’: Covid ravages Black and brown health workers in US

Covid-19 has taken an outsized toll on Black and Hispanic Americans – and those disparities extend to medical workers.

A New PBS Series Shows How Underserved Latino Communities Are Fighting To Protect Themselves During COVID-19

As the coronavirus continues to ravage the United States, it also continues to disproportionately impact Latino communities. Latinos are being hospitalized at more than four times the rate of white people. (African Americans and Native Americans are also being hospitalized at similar rates.)

A Playbook For Healthcare Founders To Tackle The U.S. Hispanic Market

When COVID-19 heavily struck the U.S. in early 2020, it disproportionately affected Hispanics. In part because a big proportion of this group was classified as essential workers who had a heightened level of exposure to the virus. In addition, Hispanics have higher rates of underlying health problems. Hispanics are 23% more likely to have obesity, 24% more likely to have poorly controlled high blood pressure, and are 50% more likely to die from diabetes or liver disease than their white counterparts.

As Covid-19 Cases Surge, Latino Communities Feel the Brunt

Experts said infection rates could be even higher in largely Hispanic neighborhoods than government statistics show, as misinformation about testing is common, particularly among those living in the country without legal authorization.

Coronavirus Drained Black, Latino, and Native Americans' Savings Way More Than White People's

“In particular, these findings show these racial/ethnic minority households may have limited financial resources to weather long-term financial and health effects of the coronavirus outbreak, as large shares have already depleted their savings and are having major problems paying for basic costs of living, including food, rent, and medical care,” the pollsters wrote.

Covid-19’s devastating toll on black and Latino Americans, in one chart

The US health system has failed black and Latino populations for decades. Now they’re paying the price.

For Latinos and Covid-19, Doctors Are Seeing an ‘Alarming’ Disparity

It is a question that epidemiologists around the country are examining as more and more evidence emerges that the coronavirus is impacting Latinos, and some other groups, including African-Americans, with particular force.

For U.S. Latinos, COVID-19 Has Taken a Personal and Financial Toll

Hispanics have been at a higher risk of hospitalization or death from COVID-19 than some other racial and ethnic groups in the U.S., according to data compiled by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

How California’s COVID-19 surge widens health inequalities for Black, Latino and low-income residents

While everyone is at risk, low-income, Black and Latino Californians are dying at higher rates than high-income and non-Latino whites – and analyses suggest these gaps are widening.

Many Latinos Don't Think Getting A COVID-19 Vaccine Is A Good Idea

Like the experiments in the 1940s, where the U.S. Public Health Service used sex workers to expose prisoners in Guatemalan jails with sexually transmitted diseases, or in the 1950s, where Puerto Rican women from low-income communities were given experimental birth control pills without being told they were part of a clinical trial. Arroyo says her department is aware that some people don't want their personal information shared with the federal government.

What Covid-19 is doing to life expectancies for Black and Latino Americans

For nearly a year, the Covid-19 pandemic has killed Black and Latino Americans at disproportionately high rates. Now, scientists predict those deaths will have lasting effects on these populations’ life expectancies.

Why many US Latinos aren’t getting Covid-19 vaccines

Vaccine misinformation is rampant online. But of all the rumors on social media that are spread in English, “it’s twice as bad in Spanish,” claims Kumar. This misinformation, she says, disproportionately affects non-native English speakers.