Doctors Worry About COVID’s Effects on Hispanics

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Olveen Carrasquillo, MD, chief of general internal medicine, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami.

Oladimeji A. Oki, MD, Department of Family Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY; assistant professor, Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

Alejandra Sanchez, aesthetician, Dallas.

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CDC, Preventing Chronic Disease: “Reaching the Hispanic Community About COVID-19 Through Existing Chronic Disease Prevention Programs.”


The New York Times: “Many Latinos Couldn’t Stay Home. Now Virus Cases Are Soaring in Their Communities.”


The Dallas Morning News: “How Latino residents in Dallas’ hardest hit ZIP code are weathering COVID-19.”

BBC.com: “How Covid-19 can damage the brain.”

U.S. Department of Labor Statistics: “Labor force characteristics by race and ethnicity, 2018.”

National Center for Health Statistics: “Health, United States, 2018.”

National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute: “Hispanic Community Health Study of Latinos, Data Book, A Report to the Communities.”


Los Angeles Times: “The price of being ‘essential’: Latino service workers bear brunt of coronavirus.”


The New England Journal of Medicine: “Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in U.S. Children and Adolescents.”

Source: https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20200727/doctors-worry-about-covids-effects-on-hispanics?src=RSS_PUBLIC

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