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    Shots - Health News
    A Hasidic man and medical workers cross paths near the Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, N.Y., in November. When public health messaging comes from community leaders, it's much more likely to be adopted, research on diverse groups finds.
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    'Trusted Messengers, Trusted Messages': How To Overcome Vaccine Hesitancy

    Dec 24, 2020
    As the first COVID-19 vaccines begin to be rolled out across the U.S., community leaders in diverse groups already are working hard to dispel misinformation and reach skeptics with truth.
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    Portrait Of A Parent With Alzheimer's

    Sep 28, 2020
    Since 2016, journalist Yvonne Latty has been documenting her mother's journey with Alzheimer's. As part of a collaboration with Latino USA and Black Public Media, she brings us this intimate portrait.
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    How The Pandemic Is Widening The Racial Wealth Gap

    Sep 18, 2020
    The coronavirus has affected most Americans, but NPR's latest poll shows Black, Latino and Native American households are hardest hit by the financial impact of the crisis.
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    Shots - Health News
    People wait for a bus in August in East Los Angeles. Latinos have the highest rate of labor force participation of any group in California — many in public-facing jobs deemed essential. That work has put them at higher risk of catching the coronavirus.
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    Latinos Report Financial Strain As Pandemic Erodes Income And Savings

    Sep 16, 2020
    An NPR poll finds 72% of Latino households in the United States are facing serious financial problems — double the share of whites who report this. Major health problems are mounting, too.
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    Pandemic Financially Imperils Nearly Half Of American Households, Poll Finds

    Sep 10, 2020
    There are dividing lines when it comes to how families are weathering the pandemic: Those living in big cities, those making less than $100,000 a year, and Latino and Black families are faring worst.
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    "Poverty, inequities, the jobs that they perform ... create the perfect environment for the virus to spread quickly," says Omar Carrera CEO of the nonprofit Canal Alliance.
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    'Our Communities Are In Crisis': Latinos And COVID-19

    Aug 26, 2020
    A Latinx neighborhood in a wealthy California county hard-hit by COVID-19 reflects on the complex challenges and policy failures affecting vulnerable communities across the U.S. during the pandemic.
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    Coronavirus Live Updates
    A COVID-19 test is collected in Salt Lake City, Utah. A federal study published Monday found that Hispanic and non-white workers make up a disproportionate share of COVID-19 cases associated with workplace outbreaks in Utah.
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    CDC Study Finds Hispanics Hit Disproportionately Hard By Workplace Outbreaks

    Aug 17, 2020
    A study out Monday found that Hispanic and nonwhite workers made up 73% of cases associated with workplace outbreaks in certain industries, despite representing 24% of the workforce in those sectors.
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    Shots - Health News
    The industrial complex in Carthage where many Latinx residents work is a half-mile walk from the town square.
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    In Rural Missouri, Latinx Communities Learn To Contain And Cope With The Coronavirus

    Aug 01, 2020
    Rural Carthage, Mo., is home to a growing community of Latin American immigrants. Language barriers and economic stress have made it harder to slow the spread of COVID-19.
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    Coronavirus Live Updates
    Kern County, shown here in April, is one of eight counties in California's Central Valley that will receive federal funding and resources to help relieve inundated hospitals and mitigate the spread of COVID-19.
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    California's Hard-Hit Central Valley To Get Federal Health Workers, More State Help

    Jul 27, 2020
    Gov. Gavin Newsom announced incoming funding, strike teams and federal health care workers to help mitigate the spread of COVID-19 in eight Central Valley counties where hospitals are overwhelmed.
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    Shots - Health News
    A hospital patient in Stamford, Conn., who has COVID-19 symptoms gets his temperature checked. Severe infections with the novel coronavirus have been unusually high among African Americans and Latinos in many hospitals.
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    Opinion: U.S. Must Avoid Building Racial Bias Into COVID-19 Emergency Guidance

    Apr 21, 2020
    States are releasing "Crisis Standards of Care" guidelines, aimed at helping desperate hospitals discern how to allocate scarce resources. But the guidance doesn't factor in health care inequalities.
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    Shots - Health News
    from local story: "Sickle cell pain has a mind of its own," said Anesha Barnes, who's had the disease since she was a baby. She says the longer she stays in a pain crisis, the harder it is to break out of it.
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    Effort To Control Opioids In An ER Leaves Some Sickle Cell Patients In Pain

    Jan 02, 2020
    People with sickle cell disease aren't fueling the opioid crisis, research shows. Yet some ER doctors still treat patients seeking relief for agonizing sickle cell crises as potential addicts.
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    Scientists Reach Out To Minority Communities To Diversify Alzheimer's Studies

    Dec 17, 2019
    Black and Hispanic people often don't volunteer for studies of Alzheimer's disease, despite their risks for developing it. Researchers are working to make studies more inclusive, but it's not easy.
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    Shots - Health News
    Researchers are trying to understand why black and Latino children are more likely to die of certain cancers.
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    Why Are Black And Latino Kids More Likely To Die Of Certain Cancers?

    Aug 20, 2018
    There's a big survival gap between white and minority children when it comes to some childhood cancers. It turns out growing up in poverty explains a lot of the difference.
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