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COVID-19 continues to affect Latinos: this is how the pandemic still hits the most vulnerable families in the US.

2023-04-22T17:29:24.652Z


Latinos were disproportionately affected by COVID-19, and now that the emergency declaration ends, many families will be left unprotected as benefits triggered by the pandemic end.


The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated lack of access to health care and food insecurity, disproportionately affecting Latinos in the United States who will be left unprotected when the public health emergency with which vulnerable families got some federal benefits.

The Latino community in the country was one of the hardest hit by the virus: it represented 16.8% of the deaths and 24.3% of the total cases for which race and ethnicity data are available, despite being only 19% of the population, according to figures from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

"What we know now is that the Latino community really suffered a considerable loss

of parental and family figures, something that destabilized many nuclear families in the United States," explained Bertha Hidalgo, associate professor of epidemiology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, to the service. News from the American Heart Association.

A Latina farmworker is vaccinated in California in a 2021 file photo.PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images

Latinos also suffer more health complications and symptoms linked to COVID-19 in the long term, even though they are unlikely to receive a diagnosis, two investigations from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have revealed.

Pre-existing conditions like diabetes and obesity, as well as the places they work and live, aggravate their outlook.

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"These comorbidities make them more likely to have worse outcomes," said Dr. Jorge Saucedo, director of cardiology at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee.

According to him, there are other socioeconomic variables that also have an influence, such as the place where people live.

"It is not uncommon for many Hispanics to live in smaller places," a condition that facilitates contagion.

A Census Bureau survey revealed that approximately 29% of Latino adults with the virus have experienced symptoms of persistent COVID-19 that affect long-term quality of life for sufferers.

A complicated panorama after May 11

During the pandemic, Latino families benefited from health, food and housing programs that have already been deactivated or will not be available as of May 11, affecting this community whose access to health care and healthy eating is limited.

The situation worsens for those with chronic illnesses.

With "those circumstances, you're going to get sick, and when you get sick, it's going to be bad for you," Saucedo warned.

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For Hidalgo, the economic stress related to the pandemic is an additional challenge for Latinos, who work in congested or poorly ventilated environments where they are more likely to become infected.

“People who disproportionately make up the workforce may not have the financial resources to buy high-quality masks or pay for rapid home tests,” Hidalgo acknowledged.

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Although government-bought vaccines and virus treatments will remain free as long as supplies don't run out, private insurers and Medicare won't be required to pay for at-home COVID-19 tests.

Those enrolled in Medicaid will receive free testing through September 2024.

Following the news of the end of the emergency declaration, it was announced that the costs of COVID-19 vaccines will skyrocket when the Government stops buying them.

Pfizer said it will charge up to $130 per dose.

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At the beginning of March, the emergency subsidy for individuals and families enrolled in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) also ended in more than 30 states, whose enhanced aid kept 4.2 million people above the threshold of poverty in the last quarter of 2021.

This reduced overall poverty by 10% and child poverty by 14%, mostly in the Latino and black community, according to figures from the Urban Institute, a Washington-based

nonpartisan economic and social policy

 think tank  .

Source: telemundo

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