Jesse Costa, WBUR
Interpreter Ana Maria Rios-Velez demonstrates the screening app at the front entrance of Brigham and Womens Hospital in Boston. It has a multilingual function to better communicate with non-English speaking patients and staff.
Apr 23, 2021
Martha Bebinger
In March, just weeks into the COVID-19 pandemic, the incident command center at Brigham and Women s Hospital in Boston was scrambling to understand this deadly new disease. It appeared to be killing more black and brown patients than whites. For Latino patients, there was an additional warning sign language.
Patients who didn t speak much, if any, English had a 35% greater chance of death.
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