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Since the start of the pandemic, it’s been difficult to access language services at the Employment Security division.

Chatham Vaccine Providers Work To Ensure Vaccine Equity for Hispanic Residents When Chatham Hospital’s Jesus Ruiz became the first person — and first Latino — in the county to get vaccinated on Dec. 16, UNC Health made its stance clear: vaccine equity and access would be top priority. “It’s very important to get the coronavirus vaccines,” Ruiz said in a Spanish-language video Chatham Hospital shared on Facebook a week later. “In part it’s another weapon against this virus that unfortunately has devastated our community, so I recommend that everyone get vaccinated when the vacc...

NC isn't checking immigration status as it offers COVID vaccine but residents have fears Aaron Sánchez-Guerra and Sophie Kasakove, The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.) Jan. 23—As a housekeeper, Ana Huerta has spent the pandemic disinfecting and cleaning surfaces in homes and factories in the Triangle and is unable to work from home. Huerta, a Mexican immigrant, wants to be vaccinated to avoid bringing the coronavirus home to her two small children, but she has worried that lacking legal immigration status could prevent her from getting the COVID-19 vaccine. "It would make no...