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'Our people were left behind' | Low vaccination rates among Travis Co. Latinos 'not surprising' to advocates The Travis County Latino community makes up almost 34% of the county's population but accounts for just 19% of vaccinations. Author: Mari Salazar (KVUE) Updated: 11:13 PM CDT May 13, 2021 AUSTIN, Texas — Vaccination rates for Austin's Latino community are alarming to some advocates, but they said it's not surprising. The Austin Latino Coalition said throughout the entire pandemic, help was lacking from local government to vaccine minority populations....

At food and supply distribution events in East Austin, Jill Ramirez and her fellow promotoras (community health workers) are at the end of the distribution line with their clipboards ready to get names and numbers to sign people up for the coronavirus vaccine.  When Travis County notifies her about available vaccine appointment slots, Ramirez picks up the phone to help register as many people as possible on her signup sheet. But she's not with any health care provider, the city or the county. She works with the Latino HealthCare Forum. That organization and other grassroots groups, includ...

Mental health 'epidemic' threatens communities of color amid COVID-19 By (0) Communities of color face a burgeoning wave of mental health problems as a result of how the COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way people interact and grieve, experts warn. "We're about to have a mental health epidemic because of COVID," Vickie Mays, a professor of health policy and director of the UCLA Center on Research, Education, Training and Strategic Communication on Minority Health Disparities, said during an HDLive! interview. Advertisement Mays said mood disorders, substance abuse and suicides are increasi...