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Latinos face barriers like fear, language in getting vaccine


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Dr. Ingrid Felix-Peralta, second from left, and her husband Dr. Victor Peralta, second from right, administer second doses of the COVID-19 vaccine in New York, Friday, Feb. 5, 2021. From elderly Cuban Americans in Florida to farmworkers in California, Latinos face daunting barriers like fear, language and a lack of education and access as the COVID-19 vaccines roll out, creating risks for public health as the virus mutates and spreads. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig) Credit: The Associated Press
HIALEAH, Fla. (AP) Rigoberto Montesinos, a veteran of the Bay of Pigs invasion in Cuba, was so worried about side effects from the COVID-19 vaccine that he initially wasn t going to get it, relenting only when two friends died from the disease. ....

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Jan 19, 2021
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Staff from Campesinos goes from house to house to offer free COVID-19 tests on the second day of the ASU and Equality Health Foundation pilot program in San Luis, Ariz. during the ASU and Equality Health Foundation pilot program on Friday, Jan. 15.
PHOENIX (AP) Exhausted nurses in rural Yuma, Arizona, regularly send COVID-19 patients on a long helicopter ride to Phoenix when they don’t have enough staff. The so-called winter lettuce capital of the U.S. also has lagged on coronavirus testing in heavily Hispanic neighborhoods and just ran out of vaccines. ....

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Military nurses, COVID-19 tests coming to help hard-hit Yuma area


Military nurses, COVID-19 tests coming to help hard-hit Yuma area
Anita Snow
Exhausted nurses in rural Yuma regularly send COVID-19 patients on a long helicopter ride to Phoenix when they don t have enough staff. The so-called winter lettuce capital of the U.S. also has lagged on coronavirus testing in heavily Hispanic neighborhoods and just ran out of vaccines. 
But some support is coming from military nurses and a new wave of free tests for farmworkers and the elderly in Yuma County the hardest-hit county in one of the hardest-hit states.
Almost everyone in Yuma County, near the borders of Mexico and California, seems to know somebody who has tested positive for COVID-19, with around 33,000 cases reported since last spring a rate of about 14,000 per 100,000 people. Maricopa County, the largest in Arizona and home to Phoenix, has a rate of about 9,000 cases per 100,000 people.  ....

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