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NC Latinos Four Times More Likely To Contract COVID-19

WUNC | By Frank Stasio,
Grant Holub-Moorman
Published June 3, 2020 at 11:56 AM EDT
Even when provided, official information about COVID-19 in Spanish can be difficult to find on government websites.
Even when provided, official information about COVID-19 in Spanish can be difficult to find on government websites.
Even when provided, official information about COVID-19 in Spanish can be difficult to find on government websites.
Credit NC DHHS
Even when provided, official information about COVID-19 in Spanish can be difficult to find on government websites.

Thirty-nine percent of the people with confirmed cases of coronavirus in North Carolina are Hispanic. But Latinos only make up 9.6% of the total population. Health experts say the disproportionate rate is due to working and living conditions as well as access to culturally-appropriate health care and information. 

 

Host Frank Stasio speaks with Enlace Latino NC's Paola Jaramillo and Wake County Medical Director Dr. José Cabañas about disparate infection rates among Latino North Carolinians.

Many Latinos work in essential services that do not offer paid sick leave or health benefits. To better understand this intersection of labor, health and race, host Frank Stasio talks with Paola Jaramillo, co-founder and executive editor of Enlace Latino NC, and Dr. José Cabañas, medical director of Wake County EMS.

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Frank Stasio
Longtime NPR correspondent Frank Stasio was named permanent host of The State of Things in June 2006. A native of Buffalo, Frank has been in radio since the age of 19. He began his public radio career at WOI in Ames, Iowa, where he was a magazine show anchor and the station's News Director.
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Grant Holub-Moorman
Grant Holub-Moorman is a producer for The State of Things, WUNC's daily, live talk show that features the issues, personalities and places of North Carolina.
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