Why Is This South Sacramento Area A COVID-19 Hot Spot?
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Nurse Adriana Arguella sanitizes her hands between testing people for COVID-19 at a testing site in Elk Grove on Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2021.
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A.J Crisostomo’s parents have lived in Sacramento’s 95823 zip code since they immigrated to the United States from the Philippines 35 years ago. Since then, nothing has changed their life in their neighborhood as much as the pandemic.
“It’s a little less lively. You don’t see people out,” said Cristostomo, who now lives downtown, but still visits his parents in South Sacramento.