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By this time tomorrow, 2020 will be no more. Congratulations, you made it! No joke, you should feel a sense of pride and accomplishment for enduring a global pandemic, economic uncertainty and a racial reckoning that harkened back to the 1960s.
You dealt with the loneliness that comes from doing the right thing. You were separated from your families on holidays, you celebrated birthdays over Zoom. Some of us had to FaceTime family from hospital beds. You just wanted a hug from a loved one. You also survived the
But while this year might be coming to a close, the COVID-19 pandemic is nowhere near over. It might be tempting to think that it is, given the good news on the vaccines, but the reality is that December was
It’s official: The Food and Drug Administration has granted emergency use authorization to the
COVID-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer Inc. and its partner BioNTech. The decision was announced Friday night after the White House put pressure on the agency’s chief to make the call by the end of the day.
Emergency use authorization of the two-dose vaccine opens a new chapter in the fight against the deadly disease that scientists, health officials and a beleaguered public all hope will mark the beginning of the pandemic’s end. The first immunizations could begin in a matter of days.
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It’s not just L.A. County. My colleagues also found that Latinx enclaves across California have also been hit hard by the pandemic. Places like the Central Valley and the Coachella Valley big agricultural hubs and the borderlands of San Ysidro and Calexico are being ravaged.
Latinxs account for nearly half of California’s 20,000 COVID-19 deaths, despite only accounting for 38% of the state’s population.
It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to understand why our community is being hit disproportionately: Not many of us have the luxury and privilege of working from home.
You’re more likely to become infected the more you interact with people, and if you’re an essential worker, which Latinxs tend to be, you’re interacting with people on a regular basis (that’s if you’re lucky to be getting good hours).
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