Closing the Gap: Latinos, Health Care and Covid-19
The coronavirus pandemic has shined a glaring spotlight on health inequities in the U.S. as Latinos and African Americans have been disproportionately at risk of being hospitalized by or dying from Covid-19. As the U.S. endures another wave of Covid infections and surpasses 250,000 coronavirus-related deaths, the pandemic continues to have an outsize effect on the health of Latinos. Before the pandemic, Latinos already faced a number of obstacles in receiving primary and preventive care. Latinos also have the highest uninsured rate of any racial or ethnic group in the U.S. The Affordable Care Act covered millions of Latinos nearly halving the uninsured rate for Latino adults from 2010 to 2016. But the rate crept up last year possibly because of the Trump administration’s health and immigration policies.
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