People who manage their asthma can improve their chances against COVID-19
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L.A.’s legacy of oil drilling impacts lung function in residents living near active and inactive wells
A new USC study links living by urban oil wells with wheezing and reduced lung function, symptoms disproportionately borne by people of color in Los Angeles.
In some cases, the respiratory harm rivals that of daily exposure to secondhand tobacco smoke or living beside highways spewing auto exhaust, researchers say.
The study, recently published in the journal Environmental Research, focuses on drilling sites in two South L.A. neighborhoods, Jefferson Park and North University Park, yet could have implications elsewhere in the region. Approximately one-third of L.A. County residents live less than 1 mile from an active drilling site and some live as close as 60 feet.
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Hispanic immigrants of working age 20 to 54 years old are over 11 times more likely to die of COVID-19 than U.S.-born men and women who are not Hispanic, according to a USC study of California death certificate data from 2020.
The study, published Monday in the
Annals of Epidemiology, highlights California s urgent need to bring vaccinations, treatments and other interventions to a demographic that comprises the backbone of the state s agricultural and service industries. Unions and advocacy groups are racing to convince immigrants, both documented and undocumented, to get vaccines, Politico reports. We ve known since early on that people of color are more likely to die of COVID. The CDC says that Hispanics, overall, are 2.3 times more likely to die than non-Hispanics, said Erika Garcia, an assistant professor of preventive medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of USC and the study s first author. Yet when we looked at this specific, working-age group, we were