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Since the start of the pandemic, Hispanic and Latinx Utahns have made up a disproportionate amount of COVID-19 cases. That gap has narrowed, but the disease remains widespread in the community.
Fourteen-year-old Angel Ocampo lives in Layton. But on a Thursday morning in December, he was in Salt Lake City sitting in the passenger seat of his family’s minivan next to his mom. They were driving through a barn at the Utah State Fairpark being used as a drive-through COVID-19 test site. Two lines of cars thread their way between rows of empty metal animal stalls.
“My mom tested positive,” Ocampo said. “[That s] the reason why we’re here.”