Luke X. Martin, Kansas News Service
photo by: Carlos Moreno/KCUR Photo
Raquel Garcia, a registered nurse at Truman Medical Centers, injects a patient with the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at Linwood YMCA on Feb. 3.
Dr. Mario Castro’s work as a pulmonologist at the University of Kansas Medical Center means he understands more than most what happens when there is a lack of information about the impact of the coronavirus.
“When I round on the wards with our COVID units, I would say half of my patients are either Hispanic or African American,” he said. “Unfortunately, those disparities that exist in the community translate all the way to the sickest patients affected by COVID in the hospital.”