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State is working to get COVID-19 vaccine information to minority communities in more languages, creating a hotline and trying to calm fears

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Robert Gehrke.   | Feb. 14, 2021, 1:00 p.m. Back in the spring and well into 2020, the coronavirus was taking a dramatically disproportionate toll on Utah’s racial and ethnic minority communities. In some weeks, more than half of the new cases were detected in the Hispanic and Latino community, even though they make up about 14% of the state’s population. In June, a Latino Utahn was seven times as likely to contract the virus as a white resident, while Pacific Islander and Black residents were five times and three times more likely to get the virus. The reasons were not a mystery. These Utahns were more likely to work in essential services, often lived in multi-generational homes and had less access to health care. And they paid a terrible price.

Hispanic And Latinx Utahns Still Face More Hurdles When It Comes To Fighting COVID-19

iStockphoto 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.”

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