By Sonia Gutierrez/Rocky Mountain Public Media
• May 4, 2021 Rocky Mountain Public Media
For families like Paola s, who lives in Durango, a positive COVID-19 test would mean losing out on an entire paycheck.
After escaping violence in Colombia, Paola and her family moved to Durango where they’re now applying for asylum.
Their move couldn’t have come at a harder time. Alongside her husband and two daughters, Paola arrived in Durango just as the pandemic started.
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“Hubo un tiempo en que prácticamente todo mundo tuvo COVID donde yo vivo,” said Paola. “There was a time where practically everyone had COVID where I live.”
Pine River Shares targets rural residents with vaccination clinic
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Group sought to reach those who might otherwise decline COVID-19 vaccine By Shannon Mullane Durango and Pine River Valley reporter
Thursday, April 8, 2021 11:03 AM
Pine River Shares targets rural residents with vaccination clinic Capt. Andy Miller with Upper Pine River Fire Protection District administers the COVID-19 vaccine to Tracy Baumann on April 2 during the Pine River Shares vaccine event in Bayfield. Jerry McBride/Durango Herald Escuchar en Español:
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Pine River Shares in Bayfield brought COVID-19 vaccines to hard-to-reach communities in La Plata County last week as part of the state’s Vaccines for All plan.
Undocumented immigration is a public health issue. And while policymakers generally choose to ignore the link between immigration and health, COVID-19 is finally forcing us to come to terms with the deadly cost of forcing more than 11 million residents to live in the US without legal documentation.
COVID-19 is a threat to everyone. In addition to spreading at a faster rate than the common flu, the novel coronavirus has been killing people at nearly 10 times the rate of the seasonal flu. Still, the virus has disproportionately impacted communities of color, and in particular, immigrants.
Since March, 2020 COVID has killed 71 people per every 100,000 residents. That rate rises to 79 per 100,000 in Latinx communities, compared to just 62 per 100,000 in white communities. And while Black (114/100,000) and Indigenous (108/100,000) communities report higher mortality rates, Latinos are by far the youngest population in the US, and thus, in theory, should be among the least at risk to COV