Health Equity

Crowded housing and essential jobs: Why so many Latinos are getting coronavirus

Abstract: Local governments struggle to offer isolation options, testing and Spanish-language help to hard-hit Latino neighborhoods.

Publication: The Washington Post

Date Published: May 26, 2020

Author(s): Antonio Olivo, Marissa J. Lang and John D. Harden

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