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Latino families of Covid-19 ICU patients face higher risk of PTSD symptoms, study finds
The findings also revealed that Latino families reported fewer acts of compassion from medical staffers. Experts believe kindness may act as a protective layer against stress. By Tat Bellamy-Walker | NBC News | APR. 26, 2022 | Photo by Scott Olson Latino family members of Covid-19 ICU patients face a ... -
Early research shows Black Americans and Latinos most likely to contract long COVID, official says
According to early research findings, people of color are the likeliest to develop long COVID, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute director Dr. Gary Gibbons said on Tuesday. PBS Newshour | MAY 17, 2022 “We’re seeing trends toward who’s most affected, and again, it’s identifying people of color – African ... -
LA County enters ‘medium’ coronavirus risk level as case numbers rise
No additional restrictions are required, but health officials encourage mask use as graduation season begins. By Lisa Jacobs | Long Beach Press-Telegram | MAY 20, 2022 | Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz After residents enjoyed weeks of relaxed masking and the return of large in-person events such as music festivals, Los ... -
'Everybody uses us as bargaining chips': N.H. Latino advocates question their alliance with the Democratic ...
Story and photo by Gabriela Lozada | NHPR | MAY 20, 2022 During the past month, activists and advocates have gathered at a series of rallies across the state to criticize two of New Hampshire’s Democratic members of Congress, Senator Maggie Hassan and Representative Chris Pappas, for their support of a policy ... -
Senate Stalls Again on Immigration Relief
By Pablo Manriquez | Latino Rebels | MAY 6, 2022 | Photo by Shawn Thew WASHINGTON, D.C. — Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA) is expected to negotiate immigrant relief into a bipartisan immigration bill with Senate Republicans. “We haven’t given assignments yet,” Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) said on Thursday afternoon ... -
Biden, Mexican president talk immigration policy
Pressure is mounting over White House plan to end Title 42 expulsion authority. By Courtney Subramanian | Los Angeles Times | APR. 30, 2022 | Photo by Associated Press WASHINGTON — President Biden held talks Friday with Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador as a looming deadline to lift COVID-related restrictions ... -
'We will continue to fight because we have not received justice'
Thousands of immigrants march on May 1 in LA to call for immigration reform from President Biden and the U.S. Congress Story and Photo by Jorge Luis Macias | La Opinion | MAY 2, 2022 May 1 was a holiday for immigrants and essential workers in Los Angeles; both continued ... -
Biden to comply with forthcoming order to keep Covid border restrictions in place
Officials said on Tuesday that the lifting of the public health order will be shelved pending a likely temporary restraining order. By Eugene Daniels and Laura Barron-Lopez | POLITICO | APR. 26, 2022 | Photo by John Moore for Getty The Biden administration said on Tuesday that it will comply ... -
How Santa Ana segregated Mexican students amid the 1918 pandemic
By Gabriel San Ramon | LA Times | APR. 14, 2022 | Photo from the archives of Chapman University Before influenza cases ravaged through Orange County in the fall of 1918, a battle brewed at the Santa Ana Board of Education over Mexican students. Trustees reneged on their promise to ... -
Is L.A. witnessing the end of the ‘Latino paradox’?
For the first time in the last decade, the mortality rate for Latinos in Los Angeles County became worse than that of white residents, starting in 2020 — the first year of the pandemic — and worsening the next year. By Andrew J. Campa, Rong-Gong Lin II, Emily Alpert Reyes ...
