Doctors Worry About COVID’s Effects on Hispanics

Olveen Carrasquillo, MD, chief of general internal medicine, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami.

Oladimeji A. Oki, MD, Department of Family Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY; assistant professor, Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

Alejandra Sanchez, aesthetician, Dallas.

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The New York Times: “Many Latinos Couldn’t Stay Home. Now Virus Cases Are Soaring in Their Communities.”

The Dallas Morning News: “How Latino residents in Dallas’ hardest hit ZIP code are weathering COVID-19.”

BBC.com: “How Covid-19 can damage the brain.”

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Los Angeles Times: “The price of being ‘essential’: Latino service workers bear brunt of coronavirus.”

The New England Journal of Medicine: “Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in U.S. Children and Adolescents.”