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Marina Del Rios1, Aida Giachello1, Shaveta Khosla1
1Marina Del Rios, Shaveta Khosla, and Ruth Pobee are with the Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago. Aida Giachello is with the Department of Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL. Geraldine Luna is with the Chicago Department of Public Health, Chicago. Pamela Vergara-Rodriguez is with the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse, John H. Stroger Hospital, Cook County, Chicago. Noreen Sugrue is with the Latino Policy Forum, Chicago.
Abstract:
At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, neither government officials nor members of the news media fully grasped what was happening in the Latino community. Underreporting of COVID-19 cases led to a systematic neglect of the Latino population and resulted in disproportionately high rates of infection, hospitalization, and death. Illinois Unidos was formed to engage in community mobilization, health communication, advocacy, and policy work in response to inequalities exacerbated by COVID-19 in Latino communities in Illinois. (Am J Public Health. 2021;111(S3):S204-S207. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2021.306407).
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