On the first day of a 12-day COVID-19 augmentation control campaign, Alfredo Lopez waited in a steady stream of cars at Maryvale High School control for what would be his third COVID-19 control.
Lopez said his employer ordered him to take a check about two months ago, but the effects of the check disappeared due to a challenge in the lab. That’s when he did a moment of verification.
He’s positive.
Lopez, an immigrant from Guadalajara, Mexico, paints for an air conditioning repair company and said his inability to paint had financial consequences. After its first effects disappeared and weeks of waiting for its moment to check the effects, I hoped it would be better.
“I feel smart now. I don’t have a single symptom, but I have to do a negative check before I can get back to work,” he said in Spanish. “I heard the effects would come back in a day or two, so I tried. It’s been a month and three weeks. I want to get back to work.”
Many other participants echoed the stories: weeks of waiting for the effects prevented them from returning to work. Others sought peace of mind to keep working, but didn’t need to wait the same 3 weeks to get the effects of a lab.
Postal codes containing two verification centers, Maryvale High School and South Mountain Park, are primarily for black and Latino residents. Both teams are overrepresented in key work and are 3 times more likely to contract the virus than their peers, according to the knowledge of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention provided to the New York Times.
Approximately 73% of adults living in Maryvale’s 85033 ZIP Code are Latino and are much less likely to have a homework assignment they can do at home. Only 16.2% of Latinos have tasks in which they can telework, according to the Institute of Economic Policy on Knowledge of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. For black Americans, only 19.7% have tasks they can do at home.
This compares to 30% of the total U.S. population, according to the institute.
South Mountain and Maryvale have a limited and more consistent number of instances than in other Phoenix spaces. The capita rate in the Maryvale zip code is 416 instances consistent with 10,000 and 280 instances consistent with 10,000 instances in South Mountain.
“We, those spaces are underserved,” said Fire Captain Rob McDade, who worked at the South Mountain verification site. “We have a multitude of zip codes in this area.”
Pete Aranda, a landscaper, was sitting in his immaculate white van at The Maryvale checkpoint site, dying over the main points of getting their effects. Could your effects on your phone? What is the right evidence for your employer that you have been negative?
He needed an email to register for the test, but the one he used to verify his position did not paint when he arrived at the registration booth. He must have given another one.
“I hope it works,” he says, holding the paper where he wrote it. A friend tried to convince him.
Aranda looks to repaint on Monday.
“I did the CVS verification and I haven’t gotten the results yet,” he said. “That’s why I have to do it again.”
When some other people in his company got sick, his boss demanded that everyone get tested before they could return. Aranda hadn’t worked for about a week.
“When my boss told me I was thinking, ‘How am I going to do this?’ I can’t take time off. I want to paint and pay the rent,” he said.
But going to paint is also a problem. It is not always imaginable to move away socially in some essential jobs, although Aranda said he was looking to keep others away from him. It’s not always effective.
“They’re approaching me. They’re looking to hug me. Sometimes it’s hard to communicate with them and them,” he said. “And it’s like, “No, stay away from me. Stay 15 feet away. I can’t get sick. »»
Lopez experienced the same disorders in his paintings. He said there was a lack of non-public protective devices and that considerations were overlooked while he and his colleagues paint very close to each other.
The last time he found out, a colleague continued to come to the paintings despite a heavy cough out of concern to leave.
“I’m very worried, ” said Lopez. “It’s dangerous.”
Some didn’t do the verification for themselves. A woman queuing in Maryvale said she was chasing the elderly in their homes.
She’s not so worried about having the disease, but she knows the threat it poses to her patients. He said he wore many protective devices (masks, glasses and a face protector), but said it was vital that other people get tested and knew their health. She is online to give peace of mind to her loved ones.
The scene in Maryvale is a long way from her first wave verification attempt expired last month, when other people waited thirteen hours to verify and some were rejected. McDade said previous verification efforts had discouraged some.
On Friday morning, six hundred other people registered for tests that day between the two sites, and many others registered on the site. This compares to another 1,000 people who had been covered up for testing in June.
He expects citizens to seize the opportunity, promising a more fluid procedure this time.
The check at Maryvale High School, 3415 N 59th Ave., continues until June 29.
“Whenever you get here at 2 a.m., get tested,” McDade said. “We probably wouldn’t turn anyone down.”
Megan Taros covers South Phoenix. Do you have any advice? Contact her in [email protected]. Follow her on Twitter @megataros.
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