A crisis moves society as it is, as it wants, and this has never been more true than in the disproportionate effects of COVID-19 on Latin American communities.
Latinos account for 34% of San Diego County, however, they account for 62% of the cases shown in COVID-19, 61% of hospitalizations and 45% of deaths.
The pandemic has mitigated long-standing inequalities in Latin American communities in the region, and it is these inequalities that are causing their disproportionate effect on those communities, as Maya Srikrishnan shows in a new history.
Latinos are overrepresented in high-contact jobs and among workers, making them more likely to be exposed to the virus than those who can stay at home.
They also live in more overcrowded homes: 6.7% of county citizens live in families of more than one user based on the room, compared to 17% of Latinos. This means that it is more difficult for Latinos to isolate themselves when a member of a circle of relatives contracts the virus and, due to incomplete data, it is difficult to know if they have merited the county’s hotel room quarantine program.
And because of environmental justice and disparities in public fitness, Latinos have already experienced the highest rates of asthma, high blood pressure, diabetes and central disease, making it more likely to expand COVID-19 and have severe symptoms.
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We held a virtual public meeting on Wednesday to talk about what fall will be like for academics and how new personal features threaten to exacerbate existing functionality gaps.
We heard Tyrone Howard, an education professor at UCLA, who said, “If we don’t do anything more urgent right now, not just for San Diego but for the other primary counties in the state of California, there are a generation of young other people we could probably never catch up with right now.
Richard Barrera, a member of the San Diego Unified School Board, talked about what the district is doing to point to the play box and alluded to the possibility of creating partnerships with outdoor organizations.
“I constitute schools and neighborhoods that force San Diego High School and Hoover High School,” he said. “So I wonder to what extent, as a system, we can potentially help parents come in combination in a similar way to what we’re hearing now. Can we systematically help organize families into groups? Potential partnership with organizations that could be providing mentoring? »
We were also joined by Betzy Lynch of the Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center and Alexander Stein of Tutors and Friends to be more informed about how their systems work. If you missed the conversation, you can watch it on our YouTube channel here.
Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency on March 4, before the worst effects of the pandemic felt in California. He issued an accommodation order and two decrees on the upcoming evictions, and added one on March 27, which he described as a moratorium on evictions. But since Newsom declared a state of emergency, 1,600 families have been evicted, 99 in San Diego, according to a new expanding investigation through CALmatters. In June, San Diego City Council extended its moratorium on evictions from businesses and families until the end of September.
The millions of gallons of raw sewage flowing across the U.S.-Mexico border know no political boundaries. Violates duncooked property limits through several local governments, U.S. federal departments, and even a underfunded foreign agency.
This has led to decades of studies on who spends real money on the challenge of aging wastewater infrastructure and the unfortunate topography that causes the closure of beaches along the continental coast.
In a new editorial, California Sen. Dianne Feinstein believes the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. He deserves, in spite of everything, to take the reins. She and Representative Juan Vargas brought the expenses that were overdue last month.
“What we want is a company in charge, that takes into account the contributions of others so that decisions can be made,” Feinstein wrote.
This is not a new idea. In fact, the EPA is already designated as the leading U.S. firm to collaborate with Mexico on environmental improvement projects under a 1983 pact, known as the La Paz Agreement.
It is not known what Feinstein and Vargas’ expenses would do differently, because the text of the expenses is not yet available to the public. The Senate sent the bill to its Committee on the Environment and Public Works, of which Feinstein is not a member.
The San Diego delegation worked with Feinstein to secure more investments for the sewage problem at the border. In particular, a $300 million allocation for the water infrastructure program on the U.S.-Mexico border (the program was even established under the La Paz agreement) that EPA chief Andrew Wheeler necessarily promised in San Diego and Tijuana.
That promise is enough to quell some lawsuits filed through California teams that oppose the federal government for not preventing stormwater from being filled with sewage from Mexico’s hills.
The morning report written through MacKenzie Elmer, Andrew Keatts and Megan Wood, and edited through Sara Libthrough.
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