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Santa Fe for immigrants and their families are invited to a COVID-19 verification occasion behind the wheel of 8 a. m. 11 a. m. on Saturday, September 12 at Nina Otero Community School.
Self-service service will come with ready-to-go food through YouthWorks and supermarket bags for which they are reviewed. Tests are loose and no appointments or symptoms are required. NM DOH bilingual staff will be available and participants will be able to register before the occasion by establishing the Nina Otero community school as a verification site.
Another occasion for immigrants is scheduled for Saturday, September 19 at the Camino Real Academy.
The occasions are organized through Somos Un Pueblo Unido, the New Mexico Department of Health, YouthWorks, the Santa Fe Public Schools, the Santa Fe City Immigration Committee, the Guadalupe Credit Union, the communities in schools and the Mexican Consulate in Albuquerque, and they are for two others this summer, the DOH examined about 500 Citizens of Santa Fe to detect COVID-19.
But the occasion is not just about testing staff and immigrants, many of whom do not have physical fitness insurance and could have obtained erroneous data on COVID-19 and had been tested.
“We need to help reduce the data gap between Spanish-speaking immigrant communities and local governments and state government in this pandemic,” said Marcela Díaz, executive director of We Are a United People. “And it’s not just about offering our network with quality, accurate and timely data in Spanish. It’s also about making sure that we report our network data to our local governments, our resolution makers, and our state to perceive where other people are. “
Somos A Pueblo Unido is one of the networks of organizations across the state that the Department of Health uses to bond with immigrants and families of mixed status.
The network of undocumented persons is one of the most neglected teams hard hit by COVID-19 throughout the country and in New Mexico. According to data from the fitness branch, Hispanics/Latinos account for 44. 63% of COVID instances in the state, while whites account for 14. 33%.
Santa Fe reflects this inequality. The two postcodes in the city of Southside, 87507 and 87505, home to most young people, families and immigrants, had the concentration of COVID-19 diagnoses, according to the knowledge of the county-round damaged Department of Health and the zip code.
And yet the lack of widespread data in Spanish may be just a barrier to evaluating immigrants and combined families, according to the CDC.
Even the political tension that opposes testing in more conservative parts of New Mexico can be a factor in which mayors, sheriffs, and network leaders discourage testing and other safe practices for COVID, Diaz says. She points to a COVID-19 test she helped conduct in Hobbs, where protesters have piled up to deter others from participating.
The Department of Health’s COVID-19 online page with updates and resources had not first included Spanish translations, leaving much of the data disseminated to local network groups.
“Everything will have to be done in those multiple languages. But it requires funding, support,” Diaz told SFR. “Governments will have to assume that this deserves to be automatic and that they want this data to be disseminated in several languages to publicize public health. “
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Katherine is originally from Florida to Santa Fe to cover the texture and life of southern writing, photography, videography and audio. It is a scholarship funded through a Report for America grant. His moment as a member of the framework began on June 1, 2020, with a donation in www. sfreporter. com/rfa