231 - COVID-19 and Low-Income, Undocumented Latino Immigrants
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 12 January 2021
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
The Latino immigrant community has been hard hit by COVID—in Baltimore, there are sustained positivity rates of up to 30%. Dr. Kathleen Page, medical director of the Johns Hopkins The Access Partnership, talks with Stephanie Desmon about how undocumented and low-income immigrants are caught in a "perfect storm" with conditions for lots of transmission and few ways to seek help. They also talk about how unchecked transmission anywhere means the pandemic will continue to rage, and the culture of fear that will make it harder to provide vaccines to immigrants.
KEYWORDS: health equity; racial disparity; vaccine hesitancy
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Season 3, a Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. |
| 0:12.3 | I'm Josh Sharfstein, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement, and a former secretary of Maryland's Health Department. |
| 0:19.6 | Our goal is to bring scientific evidence |
| 0:22.4 | and experience to the public health news of the day through informative interviews with scientists, |
| 0:27.8 | community leaders, policy experts, public health officials, clinicians, and more. If you have ideas |
| 0:34.4 | or questions for us to cover, please email us at public health question at jhh.edu. |
| 0:41.1 | That's public health question at jhhu.edu for future podcast episodes. |
| 0:47.2 | Today, Stephanie Desmond talks to Kathleen Page, an infectious diseases doctor at Johns Hopkins, |
| 0:53.9 | who works with the Latino community in |
| 0:55.9 | Baltimore, where many are young undocumented immigrants. They discuss how COVID-19 has ravaged that |
| 1:02.5 | community and how important it will be to make sure the population is vaccinated. Let's listen. |
| 1:08.5 | Kathleen Page, thanks so much for joining me. |
| 1:13.1 | Thank you so much for having me. |
| 1:13.6 | My pleasure. |
| 1:16.4 | I'd like to talk to you today about the Latino community. |
| 1:19.7 | I understand you're an expert in the community. And I wanted to talk about COVID and how I understand that they're being disproportionately |
| 1:25.8 | impacted. |
| 1:27.1 | Many are more are dying. |
| 1:28.6 | The positivity rates are double and triple the rest of the population. |
| 1:32.7 | Can you talk to me about the situation and really why this is the case? |
| 1:38.3 | Yeah, thank you for that question. |
| 1:40.0 | And as you mentioned, I have been working a lot with Latinos and in particular, low-income Latino immigrants. |
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