From Futuro Miria, it's Latino USA.

I'm Maria Inohosa.

Most everyone knows that New York City is the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic.

But the state with the third most coronavirus cases after New York and New Jersey is Massachusetts.

And as the curve appears to begin to flatten in New York City, it's a place that the federal

government is now becoming more concerned about.

Massage Hussets remains in its surge with cases topping more than 54,000.

Death note is as stretching 21 pages in the Boston Globe reflect the growing number

of victims in the battle against COVID-19.

And just across from the Mystic River from Boston is a city that has the highest per capita

rate of infection in the state of Massachusetts.

It's the city of Chelsea.

Part of the issue is that Chelsea has a large immigrant population.

This mass general clinic is now testing everybody with symptoms and they are stressing.

You don't have to be a patient here.

You don't need health insurance and they will not ask your immigration status.

Now for generations, Chelsea's residents have been primarily Latino, Latina or newly arrived

immigrants who commute into Boston to work.

The outbreak of coronavirus there is more than twice the rate of infection than Boston.

Julio Ricardo Barrelep is my co-anchor for our politics podcast in the thick, but he's

also a reporter based in Boston.

And he's here with me today to give us a portrait of what's been happening in the city

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