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Here's one thing we know for sure.

In general, older people are the most vulnerable to the dangerous complications of the coronavirus.

And what part of the U.S. has the most older Americans per capita?

The U.S. territory of Puerto Rico.

Puerto Rico is especially vulnerable because their healthcare system still hasn't fully recovered

from Hurricane Maria in 2017, followed by a recent string of deadly earthquakes.

Tonight, News 6 takes you inside the medical crisis in Puerto Rico.

On top of that, Munica, Falun, Mojare, a PhD scientist and a Puerto Rican argues there's

a huge communication problem.

There's not as much information in Spanish, and it's not always timely.

Recently, the White House put out some guidelines for the country on social distancing, and it

took the government a couple of days to translate it into Spanish.

And there were journalists who were requesting, you know, where is the Spanish language information

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