Reporter's Notebook: Puerto Ricans Living In The Center Of The COVID-19 Outbreak
Latino USA
My Cultura, Futuro and iHeartPodcasts
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🗓️ 14 August 2020
⏱️ 18 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I think that we have to learn more about the Puerto Ricans in the USA. |
| 0:14.0 | Sometimes we forget about their needs. |
| 0:18.0 | What are the living conditions of our population in the USA? |
| 0:24.0 | From Futuro Media, it's Latino USA, Mariano Rosa. |
| 0:31.0 | Today, Puerto Ricans and the spread of COVID-19. |
| 0:39.0 | Since the start of the coronavirus outbreak, |
| 0:42.0 | it's been reported that low-income, black and brown communities |
| 0:46.0 | have been hit hardest by the pandemic. |
| 0:49.0 | On this show, we've covered how immigrants and Latinos |
| 0:52.0 | are getting sick and dying at some of the highest rates in the country. |
| 0:59.0 | As the crisis continues, so does the necessary reporting. |
| 1:06.0 | A large-scale investigation released in June focused on the Puerto Rican diaspora |
| 1:12.0 | here in the United States. |
| 1:14.0 | The results are sobering. |
| 1:21.0 | Detailed analysis found that Puerto Rican communities in the mainland |
| 1:25.0 | live in parts of the country that also happen to be the most vulnerable |
| 1:30.0 | for the spread of COVID-19. |
| 1:37.0 | The Puerto Rico-based Centro de Periodismo Investigativo |
| 1:40.0 | or CPI mapped out the Puerto Rican population in the US |
| 1:45.0 | and analyzed how that overlapped with the spread of COVID |
| 1:50.0 | across the country. |
| 1:53.0 | The investigation determined that Puerto Ricans in the US |
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