What Next: L.A.’s Alarming Latino Mortality Rate
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🗓️ 28 April 2022
⏱️ 24 minutes
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| 0:32.2 | I think that the holidays feel like frozen noses. I love walking with the dog for long periods of |
| 0:40.0 | time, hopefully it's snowing and you've got to wrap up warm. So I think a frozen nose is |
| 0:44.2 | a sweaty armpit because like you're wrapped up so warm but then you're climbing hampsed |
| 0:48.5 | heath and you get to the top and you're like, and then you can see the breath, but then your nose |
| 0:53.6 | is still freezing to top. Joy in every sip with red cups now back at Starbucks. |
| 1:07.3 | Dr. Don Garcia has a way of describing COVID's impact on Latino communities. It's not subtle. |
| 1:14.8 | He calls it biologic genocide. That is a loss of the gene for a fertilization. |
| 1:21.2 | So I take issue with your use of the word genocide that say, well the pandemic is affecting |
| 1:28.9 | everyone. It's neutral. Well, it's not neutral to me because I'm in the eye of the fire. |
| 1:39.6 | Where Dr. Garcia is more precisely is Clinica Romero. It's a health center in Los Angeles, |
| 1:47.2 | which is a city that's seen its Latino population ravaged over the course of the pandemic. |
| 1:54.6 | It would be neutral if every community was equally affected or everyone's homes would be |
| 2:00.4 | are burning, but that's not the case. The homes or the families of the West Side are not being |
| 2:06.5 | moved down the way to be burned down in Boyle Heights, East Los Angeles, Pico Union, West Lake. |
| 2:12.3 | So you're saying allowing that to happen is a choice. Yes, yes. I read this statistic the other day |
| 2:20.0 | that the mortality rate among Latinos increased by 48 percent during the pandemic in Los Angeles. |
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