Dr. Don Garcia has a way of describing COVID's impact on Latino communities.

It's not subtle. He calls it biologic genocide.

That is a loss of the gene pool of fertilization.

Some might take issue with your use of the word genocide that say, well, the pandemic is affecting everyone.

It's neutral.

Well, it's not neutral to me because I'm in the eye of the fire.

Where Dr. Garcia is, more precisely, is Clinica Romero.

It's a health center in Los Angeles,

which is a city that's seen its Latino population ravaged over the course of the pandemic.

It would be neutral if every community was equally affected or everyone's homes would be, are burning.

But that's not the case.

The homes or the families of the West Side are not being burned down the way they're being burned down in Boyle Heights, East Los Angeles, Pico Union, Westlake.

So you're saying allowing that to happen as a choice?

Yes, yes.

I read this statistic the other day that the mortality rate among Latinos

increased by 48% during the pandemic in Los Angeles.

I feel like you must know that statistic in your bones.

Well, I know it in my bones because I'm a member of the community,

and I not only know it in my bones, but in my blood.

Take a minute and consider this fact.

Black, native, and Latino Americans,

they're about twice as likely to die of COVID as white Americans.

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