August 26, 2020

‘Our Communities Are In Crisis’: Latinos And COVID-19-NPR

Marin County, just north of San Francisco, is best known nationally as a picturesque gateway to wine country and home to moneyed tech investors and a handful of aging rock stars. The reality, of course, is more complicated. Those complexities can be found in a San Rafael neighborhood known as the Canal. Like other African American and Latino populations around the country, this community has been disproportionately hard-hit by the coronavirus. Latinos make up about 16 percent of Marin’s population, but account for nearly 80% of COVID-19 cases in the county, according to health officials here. NPR, 08/26/2020