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Camino Health pregunta: ¿quiénes son los latinos de Carolina del Norte?
Por Clarissa Donnelly DeRoven, traducido por Lidia Hernández Tapia Entre 1990 y 2020, el crecimiento de la población latina de Carolina del Norte se disparó: subió de 75 000 residentes a más de 1 millón, un aumento de casi 1400 por ciento. La comunidad es diversa; alrededor del 61 por ciento nació en los Estados…
Camino Health wants to know: who are North Carolina’s Latinos?
By Clarissa Donnelly-DeRoven Between 1990 and 2020, North Carolina’s Latino population ballooned: from 75,000 residents to more than 1 million, an increase of nearly 1,400 percent. The community is diverse; about 61 percent were born in the U.S., while the remaining 39 percent are immigrants, about half from Mexico, and another quarter from El Salvador,…
More than 3,600 N.C. children are coping with the death of a caregiver due to the pandemic
By Katie Dukes EducationNC At least 3,626 children across North Carolina — mostly students of color — are currently coping with the death of a caregiver due to COVID-19. Schools will bear responsibility for supporting children who’ve experienced this loss as they learn and grow over the next two decades. Research published in October in…
Training teens to take COVID vaccine messages to their communities
By Anne Blythe Gabriela Maradiaga Panayotti is a Duke pediatrician who readily acknowledges that she can encourage teens to get vaccinated and give them all the reasons why she thinks they should, but the reality is that their peers are likely to have more influence. That’s why LATIN-19, an organization that Maradiaga Panayotti and other…
Coronavirus Today – Jan 4 Omicron records; COVID testing woes; Requiring boosters for some state employees
By Anne Blythe As public health officials predicted in late December, North Carolina is seeing the Omicron variant of COVID-19 bring record-high cases counts and putting strains on systems across the state. Finding COVID-19 tests has become difficult again. Rapid tests are in short supply. Many testing sites have long lines and time-consuming waits. On…
