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Fear, language barriers hinder immigrant COVID-19 contact-tracing

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to adequately investigate coronavirus outbreaks among non-English speakers is all the more fraught given the soaring and disproportionate case counts among Latinos in many states.

Four of the hardest-hit states -- Florida, Texas, Arizona and California -- have major Spanish-speaking populations.In the ZIP code with the highest number of COVID-19 cases in Maryland, 56% of adults speak Spanish.

But only 60 of Maryland’s 1,350 contact tracers speak Spanish.And the language barriers go beyond Spanish: Minneapolis needs tracers who also speak Somali, Oromo and Hmong, Chicago needs Polish speakers and.

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