To control the pandemic, we MUST work with immigrant communities, gain their trust, speak their language.

A slew of reports in recent days show how contract tracing is failing because we& #39;re not doing this.

Here are five stories. 1/6

@PIH @OpenSociety https://www.northcoastjournal.com/NewsBlog/archives/2020/07/18/without-a-trace-this-california-county-has-stopped-contact-tracing-as-coronavirus-surges">https://www.northcoastjournal.com/NewsBlog/...

2/6https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔹" title="Kleine blaue Raute" aria-label="Emoji: Kleine blaue Raute">Immigrant organizations said Maine was slow to offer testing, provide bilingual contact tracers and invest in immigrant organizations that know the communities best. Much of the initial funding went to mostly white-led organizations.

@mariasacchetti https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/07/18/im-scared/?arc404=true">https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/20...

3/6https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔹" title="Kleine blaue Raute" aria-label="Emoji: Kleine blaue Raute">"About half of the 2,361 people in Richmond who’ve tested positive for coronavirus are Hispanic, but only 14 workers hired recently to investigate cases and curb the spread of the virus in the city and Henrico County speak Spanish."

@sabrinaamorenoo
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/push-for-bilingual-contact-tracers-continue-in-virginia/2020/07/18/6cbf4bc4-c8ff-11ea-a825-8722004e4150_story.html">https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/pus...

4/6https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔹" title="Kleine blaue Raute" aria-label="Emoji: Kleine blaue Raute">Sending police or deputies to tell them to quarantine is unnecessarily frightening because they fear they will be deported.

“There is a lack of trust between the immigrant communities and enforcement agencies.”

@MercedSunStar @RebeccaSohn2 https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/why-one-san-joaquin-valley-county-has-stopped-contact-tracing-as-coronavirus-surges/ar-BB16SuaT">https://www.msn.com/en-us/new...

5/6https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔹" title="Kleine blaue Raute" aria-label="Emoji: Kleine blaue Raute"> "The mistrust and fears of discrimination are the same as they were for the gay community in the & #39;80s: lost jobs, lost housing, and now, getting deported."

@KQED @KQEDnews @adembosky @GavinNewsom @CAgovernor @NIH https://www.kqed.org/news/11828008/the-same-tensions-around-contact-tracing-during-the-aids-era-are-resurfacing-with-covid-19">https://www.kqed.org/news/1182...

6/6https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔹" title="Kleine blaue Raute" aria-label="Emoji: Kleine blaue Raute">And it& #39;s not b/c immigrants are less healthy:

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="👉" title="Rückhand Zeigefinger nach rechts" aria-label="Emoji: Rückhand Zeigefinger nach rechts"> Immigrants tend to be healthier than US-born persons on arrival.

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="👉" title="Rückhand Zeigefinger nach rechts" aria-label="Emoji: Rückhand Zeigefinger nach rechts"> Immigrants have a higher life expectancy than their US-born counterparts and lower mortality attributable to major diseases.

@NIH https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6085039/">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/artic...