2/6🔹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
3/6🔹"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
6/6🔹And it's not b/c immigrants are less healthy:

👉 Immigrants tend to be healthier than US-born persons on arrival.

👉 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/
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