According to a recently published UCLA Latino study of the 2020 presidential election turnout, approximately 16.6 million Latinos cast votes in the 2020 election. This represents a 31% increase and nearly double the nationwide growth of 16% in ballots cast between 2016 and 2020 (Also: Yahoo Finance).
Read More | March 29, 2021
Health experts, policy makers, and Latino leaders joined together for a CHCI webinar and discussed the health impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, equitable COVID-19 vaccine distribution, and addressed vaccine hesitancy within Latino communities. Matt Barreto, UCLA LPPI Co-Founder, joined the discussion on the impact of the virus and its disproportionate and devastating impact on Latino…
“When communities have very solid social umbrellas, covid is not going to make much headway,” said David E. Hayes-Bautista, director of the Center for the Study of Latino Health and Culture at UCLA’s David Geffen School of Medicine. “But when you get communities that have great big, gaping holes — lack of health insurance, lack…
David Hayes-Bautista, a UCLA professor of medicine and public health, said that Latinos have kept working through the pandemic. “In Washington, the idea is you’re poor because you don’t work. That’s not the issue with Latinos,” Hayes-Bautista was quoted in a report.
RadioBilingue (March 15, Spanish) interviewed Dr. David Hayes-Bautista, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professor of health policy and management, about the impact of the pandemic on California’s Latinos.
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