Urban immigrant communities could be left particularly vulnerable to contracting COVID-19. Experts say the ways existing policies impact communities are becoming more evident amid the pandemic.
"Financially I'm worried, immigration wise I'm worried," she said."There are so many things to be worried about, plus this thing comes along."
"They don't have any recourse to backup finance in the event they're sick," she says."We are very concerned people are working when they shouldn't be." A few blocks from African Services, a Honduran immigrant stood in a McDonalds with her son, who is in second grade. She asked to be referred to by her first name, Ivette, because she's undocumented. She said most of the information she's received about the virus has come from Facebook and from her son's school, which closed on Monday. If her son becomes sick, she said she would take him to the doctor."I'd take him immediately," she says.
Nadia Islam, an associate professor at NYU medical school, says that in order to counter the coronavirus, policymakers need to think beyond providing health care.
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