Across the country, advocates are working to provide basic necessities to immigrant families, especially those without legal status who lack a safety net and are too worried or threatened to seek medical treatment or help.
Lopez was suffering from aches and a fever, but she went to Perez worried about her 6-year-old son, Angel. He was also showing COVID-19 symptoms."I begged her," Perez said."I said: 'Please, it's for your own good and for your son. Do it for your son.'" But Lopez was too fearful and just wanted to know whether Perez could help her.among Latinos.
"My worst fear was to go into the hospital and not come out of it alive," Lopez said."My personal opinion is that perhaps [we're] not being provided the proper medical attention. How was it that a lot of Hispanics were dying so quickly in such a short period of time?"Perez said her own cousins didn't want to seek medical help, saying they had experienced discrimination at an urgent care center in the past.
Some in the community won't even seek out Perez's help, suspecting that her food deliveries might get them tagged under the public charge rule.Dr. Daniel Correa, a neurologist at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, New York, is part of a network of doctors who have begun to publicly call for repeal of the expanded public charge rule. Latinos have the highest rates of COVID-19 deaths in the city, a trend documented inby the city health department.
"Public charge was just the latest thing," Correa said, referring to families with immigrant members."There was already a lot of apprehension in the community before the pandemic. We were seeing concerns regarding public services, and in health care we were already seeing a decrease in public visits."
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