'The Covid-19 pandemic has yet again revealed the old existing problems Latinos have been facing for decades in the US that result in disproportionate impacts to their livelihood,' Ed Morales writes for CNNOpinion.
Ed Morales is a journalist and lecturer at Columbia University's Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race and the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY. He's the author of the book "Fantasy Island: Colonialism, Exploitation and the Betrayal of Puerto Rico." Follow him on Twitter @SpanglishKid. The views expressed are his own. View more opinion articles on CNN.
Two months into the coronavirus crisis, with many Americans clamoring for a return to business as usual, Latinos are still mourning the terrible toll on their communities. An Ecuadorean bus driver in the Bronx died at 66, months before retirement; an undocumented Guatemalan in Oregon lost his life; and a Salvadoran worker was the first Latino to die at a meatpacking plant in Smithfield, South Dakota.
A surprising way you may risk getting Covid-19But these tragedies -- as well as the broad-based calamities caused by pay cuts, job loss and food insecurity -- show that while their experiences and citizenship status vary greatly, Latinos are bearing a large, disproportionate share of the crisis.According to recent data provided by the city of New York, Latinos had the second-highest rate of coronavirus deaths, with 259.2 per 100,000, behind African Americans, who are averaging 265.
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