In communities of color, one organization is helping to fill the COVID-19 testing gap

Now, those same doctors are traveling to other cities around the country that have been seeing surges inin an effort to get free testing to communities of color, which have already been hit disproportionately hard by the virus and face scarcities in access to testing as well.

Dr. Yomaris Peña, a volunteer with SOMOS, said working at one of the organization’s testing sites is “another mission where I’m helping my Hispanic, my Latinos, my African American family … everyone that is underserved.” Dr. Jacqueline Delmont, Chief Medical Officer of SOMOS Community Care, asks Eddie Mena to move forward into the medical tent to be tested for COVID-19 at a testing site, July 22, 2020, in Miami Lakes, Fla.

Natalie Choy, 16, says her entire family became ill with COVID-19. She was at a testing site in Miami Lakes, Florida, after testing positive two weeks earlier to see if the virus had passed. “People who can have the money and the things just to be able to pay for every single test, they have much easier access. … That’s fine, but when it’s five, six or seven people, some people simply can’t afford it.”“Many patients have lost their insurance. They fear that they’re going to get a bill. Many of them are undocumented,” she said. “We understand that the federal government is not necessarily covering these tests for undocumented [immigrants].

SOMOS is one of the organizations around the country that has been there to fill in these gaps. In Houston, Sonia Gomez’s husband had been reluctant to get a test despite their family showing symptoms of the virus.

If the coronavirus was just a contributing factor or if it’s “assumed to have caused or contributed to death,” it can be listed as the primary cause.

And they 'wonder' why C0V!D cases keep going up in those 'communities.' MEX!C0 doesn't have a handle on that v!rus...

I wish people would care as much about personal health as they would COVID testing.

Stop with the division. Propaganda media

They are donating COVID__19

Nice mask

One great idea is to have a class on wearing a mask 🙄🙏🙏

Just get some good colour remover. Should fix the problem

It won’t help- The Latinos R spreading the Corona so fast, that 75% of blacks will B infected by December. It’s the good neighbor concept.

Look at that guy with his nose out. It just looks like other part of his body is out. Put it in the mask!

HAHAHAAH NICE PICTURE...the cuck on the left has his nose outside of his mask...this is perfect picture to show how much of BS this entire covid crap is!!!!!!!

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