Doctors at Mayo Clinic say the pandemic is disproportionately affecting black, latino, and native American communities.
Can count on the death toll in the united states from the coronavirus pandemic passed 200-thousand today.
Doctors at mayo clinic say the pandemic is disproportionat ely affecting black, latino, and native american communities.
Kimt news three's calyn thompson joins us live to tell us about an effort to keep these cthompson@kimt.com coverage you can count on doctor mark wieland says these health inequities lead back to structural racism.
Many of these vulnerable groups live in places with higher density housing, making it harder to social distance.
They are also more likely to be essential workers, and not coronavirus:pandemic disproportionaly affects minority communities kimt news 3 that's why back in march, researchers with the rochester healthy community partnership partnered with immigrant and nearly 10-thousand individuals across six different languages through nine different communication platforms.xxx covid and race-live sot-1 lowerthird2line coronavirus:dr. mark wieland internal medicine physician, mayo clinic this bidirectional communication, risk communication model is particularly effective.
It's responding in real time to the changing facts in the field and then getting those out to the populations in a way that's continuous and from the same trusted sources.
That's where this risk communication model is particularly powerful.
Lowerthird2line talent coronavirus:calyn thompson cthompson@kimt.com coverage you can count on doctor wieland says one of the biggest challenges during the pandemic is the everchanging information.
He mentioned since march, there's been a shift from medical questions to socioeconomic impacts of the pandemic.
Live in rochester, calyn thompson, kimt news 3.
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