The Heavy Toll of COVID-19 on Virginia’s Latinx Community
(Credit: CDC)
Since the Virginia Department of Health began reporting the ethnic breakdown of coronavirus cases, data has shown a consistently disproportionate hit in Latinx communities.
As Cat Modlin-Jackson found, there’s more to the impact than what the numbers show.
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