Low-income immigrants aren’t seeking the proper care and protection amid the Covid19 pandemic due to lacking health care, high test costs, language barriers, and fears of revealing their immigration status.
). And for those living paycheck to paycheck, it’s difficult to voluntarily take time off when a week’s wages could make a difference in their ability to pay rent.
It’s a grim reality that McCarthy has seen in her clinics in Los Angeles as well: “Unfortunately, we’re living in an era of fear, where our federal administration has taken steps through various policies and regulations to instill fear in immigrant communities — either that they will be deported, or that if they use services, they will not be eligible for citizenship. And I’m talking about documented and undocumented alike.
Community health clinics typically test and treat low-income immigrants who can’t afford to go to the ER or a private doctor. Above, the M Health Fairview clinic in Fridley, Minnesota, on March 10, 2020.Yet the federal government has done little dispel these fears, said Chavez.
“A lot of people tend to come to us in the office first before going to an ER,” Berkley said. “And we’re really on the front lines, especially in minority communities where speak their language.”
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