A national Latino voter registration group, Mi Familia Vota, is focusing on helping Hispanics get vaccinated amid rising Covid-19 cases and deaths.
MFV's work just started in Texas, and Torres is the sole staffer going door to door in the state. The group deployed 15 people in Nevada and 20 in California in January. MFV hopes to expand as more money is available to fund the work.
a family member or close friend had died or was hospitalized due to Covid-19. Nearly half said they lost wages or jobs because of the pandemic.significant drop in life expectancy“They are cutting their life span short if they are getting Covid,” said Dr. Armando Meza, chief of infectious diseases at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso.
There was also a cultural disconnect. The hospital tried to verify the identity of Cruz Meza’s husband, Manuel Reyes Meza, by asking her for his middle name. Cruz Meza said her husband had no middle name, but after some back and forth, Torres established that the hospital was looking for"Reyes," Manuel's mother's last name that, as is common practice for many Latinos, is part of his last name — not a middle name.
They called their daughter, Sara Saldaña, to the doorstep hoping Torres and Liz Magallanes, MFV Dallas coordinator, could persuade her to get vaccinated. Though none were hospitalized, her mother became very sick, and Torres had to take time off from her final year of college studies to take care of her family.
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