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Edición Semanaria: Inmigrantes embarazadas con coronavirus en riesgo mayor de depresión

This story was produced as a larger project by Valeria Fernandez for the 2020 National Fellowship, which focuses on how indigenous, immigrant communities and people of color have been organizing before and during the pandemic in communities of care to find support and healing.

Her other stories include:

Pioneering study on how the pandemic affects the mental health of Latinos

En Arizona, inmigrantes afectados no van al médico por temor a regla de 'carga pública'

Edición Semanaria: Network of Therapists Helps Migrants and Activists with Mental Health Problems

A therapists' network supports immigrants, advocates during pandemic

Edición Semanaria: Ancestral Foods Nourish Immigrants’ Bodies and Souls this Holiday Season

November 25, 2020
In this National Fellowship project story, Valeria Fernandez focuses on pregnant immigrant women who have COVID-19. A disproportionate number of Latinas have become infected with COVID-19, Valeria reported for Radio Bilingüe's "Weekly Edition," and they are more likely to suffer greater birth complications due to the pandemic. Nonetheless, despite these considerable challenges, experts are most worried about the impact on their mental health,with long-term consequences that are difficult to predict, and the few services available to them. Valeria put human faces on the problem by telling the story of one Guatemalan family.
 
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Inmigrantes embarazadas con coronavirus en riesgo mayor de depresión. Un número desproporcionado de latinas se contagian de Covid 19 y están más propensas a sufrir más complicaciones a causa de esta pandemia, pero algo que preocupa  más a los expertos es el impacto en su salud mental y los pocos servicios disponibles para ellas, con consecuencias impredecibles a largo plazo. En el siguiente reporte  que cuenta con el apoyo del Centro de Periodismo de Salud de la Escuela de Periodismo Annenberg de la Universidad del Sur de California, USC. Desde Phoenix, Arizona, Valeria Fernández nos ilustra este problema con la historia de una familia guatemalteca.

 

[This story was originally published by Radio Bilingüe.]

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