Latinos in Oregon are five times more likely to get COVID-19 than the white population. That’s what Portland State University professor Roberto Orellana found last May. In response, he started a program to train bilingual college students to become contact tracers. We talk with Orellana and Gabby Perez Winder, one of the students in the program.
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