The COVID-19 crisis has heightened the stress on Latinos and highlighted the widespread lack of mental health care.
These conditions have put a strain not only on the Latinx community’s physical and financial health but also on their mental health as people try to cope with the loss and pain of the pandemic.
The crisis has underscored the widespread need for better mental health care among this group, especially given how many of them are essential workers. A lot of scientific evidence shows that recessions and their effects — “unemployment, income loss, financial strain and deprivation” ― are “significantly associated with poor mental health,” Margarita Alegria, a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and chief of the disparities research unit at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, said at a press conference on April 24.
In Arizona, where Hernandez lives, the 10-year anniversary last month of perhaps the most anti-immigration legislation in recent memory ―― hit home with many undocumented people. Among other provisions, SB 1070 allowed police officers to check a person’s immigration status if they had “reasonable suspicion” that the person was in the U.S. without documents.
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