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A recently published study is stressing the necessity of accessible multilingual information on public health during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The research—published in JAMA Network Open, a journal of the American Medical Association—underscores the various social and demographic factors associated with higher incidence and death rates of COVID-19, such as limited English proficiency, race and disability. “(COVID-19) neither created the...

Non-English-speaking communities in the U.S. have voiced concern that coronavirus information is being communicated to them after the rest of the country and in less detail, creating a divide that could put minority groups at risk. The Center for Disease Control and Pre­vention (CDC) offers Spanish and simplified Chinese translations for its main COVID-19 website, but without all the resources...