Monthly Archives: August 2020

Hotels in New York City reopen for new customers

About five months after closing their doors, some of Big Apple’s finest hotels are starting to take reservations again, bordered by signs of renewed demand from composite New Yorkers. Tourists and business travelers have been displaced, and in their place treacherous suburbs are being sought to celebrate a birthday or …

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Fear, language barriers hinder contact tracing of immigrants

Only a handful of contact tracers working to carry COVID-19 in 125 communities near Chicago speak Spanish, despite significant Spanish populations. Churches and advocacy groups in the Houston area are trying to persuade immigrants to cooperate when health officials call. And in California, immigrants are being trained as contact persons …

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