By Pamela Cruz. Pen sula 360 Press [P360P]
The almost half-year-old COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the food crisis in Los Angeles County, where a large percentage of residents belong to the first- and second-generation Latino and immigrant communities, as well as low-income women between 18 and 50 years old.
This was announced by Dr. Kayla de la Haye, professor of preventive medicine at the University of Southern California (USC), who, in a media briefing organized by Ethnic Media Services, said that this information was the result of a survey conducted on nearly two thousand Los Angeles residents.
Nearly 1.2 million families in Los Angeles County experienced a food crisis between April and December 2020, meaning one in three families was food insecure.
Meanwhile, it was estimated that 40 percent of Latinos and African Americans had problems accessing food, and that those between 41 and 50 were at greater risk of food insecurity due to job loss, coupled with other financial obligations.
The specialist pointed out that people with small networks of friends and family were the ones who most experienced the lack of access to food, as well as those who contracted COVID at the beginning of the pandemic.
He also explained that according to the results of the study, one in four residents lives in places where there is no access to food.
These people