Volume 40 Issue 34 • 08/20/20 – 08/26/20
In this issue Chavez-Bueno, Olarte explore why more Latinos are getting COVID-19 Florentino Camacho dies at 71 Avalos readying for virtual school year
Avalos readying for virtual school year
By Tere Siqueira Evette Avalos is doing what many Kansas City area children are doing: She is getting ready to resume her schooling. Avalos, who attends Indian Woods Middle School in Shawnee Mission, Kansas, will be a seventh-grader this year. She is among those students who will take classes online. Because of the coronavirus outbreak, […]
Florentino Camacho dies at 71
Longtime Kansas City, Missouri, resident Florentino “Tino” Camacho Jr., 71, died peacefully on Aug. 11. Born in Laredo, Texas, Camacho made a career as a salesman. He was a community activist and an advocate for those who had been treated unfairly or unjustly. Camacho was a deeply Catholic man, too, being a 4th-degree member of […]
Chavez-Bueno, Olarte explore why more Latinos are getting COVID-19
By Angie Baldelomar Official statistics show that Latinos are hospitalized and dying from the coronavirus (COVID-19) at four times the rates of whites — which has become a growing concern among medical experts, according to two doctors at Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City. “The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the inequalities among the different populations […]