>> yes, we have a large facility and trying not to have more than no more than four people togeth together. >> and it won't be easy. start starting your engine and opening up again. i don't know if things will ever get back to normal. >> that's right. also for protecting because we have windows. so we use the protection to have these acrylics like window and start here on comunidad del valle out of the mission also need to be sure everyone coming to the consulate will district out of comunidad del wear a mask because if not, we valle the executive director and will not -- in the past we allow vice president and rodrego. people with their phfamilies.

welcome to my home and the show. >> thank you for having us. >> tell me about who are you and it's just the person that we what do you do? need to do the document is the >> it's an organization that only one that will be here. advocates for the mission for we request them to come 50 minutes before but it's not latinos and advocate for the affecting the ones that have wealthy and economic wealth of appointments later. we need to be very careful and the community. >> everyone right now, we're p need to start. improvising with this covid >> thank you for the work you pandemic. how have you been impacted and what is your organization doing do. about it? the consulate general of mexico. >> yeah, i mean, i think unfortunately, we all are impacted by a global crisis that thank you so much and good luck. >> thank you. this past week, we lost a we're facing and unfortunately, we realize the latino community great hero jorge santana, the is versely affected by this. we're seeing not just the, i brother of carlos santana passed think there was a few research polls that were done 60% of away, we want to dedicate the rest of the show to him. latinos know somebody or impacted by a loss of jobs but ♪ ♪ nose nose

the second more dire thing is because we're latino workers have a higher risk of contracting covid-19 and are being impacted by the health disparities. >> you have to get the word out about consequences and how you can get help and that's where you come in as a marketing director. you have to adapt, as well. tell us how difficult it's made it for you? you have to plow forward. >> yeah, it's been a challenge. we've been learning how to engage people online because we want to respect the social distancing practices that are being implemented now. i'm not doing this alone and we're not doing this alone. we're doing it as collectively as the san francisco latino task force. it's really an organization of ♪ ♪ leaders and nonprofit organizations that have come together to make sure that our

community stays healthy and that our community stays economically well during these times. >> and that didn't take long, right? you guys organized this task force, organized almost immediately. we don't have that here in silicon valley. you guys mobilized it seems to me as soon as you saw something else happening. ♪ >> exactly. ♪ as soon as we realized this was such a huge pandemic with the collaboration of the human's right commission, we all came together and over 30 latino organizations from san francisco that are working on really responding to the immediate needs of our community. ♪ ♪ >> and so john, what is the issue? why are we as latinos it seems more prone to contract the virus, to be on the front lines of this virus. >> yeah, through the latino task force for covid-19, we partnered

with ucsf to do a study to find ♪ ♪ out how wide spread it was in our mission district and sure enough, what we found out of nearly 3,000 people tested, of the confirmed cases 90% were latino and the remaining were the community. ♪ ♪ 90% of the people did not have the privilege or luxury to work from home. they were essential workers, many in food and beverage industry, janitorial industry. many industries are impacted and that puts us at risk. we have to go to work to pay bills and ensure we can pay ♪ ♪ rents already out of reach and buy groceries to feed families so we're making a huge sacrifice to get out there to keep this country running and unfortunately, we're paying a price for it. >> so rodrigo, you put your

money where your mouth is. you went out and had four, three or four data task force of free testing right in the mission. >> correct. my colleagues can speak more on that. promoting and making sure people knew the sites were present and free and available to the community, but i definitely want to turn the mic to both john and of course, rojas because they were present physically helping make this a possibility in the community. >> i'll tell you what, why don't we -- let's attack that in the next segment. we'll be back on comunidad del valle and talk more about this great effort out in the mission. stay with us. ♪ ♪

ken foreman: i once had a bagful of fear. our church family had written out their fears on 3 x 5 cards. i loaded 'em into a bag and took 'em over to a high dive at one of the local high schools. now, i'm a pretty good swimmer but i'm afraid of heights and being on the edge of that board, is that water down there, or is that concrete? and in a sense, we were all on that board together. instead of fearing everything and running, we were facing our fears and rising and we all took >> we're back here on "comunidad del valle." that jump together. talk about the great effort as

many people as possible? we are stronger when we are together. i'm not sure if it was 8 pe% th fear is contagious but so is faith and that's why i'm so glad tested positive. give me the numbers. >> savannah, you want to go ahead? >> john, go ahead. >> set out to test a particular census track. 80% of those people in general hospitals here up the street from the mission district that were sick in there with covid-19 were from the latino community and from the mission district and what we wanted to better understand is exactly how wide spread this was and how many people were truly impacted. we selected a census track here in the mission district that was about 58% latino and we wanted to make sure we can do that to understand, again, exactly how many people were impacted. we went out with an army of volunteers that were recruited by all the efforts of the latino task force and senator rojas helped and rodrigo with the

online presence and recruited about 400 volunteers all in for all the days and tested 4,000 people, a little more than 4,000 total but 3,000 specific in the census track. >> and you found what? the results back yet? what were we able to gauge from the effort? >> well, the results are preliminary at this point but we have 95% of the people who came back positive were latino. 5% were from the ati community and makes 100% of the people that came back positive people of color. the other second is 53% of the people who came back positive had no symptoms. and that was very telling for us but while we knew that our community was being affected the most, we did not know that there

was that many of the people who were infected with the virus that did not present any symptoms and that was a specifically helpful for us to be able to create different programs and different activities to be able to educate our community and understanding that our communities are the force that keeps the city going and also, how do we keep each other healthy? >> you probably wouldn't be surprised, it took a newspaper, the local paper here to see where the issue was in the san jose area and it turns out those four zip codes are on the east side. it goes back to what you were saying, john. we're the essential workers. i mean, the construction workers the farm workers, everybody needs to go out and keep it going. you're probably not surprised it's down to four zip codes, unfortunately. >> not surprised at all. unfortunately, the reason i'm

not is that we see the same numbers that first came out were out of new york where we saw the disparities among the la tie kn -- latinos and indigenous communities. all this is tied to the economic activities. the study has given two us things off the bat. the city and county of sachb fran announced we would be testing for workers that go and work asymptomatic or not and following cdc guidelines to have symptoms to get tested. that was a big one. the second is supervisor ronan introduced legislation to ensure that we can provide money to folks that don't qualify for federal benefits should they be diagnose nosed wid with covid ao take two weeks off. if you miss two weeks of work

and don't get a paycheck, that's a ball game. how do you pay for rent and food, et cetera? >> you make a good point. i interviewed a man with a small flower shop and i said [speaking foreign language]. who is going to pay my rent? i'll close down but nobody is going to pay my rent. we're almost out of time. i'll have you give us the web informati information. >> part of the challenge is how do we direct people into a space where they have all the resources available, whether it be health, food, education, or employment so collectively through the latino task force, we build a website that is trilingual. so we can place that for all the english speakers to read. it's a one-stop shot. it's culturally sensitive and

the greater bay area. to find resources for that, they can better educate themselves and know how -- we can support them during this covid crisis. >> did you say mayn? >> yes. >> that's awesome. >> you-all are amazing. we can use that strong effort here in the silicon valley. we're proud of what you guys are doing and more power to you guys. keep doing what you're doing. >> thank you. we'll be back. stay with us. ♪ ♪ the new house is amazing. so much character.

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counsel general. me to be againn "comunidad del valle". >> thank you so much. what can you give us? what's the latest given everything that's happened here? >> yeah, we have been following the shelter order of santa clara county where we are located at consulate and as we see already, the second phase of reopening, we are slowly preparing for these reopenings to attend all the services to our community. at this time, we are the team of the consulate, we are working inside. we have our doors ope attending all those people that previous

to these shelter order on the pandemic, they already have some appointments. so all these people who are calling them directly to schedule a time to come to the consulate because we need to change all our -- to set up all the recommendations done by the county to prevent more spread of the virus. so we are having these six feet of contact with persons. we also are protecting our they safe way and we can continue serving our community before this new steps that we are doing, we were working very hard

through all these technology instruments, gave them information working close with the county and attending the emergencies. >> and it hasn't been easy and our last segment that we had a group out of san francisco part of the task force that gets the word out and helps the latino community when it comes to covid-19 because latinos have been hit the hardest. how difficult is it for the people you serve in the county, how difficult has it before for them? how deeply have they been hit? >> yes, so unfortunately, we have teams in the latino community are the one more affected with this illness so it very important to continue the conversation to use masks. it's not something that protects them directly but can protect

from spreading the virus and could spread it. it's very important for people to continue all the recommendations of the county because unfortunately, they have been affected but at the same time, we know that the authorities in the county, there are a lot of clinics that attend our community. they don't have a medical insurance and what's important to know, they have been opening now new testing for people not just if they are already ill, if they have been in contact with somebody that got covid-19. it's important for them to look for all these facilities at the county. it's necessary because sometimes they think i feel very well.

i have no problem but they are in contact with their family unfortunately, also two families can live in the same place so it's difficult to them to get the shelter for isolation or to try not being contacted direct with them. so anything they need, they did call us through the consulate. we can give them information they will need and try to help. >> we're talking with the consulate general of mexico here in san jose. we'll be back after these messages and talk more about her important work at the consulate. stay with us. at could mean an ie in energy bills. you can save by using a fan to cool off... unplugging and turning off devices when not in use... or closing your shades during the day. stay well and keep it golden.

we're back with the consulate general of mexico. the county of santa clara and san jose announced this past week, yeah, it's free even if you don't show any symptoms, the covid tests will be free at the

stadium and fairgrounds. that's great news. >> yes, of course. they are great news because sometimes our people can be afraid or sometimes they don't know what to do, and they don't have a family physician aware of the conditions that were request previously to these new announcements of the county. so that's why it very important to pay attention about this opportunity, and have the test because it's the only way isolation and then cooperation and getting to normal life. >> how many people? >> we could be used to have more. not everyone shows up at the

same time and it was at first we used i think the elector for more than 200 and then we also have the area overattorneys or powers attorneys as we call it. so it's the way they can be represented in mexico if they can't be there for any opening account buying or selling a house or building with family situations. so in total, we can say more or less 230 appointments daily. now we are starting with the people that havthat we can tell these shelter orders starts.

and we are right now serving about 60 people. we are going to go slowly creating the number of persons that we are serving. we start with moving just for these two weeks having two turns of people working inside the consulate trying to serve for hours. this is just temporarily measures we're doing trying to serve our community. we are focussing those who have appointments or an emergency. emergency that they would need id dorkment, medical attention for other specific situations. >> and a lot of people.