Long COVID Among Undocumented Latino Immigrant Populations in the Emergency Department

Karen P Reyes; Zubaid Rafique; Brian Chinnock; Vijaya Arun Kumar; Michael Gottlieb; Kristin L Rising; Robert M Rodriguez

doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.38806

Long COVID Among Undocumented Latino Immigrant Populations in the Emergency Department

JAMA Netw Open. 2024 Oct 1;7(10):e2438806. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.38806.

Authors

Karen P Reyes¹, Zubaid Rafique², Brian Chinnock³, Vijaya Arun Kumar⁴, Michael Gottlieb⁵, Kristin L Rising⁶, Robert M Rodriguez⁷

Affiliations

¹ School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco.
² Henry JN Taub Department of Emergency Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas.
³ Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, Fresno.
⁴ Department of Emergency, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan.
⁵ Department of Emergency Medicine, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois.
⁶ Department of Emergency Medicine, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
⁷ Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, San Francisco.

No abstract available

Plain language summary

This cross-sectional study assesses the understanding of and access to care for long COVID symptoms among undocumented Latino immigrants in US emergency departments (EDs).

MeSH terms

Adult
Emergency Service, Hospital* / statistics & numerical data
Female
Hispanic or Latino*
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Post-Acute COVID-19 Syndrome* / ethnology
Undocumented Immigrants*
United States / epidemiology