They also were more likely to be doing essential work and live in multi-generational housing. Those poorer areas were correlated with higher death rates, as VOSD showed in an earlier story. Immigrants are also more likely to live in poorer areas. If they weren’t getting good information in their home language, they wouldn’t have known how to protect against the virus. They also face unique language challenges that may have been critical during the pandemic’s first year. They are less likely to have access to medical care, public health experts said. And according to the “ healthy immigrant effect ,” immigrants to the United States are supposed to be healthier than the native population – meaning they should have been less likely to die from COVID.īut immigrants also face unique challenges. San Diego County is made up of just 23 percent immigrants, but immigrants represented more than half of all deaths. There are several reasons to suspect immigrants should not have been such a large portion of the death toll. The county lost 4,046 people between Maand March 22, 2021, according to the death certificates. Voice of San Diego created a database of death records for every person who died related to COVID during the first year of the pandemic. The newest revelation in Voice of San Diego’s ongoing series about COVID-19’s death toll is uniquely shocking: More than half of the people who died in San Diego County were immigrants. Jose and Teresa Torres died from COVID-19 in 2020.
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