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coronavirus pandemic which revealed long existing health disparities in the united states. today we are going to focus on the impact of those health disparities on latino communities. xavier becerra is the 25th secretary of health and human services and he joins me now. welcome to "washington post live" ." >> jonathan thanks for having me and by the way thanks for everything you have done. >> well thank you very much for whatever i've done i thank you. let's dig into the health disparity that secretary expressed by the latin communities. first how have barriers such as lack of pharmacist, hospitals and transportation affected health outcomes before and during the pandemic? >> jonathan coe , as you knou live in in a food desert or u live in a medical service desert it makes it far more difficult for you and your family to get the type of services and have

the type of health that would be possible if all those things within your reach. some cases you could live in a big city and be just blocks away from a nice hospital but you can't afford it. you may as well live in a desert. and so that has produced results which today we recognize as social determinants of health. so you grew up poor, , that's oe of the germans what your health will be moving forward. if you grew up without access to health insurance, that's also going to determine a great deal of how your health will look once you're older. no one should be surprised when some 40 or 50-year-old presents more than likely if you're coming from the community of color. your health isn't as good as some of us had access to healthcare all his or her life, about the right foods available in grocery stores around the block. those of the kinds of things that happen when you have those disparities that persist in

american and pandemic covid-19 really exposed those far beyond, so even the most of us knew they were there, now everyone knows. >> that anticipates the next question is going to ask, and that was how has an adequate access to primary care physicians hinder testing, treating, and educating patients about covid-19 and the vaccines? >> well, it's like trying to fly a a jet plane without having gone to the courses on how to fly to begin with. if you try to go all the way from the start, you're never going to succeed. you can't expect communities who have had access to have the best outcomes. and the more we prevent communities from having ready, readily accessible access to the things we need, we are going to continue to suffer. the name that comes to my mind most is diamante driver, a young boy in the state of maryland, had a toothache.

but because his parents didn't e insurance, didn't have much money, you let your child go as long as you can. that toothache turned into an infection, an abscess, and before you know it that young man actually died because what started off as a toothache became an infection. that's what happens when you don't have health insurance. that's an extreme case but it happens. >> the access to healthcare and insurance is one thing but in its public education campaigns, how has your department tackled language barriers that can affect latinos and other communities in terms of accessing healthcare, accessing the vaccines? >> well, we've broken down those barriers, jonathan. we understand how important it is to communicate. you who are in media know how important it is to communicate often, repetitively, in order to get a message across. that's what we've done. we dedicate a lot of resources

to get messages out. we don't wait for people to come to us. we go to them. when it came time for people to enroll in the affordable care act insurance marketplaces we didn't wait for people to go onto the website and look for us. us. we went out to the community and make sure we got all those communities that didn't get access to care it easily and haven't always signed for coverage under the affordable care act. this time we had a really good product to sell because the president made possible through the american rescue plan reduced rates for quality health insurance, so much so that for many people, including folks in the black and brown community, we were able to offer them health insurance coverage, quality health insurance coverage for less than ten dollars a month. you can't even go see a movie for ten dollars, in one movie. it was a great deal. fortunately we got a lot of folks who bought in. >> mr. secretary, nearly one in four homecare workers is latino. to win five latinos are caregivers for family members. what steps is hhs taking to help

the care workforce moving forward? >> we're making major investments, jonathan, home and command-based services because we know how critical having access to care for any family but if you're low income family, even more so. and oftentimes we know that some of these families rely on relative or close friends to provide some of that care. it used to be done without being able to be reimbursed or compensated. more and more we are realizing that these folks are providing indispensable care, not just to that family member or friend but to america because otherwise those folks would end up in institutions where taxpayers would have to be a good portion of that bill. we are making a major investment in home and community based services because we see how important it is. i say that personally, as a caregiver for my father before he perished. my mom amy moved into my home for years before he left us on new year's day 2020, and we were

with him and we were essentially his hospice caregivers for the most part, those last six months when he was less mobile, unable to care for himself. so there is such value in it, and i say that personally. everyone should have the opportunity to let their loved ones live out their lives in dignity. >> mr. secretary, my condolences to you on the passing of your father. it just makes me wonder, how did that experience impact the way you approach your job as the secretary of health and human services? >> you know, jonathan, i tell folks, if you want to know where a leader is going to take you, look at where that leaders come from. and for me i came from a a fay where my parents did everything they could for me. they couldn't do a lot, because they didn't have a lot of money. but they did enough that it felt like i thought i was in middle class until i started college, and a somewhat middle-class folks, how you lived.

the beauty of that is that i've learned that it was not easy,, and it was not free. and for me now it is so important. when my father was in his last years, his last stages of life, it was a no-brainer. we were going to be there. actually i learned it best quite honestly through my wife and her parents, because she's got a larger family, eight kids. they were there every moment for their two parents. i had never seen death with such dignity as i saw when catalina, my wife's mother, pass. and i said to myself if ever my parents get to that stage that's what i want. you had grandkids, great grandkids in the house. as my mothers wife -- my wife's mother was getting ready to pass everyone was going through. it was almost like a lik. because no one was felt it was a mournful type. none of the kids were free to see the great grandma. that's the kind of thing you want because it was true love it.

we should make that available. we shouldn't say no, no, no, we're not going that for you because you don't want to reimburse you for some of the cost you had. instead send them off to an institution where we are paying thousands of dollars that most people can't afford. it makes us at. >> you are the son of immigrants and i'm also wondering how is that part of your life story influencing the way you go about your job at hhs? >> so no barrier going to get in our way, and nothing we can't accomplish. that comes because when you're the son of immigrants you have optimism running in your dna. you'll learn the hard way but you realize every time you get to climb to that next date of the mountain, how beautiful it can be. i take with me those stories, those experiences, and i try to make sure that i don't let others miss those opportunities that should be there for everyone. and so i was fortunate to have people who worked very hard to

give me a chance. on the person in my family to get a four-year degree -- on the first in my family to get a four-year degree. i'm the first one of my family to have chance to get in front of the camera. i will tell you this opportunity should be available to anybody regardless of your income, where you live or what your immigration status is. >> we are in a much different place today than we were two years ago, or even three months ago. do you believe we've finally entered a a less dangerous phe in the pandemic? >> well, jonathan, we are certainly in a less dangerous of phase but they're still danger. when you still have some 2000 americans dying every day from covid, you still have several thousand in hospitals every day because of covid, some 60,000-70,000 cases every day because of covid, you're not out of the woods. but we are in a far different place than we were a year ago, a

month ago, even a week ago. we've got to continue to see the improvement. the president last week in the state of the union made that very clear. and we are just going to continue to work because when everyone wants to get back to those days where it was easy to go to work, kids can play school and we feel pretty good about hugging each other. that's what we want to see but we have work to do and we have a responsibility to take care of each other. >> late last month governor gavin newsom issued an endemic plant for california girl state. he used to be the attorney general that. the white house announced wednesday an endemic plant of its own they kind of shutdowns and school closures are over. your thoughts on those moves. >> well, it's a sign that we had to say something very important to the american people. thank you. thank you for paying attention, for getting vaccinated, for wearing those masks as aggravating as sometimes the could be, of testing when you need to do, of social distancing, of taking care of

your kids, washing your hands, doing all the things that the scientists have told us will work. thank you for that. and to those who haven't yet, please join us. help us. let's all be responsible. let's do what we know works so we can really say that covid is behind us. >> you've recently announced a new mental and behavioral health campaign to do with the long-term impact of covid. what's the goal? >> as i said, the president has made it very clear we're leaving no one behind, and he could've been a member of my family saying that. we don't leave people behind. you could've been part of that army unit, you know, you don't leave anybody behind. when it comes to what we're doing here, it's we're not leaving anyone behind. we've got to continue the work we know we need to do. we're going to make sure that those who are suffering from things like long covid, those who are expecting mental distress because of the

situation, maybe you lost your job, we're going to be there. we're helping our state partners and our local partners make sure we put resources out there for the healthcare workforce. they have been resilient. many of them haven't had a vacation day in a long time. we're going to make sure that they know we've got their backs because they have been there for us. so were going to do with the candidate with several programs we are initiating, and if congress passes a budget that includes the president's request we will have more money to do with mental health needs and were going to do whatever we can to let people know that it's important that we treat mental health the same as we would treat physical health. >> one of the things, , i should ask you this earlier, but talk about the difficulty over the last two years of building trust around public health measures against the drawback of misinformation, political division, and even people questioning science, even though science is constantly changing.

>> that's a great question because the misinformation has been out there fast and furious and it's made it difficult, especially for communities where the information they get sometimes it's hard to come by, or it's not clear who they can trust. so we have tried very hard. that's where i mentioned earlier that we don't wait for folks to come to us. we go to them. and we used trusted voices to make sure we're committed getting. whether it's the priest, the schoolteacher, the soccer coach, were going to use those who really do connect with families because we want them to know that we want to include them. i constantly have to say, especially in spanish-language press, that when it comes to vaccines, president biden wants to make those accessible to everyone for your charge. because too many folks in communities that are disadvantaged, they find it hard to believe that they are getting something of quality free of charge. they are used to getting something not of quality for a high price, when they go into those ripoff stores that the

only thing they can find in the neighborhood. so when somebody offers you something really good free of charge, you wonder. and so what we have to do is just communicate over and over that we've actually got a great product for you that could actually save your life and it's free. the more we let folks know, the more changes. by the way, in may 2021 about two-thirds of white americans had received at least one shot of the vaccine on covid. black and brown black and brown communities about 54%, or substantially behind the white community. beginning of this year we change that a lot. white americans, about 83%. 84%. black americans about 82, 83%. latinos about 84%. we worked hard at that. it was no accident. >> those are great stats to learn about. mr. secretary, we have time for one more question and it got to ask you this because the

"washington post" and other news outlets have been writing about them how to respond to the reports that say that you have taken to pass as a role in the pandemic? is that criticism fair? >> you know, my dad used to say it's not what you say, it's what you do. my dad was a construction worker, and it made no difference to anyone, his foreman or the company owner, what he said he would do. it's what he did. and it at each other, my dad was one of the best builders america has ever seen. he was never a loud guy. he didn't speak english very well. he was always kind of shy about that. all i learned all my life was performed, get it done, whether it is laying that asphalt for the highway or was building that concrete driveway for your neighbor, you get it done. that's what we're going to do. fortunately, we had a president

who lets me get things done. going to continue to do them so long as i have an opportunity because that's what i learned when i grew up. >> you know, you use a terrific word there, and that was performed. and a wonder to your mind, as someone who's been in politics for years, in washington, do you think there's too much emphasis put on perform in terms of performance for the cameras, that as long as someone is performing for the cameras, they must be doing the job? >> yeah, it's the show horse versus the workforce. i'll tell you here, here is where my mom gives me the best advice. she always tells me remember jimmy, she is always telling about about the story about this kid jimmy who would always go to church, always religiously go to church and he would always say to the lord, hey, lord, i'm here. i just wanted to check in with you. he would always do that and always do that. some of his friends would ask, why do you do that?

he would say that's what i do. of course as he aged in life and is getting ready to leave this place, he had the lord come to him and say hey, jimmy, i'm with you today. and so she always tells me that story. this is a woman who still praise the rosary every night. all i know is that if i do things the right way, someone will recognize it. you don't have to be a show horse. just do your work. >> are right, that's actually kind of a mantra that i try to live by, just do the work. one more question for you, mr. secretary. the post reported it can sometimes be unclear who makes final decisions or is in charge of implementing new initiatives. what's your response? >> there's no doubt. the guy the top joe biden, he's the president picky makes the call. when it comes to covid if you're asking about covid, he set up a team before he even took office officially to deal with covid. jeff vince has been the coordinator out of the white house for that.

at hhs undersecretary. we execute on much of what the president wants it done. we are the team that has nih, fda, cdc, our h core program is the logistics operation that make sure that those masks come this task of the sexy and get what they need to go but no doubt the quarterback is in the white house. >> xavier becerra, 26 secretary of health and human services. mr. secretary, we're out of time. thank you very much for coming to "washington post live." >> takes, jonathan. >> coming up, the mayor of said and california the same day sarmiento. -- vicente sarmiento. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪

♪ >> good afternoon. i'm jonathan capehart, opinion writer for the "washington post." welcome back to "washington post live" again another energies on race in america, this time looking at health disparities in latino communities. we continued the conversation on the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on latino communities with mayor vicente sarmiento of santa ana california. mayor sarmiento, welcome to

"washington post live." >> i, jonathan. it's great to be with you. thank you. >> sure. so talk about the demographics of your city, of santa anna and how that factored into how you navigated the pandemic these last few years. >> yeah, sourcing is approximately 330,000 in size, in population and close to 80% of the city is latino or hispanic. and more than 40% of foreign courts with a lot of recent arrival emigrants here. we unfortunate suffered a lot of losses in many people we lost here in the city as result of sort of the perfect storm in this pandemic because we had many families that live in overcrowded conditions because just disparities in rent and not being able to live in single unit homes. and we also had many families that are frontline essential

workers and so couldn't work from home or virtually. you also had people that had underlying health conditions pre-pandemic. so you had people that suffer from diabetes, hypertension and obesity. all these three factors just lent themselves to a proliferation and despite in coronavirus cases more importantly, in a lot of loss of life. we suffered about a thousand losses here in santa anna, and these were neighbors, , relativ, friends, people in the community that had close ties to everyone. so it was pretty devastating on our community. >> i asked this of the secretary earlier about the impact of misinformation and disinformation, lack of trust, all sorts of issues that a gun in the way of public officials tackling the pandemic. how have you dealt with those very same issues at the local level as mayor of a city? >> you know, it's really

challenging because i think a lot of our community, because many are monolingual spanish speakers, right, get their news and information from the local press sources. what the city is pushing out sometimes isn't as effective because it's done either in spanish -- excuse me, in english and not in multi language efforts. that's something we have now changed and realized that he didn't send on an email and thinking that's the way you message to community like ours is not the way to communicate. the way to communicate is embedding yourself in neighborhoods talking to people and establishing that trust so when you do reach folks their able, you're able to have some credibility. being able to talk to somebody in their own language of origin is huge, right? we did battle some of the media outlets that were really proliferating not only misinformation but dangerous information.

so folks believe that because that's where they got their information. so that is something that was really challenging, because not only are we as government trying to inform and educate people and keep them safe and provide science-based information but you're trying to offset that with a counter narrative that is very, very different and completely contrary to what we're trying to inform people with. >> you said in your answer about it four hitting send on an e-mail making sure is this the way we should be communicating, but what are you doing to support residents who are on say social media? obviously you have folks in your city who don't speak english. how are you getting messages across to them? also, folks who don't have access to health information, what are all the ways you are getting or at least trying to get health information but also coronavirus specific information to the people of your city?

>> yeah, so it's not even solely an issue of language disparity, right? we're also talking about households that are even connected to the internet. so you have this dual problem. so what we did during 2020, when vaccines were not even available and were not developed at that time, we took our information and our resources and embedded ourselves in neighborhoods. so rather than having sites where people would go to because we knew people at transportation problems as well, we went to more than a hundred neighborhoods and took our mobile trucks and resources and delivered about 35,000 tests, and we delivered more than 300,000 face masks. so those are ways that we realized it is kind of going back to grassroots efforts, going back to talking to people, going door to because these are

folks that, again, need to have that contact. so it was tricky because, again, this was prior to the delivery of the vaccine. we had many of our staff going out and risking their lives having to go and communicate with our residents. but we knew that that was the only way we could effectively communicate and provide resources because, again, we had problems and challenges with respect to just access to the internet, problems and challenges with respect to language. so we just felt that this was probably the most effective, although, you know, labor-intensive way to do it. but i saw that other communities once they saw as doing this started to emulate and replicate what we did here. because it would was kind of going back to sort of a maybe i grassroots more old, less conventional way to do it, a

more effective way to do it, i believe. >> last year your city got a two-year $4 million grant from the office of minority health to boost vaccination rates and access to accurate covid-19 information in hard-hit communities of color. have you seen the impact you hope for from that funding? >> you know, i did. i think that is one additional element that we had, in addition to receiving rescue plan money. so i do need to give, you know, our thanks to, you know, president biden, and you know, secretary becerra, because, you know, with the rescue plan money, that, in addition to the, you know, the $4 million grant that we received from the office of minority affairs, you know, at the height of the pandemic, where santa ana was hardest hit, we had maybe, you know, one in four people testing positive. and this is, you know, prior to the vaccine being delivered. you know, and so we went

through, you know, all the efforts that i just described. and now we have, you know, vaccination rates in those same zip codes that were suffering losses of life, you know, upwards of 80 percent, 85 percent. so we now have some of the lowest positivity rate in our county. so we are the county seat, you know, here in orange, and we're 34 cities large. you know, we probably are the most demographically different from orange county, even though the county is considered, you know, one of the most affluent counties in the country, it's the fifth or sixth largest. but santa ana is, you know, sort of the core of that county, and we have some very different problems in our neighboring 33 cities. so, you know, we're real proud of that pendulum that we've been able to swing to the other side, because, again, it took a lot of hard work. but it was labor-intensive work,but it was work that we know now not just for the pandemic but for other issues having to deal with vital

information to, you know, communities of color like ours, immigrant communities, and low-income communities. so you have those three factors intersecting. and we realize that you can't do things in an easy way. in other words, again, sending out an e-blast and expecting, you know, people to be informed as a result of that, we really do need to do things in a very non-traditional, non-conventional way to have the most impact. >> you know, one thing that we, before the pandemic, one thing we always knew was that there were disparities in health care, in access to health care; if you had a health care, then disparities in the quality of care that you were able to get. and then covid hits, and those disparities are now too big to ignore, because of who's being impacted. i would love for you to talk about how those disparities manifested themselves in santa ana during the pandemic and what

steps you've taken to try to address them as a result of covid. >> look, i'll give you some really specific examples. when the vaccine was, you know, being delivered, you know, the state sent the vaccine inventory to the counties so the county could deliver them to the cities. here in santa ana, we knew that the epicenter of the, you know, the pandemic was here in our city. unfortunately, vaccines were going to other parts of the county, more affluent communities, you know, more white communities. and that's when, you know, i think the tide turned, when everybody, you know, especially me, look, started shouting at the top of my lungs, you know, we have to get the vaccine delivered to where the problem is. and so, you know, as i said, many of our residents are frontline essential workers that couldn't take time off. so they were still going out and doing domestic work, working in,

you know, restaurants and in, you know, hospitals and other places. so we knew that if we could curb, you know, the spike in positivity here, we knew it would help the entire county, but the vaccine was going elsewhere. you know, governor newsom came, and he delivered, you know, a speech here, when he kind of turned the tide and said, he's going to stop delivering vaccine to counties that don't get them to the hardest hit communities. so that's where i saw things really change here in our city, in our county, when that was said. but it took, you know, many of us, you know, just again, getting so frustrated that the logical step of bringing, you know, and delivering vaccine to, you know, communities that were hardest hit wasn't being done. so we saw that as really a pivotal moment. but again, it shouldn't have to be that way. and for us, you know, we know that we don't have our own public health, municipal public health department. we rely on the county for delivery of care. they are the agency that's

vested with that responsibility. what's unfortunate is that, you know, it's not an equitable way of delivering health care. so the second thing that we did with some of the rescue plan money that we received is we're investing now in a feasibility study to see how our city can separate from the county and create its own public municipal health care department. because we know that we have such a unique demographic, such a, you know, difficult demographic to identify, to work with, we know that we could do it really well. but again i think this made us realize we had issues before the pandemic, but, you know, during the pandemic, it just magnified the disparity of delivery of care. >> and then once the vaccines became available, one of the big topics of conversation in the country was about vaccine hesitancy. and it wasn't, you know, a situation that was solely borne by communities of color there. there are lots of people across all sorts of demographics in the united states who were hesitant

to take the vaccine. but in santa ana, did you have to deal with on a large-scale, large numbers of the people who live in santa ana being unwilling initially to take the vaccine? >> yeah, i mean, we still have some of that, right? i mean, even though we have much better numbers with respect to, you know, vaccination rates, we still have, you know, parts of our community that, you know, again, i think you were talking about trust. sometimes i think, you know, it's hesitancy but it's also misinformation that's proliferated to them. and we see a lot of, you know, folks that are immigrants that, you know, are undocumented. and you know, they've been told that, you know, by taking the vaccine, you're going to be able, you're going to be tracked, they're going to be able to find you, and you know, and deport you based upon, you know, this vaccine. well, all those things we've had to dispute, we've had to

clarify. but i think, you know, the first step in that is creating trust, because, you know, again, they're receiving this information from news outlets that maybe are not as credible. you're receiving them from people that, you know, aren't authorities and aren't public health professionals. so, you know, they're being told a lot of different things. and unfortunately, you know, our undocumented immigrant population doesn't have a trusted source of information. so that's where i think communities like ours need to connect, need to be able to establish that relationship where, you know, all things being equal, they need to know that they can trust their local governments to be able to at least protect them, provide accurate information so they can make informed decisions. because again, it's not a matter of mandating or it's not a matter of forcing anybody, because we understand there are beliefs that are deeply held, especially in immigrant

communities that are faith-based, and we completely respect that. but it's a matter of that informed consent or informed decision that really is a challenge for many of us to be able to establish that relationship with folks in the community. >> you mentioned governor newsom a moment ago, but late last month the governor issued an endemic plan for california. the white house announced on wednesday an endemic plan of its own, declaring shutdowns and school closures are over. i would love your thoughts on these moves. and what is your long-term strategy for santa ana living with covid? >> look, i believe, you know, being responsible and being incremental in the way we transition out of this pandemic. so i do applaud the governor and the white house for giving us steps that are forecasting how we can, you know, move forward.

i think for communities like santa ana, because i think not all policies fit all regions, right? and so i think for those of us that have dealt with this in such an acute, in such a strong way and been so impacted, i think we want to take slow steps out of this. we don't want to just say, okay, it's over, this is an endemic at this point and let's, you know, just forget about all the protocols and all the protective steps that we took. so for me as mayor, i mean, my hope is that we can transition out. we're seeing that, you know, our schools are now opening up. we see now that, you know, a lot of our facilities now are available to the public to enjoy. and we want to balance that because, you know, jonathan, one thing i would tell you is that what's hurt me is that i've seen many families and especially, you know, children who've been, you know, impacted emotionally and psychologically by just not being able to connect with peers, not being able to connect

with, you know, sort of daily life routines of being in parks, playing, you know, with their neighbors and other kids. those things have long-term impacts. so that has to be offset and balanced with being protective about making sure nobody continues to get, you know, ill from covid. but we do have to find a way that our families, especially those families that we have in santa ana that don't have many other outlets, and they're living in small spaces, you know, we want them out, hopefully, playing in parks, you know, being able to do things safely, but also transitioning them from this very sequestered, you know, condition that they've been living with into now being able to just develop and grow into young adults. >> so, mr. mayor, final question for you. you were elected in 2020. so you've been sort of halfway through your first term as mayor, right?

>> actually, we have two-year terms. so we're at the almost at the end of my first term. >> okay, so almost end of your first term. asking the question because i want to get to the larger, quick question. what lessons have you learned as mayor guiding a city, guiding your city through a global pandemic? >> look, the first lesson i think i, you know, learned is that when you're in a crisis, you can't do things in a simple way. you can't do things that seem expedient, that seem efficient. you really have to step back and realize that, you know, nobody signs up for this type of work as mayor, you know, because normally we're dealing with infrastructure and filling potholes and making sure people's, you know, streetlights are operating. but when you're dealing with people who are facing loss of life, loss of a loved one, and just a crisis, what you have to do is just step back and evaluate and realize we have to do everything we possibly can to

provide accurate information, resources. and if it takes going into neighborhoods, walking door to door, those are things that now i take away as mayor, and hopefully our entire city realizes that we just have to do things as, you know, as effective as we can, even if it may be more labor intensive, even if it takes more time. but that's something that for communities like ours, we have to define and tailor the way we communicate with folks. so that is something that we are going to take away not just on, you know, delivery of, you know, information, vaccine, and testing, but it is going to go towards rental assistance, towards business grants, towards resources that we know are going to follow this pandemic that is really an economic crisis. you know, people who are just transitioning back to work, you know, transitioning children back to school. we realize that these lessons that we learned during the pandemic, they're going to

continue in other efforts as we communicate with our neighbors and residents. >> mayor vicente sarmiento of santa ana, california, thank you very, very much for coming to washington post live. >> it's great to be with you. thank you, jonathan. .. >> deep experience and intellect and a rich tradition. >> i am truly humbled by the extraordinary honor of this nomination and i am especially grateful for the care you have made in discharging your

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