Fellows mentioned in this story: Josie Howard, Cohort VIII

From Civil Beat:

Federal agencies should actively reach out to Pacific Islander communities who have been disproportionately affected by the coronavirus pandemic in Hawai‘i and elsewhere, according to the Hawaii advisory group to the U.S. Civil Rights Commission.

The group recently released a report that explores how and why Pacific Islanders caught COVID-19 at a rate four times greater than any other racial or ethnic group in Hawai‘i and concluded that President Joe Biden’s administration and Hawaii’s political leaders could do a lot more to help address the disparities.

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