How COVID Accelerated a Fight Against Food Deserts in NYC

"A network of local Latino primary-care physicians serving predominantly Medicaid patients, offering Spanish-language, culturally competent attention and a prevention-first approach to conditions like obesity, diabetes, and hypertension. Clinicians in the network emphasize dietary change toward less processed and more plant-based nutrition as a way to reduce inflammation and strengthen patients’ ability to withstand infections such as COVID-19, and they work within communities disproportionately affected by poverty and chronic disease." - Muriel Alarcón Luco