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Undetected: lack of access to testing among minorities keeps virus alive

At the Caridad Center in Boynton Beach, one of the largest free health clinics in Florida, a young woman with a white mask approaches a car waiting in the coronavirus testing line. As the clinic worker swabs each of the six people inside, they explain they work as house cleaners, and sometimes, the owners are ill. When they heard on Spanish radio that free testing was available nearby, they came, wanting to know if they are infected.

By the end of the day, 178 people who arrive by car or by foot are swabbed at the Caridad Center.