Staff member Irene Lucio, who is also fluent in Spanish, screens a patron entering the Valleywise Health Medical Center, due to the COVID-19 and coronavirus Monday, March 16, 2020, in Phoenix. The signage and many staffers at Valleywise are bi-lingual but government officials continue to ring the alarm bell about the coronavirus, all over the nation, they're doing so predominantly in English. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
March 18, 2020
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Getting coronavirus updates in Spanish is a mixed bag in US
PHOENIX (AP) — Osvaldo Salas speaks a little English, but not proficiently. The suburban Phoenix man relies on Spanish-language TV and friends and family for information on the coronavirus because state and local officials haven't posted any updates online in Spanish even as the global pandemic widens.