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Lovelace Hospital's Secret Coronavirus Policy
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Lovelace Hospital's Secret Coronavirus Policy
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Lovelace Women’s Hospital in Albuquerque, New Mexico implemented a secretive policy that racially profiled Native American mothers. As expecting mothers who “looked” Native were admitted into the hospital, staff would compare their area codes to a list of zip codes belonging to Native lands such as Reservations or Pueblos. After being identified as “a person under investigation for COVID-19”, mothers were often misled or were forced into signing a wavier that gave permission for hospital staff to remove the newborns from their parents after birth. The families were only reunited once the pending coronavirus test results came back negative. Test results took up to three days to come in, thus leaving the mothers in fear and uncertainty about the wellbeing of their child.
Lovelace, Native American, mothers, healthcare, newborns, separation, New Mexico indepth, ProPublica, racial profiling, New Mexico
Lovelace, Native American, mothers, healthcare, newborns, separation, New Mexico indepth, ProPublica, racial profiling, New Mexico
HST 580
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article
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English
Conflict
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Healthcare
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Home & Family Life
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Public Health & Hospitals
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Social Issues
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10/04/2020
08/02/2022
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10/04/2020
10/12/2020
08/24/2021
Date Created (Dublin Core)
06/13/2020
This item was submitted on October 4, 2020 by Angellica Gallegos using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: https://covid-19archive.org/s/archive
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