GILDA HERNANDEZ visits the grave of her mother, Maria Cristina Pineda, who died of COVID-19, as she prays with family at a cemetery in East Providence on May 2. Pineda, of Guatemala, who had spent more than 20 years working as a babysitter in New York, came to Central Falls 14 years ago. (AP PHOTO/David Goldman)
CENTRAL FALLS (AP) — The beleaguered people of this tiny city moved quickly through the high school gym’s injection stations and then to rest on dozens of metal folding chairs, borrowed from the Knights of Columbus. Immunity was at hand, but no one was celebrating. Central Falls — the poorest and smallest city in the…
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