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In the past month, San Diego teenager Marlene Herrera has turned 18, graduated from high school, and decided who she’s going to vote for in her first presidential election. She’s done all of this while dealing with the enormous stress of providing childcare for her cousins, and figuring out how to attend college virtually. As part of a collaboration with The World’s “Every 30 seconds”— which looks at the young Latino electorate in the US— KPBS reporter Max Rivlin-Nadler tells us how the pandemic will leave a lasting mental and political mark on a generation of new voters.