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In 19 California counties, fewer than a third of eligible residents are boosted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Imperial County — the border community that \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/coronavirus/2021/08/imperial-county-vaccination-rate/\">led the state in vaccination rates\u003c/a> last spring after it was hit hard by the virus — only a quarter of eligible residents have gotten a booster shot. The health officer there blames “pandemic fatigue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do think there’s been some fatigue after nearly two years of this pandemic, not just in Imperial County, but everywhere,” said County Health Officer Dr. Stephen Munday. “People want to get back to their normal lives. They want to go to work, they want to take care of their families. It’s kind of like, well, gosh, I got my two doses, why do I have to get another one?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not just in rural counties where a majority of people haven’t yet gotten the extra shot: Los Angeles, Kern, Santa Barbara and 28 other counties have lower booster rates than the 38% statewide average. Major population centers such as San Diego, San Bernardino and Riverside are lagging behind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11890031 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52992_GettyImages-1237563534-qut-1038x576.jpg']State and federal recommendations for booster shots have changed several times, making them difficult for the public to follow. Current guidance advises a booster for all adults, while children as young as 12 can only get an additional Pfizer shot. Immunocompromised children as young as 5 also are eligible for another Pfizer dose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Studies show an additional dose can double protection against infection and is highly effective in preventing severe disease and hospitalization even against the omicron variant, said UCSF epidemiologist George Rutherford.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Run, don’t walk, to go get your boosters,” Fresno County Health Officer Dr. Rais Vohra said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most older adults throughout the state have listened to the advice: Nearly 64% have been boosted. In Marin County, as many as 80% of those 65 and older have been boosted, and only four counties have boosted fewer than half of their older populations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://flo.uri.sh/visualisation/8321358/embed#?secret=xq5ApaV3LC\" data-secret=\"xq5ApaV3LC\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" height=\"575\" width=\"800\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for younger Californians, getting an additional dose is far less common. Only 47% of those age 50-64 have been boosted. Forty-four counties have boosted fewer than half their populations in this age group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The case spikes are being driven by the unvaccinated, which are 25 to 45 years old, largely,” Rutherford said. “That’s where we’re seeing the majority of cases, and that’s where the majority of unvaccinated or under-vaccinated people are.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike early in the pandemic when vaccines were limited, the slow booster uptake has little to do with availability. “There’s a very robust supply,” said Imperial County Health Officer Munday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the state health department, California’s stockpile currently has \u003ca href=\"https://covid19.ca.gov/vaccination-progress-data/\">5.6 million available doses\u003c/a> — a 39-day supply. \u003ca href=\"https://myturn.ca.gov/\">MyTurn\u003c/a>, the state’s vaccination portal, recently added booster appointments for children age 12-15.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Omicron is here. We can’t abandon the tools that have allowed California to be one of the safest states throughout the pandemic. Those are vaccines and boosters,” Health and Human Services Secretary Dr. Mark Ghaly said during an update Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Total hospitalizations are approaching 51,000 people, a number just shy of the peak capacity reached during last winter’s surge. Approximately \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/coronavirus/2020/04/california-coronavirus-covid-patient-hospitalization-data-icu/\">8,000 of those patients represent COVID-19 cases\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To those who haven’t been vaccinated at all: Get your vaccine as quickly as you can. And those who have been vaccinated but haven’t been boosted, please consider getting boosted,” Ghaly said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11900736 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/Screen-Shot-2022-01-07-at-12.57.01-PM-1020x777.png']In Fresno, where COVID-19 has prompted deployment of the National Guard, many health care workers are unable to work due to COVID-19 exposure or infection, further straining their hospital system, officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only a third of eligible residents in Fresno County are currently boosted, according to state data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The boosted vaccination population is fending off the omicron infections really quickly,” Vohra said. “For the unvaccinated folks, they basically are the ones who are super vulnerable, and those are the ones we’re worried about because they’re the ones that land in the hospitals and ICU.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>North of Fresno, officials in sparsely populated Mariposa County are relying heavily on the state’s MyTurn portal to distribute booster shots. Fewer than a quarter of eligible residents have been boosted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>County Health Officer Dr. Eric Sergienko said mass vaccination clinics have subsided due to decreased demand, fewer resources and privacy concerns in their small community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Rather than doing clinics with hundreds, we have clinics through MyTurn that are booked out with 30 to 100 people at our scheduled clinics on Tuesdays and Thursday,” Sergienko said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cases and hospitalizations in Mariposa County have trended younger with a majority of cases occurring among those age 20-40 and a majority of hospitalizations among unvaccinated people age 40-55, department spokesperson Lizz Darcy said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The statewide surge in infections and hospitalizations is expected to peak during the third week of January, experts say. Hospitalizations remain substantially \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/coronavirus/2020/04/california-coronavirus-covid-patient-hospitalization-data-icu/\">below pre-vaccine levels.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Community organizations and health centers, which have been at the forefront of vaccine education and distribution, say interest in the booster has increased during this current surge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It seems our community is much more receptive to receiving the booster than they were originally to get the first dose,” said Bryant Macias, emergency relief supervisor at the United Farm Workers Foundation, which has advocated for priority doses for farmworkers and \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/coronavirus/2021/03/california-farmworkers-vaccine-obstacles/\">helped organize clinics\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The main challenges we have identified are individuals not knowing how long they need to wait before getting the booster shot, whether or not they can get a booster that is different from their initial vaccine, and some folks only wanting the booster if it’s the same kind as their initial dose.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In agricultural counties, like those in the Central Valley, workplace vaccine clinics played an important role in increasing access last spring. 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"content": "\u003cp>A new state policy may require nearly 900,000 Californians to return their unemployment benefits because they may not have been working or looking for work. But some researchers worry the clawback campaign could force people with lower incomes to pay back thousands of dollars they no longer have.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state Economic Development Department began issuing notifications of the proof-of-work requirement last month to one-third of California’s 2.9 million Pandemic Unemployment Assistance recipients. The federal program, which ran from March 2020 and ended in September, was aimed at helping people who don’t usually qualify for unemployment benefits because they are freelancers or small-business owners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state is asking them to prove, retroactively, that they were working, or planning to work, prior to filing their unemployment claim. If they can’t provide documentation, they would be ineligible and asked to give the benefits back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11888843\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/EDD-UNEMPLOYMENT-1020x680.jpg\"]A full repayment could be over $32,000 if a recipient received full benefits throughout the program. In addition, if a claimant offered false information, the state could impose a 30% penalty. Some experts are now suggesting giving recipients a pass even if they can’t prove their eligibility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We should be saying, ‘Look, if you got unemployment insurance benefits during that time, you’re fine,’” said Chris Hoene, executive director of the left-leaning California Budget and Policy Center based in Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the concern is fraudulent claims,” he added, “then do the work to fix the administration of the system” instead of requiring recipients to prove they qualified for the benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not clear where lawmakers stand. Democratic Assemblymember Tom Daly of Anaheim, chair of the Assembly Insurance Committee, which has oversight of the EDD, did not return a request for comment. Assemblymember Chad Mayes of Yucca Valley, an independent serving as vice chair of the committee, also didn’t respond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The chair and vice chair of the Senate Labor, Public Employment and Retirement Committee — Democrat Dave Cortese of San José and Republican Rosilicie Ochoa Bogh of Yucaipa — also did not respond to requests for comment.\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003cbr>\nThe EDD noted that the repayment policy is a federal requirement, passed by Congress in the Continued Assistance for Unemployment Workers Act in 2020. EDD acknowledges it can waive repayment if the overpayment was not the recipient’s fault or not fraudulent and if repayment would cause extraordinary hardship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new policy is an attempt to claw back \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/business-california-5ec16ebe5b5982a9531a7a3d5a45e93c\">an estimated $20 billion lost to fraudulent claims in California\u003c/a>. But McGregor Scott, a former U.S. attorney who has been leading a state investigation into unemployment fraud, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/california/article256487486.html\">doesn’t believe EDD’s repayment policy will recover much\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Chris Hoene, California Budget and Policy Center\"]‘If the concern is fraudulent claims, then do the work to fix the administration of the system.’[/pullquote]The state’s immense loss came after EDD, inundated with unemployment claims early in the pandemic, began expediting the process by waiving a proof-of-work requirement. 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"content": "\u003cp>Jamie Marquis can’t count the number of times they’ve been called the wrong name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A junior psychology major at UC Davis who identifies as nonbinary, they changed their name several years ago. But since then they’ve struggled to get that name even on basic educational records, instead of their name assigned at birth that they do not identify with, commonly known as a deadname.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wish that there was a way to really explain to cisgender people how being deadnamed feels,” Marquis said. “It’s humiliating. It makes you feel out of place and unwelcome, because of all the things about your identity, even your name is being ignored.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB245\">new state law\u003c/a> could make a huge difference for people like them, Marquis said. Not only could it ease anxiety, but it also could provide important protections from discrimination and harm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new law, which takes effect on Jan. 1, requires the state’s public colleges to update records for students who have legally changed their names. It also allows graduates to request an updated copy of their diploma at no cost to them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, starting with the 2023-24 class, it will require institutions to allow students to self-identify their names on diplomas, even without legal documentation of a name change. (The legislation does not specifically require colleges to let students self-identify their names on educational records besides diplomas without legally changing their names. It also does not affect how people are identified on legal documents used for tax, immigration status and other purposes.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California is the \u003ca href=\"https://www.them.us/story/california-first-state-requiring-colleges-use-trans-students-correct-names\">first state to enact such a law\u003c/a>. A previous version failed in the Legislature in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The right to self-identify one’s name on a college diploma helps protect transgender and gender-nonconforming students, advocates say. Research shows that transgender people are at higher risk of discrimination and violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Jamie Marquis, junior psychology major at UC Davis\"]‘[Deadnaming is] humiliating. It makes you feel out of place and unwelcome, because of all the things about your identity, even your name is being ignored.’[/pullquote]More than \u003ca href=\"https://transequality.org/issues/anti-violence\">1 in 4 trans people has experienced a “bias-driven assault,”\u003c/a> with rates even higher for trans women and trans people of color, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://transequality.org/\">National Center for Transgender Equality\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Academic records listing a student’s name and gender as assigned at birth could potentially “out” that student’s identity, which can put them at a significant disadvantage when seeking housing and employment, said David Chiu, who authored the bill while representing San Francisco in the state Assembly. Chiu, now the San Francisco city attorney, said he was asked by \u003ca href=\"https://www.eqca.org/\">Equality California\u003c/a> and other transgender activist groups to draft the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A college diploma represents years of hard work and academic achievement,” Chiu said in an interview. “It shouldn’t cause stress or harm by having someone’s deadname on it because of outdated school policies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>No statewide policy\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In California, public colleges have been using a range of policies about what names they record on diplomas and in other records, as no statewide policy existed. In November 2020, the University of California system put in place a policy — the \u003ca href=\"https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/president-drake-announces-new-presidential-policy-gender-recognition-and-lived-name\">Presidential Policy on Gender Recognition and Lived Name\u003c/a> — that ensures that all individuals are identified by their accurate gender identity and name on university-issued documents and in UC’s information systems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At California State University and the California Community Colleges, there have been no system-wide policies, spokespersons said. But the two systems support the new state law, they also said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11899232\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11899232\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/Jamie-and-cat.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/Jamie-and-cat.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/Jamie-and-cat-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/Jamie-and-cat-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/Jamie-and-cat-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/Jamie-and-cat-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jamie Marquis and their cat Cleo in their backyard in Sacramento on Dec 4, 2021. ‘[Deadnaming is] humiliating. It makes you feel out of place and unwelcome, because of all the things about your identity, even your name is being ignored,’ they said. \u003ccite>(Karlos Rene Ayala/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some campuses have put their own policies in place. American River College in Sacramento County, for example, adopted an affirmed name policy in 2019, which allows students to change their names in campus computer systems and, in early 2020, to self-identify their names on their diplomas. The policy is now in place for all four colleges in the Los Rios Community College District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The change, college officials said, has been powerful and emotional for students. Emilie Mitchell, interim dean of social and behavioral sciences at Cosumnes River College, described her experience helping a former student change their name in the college’s computer system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This person was just crying when they were talking about going into classes, and professors often read the roster out loud, and it was their deadname,” Mitchell said. She said she could hear the retraumatization they experienced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Within five minutes, Mitchell was able to change the student’s name in the system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I thought, that’s such a small thing, right?” Mitchell said. “All I did was click a couple of boxes, literally, but this person’s experience, their educational experience, their sense of being validated in their identity, was so profound.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eli Fox, a junior psychology major at California State University, Monterey Bay, changed their name during their first few months of college but said they had to deal with a lot of stress due to their deadname being on high school documents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was really tricky to get everything to line up,” Fox said. “There are a lot of school administrative people who aren’t really educated, and it was really difficult trying to educate them and also advocate for myself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Emilie Mitchell, interim dean of social and behavioral sciences, Cosumnes River College\"]‘That’s such a small thing, right? All I did was click a couple of boxes, literally, but this person’s experience, their educational experience, their sense of being validated in their identity, was so profound.’[/pullquote]High school teachers, college professors and administrators have often resisted respecting their name or helping them change their school documents, Fox said. They often asked Fox invasive questions about their transition that made them feel like they were just being nosy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No one should have to explain their identity or justify the way that they are to anybody,” Fox said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fox said they are relieved to see the law pass, as it will make the process easier for future students like them. Fox aspires to use their degree in psychology to work in data gathering and research, and wants to continue their education in biopsychology, and incorporate social theory into science.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fox says they have gained so much knowledge just from being queer and being around queer people. They hope to help show LGBTQ+ youth of the future to be proud of who they are.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Reducing anxiety\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Michelle Haggerty, a psychology professor who advises the Queer Student Union at College of the Redwoods in Eureka, said the new state law will help to reduce the anxiety of both students and professors and to create a more accepting environment on campus. If students are able to update their names on school records before the semester starts, it will erase any awkward scenarios where the professor may deadname a student by accident, Haggerty said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also said this new policy will help students after they graduate, lessening how much they may have to explain their name or who they are to future employers. Haggerty has known students who have quit their jobs due to discrimination and invasive questions about their transitions, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Depending on where you are, it makes people feel unsafe,” Haggerty said of being transgender or gender-nonconforming. “Different industries and different communities will look at these things differently … I think it’s hard to make a judgment on, ‘Am I safe or not?’ and ‘Who can I reveal these aspects of myself to?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new law could help protect cisgender college students, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='transgender']Linda Johnson — a sophomore at College of the Redwoods who has earned a bachelor’s degree from Pomona College and a master’s degree from Fuller Theological Seminary — said that she was unable to have her maiden name printed on her diploma. At a time when she was going through a divorce from an abusive spouse, she wasn’t able to feel happy or excited when she received her diploma. Instead, she didn’t even want to look at it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It would have been so much easier if I could have gone and said, ‘This is what I want,’ without having to wait for all of the legalities to catch up,” Johnson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marquis, the Davis student — who also is an American River College graduate — remembers the anxiety of a day when they walked up to the counter of the community college’s records and admissions office to update their academic records. Had they forgotten a document? Would they be met with help or hindrance?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s so awkward and uncomfortable to have to go up to every teacher, every front desk staff, every doctor and explain the situation,” they said. “And it’s draining to constantly be polite to the people that want to tell you all about how hard it is for them to remember.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the process went smoothly, they felt a sense of bewildered relief. But their name-change journey still wasn’t over. When they transferred to UC, they had to present records from high school that still used their deadname.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, Marquis hopes the new law will remove some of these roadblocks — and that that could help them finally just feel at ease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a beacon of hope, Marquis aspires to take this experience with them as they enter the field of psychology after college and work with mentally ill queer children, letting them know it is OK to be themselves, whoever that may be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Oden Taylor is a fellow with the \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/projects/college-journalism-network/\">\u003cem>CalMatters College Journalism Network\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>, a collaboration between CalMatters and student journalists from across California. This story and other higher education coverage are supported by the College Futures Foundation.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Jamie Marquis can’t count the number of times they’ve been called the wrong name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A junior psychology major at UC Davis who identifies as nonbinary, they changed their name several years ago. But since then they’ve struggled to get that name even on basic educational records, instead of their name assigned at birth that they do not identify with, commonly known as a deadname.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wish that there was a way to really explain to cisgender people how being deadnamed feels,” Marquis said. “It’s humiliating. It makes you feel out of place and unwelcome, because of all the things about your identity, even your name is being ignored.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB245\">new state law\u003c/a> could make a huge difference for people like them, Marquis said. Not only could it ease anxiety, but it also could provide important protections from discrimination and harm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new law, which takes effect on Jan. 1, requires the state’s public colleges to update records for students who have legally changed their names. It also allows graduates to request an updated copy of their diploma at no cost to them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, starting with the 2023-24 class, it will require institutions to allow students to self-identify their names on diplomas, even without legal documentation of a name change. (The legislation does not specifically require colleges to let students self-identify their names on educational records besides diplomas without legally changing their names. It also does not affect how people are identified on legal documents used for tax, immigration status and other purposes.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California is the \u003ca href=\"https://www.them.us/story/california-first-state-requiring-colleges-use-trans-students-correct-names\">first state to enact such a law\u003c/a>. A previous version failed in the Legislature in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The right to self-identify one’s name on a college diploma helps protect transgender and gender-nonconforming students, advocates say. Research shows that transgender people are at higher risk of discrimination and violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>More than \u003ca href=\"https://transequality.org/issues/anti-violence\">1 in 4 trans people has experienced a “bias-driven assault,”\u003c/a> with rates even higher for trans women and trans people of color, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://transequality.org/\">National Center for Transgender Equality\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Academic records listing a student’s name and gender as assigned at birth could potentially “out” that student’s identity, which can put them at a significant disadvantage when seeking housing and employment, said David Chiu, who authored the bill while representing San Francisco in the state Assembly. Chiu, now the San Francisco city attorney, said he was asked by \u003ca href=\"https://www.eqca.org/\">Equality California\u003c/a> and other transgender activist groups to draft the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A college diploma represents years of hard work and academic achievement,” Chiu said in an interview. “It shouldn’t cause stress or harm by having someone’s deadname on it because of outdated school policies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>No statewide policy\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In California, public colleges have been using a range of policies about what names they record on diplomas and in other records, as no statewide policy existed. In November 2020, the University of California system put in place a policy — the \u003ca href=\"https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/president-drake-announces-new-presidential-policy-gender-recognition-and-lived-name\">Presidential Policy on Gender Recognition and Lived Name\u003c/a> — that ensures that all individuals are identified by their accurate gender identity and name on university-issued documents and in UC’s information systems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At California State University and the California Community Colleges, there have been no system-wide policies, spokespersons said. But the two systems support the new state law, they also said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11899232\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11899232\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/Jamie-and-cat.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/Jamie-and-cat.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/Jamie-and-cat-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/Jamie-and-cat-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/Jamie-and-cat-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/Jamie-and-cat-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jamie Marquis and their cat Cleo in their backyard in Sacramento on Dec 4, 2021. ‘[Deadnaming is] humiliating. It makes you feel out of place and unwelcome, because of all the things about your identity, even your name is being ignored,’ they said. \u003ccite>(Karlos Rene Ayala/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some campuses have put their own policies in place. American River College in Sacramento County, for example, adopted an affirmed name policy in 2019, which allows students to change their names in campus computer systems and, in early 2020, to self-identify their names on their diplomas. The policy is now in place for all four colleges in the Los Rios Community College District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The change, college officials said, has been powerful and emotional for students. Emilie Mitchell, interim dean of social and behavioral sciences at Cosumnes River College, described her experience helping a former student change their name in the college’s computer system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This person was just crying when they were talking about going into classes, and professors often read the roster out loud, and it was their deadname,” Mitchell said. She said she could hear the retraumatization they experienced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Within five minutes, Mitchell was able to change the student’s name in the system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I thought, that’s such a small thing, right?” Mitchell said. “All I did was click a couple of boxes, literally, but this person’s experience, their educational experience, their sense of being validated in their identity, was so profound.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eli Fox, a junior psychology major at California State University, Monterey Bay, changed their name during their first few months of college but said they had to deal with a lot of stress due to their deadname being on high school documents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was really tricky to get everything to line up,” Fox said. “There are a lot of school administrative people who aren’t really educated, and it was really difficult trying to educate them and also advocate for myself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Linda Johnson — a sophomore at College of the Redwoods who has earned a bachelor’s degree from Pomona College and a master’s degree from Fuller Theological Seminary — said that she was unable to have her maiden name printed on her diploma. At a time when she was going through a divorce from an abusive spouse, she wasn’t able to feel happy or excited when she received her diploma. Instead, she didn’t even want to look at it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It would have been so much easier if I could have gone and said, ‘This is what I want,’ without having to wait for all of the legalities to catch up,” Johnson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marquis, the Davis student — who also is an American River College graduate — remembers the anxiety of a day when they walked up to the counter of the community college’s records and admissions office to update their academic records. Had they forgotten a document? Would they be met with help or hindrance?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s so awkward and uncomfortable to have to go up to every teacher, every front desk staff, every doctor and explain the situation,” they said. “And it’s draining to constantly be polite to the people that want to tell you all about how hard it is for them to remember.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the process went smoothly, they felt a sense of bewildered relief. But their name-change journey still wasn’t over. When they transferred to UC, they had to present records from high school that still used their deadname.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, Marquis hopes the new law will remove some of these roadblocks — and that that could help them finally just feel at ease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a beacon of hope, Marquis aspires to take this experience with them as they enter the field of psychology after college and work with mentally ill queer children, letting them know it is OK to be themselves, whoever that may be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/calmatters-en-espanol/2021/11/un-cupon-del-50-de-descuento-para-una-herramienta-electrica-los-jardineros-dicen-que-el-subsidio-de-california-es-inadecuado/\">\u003cem>Leer en español.\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a bill \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1977168/the-sounds-of-silence-california-bans-new-gas-powered-leaf-blowers\">banning the sale of most new gas-powered tools by 2024\u003c/a>, gardeners and landscapers say a $30 million state subsidy isn’t nearly enough to help small operators make the switch to electric.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state agency responsible for administering the subsidy estimates it has only enough to give each self-employed gardener a 50% coupon for one tool, far from the truckload of leaf blowers, lawn mowers, small chain saws, brush cutters and trimmers most haul around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"science_1977168\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2021/10/RS52049_GettyImages-1346603572-qut-1020x695.jpg\"]In fact, local governments have learned they need to offer more. In Southern California, a regional air quality district that has been running a similar incentive program since 2017, saw few takers until it increased rebates to 75% per tool. The district paired that with an outreach program and encouraged landscapers to test electric equipment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Air Resources Board is still figuring out who will qualify for the rebate, and Assemblymember Marc Berman, one of the authors of the bill, said he’s open to adding more funding if needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Let’s not make the perfect be the enemy of the good,” said the Menlo Park Democrat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Environmentalists hailed the first-in-the-nation law for advancing California’s clean energy goals, noting the state estimates that smog-forming pollution from small gas-powered engines will surpass emissions from passenger cars this year. But electrifying the landscaping industry creates financial and physical burdens for the estimated 60,000 one-person and often unlicensed landscaping operations, \u003ca href=\"https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes373011.htm\">an industry that sees an average income under $40,000 a year, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11897482\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11897482 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/111621-Gas-Lawn-Ban-CAD-CM-03.jpg\" alt=\"A chain saw lies on the ground, next to a red gasoline tank.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/111621-Gas-Lawn-Ban-CAD-CM-03.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/111621-Gas-Lawn-Ban-CAD-CM-03-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/111621-Gas-Lawn-Ban-CAD-CM-03-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/111621-Gas-Lawn-Ban-CAD-CM-03-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A chain saw and gas can on the ground during fire mitigation work at a property along Via Floreado in Orinda on Nov. 16, 2021. Ken’s Rototilling and Landscaping owns around 50 gas-powered tools that could be affected by a state ban on new small gas motors. \u003ccite>(Aric Crabb/Bay Area News Group)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There’s an argument for subsidizing the transition. An electric leaf blower and batteries cost nearly twice as much as a comparable gas version. California estimates that \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/sites/default/files/barcu/regact/2021/sore21/isor.pdf#page=22\">a full transition of nearly 3 million tools used by landscaping professionals will cost $1.29 billion\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bryan, a landscaper who asked to be identified by his first name only because he fears losing business, uses a mix of electric and gas equipment. The electric ones fall short.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have 10 to 15 houses a day right now, but with electric [tools], I may do seven or five houses a day,” he said. That’s a loss of $1,000 a week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Already, Bryan has told his kid he can’t afford books or a new laptop. The cost of a full conversion by purchasing all electric tools, he said, would require him to raise prices 30%. He fears his residential clients will purchase their own tools and do it themselves, pushing him out of a job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the bill was signed, Berman and Assemblymember Lorena Gonzalez of San Diego called it a win for both the environment and human health. Electric tools have already been widely adopted by California homeowners, \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/sites/default/files/2021-03/3.24.21%20Workshop%20Staff%20Presentation.pdf\">but only a fraction of commercial landscaping companies have made the switch, according to a 2018 survey by the air resources board\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"science_1977672\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2021/11/RS52246_029_SanFrancisco_YouthClimateStrike_10292021-qut-1020x680.jpg\"]At that time, 8 in 10 landscapers said they planned on buying gas-powered equipment with many prioritizing performance, run time and cost. But operating a gas-powered leaf blower for one hour, for example, emits the same amount of pollution as driving a Toyota Camry from Los Angeles to Denver, according to the air board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawn equipment conversion will bring the rest of the state in line with cities such as Palo Alto, Los Altos and Menlo Park, which have already banned noisy leaf blowers. The law also directs the air resources board to come up with statewide regulations for other small motor equipment, such as golf carts, small generators and power washers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the landscaping industry, the main target of the ban, says the transition has already been costly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steven Wood purchased four batteries for his electric leaf blower after a number of communities in the Bay Area banned gas-powered leaf blowers. Woods, who owns a small landscaping business, immediately noticed the batteries don’t go far enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I never spent $200 on something that lasted 45 minutes,” Wood said, “and it doesn’t last for six to eight houses a day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once the batteries drain, Wood’s two employees resort to raking, which takes three times as long to complete a job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tests back him up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Consumer Reports rated gas and electric tools, such as \u003ca href=\"https://www.consumerreports.org/lawn-mowers-and-tractors/ego-electric-mower-vs-honda-gas-mower-face-off-a6853992124/\">lawn mowers\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.consumerreports.org/cro/leaf-blowers/buying-guide/index.htm\">leaf blowers\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.consumerreports.org/cro/leaf-blowers/buying-guide/index.htm\">string trimmers\u003c/a>, side by side. The nonprofit consumer organization found that battery-powered tools, with low maintenance and ease of use, were strong candidates for homeowners with less than an acre of land who could wait to recharge their batteries. But when it came to larger plots, more robust weeds to whack, or long hours of use, gas tools excelled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As an industry, we want this [battery-powered] equipment to be able to handle what we throw at it,” said Sandra Giarde, executive director of the California Landscape Contractors Association. “But it’s not there yet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11897483\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11897483\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/111621-Gas-Lawn-Ban-CAD-CM-01.jpg\" alt=\"A man holds up a chainsaw in the outdoors and looks up at the canopy.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/111621-Gas-Lawn-Ban-CAD-CM-01.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/111621-Gas-Lawn-Ban-CAD-CM-01-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/111621-Gas-Lawn-Ban-CAD-CM-01-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/111621-Gas-Lawn-Ban-CAD-CM-01-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/111621-Gas-Lawn-Ban-CAD-CM-01-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/111621-Gas-Lawn-Ban-CAD-CM-01-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jorge Mijango of Ken’s Rototilling and Landscaping uses a chain saw to cut trees for fire mitigation at a property along Via Floreado in Orinda on Nov. 16, 2021. The landscaping company owns around 50 gas-powered tools that could be affected by a state ban on new small gas motors. \u003ccite>(Aric Crabb/Bay Area News Group)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The air resources board said the technology is close enough. While electric tools may not have the same power, they offer other benefits, such as longer life span, better torque for some tools and savings on gas and maintenance, said air pollution specialist Christopher Dilbeck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We recognize that, yes, there will be substantial costs associated with what we are proposing,” said Dilbeck. “That is part of why this funding is available.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label ='Related Coverage' tag='climate']The board, which will allocate the state’s $30 million subsidy, has yet to release how it will hand out incentives other than saying it will target small operators, including those without a business license. In one scenario, California could offer 12,000 small landscapers a 50% discount on all their new tools, or every sole proprietor could receive a 50% discount on one tool.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You are not going to be able to get the jobs done as fast,” said Ken Tamplen, owner of Ken’s Rototilling and Landscaping in Contra Costa County. “You’re not going to be able to make as much money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/calmatters-en-espanol/2021/11/un-cupon-del-50-de-descuento-para-una-herramienta-electrica-los-jardineros-dicen-que-el-subsidio-de-california-es-inadecuado/\">\u003cem>Leer en español.\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a bill \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1977168/the-sounds-of-silence-california-bans-new-gas-powered-leaf-blowers\">banning the sale of most new gas-powered tools by 2024\u003c/a>, gardeners and landscapers say a $30 million state subsidy isn’t nearly enough to help small operators make the switch to electric.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state agency responsible for administering the subsidy estimates it has only enough to give each self-employed gardener a 50% coupon for one tool, far from the truckload of leaf blowers, lawn mowers, small chain saws, brush cutters and trimmers most haul around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In fact, local governments have learned they need to offer more. In Southern California, a regional air quality district that has been running a similar incentive program since 2017, saw few takers until it increased rebates to 75% per tool. The district paired that with an outreach program and encouraged landscapers to test electric equipment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Air Resources Board is still figuring out who will qualify for the rebate, and Assemblymember Marc Berman, one of the authors of the bill, said he’s open to adding more funding if needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Let’s not make the perfect be the enemy of the good,” said the Menlo Park Democrat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Environmentalists hailed the first-in-the-nation law for advancing California’s clean energy goals, noting the state estimates that smog-forming pollution from small gas-powered engines will surpass emissions from passenger cars this year. But electrifying the landscaping industry creates financial and physical burdens for the estimated 60,000 one-person and often unlicensed landscaping operations, \u003ca href=\"https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes373011.htm\">an industry that sees an average income under $40,000 a year, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11897482\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11897482 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/111621-Gas-Lawn-Ban-CAD-CM-03.jpg\" alt=\"A chain saw lies on the ground, next to a red gasoline tank.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/111621-Gas-Lawn-Ban-CAD-CM-03.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/111621-Gas-Lawn-Ban-CAD-CM-03-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/111621-Gas-Lawn-Ban-CAD-CM-03-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/111621-Gas-Lawn-Ban-CAD-CM-03-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A chain saw and gas can on the ground during fire mitigation work at a property along Via Floreado in Orinda on Nov. 16, 2021. Ken’s Rototilling and Landscaping owns around 50 gas-powered tools that could be affected by a state ban on new small gas motors. \u003ccite>(Aric Crabb/Bay Area News Group)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There’s an argument for subsidizing the transition. An electric leaf blower and batteries cost nearly twice as much as a comparable gas version. California estimates that \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/sites/default/files/barcu/regact/2021/sore21/isor.pdf#page=22\">a full transition of nearly 3 million tools used by landscaping professionals will cost $1.29 billion\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bryan, a landscaper who asked to be identified by his first name only because he fears losing business, uses a mix of electric and gas equipment. The electric ones fall short.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have 10 to 15 houses a day right now, but with electric [tools], I may do seven or five houses a day,” he said. That’s a loss of $1,000 a week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Already, Bryan has told his kid he can’t afford books or a new laptop. The cost of a full conversion by purchasing all electric tools, he said, would require him to raise prices 30%. He fears his residential clients will purchase their own tools and do it themselves, pushing him out of a job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the bill was signed, Berman and Assemblymember Lorena Gonzalez of San Diego called it a win for both the environment and human health. Electric tools have already been widely adopted by California homeowners, \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/sites/default/files/2021-03/3.24.21%20Workshop%20Staff%20Presentation.pdf\">but only a fraction of commercial landscaping companies have made the switch, according to a 2018 survey by the air resources board\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>At that time, 8 in 10 landscapers said they planned on buying gas-powered equipment with many prioritizing performance, run time and cost. But operating a gas-powered leaf blower for one hour, for example, emits the same amount of pollution as driving a Toyota Camry from Los Angeles to Denver, according to the air board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawn equipment conversion will bring the rest of the state in line with cities such as Palo Alto, Los Altos and Menlo Park, which have already banned noisy leaf blowers. The law also directs the air resources board to come up with statewide regulations for other small motor equipment, such as golf carts, small generators and power washers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the landscaping industry, the main target of the ban, says the transition has already been costly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steven Wood purchased four batteries for his electric leaf blower after a number of communities in the Bay Area banned gas-powered leaf blowers. Woods, who owns a small landscaping business, immediately noticed the batteries don’t go far enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I never spent $200 on something that lasted 45 minutes,” Wood said, “and it doesn’t last for six to eight houses a day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once the batteries drain, Wood’s two employees resort to raking, which takes three times as long to complete a job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tests back him up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Consumer Reports rated gas and electric tools, such as \u003ca href=\"https://www.consumerreports.org/lawn-mowers-and-tractors/ego-electric-mower-vs-honda-gas-mower-face-off-a6853992124/\">lawn mowers\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.consumerreports.org/cro/leaf-blowers/buying-guide/index.htm\">leaf blowers\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.consumerreports.org/cro/leaf-blowers/buying-guide/index.htm\">string trimmers\u003c/a>, side by side. The nonprofit consumer organization found that battery-powered tools, with low maintenance and ease of use, were strong candidates for homeowners with less than an acre of land who could wait to recharge their batteries. But when it came to larger plots, more robust weeds to whack, or long hours of use, gas tools excelled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As an industry, we want this [battery-powered] equipment to be able to handle what we throw at it,” said Sandra Giarde, executive director of the California Landscape Contractors Association. “But it’s not there yet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11897483\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11897483\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/111621-Gas-Lawn-Ban-CAD-CM-01.jpg\" alt=\"A man holds up a chainsaw in the outdoors and looks up at the canopy.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/111621-Gas-Lawn-Ban-CAD-CM-01.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/111621-Gas-Lawn-Ban-CAD-CM-01-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/111621-Gas-Lawn-Ban-CAD-CM-01-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/111621-Gas-Lawn-Ban-CAD-CM-01-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/111621-Gas-Lawn-Ban-CAD-CM-01-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/111621-Gas-Lawn-Ban-CAD-CM-01-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jorge Mijango of Ken’s Rototilling and Landscaping uses a chain saw to cut trees for fire mitigation at a property along Via Floreado in Orinda on Nov. 16, 2021. The landscaping company owns around 50 gas-powered tools that could be affected by a state ban on new small gas motors. \u003ccite>(Aric Crabb/Bay Area News Group)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The air resources board said the technology is close enough. While electric tools may not have the same power, they offer other benefits, such as longer life span, better torque for some tools and savings on gas and maintenance, said air pollution specialist Christopher Dilbeck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We recognize that, yes, there will be substantial costs associated with what we are proposing,” said Dilbeck. “That is part of why this funding is available.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The board, which will allocate the state’s $30 million subsidy, has yet to release how it will hand out incentives other than saying it will target small operators, including those without a business license. In one scenario, California could offer 12,000 small landscapers a 50% discount on all their new tools, or every sole proprietor could receive a 50% discount on one tool.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You are not going to be able to get the jobs done as fast,” said Ken Tamplen, owner of Ken’s Rototilling and Landscaping in Contra Costa County. “You’re not going to be able to make as much money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/calmatters-en-espanol/2021/11/otra-temporada-festiva-con-covid-esta-california-en-una-mejor-posicion-este-ano/\">\u003cem>Leer en español\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The holidays are here and people are ready to gather, hug and feast. But is California in a better place this year when it comes to COVID-19?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, as Thanksgiving approached, infections were creeping up, culminating in a brutal winter surge, and the governor implemented an emergency curfew to slow the spread of the virus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11897123\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/pexels-cottonbro-5791658-1536x1024.jpg\"]Overall the state as a whole is now doing better than a year ago, before vaccines were available. But a closer look at each county shows that “better” isn’t the case for all: At least 18 counties have more hospitalized COVID-19 patients today than they did this time last year. Another five have just as many.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vast majority of the ones faring worse are in the Central Valley and rural Northern California, which are still recovering from bad summer surges. Humboldt, Madera and Lassen counties have the biggest year-over-year increases. In Madera, the 7-day average stood at 32 hospitalized patients on Sunday, compared to 13 a year ago. Humboldt had 11 hospitalizations on Sunday compared to three on the same date last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a different — and far better — situation in California’s urban counties. Of the state’s 10 most populous counties, all except Fresno have fewer COVID patients in the hospital today than a year ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los Angeles, Alameda and Contra Costa counties are reporting less than half of the COVID-19 hospitalizations of last year. San Diego, Orange, Riverside, Santa Clara, San Bernardino and Sacramento counties have about 30% less.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year’s winter surge was harsh for most of the state. But for some counties — including Butte, Humboldt, Mendocino, Shasta and Placer — this summer and fall were even worse. Some saw more patients hospitalized in summer and fall than they did last winter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Central Valley some local hospitals are still strained. And experts say that’s a dangerous situation going into the holidays when another wave of cases is expected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Gary Herbst, CEO, Kaweah Health Medical Center\"]‘In June or July, we literally only had four COVID positive patients in the hospital … but that quickly changed in August.’[/pullquote]“We hope this surge, which we’re just trending down from now, is an indication that hopefully we won’t have another surge. But an increase in cases wouldn’t be terribly unlikely,” said Lisa Almaguer, communications director at Butte County Public Health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Kaweah Health Medical Center in Visalia, the seat of Tulare County, 73 COVID-19 infected patients were being treated as of Nov. 16. Although the number is high, Chief Executive Officer Gary Herbst said it is a welcome relief from the 100-plus infected patients hospitalized there since late summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Delta variant has been much more contagious, a bit more severe, where we are seeing more patients require critical care, require significant oxygen, unfortunately,” Herbst said. “In June or July, we literally only had four COVID positive patients in the hospital and were in a bit of a celebratory mood. But that quickly changed in August as we saw our numbers start increasing exponentially.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Why are some counties still struggling?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>According to the California Department of Public Health, from Oct. 24 to Oct. 30, unvaccinated people were 11.9 times more likely to be hospitalized with COVID-19 than those fully vaccinated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Experts say the main driving force behind the increased hospitalizations in some counties is their low vaccination rate. Counties with a smaller portion of vaccinated residents are continuing to see higher hospitalization numbers. For example, Shasta and Merced have vaccination rates of about 50% and both have more COVID-infected people in their hospitals today than this time last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11859829\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48434_GettyImages-1310034178-qut.jpg\"]However, that’s not true for all counties: In Humboldt County, about 76% of the eligible population is at least partially vaccinated — about the same as the state’s average. But Humboldt also had more people in the hospital there this weekend than a year ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The reopening of businesses and return to normal activities may be fueling the infections in some counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve also been more open this year, that may be part of the explanation,” said Andrew Noymer, an epidemiologist at UC Irvine who focuses on mortalities during pandemics. With more activity and less masking, infections and hospital rates are likely to remain significant in those counties that have insufficient vaccination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In rural counties, population density ought to be a protective factor, but we’ve seen time and time again that rural locations are not spared. They might get hit later, but they can get hit hard,” Noymer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Noymer, however, is hopeful that most counties have seen the worst of it — either last winter or in the summer. “But we do have some tough sledding ahead, and even if the worst is past us it doesn’t mean this winter won’t be tough.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Andrew Noymer, Epidemiologist, UC Irvine\"]‘[Rural counties] might get hit later, but they can get hit hard.’[/pullquote]The number of new infections in most counties have been steadily declining since the summer wave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, in 27 counties the 7-day daily average of new cases last week exceeded 10 infections per 100,000 people — a rate that once signaled widespread transmission and triggered the “purple zone” restrictions on businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Compared to last year, however, infections are down in the vast majority of California. Only four small counties: Inyo, Mariposa, Mono and Sierra had a higher daily case rate on Friday than one year ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11897335\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11897335\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-1235025045-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"The nurses stand in a hospital hallway and put their scrubs on and other protective gear.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-1235025045-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-1235025045-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-1235025045-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-1235025045-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-1235025045-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-1235025045-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-1235025045-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two registered nurses prepare to check a patient with Covid-19 at the Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit at Providence Cedars-Sinai Tarzana Medical Center in Tarzana, near Los Angeles on September 2, 2021. Vaccinated patients at the hospital are typically older, but the COVID-19 effects amongst those vaccinated are much milder compared to the unvaccinated patients that have more severe symptoms. \u003ccite>(Apu Gomes/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Hospitals still under siege\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Fresno County health officials said on Friday that they are preparing for another potentially challenging winter. Hospitals there are operating consistently above capacity, and it’s often difficult to transfer patients to hospitals in other regions, said Dr. Rais Vohra, Fresno County’s health officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we need to transfer patients out to keep our hospital operational, we should really be able to do that with one or two phone calls. That’s not the situation right now, and that’s a point of frustration we’re hearing from multiple facilities,” Vohra said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nurse shortages, also, are an ongoing issue as nurses quit the workforce over labor concerns and burnout. At Kaweah in Visalia, Herbst said that there are 650 open positions at the hospital; 145 of them are for bedside nurses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Gary Herbst, CEO, Kaweah Health Medical Center\"]‘[Nurses] are exhausted, and that’s our number one worry.’[/pullquote]Nurses are working four or five 12-hour shifts a week and Herbst worries that staff will burn out as a result of the extended summer surge, which leaves little time for recovery between now and the holiday season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are exhausted, and that’s our number one worry,” Herbst said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local health officials are now pushing for boosters as immunity wanes and the holidays approach. While usually milder, breakthrough cases have been a growing concern in hospitals. In Fresno County, the share of those vaccinated who are hospitalized recently went from 5 to 10% of hospitalizations to 15 to 20%, Vohra said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite some confusing messaging at the federal level about who “should” and who “may” get boosters, local health officials are encouraging boosters for all adults who completed their first series of shots more than 6 months ago, or 2 months for those who received the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. “I would say for all practical purposes, boosters are not optional,” Vohra said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label ='Related Coverage' tag='coronavirus']One glimpse of hope: an uptick in people who are getting their first dose ahead of the holidays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Last week we saw 1.4 million people get a vaccine, 58% were for boosters, but that’s encouraging because 42% of folks were getting those first doses as well,” Newsom said during a vaccine event on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some county officials also are optimistic that the hard summer could mean that natural immunity will offer some community protection — at least enough to evade another devastating winter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We live on hope here,” Herbst said.\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Overall the state as a whole is now doing better than a year ago, before vaccines were available. But a closer look at each county shows that “better” isn’t the case for all: At least 18 counties have more hospitalized COVID-19 patients today than they did this time last year. Another five have just as many.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vast majority of the ones faring worse are in the Central Valley and rural Northern California, which are still recovering from bad summer surges. Humboldt, Madera and Lassen counties have the biggest year-over-year increases. In Madera, the 7-day average stood at 32 hospitalized patients on Sunday, compared to 13 a year ago. Humboldt had 11 hospitalizations on Sunday compared to three on the same date last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a different — and far better — situation in California’s urban counties. Of the state’s 10 most populous counties, all except Fresno have fewer COVID patients in the hospital today than a year ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los Angeles, Alameda and Contra Costa counties are reporting less than half of the COVID-19 hospitalizations of last year. San Diego, Orange, Riverside, Santa Clara, San Bernardino and Sacramento counties have about 30% less.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year’s winter surge was harsh for most of the state. But for some counties — including Butte, Humboldt, Mendocino, Shasta and Placer — this summer and fall were even worse. Some saw more patients hospitalized in summer and fall than they did last winter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Central Valley some local hospitals are still strained. And experts say that’s a dangerous situation going into the holidays when another wave of cases is expected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>When Henry Genung was 4 months old, doctors cut a hole in his windpipe and inserted a tube to help him breathe. Born with a rare genetic mutation that blocked his upper airway, Henry, who is now 18 months old, will need the tube for several more years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For three months, Henry hasn’t had a new rubber tracheostomy tube even though doctors recommend that they be replaced weekly to reduce the risk of infection. Instead, Henry’s parents have resorted to soaking his used tubes in hydrogen peroxide and boiling them for five minutes. Their medical supplier and doctor’s office told them they don’t know how soon new supplies will be available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s an ongoing saga of delayed shipments,” said Myah Genung, Henry’s mother, who lives in Los Angeles with her husband Dillon and son.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11897227\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11897227\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/111621-Henry-Genung-CM-02.jpg\" alt=\"A baby sitting on a couch smiling, wearing a T-shirt. \" width=\"1000\" height=\"1250\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/111621-Henry-Genung-CM-02.jpg 1000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/111621-Henry-Genung-CM-02-800x1000.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/111621-Henry-Genung-CM-02-160x200.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Henry Genung was born with CLAPO syndrome, which causes malformations of the lymph nodes and obstructs his breathing. He had a tracheostomy put in at 4 months and the tube is supposed to be replaced weekly, but the Genung family has been unable to get new tracheostomy tubes since September because of the port logjam and supply chain backlogs. \u003ccite>(Photo courtesy of Maya Genung)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>With upwards of 80 container ships languishing off the coast of Southern California, patients and medical suppliers are worried that stories like Genung’s will become increasingly common.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/2021/11/california-ports/\">logjam at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach\u003c/a> — which handle \u003ca href=\"https://www.portoflosangeles.org/business/statistics/facts-and-figures\">40% of all waterbound imports\u003c/a> to the U.S. — has triggered shortages of everything from computer chips to paper products to kitchen appliances, and drawn the \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/10/13/biden-port-los-angeles-supply-chain/\">attention of President Joe Biden\u003c/a>. But, while many people are worrying about delayed Christmas gifts, many Californians are grappling with shortages of lifesaving medical supplies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California hospitals say medical supplies are more difficult to acquire now or are taking much longer to be delivered. Although the Hospital Association of Southern California says no one has reported any acute shortages yet, administrators are concerned about the delayed shipments that are anchored off the coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Experts say the shortages and inflation will drive health care costs up, increasing insurance premiums. In addition, some medical device suppliers are considering cutting off sales to patients on Medi-Cal, the state’s insurance for low-income people, as they look for ways to reduce costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 id=\"h-where-are-the-medical-supplies\">Where are the medical supplies?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Port gridlock is the latest chapter in a long saga of medical supply chain disruptions during the pandemic. Demand for personal protective equipment and respirators skyrocketed globally at the same time that overseas manufacturers temporarily closed to reduce the spread of COVID-19 among workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last winter, hospitals desperate for bed space were sending less-severe COVID-19 patients home on supplemental oxygen. “We couldn’t keep oxygen concentrators on the wall, couldn’t keep them in inventory,” said Terry Racciato, who owns a durable medical equipment supply company in San Diego. “The shipping backlog prevented them from getting into the country, much less getting to patients that need them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, specialized equipment like walkers, canes, wheelchairs, crutches, syringes, needles, catheters, surgical gloves, feeding tubes and suction canisters are increasingly hard to come by.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11852807\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11852807\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/1000.jpeg\" alt=\"Phlebotomist lab assistant Jennifer Cukati, right, and Registered Nurse Carina Klescewski, left, care for a COVID-19 patient inside the Sutter Roseville Medical Center ICU in Roseville, Calif.\" width=\"1000\" height=\"665\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/1000.jpeg 1000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/1000-800x532.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/1000-160x106.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Phlebotomist lab assistant Jennifer Cukati, right, and Registered Nurse Carina Klescewski, left, care for a COVID-19 patient inside the Sutter Roseville Medical Center ICU in Roseville, Calif. \u003ccite>(Renee C. 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Specimen collection tubes also have been in short supply since the summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Compounding the issue, hospitals, which are admitting above-average numbers of patients who delayed care during the pandemic, are trying to stay ahead of any potential winter COVID-19 surge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A key concern for hospital directors right now is that they’re trying to schedule an enormous backlog of patients that weren’t able to get into facilities in the last year due to COVID patients that might have needed a scheduled surgery in 2019 or 2020 or 2021,” said Dr. William Padula, an assistant professor of pharmaceutical & health economics at the USC Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics. “With the backlog of supplies in the medical sector, they might not be able to get the procedure that they were anticipating, or they might not be able to get the materials that they need to follow up from a procedure for rehabilitative care. So it really creates a concern that those who have already delayed or foregone certain procedures now have to wait more so until the supplies catch up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prime Healthcare, which operates hospitals throughout the state, has been able to shift supplies as needed between its hospitals, but has joined other health systems and the California Chamber of Commerce in \u003ca href=\"https://calchamberalert.com/2021/11/05/calchamber-practical-steps-to-ease-supply-chain-crisis/\">requesting help\u003c/a> from Gov. Gavin Newsom and the Legislature to speed up the movement of medical goods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a number of hospitals and health care suppliers saying ‘Hey we’ve got products sitting out there.’ So they’re pretty concerned about that issue in particular,” said Leah Silverthorn, policy advocate for CalChamber, which sent the letter to Newsom and the Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Increased purchasing of all consumer goods coupled with labor shortages, outdated port infrastructure\u003cem>, \u003c/em>and prior disruptions to shipping and manufacturing early in the pandemic have culminated in the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/2021/11/california-ports/\">offshore traffic jam\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the two ports have \u003ca href=\"https://www.portoflosangeles.org/references/2021-news-releases/news_111521_dwelpostpone\">reduced the backlog of idling containers by 26%\u003c/a> in the past three weeks by threatening steep fines, more than 40,000 containers have sat at the terminals for at least nine days. Before the pandemic, the average wait was less than four days, according to port operations reports in Los Angeles and Long Beach. Some ships have been anchored off the coast for more than 30 days while they await a spot to dock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s some concern about a winter surge of COVID and having access to those containers,” Silverthorn said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CalChamber is working with its nearly 1,000 health care members to track down the container numbers for delayed shipments and identify the ships.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s kind of a bottleneck of data right now,” Silverthorn said. “The data lies with each link of the shipping supply chain, and so trying to aggregate it in a convenient way is challenging.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, no one knows how many containers may be carrying medical supplies or the quantity of goods waiting offshore. Experts say the lack of data is a systemic problem in the supply chain that makes it nearly impossible to prioritize critical health care devices. No information system connects the manufacturers, shipping companies, port terminal operators, suppliers and buyers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is already 2021, but shipping companies cannot give an accurate hour-by-hour estimation about when goods will arrive or where they are,” said Tinglong Dai, a professor of operations management and business analytics at Johns Hopkins University who specializes in health care operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dai has spent the 20 months of the pandemic advocating for supply chain transparency, particularly when it comes to medical supplies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What they are producing is very important to public health,” he said, “and public health authorities have no idea exactly how much inventory we’re going to have if and when similar crises will arise in the future.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to the letter to Newsom and an earlier \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2021/10/20/governor-newsom-signs-executive-order-to-help-tackle-supply-chain-issues/\">executive order\u003c/a>, GO-Biz, the governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development, and other state agencies have been working to identify sites that can be used to store empty, abandoned and slow-moving containers that are exacerbating the backlog, said GO-Biz spokesperson Heather Purcell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11892157\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11892157\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/GettyImages-1344305961-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Gavin Newsom, wearing a black mask and standing beyond a podium with the Seal of California, scribbles in a tiny notepad.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1706\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/GettyImages-1344305961-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/GettyImages-1344305961-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/GettyImages-1344305961-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/GettyImages-1344305961-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/GettyImages-1344305961-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/GettyImages-1344305961-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/GettyImages-1344305961-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Gavin Newsom takes notes before speaking at a news conference on Oct. 1, 2021, in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This will free up crowded dock space to move integral medical supplies. Additionally, GO-Biz is directly in coordination with a terminal operator to speed up the movement of medical supplies,” Purcell said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Purcell said the state has no way to identify medical supplies other than consulting with individual buyers. Even then, the contents of specific containers are frequently unknown.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 id=\"h-shortages-and-delays\">Shortages and delays\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Cedars Sinai in Los Angeles has experienced supply chain problems acquiring catheters, syringes and blood collection tubes, communications director Duke Helfand said. However, the hospital has been able to rely on pre-existing reserves and alternate suppliers to avoid any impact on patients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similarly, Community Medical Centers in the Central Valley have experienced periodic shortages of computers, suction canisters and masks during the pandemic, according to Lucky Malhi, vice president of supply chain management. His team has worked round-the-clock to secure supplies through alternate distributors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But patients requiring supplies for home use, like the Genungs’ son Henry, typically don’t have the option to find alternate suppliers, so they have felt the scarcity much more sharply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Myah Genung said she has turned to Facebook groups where parents of “trach babies” share extra supplies. She has snagged humidifying filters for Henry’s breathing tube through social media, but more often than not, there are more people seeking supplies than there are extras.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re just having to make do the best we can,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than \u003ca href=\"http://rc.rcjournal.com/content/59/6/895#ref-20\">100,000 tracheostomy\u003c/a> procedures are performed annually across the country. Racchiato, whose supply company, SpecialCare, primarily distributes directly to patients, said replacement tubes are one of the most difficult things to acquire right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are people who are trying to sterilize (the tubes) themselves and reuse them. They’re risking serious infection because new supplies aren’t available,” Racciato said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most tracheostomy tubes are only supposed to be used once, said Dr. Maggie Kuhn, associate professor of otolaryngology at UC Davis Health. Reusing the tubes can cause serious problems, including increased risk of infection and device malfunctioning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have observed complications from this practice which can be life-threatening, including mucous plugging and airway trauma,” Kuhn said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other devices like oxygen concentrators face months-long delays compared to typical delivery times of one to two weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Complicating matters, one of the largest manufacturers of continuous positive airway pressure, or CPAP, machines \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/17/health/cpap-breathing-devices-recall.html\">recalled millions of devices\u003c/a> in June and is reserving its inventory for patients that need replacement machines. As a result, Racciato said she has at least 1,000 patients diagnosed with sleep apnea who have been on a waiting list without treatment for five months.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 id=\"h-prices-increase-while-access-decreases\">Prices increase while access decreases\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/inflation-and-the-great-global-logjam\">Inflationary pressure\u003c/a> on the medical supply market also has some suppliers concerned about how long they can stay in business. Scarcity of raw materials and logistical challenges along with the port backlogs have steeply driven up the cost of manufacturing and shipping, creating a volatile market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“(Shipping) containers have gone from $2,000 for rental to anywhere from $15,000 to $20,000 for the same container,” said Steve Yaeger, a Los Angeles-based medical supplier who specializes in respiratory equipment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the beginning of the pandemic, Yaeger said his overhead has increased 25%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you see the cost of goods go up like that, all of a sudden you’re figuring out, ‘OK are we even going to make any money this year?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Experts say inflation among medical supplies will result in higher health care costs for patients as hospitals and other providers struggle to maintain adequate profit margins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>William Padula, a senior fellow at the USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics, said the “supply chain disaster” will result in hospitals negotiating for higher reimbursement rates with insurers and patients paying higher premiums.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The natural consequence on the consumer side is … premiums will go up,” Padula said. [aside tag=\"politics\" label=\"More political coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Already, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cms.gov/newsroom/fact-sheets/2022-medicare-parts-b-premiums-and-deductibles2022-medicare-part-d-income-related-monthly-adjustment\">highest premium increase\u003c/a> in the program’s history for Medicare Part B and higher deductibles for other aspects of the program, in part due to increased utilization in the past year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In their statement, Medicare blamed the increase of premiums on COVID and the cost of that new drug for Alzheimers, which is expected to take off, but COVID is very broad. It really is about the supply chain,” Padula said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although it’s too soon to tell how much premiums will increase across the board, historically commercial insurers have followed Medicare’s lead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That gives a lot of commercial payers a pass to increase by a similar amount at a minimum,” Padula said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The resultant cost hikes have also forced small and mid-sized suppliers to rethink which patients they can afford to serve, potentially leading to decreased access for those with Medi-Cal or Medicare, which have fixed reimbursement rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California has temporarily increased these reimbursement rates for the duration of the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletters/whatmatters/2021/11/california-covid-state-of-emergency/\">COVID-19 public health emergency\u003c/a>, which is set to expire at the end of March. Beyond that, providers aren’t sure how long they can hold on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ron Biasca, a medical supplier based in Eureka, said increased costs are forcing his company to reassess what services it provides to Medicare and Medi-Cal patients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are evaluating all entitlements right now to look at what we’re making money on. We are going to have to make some hard decisions and just not accept the insurance payment,” Biasca said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roughly \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/poverty/2017/08/paying-doctors-now-will-treat-poor-californians/\">one-third of all Californians rely on Medi-Cal\u003c/a> for health care and frequently face long wait times and \u003ca href=\"https://www.chcf.org/publication/measuring-up-access-care-medi-cal-compared-other-types-health-insurance-2018/\">difficulty finding doctors\u003c/a> and other providers who will accept their insurance. And the out-of-pocket costs are inaccessible even for people with private health insurance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11897232\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11897232\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/111621-Genung-Family-Portrait-CM-01.jpg\" alt=\"The family, mother father and child, are well-dressed. \" width=\"1000\" height=\"1250\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/111621-Genung-Family-Portrait-CM-01.jpg 1000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/111621-Genung-Family-Portrait-CM-01-800x1000.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/111621-Genung-Family-Portrait-CM-01-160x200.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maya and Dillon Genung hold their son Henry in a family portrait. \u003ccite>( Image courtesy of Maya Genung)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Genung said she has tried to purchase the tracheostomy tubes her son needs online but they cost between $300 to $600 each. “You would be spending thousands and thousands of dollars a month just to purchase it yourself,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reusing the tubes fills her with worry. Henry’s condition requires him to be immunosuppressed, and reusing tubes increases the risk of infection or breakage as the equipment wears down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not foolproof because you’re not in a sterile environment. You’re at home, you’re in your kitchen, doing your best to make it work,” Genung said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A week ago, Henry was admitted to Children’s Hospital Los Angeles with pneumonia. Doctors told his parents there’s no way of knowing if the infection was caused by the reuse of tubes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The only small silver lining is that the hospital gave Genung two new tracheostomy tubes, enough to get Henry through another month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article was originally published by \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2021/11/medical-supplies-shortage-california/\">CalMatters\u003c/a>. KQED producer Keith Mizuguchi contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>When Henry Genung was 4 months old, doctors cut a hole in his windpipe and inserted a tube to help him breathe. Born with a rare genetic mutation that blocked his upper airway, Henry, who is now 18 months old, will need the tube for several more years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For three months, Henry hasn’t had a new rubber tracheostomy tube even though doctors recommend that they be replaced weekly to reduce the risk of infection. Instead, Henry’s parents have resorted to soaking his used tubes in hydrogen peroxide and boiling them for five minutes. Their medical supplier and doctor’s office told them they don’t know how soon new supplies will be available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s an ongoing saga of delayed shipments,” said Myah Genung, Henry’s mother, who lives in Los Angeles with her husband Dillon and son.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11897227\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11897227\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/111621-Henry-Genung-CM-02.jpg\" alt=\"A baby sitting on a couch smiling, wearing a T-shirt. \" width=\"1000\" height=\"1250\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/111621-Henry-Genung-CM-02.jpg 1000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/111621-Henry-Genung-CM-02-800x1000.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/111621-Henry-Genung-CM-02-160x200.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Henry Genung was born with CLAPO syndrome, which causes malformations of the lymph nodes and obstructs his breathing. He had a tracheostomy put in at 4 months and the tube is supposed to be replaced weekly, but the Genung family has been unable to get new tracheostomy tubes since September because of the port logjam and supply chain backlogs. \u003ccite>(Photo courtesy of Maya Genung)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>With upwards of 80 container ships languishing off the coast of Southern California, patients and medical suppliers are worried that stories like Genung’s will become increasingly common.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/2021/11/california-ports/\">logjam at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach\u003c/a> — which handle \u003ca href=\"https://www.portoflosangeles.org/business/statistics/facts-and-figures\">40% of all waterbound imports\u003c/a> to the U.S. — has triggered shortages of everything from computer chips to paper products to kitchen appliances, and drawn the \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/10/13/biden-port-los-angeles-supply-chain/\">attention of President Joe Biden\u003c/a>. But, while many people are worrying about delayed Christmas gifts, many Californians are grappling with shortages of lifesaving medical supplies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California hospitals say medical supplies are more difficult to acquire now or are taking much longer to be delivered. Although the Hospital Association of Southern California says no one has reported any acute shortages yet, administrators are concerned about the delayed shipments that are anchored off the coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Experts say the shortages and inflation will drive health care costs up, increasing insurance premiums. In addition, some medical device suppliers are considering cutting off sales to patients on Medi-Cal, the state’s insurance for low-income people, as they look for ways to reduce costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 id=\"h-where-are-the-medical-supplies\">Where are the medical supplies?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Port gridlock is the latest chapter in a long saga of medical supply chain disruptions during the pandemic. Demand for personal protective equipment and respirators skyrocketed globally at the same time that overseas manufacturers temporarily closed to reduce the spread of COVID-19 among workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last winter, hospitals desperate for bed space were sending less-severe COVID-19 patients home on supplemental oxygen. “We couldn’t keep oxygen concentrators on the wall, couldn’t keep them in inventory,” said Terry Racciato, who owns a durable medical equipment supply company in San Diego. “The shipping backlog prevented them from getting into the country, much less getting to patients that need them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, specialized equipment like walkers, canes, wheelchairs, crutches, syringes, needles, catheters, surgical gloves, feeding tubes and suction canisters are increasingly hard to come by.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11852807\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11852807\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/1000.jpeg\" alt=\"Phlebotomist lab assistant Jennifer Cukati, right, and Registered Nurse Carina Klescewski, left, care for a COVID-19 patient inside the Sutter Roseville Medical Center ICU in Roseville, Calif.\" width=\"1000\" height=\"665\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/1000.jpeg 1000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/1000-800x532.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/1000-160x106.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Phlebotomist lab assistant Jennifer Cukati, right, and Registered Nurse Carina Klescewski, left, care for a COVID-19 patient inside the Sutter Roseville Medical Center ICU in Roseville, Calif. \u003ccite>(Renee C. Byer/The Sacramento Bee via AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In September, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/coronavirus-covid-19-and-medical-devices/medical-device-shortages-during-covid-19-public-health-emergency#shortage\">FDA announced\u003c/a> nationwide shortages of ventilators. Specimen collection tubes also have been in short supply since the summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Compounding the issue, hospitals, which are admitting above-average numbers of patients who delayed care during the pandemic, are trying to stay ahead of any potential winter COVID-19 surge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A key concern for hospital directors right now is that they’re trying to schedule an enormous backlog of patients that weren’t able to get into facilities in the last year due to COVID patients that might have needed a scheduled surgery in 2019 or 2020 or 2021,” said Dr. William Padula, an assistant professor of pharmaceutical & health economics at the USC Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics. “With the backlog of supplies in the medical sector, they might not be able to get the procedure that they were anticipating, or they might not be able to get the materials that they need to follow up from a procedure for rehabilitative care. So it really creates a concern that those who have already delayed or foregone certain procedures now have to wait more so until the supplies catch up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prime Healthcare, which operates hospitals throughout the state, has been able to shift supplies as needed between its hospitals, but has joined other health systems and the California Chamber of Commerce in \u003ca href=\"https://calchamberalert.com/2021/11/05/calchamber-practical-steps-to-ease-supply-chain-crisis/\">requesting help\u003c/a> from Gov. Gavin Newsom and the Legislature to speed up the movement of medical goods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a number of hospitals and health care suppliers saying ‘Hey we’ve got products sitting out there.’ So they’re pretty concerned about that issue in particular,” said Leah Silverthorn, policy advocate for CalChamber, which sent the letter to Newsom and the Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Increased purchasing of all consumer goods coupled with labor shortages, outdated port infrastructure\u003cem>, \u003c/em>and prior disruptions to shipping and manufacturing early in the pandemic have culminated in the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/2021/11/california-ports/\">offshore traffic jam\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the two ports have \u003ca href=\"https://www.portoflosangeles.org/references/2021-news-releases/news_111521_dwelpostpone\">reduced the backlog of idling containers by 26%\u003c/a> in the past three weeks by threatening steep fines, more than 40,000 containers have sat at the terminals for at least nine days. Before the pandemic, the average wait was less than four days, according to port operations reports in Los Angeles and Long Beach. Some ships have been anchored off the coast for more than 30 days while they await a spot to dock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s some concern about a winter surge of COVID and having access to those containers,” Silverthorn said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CalChamber is working with its nearly 1,000 health care members to track down the container numbers for delayed shipments and identify the ships.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s kind of a bottleneck of data right now,” Silverthorn said. “The data lies with each link of the shipping supply chain, and so trying to aggregate it in a convenient way is challenging.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, no one knows how many containers may be carrying medical supplies or the quantity of goods waiting offshore. Experts say the lack of data is a systemic problem in the supply chain that makes it nearly impossible to prioritize critical health care devices. 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As a result, Racciato said she has at least 1,000 patients diagnosed with sleep apnea who have been on a waiting list without treatment for five months.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 id=\"h-prices-increase-while-access-decreases\">Prices increase while access decreases\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/inflation-and-the-great-global-logjam\">Inflationary pressure\u003c/a> on the medical supply market also has some suppliers concerned about how long they can stay in business. Scarcity of raw materials and logistical challenges along with the port backlogs have steeply driven up the cost of manufacturing and shipping, creating a volatile market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“(Shipping) containers have gone from $2,000 for rental to anywhere from $15,000 to $20,000 for the same container,” said Steve Yaeger, a Los Angeles-based medical supplier who specializes in respiratory equipment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the beginning of the pandemic, Yaeger said his overhead has increased 25%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you see the cost of goods go up like that, all of a sudden you’re figuring out, ‘OK are we even going to make any money this year?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Experts say inflation among medical supplies will result in higher health care costs for patients as hospitals and other providers struggle to maintain adequate profit margins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>William Padula, a senior fellow at the USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics, said the “supply chain disaster” will result in hospitals negotiating for higher reimbursement rates with insurers and patients paying higher premiums.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The natural consequence on the consumer side is … premiums will go up,” Padula said. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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They understood how angry our members were.’[/pullquote]The work stoppage would have canceled as much as a third of undergraduate instruction at the nation’s premier public university system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC officials released a statement Wednesday morning, describing the tentative deal as a positive development that will particularly benefit students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We believe this contract addresses key issues, and honors the vital role you and your colleagues play in supporting UC’s educational mission and delivering high quality instruction,” Letitia Silas, UC’s executive director of labor relations, said in the statement .\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Union officials called for the strike over the weekend to mount pressure on UC’s negotiators. Numerous state lawmakers have been urging UC officials to settle the labor dispute, blaming the university for the impasse. Aiding the union was a commitment from more than 800 senior faculty to cancel classes in solidarity with the striking lecturers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/UCAFT/status/1460952943826329600\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I expected today to come here and speak with anger and with disappointment in the way that bargaining had taken so long for us to get a good contract, but I was pleased to show up and have a success under our belt in such a historic contract for contingent faculty here at UC Berkeley,” Annie Danis, a UC Berkeley Anthropology Department lecturer, said at a Wednesday victory rally on campus. “I’ve been a lecturer for a year only, so I’m new to this profession, but I understand having been a graduate student here how overall the University of California has a long way to go in terms of supporting its workers. And this contract really makes me feel like I can make a living teaching the best students in the world.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday morning, the union and UC management signed a summary document outlining the details of the new contract. Union members will then vote within the next two weeks on whether to approve it. If ratified, the contract will run through March 2026.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lecturers typically have doctorate degrees but lack the job stability and pay that tenured and tenure-track faculty receive. 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And that means we tend to work at three to five other institutions so we can have something that’ll stick around for the next little while.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://e.infogram.com/dbd28745-c6b9-4c2a-829b-74d7e4789360?src=embed\" title=\"More than a quarter of UC lecturers don't return to their jobs each year\" width=\"800\" height=\"1130\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lecturers’ short-term contracts often last just a few months and their pay averages around $32,000 a year because of limited work opportunities. There is also no official system of performance reviews to determine when and how a lecturer can be rehired.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deal addresses many of those concerns and includes:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Annual pay raises of 7%, 3%, 3%, 3%, and 4% for all lecturers plus a higher bump for the lowest-paid lecturers and other increases based on merit;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Employment contracts of one, two and then three years;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Extensive performance reviews at the end of the two- and three-year contracts and a shorter written review following a one-year appointment;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Rehiring rights if work is available for lecturers who passed their reviews;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>More compensation for lecturers who teach classes with more than 200 students or that have heavy writing components.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Other details of the deal are nonbinding, such as language saying academic departments may assign lecturers additional part-time work if it becomes available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But the big fight was to create viable, teaching-focused career pathways for people who want them, and I really think we’ve accomplished that,” McIver said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label ='Related Coverage' tag='labor-rights']The threat of the strike was technically over accusations of UC’s unfair labor practices rather than the larger contract terms. That distinction is important: By law the union couldn’t strike over the contract because they were in state-led mediation with UC. Adding to the confusion, UC and lecturers have also been negotiating behind closed doors through a state mediator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lecturer union and UC settled a key unfair labor practice gripe. Lecturers will now get four weeks of paid family leave at 100% of pay; previously UC was offering paid leave at 70% and only for lecturers who worked more than 1,250 hours in a year, which excluded most of the workforce because so many work part time. The union was asking for eight weeks of paid leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lecturers didn’t win everything they wanted. UC still won’t pay into a lecturer’s Social Security if the lecturer works less than 50% of what’s considered full-time. Lecturers in that situation also don’t receive UC retirement contributions. The lecturers didn’t get a promise of a neutral arbitration committee to settle workload disputes nor changes to grievance procedures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think this is just a completely extraordinary moment in time,” McIver said. “I feel like we’ve accomplished something real.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://e.infogram.com/b34052e0-5e52-48fd-b580-dc706277d01d?src=embed\" title=\"UC professor pay\" width=\"800\" height=\"1051\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci data-stringify-type=\"italic\">KQED’s Alex Emslie and Rebecca Smith contributed reporting to this post.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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The \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CATargetBook/status/1458206538867175425?s=20\">commission is already acknowledging\u003c/a> that some districts still need a lot of work and that it will be doing \u003ca href=\"https://www.wedrawthelinesca.org/meetings\">a lot of line-drawing next month\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Fredy Ceja, communications director, California Citizens Redistricting Commission\"]‘You get instances where there’s conflicting public opinion or comment, where members of a community say they want to either go northeast, south or west.’[/pullquote]“The commissioners have been very, very responsive to the community. So if the community has said, ‘Hey, we want to stay lumped together with this community,’ they try to make that a possibility,” he told CalMatters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And of course, you get instances where there’s conflicting public opinion or comment, where members of a community say they want to either go northeast, south or west. They’re trying to weigh those conflicting opinions. But they’ve done it with a smile on their face nonetheless. I think they’re pretty excited to be at this juncture.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others aren’t as thrilled — either by the potential districts or \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CATargetBook/status/1457580057010978822?s=20\">the convoluted deliberations so far\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Partisan jockeying\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Despite the mapping being done by an independent commission with a mix of Republicans, Democrats and independent members, the changes in districts still have ramifications for both parties — and \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2021/09/california-congressional-districts-hidden-partisanship/\">hidden partisanship that continues to creep in\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11895368\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52162_IMG_3608-qut.jpg\"]And with control of Congress up for grabs, a lot of attention in California and across the country is focused on any built-in advantages for Democrats or Republicans in the new U.S. House districts heading into the 2022 election. That focus heightened after Republican wins in the Nov. 2 elections, including Glenn Youngkin flipping the Virginia governor seat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Democratic Party chair \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/rustyhicks/status/1456335589779943438?s=20\">Rusty Hicks warned that Republicans could take the House\u003c/a> by flipping only \u003ca href=\"https://pressgallery.house.gov/member-data/party-breakdown\">five seats nationally\u003c/a>, which they could achieve through gerrymandering, and said \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/rustyhicks/status/1457835888197529601?s=20\">some of the most competitive races are in the state\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. Kevin McCarthy — a Bakersfield Republican who hopes to replace Rep. Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco as House speaker — \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article255545466.html\">claimed that any Democrat who won in 2020 by 16 percentage points or less would have to fight for their seat next year\u003c/a>. That would include six California House Democrats. But McCarthy, himself, could have a mostly new district, based on the latest draft maps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, \u003ca href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/List_of_United_States_Representatives_from_California\">Republicans hold 11 of California’s 53 U.S. House seats\u003c/a>. The second round of maps suggested nine seats with an advantage for Republicans, according to an analysis by California Target Book, a political data firm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The third set of lines showed nine districts where incumbents — some Republicans including Rep. Devin Nunes, as well as Democrats including Rep. Mike Levin — \u003ca href=\"https://elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov/ror/15day-recall-2021/congressional.pdf\">could face more competitive races, based on voter registration\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11872220\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11872220\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS45480_028_KQED_Oakland_RegistrarofVoters_10272020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS45480_028_KQED_Oakland_RegistrarofVoters_10272020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS45480_028_KQED_Oakland_RegistrarofVoters_10272020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS45480_028_KQED_Oakland_RegistrarofVoters_10272020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS45480_028_KQED_Oakland_RegistrarofVoters_10272020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS45480_028_KQED_Oakland_RegistrarofVoters_10272020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A voter check-in tent at the Alameda County Registrar of Voters on Oct. 27, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Diluting voting power?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Of the many challenges that the census data delay caused, the Voting Rights Act data analysis may have been one of the most consequential.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After population numbers, the second highest criteria is that the district lines must comply with the federal Voting Rights Act — specifically, ensuring that people of color have equal access to electing representatives of their choice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the initial scenarios, observers quickly flagged that longtime Reps. Karen Bass and Maxine Waters — both prominent Black Democrats — ended up in the same Los Angeles district. While that potential conflict was lessened because Bass is already running for Los Angeles mayor, the draft map resulted in only one L.A. district with at least 30% African American voters and likely to elect a Black representative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That criticism was resolved in \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/myBlackCounts/status/1455699739651969027?s=20\">the second round of visualizations\u003c/a> released and debated last week, which included two LA districts with at least 30% Black voter registration. The latest maps keep those lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But James Woodson, policy director for the California Black Census and Redistricting Hub, said concerns remain about congressional districts that split Black communities throughout the Bay Area, particularly in Pittsburg and Antioch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s important that Black communities are kept together in this area,” Woodson said, pointing to the lack of resources for lower-income residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Woodson said the Hub also remains concerned about the “packing” of Black voters in Los Angeles into fewer Assembly districts and limiting their “political voice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After releasing draft maps for the Central Valley, the commission was inundated with calls from residents of both Kern and Fresno counties, who were strongly opposed to being grouped together in a congressional district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kern County residents spoke of concerns about competing water interests, as well as health equity, while residents from Fresno raised issues with the dilution of Latino votes by combining them with Kern County. But in the latest maps, they’re still together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fresno County residents also called in with their opposition to the city of Fresno being split into three different congressional districts.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Defining community\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>One of the cascading effects of preserving two Los Angeles congressional districts with sizable Black populations was breaking up Long Beach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Commissioners noted the community input they heard from a broad swath of people in Long Beach, including the \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/eqca/status/1457461426159697920?s=20\">LGBTQ+\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://smallpdf.com/file#s=0c5a5a4e-768b-45d2-91b3-d69c04149535\">Latinx communities\u003c/a>, asking to unite the city in one congressional district. Now, Democrats Alan Lowenthal and Nanette Diaz Barragán represent parts of Long Beach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In this week’s maps, Long Beach was split into two congressional districts. While commissioners acknowledged that wasn’t ideal, they said they wanted to be fair to other cities that were divided, including Irvine and other smaller cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If commissioners want to preserve the districts in Los Angeles and keep Long Beach together, however, they may need to cross county lines, something they initially tried to avoid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Any changes to Long Beach could have a domino effect on the Vietnamese community in Orange County, which, despite residents’ calls to be grouped together as a community of interest, is primarily in a congressional district that divides Westminster and Garden Grove.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another flash point is San Diego, where commissioners on Monday tried to create more Voting Rights Act districts with at least 50% voting-age populations of people of color, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/politics/story/2021-11-07/state-redistricting\">including one to preserve a Latino voting bloc in the southern part of the county\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label ='Related Coverage' tag='politics']This week’s discussions did yield wins for some groups. The commission was able to keep the Hmong community in Central California together. Across congressional and legislative maps, most Native American tribes also were kept together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while the lines could change, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/eqca/status/1457401281274777601?s=20\">Equality California, the largest LGBTQ+ civil rights group, hailed the congressional districts in San Francisco\u003c/a> for keeping the community together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a good draft for reactions,” commission Chair Trena Turner said Monday night after completing the latest round of congressional maps. “We feel better about the reactions.”\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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Some “apologized as if it was their fault,” he said. Others avoided eye contact. More than a few broke into tears. Many experienced “complete bewilderment and loss of pride in suddenly not being able to be independent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pandemic caps 40 years of a middle-class squeeze in California, where \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/wp-content/uploads/incoming-inequality-and-economic-opportunity-in-california-december-2020.pdf\">the income of the state’s top earners has far outpaced that of the middle class\u003c/a>, according to a 2020 report from the Public Policy Institute of California. The Golden State’s billionaires \u003ca href=\"https://ips-dc.org/a-year-of-billionaire-pandemic-gains/\">added $551.2 billion to their net worth\u003c/a>, while more than 25 million Californians \u003ca href=\"https://edd.ca.gov/Newsroom/facts-and-stats/dashboard.htm#TotalUnemploymentClaims\">filed unemployment claims since March 1, 2020\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the state shut down last spring, Manio was inundated with phone calls as clients cut and ran. It was Manio’s first year in commercial realty, and she had no clue what to do. She scrambled to retain business by offering to review contracts for companies trying to get out of leases and even delivered groceries and medications for her elderly clients. But by early April, deals froze. “I was running on a track,” Manio said, “and then stepped in molasses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like many Californians, Manio’s biggest cost was her $3,225 monthly rent. Manio knew she could move in with her mother in the Central Valley in an emergency. But it was a last resort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11847203\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/1920_GettyImages-1227684396-copy-1020x574.jpg\"]Manio, a first-generation Filipina who had spent the last two years of high school in Los Angeles public housing, had managed a nonprofit assisting marginalized youth in San Francisco, patented environmentally friendly food packaging and had been making $90,000 in hospital finance before 2019. She moved into commercial real estate hoping to earn more and help pay for her son’s eventual college tuition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve always been independent and self-sufficient,” she said, and going to friends with open hands “was a very hard pill to swallow.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few thousand dollars in loans from friends helped her pay the rent, her car loan and professional expenses. But with nearly $6,000 a month in expenses, Manio felt like Alice in Wonderland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m falling deep into this financial hole,” she said. “I have no idea how I’m going to get back, and I have no idea where this is going to lead me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In April 2020, she turned to food stamps, which provided about $200 a month, then unemployment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Manio, who now had drawn over $10,000 in loans from friends, began to dip into a college fund that her father had left for her son. Expecting the pandemic to subside, Manio strained her credit cards to attend extra real estate certifications, trainings and pay her annual licensing fees. But the lockdowns dragged on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early this year, she applied to Cornell University’s commercial real estate certification program in commercial real estate development. She paid half-off tuition — $6,000 that she put on her credit card in installments — and emptied her child’s college fund. Manio told her son it would help them bounce back, promising to put all of it back and then some.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By January, the loans from one friend had reached $30,000, and her credit cards were stuffed with $40,000 in additional debt. Manio was now paying only 25% rent in keeping with the state’s eviction moratorium, but the back rent was growing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Manio put on a stoic face in public meetings in March and April while other board members spoke and shed tears over lost family members due to COVID-19. She couldn’t bring herself to air her problems publicly: What if voters thought she was unable to run a district, city or county, she thought, if she couldn’t get her finances in order?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a lot of saving face,” she said, and “having to hide the real me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Bart Charlow, CEO of Samaritan House\"]‘That’s part of the great American dream and the great American culture … the idea that we’re fiercely independent.’[/pullquote]At night, when the public comments were over, her homework from Cornell completed, her son fed and the house cleaned, she would lie in bed with her own thoughts and shed tears. The breakdowns spilled into the mornings when she’d stare at herself in the mirror. “I didn’t recognize myself anymore,” she said. Manio’s hair was thinned by stress, with clumps falling out in the shower.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With $70,000 in debt, she questioned her capabilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s part of the great American dream and the great American culture,” Charlow said, “the idea that we’re fiercely independent, we take care of ourselves. In point of fact, throughout our history, it’s the community that’s often needed to take care of many of its members.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the June day she was served the eviction notice, Manio’s mother had come to help celebrate Jake’s graduation with balloons, flowers and gifts. But the stress of eviction was too much. Manio yelled and didn’t speak to anyone that evening. She later learned her son cried that night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11889738\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/pexels-andrew-neel-4134784-1020x679.jpg\"]The following week, Manio’s mother paid the deposit and co-signed on a new apartment for Manio and Jake. 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Gavin Newsom has now completed three rounds of the annual ritual of deciding what should become law in California by giving a thumbs-up or thumbs-down to hundreds of bills sent to him by the Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11891336\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/Capitol-1180x787-3-1020x680.jpeg\"]In year one, he used the routine to demonstrate differences from his predecessor, signing dozens of bills that Jerry Brown had vetoed — but also vetoing a greater proportion of bills than Brown typically did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In year two, with the Legislature largely sidelined by the COVID-19 pandemic, Newsom signed fewer new laws than any governor in more than 50 years, instead governing through numerous executive orders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And this year, his third, Newsom used his veto pen at about half the rate he did in his first year as governor, saying “no” to about 8% of the 836 bills that hit his desk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://e.infogram.com/_/hxNrlgiB93BuhlMnvrIa?src=embed\" title=\"2021 Vetoes\" width=\"800\" height=\"602\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In doing so, Newsom largely demonstrated a traditional governing philosophy, using his veto power to block bills that cost more than the state budgeted for, clashed with work already underway in his administration or were repeats of ideas he’d already nixed. Essentially, Newsom’s vetoes in 2021 proved more about what he has in common with his predecessors than how he is unique.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He is similar to other governors in that there are some consistent themes or bases for governors to veto legislation,” said Chris Micheli, a lobbyist and attorney who teaches law school courses on the legislative process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“His first year in office was very different.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Newsom held celebratory public events with legislators to sign their bills, he announced vetoes by listing them at the end of press releases. So, many of them flew under the radar. It required reading his veto messages to get explanations or justifications of why he didn’t believe the proposals should become law in California. On some bills, he cited multiple reasons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are some key themes that emerged from Newsom’s 66 vetoes this year:\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>That’s not in the budget\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Some bills advancing causes that Newsom has championed in the past got his thumbs-down nonetheless. Why? Because, he argued in many veto messages, the proposal would cost money the state had not budgeted for, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11862460/as-californias-rich-get-richer-state-expects-10-5-billion-surplus-despite-slow-economy\">despite an unprecedented windfall of state revenue and federal aid\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s what Newsom said in nixing a bill to raise the amount of salary that workers can receive while taking paid family leave — even though he signed two expansions of the family leave program in years past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11891396\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/SF-high-school-in-person-class-1020x680.jpg\"]A spokesperson from Newsom’s finance department told CalMatters that the bill would have hiked the cost for both employees and the state, including millions in computer upgrades and public outreach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom also made the cost argument in vetoing a huge expansion of college financial aid. Just months ago, he signed a budget that includes an additional $3.3 billion for colleges and universities, including $1.5 billion in increases for student grants and work study opportunities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Expanding access to financial aid has been a priority for my Administration,” the Governor wrote in his veto. But, he told lawmakers, massive changes to the system need to be considered as part of the regular budget process.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Calling out repeat bills\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>As he’s becoming more seasoned as governor, a new theme is emerging in Newsom’s vetoes: calling out the repeats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As I stated in a veto message on similar legislation in 2019,” Newsom wrote in nixing a bill that would prohibit paying petition circulators per signature gathered, “I appreciate the intent of this bill to incentivize grassroots support for the initiative, referendum, and recall process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11891010\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/illustration_NewsomMoney_v1-1020x678.jpg\"]But, he said, changing the way workers are paid to gather signatures could make the process more costly, giving wealthy interests even more influence over the initiative process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similarly, he vetoed legislation to let supervisors in state government settle disputes through binding arbitration by saying it could add costs and create conflicts with existing procedures, “the same concerns I had with a previous, nearly-identical bill … which I also vetoed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former Gov. 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Newsom, however, said the bill is unnecessary because the state has added security measures on its camping reservation website.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11890615\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1216832918-1020x680.jpg\"]\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB494\">SB 494\u003c/a>, a measure requiring police officers to be trained in “interpersonal communication skills and ethical science-based interviewing,” similarly sailed through the Capitol without a single “no” vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom said he likes the idea but doesn’t want to create a mandatory cost for police departments. In \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/SB-494-Message-Scan.pdf\">vetoing the bill\u003c/a>, he said he’ll direct the commission that trains police to create the training course and leave it up to departments to decide whether their officers take it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Patio umbrellas hardly seem like a controversial subject. Lawmakers overwhelmingly agreed that state law should allow alcohol manufacturers to give away promotional patio umbrellas to venues that sell their liquor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Newsom — owner of the PlumpJack wine and hospitality business, who often talks about launching a small wine shop as a young entrepreneur — vetoed the legislation, saying it would “increase alcohol signage and advertisements in public areas and disadvantage small alcohol manufacturers that cannot compete with the marketing budgets of multibillion-dollar corporations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Approaching some new ideas with caution\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>On two bills meant to address the scourge of drug addiction, Newsom just said no.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1542\">AB 1542\u003c/a> would have allowed Yolo County to create a rehab program for people with a substance use disorder who commit certain crimes. The bill earned bipartisan support from lawmakers in both houses, but Newsom vetoed it saying it would lead to “forced treatment,” which could hinder “participants’ long-term recovery.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11891403\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS51806_048_Oakland_HighlandHospitalBridgeProgram_10062021-qut-1020x680.jpg\"]Many progressive criminal justice reform groups opposed AB 1542, including the Drug Policy Alliance, whose board member George Soros donated $1 million to help Newsom fight last month’s recall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, Newsom vetoed another bill that the Drug Policy Alliance supported, a measure to allow Medi-Cal to cover money paid to people recovering from drug addiction as an incentive to stay sober.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his veto, Newsom wrote that the state is trying to launch a similar pilot project, the results of which he wants to evaluate before agreeing to any expansion. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Many progressive criminal justice reform groups opposed AB 1542, including the Drug Policy Alliance, whose board member George Soros donated $1 million to help Newsom fight last month’s recall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, Newsom vetoed another bill that the Drug Policy Alliance supported, a measure to allow Medi-Cal to cover money paid to people recovering from drug addiction as an incentive to stay sober.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his veto, Newsom wrote that the state is trying to launch a similar pilot project, the results of which he wants to evaluate before agreeing to any expansion. That bill cleared the Legislature with overwhelming bipartisan support, but was opposed by Newsom’s finance department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similarly, he blocked two proposals aimed at changing rules of the road for walkers and bicyclists. One would have decriminalized jaywalking and the other would have let bicyclists ride through stop signs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters of the jaywalking bill said people of color are unfairly targeted. Newsom agreed, but pointed out California’s high rate of pedestrian deaths and warned that the bill “will unintentionally reduce pedestrian safety and potentially increase fatalities or serious injuries.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Likewise, Newsom said the bicyclist bill could backfire and increase collisions and deaths, especially among “children, who may not know how to judge vehicle speeds or exercise the necessary caution to yield to traffic when appropriate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>CalMatters reporter Sameea Kamal contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/calmatters-en-espanol/2021/10/cual-es-el-impacto-real-de-los-incendios-forestales-en-la-economia-de-california/\">\u003cem>Leer en español.\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not a single structure burned down \u003ca href=\"https://calfire-forestry.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=366d1a3e25ce4a11a4c0846c3a337ce9&extent=-13464888.411%2C4646560.0626%2C-13348704.128%2C4707786.1223%2C102100https://calfire-forestry.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=366d1a3e25ce4a11a4c0846c3a337ce9&extent=-13464888.411%2C4646560.0626%2C-13348704.128%2C4707786.1223%2C102100\">in the city of South Lake Tahoe\u003c/a>. And yet, the threat of the fast-approaching Caldor Fire cost surrounding El Dorado County tens of millions of dollars, if not more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In South Lake Tahoe, Domi Chavarria, co-owner of Verde Mexican Rotisserie, felt the devastation of the Caldor Fire even before the city was evacuated in August. Smoke had blanketed the city, and the tourists had mostly left.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When authorities ordered \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11886947/thousands-more-evacuated-as-caldor-fire-moves-closer-to-south-lake-tahoe\">the evacuation of South Lake Tahoe\u003c/a>, Verde was stocked with food, almost all of which went bad during the more than two weeks the restaurant ultimately remained closed. Produce wilted; proteins went bad; prepared sauces couldn’t be used.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All that stuff, none of that’s made to last weeks — it’s all made to last days,” says Chavarria. He estimates the lost inventory was worth between $10,000 and $13,000. None of it was covered by his insurance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11892015\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11892015 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/100821-Tahoe-Fire-Economy-SW-51.jpg\" alt=\"A man in a hooded sweatshirt and a baseball hat on backward stands behind a restaurant counter looking evenly at the camera.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/100821-Tahoe-Fire-Economy-SW-51.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/100821-Tahoe-Fire-Economy-SW-51-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/100821-Tahoe-Fire-Economy-SW-51-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/100821-Tahoe-Fire-Economy-SW-51-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Domi Chavarria at his restaurant, Verde Mexican Rotisserie, in South Lake Tahoe on Oct. 6, 2021. \u003ccite>(Salgu Wissmath for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Losses like Chavarria’s add up — to at least $50.3 million in lost economic activity for El Dorado County, according to an initial estimate shared with CalMatters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Knowing the true cost of wildfires could spur more ambitious action from both government and the private sector, experts say. For instance, tracking the costs systematically over several years could help policymakers figure out which fire prevention and mitigation strategies are most cost effective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But right now, California has an incomplete understanding of how much wildfires cost the state each year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The costs of business disruption, the cost of damage to uninsured homes, the cost of ecosystem damage, and the cost of secondary health impacts — such as those caused by wildfire smoke — aren’t being tracked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We don’t have a comprehensive picture of the economic harm wildfires cause each year, explains Teresa Feo, senior science officer at the California Council on Science and Technology and lead author of \u003ca href=\"https://ccst.us/reports/the-costs-of-wildfire-in-california/\">a 2020 report from the council\u003c/a> on the cost of wildfires in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There isn’t a statewide systematic tracking effort to figure out these costs,” said Feo. She said it took only about a month of digging into the question to realize: “‘Oh no, you can’t come up with a number. This is actually impossible with the existing data.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state does not track or estimate the cost of wildfires in a way that accounts for public health costs or ecological damage on a regular basis, confirmed Heather Williams, communications director for the California Natural Resources Agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those would always be a moving target since health impacts can occur years later,” Williams wrote in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But with more research being funded, this may be more feasible to help the state better understand the economic and ecological impacts so we can continue to make science-based informed policy decisions,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11892013\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11892013 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/100821-Tahoe-Fire-Economy-SW-24.jpg\" alt=\"A woman with her hair back and wearing gloves chops tomatoes in a restaurant kitchen.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/100821-Tahoe-Fire-Economy-SW-24.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/100821-Tahoe-Fire-Economy-SW-24-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/100821-Tahoe-Fire-Economy-SW-24-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/100821-Tahoe-Fire-Economy-SW-24-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/100821-Tahoe-Fire-Economy-SW-24-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/100821-Tahoe-Fire-Economy-SW-24-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Martha Garcia preps food in the kitchen at Verde Mexican Rotisserie in South Lake Tahoe on Oct. 6, 2021. Owner Domi Chavarria lost about $10,000 worth of inventory when they shut down for two weeks due to the Caldor Fire evacuation. \u003ccite>(Salgu Wissmath for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>The different costs of wildfires\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The initial analysis of the Caldor Fire’s economic impact was prepared by Tom Harris, an economist at the University of Nevada, Reno, for the Tahoe Prosperity Center, an economic development organization for the Lake Tahoe Basin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11892030\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11892030 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/100821-Tahoe-Fire-Economy-SW-00.jpg\" alt='A bright green garbage dumpster painted with the words \"Food Only\" full of raw chicken.' width=\"1000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/100821-Tahoe-Fire-Economy-SW-00.jpg 1000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/100821-Tahoe-Fire-Economy-SW-00-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/100821-Tahoe-Fire-Economy-SW-00-160x213.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Food inventory from the Verde Mexican Rotisserie restaurant had to be discarded after a two-week evacuation order due to the Caldor Fire in South Lake Tahoe. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Domi Chavarria)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The study estimates the combined losses of El Dorado and Nevada’s Douglas County at $93 million. And, says Harris, that preliminary estimate is low: It doesn’t include the losses in sectors like rental homes or recreation businesses. Nor does it include the lost economic activity caused by residents evacuating, and it doesn’t take into account the health care costs associated with wildfire smoke exposure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some costs are more immediate — the cost of Chavarria’s rotted food, for instance, and the fact that the fire took place over Labor Day weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s not a slow weekend in Tahoe,” said Chavarria. Tourism is about 63% of the Tahoe basin’s economy, \u003ca href=\"https://tahoeprosperity.org/wp-content/uploads/measuring-for-prosperity-community-and-economic-indicators-for-the-lake-tahoe-basin-2018.pdf\">according to a 2018 report from the Tahoe Prosperity Center\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between the slowdown in business due to smoke and the evacuation, Verde lost several weeks of revenue. Chavarria says that a month of sales for the restaurant is more than $100,000. Verde’s employees also went without paychecks for the two weeks the restaurant was shut down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nicole Smith, co-founder and taproom manager of South Lake Brewing Company, said her business fared better than many, partially because none of the beer went bad. But between the loss of sales in the company’s own taproom and the beer it sells to other local businesses, the brewery lost somewhere between $30,000 and $50,000 of revenue during the evacuation, estimates Smith.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to lost business, some figures are easier to pin down, like the amount Cal Fire spends on fire suppression.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the state, for example, does not systematically track deaths and health conditions linked to wildfire smoke exposure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The costs associated with smoke may be the largest costs we’re missing, says Feo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11890211\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Leadphoto-800x533.png\"]One study \u003ca href=\"https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1002601\">produced by public health department researchers and academics\u003c/a> tracked the use of Medi-Cal services during San Diego’s 2007 fall fire season. It found that during the peak fire period, emergency room visits for respiratory conditions increased by 34% and visits for asthma increased by 113%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Especially concerning was a 136% increase in ER visits for children age 4 and younger for asthma. That finding, the authors wrote, “is cause for particular concern because of the potential for long-term harm to children’s lung development.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A systematic effort to track wildfire smoke effects would be especially profound, says Feo, because it reaches so far beyond the location of the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2018, for example, smoke from the Camp Fire \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1969409/no-you-didnt-wake-up-to-the-apocalypse-wildfire-smoke-turns-bay-area-sky-orange-and-dark\">clogged San Francisco\u003c/a>, a city more than 100 miles away. If you can put figures on the impact of smoke across the whole state, “who’s impacted by the fire suddenly changes very dramatically, and therefore who benefits from the prevention and mitigation changes,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11892020\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11892020 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS51289_065_Meyers_CaldorFire_08312021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A red and white sign on a tall pole along a two-lane road, surrounded by tall fir trees, with smoke haze in the distance.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS51289_065_Meyers_CaldorFire_08312021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS51289_065_Meyers_CaldorFire_08312021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS51289_065_Meyers_CaldorFire_08312021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS51289_065_Meyers_CaldorFire_08312021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS51289_065_Meyers_CaldorFire_08312021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign for the town of Kyburz says, “Welcome to Kyburz/Happy New Year 2021,” while the Caldor Fire burns nearby on Aug. 31, 2021. The residents of Kyburz were ordered to evacuate for several days during the Caldor Fire. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Different approaches to wildfire data\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The current approach to assessing the aftermath of wildfires is a hodgepodge of research looking into different aspects that is not led by any one agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A smattering of data collection efforts includes:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The California Air Resources Board funding a study of the health impact of wildfire smoke statewide for 2017, 2018 and 2020, which will be ready in three or four years.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The board also funding a study of lost work days due to wildfire smoke, which will be ready in a couple of years.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Cal Fire also increasing funding for \u003ca href=\"https://frap.fire.ca.gov/research-monitoring/forest-health-research-program-overview-grant-solicitation/\">research into forest health\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n(the Department of Insurance tabulates \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/california-wildfires/2020/12/homeowners-insurers-fire-science/\">the damage to insured homes\u003c/a> for some major wildfires, but does not track damage from all wildfires each year).\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A variety of academic studies.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Academic research on the cost of wildfires tends to come out several years later, and different studies focus on different fires using different methodologies. That makes it difficult to compare the findings, or track the costs over time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These studies also are conducted based on the interests of the particular researcher, says Louise Comfort, a professor at the University of Pittsburgh and a faculty affiliate at UC Berkeley’s Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society Policy Lab.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That doesn’t give us a comprehensive view,” Comfort said. She credits a UC-system-wide effort \u003ca href=\"https://uckeepresearching.org/2021-uc-resilience-symposium-series/\">to study the impacts of wildfires\u003c/a> as a step in the right direction, but says the results are still not arriving in a standardized way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state may be in the best position to lead the effort on tracking the economic impact of wildfires. “The only thing that would give us a comprehensive view is if the state really said, ‘We want this kind of information,'” said Comfort. But the state agencies shouldn’t go it alone, she says: They should engage experts in the university system.\u003cbr>\n[pullquote size='large' align='right']In 2020, for example, a team of researchers studied the nationwide impact of California’s 2018 wildfire season, and estimated that its economic damage totaled $148.5 billion.[/pullquote]\u003cbr>\nWithout statewide, systematically published numbers, it’s more difficult to compare how different regions are suffering from wildfires, or to assess the cost effectiveness of different wildfire prevention strategies. And it may be more challenging to justify spending on expensive, but nonetheless cost-effective, mitigation or prevention programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s a question that comes up when talking about spending taxpayer dollars, Feo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While wildfire costs aren’t tracked, there are some academic studies that attempt to estimate those costs and produce mind-boggling figures. In 2020, for example, a team of researchers studied the nationwide impact of California’s 2018 wildfire season, and estimated that its economic damage totaled $148.5 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The study, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-020-00646-7\">published in Nature Sustainability\u003c/a>, captured direct capital costs, such as buildings burning down; health costs, including those related to air pollution exposure; and indirect losses such as the economic disruption of lost hours of work, as well as disruption to regional and national supply chains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The costs identified in that study exceed that of any disaster in the U.S. between the 9/11 terrorist attacks in 2001 and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, other than Hurricane Katrina, says Adam Rose, a research professor at the University of Southern California and an expert in energy and environmental economics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rose said that a standardized methodology for assessing the total cost of wildfires should be established and applied on a regular basis — and it needs to be one that can be implemented relatively rapidly, as opposed to several years after a fire. That would allow a whole field of researchers to help track these costs, and would make their findings comparable. In addition to helping make the political case for government-led fire-prevention efforts, those numbers might spur private sector action on fire prevention efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"science_1976952\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2021/09/Grapes-2048x1536.jpg\"]But not all experts said that measuring the costs associated with each wildfire season is important. William Siembieda, a professor emeritus at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo and senior member of a Cal Poly team that prepared several of the state’s hazard mitigation plans, says he doesn’t know how policymakers would make use of those numbers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What would be useful, Siembieda says, is for cities to model the economic impact of different levels of fire damage. What would be the cost if 5% of the city burned? What if 10% or 20% burned?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With those estimates, local officials could decide whether they’re prepared to absorb that loss, insure against the risk or pursue other strategies.\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What’s next for survivors?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>For a couple weeks now, South Lake Tahoe residents and business owners have been reopening their restaurants, shops and adventure outfits, taking stock of what happened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Lisa Schafer, co-owner of Wildwood Makers Market, returned to the city and drove to her shop for the first time, she felt waves of different emotions. There was the fear she’d been holding on to — that her hometown, her house and her business would all burn to a crisp. There was the gratitude she felt for the fact that they had all been spared.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I cried the whole drive,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her shop, which sells jewelry, wall decor, embroidery kits and other gifts, smelled smoky for her first few days back. It wasn’t a pleasant campfire smell. “It smelled like beef jerky,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label ='Related Coverage' tag='wildfires']Business didn’t return to normal immediately; tourists didn’t rush back to the area. All told, Shafer lost about 60% of sales in September. Her insurance won’t cover that loss of business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s clear, she says, that these fires are not going away. She said she wishes there were some sort of automatic aid for businesses and individuals affected by the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, Wildwood Makers Market will bounce back from loss of business, Schafer said. But if something happens in the winter that disrupts the holiday shopping season, that could be “catastrophic,” she says. “One more hit would not be good for us.”\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/calmatters-en-espanol/2021/10/cual-es-el-impacto-real-de-los-incendios-forestales-en-la-economia-de-california/\">\u003cem>Leer en español.\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not a single structure burned down \u003ca href=\"https://calfire-forestry.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=366d1a3e25ce4a11a4c0846c3a337ce9&extent=-13464888.411%2C4646560.0626%2C-13348704.128%2C4707786.1223%2C102100https://calfire-forestry.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=366d1a3e25ce4a11a4c0846c3a337ce9&extent=-13464888.411%2C4646560.0626%2C-13348704.128%2C4707786.1223%2C102100\">in the city of South Lake Tahoe\u003c/a>. And yet, the threat of the fast-approaching Caldor Fire cost surrounding El Dorado County tens of millions of dollars, if not more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In South Lake Tahoe, Domi Chavarria, co-owner of Verde Mexican Rotisserie, felt the devastation of the Caldor Fire even before the city was evacuated in August. Smoke had blanketed the city, and the tourists had mostly left.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When authorities ordered \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11886947/thousands-more-evacuated-as-caldor-fire-moves-closer-to-south-lake-tahoe\">the evacuation of South Lake Tahoe\u003c/a>, Verde was stocked with food, almost all of which went bad during the more than two weeks the restaurant ultimately remained closed. Produce wilted; proteins went bad; prepared sauces couldn’t be used.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All that stuff, none of that’s made to last weeks — it’s all made to last days,” says Chavarria. He estimates the lost inventory was worth between $10,000 and $13,000. None of it was covered by his insurance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11892015\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11892015 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/100821-Tahoe-Fire-Economy-SW-51.jpg\" alt=\"A man in a hooded sweatshirt and a baseball hat on backward stands behind a restaurant counter looking evenly at the camera.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/100821-Tahoe-Fire-Economy-SW-51.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/100821-Tahoe-Fire-Economy-SW-51-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/100821-Tahoe-Fire-Economy-SW-51-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/100821-Tahoe-Fire-Economy-SW-51-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Domi Chavarria at his restaurant, Verde Mexican Rotisserie, in South Lake Tahoe on Oct. 6, 2021. \u003ccite>(Salgu Wissmath for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Losses like Chavarria’s add up — to at least $50.3 million in lost economic activity for El Dorado County, according to an initial estimate shared with CalMatters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Knowing the true cost of wildfires could spur more ambitious action from both government and the private sector, experts say. For instance, tracking the costs systematically over several years could help policymakers figure out which fire prevention and mitigation strategies are most cost effective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But right now, California has an incomplete understanding of how much wildfires cost the state each year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The costs of business disruption, the cost of damage to uninsured homes, the cost of ecosystem damage, and the cost of secondary health impacts — such as those caused by wildfire smoke — aren’t being tracked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We don’t have a comprehensive picture of the economic harm wildfires cause each year, explains Teresa Feo, senior science officer at the California Council on Science and Technology and lead author of \u003ca href=\"https://ccst.us/reports/the-costs-of-wildfire-in-california/\">a 2020 report from the council\u003c/a> on the cost of wildfires in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There isn’t a statewide systematic tracking effort to figure out these costs,” said Feo. She said it took only about a month of digging into the question to realize: “‘Oh no, you can’t come up with a number. This is actually impossible with the existing data.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state does not track or estimate the cost of wildfires in a way that accounts for public health costs or ecological damage on a regular basis, confirmed Heather Williams, communications director for the California Natural Resources Agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those would always be a moving target since health impacts can occur years later,” Williams wrote in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But with more research being funded, this may be more feasible to help the state better understand the economic and ecological impacts so we can continue to make science-based informed policy decisions,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11892013\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11892013 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/100821-Tahoe-Fire-Economy-SW-24.jpg\" alt=\"A woman with her hair back and wearing gloves chops tomatoes in a restaurant kitchen.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/100821-Tahoe-Fire-Economy-SW-24.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/100821-Tahoe-Fire-Economy-SW-24-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/100821-Tahoe-Fire-Economy-SW-24-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/100821-Tahoe-Fire-Economy-SW-24-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/100821-Tahoe-Fire-Economy-SW-24-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/100821-Tahoe-Fire-Economy-SW-24-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Martha Garcia preps food in the kitchen at Verde Mexican Rotisserie in South Lake Tahoe on Oct. 6, 2021. Owner Domi Chavarria lost about $10,000 worth of inventory when they shut down for two weeks due to the Caldor Fire evacuation. \u003ccite>(Salgu Wissmath for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>The different costs of wildfires\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The initial analysis of the Caldor Fire’s economic impact was prepared by Tom Harris, an economist at the University of Nevada, Reno, for the Tahoe Prosperity Center, an economic development organization for the Lake Tahoe Basin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11892030\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11892030 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/100821-Tahoe-Fire-Economy-SW-00.jpg\" alt='A bright green garbage dumpster painted with the words \"Food Only\" full of raw chicken.' width=\"1000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/100821-Tahoe-Fire-Economy-SW-00.jpg 1000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/100821-Tahoe-Fire-Economy-SW-00-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/100821-Tahoe-Fire-Economy-SW-00-160x213.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Food inventory from the Verde Mexican Rotisserie restaurant had to be discarded after a two-week evacuation order due to the Caldor Fire in South Lake Tahoe. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Domi Chavarria)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The study estimates the combined losses of El Dorado and Nevada’s Douglas County at $93 million. And, says Harris, that preliminary estimate is low: It doesn’t include the losses in sectors like rental homes or recreation businesses. Nor does it include the lost economic activity caused by residents evacuating, and it doesn’t take into account the health care costs associated with wildfire smoke exposure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some costs are more immediate — the cost of Chavarria’s rotted food, for instance, and the fact that the fire took place over Labor Day weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s not a slow weekend in Tahoe,” said Chavarria. Tourism is about 63% of the Tahoe basin’s economy, \u003ca href=\"https://tahoeprosperity.org/wp-content/uploads/measuring-for-prosperity-community-and-economic-indicators-for-the-lake-tahoe-basin-2018.pdf\">according to a 2018 report from the Tahoe Prosperity Center\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between the slowdown in business due to smoke and the evacuation, Verde lost several weeks of revenue. Chavarria says that a month of sales for the restaurant is more than $100,000. Verde’s employees also went without paychecks for the two weeks the restaurant was shut down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nicole Smith, co-founder and taproom manager of South Lake Brewing Company, said her business fared better than many, partially because none of the beer went bad. But between the loss of sales in the company’s own taproom and the beer it sells to other local businesses, the brewery lost somewhere between $30,000 and $50,000 of revenue during the evacuation, estimates Smith.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to lost business, some figures are easier to pin down, like the amount Cal Fire spends on fire suppression.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the state, for example, does not systematically track deaths and health conditions linked to wildfire smoke exposure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The costs associated with smoke may be the largest costs we’re missing, says Feo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>One study \u003ca href=\"https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1002601\">produced by public health department researchers and academics\u003c/a> tracked the use of Medi-Cal services during San Diego’s 2007 fall fire season. It found that during the peak fire period, emergency room visits for respiratory conditions increased by 34% and visits for asthma increased by 113%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Especially concerning was a 136% increase in ER visits for children age 4 and younger for asthma. That finding, the authors wrote, “is cause for particular concern because of the potential for long-term harm to children’s lung development.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A systematic effort to track wildfire smoke effects would be especially profound, says Feo, because it reaches so far beyond the location of the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2018, for example, smoke from the Camp Fire \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1969409/no-you-didnt-wake-up-to-the-apocalypse-wildfire-smoke-turns-bay-area-sky-orange-and-dark\">clogged San Francisco\u003c/a>, a city more than 100 miles away. If you can put figures on the impact of smoke across the whole state, “who’s impacted by the fire suddenly changes very dramatically, and therefore who benefits from the prevention and mitigation changes,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11892020\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11892020 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS51289_065_Meyers_CaldorFire_08312021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A red and white sign on a tall pole along a two-lane road, surrounded by tall fir trees, with smoke haze in the distance.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS51289_065_Meyers_CaldorFire_08312021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS51289_065_Meyers_CaldorFire_08312021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS51289_065_Meyers_CaldorFire_08312021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS51289_065_Meyers_CaldorFire_08312021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS51289_065_Meyers_CaldorFire_08312021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign for the town of Kyburz says, “Welcome to Kyburz/Happy New Year 2021,” while the Caldor Fire burns nearby on Aug. 31, 2021. The residents of Kyburz were ordered to evacuate for several days during the Caldor Fire. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Different approaches to wildfire data\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The current approach to assessing the aftermath of wildfires is a hodgepodge of research looking into different aspects that is not led by any one agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A smattering of data collection efforts includes:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The California Air Resources Board funding a study of the health impact of wildfire smoke statewide for 2017, 2018 and 2020, which will be ready in three or four years.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The board also funding a study of lost work days due to wildfire smoke, which will be ready in a couple of years.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Cal Fire also increasing funding for \u003ca href=\"https://frap.fire.ca.gov/research-monitoring/forest-health-research-program-overview-grant-solicitation/\">research into forest health\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n(the Department of Insurance tabulates \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/california-wildfires/2020/12/homeowners-insurers-fire-science/\">the damage to insured homes\u003c/a> for some major wildfires, but does not track damage from all wildfires each year).\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A variety of academic studies.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Academic research on the cost of wildfires tends to come out several years later, and different studies focus on different fires using different methodologies. That makes it difficult to compare the findings, or track the costs over time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These studies also are conducted based on the interests of the particular researcher, says Louise Comfort, a professor at the University of Pittsburgh and a faculty affiliate at UC Berkeley’s Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society Policy Lab.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That doesn’t give us a comprehensive view,” Comfort said. She credits a UC-system-wide effort \u003ca href=\"https://uckeepresearching.org/2021-uc-resilience-symposium-series/\">to study the impacts of wildfires\u003c/a> as a step in the right direction, but says the results are still not arriving in a standardized way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state may be in the best position to lead the effort on tracking the economic impact of wildfires. “The only thing that would give us a comprehensive view is if the state really said, ‘We want this kind of information,'” said Comfort. But the state agencies shouldn’t go it alone, she says: They should engage experts in the university system.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cbr>\nWithout statewide, systematically published numbers, it’s more difficult to compare how different regions are suffering from wildfires, or to assess the cost effectiveness of different wildfire prevention strategies. And it may be more challenging to justify spending on expensive, but nonetheless cost-effective, mitigation or prevention programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s a question that comes up when talking about spending taxpayer dollars, Feo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While wildfire costs aren’t tracked, there are some academic studies that attempt to estimate those costs and produce mind-boggling figures. In 2020, for example, a team of researchers studied the nationwide impact of California’s 2018 wildfire season, and estimated that its economic damage totaled $148.5 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The study, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-020-00646-7\">published in Nature Sustainability\u003c/a>, captured direct capital costs, such as buildings burning down; health costs, including those related to air pollution exposure; and indirect losses such as the economic disruption of lost hours of work, as well as disruption to regional and national supply chains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The costs identified in that study exceed that of any disaster in the U.S. between the 9/11 terrorist attacks in 2001 and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, other than Hurricane Katrina, says Adam Rose, a research professor at the University of Southern California and an expert in energy and environmental economics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rose said that a standardized methodology for assessing the total cost of wildfires should be established and applied on a regular basis — and it needs to be one that can be implemented relatively rapidly, as opposed to several years after a fire. That would allow a whole field of researchers to help track these costs, and would make their findings comparable. In addition to helping make the political case for government-led fire-prevention efforts, those numbers might spur private sector action on fire prevention efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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