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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11828737/hit-or-miss-californians-describe-vastly-different-covid-19-testing-experiences\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read in English. \u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Este es el nuevo iniciador de la conversación: ¿Le han realizado la prueba?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>¿Ha sido difícil programar una cita? ¿Qué tan pronto obtuvo los resultados?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mientras los californianos se apresuran a hacerse la prueba para asegurarse a sí mismos y a sus familias de que no son portadores del virus, muchos han manifestado frustraciones:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Citas a semanas de distancia. Pruebas rechazadas. Retrasos cada vez mayores para los resultados, y pruebas perdidas. Confusión acerca de qué seguro las cubrirá y qué seguro no las cubrirá.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Otros han tenido una experiencia prácticamente sin problemas—llegada y salida de un centro de pruebas en menos de 30 minutos y los resultados en un día o dos. Algunos incluso han optado por pagar más para una “prueba rápida” y obtuvieron resultados en una hora.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>En una encuesta de CalMatters, 170 encuestados, desde los condados de Humboldt hasta San Diego, compartieron una gran cantidad de experiencias de pruebas de éxito o fracaso donde expresaban desde “¡es super fácil!” hasta “es un circo.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La prueba del coronavirus en California ha sido un desafío desde el primer día. Desde el comienzo de la pandemia, la escasez de suministros permitió realizar pruebas muy limitadas y el estado estableció un objetivo modesto de 8,000 pruebas a fines de marzo. Desde entonces, las pruebas se expandieron, con un total mayor a 100,000 por día en el estado. Sin embargo, la demanda está presionando a la cadena de suministros, forzando al estado a volver a pensar en su estrategia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Se espera que el Gob. Gavin Newsom anuncie un nuevo plan de pruebas el lunes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No hay suficientes máquinas ni equipamiento para satisfacer la actual necesidad nacional y mundial para las pruebas de diagnóstico,” dijo el Dr. David Witt, líder nacional de enfermedades infecciosas de Kaiser Permanente. “Dado el actual aumento de casos en curso, es altamente probable que las pruebas continúen siendo un desafío, el cual probablemente empeorará antes de mejorar”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mientras los suministros varían y los casos aumentan en las distintas comunidades, las prioridades de prueba pueden cambiar, dijo Witt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Entre los encuestados en la encuesta de CalMatters, algunos informaron problemas técnicos que los forzaron a volver a un sitio en dos o más oportunidades antes de ser realmente testeados. Dos compañeros de cuarto de Fresno que pidieron al mismo tiempo realizarse una prueba en el mismo lugar obtuvieron citas con casi una semana de diferencia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carson Blaker de Los Ángeles estuvo sentado en su automóvil con las ventanillas levantadas durante una hora con 90 grados de calor, algo que le hubiera gustado haber sabido porque no tiene aire acondicionado. Los que no tienen automóvil dijeron que las pruebas llegando a pie pueden ser más difíciles de conseguir.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miles Campbell de Woodland se enteró el 25 de junio que un compañero en el almacén del\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>supermercado en el que trabaja ha dado positivo para coronavirus. Él decidió hacerse la prueba porque vive con sus padres y no quiere exponerlos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aunque había escuchado que la prueba era gratuita, llamó a su seguro para cerciorarse de que no lo sorprendería una factura. Dijo que el representante le informó que únicamente le cubrirían el costo si la prueba fuera ordenada por su médico de cabecera.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='large' align='right' citation='Miles Campbell de Woodland']'Definitivamente no creo que haya valido la pena. Voy a ir mañana a trabajar, mis 14 días han terminado, y todavía no tengo los resultados.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campbell, 23, no tiene médico de cabecera y no tenía síntomas; por lo tanto, encontrar un proveedor de atención médica que haga una receta para la prueba era un desafío.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cuando le hicieron la prueba el 4 de julio, ya estaba hacía más de una semana en su período de cuarentena—todavía sin ir a trabajar y posiblemente exponiendo a sus padres.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Definitivamente no creo que haya valido la pena. Voy a ir mañana a trabajar, mis 14 días han terminado, y todavía no tengo los resultados,” dijo el jueves pasado.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La historia de Campbell es también la de un “trabajador esencial,” que incluye a los empleados de la producción de alimentos y de las tiendas de comestibles. Aun así, no fue fácil para él acceder a una prueba. Los trabajadores esenciales, tengan o no síntomas, están en el “Nivel 1” de las \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/COVID-19/Expanding-Access-to-Testing-Updated-Interim-Guidance-on-Prioritization-for-COVID-19-Laboratory-Testing-0501.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pautas de prueba\u003c/a> (en inglés\u003cem>)\u003c/em> actuales del estado; eso significa que deberían tener prioridad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sherrie Totoki, 33, se hizo la prueba en San Francisco Community College. Le dijeron que tendría los resultados en dos o tres días, así que hizo planes para visitar a su hermana que recién había tenido un bebé en Los Ángeles. Luego de una semana sin tener resultados, le dijeron que el laboratorio nunca había recibido su prueba.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ella dijo que cuando llegó a Los Ángeles se mantuvo alejada de su familia hasta que encontró un centro de atención urgente en Pasadena que ofrecía un nuevo tipo de prueba de diagnóstico, conocida como prueba de antígenos, diseñada para la detección rápida del virus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Luego de una hora y de $125, obtuvo el resultado negativo. Ese mismo día más tarde, recibió un segundo mensaje con respecto a su prueba gratuita original en San Francisco donde le notificaban que habían encontrado su prueba. El resultado: negativo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Valió la pena porque quería conocer a mi sobrino, pero perdí mucho tiempo intentando que me hagan la prueba,” dijo Totoki.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Para Andy Lagomarsino de Stockton de 74 años, esperar los resultados no fue el problema— el problema fue la confusión en cuanto a cómo iniciar la prueba. Dijo que manejó hasta Sutter Gould Medical Foundation a fines de junio. Le indicaron que condujera hasta un estacionamiento y que llamara al número del puesto de estacionamiento para recibir más instrucciones. No se requería una cita; parecía bastante fácil, dijo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Según Lagomarsino, estuvo más de una hora llamando por teléfono, pero nunca logró que nadie responda. Se fue y volvió el segundo día. Luego el tercero. “Eventualmente me hicieron la prueba, pero tuve que armar un gran escándalo,” dijo. “Procurar que me hagan la prueba fue el circo más grande”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sus resultados estuvieron al día siguiente.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Con el propósito de mejorar las pruebas, California ha establecido un sistema de más de 1,000 sitios de pruebas públicos y privados. El estado también puso en funcionamiento un sitio Web de información sobre las pruebas, donde la gente puede encontrar los lugares de realización de pruebas más cercanos. Muchos residentes aprovecharon la oportunidad, aunque solamente fuera para estar tranquilos. En la encuesta de CalMatters, el 84% de los encuestados dijeron que buscaban hacerse las pruebas a pesar de que no tenían síntomas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California, junto con el resto del país, nuevamente está experimentando una escasez de los suministros necesarios para las pruebas, en consecuencia se producen la cancelación de citas, el cierre de sitios de pruebas y esperas más largas para los resultados.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El 4 de julio, los funcionarios de salud pública les pidieron a los laboratorios e California que prioricen a los pacientes con síntomas y a aquellos que están en los hospitales, hogares para adultos mayores o prisiones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Este es un momento interesante,” dijo Newsom durante una conferencia de prensa la semana pasada. “Hay algunos problemas con la cadena de suministros y, al mismo tiempo, estamos haciendo una cantidad récord de pruebas”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>En un adelanto de su próximo anuncio, Newsom dijo que el estado está buscando aumentar las pruebas en los hospitales y laboratorios locales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pero algunos de esos sistemas también han expresado preocupaciones. En UC Davis Health dijeron que no tienen suficientes kits para ayudar con las pruebas fuera de este sistema. Las pruebas para sus propios pacientes y sus empleados continuarán de la misma manera. En Sutter Health en el norte de California dijeron que también están buscando suministros de varios proveedores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>En Kaiser Permanente dijeron que están trabajando por una meta de 20,000 pruebas por día. “Sin embargo, seguimos preocupados por la disponibilidad de los suministros necesarios para las pruebas en las próximas semanas y en los próximos meses,” dijo Witt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom declaró que no quiere que la escasez y los retrasos disuadan a la gente de buscar hacerse las pruebas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mire, si tiene síntomas, si está en una categoría de alto riesgo…le alentamos a que se haga la prueba, no se desanime en algunos casos por algunas de estas demoras,” dijo. “Sepa que tenemos un equipo trabajando horas extra para esto”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La cobertura de atención médica de CalMatters está apoyada por una subvención por parte de la Fundación Blue Shield de California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Este es el nuevo iniciador de la conversación: ¿Le han realizado la prueba?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>¿Ha sido difícil programar una cita? ¿Qué tan pronto obtuvo los resultados?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mientras los californianos se apresuran a hacerse la prueba para asegurarse a sí mismos y a sus familias de que no son portadores del virus, muchos han manifestado frustraciones:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Citas a semanas de distancia. Pruebas rechazadas. Retrasos cada vez mayores para los resultados, y pruebas perdidas. Confusión acerca de qué seguro las cubrirá y qué seguro no las cubrirá.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Otros han tenido una experiencia prácticamente sin problemas—llegada y salida de un centro de pruebas en menos de 30 minutos y los resultados en un día o dos. Algunos incluso han optado por pagar más para una “prueba rápida” y obtuvieron resultados en una hora.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>En una encuesta de CalMatters, 170 encuestados, desde los condados de Humboldt hasta San Diego, compartieron una gran cantidad de experiencias de pruebas de éxito o fracaso donde expresaban desde “¡es super fácil!” hasta “es un circo.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La prueba del coronavirus en California ha sido un desafío desde el primer día. Desde el comienzo de la pandemia, la escasez de suministros permitió realizar pruebas muy limitadas y el estado estableció un objetivo modesto de 8,000 pruebas a fines de marzo. Desde entonces, las pruebas se expandieron, con un total mayor a 100,000 por día en el estado. Sin embargo, la demanda está presionando a la cadena de suministros, forzando al estado a volver a pensar en su estrategia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Se espera que el Gob. 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Luego de una semana sin tener resultados, le dijeron que el laboratorio nunca había recibido su prueba.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag='elcoronavirus' label='Leer KQED en Español']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ella dijo que cuando llegó a Los Ángeles se mantuvo alejada de su familia hasta que encontró un centro de atención urgente en Pasadena que ofrecía un nuevo tipo de prueba de diagnóstico, conocida como prueba de \u003ca href=\"https://www.mayoclinic.org/es-es/diseases-conditions/coronavirus/expert-answers/covid-antibody-tests/faq-20484429\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">antígenos\u003c/a>, diseñada para la detección rápida del virus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Luego de una hora y de $125, obtuvo el resultado negativo. Ese mismo día más tarde, recibió un segundo mensaje con respecto a su prueba gratuita original en San Francisco donde le notificaban que habían encontrado su prueba. El resultado: negativo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Valió la pena porque quería conocer a mi sobrino, pero perdí mucho tiempo intentando que me hagan la prueba,” dijo Totoki.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Para Andy Lagomarsino de Stockton de 74 años, esperar los resultados no fue el problema— el problema fue la confusión en cuanto a cómo iniciar la prueba. Dijo que manejó hasta Sutter Gould Medical Foundation a fines de junio. Le indicaron que condujera hasta un estacionamiento y que llamara al número del puesto de estacionamiento para recibir más instrucciones. No se requería una cita; parecía bastante fácil, dijo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Según Lagomarsino, estuvo más de una hora llamando por teléfono, pero nunca logró que nadie responda. Se fue y volvió el segundo día. Luego el tercero. “Eventualmente me hicieron la prueba, pero tuve que armar un gran escándalo,” dijo. “Procurar que me hagan la prueba fue el circo más grande”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sus resultados estuvieron al día siguiente.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Con el propósito de mejorar las pruebas, California ha establecido un sistema de más de 1,000 sitios de pruebas públicos y privados. El estado también puso en funcionamiento \u003ca href=\"https://www.arcgis.com/apps/Nearby/index.html?appid=43118dc0d5d348d8ab20a81967a15401\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">un sitio Web de información sobre las pruebas\u003c/a> (o \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11822824/donde-me-puedo-hacer-la-prueba-de-covid-19-gratuita-en-el-area-de-la-bahia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">este mapa de KQED\u003c/a>), donde la gente puede encontrar los lugares de realización de pruebas más cercanos. Muchos residentes aprovecharon la oportunidad, aunque solamente fuera para estar tranquilos. En la encuesta de CalMatters, el 84% de los encuestados dijeron que buscaban hacerse las pruebas a pesar de que no tenían síntomas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California, junto con el resto del país, nuevamente está experimentando una escasez de los suministros necesarios para las pruebas, en consecuencia se producen la cancelación de citas, el \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/coronavirus/article244041392.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">cierre de sitios de pruebas\u003c/a> (en inglés) y esperas más largas para los resultados.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El 4 de julio, los funcionarios de salud pública les pidieron a los laboratorios e California que prioricen a los pacientes con síntomas y a aquellos que están en los hospitales, hogares para adultos mayores o prisiones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Este es un momento interesante,” dijo Newsom durante una conferencia de prensa la semana pasada. “Hay algunos problemas con la cadena de suministros y, al mismo tiempo, estamos haciendo una cantidad récord de pruebas”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>En un adelanto de su próximo anuncio, Newsom dijo que el estado está buscando aumentar las pruebas en los hospitales y laboratorios locales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pero algunos de esos sistemas también han expresado preocupaciones. En UC Davis Health dijeron que no tienen suficientes kits para ayudar con las pruebas fuera de este sistema. Las pruebas para sus propios pacientes y sus empleados continuarán de la misma manera. En Sutter Health en el norte de California dijeron que también están buscando suministros de varios proveedores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>En Kaiser Permanente dijeron que están trabajando por una meta de 20,000 pruebas por día. “Sin embargo, seguimos preocupados por la disponibilidad de los suministros necesarios para las pruebas en las próximas semanas y en los próximos meses,” dijo Witt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom declaró que no quiere que la escasez y los retrasos disuadan a la gente de buscar hacerse las pruebas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mire, si tiene síntomas, si está en una categoría de alto riesgo…le alentamos a que se haga la prueba, no se desanime en algunos casos por algunas de estas demoras,” dijo. “Sepa que tenemos un equipo trabajando horas extra para esto”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La cobertura de atención médica de CalMatters está apoyada por una subvención por parte de la Fundación Blue Shield de California.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/elcoronavirus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Leer más reportes de KQED en Español. \u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Síga CalMatters en Twitter y Facebook. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campbell, 23, no tiene médico de cabecera y no tenía síntomas; por lo tanto, encontrar un proveedor de atención médica que haga una receta para la prueba era un desafío.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cuando le hicieron la prueba el 4 de julio, ya estaba hacía más de una semana en su período de cuarentena—todavía sin ir a trabajar y posiblemente exponiendo a sus padres.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Definitivamente no creo que haya valido la pena. Voy a ir mañana a trabajar, mis 14 días han terminado, y todavía no tengo los resultados,” dijo el jueves pasado.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La historia de Campbell es también la de un “trabajador esencial,” que incluye a los empleados de la producción de alimentos y de las tiendas de comestibles. Aun así, no fue fácil para él acceder a una prueba. Los trabajadores esenciales, tengan o no síntomas, están en el “Nivel 1” de las \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/COVID-19/Expanding-Access-to-Testing-Updated-Interim-Guidance-on-Prioritization-for-COVID-19-Laboratory-Testing-0501.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pautas de prueba\u003c/a> (en inglés\u003cem>)\u003c/em> actuales del estado; eso significa que deberían tener prioridad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sherrie Totoki, 33, se hizo la prueba en San Francisco Community College. Le dijeron que tendría los resultados en dos o tres días, así que hizo planes para visitar a su hermana que recién había tenido un bebé en Los Ángeles. Luego de una semana sin tener resultados, le dijeron que el laboratorio nunca había recibido su prueba.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ella dijo que cuando llegó a Los Ángeles se mantuvo alejada de su familia hasta que encontró un centro de atención urgente en Pasadena que ofrecía un nuevo tipo de prueba de diagnóstico, conocida como prueba de antígenos, diseñada para la detección rápida del virus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Luego de una hora y de $125, obtuvo el resultado negativo. Ese mismo día más tarde, recibió un segundo mensaje con respecto a su prueba gratuita original en San Francisco donde le notificaban que habían encontrado su prueba. El resultado: negativo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Valió la pena porque quería conocer a mi sobrino, pero perdí mucho tiempo intentando que me hagan la prueba,” dijo Totoki.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Para Andy Lagomarsino de Stockton de 74 años, esperar los resultados no fue el problema— el problema fue la confusión en cuanto a cómo iniciar la prueba. Dijo que manejó hasta Sutter Gould Medical Foundation a fines de junio. Le indicaron que condujera hasta un estacionamiento y que llamara al número del puesto de estacionamiento para recibir más instrucciones. No se requería una cita; parecía bastante fácil, dijo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Según Lagomarsino, estuvo más de una hora llamando por teléfono, pero nunca logró que nadie responda. Se fue y volvió el segundo día. Luego el tercero. “Eventualmente me hicieron la prueba, pero tuve que armar un gran escándalo,” dijo. “Procurar que me hagan la prueba fue el circo más grande”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sus resultados estuvieron al día siguiente.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Con el propósito de mejorar las pruebas, California ha establecido un sistema de más de 1,000 sitios de pruebas públicos y privados. El estado también puso en funcionamiento un sitio Web de información sobre las pruebas, donde la gente puede encontrar los lugares de realización de pruebas más cercanos. Muchos residentes aprovecharon la oportunidad, aunque solamente fuera para estar tranquilos. En la encuesta de CalMatters, el 84% de los encuestados dijeron que buscaban hacerse las pruebas a pesar de que no tenían síntomas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California, junto con el resto del país, nuevamente está experimentando una escasez de los suministros necesarios para las pruebas, en consecuencia se producen la cancelación de citas, el cierre de sitios de pruebas y esperas más largas para los resultados.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El 4 de julio, los funcionarios de salud pública les pidieron a los laboratorios e California que prioricen a los pacientes con síntomas y a aquellos que están en los hospitales, hogares para adultos mayores o prisiones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Este es un momento interesante,” dijo Newsom durante una conferencia de prensa la semana pasada. “Hay algunos problemas con la cadena de suministros y, al mismo tiempo, estamos haciendo una cantidad récord de pruebas”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>En un adelanto de su próximo anuncio, Newsom dijo que el estado está buscando aumentar las pruebas en los hospitales y laboratorios locales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pero algunos de esos sistemas también han expresado preocupaciones. En UC Davis Health dijeron que no tienen suficientes kits para ayudar con las pruebas fuera de este sistema. Las pruebas para sus propios pacientes y sus empleados continuarán de la misma manera. En Sutter Health en el norte de California dijeron que también están buscando suministros de varios proveedores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>En Kaiser Permanente dijeron que están trabajando por una meta de 20,000 pruebas por día. “Sin embargo, seguimos preocupados por la disponibilidad de los suministros necesarios para las pruebas en las próximas semanas y en los próximos meses,” dijo Witt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom declaró que no quiere que la escasez y los retrasos disuadan a la gente de buscar hacerse las pruebas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mire, si tiene síntomas, si está en una categoría de alto riesgo…le alentamos a que se haga la prueba, no se desanime en algunos casos por algunas de estas demoras,” dijo. “Sepa que tenemos un equipo trabajando horas extra para esto”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La cobertura de atención médica de CalMatters está apoyada por una subvención por parte de la Fundación Blue Shield de California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Este es el nuevo iniciador de la conversación: ¿Le han realizado la prueba?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>¿Ha sido difícil programar una cita? ¿Qué tan pronto obtuvo los resultados?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mientras los californianos se apresuran a hacerse la prueba para asegurarse a sí mismos y a sus familias de que no son portadores del virus, muchos han manifestado frustraciones:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Citas a semanas de distancia. 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El resultado: negativo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Valió la pena porque quería conocer a mi sobrino, pero perdí mucho tiempo intentando que me hagan la prueba,” dijo Totoki.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Para Andy Lagomarsino de Stockton de 74 años, esperar los resultados no fue el problema— el problema fue la confusión en cuanto a cómo iniciar la prueba. Dijo que manejó hasta Sutter Gould Medical Foundation a fines de junio. Le indicaron que condujera hasta un estacionamiento y que llamara al número del puesto de estacionamiento para recibir más instrucciones. No se requería una cita; parecía bastante fácil, dijo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Según Lagomarsino, estuvo más de una hora llamando por teléfono, pero nunca logró que nadie responda. Se fue y volvió el segundo día. 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En UC Davis Health dijeron que no tienen suficientes kits para ayudar con las pruebas fuera de este sistema. Las pruebas para sus propios pacientes y sus empleados continuarán de la misma manera. En Sutter Health en el norte de California dijeron que también están buscando suministros de varios proveedores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>En Kaiser Permanente dijeron que están trabajando por una meta de 20,000 pruebas por día. “Sin embargo, seguimos preocupados por la disponibilidad de los suministros necesarios para las pruebas en las próximas semanas y en los próximos meses,” dijo Witt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom declaró que no quiere que la escasez y los retrasos disuadan a la gente de buscar hacerse las pruebas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mire, si tiene síntomas, si está en una categoría de alto riesgo…le alentamos a que se haga la prueba, no se desanime en algunos casos por algunas de estas demoras,” dijo. “Sepa que tenemos un equipo trabajando horas extra para esto”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La cobertura de atención médica de CalMatters está apoyada por una subvención por parte de la Fundación Blue Shield de California.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/elcoronavirus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Leer más reportes de KQED en Español. \u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Síga CalMatters en Twitter y Facebook. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11828620/the-virus-and-the-vulnerable-latino-children-suffer-higher-rates-of-covid-19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read in English. \u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/elcoronavirus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Leer más reportes de KQED en Español. \u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El padre del bebé fue el primero en enfermar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Como cocinero en Los Ángeles, Ramón López nunca dejó de ir a trabajar al restaurante mientras que otro tipo de trabajadores podían hacerlo desde su casa. Hacía todos los recados de la familia, la compra de comestibles y ponía gasolina en el coche.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Le dio fiebre, tos seca y dolor corporal. Cuando perdió el sentido del olfato, su esposa, Florida Santiago, lo llevó a un hospital donde dio positivo en la prueba de COVID-19, relató.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Una semana después, Jesús de 8 meses empezó a inquietarse y tuvo una tos seca similar durante varios días. Afortunadamente, nunca tuvo fiebre, dijo su madre, pero el niño Jesús dio positivo. Luego Santiago también se enfermó, y está esperando los resultados de las pruebas para ella y los otros tres hijos de la pareja.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Desde que esto comenzó, hemos intentado con todas nuestras fuerzas cuidar de los niños y de nosotros mismos”, dijo Santiago, cuya familia de seis miembros comparte un apartamento de una habitación. “Lo único que podemos pensar es que sucedió cuando mi marido salió a trabajar. Pero no lo sabemos”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mientras COVID-19 hace estragos en California y en la nación, el número de niños infectados también aumenta, especialmente entre los niños latinos. Los resultados de las pruebas son más altos que los de otros grupos de niños, y representan la mayoría de los casos de California entre los menores de 18 años. Los menores latinos constituyen el 67% de los casos en los que se conoce la raza/etnia, a pesar de ser sólo el 48% de la población infantil del estado.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Son casi 9,700 niños latinos que han sido afectados por el virus, según\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/COVID-19/Race-Ethnicity.aspx\"> datos\u003c/a> del Departamento de Salud Pública de California. Casi una cuarta parte de ellos vive en el condado de Los Ángeles, y probablemente más, ya que ni el estado ni el condado tienen registros completos de raza y etnia de los niños que dan positivo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>En todo el estado, los niños menores de 18 años constituyen el 8% de todos los casos de coronavirus y, hasta ahora, ninguna de las muertes, según el estado. En todo el país, más de 165,000 niños han dado positivo en las pruebas, lo que representa el 7% del total de casos; al menos 58 han muerto,\u003ca href=\"https://downloads.aap.org/AAP/PDF/AAP%20COVID-19%20State-Level%20Data%20Report%207.2.20.pdf\"> según\u003c/a> la Academia Estadounidense de Pediatría.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los expertos médicos dicen que el índice de infección entre los niños latinos es un reflejo de varios factores, puestos al descubierto por la pandemia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Una buena proporción de los latinos son trabajadores esenciales. Tienen que ir a trabajar en sectores que requieren que estén expuestos al virus y a menudo sin equipo de protección personal”, dijo el Dr. Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola, director del Centro para la Reducción de Disparidades en Salud de la universidad UC Davis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Tienden a vivir en ambientes cerrados y reducidos, por lo que, si el sostén de la familia sale y vuelve a casa, a menudo llegan a un hogar en el que hay muchas personas y … no pueden mantener la distancia adecuada si son positivos”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Muchos latinos también carecen de acceso a la atención de la salud y tienen mayores tasas de enfermedades crónicas como la diabetes y el asma, que pueden provocar complicaciones para quienes contraen COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Entre los adultos, los latinos representan más de la mitad de los casos de California y el 42% de las muertes, a pesar de ser sólo el 36% de la población. A nivel nacional, los latinos representan el 35% de los casos positivos, y son el 18% de la población,\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/index.html#demographics\"> según\u003c/a> los Centros para el Control y la Prevención de Enfermedades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los médicos de California que tratan a las familias latinas dijeron que no les sorprendía ver a sus pacientes más pequeños reflejados en los números de casos, dadas las condiciones de trabajo y vivienda de sus padres.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“La buena noticia es que la mayoría de esos niños parecen estar clínicamente bien. La mayoría no están siendo hospitalizados o necesitan cuidados de apoyo”, dijo el Dr. Zarin Tejani, un pediatra de la Clínica Familiar de Venice. “Lo que observamos es que se contagian de alguien en su casa a la que están expuestos”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Florida Santiago, madre de cuatro niños']'Desde que esto comenzó hemos intentado con todas nuestras fuerzas de cuidar de los niños y de nosotros mismos'.[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pero los médicos se preocupan de que si las cifras siguen subiendo, algunos niños podrían verse gravemente afectados. Se ha detectado un raro\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/children-and-youth/2020/06/california-covid-kids-children-inflammatory-syndrome-kawasaki-schools-coronavirus/\"> síndrome inflamatorio multisistémico\u003c/a> posterior a la infección en un número creciente de niños de todo el país que ha sido relacionado con la infección por coronavirus. Los niños que contraen el síndrome llegan al hospital con síntomas que incluyen fiebre, sarpullido y dolor abdominal. Si no se trata adecuadamente, el corazón y los órganos principales de un niño pueden sufrir daños.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>En California, el Departamento de Salud Pública dijo que no recibe información de los condados con respecto a todos los niños que han sido hospitalizados. De los datos que ha recibido, 143 niños que dieron positivo fueron hospitalizados. De ellos, 95 o 66% eran latinos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Como tenemos más niños que dan positivo, mi preocupación es que es cuestión de tiempo antes de que podamos ver un aumento de las muertes en nuestra población más joven y eso puede incluir a los niños”, dijo el Dr. Shunling Tsang, Director Médico Asociado de Calidad del Sistema de Salud de la Universidad de Riverside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los latinos no están genéticamente predispuestos al virus, pero las circunstancias de sus vidas los exponen al coronavirus más que a otros grupos, dijo la Dra. Margarita Loeza, médico de familia de la Clínica Familiar de Venice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Los más pobres llevarán la carga de la enfermedad”, dijo. “Nuestro país tiene una estructura tan injusta que aquí es donde nos encontramos”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag='elcoronavirus' label='Más Información Sobre el Coronavirus']Muchos latinos trabajan en sectores de baja remuneración que requieren asistencia ‒ empleos en el sector de servicios y restaurantes, trabajos agrícolas, fábricas y trabajos de atención de la salud, lo que los pone en mayor riesgo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aunque no todos los latinos viven en la pobreza, muchos\u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/poverty-in-california/#:~:text=In%202017%2C%2023.6%25%20of%20Latinos,39.4%25%20of%20all%20Californians).\"> luchan\u003c/a> por llegar a fin de mes y muchos más se han visto al borde de la crisis financiera desde que comenzó la pandemia. Según\u003ca href=\"https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/04/03/u-s-latinos-among-hardest-hit-by-pay-cuts-job-losses-due-to-coronavirus/\"> una encuesta\u003c/a> realizada en abril por el Pew Research Center, cerca de la mitad de los latinos informan que ellos o alguien de su familia perdió un trabajo o sufrió un recorte salarial desde que comenzó la pandemia, en comparación con un tercio de todos los adultos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Para Joanna, que pidió que no se usara su apellido, el coronavirus llegó a casa con su marido, que trabaja en la construcción en Los Ángeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ella y su hija de 18 meses dieron positivo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Empezó con fiebre, y como su padre sólo tenía lo que pensábamos que era un virus estomacal, pensé que la fiebre era por su dentición”, dijo Joanna. “Fue muy aterrador porque entonces tuvo dos convulsiones y tuve que llevarla a la sala de emergencias”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Su niña de 3 años no tiene síntomas y Joanna trata de que siga así manteniendo a los niños separados, usando una mascarilla y desinfectando su casa regularmente.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Las investigaciones muestran que, entre los que se enferman, ir a trabajar es el factor más importante. Un estudio en el Distrito de la Misión de San Francisco, realizado por la Universidad de California en San Francisco, con organizaciones comunitarias, analizó a 3,000 personas, alrededor del 44% de las cuales eran latinas. Los resultados\u003ca href=\"https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2020/05/417356/initial-results-mission-district-covid-19-testing-announced\"> mostraron\u003c/a> que los latinos representaban casi todas las infecciones, y casi todos ellos dijeron que no podían trabajar desde casa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“El virus explota las vulnerabilidades preexistentes en nuestra sociedad”, dijo la Dra.\u003ca href=\"https://profiles.ucsf.edu/diane.havlir\"> Diane Havlir\u003c/a>, jefa de la División de VIH, Enfermedades Infecciosas y Medicina Global de UCSF en\u003ca href=\"https://zuckerbergsanfranciscogeneral.org/\"> el Hospital General y Centro de Trauma Zuckerberg de San Francisco\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Una de esas vulnerabilidades son las\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/projects/overcrowded-housing-california-coronavirus-essential-worker/\"> condiciones de vivienda\u003c/a>, dijo Aguilar-Gaxiola. Las familias latinas pueden vivir en hogares multigeneracionales o compartir apartamentos con otras familias, lo que hace que el distanciamiento social y el autoaislamiento sean inexistentes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Algunas familias pueden separarse o quedarse con otros parientes, pero es raro, difícil de hacer y causa un aumento del estrés, dijo Michelle Aguilar, pediatra de la Clínica Familiar de Venice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No hay manera de hacer el aislamiento ideal en casas compartidas, con varios miembros de la familia compartiendo una sola habitación o en viviendas multigeneracionales”, explicó Aguilar. “Son tantas las capas de dificultad y estrés que esta pandemia conlleva para nuestras familias”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Un\u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/blog/overcrowded-housing-and-covid-19-risk-among-essential-workers/\"> estudio\u003c/a> del Instituto de Políticas Públicas de California, llevado a cabo en mayo, reveló que los trabajadores esenciales que no podían trabajar en casa con mayor frecuencia vivían en viviendas aglomeradas. Y es más común entre los latinos, especialmente los que trabajan en la agricultura y la preparación de alimentos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cuando el marido de Santiago fue diagnosticado ‒y su hijo de 8 meses resultó positivo‒ su marido dormía en la sala de estar. Ella tomó el dormitorio con los cuatro niños, pero mantener la distancia en un apartamento de una habitación ha sido difícil. Si los tres hijos mayores dan negativo, Santiago dijo que se quedarán con su hermana hasta que el resto de la familia salga libre.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mientras el estado se centra en el creciente número de casos, el Gobernador Gavin Newsom anunció el jueves una nueva campaña de concienciación del servicio público. Incluye anuncios en la televisión y la radio en español y otros idiomas, así como vallas publicitarias para animar a la gente a llevar mascarillas y mantener la distancia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Algunos funcionarios de salud del condado también están intensificando los esfuerzos para dirigirse a los latinos, especialmente en español, dijo Christine Ramsey, portavoz del Sistema de Salud de la Universidad de Riverside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Riverside ya viene trabajando con anuncios de servicio público en español en la televisión y la radio y con vallas publicitarias, y ahora tiene la intención de intensificar esos esfuerzos. Hace poco, el condado lanzó un boletín electrónico semanal en español relacionado con COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tener esa información podría ser crítico, dado otro factor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los latinos tienen un mayor índice de enfermedades crónicas como la diabetes, la hipertensión, el asma y otras condiciones que llevan a más complicaciones cuando se combinan con COVID-19, dijo Aguilar-Gaxiola, quien llamó a la confluencia una “tormenta perfecta”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Y eso también es cierto para los niños. Los niños latinos tienen\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/library/features/hispanic-diabetes.html#:~:text=Hispanic%2FLatino%20children%20and%20teens,best%20chance%20to%20prevent%20it.&text=More%20than%20half%20of%20Hispanic,2%20diabetes%20in%20their%20lifetime.\"> un mayor riesgo\u003c/a> de desarrollar diabetes y obesidad, lo que podría crear complicaciones si se infectan, dijo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aunque ningún menor latino ha muerto de la enfermedad en California, los adultos jóvenes y los que están en edad de ser padres se han enfermado gravemente y han muerto, dejando a los niños sin padres, explicó Aguilar-Gaxiola.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los latinos de 18 a 34 años constituyen el 58% de los casos positivos y casi un tercio de las muertes, a pesar de ser el 45% de los californianos en este grupo de edad. Y entre las personas de 35 a 49 años, los latinos representan el 59% de los casos y más de tres cuartos de las muertes, mientras que sólo representan el 41% de los californianos de esta edad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cuando Joanna, de 30 años, estaba tan enferma con escalofríos, dolor de cabeza, fatiga y debilidad, que se tomó días libres para trabajar desde su casa y quedarse en cama. Dijo que se preguntaba qué pasaría si el virus se tornase peor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Te preocupas por tus hijos, te preguntas qué les pasará si algo sucede”, dijo. “Como madre, sé que nadie va a cuidar de mis hijos mejor que yo”.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Síga CalMatters en Twitter y Facebook. Siga su canal RSS para artículos en español. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>CalMatters.org es una organización de medios de comunicación sin fines de lucro, no partidista, que explica las políticas públicas y los temas políticos de California.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mientras COVID-19 hace estragos en California y en la nación, el número de niños infectados también aumenta, especialmente entre los niños latinos. Los resultados de las pruebas son más altos que los de otros grupos de niños, y representan la mayoría de los casos de California entre los menores de 18 años. Los menores latinos constituyen el 67% de los casos en los que se conoce la raza/etnia, a pesar de ser sólo el 48% de la población infantil del estado.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Son casi 9,700 niños latinos que han sido afectados por el virus, según\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/COVID-19/Race-Ethnicity.aspx\"> datos\u003c/a> del Departamento de Salud Pública de California. Casi una cuarta parte de ellos vive en el condado de Los Ángeles, y probablemente más, ya que ni el estado ni el condado tienen registros completos de raza y etnia de los niños que dan positivo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>En todo el estado, los niños menores de 18 años constituyen el 8% de todos los casos de coronavirus y, hasta ahora, ninguna de las muertes, según el estado. En todo el país, más de 165,000 niños han dado positivo en las pruebas, lo que representa el 7% del total de casos; al menos 58 han muerto,\u003ca href=\"https://downloads.aap.org/AAP/PDF/AAP%20COVID-19%20State-Level%20Data%20Report%207.2.20.pdf\"> según\u003c/a> la Academia Estadounidense de Pediatría.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los expertos médicos dicen que el índice de infección entre los niños latinos es un reflejo de varios factores, puestos al descubierto por la pandemia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Una buena proporción de los latinos son trabajadores esenciales. Tienen que ir a trabajar en sectores que requieren que estén expuestos al virus y a menudo sin equipo de protección personal”, dijo el Dr. Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola, director del Centro para la Reducción de Disparidades en Salud de la universidad UC Davis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Tienden a vivir en ambientes cerrados y reducidos, por lo que, si el sostén de la familia sale y vuelve a casa, a menudo llegan a un hogar en el que hay muchas personas y … no pueden mantener la distancia adecuada si son positivos”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Muchos latinos también carecen de acceso a la atención de la salud y tienen mayores tasas de enfermedades crónicas como la diabetes y el asma, que pueden provocar complicaciones para quienes contraen COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Entre los adultos, los latinos representan más de la mitad de los casos de California y el 42% de las muertes, a pesar de ser sólo el 36% de la población. A nivel nacional, los latinos representan el 35% de los casos positivos, y son el 18% de la población,\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/index.html#demographics\"> según\u003c/a> los Centros para el Control y la Prevención de Enfermedades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los médicos de California que tratan a las familias latinas dijeron que no les sorprendía ver a sus pacientes más pequeños reflejados en los números de casos, dadas las condiciones de trabajo y vivienda de sus padres.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“La buena noticia es que la mayoría de esos niños parecen estar clínicamente bien. La mayoría no están siendo hospitalizados o necesitan cuidados de apoyo”, dijo el Dr. Zarin Tejani, un pediatra de la Clínica Familiar de Venice. “Lo que observamos es que se contagian de alguien en su casa a la que están expuestos”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pero los médicos se preocupan de que si las cifras siguen subiendo, algunos niños podrían verse gravemente afectados. Se ha detectado un raro\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/children-and-youth/2020/06/california-covid-kids-children-inflammatory-syndrome-kawasaki-schools-coronavirus/\"> síndrome inflamatorio multisistémico\u003c/a> posterior a la infección en un número creciente de niños de todo el país que ha sido relacionado con la infección por coronavirus. Los niños que contraen el síndrome llegan al hospital con síntomas que incluyen fiebre, sarpullido y dolor abdominal. Si no se trata adecuadamente, el corazón y los órganos principales de un niño pueden sufrir daños.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>En California, el Departamento de Salud Pública dijo que no recibe información de los condados con respecto a todos los niños que han sido hospitalizados. De los datos que ha recibido, 143 niños que dieron positivo fueron hospitalizados. De ellos, 95 o 66% eran latinos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Como tenemos más niños que dan positivo, mi preocupación es que es cuestión de tiempo antes de que podamos ver un aumento de las muertes en nuestra población más joven y eso puede incluir a los niños”, dijo el Dr. Shunling Tsang, Director Médico Asociado de Calidad del Sistema de Salud de la Universidad de Riverside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los latinos no están genéticamente predispuestos al virus, pero las circunstancias de sus vidas los exponen al coronavirus más que a otros grupos, dijo la Dra. Margarita Loeza, médico de familia de la Clínica Familiar de Venice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Los más pobres llevarán la carga de la enfermedad”, dijo. “Nuestro país tiene una estructura tan injusta que aquí es donde nos encontramos”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Muchos latinos trabajan en sectores de baja remuneración que requieren asistencia ‒ empleos en el sector de servicios y restaurantes, trabajos agrícolas, fábricas y trabajos de atención de la salud, lo que los pone en mayor riesgo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aunque no todos los latinos viven en la pobreza, muchos\u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/poverty-in-california/#:~:text=In%202017%2C%2023.6%25%20of%20Latinos,39.4%25%20of%20all%20Californians).\"> luchan\u003c/a> por llegar a fin de mes y muchos más se han visto al borde de la crisis financiera desde que comenzó la pandemia. Según\u003ca href=\"https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/04/03/u-s-latinos-among-hardest-hit-by-pay-cuts-job-losses-due-to-coronavirus/\"> una encuesta\u003c/a> realizada en abril por el Pew Research Center, cerca de la mitad de los latinos informan que ellos o alguien de su familia perdió un trabajo o sufrió un recorte salarial desde que comenzó la pandemia, en comparación con un tercio de todos los adultos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Para Joanna, que pidió que no se usara su apellido, el coronavirus llegó a casa con su marido, que trabaja en la construcción en Los Ángeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ella y su hija de 18 meses dieron positivo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Empezó con fiebre, y como su padre sólo tenía lo que pensábamos que era un virus estomacal, pensé que la fiebre era por su dentición”, dijo Joanna. “Fue muy aterrador porque entonces tuvo dos convulsiones y tuve que llevarla a la sala de emergencias”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Su niña de 3 años no tiene síntomas y Joanna trata de que siga así manteniendo a los niños separados, usando una mascarilla y desinfectando su casa regularmente.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Las investigaciones muestran que, entre los que se enferman, ir a trabajar es el factor más importante. Un estudio en el Distrito de la Misión de San Francisco, realizado por la Universidad de California en San Francisco, con organizaciones comunitarias, analizó a 3,000 personas, alrededor del 44% de las cuales eran latinas. Los resultados\u003ca href=\"https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2020/05/417356/initial-results-mission-district-covid-19-testing-announced\"> mostraron\u003c/a> que los latinos representaban casi todas las infecciones, y casi todos ellos dijeron que no podían trabajar desde casa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“El virus explota las vulnerabilidades preexistentes en nuestra sociedad”, dijo la Dra.\u003ca href=\"https://profiles.ucsf.edu/diane.havlir\"> Diane Havlir\u003c/a>, jefa de la División de VIH, Enfermedades Infecciosas y Medicina Global de UCSF en\u003ca href=\"https://zuckerbergsanfranciscogeneral.org/\"> el Hospital General y Centro de Trauma Zuckerberg de San Francisco\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Una de esas vulnerabilidades son las\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/projects/overcrowded-housing-california-coronavirus-essential-worker/\"> condiciones de vivienda\u003c/a>, dijo Aguilar-Gaxiola. Las familias latinas pueden vivir en hogares multigeneracionales o compartir apartamentos con otras familias, lo que hace que el distanciamiento social y el autoaislamiento sean inexistentes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Algunas familias pueden separarse o quedarse con otros parientes, pero es raro, difícil de hacer y causa un aumento del estrés, dijo Michelle Aguilar, pediatra de la Clínica Familiar de Venice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No hay manera de hacer el aislamiento ideal en casas compartidas, con varios miembros de la familia compartiendo una sola habitación o en viviendas multigeneracionales”, explicó Aguilar. “Son tantas las capas de dificultad y estrés que esta pandemia conlleva para nuestras familias”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Un\u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/blog/overcrowded-housing-and-covid-19-risk-among-essential-workers/\"> estudio\u003c/a> del Instituto de Políticas Públicas de California, llevado a cabo en mayo, reveló que los trabajadores esenciales que no podían trabajar en casa con mayor frecuencia vivían en viviendas aglomeradas. Y es más común entre los latinos, especialmente los que trabajan en la agricultura y la preparación de alimentos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cuando el marido de Santiago fue diagnosticado ‒y su hijo de 8 meses resultó positivo‒ su marido dormía en la sala de estar. Ella tomó el dormitorio con los cuatro niños, pero mantener la distancia en un apartamento de una habitación ha sido difícil. Si los tres hijos mayores dan negativo, Santiago dijo que se quedarán con su hermana hasta que el resto de la familia salga libre.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mientras el estado se centra en el creciente número de casos, el Gobernador Gavin Newsom anunció el jueves una nueva campaña de concienciación del servicio público. Incluye anuncios en la televisión y la radio en español y otros idiomas, así como vallas publicitarias para animar a la gente a llevar mascarillas y mantener la distancia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Algunos funcionarios de salud del condado también están intensificando los esfuerzos para dirigirse a los latinos, especialmente en español, dijo Christine Ramsey, portavoz del Sistema de Salud de la Universidad de Riverside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Riverside ya viene trabajando con anuncios de servicio público en español en la televisión y la radio y con vallas publicitarias, y ahora tiene la intención de intensificar esos esfuerzos. Hace poco, el condado lanzó un boletín electrónico semanal en español relacionado con COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tener esa información podría ser crítico, dado otro factor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los latinos tienen un mayor índice de enfermedades crónicas como la diabetes, la hipertensión, el asma y otras condiciones que llevan a más complicaciones cuando se combinan con COVID-19, dijo Aguilar-Gaxiola, quien llamó a la confluencia una “tormenta perfecta”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Y eso también es cierto para los niños. Los niños latinos tienen\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/library/features/hispanic-diabetes.html#:~:text=Hispanic%2FLatino%20children%20and%20teens,best%20chance%20to%20prevent%20it.&text=More%20than%20half%20of%20Hispanic,2%20diabetes%20in%20their%20lifetime.\"> un mayor riesgo\u003c/a> de desarrollar diabetes y obesidad, lo que podría crear complicaciones si se infectan, dijo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aunque ningún menor latino ha muerto de la enfermedad en California, los adultos jóvenes y los que están en edad de ser padres se han enfermado gravemente y han muerto, dejando a los niños sin padres, explicó Aguilar-Gaxiola.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los latinos de 18 a 34 años constituyen el 58% de los casos positivos y casi un tercio de las muertes, a pesar de ser el 45% de los californianos en este grupo de edad. 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"content": "\u003cp>It’s the new conversation starter: Have you been tested?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Was it hard to get an appointment? How quickly did you get results?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Californians rush to get tested to reassure themselves and their families they aren’t carrying the virus, many have echoed frustrations: Appointments that are weeks out. Tests being denied. Growing delays for results, and lost tests. Confusion about what insurance will and will not cover.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others have had a mostly seamless experience — in and out of a testing center in less than 30 minutes and results within a day or two. Some have even opted to pay more for a “rapid test” and had results within the hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a CalMatters survey, 170 respondents from Humboldt to San Diego counties shared a wealth of hit-or-miss testing experiences from “super easy!” to “a circus.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coronavirus testing in California has been a challenge since day one. From the pandemic’s beginning, a shortage of supplies allowed for very limited testing and the state set a modest goal of 8,000 tests by the end of March. Testing has since expanded, with the state tallying more than 100,000 tests a day. The demand, however, is placing pressure on the supply chain, forcing the state to rethink its strategy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom is expected to announce a new testing game plan on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Dr. David Witt, national infectious disease leader for Kaiser Permanente\"]'Given the current surge in cases under way, it is highly likely that testing will continue to be a challenge, one that is likely to get worse before it improves.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are not enough machines and equipment in existence to meet the current national and global need for diagnostic testing,” said Dr. David Witt, national infectious disease leader for Kaiser Permanente. “Given the current surge in cases under way, it is highly likely that testing will continue to be a challenge, one that is likely to get worse before it improves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As supplies fluctuate and cases surge in different communities, testing priorities can change, Witt said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among respondents in the CalMatters survey, some reported technical hiccups that forced them to return to a site twice or more before actually being tested. Two roommates from Fresno who requested a test at the same time from the same site got appointments almost a week apart.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carson Blaker of Los Angeles sat in his car with his windows rolled up for over an hour in 90-degree heat, something he wished he’d known because his car doesn’t have air conditioning. Those without cars said walk-up testing can be harder to come by.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miles Campbell of Woodland learned on June 25 that a coworker at the supermarket warehouse where he works had tested positive for the coronavirus. He decided to get tested because he lives with his parents and didn’t want to potentially expose them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although he’d heard testing was free, he called his insurance to make sure he wouldn’t be surprised by a bill. He said the representative told him it would cover the cost only if the test was ordered by his primary care provider.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campbell, 23, doesn’t have a primary doctor and didn’t have symptoms, so finding a provider to prescribe the test was a challenge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the time he got tested on July 4, he was more than a week into his quarantine period — still not at work and potentially exposing his parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I definitely don’t think it was worth it. I’m going to work tomorrow, my 14 days are up, and I still don’t have the results,” he said last Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Gov. Gavin Newsom\"]'It’s an interesting moment. There’s some supply chain concerns, at the same time, we’re doing a record number of tests.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campbell’s story is also one of an “essential worker,” which includes food production and grocery store employees. Yet accessing a test was no easier for him. Essential workers, with and without symptoms, are on “Tier 1” of the state’s current testing guidelines, which means they should be prioritized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sherrie Totoki, 33, got tested at San Francisco Community College. She was told she’d have results in two to three days, so she made plans to visit her sister who had just given birth in Los Angeles. After a week with no results, she was told the lab never received her test.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said that when she got to Los Angeles, she kept away from her family until she found an urgent care center in Pasadena that offered a new type of diagnostic test, known as an antigen test, designed for rapid detection of the virus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An hour and $125 later, she had a negative result. Later that day, she got a second message from her original free test in San Francisco, notifying her that her test had been found. The result: negative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was worth it because I wanted to see my nephew, but I spent a lot of time trying to get tested,” Totoki said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For 74-year-old Andy Lagomarsino of Stockton, waiting for results wasn’t the problem — it was the confusion around how to initiate the test. He said he drove to Sutter Gould Medical Foundation in late June. He was directed to drive up to a parking space and call the number on the parking post for further instructions. No appointment was required; it seemed easy enough, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Lagomarsino tells it, he spent more than an hour on the phone, but couldn’t get anyone to answer. He left and came back a second day. Then a third. “Eventually I got tested, but I had to make a big stink,” he said. “Trying to get tested was the biggest circus.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His results came in the next day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an effort to improve testing, California has established a system of more than 1,000 public and private testing sites. The state also put out a testing information website, where people can find testing locations nearby. Many residents jumped at the chance, if only for peace of mind. In the CalMatters survey, 84% of respondents said they sought testing even though they didn’t have symptoms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California, along with the rest of the country, is again experiencing a shortage of supplies needed for testing, resulting in canceled appointments, the closing of test sites and longer waits for results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On July 4, public health officials asked California laboratories to prioritize patients with symptoms and those in hospitals, nursing homes or prisons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s an interesting moment,” Newsom said during a press briefing last week. “There’s some supply chain concerns, at the same time, we’re doing a record number of tests.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"coronavirus-testing\" label=\"related coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a preview of his coming announcement, Newsom said the state is looking to increase testing in local labs and hospitals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some of these systems have also expressed concerns. UC Davis Health said it doesn’t have enough kits to help with testing outside its system. Testing of its own patients and its employees will continue as is. Sutter Health in Northern California said it’s also looking for supplies from various vendors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser Permanente said that it’s working toward a goal of 20,000 tests a day. “We remain concerned, however, about the availability of needed testing supplies in the coming weeks and months,” Witt said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom said he doesn’t want the shortages and backlogs to dissuade people from seeking testing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Look, if you have symptoms, if you’re in a high risk category … we want to encourage you to get tested, not be discouraged in some cases by some of these delays,” he said. “Know that we have a team working overtime on this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>CalMatters health care coverage is supported by a grant from the Blue Shield of California Foundation.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>California’s housing crisis is nothing new for many Black Californians. Systemic racism in public policy and the private housing market has long made finding a safe, stable and affordable home in the Golden State a more difficult prospect for its roughly 2.2 million Black residents than for white people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legacy of New Deal-era \u003ca href=\"https://www.urbandisplacement.org/redlining\">redlining\u003c/a> — which deemed Black neighborhoods undesirable for federally-backed mortgages — is demonstrably visible not only where Black Californians live now, but where gentrification and displacement pressures across the state are most acute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-affordable-housing-constitution-20190203-story.html\">Article 34\u003c/a>, a still unrepealed clause in the state Constitution that requires local referendums before lower-income housing can be built in a California city, kept subsidized housing disproportionately utilized by Black and brown residents out of affluent, predominantly white communities for decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while state leaders champion the strides the state has made toward diversity and equality relative to other parts of the country, evidence of overt racial bias in California’s housing market persists, including in its progressive coastal bastions. A home in a Black-majority part of the Bay Area is worth about \u003ca href=\"https://www.brookings.edu/research/devaluation-of-assets-in-black-neighborhoods/\">$164,000 less\u003c/a> than an equivalent home — same size, same quality of school system, same access to parks and other neighborhood amenities — in a neighborhood with very few Black people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When they say real estate is about location, location, location — it’s actually about race,” said Mary M. Lee, former deputy director for the equity-focused research and advocacy group PolicyLink and veteran advocate for fair housing policies in Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It isn’t the South, it’s not Cleveland, but historically (Los Angeles) has been segregated,” said Lee. “And California — I like to say people live next to each other, not with each other.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the past decade, the astronomical rise in California’s rent and home prices have added a new dimension to the housing crisis experienced by generations of Black Californians. Here’s what that looks like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Over-represented in homeless counts\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overall, California has a relatively small Black population compared to other states. While non-Hispanic Black residents comprise more than 10% of highly-populated places like New York and Texas, they make up only about 5.5% of Californians, a proportion similar to the Black populations of Kansas or Wisconsin.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Mary M. Lee, deputy director, PolicyLink\"]‘The public sector, public systems are killing Black people everyday in broad daylight when they don’t house them.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But of the more than \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/explainers/californias-homelessness-crisis-explained/\">150,000 Californians\u003c/a> who experience homelessness on any given night, nearly 30% are Black people. Several Bay Area regions, including San Francisco and Marin County, have some of the highest rates of Black homelessness in the country. No major California ethnic group is as over-represented in the state’s homeless count as Black people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11825555\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/CalMattersChart1-800x628.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"628\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/CalMattersChart1-800x628.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/CalMattersChart1-160x126.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/CalMattersChart1.jpg 989w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cbr>\nWhile the overrepresentation of Black people among the unhoused is a national trend, homeless Black Californians are more likely to be sleeping outside than unhoused Black residents of other states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The public sector, public systems are killing Black people everyday in broad daylight when they don’t house them,” said Lee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A constellation of factors contribute to high rates of Black homelessness in California beyond the high cost of living: higher rates of poverty, lack of employment opportunities and systemic disparities in California’s mental health and criminal justice systems.[aside tag=\"housing, homelessness\" label=\"More housing coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But racial disparities are also prevalent in efforts to keep Black Californians off the streets once they’ve been rehoused. \u003ca href=\"https://www.lahsa.org/news?article=514-groundbreaking-report-on-black-people-and-homelessness-released\">An analysis\u003c/a> of Black homelessness in Los Angeles County found that while Black people were rehoused at the same rates as other ethnic groups, they were more likely to return to homelessness than any other demographic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Housing cost burden falls on Black Californians\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California is an extremely expensive state. More than 40% of its households fit the federal definition of “housing cost-burdened,” with rent or mortgage payments eating up more than 30% of residents’ income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On average, Black Californians see a larger chunk of their paychecks going to housing costs than any of the state’s other major demographic groups. Nearly 50% of Black Californians lived in households that were cost-burdened in 2018; nearly a quarter paid more than 50% of their income towards housing costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11825556\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/CalMattersChart2-800x630.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/CalMattersChart2-800x630.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/CalMattersChart2-160x126.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/CalMattersChart2.jpg 987w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Black households pushed to suburbs\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When comparing how far apart Black, white and other ethnic groups live from one another, California cities are typically less segregated than their counterparts in the Northeast or Midwest. Most parts of the state have also seen improving rates of residential integration over the past half-century, mirroring a national trend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But part of the decline in California racial segregation is driven by gentrification and displacement pressures upon Black communities in urban cores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not just more affluent, younger, white Californians moving into recently redeveloped downtowns that are paradoxically driving down segregation rates. Rapid accelerations in housing costs over the past few decades have driven many Black renters out of larger coastal cities and into older, formerly predominantly white suburbs. While the Black populations of parts of major cities like Los Angeles and Oakland have declined, far-flung suburbs like Palmdale in Southern California and \u003ca href=\"https://www.urbandisplacement.org/past-projects\">Antioch in the Bay Area\u003c/a> have seen rising numbers of Black families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“African Americans and to a lesser extent Latinos are moving to suburban areas at the fastest clip we’ve observed since the civil rights era,” said Michael Stoll, professor of public policy at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11825557\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/CalMattersChart3-800x365.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/CalMattersChart3-800x365.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/CalMattersChart3-160x73.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/CalMattersChart3.jpg 992w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cbr>\nWhile more diverse now than they were in the mid-20th century, these suburbs are not the high-opportunity enclaves associated with high-quality school systems and upward economic mobility. And Stoll stresses that continued patterns of segregation, gentrification and displacement have practical impacts for how white, Black and other ethnic groups view one another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are consequences to segregation,” said Stoll. “There are questions around social cohesion, and that can’t be any more important than what we’re observing in the current debates we’re having around racial and social justice. It’s hard to become a socially cohesive place if people are living in different neighborhoods and not being able to communicate and work together around common interests.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Wealth gap starker than income gap\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Income gaps aside, disparities in wealth are even starker — and more consequential.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Wealth gives a cushion if something unexpected happens. If your car breaks down or something happens to your house, you don’t dip into your income, you dip into your savings” said Esi Hutchful, policy analyst at the California Budget and Policy Center. “It’s your wealth that allows you to invest in yourself, in your business, in the next generation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reliable wealth data is unfortunately severely lacking at the state level. But results from one financial survey of households in the Los Angeles metro area illustrates just how dramatic the wealth gap is for Black households.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11825558\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/CalMattersChart4-800x610.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"610\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/CalMattersChart4-800x610.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/CalMattersChart4-160x122.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/CalMattersChart4.jpg 1002w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cbr>\nThe key to wealth accumulation for most U.S. households is owning a home. That’s especially true in California, where skyrocketing home values have transformed homes in formerly middle-class neighborhoods into million-dollar nest eggs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those wealth gains have largely been accrued by non-Black homeowners. While more than 60% of white California households and 58% of Asian California households are homeowners, only 33% of Black households own the home they live in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As predatory lenders disproportionately targeted Black would-be homeowners across the country, the late 2000’s foreclosure crisis decimated Black homeownership nationally. While homeownership rates have somewhat rebounded for other demographic groups, Black homeownership has flatlined (although \u003ca href=\"http://zillow.mediaroom.com/2020-02-18-Encouraging-Signs-For-Black-Homeownership-Rate-as-it-Rebounds-From-Historic-Lows\">very recent data\u003c/a> suggest some gains).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lost equity in Black homes\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can also see signs of systemic racism in the home values for Black households that do own homes\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Homes in majority Black neighborhoods across the country are \u003ca href=\"https://www.brookings.edu/research/devaluation-of-assets-in-black-neighborhoods/\">undervalued\u003c/a> compared to equivalent homes in neighborhoods with few Black residents, controlling for factors like the quality of the local school district and access to neighborhood amenities like parks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Bay Area has the largest equity gap of any major metro area in the country between comparable homes in comparable Black and non-Black neighborhoods: On average, homes in Black-majority neighborhoods are devalued by about $164,000. In the Los Angeles area, homes in Black-majority neighborhoods are devalued by about $70,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have appraisals, you have lending practices, you have real estate agent behavior,” said Andre Perry, researcher at the Brookings Institute. “We clearly see that there is discrimination baked in the practices that come out in the research.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How the pandemic could exacerbate the housing crisis\u003cbr>\nThe economic fallout from the novel coronavirus pandemic has added a new, pressing dimension to Black Californians’ housing crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With Black households already disproportionately more likely to have high rent burdens, tenants’ rights groups fear a wave of evictions from missed rent payments could be coming as expanded unemployment benefits are scheduled to expire next month. In a Census survey conducted at the beginning of June, less than half of Black California renters who responded to the question expressed high confidence they would be able to make next month’s rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11825559\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/CalMattersChart5-800x599.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"599\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/CalMattersChart5-800x599.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/CalMattersChart5-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/CalMattersChart5-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/CalMattersChart5-536x402.jpg 536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/CalMattersChart5.jpg 1004w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cbr>\nLee says the pandemic has laid bare the racial divides the state has long struggled to close.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These systems aren’t broken, this is how they were designed to work,” she said. “We’re catching up to the reality and understanding of how horrible that really is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/\">CalMatters.org\u003c/a> is a nonprofit, nonpartisan media venture explaining California policies and politics.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>California’s housing crisis is nothing new for many Black Californians. Systemic racism in public policy and the private housing market has long made finding a safe, stable and affordable home in the Golden State a more difficult prospect for its roughly 2.2 million Black residents than for white people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legacy of New Deal-era \u003ca href=\"https://www.urbandisplacement.org/redlining\">redlining\u003c/a> — which deemed Black neighborhoods undesirable for federally-backed mortgages — is demonstrably visible not only where Black Californians live now, but where gentrification and displacement pressures across the state are most acute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-affordable-housing-constitution-20190203-story.html\">Article 34\u003c/a>, a still unrepealed clause in the state Constitution that requires local referendums before lower-income housing can be built in a California city, kept subsidized housing disproportionately utilized by Black and brown residents out of affluent, predominantly white communities for decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while state leaders champion the strides the state has made toward diversity and equality relative to other parts of the country, evidence of overt racial bias in California’s housing market persists, including in its progressive coastal bastions. A home in a Black-majority part of the Bay Area is worth about \u003ca href=\"https://www.brookings.edu/research/devaluation-of-assets-in-black-neighborhoods/\">$164,000 less\u003c/a> than an equivalent home — same size, same quality of school system, same access to parks and other neighborhood amenities — in a neighborhood with very few Black people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When they say real estate is about location, location, location — it’s actually about race,” said Mary M. Lee, former deputy director for the equity-focused research and advocacy group PolicyLink and veteran advocate for fair housing policies in Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But of the more than \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/explainers/californias-homelessness-crisis-explained/\">150,000 Californians\u003c/a> who experience homelessness on any given night, nearly 30% are Black people. Several Bay Area regions, including San Francisco and Marin County, have some of the highest rates of Black homelessness in the country. No major California ethnic group is as over-represented in the state’s homeless count as Black people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11825555\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/CalMattersChart1-800x628.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"628\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/CalMattersChart1-800x628.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/CalMattersChart1-160x126.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/CalMattersChart1.jpg 989w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cbr>\nWhile the overrepresentation of Black people among the unhoused is a national trend, homeless Black Californians are more likely to be sleeping outside than unhoused Black residents of other states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The public sector, public systems are killing Black people everyday in broad daylight when they don’t house them,” said Lee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A constellation of factors contribute to high rates of Black homelessness in California beyond the high cost of living: higher rates of poverty, lack of employment opportunities and systemic disparities in California’s mental health and criminal justice systems.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But racial disparities are also prevalent in efforts to keep Black Californians off the streets once they’ve been rehoused. \u003ca href=\"https://www.lahsa.org/news?article=514-groundbreaking-report-on-black-people-and-homelessness-released\">An analysis\u003c/a> of Black homelessness in Los Angeles County found that while Black people were rehoused at the same rates as other ethnic groups, they were more likely to return to homelessness than any other demographic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Housing cost burden falls on Black Californians\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California is an extremely expensive state. More than 40% of its households fit the federal definition of “housing cost-burdened,” with rent or mortgage payments eating up more than 30% of residents’ income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On average, Black Californians see a larger chunk of their paychecks going to housing costs than any of the state’s other major demographic groups. Nearly 50% of Black Californians lived in households that were cost-burdened in 2018; nearly a quarter paid more than 50% of their income towards housing costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11825556\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/CalMattersChart2-800x630.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/CalMattersChart2-800x630.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/CalMattersChart2-160x126.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/CalMattersChart2.jpg 987w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Black households pushed to suburbs\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When comparing how far apart Black, white and other ethnic groups live from one another, California cities are typically less segregated than their counterparts in the Northeast or Midwest. Most parts of the state have also seen improving rates of residential integration over the past half-century, mirroring a national trend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But part of the decline in California racial segregation is driven by gentrification and displacement pressures upon Black communities in urban cores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not just more affluent, younger, white Californians moving into recently redeveloped downtowns that are paradoxically driving down segregation rates. Rapid accelerations in housing costs over the past few decades have driven many Black renters out of larger coastal cities and into older, formerly predominantly white suburbs. While the Black populations of parts of major cities like Los Angeles and Oakland have declined, far-flung suburbs like Palmdale in Southern California and \u003ca href=\"https://www.urbandisplacement.org/past-projects\">Antioch in the Bay Area\u003c/a> have seen rising numbers of Black families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“African Americans and to a lesser extent Latinos are moving to suburban areas at the fastest clip we’ve observed since the civil rights era,” said Michael Stoll, professor of public policy at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11825557\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/CalMattersChart3-800x365.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/CalMattersChart3-800x365.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/CalMattersChart3-160x73.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/CalMattersChart3.jpg 992w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cbr>\nWhile more diverse now than they were in the mid-20th century, these suburbs are not the high-opportunity enclaves associated with high-quality school systems and upward economic mobility. And Stoll stresses that continued patterns of segregation, gentrification and displacement have practical impacts for how white, Black and other ethnic groups view one another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are consequences to segregation,” said Stoll. “There are questions around social cohesion, and that can’t be any more important than what we’re observing in the current debates we’re having around racial and social justice. It’s hard to become a socially cohesive place if people are living in different neighborhoods and not being able to communicate and work together around common interests.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Wealth gap starker than income gap\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Income gaps aside, disparities in wealth are even starker — and more consequential.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Wealth gives a cushion if something unexpected happens. If your car breaks down or something happens to your house, you don’t dip into your income, you dip into your savings” said Esi Hutchful, policy analyst at the California Budget and Policy Center. “It’s your wealth that allows you to invest in yourself, in your business, in the next generation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reliable wealth data is unfortunately severely lacking at the state level. But results from one financial survey of households in the Los Angeles metro area illustrates just how dramatic the wealth gap is for Black households.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11825558\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/CalMattersChart4-800x610.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"610\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/CalMattersChart4-800x610.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/CalMattersChart4-160x122.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/CalMattersChart4.jpg 1002w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cbr>\nThe key to wealth accumulation for most U.S. households is owning a home. That’s especially true in California, where skyrocketing home values have transformed homes in formerly middle-class neighborhoods into million-dollar nest eggs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those wealth gains have largely been accrued by non-Black homeowners. While more than 60% of white California households and 58% of Asian California households are homeowners, only 33% of Black households own the home they live in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As predatory lenders disproportionately targeted Black would-be homeowners across the country, the late 2000’s foreclosure crisis decimated Black homeownership nationally. While homeownership rates have somewhat rebounded for other demographic groups, Black homeownership has flatlined (although \u003ca href=\"http://zillow.mediaroom.com/2020-02-18-Encouraging-Signs-For-Black-Homeownership-Rate-as-it-Rebounds-From-Historic-Lows\">very recent data\u003c/a> suggest some gains).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lost equity in Black homes\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can also see signs of systemic racism in the home values for Black households that do own homes\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Homes in majority Black neighborhoods across the country are \u003ca href=\"https://www.brookings.edu/research/devaluation-of-assets-in-black-neighborhoods/\">undervalued\u003c/a> compared to equivalent homes in neighborhoods with few Black residents, controlling for factors like the quality of the local school district and access to neighborhood amenities like parks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Bay Area has the largest equity gap of any major metro area in the country between comparable homes in comparable Black and non-Black neighborhoods: On average, homes in Black-majority neighborhoods are devalued by about $164,000. In the Los Angeles area, homes in Black-majority neighborhoods are devalued by about $70,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have appraisals, you have lending practices, you have real estate agent behavior,” said Andre Perry, researcher at the Brookings Institute. “We clearly see that there is discrimination baked in the practices that come out in the research.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How the pandemic could exacerbate the housing crisis\u003cbr>\nThe economic fallout from the novel coronavirus pandemic has added a new, pressing dimension to Black Californians’ housing crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With Black households already disproportionately more likely to have high rent burdens, tenants’ rights groups fear a wave of evictions from missed rent payments could be coming as expanded unemployment benefits are scheduled to expire next month. In a Census survey conducted at the beginning of June, less than half of Black California renters who responded to the question expressed high confidence they would be able to make next month’s rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11825559\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/CalMattersChart5-800x599.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"599\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/CalMattersChart5-800x599.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/CalMattersChart5-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/CalMattersChart5-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/CalMattersChart5-536x402.jpg 536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/CalMattersChart5.jpg 1004w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cbr>\nLee says the pandemic has laid bare the racial divides the state has long struggled to close.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These systems aren’t broken, this is how they were designed to work,” she said. “We’re catching up to the reality and understanding of how horrible that really is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Families with children who qualify for free or reduced-price meals at their schools — regardless of immigration status — may notice something in the mail to help them buy groceries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California is issuing one-time food stamps with credits of up to $365 per child to help qualifying families get through the coronavirus outbreak. The Pandemic-Electronic Benefit Transfer card, or P-EBT, from the Department of Social Services is an emergency disaster benefit that can be used to buy food and groceries, including online at Walmart and Amazon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first cards arrived last week for families receiving CalFresh, Medi-Cal or foster care benefits as a supplement to their EBT card. The second phase, which starts Friday, requires low-income families to apply \u003ca href=\"https://ca.p-ebt.org/\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deadline to apply is June 30.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Betzabe Castillo, mother to a 9-year-old son\"]'It is very difficult because rent does not wait, the bills do not either. We are surviving day to day.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The timing of this extra boost comes as many families struggle to provide nutritious meals for their children while schools are closed in response to the novel coronavirus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Betzabe Castillo, who has a 9-year-old son at a public school in Stockton, California, was among the first to receive the P-EBT cards. She welcomes the help since her husband is the only one bringing in an income. Their rent is nearly $2,000 a month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is very difficult because rent does not wait, the bills do not either,” Castillo said. “We are surviving day to day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berenice Burgos, who has two children, ages 9 and 4, also received a P-EBT card last week. She wasn’t aware of the extra help but was grateful when it arrived in the mail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Right now I am not working and my husband, who is a mechanic, got his hours cut,” said Burgos, who lives in Concord, in Northern California. “It is very good help, especially for my children – to buy their milk, cereal and fruit because they want to eat all day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Much Needed Help While Schools Are Closed\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Jason Montiel, a spokesman for the social services department, said the state is offering additional assistance to children who are eligible for free or reduced-price meals while school is closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cards are distributed in two phases. The first batch of about 2 million went to families who enrolled in CalFresh, Medi-Cal or foster care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For this phase, the beneficiaries do not have to do anything and the card will be mailed to them,” Montiel said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The second phase requires residents to apply. The state projects an additional 1.8 million more children are eligible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"resource\" label=\"coronavirus resources\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State officials say the card is available to eligible families regardless of a student’s immigration status or their parents’ status. It also doesn’t impact whether children are picking up grab-and-go meals from schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The food card isn’t considered a public charge by the Department of Homeland Security. However, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services may consider several factors under its public charge test. Those who have questions should seek legal advice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State officials also want recipients to be on alert for scams. Since the P-EBT cards began arriving in the mail, some recipients have received calls from people posing as social service representatives seeking personal information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Department of Social Services will not contact clients or ask for personal information,” said Montiel. “We will not request a Social Security number or any document that is shared with us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>How Do I Learn More?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>For more information about the P-EBT card visit:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ca.p-ebt.org/en/info\">https://ca.p-ebt.org/en/info\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those interested should apply between May 22 and June 30:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ca.p-ebt.org/\">https://ca.p-ebt.org/ \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you have questions regarding public charge, visit:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://covid19.ca.gov/img/wp/listos_covid_19_immigrant_guidance_en_daf.pdf\">https://covid19.ca.gov/img/wp/listos_covid_19_immigrant_guidance_en_daf.pdf\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Jacqueline García is a reporter with La Opinión. This article is part of \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/projects/the-california-divide/\">The California Divide\u003c/a>, a collaboration among newsrooms examining income inequity and economic survival in California.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Alongside the beachgoers denied, the indignant gun shop owners and the house-bound pastors, Gov. Gavin Newsom now has yet another ticked-off challenger to face in court: an extremely disappointed bride-to-be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the latest filing to challenge the state’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, Monica Six, an Orange County resident, is suing California’s Democratic governor for civil rights violations after his executive order “caused her significant financial hardship as well as ruined her idyllic wedding plans to get married in a special anniversary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In suing the state, Six is in crowded company. The state of California, and Newsom in particular, are facing down more than a dozen lawsuits over their response to the coronavirus pandemic. \u003ca href=\"#tracker\">Find details on all of them in the tracker below\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The courtroom backlash is no surprise. The restrictions that the governor’s March 19 stay-at-home order have imposed on California civic and economic life are without precedent in state history. Many public health experts, both inside and outside the administration, say such drastic measures are necessary to tamp down the coronavirus pandemic and keep hospitals from becoming overwhelmed. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But drastic measures they are. Beyond canceled weddings, it has spelled financial calamity for households, business owners, nonprofits and city governments across the state. They have also tested the limits of executive power and the negotiability of many constitutional rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the lawsuits against Newsom challenge the broad restrictions imposed by the shelter-in-place orders. Others contest the governor’s offer of state assistance to undocumented immigrants, his targeted closure of beaches in Orange County, the refusal to list gun shops as essential services and the arrest of two protestors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though the state is taking flak from an array of aggrieved Californians — gondoliers, conservative politicians and a Butte County musician reduced to playing his saxophone over Zoom are among the plaintiffs — there is a common denominator for most of these lawsuits: Her name is Harmeet Dhillon. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the more than a dozen shutdown lawsuits against Newsom thus far, the San Francisco attorney and Republican Party bigwig is representing plaintiffs in nine of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor, Dhillon said, “went from ‘let’s flatten the curve for two weeks’ to ‘let’s put everyone under house arrest until we find a cure.’ ” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 2,500 Californians have died of COVID-19, the respiratory disease caused by the novel coronavirus. Dhillon said she does not make light of that tragedy, but does not believe it justifies shuttering society.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We do not shut down our highways because people die in car accidents,” she said. “We do not ban commerce because people die of lung disease after buying cigarettes. There’s a whole range of health issues that we manage with an acceptable level of risk.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11817690\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/BANG_Harmeet-Dhillon-James-Damore_051120-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11817690\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/BANG_Harmeet-Dhillon-James-Damore_051120-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/BANG_Harmeet-Dhillon-James-Damore_051120-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/BANG_Harmeet-Dhillon-James-Damore_051120-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/BANG_Harmeet-Dhillon-James-Damore_051120-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/BANG_Harmeet-Dhillon-James-Damore_051120.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">James Damore, a former Google employee who wrote a controversial diversity memo, appears alongside attorney Harmeet Dhillon during a press conference on Jan. 8, 2018, in San Francisco, announcing a lawsuit against his former employer. \u003ccite>(Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Public health experts \u003ca href=\"https://www.propublica.org/article/this-coronavirus-is-unlike-anything-in-our-lifetime-and-we-have-to-stop-comparing-it-to-the-flu\">argue\u003c/a> that because the coronavirus is so contagious, unlike car accidents and lung cancer, “managing” the risk of an overwhelmed medical system requires tighter restrictions on social control. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A recent study published with the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nber.org/papers/w26992?utm_campaign=Economic%20Studies&utm_medium=email&utm_content=87636981&utm_source=hs_email\">National Bureau of Economic Research\u003c/a> estimated that the state’s shelter-in-place order resulted in 1,661 fewer deaths, which, the authors reasoned, works out to “about 400 job losses per life saved.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dhillon has long played the role of counter-puncher to the progressive ambitions of state Democrats, who now hold every state constitutional office and a big supermajority in the Legislature. When lawmakers passed \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/blogs/california-election-2020/2019/11/california-trump-tax-return-law-struck-down/\">a bill requiring President Trump\u003c/a> to publish his taxes in order to appear on the ballot, it was Dhillon, the Republican Party’s national committeewoman from California, who filed suit on behalf of the California GOP. Last year, she \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/blogs/california-election-2020/2019/10/california-trump-taxes-illegal-votes-fraud-tax-return-conservatives-lawsuit/\">sued Secretary of State Alex Padilla\u003c/a> for, she argued, failing to do enough to exclude non-citizens from county voter rolls. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along the way, Dhillon has cobbled together a small phalanx of California Republicans to help her wage war against the liberal powers that be. Mark Meuser, who ran for secretary of state in 2018 on an anti-voter-fraud plank, is on her team. In a handful of the pandemic-era cases she’s joined by Bill Essayli — a young former prosecutor \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/blogs/2018/05/im-not-running-for-president-how-the-california-republican-party-tries-to-put-on-a-new-face-in-the-era-of-trump/\">who unsuccessfully ran for Assembly\u003c/a> in 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"More Coronavirus Coverage\" tag=\"coronavirus\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even when she isn’t suing the state, Dhillon’s name has a way of popping up whenever a new culture war flashpoint breaks out in California. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recall when software engineer James Damore sued Google after being fired for \u003ca href=\"https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3914586/Googles-Ideological-Echo-Chamber.pdf\">circulating a memo\u003c/a> asserting that the underrepresentation of women in tech had a biological basis? Or the student groups who took \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2017/04/24/lawsuit-filed-against-uc-berkeley-for-canceling-ann-coulter-speech/\">UC Berkeley\u003c/a> to court for canceling a planned talk by conservative firebrand Ann Coulter, citing security concerns? Or the Trump supporters in San Jose who got roughed up by counter protesters and then \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/Trump-fans-assaulted-outside-San-Jose-rally-sue-8378730.php\">sued the police\u003c/a>? Or the Orange County \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2019/11/abortion-law-california-settlement-nifla-becerra-daleiden-sekulow/\">anti-abortion activist\u003c/a> who sued a \u003ca href=\"http://www.centerformedicalprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/DaleidenCMPvGinde.pdf\">former Planned Parenthood doctor\u003c/a> for badmouthing him during a TEDx talk?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dhillon is the plaintiffs’ lawyer in each of these cases. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dhillon is in fact a regular on the conservative media circuit. She’s a contributor to Fox News and a frequent guest on that network’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” and the “Ingraham Angle,” whose host, Laura Ingraham, Dhillon has cited as a “\u003ca href=\"https://www.dailysignal.com/2020/03/19/problematic-women-ladies-know-your-first-amendment-rights/\">long-time mentor\u003c/a>.” At the Conservative Political Action Conference last year, Dhillon earned what might be the most coveted of all endorsements on the American right: “She’s a great lawyer,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4783817/user-clip-donald-trump-hayden-williams-cpac-speech&fbclid=IwAR3JAUiQUeswjWY2e9tuV8-ruobH2fb6lz4BbBoqz274XayhQAwVgaelkzc\">President Trump said to Hayden Williams\u003c/a>, a conservative activist who was physically assaulted on UC Berkeley’s campus. “Sue the college, the university, and maybe sue the state.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She hasn’t. “Not yet,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Born in India, Dhillon grew up in North Carolina before going to Dartmouth College where, like many members of the American right’s intelligentsia, she edited the Dartmouth Review. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After going to the University of Virginia law school and working at various firms in New York and London, she opened her own office in San Francisco in 2006. Though her views have skewed right all her life, with a practice in the Bay Area, she has not always seamlessly fit in with the rest of her party. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the one, there’s the fact that she is a Sikh woman of color in a party dominated by white men. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the height of the War on Terror, she sat on the board of the American Civil Liberties Union’s Northern California chapter, to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/politics/joegarofoli/article/S-F-GOP-leader-slammed-by-Republicans-4254447.php\">chagrin of some GOP stalwarts\u003c/a>. When she ran for state Senate in San Francisco in 2012, she \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Republicans-seek-inroads-in-liberal-San-Francisco-3416932.php\">made an effort\u003c/a> to steer clear of incendiary social issues like abortion. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You don’t hear much aversion to controversy from her these days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, more shutdown lawsuits against Newsom may soon be on the way. Dhillon said her office has been inundated with requests from potential clients. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have some quality control. We don’t just crank these out like sausages, even if it seems that way.” she said. “People are getting fed up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Harmeet Dhillon, lawyer\"]‘We have some quality control. We don’t just crank these out like sausages, even if it seems that way.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the cases brought by Dhillon are paid for by a nonprofit she founded, the Center for American Liberty. Dhillon said her law office is one of many hired by the center and that her office in turn works with other clients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Funding for the center, which pays for her office’s legal services, comes from individual donors whose contributions to the nonprofit are tax exempt. Dhillon said that she is probably the top donor and that “more than 50 percent” of the center’s money comes from her seed funding and three other major donors, whom she would not name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Filings with the IRS show that the center, under its prior name Publius Lex, received less than $50,000 in contributions in 2018 and was therefore not required to itemize its contributors. 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As both the state and counties begin to relax their various shelter-in-place orders, the complaints may be irrelevant before they reach a judicial conclusion. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But none have had much luck so far. Of those that have requested the court to freeze the state orders while the case plays itself out, none have been granted and — so far — four have been explicitly denied. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That isn’t surprising, said Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of the UC Berkeley Law School. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='left' citation=\"Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of the UC Berkeley Law School\"]‘Simply put, these lawsuits are very likely to lose, as most of these challenges around the country have failed’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Simply put, these lawsuits are very likely to lose, as most of these challenges around the country have failed,” he said in an email. “The government has broad powers to take emergency actions to stop the spread of communicable diseases. This includes the power to order quarantine or shelter in place, to order closure of businesses, and to limit assemblies, including for religious purposes. So long as the government’s action is reasonably related to stopping the spread of COVID-19, the government is likely to prevail.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dhillon said she is playing the long game. A few state judges have slapped down her petitions to put the statewide order on hold — she said their rationales were “fairly lacking in analysis.” But where she loses, she may appeal to a higher court. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, she looks to court rulings in \u003ca href=\"https://time.com/5823881/kansas-religious-gathering-people-limits/\">Kansas\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/news/illinois-stay-at-home-order-pritzker-extension-judge-blocks/\">Illinois\u003c/a>, where judges have pushed back against public health decrees. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One day I hope to find a judge in California who has a similarly broad view of the Constitution,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"tracker\">\u003c/a>This lawsuit tracker is reported by Ben Christopher and created by web developer John Osborn D’Agostino.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"https://calmatters-covid-19-lawsuit-tracker.netlify.app/\" width=\"100%\" height=\"800\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom promised that the state’s new child care website would give \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2020/04/california-child-care-critical-workers-regulations-subsidies/\">essential workers\u003c/a> all the information they need to choose a provider for their kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It isn’t quite working out that way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The portal Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2020/04/30/governor-newsom-announces-new-online-portal-to-help-parents-find-local-and-convenient-child-care-options/\">announced\u003c/a> a week ago, based on state licensing data, lacks key information. In many instances, hours of operation and available spots are missing. The \u003ca href=\"https://mychildcare.ca.gov/#/home\">site\u003c/a> doesn’t indicate whether providers accept subsidies or what they charge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The number of complaints about a provider initially was listed, but the state removed that information within days of the portal’s debut. Citations also are absent. To find that crucial information, a user would need to locate and then click on the license number — which then links to the state’s main licensing \u003ca href=\"https://www.ccld.dss.ca.gov/carefacilitysearch/Search/ChildCare\">database\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"mindshift_55790\" label=\"The future of schools\" hero=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2020/04/gettyimages-1209972908_slide-e66d48f25eb93420b7f647268e759d44c6085569-1020x680.jpg\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across California, 72% of child care is provided by licensed private businesses — large centers and small and large family home care sites, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kidsdata.org/topic/101/child-care-spaces/table#fmt=261&loc=2,127,347,1763,331,348,336,171,321,345,357,332,324,369,358,362,360,337,327,364,356,217,353,328,354,323,352,320,339,334,365,343,330,367,344,355,366,368,265,349,361,4,273,59,370,326,333,322,341,338,350,342,329,325,359,351,363,340,335&tf=124&ch=222,223,224\">accounting\u003c/a> for nearly 1 million child care slots. Of those, 35% have a state or federal contract, such as Head Start. The rest get paid directly by parents or via vouchers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom said the portal was created to help working parents track down child care during the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/explainers/coronavirus-california-explained-newsom/\">COVID-19 pandemic\u003c/a>. The state’s shelter-in-place order never required private child care and preschool centers to close, but many have shut down for safety reasons or falling enrollment. Relatives who may have provided care or been backup babysitters \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2020/03/california-coronavirus-families-children-parents-school-districts-grandparents/\">are now in isolation\u003c/a>, and schools are out for the foreseeable future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the portal is not proving to be a one-stop shop, said Nina Buthee, executive director of EveryChild California, a statewide \u003ca href=\"https://www.everychildca.org/\">organization\u003c/a> supporting early childhood education programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Any parent would still need to make quite a few phone calls and reach out to a number of different places,” Buthee said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, she called the new California child care website a “really good start for finding out where facilities are.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new portal allows a user to enter an address or ZIP code to see a map of nearby centers as well as a list of providers. From there a parent can choose a provider and access whatever information is available. The portal lists 41,000 sites and 464 new pop-up child care locations.\u003cbr>\n[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Keisha Nzewi, whose network is building California’s new child care website\"]'I wish people could see how beautiful and user-friendly this site is going to be.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state Department of Social Services already had a licensing database that is searchable, but it is more complex and doesn’t provide availability information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The purpose of the portal is to provide child care options that are convenient and reliable for their families located near their work, home or preferred location,” department spokesman Scott Murray said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About the missing information, Murray said the department is contacting providers regularly through an automated system to get updates regarding availability. If a center does not respond to text, email or phone calls the site indicates “availability unknown.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Originally the new portal included the number of complaints a child care provider has received but the state removed that information within three days. Murray said that element was cut because the page has a link to the original licensing site, where users can explore complaints, citations and facility inspection reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Buthee said if the goal was to create the informative, user-friendly site that Newsom promised, it should include a list of recent citations and complaints with the date, reason and resolution. Or instead, the site should explicitly explain what parents can find if they follow the link to the licensing data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ironically, there is a more in-depth child care database in the works. In July, a long-awaited multimillion dollar website will launch that includes in-depth information and resources for families. This project was created in response to the requirements of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.cde.ca.gov/sp/cd/re/ccdf201921information.asp\">Child Care Development Block Grant\u003c/a> the state received in 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The website was fully funded in last year’s budget, according to Keisha Nzewi, director of public policy for the California Child Care Resource and Referral \u003ca href=\"https://rrnetwork.org/\">Network\u003c/a>, which holds the contract and is building the site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s good to have something up,” said Nzewi about the state portal. “I wish people could see how beautiful and user-friendly this site is going to be. I wish COVID had held off or we had enough money to do this sooner.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For now, the referral network is working with the state to infuse the portal with some of the features from the new site, like a more robust database of providers and availability.\u003cbr>\n[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Maria Jandres, San Francisco parent\"]'That portal doesn’t give you any information. It doesn’t say where they are, how many spaces. For a new parent it has nothing. '[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The current California child care website has disappointed some parents and providers alike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really bad,” said San Francisco mom Maria Jandres. “That portal doesn’t give you any information. It doesn’t say where they are, how many spaces. For a new parent it has nothing. It leaves you more lost and with even more questions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jandres said her 4-year-old son’s regular child care site closed in March, around the time her work as a realtor and court translator was coming to a slow stop. She stayed home with him for three weeks before signing up as a food delivery driver for various apps. She now juggles his care with her partner when he is not working.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have to figure out our child care because we don’t have anyone else,” she said. “Without child care neither my partner or I would be able to survive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, she said she is afraid to send her child to a provider she doesn’t already know, even if there are slots for essential workers. She’d rather ask around in her community for a personal recommendation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This comes as no surprise to preschool owner Amanda Simoni, who went from having 54 kids every day to the 10 she is taking care of now at Heritage School of Discovery in Oakdale. She said she has laid off half of her staff and hopes to bring them back as soon as more kids return.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simoni said California’s new child care website “came too late and it does not give enough information.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She reached out to her local nonprofit child care agency after perusing the site and finding her phone number was wrong. It also included three complaints against her program, all of which were three or more years old and had been resolved, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11817603\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11817603\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/ChildcarePortal_screenshot-800x552.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"552\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/ChildcarePortal_screenshot-800x552.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/ChildcarePortal_screenshot-160x110.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/ChildcarePortal_screenshot-1020x703.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/ChildcarePortal_screenshot.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Screenshot of California’s child care portal.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Simoni said parents should have all the information, but it should be listed in a comprehensive way. As is, she said, the portal is “just not giving accurate information, it’s not giving parents the opportunity to make a good decision.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For parents seeking child care sites that are much smaller than Heritage School, and are operated out of a provider’s home, this portal is going to require some additional hoops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"resource\" label=\"coronavirus resources\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These so-called “small family homes,” where providers care for up to eight kids, are listed without the official name of the business, address or contact information. Department spokesman Murray said that the contact information is not listed for privacy reasons because these are individual homes. So in order to reach these providers, parents would have to call their local nonprofit referral agency that oversees child care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those extra steps could thwart a connection between a family and a small child care provider.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They need to have as much of an advantage as anyone else,” Buthee said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Child care advocates hope to resolve all of these concerns with the new site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, any searches will direct web traffic to the new site, Nzewi said. She said she expects the need to find child care to continue to grow into the summer, as some centers reduce enrollment to meet social distancing guidelines — or close altogether.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s going to become even more important for parents and providers,” she said. “Parents will have to seek out new care.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>California businesses have received $66.6 billion in federal Paycheck Protection Program loans so far, about 13% of the nation’s total, according to federal loan data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom said the state’s businesses didn’t receive a proportional share of the federal money in the first round, but that it is now “punching above its weight” in the second round, so it’s starting to balance out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal loan program is administered by the Small Business Administration to help cover payroll and expenses during the coronavirus pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Businesses and nonprofits with up to 500 employees are eligible for loans up to 2.5 times their monthly payroll, with a maximum of $10 million, to spend on wages, rent and utilities for eight weeks. If the business can show it spent the money on allowable expenditures, the loan will be forgiven. (\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/blogs/inside-calmatters/2020/05/why-we-applied-for-a-loan/\">CalMatters\u003c/a> applied for and received a $535,000 PPP loan.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California businesses received $33.4 billion in the first round of PPP funding, Newsom said, or less than 10% of the total disbursement. In the second round, which is only 60% complete, state businesses have already drawn $33.2 billion. That’s about 11% of PPP loans nationwide, and 13% of the money distributed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state so far has received more loans than any other state in the second round, and the 320,000 California businesses that got them made up 19% of all second-round recipients. The next-closest state, New York, received 164,000 loans for a total of $17 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The first round of dollars, Californians did not fare as well as we should have in terms of the percentage of the loans we were able to draw down and the amount of dollars we were able to draw down,” Newsom said during a visit to a Sacramento gift shop. “We are doing much better in this second round.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Criticism of the program has centered on how unevenly it’s being distributed among the states. According to \u003ca href=\"https://www.nber.org/papers/w27095.pdf\">a study published this month\u003c/a> by economic researchers at MIT and the University of Chicago, the Small Business Administration loans weren’t appropriately targeted to the states that needed it most. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We find little evidence that funds were targeted towards geographic regions more severely affected by the pandemic,” the authors wrote. “If anything, preliminary evidence indicates that the opposite is true and funds were targeted towards areas less severely affected by the virus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We find that PPP allocations across congressional districts are very weakly correlated to the impact of the epidemic crisis on labor markets and aggregate firm outcomes.”[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Gov. Gavin Newsom\"]'The first round of dollars, Californians did not fare as well as we should have ... 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Clothing outlets, bookstores, florists and other merchants across the state will be allowed to offer curbside pickup as long as they obey physical distancing guidelines. California companies that make clothing, furniture, toys and other goods those retailers sell can also resume operations, with appropriate worker protections. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have to maintain the core construct of our stay-at-home orders,” Newsom said Tuesday, “make sure we are appropriately doing the social distancing and physical distancing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He had harsh words for officials in Yuba and Sutter counties, who on Monday \u003ca href=\"https://www.suttercounty.org/assets/pdf/2020-05-04_COVID-19_Limit_Activities_Order.pdf\">announced plans to reopen\u003c/a> restaurants, gyms, retailers, playgrounds and libraries, among other places where people congregate. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re making a big mistake,” Newsom said. “They’re putting their public at risk. 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"content": "\u003cp>For two weeks in March, Dr. Raynald Samoa fought to move air through his lungs. After recovering from COVID-19, the Los Angeles-based diabetes specialist posted videos on Facebook urging others to stay home. His posts resonated with California’s small but tight-knit Pacific Islander community as questions and stories flooded his inbox.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One family described the anguish and guilt of watching a loved one struggle out of bed to the ambulance — “the least Pacific thing that you can do,” Samoa said — because the first responders wouldn’t come inside. Another family revealed how three breadwinners were hospitalized with the disease, unable to care for their kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the country, the novel coronavirus has laid bare the life-and-death consequences of racial inequality, which has disproportionately \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/04/07/coronavirus-is-infecting-killing-black-americans-an-alarmingly-high-rate-post-analysis-shows/?arc404=true\">killed more African Americans\u003c/a>. Now, a stunningly similar pattern has emerged among Pacific Islanders in California, exposing a public health blind spot that will likely require re-evaluating coronavirus tracking for this small, communal population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Already, the rate of infection among Pacific Islanders has alarmed public health experts and community leaders. As of Sunday, the novel coronavirus had infected Pacific Islanders at a rate more than twice that of the state as a whole — and killed them at a rate 2.6 times higher, the highest rates of any racial or ethnic group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the numbers are still small — California reported 416 known cases and 20 deaths among Pacific Islanders — they reveal a growing threat in a community that suffers disproportionately high rates of chronic illness, accustomed to living in multigenerational households and work higher-risk jobs such as food service, transportation and health care that can’t be done from home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"868\" height=\"488\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/Bi6jSaKrSQ0\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>While Health Officials Debate, Advocates Sound Alarm\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In an email statement, the state Department of Public Health acknowledged it warrants attention but declined to elaborate how.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Los Angeles County, where the infection rate is four times that of the general population and the death rate for Pacific Islanders is six times greater, county officials said they are reassessing outreach efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other counties, however, warned against jumping to conclusions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even small changes in numbers can mean large changes in rates — and with just one death in this group, there is very little we can conclude,” said Sarah Sweeney of San Diego County’s health agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent weeks, Pacific Islander community leaders and health advocates have sprung into action, holding countless video conferences, requesting more granular data from county officials and leveraging the central role of faith in Pacific Islander cultures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To Tana Lepule, that one San Diego death represented the loss of a family member. The longtime health advocate said that small numbers have always masked very real health issues among Pacific Islanders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The sadness and grief is just the same,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11816567\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11816567\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Screen-Shot-2020-05-06-at-1.34.41-PM-800x496.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"496\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Screen-Shot-2020-05-06-at-1.34.41-PM-800x496.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Screen-Shot-2020-05-06-at-1.34.41-PM-160x99.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Screen-Shot-2020-05-06-at-1.34.41-PM-1020x632.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Screen-Shot-2020-05-06-at-1.34.41-PM.png 1263w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chart: CalMatters\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Common Misconceptions\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Approximately 317,000 people with origins from Hawaii, Guam, Samoa, Fiji, the Marshall Islands or other Pacific islands live in California — less than 1% of the state’s population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though the official census category is Native Hawaiiwan or Pacific Islander, advocates use Pacific Islander to encompass the group. Most Pacific Islanders live in Los Angeles, San Diego, Sacramento, Alameda and Orange counties. However, there’s a cluster of 90,000 people with Pacific Islander heritage in the Bay Area’s nine-county area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Common misconceptions that Pacific Islanders are Asian can muddy the data, said Ninez Ponce, director of the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research. So can variations in how hospitals classify Pacific Islanders, half of whom identify with another race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But after controlling for a shortage of tests and other variables, Ponce and two other UCLA researchers concluded that the rate of infection in Pacific Islanders “is at least twice that of the state rate, and likely to be nearly three times as high.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11816568\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11816568\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Screen-Shot-2020-05-06-at-1.31.10-PM-800x455.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"455\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Screen-Shot-2020-05-06-at-1.31.10-PM-800x455.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Screen-Shot-2020-05-06-at-1.31.10-PM-160x91.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Screen-Shot-2020-05-06-at-1.31.10-PM-1020x580.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Screen-Shot-2020-05-06-at-1.31.10-PM.png 1426w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chart: CalMatters\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The heavy burden didn’t surprise Brittany Morey, a public health professor at UC Irvine researching social and health inequities in Pacific Islanders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pacific Islanders are likely more vulnerable to the coronavirus since they are more likely to face poverty, live in dense neighborhoods and crowded homes, and work low-wage essential jobs that increase their risk of exposure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while public health researchers lump Pacific Islander data with Asians, they probably share more social-economic traits and chronic conditions with African Americans, Morey said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, about 23% of Pacific Islanders have experienced asthma, compared to about 16% of all residents, 2017 and 2018 \u003ca href=\"https://healthpolicy.ucla.edu/chis/Pages/default.aspx\">California Health Interview Survey\u003c/a> data shows. About 37% are obese compared to 27% of the overall population. Pacific Islanders are nearly twice as likely to smoke as the general population. \u003ca href=\"https://minorityhealth.hhs.gov/omh/browse.aspx?lvl=4&lvlid=78\">Across the U.S.\u003c/a>, Pacific Islanders are 2.5 times as likely to have diabetes as non-Hispanic whites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Asking for Better Tracking\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Even before a spike in infections and deaths in the Pacific Islander community, Natalie Ah Soon and Taunu’u Ve’e, co-founders of the Regional Pacific Islander Task Force, have been lobbying Bay Area counties to log birth and death statistics separately from Asians for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Natalie Ah Soon, co-founder of the Regional Pacific Islander Task Force\"]'Given the spread like fire of this pandemic, the urgency has been magnified.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their mission: Count us better.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Given the spread like fire of this pandemic, the urgency has been magnified,” Ah Soon said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Statewide, only a handful of counties disaggregate Pacific Islander data. Many don’t report race or ethnicity at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, Santa Clara combines data for Pacific Islanders with Asians. In Sacramento County, Pacific Islanders are counted as “Other.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are not currently tailoring any outreach to this community because of the very small percentage it makes up of the population and impact,” said Sacramento County spokeswoman Janna Haynes. Pacific Islanders comprise 1.7% of the county population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11816626\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11816626\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43029_photo-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43029_photo-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43029_photo-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43029_photo-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43029_photo-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Raynald Samoa at the City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center in Duarte on April 25, 2020. Samoa stands among Wishing Trees, a place where City of Hope employees and visitors offer messages of health and hope to patients and their families. \u003ccite>(Nancy Pastor/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Mobilizing a Response, Leveraging Faith\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>On one Sunday in April, Ve’e’s brother delivered a sermon in English and Samoan over the phone to about two dozen families spread across the Bay Area who belong to his parish of the Congregational Christian Church of American Samoa. With all lines muted, there was a feeling of mamalu, a Samoan word for solemnity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reverend Ulysses Ve’e urged families to listen to their doctors because they have been sent by God to keep their community safe.\u003cbr>\n[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Alisi Tulua, who runs a youth health education program at Orange County Asian and Pacific Islander Community Alliance\"]'There hasn’t been targeted messaging to our community about the higher vulnerability that we have. That needs to happen.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s our mouthpiece,” Taunu’u Ve’e said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the past month, Pacific Islander health advocates have held frequent meetings with their counterparts across California and in \u003ca href=\"https://www.civilbeat.org/beat/pacific-islanders-in-oregon-have-the-highest-rate-of-covid-19/\">other states\u003c/a> facing \u003ca href=\"https://www.kuaf.com/post/coronavirus-spreads-arkansass-pacific-islander-community\">similar\u003c/a> disparities to coordinate a public health response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Central to their efforts are churches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One strategy, borrowed from several islands in the Pacific, is to use empty churches to temporarily house people who can’t safely isolate at home, said Dr. Samoa, who gained a Facebook following when he battled the virus. Another is to use churches as testing sites, and their congregations to track exposure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, some Pacific Islander churches continue to meet in person, and advocates had heard of people gathering for birthdays and funerals. Samoa said he is enlisting faith-based leaders to practice social distancing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The continued gatherings reflect the island culture of spending time together, said ‘Alisi Tulua, who runs a youth health education program at Orange County Asian and Pacific Islander Community Alliance. But it’s also about access to information.\u003cbr>\n[aside postID=\"news_11813696\" label=\"COVID-19 by Race\" hero=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/Mission-Street-pedestrians-1020x728.jpg\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There hasn’t been targeted messaging to our community about the higher vulnerability that we have,” Tulua said. “That needs to happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A native Tongan speaker, Tulua is coordinating the translation of basic information about coronavirus symptoms, risks and prevention for monolingual speakers of Samoan, Tongan and Fijian, Chamorro, Marshallese, Palauan, Yapese and Chuukese.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tulua’s most urgent message, however, is for young Pacific Islanders to be careful for the sake of their elders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not just their lives that we’re losing, it’s everything else that they hold as elders, the knowledge,” Tulua said. “Our main connection back to our homeland.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article is part of \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/divide/\">The California Divide\u003c/a>, a collaboration among newsrooms examining income inequity and economic survival in California.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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Another family revealed how three breadwinners were hospitalized with the disease, unable to care for their kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the country, the novel coronavirus has laid bare the life-and-death consequences of racial inequality, which has disproportionately \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/04/07/coronavirus-is-infecting-killing-black-americans-an-alarmingly-high-rate-post-analysis-shows/?arc404=true\">killed more African Americans\u003c/a>. Now, a stunningly similar pattern has emerged among Pacific Islanders in California, exposing a public health blind spot that will likely require re-evaluating coronavirus tracking for this small, communal population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Already, the rate of infection among Pacific Islanders has alarmed public health experts and community leaders. 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In either case, experts worry that will leave the health care system vastly diminished at a time when the state is facing \u003ca href=\"https://www.chcf.org/blog/ever-rising-health-costs-worsen-californias-coronavirus-threat/\">skyrocketing costs\u003c/a> and a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/projects/californias-worsening-physician-shortage-doctors/\">shortage of doctors\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About one in three Californians get care from private practice physicians and specialists, according to the California Medical Association, which represents roughly 50,000 doctors across the state. In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.cmadocs.org/Portals/CMA/files/public/CMA%20COVID-19%20Financial%20Hardship%20Survey%20Summary.pdf?ver=2020-04-22-145742-467\">recent survey\u003c/a>, nearly 76% of members reported being extremely worried or very worried about finances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Empty clinics triggered a cash crunch for doctors after Gov. 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That’s because the statewide lockdown forced a majority of medical procedures, from hip replacements to annual checkups, to be canceled or delayed unless they are deemed an emergency.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A catastrophe for private practices\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, the governor \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2020/04/22/governor-newsom-announces-plan-to-resume-delayed-health-care-that-was-deferred-as-hospitals-prepared-for-covid-19-surge/\">announced\u003c/a> plans to resume some delayed medical care such as heart valve replacements, angioplasty and and tumor removals, but he warned the state remains far from reopening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And though the federal government is providing aid, most say it’s not nearly enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The whole situation is catastrophic for the entire profession in terms of economics,” said Dr. Thomas LaGrelius, a family medicine doctor in Torrance, California, and president of the American College of Private Physicians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LaGrelius currently is only able to conduct about three in-person patient consults per day and has tried to switch as many appointments as possible to online video conferences. Unlike other doctors who received emergency grants this week from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, LaGrelius’ clinic has yet to get any relief from the federal Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act, or CARES Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>HHS, which is doling out $100 billion to doctors based on the amount of patients they serve who are on Medicare, gave him a test deposit of $0 and told him a grant would come later.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Debbie Rood, private clinic business manager\"]‘If you lose all of your primary care doctors and your (obstetricians) because you can’t make a living, where are patients going to go?’[/pullquote]And while grants are certainly welcome, they’re a “drop in the bucket,” said Debbie Rood, business manager for her husband’s obstetrics and gynecology practice in Manteca. Rood’s husband, Dr. George Scott, said they received about $2,000 since most women over the age of 65 don’t see a gynecologist regularly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His private practice’s finances are complicated by the fact that insurance companies won’t reimburse him until after patients give birth, leaving him and his staff performing unpaid labor for months. At the same time, their rent tripled, forcing them to downsize to a smaller clinic.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Taking out a second mortgage\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Scott and Rood are determined to keep the business running but they may need to take a second mortgage on their home. They are also concerned about the long-term implications the economic crisis will have on access to care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you lose all of your primary care doctors and your (obstetricians) because you can’t make a living,” Rood said, “where are patients going to go?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a question with a complicated answer, said James Robinson, professor of health economics at UC Berkeley. The economic fallout of the pandemic will lead to the closure of many private practices, but the implications are less clear.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Consolidating practices\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Increasingly, in the past decade, independent doctors and private community hospitals have been swallowed by sprawling health care delivery systems through mergers and buyouts. Nearly 60% of Californians received care from an integrated health care system in 2018, which organizes doctors, hospitals, and sometimes insurance companies into one coordinated system, according to Let’s Get Healthy California, a state task force that monitors key health indicators including access to care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because small businesses like independent physicians typically don’t have the financial reserves to ride out severe economic downturns, the current pandemic will hasten the consolidation of health care, Robinson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that it’s going to drive them into the arms of health plan places like Kaiser,” Robinson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The loss of private practices isn’t necessarily a bad thing, experts say. Consolidated health care can lead to better communication between doctors, more efficient use of testing and scans, and more cost-effective treatment, he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The problem is many of California’s rural counties, which often face provider shortages to begin with, still rely on private physicians and community health clinics. 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Their evictions are not protected by state or local emergency measures because they are not directly related to financial fallout from the coronavirus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kimball Tirey and St. John, a law firm that provides legal services for landlords across the state and has been tracking changes to local eviction rules, could confirm to CalMatters that \u003ca href=\"http://clientportal.kts-law.com/resource_library/docs/LegalAlerts/SpreadsheetofCourtUpdates3.17.20.pdf\">only 27\u003c/a> of California’s 58 county sheriffs’ departments — the law enforcement agency responsible for lockouts — had stopped them as of late last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Madeline Howard, a senior attorney for the Western Center on Law and Poverty\"]'We need the governor to step in and do a real moratorium, because this is happening, people are being kicked out when they’re being told to shelter in place.' [/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Riverside County Sheriff’s Department, which declined to comment for this story, is still performing “writs” — legalese for court-ordered lockouts — for eviction cases in its queue. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2020/04/fresno-first-homeless-coronavirus-patient/\">Fresno County\u003c/a> sheriff’s deputies completed 20 lockouts in the last week and a half before clearing their backlog April 1, according to department spokesperson Tony Botti. Imperial County sheriff’s deputies just finished their evictions caseload two days ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We hope they saw this coming and maybe already have a plan in place to seek resources that might help them,” Botti said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While tenant-rights groups say sheriffs and local governments can and should stop lockouts immediately, they lay much of the blame for the continued evictions on Newsom. They criticize his efforts to protect renters as limited, confusing and insufficient.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need leadership,” said Madeline Howard, a senior attorney for the Western Center on Law and Poverty. “We need the governor to step in and do a real moratorium, because this is happening, people are being kicked out when they’re being told to shelter-in-place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Newsom administration did not respond to repeated requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A Moratorium ... With Many Exceptions\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Waldman spent the past few days scrambling to prepare for the lockout, leaving and returning to the Boulder Creek Apartments complex despite the \u003ca href=\"https://www.pe.com/2020/04/01/riverside-county-coronavirus-cases-now-at-429-still-13-dead/\">rising number\u003c/a> of coronavirus infections in Riverside County and \u003ca href=\"https://www.pe.com/2020/03/31/riverside-county-recommends-covering-face-in-public-to-prevent-coronavirus/\">its warnings to wear a mask\u003c/a> whenever venturing outside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She made a half-hour drive to Yucaipa — where the virus broke out recently in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.sbsun.com/2020/03/31/51-residents-6-staff-at-yucaipa-nursing-home-test-positive-for-coronavirus/\">nursing home\u003c/a> — to have her father’s tax return prepared in the vain hope a refund could forestall the eviction. Waldman also made trips back and forth to a self-storage complex to drop off boxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The stress has weighed on her father, who has memory problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s gotten up like 20 times already today, asking me, ‘What about this? What about that?’ ” she said. “It’s almost like he’s forgotten everything, he barely knows me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Waldman described herself as surprised when she received the lockout notice last week. She says she had agreed to a court settlement with her landlord — an Orange County-based investment firm called Raintree Partners — that she would move out in the near future. But considering the circumstances, she thought she would be given more time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11810837\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11810837\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/CalMatters-eviction-lockouts-photo-1-.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/CalMatters-eviction-lockouts-photo-1-.jpg 1000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/CalMatters-eviction-lockouts-photo-1--160x213.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/CalMatters-eviction-lockouts-photo-1--800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/CalMatters-eviction-lockouts-photo-1--840x1120.jpg 840w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/CalMatters-eviction-lockouts-photo-1--687x916.jpg 687w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/CalMatters-eviction-lockouts-photo-1--414x552.jpg 414w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/CalMatters-eviction-lockouts-photo-1--354x472.jpg 354w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lori Waldman holds up her eviction notice from the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Lori Waldman)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I was shocked,” said Waldman, who relies on Social Security disability benefits for income. “I was absolutely horrified because I heard they weren’t doing any lockouts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On paper, Newsom’s most recent executive order on evictions does prohibit lockouts through the end of May — but only for cases where renters can demonstrate they have been financially impacted by the virus, either because of layoffs, reduced work hours or the need to take care of a child or family member.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Evictions that have already made their way through the court system — for a missed March 1 rent payment, for example — are not banned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neither are evictions for other reasons, like having people in your apartment not on your lease, causing a nuisance or when a landlord decides to move back into a unit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the absence of stronger statewide action from Newsom, tenant advocates have petitioned the attorney general, the statewide sheriffs’ association and individual sheriff’s departments to stop lockouts, arguing they unnecessarily pose a risk to public health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The sheriff is going from one low-income area to another low-income area, so they could be getting (the virus) or passing it,” said Ernie Reguly, staff attorney with Riverside Legal Aid. “It is inconsistent with the governor’s stay-at-home order.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once a lockout notice has been posted to a tenant’s door, some renters can request an emergency stay from a judge to delay the eviction. Renters have to pay for the extra time they’re asking for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some cities and counties have imposed their own eviction moratoriums that go further than Newsom’s order, banning evictions and lockouts not related to the economic impact of COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Debra Carlton, executive vice president for California Apartment Association\"]'He’s trying to balance the challenges we all face. If it’s not related to COVID, we think a tenant should be paying, and I think that’s what he’s trying to say and what he did say with that executive order.' [/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additionally, some sheriff’s departments took initiative even without clear state or local directives. Sgt. Lydia Montoya, who oversees evictions in the Kings County Sheriff’s Office, pushed her department to stop lockouts immediately after Newsom’s shelter-in-place directive on March 19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I understand there are landlords and owners out there that are financially suffering because these tenants weren’t kicked out,” said Montoya. “But the long-term damage of these people going out and looking for new apartments, or moving in with another family member, the potential contamination with COVID — the danger is real.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Landlord Perspective\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Debra Carlton, executive vice president for the landlord lobbying group the California Apartment Association, said for the most part landlords support the spirit of Newsom’s executive order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s trying to balance the challenges we all face,” said Carlton. “If it’s not related to COVID, we think a tenant should be paying, and I think that’s what he’s trying to say and what he did say with that executive order.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s executive order does not free pandemic-affected residents from paying rent; it only extends the time they have to respond to an eviction lawsuit from five days to 65 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carlton said her organization also has recommended landlords be flexible with tenants when it comes to missed rent payments, late fees and other issues in coming months. She said landlord attorneys are reporting a drop in activity since the pandemic broke.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Annette Thurman, senior director of asset management at Raintree Partners, the firm that owns Waldman’s apartment, said she was surprised to learn of an eviction lockout happening on one of the firm’s properties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Home comes first, and we have been focused since late February, when we first saw potential signs of hardship on the horizon, on developing and instituting internal policies to ensure our residents have a safe and comfortable roof over their head during this challenging time,” Thurman said in an emailed statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thurman said that weeks ago Raintree had directed its property management company to postpone all eviction lockouts until the statewide state of emergency had been lifted. She declined to share any emails or documentation to that effect.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Renter Groups See Other Flaws in Newsom Eviction Ban\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Beyond the many other types of evictions not subject to Newsom’s “moratorium,” tenant lawyers argue the wording of the executive order is deeply flawed and impractical.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This makes it worse,” said Reguly, the Riverside Legal Aid attorney. “This makes my job harder to help my client.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11809833,news_11809328\" label=\"more on eviction moratoriums\" hero=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/for-rent-san-francisco-rent-1020x680.jpg\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On paper, Newsom’s executive order extends the amount of time renters have to respond to eviction lawsuits to 65 days, if the renter informs a landlord within a week of a missed rent payment that they are financially suffering from COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But landlords will still be allowed to post three-day or quit notices on renters’ doors after a missed April 1 rent payment, leading tenant groups to fear renters unaware of their rights will simply move out. Landlords will also still be allowed to file an eviction lawsuit against renters if the local courts are accepting them, and it’s unclear how courts will distinguish which renters should receive a longer period to respond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most galling to tenant attorneys, Newsom’s executive order does not allow tenants to claim financial hardship from COVID-19 as a defense against an eviction case — even if the tenant can come up with the rent later on. So despite the extended response time, they’ll still lose and eventually have to move out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tenant advocates fear a flood of evictions once Newsom’s order expires at the end of May.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A group of state Democratic lawmakers have introduced legislation to \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article241148446.html\">toughen eviction protections\u003c/a>, but those bills are on hold until the Legislature returns, no sooner than April 13.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, Waldman is thankful she gets to stay in the apartment for the time being.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oh my God, oh my God, I’m so relieved,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Riverside County Sheriff’s Department, which declined to comment for this story, is still performing “writs” — legalese for court-ordered lockouts — for eviction cases in its queue. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2020/04/fresno-first-homeless-coronavirus-patient/\">Fresno County\u003c/a> sheriff’s deputies completed 20 lockouts in the last week and a half before clearing their backlog April 1, according to department spokesperson Tony Botti. Imperial County sheriff’s deputies just finished their evictions caseload two days ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We hope they saw this coming and maybe already have a plan in place to seek resources that might help them,” Botti said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While tenant-rights groups say sheriffs and local governments can and should stop lockouts immediately, they lay much of the blame for the continued evictions on Newsom. They criticize his efforts to protect renters as limited, confusing and insufficient.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need leadership,” said Madeline Howard, a senior attorney for the Western Center on Law and Poverty. “We need the governor to step in and do a real moratorium, because this is happening, people are being kicked out when they’re being told to shelter-in-place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Newsom administration did not respond to repeated requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A Moratorium ... With Many Exceptions\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Waldman spent the past few days scrambling to prepare for the lockout, leaving and returning to the Boulder Creek Apartments complex despite the \u003ca href=\"https://www.pe.com/2020/04/01/riverside-county-coronavirus-cases-now-at-429-still-13-dead/\">rising number\u003c/a> of coronavirus infections in Riverside County and \u003ca href=\"https://www.pe.com/2020/03/31/riverside-county-recommends-covering-face-in-public-to-prevent-coronavirus/\">its warnings to wear a mask\u003c/a> whenever venturing outside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She made a half-hour drive to Yucaipa — where the virus broke out recently in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.sbsun.com/2020/03/31/51-residents-6-staff-at-yucaipa-nursing-home-test-positive-for-coronavirus/\">nursing home\u003c/a> — to have her father’s tax return prepared in the vain hope a refund could forestall the eviction. Waldman also made trips back and forth to a self-storage complex to drop off boxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The stress has weighed on her father, who has memory problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s gotten up like 20 times already today, asking me, ‘What about this? What about that?’ ” she said. “It’s almost like he’s forgotten everything, he barely knows me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Waldman described herself as surprised when she received the lockout notice last week. She says she had agreed to a court settlement with her landlord — an Orange County-based investment firm called Raintree Partners — that she would move out in the near future. But considering the circumstances, she thought she would be given more time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11810837\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11810837\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/CalMatters-eviction-lockouts-photo-1-.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/CalMatters-eviction-lockouts-photo-1-.jpg 1000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/CalMatters-eviction-lockouts-photo-1--160x213.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/CalMatters-eviction-lockouts-photo-1--800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/CalMatters-eviction-lockouts-photo-1--840x1120.jpg 840w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/CalMatters-eviction-lockouts-photo-1--687x916.jpg 687w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/CalMatters-eviction-lockouts-photo-1--414x552.jpg 414w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/CalMatters-eviction-lockouts-photo-1--354x472.jpg 354w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lori Waldman holds up her eviction notice from the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Lori Waldman)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I was shocked,” said Waldman, who relies on Social Security disability benefits for income. “I was absolutely horrified because I heard they weren’t doing any lockouts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On paper, Newsom’s most recent executive order on evictions does prohibit lockouts through the end of May — but only for cases where renters can demonstrate they have been financially impacted by the virus, either because of layoffs, reduced work hours or the need to take care of a child or family member.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Evictions that have already made their way through the court system — for a missed March 1 rent payment, for example — are not banned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neither are evictions for other reasons, like having people in your apartment not on your lease, causing a nuisance or when a landlord decides to move back into a unit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the absence of stronger statewide action from Newsom, tenant advocates have petitioned the attorney general, the statewide sheriffs’ association and individual sheriff’s departments to stop lockouts, arguing they unnecessarily pose a risk to public health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The sheriff is going from one low-income area to another low-income area, so they could be getting (the virus) or passing it,” said Ernie Reguly, staff attorney with Riverside Legal Aid. “It is inconsistent with the governor’s stay-at-home order.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once a lockout notice has been posted to a tenant’s door, some renters can request an emergency stay from a judge to delay the eviction. 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"content": "\u003cp>For the past few weeks, as coronavirus radically altered daily life, 79-year-old Diana Fernandes has been struggling quietly inside her San Francisco home, weathering a challenge from within.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fernandes lives alone — her husband died in 2017 — and has been left to manage a painful foot injury and the threat of the virus on her own. As an asthmatic, she is already in a higher risk category so she has been avoiding contact with people. She hasn’t seen another person since March 14.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She misses watering her plants outside and shopping at Trader Joe’s for her favorite foods: apricots, figs, English muffins, mozzarella and sun-dried tomatoes. Now, she’s relying on regular deliveries from Meals on Wheels for food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have to live with what I can,” said Fernandes over the phone from her home. “It would be nice to have someone to take care of me but it is expensive so not to worry. 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With tens of thousands of home-bound seniors across the Bay Area, local service providers are seeing two patterns play out at once. The first is a spike in need among seniors who may not have previously required help from food relief organizations. The second is a declining number of volunteers, particularly at local food banks and Meals on Wheels chapters, where a significant portion of the volunteer base is over 65.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a typical day, Contra Costa County’s Meals on Wheels program serves about 2,300 meals to home-bound seniors and people in senior living centers. That’s already grown to 2,800 meals daily. Santa Clara County’s Health Trust Meals on Wheels program has more than doubled its weekly meal distribution, too, and seen a jump in the number of people calling for help, said director Teresa Johnson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11807409\" label=\"Look Up Local Food Banks That Need Your Help\" hero=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42178_012_KQED_SanFranciscoMarinFoodBank_03182020_-qut-1020x680.jpg\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even as the need for support rises, visitation and activity programs have been cut by shelter-in-place orders. Brendon Coates, 37, a volunteer with Little Brothers-Friends of the Elderly-San Francisco, can’t see the senior he has been visiting twice a month since 2018. Usually, when Coates stops by, they talk about old Hollywood movies and swap sugar-free chocolates. Coates has been calling regularly and checking in, but said he does sometimes worry about how his older friend is doing, isolated and with no family nearby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Phone lines and DIY volunteer groups that have sprung up to help Bay Area seniors have also seen a flood of calls. Paige Wheeler Fleury, who helped found the volunteer-led \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandatrisk.com/\">Oakland at Risk\u003c/a> website, which connects healthy young people in Alameda County with seniors and other high-risk community members who need help with groceries, supplies or phone check-ins, described “heartbreaking” situations: a 94-year-old disabled woman with no friends or family members who doesn’t have money for food; a blind man in his late 70s who has no microwave, refrigerator or stove and relied on a now-closed senior center for daily meals, with no money until April 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He called us about three times and said, ‘I’m hungry and I have no one to help me.’ It was pretty emotional when I spoke to him,” she said. The group was able to send out an emergency delivery of food, but Wheeler Fleury said she is short on sign-ups for volunteers in his area — Oakland’s San Antonio neighborhood — who could continue to help get him groceries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Patrick Arbore, an expert in elderly suicide prevention and isolation and founder of the San Francisco-based Friendship Line, a crisis intervention and support phone hotline for seniors and people with disabilities, said the line has seen an uptick in calls as seniors navigate the loneliness of coronavirus. 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