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The U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Inspector General earlier this year \u003ca href=\"https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Testimony-Turner-2022-03-17-REVISED.pdf\">told Congress\u003c/a> that “at least $163 billion in pandemic UI benefits could have been paid improperly, with a significant portion attributable to fraud.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The emphasis from federal and state officials was on pushing that money out fast — $5 trillion in all to help ease the biggest economic crisis since the Great Depression. That speediness also meant many claims weren’t verified.[aside postID=\"news_11927152,news_11922498\" label=\"Related Posts\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California alone, fraudsters using stolen social security numbers and stolen or made up names made off with what state officials conservatively \u003ca href=\"https://edd.ca.gov/siteassets/files/pdf/news-22-34.pdf\">estimate is $20 billion.\u003c/a> That’s about 11% of the $177 billion in jobless benefits paid out for COVID-19 relief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it wasn’t hard: Someone\u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/dianne-feinstein-california-coronavirus-pandemic-cccc9fdafd6e76db72bc533084f1fae3\"> claiming to be U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein \u003c/a>got paid. There was a \u003ca href=\"https://kmph.com/news/local/state-district-attorneys-say-edd-fraud-involved-prisoners-including-scott-peterson\">John Doe and even a Mr. Poopy Pants\u003c/a>. They all got money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The key to the kingdom for unemployment insurance fraud benefits was a Social Security number,” McGregor Scott, a former U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District California, says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state hired Scott as special counsel for its Fraud Task Force to help coordinate the investigation and prosecution of pandemic-related unemployment fraud targeting the Employment Development Department or EDD.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And with the dark web and the black market for Social Security numbers, these transnational criminal organizations have a very large number of Social Security numbers, so that allowed them to submit fraudulent applications – and get money,” Scott says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Investigators identified specific groups of fraudsters\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>So far, working with federal and local law enforcement and the Bank of America – which administers California’s jobless benefits program – \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2022/06/21/edd-recovers-1-1-billion-in-unemployment-insurance-funds-with-more-investigations-and-recoveries-to-come/\">the state has recovered more than a billion \u003c/a>mostly by freezing EDD bank debit cards obtained through fraud.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s balances sitting on all these debit cards that the Bank of America has recovered. And to date they have returned $1.1 billion dollars to the state,” Scott tells NPR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says California’s task force has learned that most of those committing the fraud were domestic and international organized crime rings, as well as prison inmates inside and outside the state. Then he says there were what you might call run-of-the-mill grifters. “People who are not part of really sophisticated or organized criminal groups, but just sort of have made a living of stealing from government programs in various forms over the years. And this became the latest version of that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, Scott says, the Fraud Task Force has also \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/usao-edca/pr/tracy-woman-indicted-fraud-scheme-steal-california-unemployment-insurance-benefits\">helped law enforcement\u003c/a> arrest more than 500 people and secure 203 convictions, including from a former EDD employee who stole more than $4 million in COVID-19-related unemployment relief claims. Gabriela Llerenas, who also uses the name “Maria G. Sandoval,” was \u003ca href=\"https://www.oig.dol.gov/public/Press%20Releases/One-Time_EDD_Employee_Sentenced_to_More_Than_5_Years_in_Prison_for_Fraudulently_Obtaining_Nearly.pdf\">sentenced earlier this year\u003c/a> to more than five years in prison and ordered to pay nearly $4.3 million in restitution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our job is to make sure that the FBI is talking to the local D.A. or that they’re getting the documents they need from EDD or we are getting what we need from the Bank of America,” Scott says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nationally, the U.S. Labor Department Inspector General says so far its investigations have resulted in \u003ca href=\"https://www.oig.dol.gov/public/Press%20Releases/DOL-OIG%20Pandemic%20Work%20Results%20in%20More%20Than%201000%20Individuals%20Charged%20with%20UI%20Fraud.pdf\">more than 1,000 people charged\u003c/a> with unemployment insurance fraud since the start of the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dozens of people \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/09/20/1124142635/u-s-charges-dozens-of-people-in-250-million-pandemic-fraud-scheme\">have been arrested\u003c/a>. But thousands of criminals have faced no consequence and billions remain unaccounted for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outside experts think the real jobless fraud figure in California is far higher than $20 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I believe the number is closer to 32.6 billion,” Haywood Talcove, CEO of the government division of LexisNexis Risk Solutions says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Talcove gets to that higher figure, in part, by looking at federal \u003ca href=\"https://www.oig.dol.gov/public/reports/oa/2022/19-22-006-03-315.pdf\">Labor Department audits\u003c/a> that show California averaged a high jobless fraud and “improper payments” rate in the three years before the pandemic. “And it didn’t go down during the pandemic, it only went up,” Talcove says. “So you easily get to that $32.6 billion number.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Indeed, the latest U.S. Labor Department \u003ca href=\"https://www.oig.dol.gov/public/reports/oa/2022/19-22-006-03-315.pdf\">audit report in September shows\u003c/a> that the California EDD’s “improper payment” rate in just the first six months of the pandemic was 36.6%. What percentage of that was outright fraud or mistakes is unclear but most believe the majority was the former.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Watchdogs call for more to be done, including a forensic audit\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Whatever the real number of stolen funds, Talcove argues, the bigger issue is the state has yet to put in place robust controls like those used every day in American banking and other private sector transactions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California did add a drivers’ license authentication system called ID.me the state says is a “highly secure” identity verification process. They also hired an outside data analysis firm, \u003ca href=\"https://edd.ca.gov/en/about_edd/fraud-response/\">among other moves\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the state has not yet conducted a forensic audit of the fraud. And Talcove says the added protections are simply not enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are still getting their pockets picked,” he says. “We go on to the dark web every day and monitor these criminal groups that are stealing from the unemployment insurance agencies. And we see it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In just the past few weeks, he says he’s seen outside criminal groups from Russia and elsewhere boasting they could still cheat the state’s jobless program. The groups, Talcove says, “were advertising their sauce to get into the state of California, which included purchasing a fake driver’s license that gets through their system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some California lawmakers are frustrated and outraged by what they see as a slow trickle of money recovery and limited accountability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The state of California has to stop patting itself on the back that they’re doing something. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California alone, fraudsters using stolen social security numbers and stolen or made up names made off with what state officials conservatively \u003ca href=\"https://edd.ca.gov/siteassets/files/pdf/news-22-34.pdf\">estimate is $20 billion.\u003c/a> That’s about 11% of the $177 billion in jobless benefits paid out for COVID-19 relief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it wasn’t hard: Someone\u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/dianne-feinstein-california-coronavirus-pandemic-cccc9fdafd6e76db72bc533084f1fae3\"> claiming to be U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein \u003c/a>got paid. There was a \u003ca href=\"https://kmph.com/news/local/state-district-attorneys-say-edd-fraud-involved-prisoners-including-scott-peterson\">John Doe and even a Mr. Poopy Pants\u003c/a>. They all got money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The key to the kingdom for unemployment insurance fraud benefits was a Social Security number,” McGregor Scott, a former U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District California, says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state hired Scott as special counsel for its Fraud Task Force to help coordinate the investigation and prosecution of pandemic-related unemployment fraud targeting the Employment Development Department or EDD.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And with the dark web and the black market for Social Security numbers, these transnational criminal organizations have a very large number of Social Security numbers, so that allowed them to submit fraudulent applications – and get money,” Scott says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Investigators identified specific groups of fraudsters\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>So far, working with federal and local law enforcement and the Bank of America – which administers California’s jobless benefits program – \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2022/06/21/edd-recovers-1-1-billion-in-unemployment-insurance-funds-with-more-investigations-and-recoveries-to-come/\">the state has recovered more than a billion \u003c/a>mostly by freezing EDD bank debit cards obtained through fraud.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s balances sitting on all these debit cards that the Bank of America has recovered. And to date they have returned $1.1 billion dollars to the state,” Scott tells NPR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says California’s task force has learned that most of those committing the fraud were domestic and international organized crime rings, as well as prison inmates inside and outside the state. Then he says there were what you might call run-of-the-mill grifters. “People who are not part of really sophisticated or organized criminal groups, but just sort of have made a living of stealing from government programs in various forms over the years. And this became the latest version of that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, Scott says, the Fraud Task Force has also \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/usao-edca/pr/tracy-woman-indicted-fraud-scheme-steal-california-unemployment-insurance-benefits\">helped law enforcement\u003c/a> arrest more than 500 people and secure 203 convictions, including from a former EDD employee who stole more than $4 million in COVID-19-related unemployment relief claims. Gabriela Llerenas, who also uses the name “Maria G. Sandoval,” was \u003ca href=\"https://www.oig.dol.gov/public/Press%20Releases/One-Time_EDD_Employee_Sentenced_to_More_Than_5_Years_in_Prison_for_Fraudulently_Obtaining_Nearly.pdf\">sentenced earlier this year\u003c/a> to more than five years in prison and ordered to pay nearly $4.3 million in restitution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our job is to make sure that the FBI is talking to the local D.A. or that they’re getting the documents they need from EDD or we are getting what we need from the Bank of America,” Scott says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nationally, the U.S. Labor Department Inspector General says so far its investigations have resulted in \u003ca href=\"https://www.oig.dol.gov/public/Press%20Releases/DOL-OIG%20Pandemic%20Work%20Results%20in%20More%20Than%201000%20Individuals%20Charged%20with%20UI%20Fraud.pdf\">more than 1,000 people charged\u003c/a> with unemployment insurance fraud since the start of the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dozens of people \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/09/20/1124142635/u-s-charges-dozens-of-people-in-250-million-pandemic-fraud-scheme\">have been arrested\u003c/a>. But thousands of criminals have faced no consequence and billions remain unaccounted for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outside experts think the real jobless fraud figure in California is far higher than $20 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I believe the number is closer to 32.6 billion,” Haywood Talcove, CEO of the government division of LexisNexis Risk Solutions says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Talcove gets to that higher figure, in part, by looking at federal \u003ca href=\"https://www.oig.dol.gov/public/reports/oa/2022/19-22-006-03-315.pdf\">Labor Department audits\u003c/a> that show California averaged a high jobless fraud and “improper payments” rate in the three years before the pandemic. “And it didn’t go down during the pandemic, it only went up,” Talcove says. “So you easily get to that $32.6 billion number.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Indeed, the latest U.S. Labor Department \u003ca href=\"https://www.oig.dol.gov/public/reports/oa/2022/19-22-006-03-315.pdf\">audit report in September shows\u003c/a> that the California EDD’s “improper payment” rate in just the first six months of the pandemic was 36.6%. What percentage of that was outright fraud or mistakes is unclear but most believe the majority was the former.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Watchdogs call for more to be done, including a forensic audit\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Whatever the real number of stolen funds, Talcove argues, the bigger issue is the state has yet to put in place robust controls like those used every day in American banking and other private sector transactions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California did add a drivers’ license authentication system called ID.me the state says is a “highly secure” identity verification process. They also hired an outside data analysis firm, \u003ca href=\"https://edd.ca.gov/en/about_edd/fraud-response/\">among other moves\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the state has not yet conducted a forensic audit of the fraud. And Talcove says the added protections are simply not enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are still getting their pockets picked,” he says. “We go on to the dark web every day and monitor these criminal groups that are stealing from the unemployment insurance agencies. And we see it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In just the past few weeks, he says he’s seen outside criminal groups from Russia and elsewhere boasting they could still cheat the state’s jobless program. The groups, Talcove says, “were advertising their sauce to get into the state of California, which included purchasing a fake driver’s license that gets through their system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some California lawmakers are frustrated and outraged by what they see as a slow trickle of money recovery and limited accountability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The state of California has to stop patting itself on the back that they’re doing something. This is patchwork,” says Patterson, the Republican state Assemblyman. “We only got a billion back out of maybe 30 or 35 billion. That’s a terrible batting average. We’ve got to do a whole lot better than that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Patterson says his office today still gets flooded with calls from constituents having a terrible time getting their legitimate jobless claims filled while too few fraudsters have been convicted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haywood Talcove says the level of pandemic fraud nationally shows every state should be doing more to lock down their systems against fraud.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not just for unemployment insurance, for their tax departments, for their SNAP, for their TANF benefits, making sure there’s an enterprise approach to identity,” he says. “What makes anyone think that those criminals aren’t now headed into other programs after they just robbed the United States Treasury of $250 billion dollars?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, law enforcement and others point to a bill recently signed by Gov. 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"content": "\u003cp>A leaked Los Angeles City Council recording hasn’t just upended local politics. It also has highlighted long-simmering racial tensions within the multicultural city — and the work needed to help it heal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First, a quick recap: Former city council president Nury Martinez \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/10/12/1128443565/la-city-council-protest-martinez\">resigned her seat\u003c/a> on Wednesday, days after a recording surfaced of her making racist remarks during an October 2021 conversation with two other councilmembers and a city union leader, all of whom are Latino.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They discussed strategies for using the city’s redistricting process to maximize Latino political power and dilute the power of Black voters (California’s attorney general is now \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/california-attorney-general-to-investigate-la-redistricting-after-councilmembers-racist-remarks\">opening an investigation\u003c/a> into that process). Martinez used crude and racist language to describe the city’s Oaxacan and Black communities, including the Black adopted son of one of her white council colleagues.[aside postID=news_11928625 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/GettyImages-1242826736.jpg']“What Nury Martinez was heard saying on this leaked tape were just about the worst things you could say as a politician in a city like Los Angeles, where cross-racial coalitions are so important in politics,” as NPR’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/10/13/1128623985/embattled-la-city-councilwoman-nury-martinez-resigns-her-seat-after-racist-comme\">Adrian Florido reported\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the recording emerged — first posted anonymously to Reddit and then published by the \u003cem>Los Angeles Times\u003c/em> — a growing chorus of voices, from local protesters to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/10/11/1128287297/nury-martinez-biden-resignation-la-city-council-racist-remarks\">the White House\u003c/a>, called for the implicated council members to step down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martinez quit, and Ron Herrera has left his post as the head of the L.A. County Federation of Labor, but the other two councilmembers — Gil Cedillo and Kevin de León — have refused to resign. The acting council president \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2022/10/13/la-city-council-resign-leaked-recording-00061740\">canceled a meeting\u003c/a> that had been scheduled for Friday, saying the body couldn’t conduct business until those departures happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los Angeles is electing a new mayor in less than a month, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2022/10/11/la-mayoral-candidates-racist-recording-00061364\">in this week’s debate candidates\u003c/a> focused largely on the turmoil, and on who would be best suited to heal the city’s racial divides. Beyond city hall, community groups are bringing Black and Latino residents together to promote solidarity and prevent long-running tensions from flaring up.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Changing demographics have provoked racial tensions\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Los Angeles’ population has shifted from majority-Black to majority-Latino over the past several decades, and Black Angelenos are increasingly worried that their concerns (including gentrification and \u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/news/housing-homelessness/a-sea-of-black-mens-faces-la-black-homelessness-crisis-los-angeles\">homelessness\u003c/a>) will be ignored by leaders as Latino political power grows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Erika Smith, a columnist for the \u003cem>Los Angeles Times\u003c/em>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-10-09/latino-la-city-council-racism-fears-black-angelenos\">wrote this week\u003c/a> that the substance of the recording confirms the “worst fears of many Black Angelenos: That Latino politicians treat political power as a zero-sum game. That because of their numbers, they will take over the leadership of the city, and that because of their racist beliefs, they will ignore our needs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11928933\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11928933\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/GettyImages-1243926358.jpg\" alt=\"A crowd of protesters hold up signs calling for the resignation of three city council members in the City Hall chamber in Los Angeles.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"712\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/GettyImages-1243926358.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/GettyImages-1243926358-800x556.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/GettyImages-1243926358-1020x709.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/GettyImages-1243926358-160x111.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the community are calling for the resignation of Nury Martinez, Kevin de Leon and Gil Cedillo at City Hall Council chambers in downtown Los Angeles on Wednesday, Oct. 12. \u003ccite>(Christina House/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Smith wrote that the incident has shattered the popular narrative of Los Angeles — and California in general — being some sort of “multicultural mecca, where Black and brown people build alliances to work together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the tensions associated with its demographic shifts, Los Angeles does have a history of Black and brown communities cooperating in pursuit of progressive causes, according to University of Southern California sociology professor Manuel Pastor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both he and Smith spoke to \u003cem>Morning Edition\u003c/em> host A Martínez about how that came to be, and what needs to happen to preserve those alliances and help the city heal.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>But there is also common ground and collaboration\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“There really were tensions and conflicts around jobs and schools and communities, but … there’s been a tremendous access of Black-brown solidarity building, community bridging, power building that has occurred over the last 30, 40 years, with a lot of that happening in South L.A. but a lot of that being citywide,” Pastor says. “And so one of the things that I think is perhaps the most tragic about what’s been happening with the revelation of these racist comments by four Latino leaders is that decades and decades of solidarity building were eroded, really, in a very short amount of time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith says the recording has shown much work still needs to be done to bring those groups together, “where maybe a lot of people thought that the hardest part kind of was over.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One challenge she mentions in her piece is underrepresentation on city council for Latinos, who make up half of L.A.’s population but less than a third of its councilmembers. Smith says the question isn’t whether Black people are overrepresented, but how the council can pursue equity in a way that isn’t at their expense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve always kind of moved forward as if we just had Black and brown alliances and we’re moving together in equity,” she says. “But these very real concerns haven’t really been addressed recently.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The scandal could be an opportunity to foster unity\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Pastor is the co-author of a study called \u003ca href=\"https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/du-bois-review-social-science-research-on-race/article/whats-going-on/FBD6961E5FAAF454637C0BCDEE7FEB6B/share/e8712587f3333c6d182079458d2d763fa5b353fc\">“Black Experiences of Latinization and Loss in South Los Angeles,\u003c/a>” which details the area’s shift from 80% Black in 1970 to majority-Latino today. He interviewed Black residents of South L.A. about their experiences losing what he describes as “hard-fought space.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Black residents had long struggled to gain a foothold in certain parts of the city that had been inaccessible to them because of racially restrictive housing covenants, redlining and other racist real estate practices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pastor says he heard a variety of perspectives during these interviews. 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I think this is a real lack of leadership.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The remarks could cause political difficulties\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The White House is currently fighting an uphill battle in Congress \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/09/02/1120746237/white-house-ukraine-covid-19-monkeypox-supplemental-funding\">to secure $22.4 billion in emergency COVID-19 funding\u003c/a> to support vaccinations, testing and further research. Some Republican support is needed in the Senate to secure the funding, which the administration has been seeking since the spring. 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In other words, there is no ‘ongoing emergency’ to justify his proposal for student loan handouts,” \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/MarshaBlackburn/status/1571847319603093504\">said Sen. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some public health experts agreed with Biden’s characterization of a “change” in the pandemic. “It is a reasonable thing to do as we collectively move on from this emergency footing that we’ve been on for the last couple of years, and try to navigate a new normal,” said Dr. Bob Wachter, chair of UCSF’s Department of Medicine. “It’s an appropriate way of thinking about the threat as it stands today.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Acknowledging the shift shouldn’t stand in the way of funds for COVID-related efforts, said Dr. Tom Frieden, who led the CDC during the Obama administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t have a pandemic of Alzheimer’s disease or influenza or heart disease. But Congress still needs to fund programs to address those problems,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The ongoing booster campaign could face challenges\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Biden administration’s public health leaders have sometimes struggled at times to present a clear, unified message about COVID-19. 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(Since the CDC recommended the shot earlier this month, hundreds of thousands of Americans have received it.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But health officials have long struggled to convince Americans to get their shots. Only \u003ca href=\"https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#vaccinations_vacc-people-additional-dose-totalpop\">68% of Americans completed their original vaccine course\u003c/a>, and fewer than half of those have gotten any booster shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most troubling are booster rates for people over 65, said Jennifer Nuzzo, the director of Brown University’s Pandemic Center. Data from the CDC show that while the vast majority of older Americans got the original vaccines, far fewer — only about a quarter — have also taken the two original boosters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we do nothing else to reduce the number of deaths from COVID, we need to make sure that people who are at the greatest risk of severe illness and death — and that’s people over the age of 65 — that they get their booster,” Nuzzo said. “I don’t want to inadvertently send the signal that that’s not something they need to do anymore.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She and other public health experts pointed to the winter, when a surge of new cases is likely as cold weather pushes socialization indoors, and holidays prompt people to travel to visit family and friends. 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"content": "\u003cp>In his senior year of high school, Emmett Chen-Ran decided to tell his parents he was transgender. He was grappling with a lot: Would they accept him? Would they be upset? Would they understand?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there was another challenge too. Which language should he use to tell them — English or Chinese?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now 24 years old and living in San Francisco, Chen-Ran was born in China. When he was 5 years old, his family moved to New York. As a kid, he learned some Mandarin. One summer in elementary school, he and his mom, Yanfei Ran, spent almost every day watching cartoons, playing badminton and practicing Chinese. But as he got older, he mostly just retained enough of the language to do things like order food at a restaurant.\u003cbr>\n[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11899189,news_11744484,news_11438847\"]“I don’t think I’ve ever been prepared my entire life to give a soliloquy about my feelings in Chinese,” Chen-Ran said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The situation was reversed for his parents. They’re both lawyers, and according to Chen-Ran, they mostly use English in the workplace. But they were much more comfortable speaking Chinese.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a way to find community when they got to the U.S., Chen-Ran’s parents immersed themselves in Christianity. And around the time Chen-Ran was in middle school, his parents sent him to summer Bible camp. One summer when he was there, Chen-Ran developed a crush on a fellow camper who was “super butch” and “super confident in being masculine.” But he was a bit perplexed — did he want to date them or be them?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He explored this question throughout high school, and by the beginning of his senior year, he was seriously considering hormone therapy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it came time to talk to his parents about his gender, Chen-Ran was torn. He wanted to tell them in their native language, but he wasn’t sure he could find the right words. So he went with English — except for one word.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before he descended the stairs of his Long Island home, Chen-Ran pulled up the Google translation of “transgender” (biàn xìng, at the time) in Chinese, “just so I could ground that term in their cultural understanding of what it was.” The translation that shows up today is “Kuà xìngbié,” which directly translates to “transgender” — but at the time it was “biàn xìng,” which is more akin to the derogatory “transsexual.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was a single light on the dining room table lit, and the rest of the living room and dining room were dark,” he said. “And we were just sitting in the living room in the dark.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chen-Ran told his parents, “I am biàn xìng,” adding, “I want to be a man.” (Chen-Ran knew that terminology wasn’t quite right, he said, but again — he wanted to “put it in terms of their understanding.”) Chen-Ran was trembling the entire time. “Not because I was scared to tell them, but because just the act of voicing these things was so uncomfortable for me,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For dramatic effect, I was sort of like, ‘I might kill myself if I don’t transition,’” he said. “It wasn’t too much of a stretch to think my quality of life definitely would’ve been severely impacted if I wasn’t allowed to transition.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though Chen-Ran had been having some doubts about his identity (researching online “How do I know that I’m trans for sure?”), he felt a sense of urgency when he came out to his parents. He worried that bringing up any of that doubt would give his parents an opportunity to delay his transition or stand in the way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Emmett Chen-Ran\"]‘I’ve never gone in-depth with explaining why I think I’m trans beyond that initial coming-out talk, because I don’t really have the words for it. I feel like I could explain in English, but … I don’t think they would pick up on all the nuance of what I’m saying.’[/pullquote]He still vividly remembers how they responded to his announcement. His mom cried.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My dad was making this face that he does whenever any mention of, like, un-Christian things comes up,” Chen-Ran said. “It’s a twisting of the mouth and a furrowing of the brows. And he just looks very disgusted and uncomfortable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But after that day, Chen-Ran and his parents never really talked about it again. That conversation was the first and last time he spoke to his parents about his gender.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve honestly never gone in-depth with explaining why I think I’m trans beyond that initial coming-out talk, because I don’t really have the words for it,” he said. “I feel like I could explain in English, but I don’t want to, because I don’t think they would pick up on all the nuance of what I’m saying.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without knowing exactly what his parents thought about his gender, Chen-Ran was apprehensive about how they’d identify him in public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A year after that initial conversation, he headed off to start college at Yale. On freshman move-in day, his parents were there, and he tried to keep them away from his roommates and their parents. But he braced himself for an awkward moment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I remember before move-in day, in my head I was like, if they do slip up and call me ‘she’ and someone asks about it, I’ll just be like, ‘They’re just bad at English,’” he said with a laugh. “And I was like, I know I’d be sort of problematically throwing them under the bus as immigrants, but it’s life or death here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He made it through move-in day relatively unscathed, but the uncertainty remained. To this day, the language barrier between Chen-Ran and his parents has made it difficult to know what they think of him. It’s been seven years since he told his parents he’s trans, and a lot has changed — he moved to San Francisco and works as a product manager now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he still sits with one question: Do his parents still view him as their daughter?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11925501\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1330px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/image2.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11925501\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/image2.jpg\" alt=\"a young child and and their mother plant a tree on a hillside with a banner with Chinese characters hanging behind them\" width=\"1330\" height=\"1774\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/image2.jpg 1330w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/image2-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/image2-1020x1361.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/image2-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/image2-1152x1536.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1330px) 100vw, 1330px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Emmett Chen-Ran and his mother, Yanfei Ran, planting a tree on a mountain in China in 2001 or 2002. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Emmett Chen-Ran)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s hard to tell, he says, because there are no gendered pronouns in spoken Chinese. So when his parents talk about him in Chinese, it’s not clear if they’re misgendering him. And in English, they misgender him constantly. But they also misgender a lot of other people, he said, even their close friends who are cisgender — because of the linguistic differences between Chinese and English.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chen-Ran’s mom, Yanfei Ran, confirmed this. She said she mixes up Chen-Ran’s pronouns because she’s not used to the differences. Chen-Ran didn’t want to talk directly to his mom for this story, but he was curious about what she would say, and said it was OK with him if we reached out to her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yeah, I think it’s the language. In Chinese … when we mention ‘he’ or ‘she,’ we will use ‘ta’ as the same pronunciation,” Ran said. “So there’s no distinguishing between ‘he’ or ‘she.’ We will just use ‘ta.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But language isn’t the only barrier standing in the way of her understanding of Chen-Ran and his gender. Chen-Ran thinks part of the reason she cried when he first told her he’s trans is that she was afraid for his safety, especially when it came to hormone therapy and surgery. She confirmed that fear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think health is the (biggest) concern for me,” Ran said. “Even now, I really think he’s just like destroying himself gradually.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ran didn’t mention anything about the flip side — how surgery and hormone therapy helped her son’s mental health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her views about Chen-Ran’s gender are complicated, and they have changed somewhat over time. But she made one thing clear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a mother, again, you just always want your child to be happy and to be supported. So even if we don’t support her idea, this family [will] always just tolerate her, or him, and always welcome him home,” Ran said, grappling with the pronouns in real time. “And this is his home, and I am his mother, forever. That’s the most important thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an ideal world, Chen-Ran said he’d like to be able to confide in his parents the way he does with friends. He wants a relationship that would let him express both triumphs and doubts. He wants to be understood in all his complexity. But he has also come to terms with the possibility that he may never get that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think I’m at a point in my life where, like, all of society basically sees me as my gender,” Chen-Ran said. “And so … it doesn’t really matter to me if they misgender me in their heads as long as I don’t feel the ramifications of that in our interactions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though Chen-Ran wants to be able to talk to his parents about his gender identity the way he talks about it with his friends, right now it’s more important to him that they have a good relationship. It’s a “cherry on top,” he said, when his mom affirms his gender by using his pronouns correctly. But maybe it’s OK, right now, if they can’t yet find the words to fully understand each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was originally broadcast on NPR’s Code Switch. For more information on the linguistics of gender and pronouns in Chinese, check out the \u003ca href=\"https://www.genderinlanguage.com/mandarin\">Gender in Language Project\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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