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"content": "\u003cp>Emotions ran hot Thursday as Caltrans began evicting residents from Oakland’s largest encampment of unhoused people. Some residents of the Wood Street encampment, with help from volunteers and activists, erected a makeshift barricade to block the only access road to the site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Ben Murawski, 47, Wood Street resident\"]‘You destroy people’s lives, you take their belongings … how are they supposed to get back on their feet to do anything to move forward in life?’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Woody Guthrie’s folk anthem “This Land Is Your Land” blared from a windup amplifier as Oakland police and California Highway Patrol officers faced off with residents and supporters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You destroy people’s lives, you take their belongings,” said Ben Murawski, 47, his voice quivering. “And how are they supposed to get back on their feet to do anything to move forward in life?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two people — Ron McGowan, who lived in the northern area of the encampment and was set to be evicted Thursday, and Jaz Colibri, a resident and organizer — both were arrested after refusing to leave a pickup truck that was blocking the access road. Colibri lay down, motionless, in the bed of the truck, prompting officers to pick her up and physically carry her away, as supporters chanted, “We love you, Jaz!” and “Housing is a human right!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11925196\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11925196\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58517_061_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Three officers hold a person as they are arrested with a dumpster in the background\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58517_061_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58517_061_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58517_061_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58517_061_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58517_061_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wood Street resident Jaz Colibri is arrested and carried by police officers after she attempted to block Caltrans from removing a barricade from the Wood Street encampment in Oakland on Sept. 8, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The evictions came after a more-than-month-long delay, resulting from a lawsuit residents filed in July to block Caltrans from clearing the site. Federal District Judge William Orrick ruled last month they could continue, citing safety concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But despite the delay, for many residents, the evictions came too quickly. Caltrans posted notices on Tuesday that the first of the three-phased evictions would start in two days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How could you complain if you’re on somebody else’s land, and they want you to leave in 30 days? Seems reasonable,” said Matthew Schatzinger, 45, who’s lived at Wood Street for nearly four years. “But to get out of here in two days or then destroy your stuff, or take your stuff, it just doesn’t make sense to me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11925192\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11925192\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58499_038_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"People standing on a car that is spray-painted saying: 'where do we go?'\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58499_038_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58499_038_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58499_038_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58499_038_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58499_038_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wood Street residents and supporters stand on a truck to barricade Caltrans workers from entering the encampment In Oakland to begin clearing garbage on Sept. 8, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In his order, Judge Orrick directed Caltrans to work with the city of Oakland and Alameda County to offer shelter to the estimated 200 residents who live at Wood Street. As of Thursday, the county had made contact with 75 residents and around half had accepted offers of shelter, said Jerri Applegate Randrup, a spokesperson for Alameda County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Randrup said the county offered residents spaces in congregate shelters, Oakland’s “cabin community” or “tuff shed” shelters, and safe RV parking, among other options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jeremy Oliveira, 42, said he got a spot at a hotel that’s been converted into housing for people who were formerly homeless. Even though he’ll have to share a room, he said it was a much better situation than some of the other shelters. [aside tag=\"housing, homeless\" label=\"More Related Stories\"]“I’m really happy. It’s gonna help me out a whole lot,” Oliveira said. “It’s going to be good. I’m going to actually be able to get restful sleep.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Schatzinger said he was offered only a spot at a tuff shed site, which he declined because there is no parking within three blocks, residents aren’t allowed to bring in mattresses or bedding and can only use city-provided cots, and there is little space to store his belongings. Instead, he and his neighbor, Jessica Huffman, 42, will likely be looking for some other place to park their RVs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They came to Wood Street after being forced to leave other encampments, Huffman said, and she didn’t want to return to a situation where she’s required to move her RV every few days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s going to be a big problem when we’re forced into residential neighborhoods,” Huffman said. “That’s why the cops all pushed us out here in the first place. But it looks like we’re probably going to have to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the past decade, the encampment at Wood Street has grown from a few RVs parked on the street to a sprawling tangle of structures, vehicles and trailers. It stretches for more than 15 city blocks underneath the I-880 overpass between Wood Street and the BNSF and Union Pacific railroad tracks on land owned by Caltrans, the city of Oakland, BNSF and private entities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11925205\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11925205\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58525_074_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A man puts some items onto a truck\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58525_074_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58525_074_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58525_074_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58525_074_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58525_074_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ben Murawski fills a truck with his belongings in an attempt to remove the items from an area being cleared by Caltrans at the Wood Street encampment in Oakland on Sept. 8, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But attorneys for Caltrans say the encampment posed a serious health and safety risk, citing some 200 fires over the past two years, including one on July 11 that sent plumes of smoke onto the freeway and prompted the transportation agency to begin clearing the site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The frequency with fires, especially in that area,” Mark Guenzi, an attorney for Caltrans, said at an August 26 hearing, “is just very concerning given the potential for catastrophic risk.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The evictions are expected to continue over the next six weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11925268\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11925268 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/017_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Several people in hard hats and construction bests stand in a line under a freeway overpass\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/017_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/017_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/017_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/017_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/017_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Caltrans crews wait to clear the Wood Street encampment in Oakland on Sept. 8, 2022, while residents and advocates block the road. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11925269\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11925269 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/034_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Image from further away of the highway overpass and the clearing of Wood Street encampment\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/034_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/034_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/034_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/034_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/034_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Caltrans workers clear a barricade made by Wood Street residents 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srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/073_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/073_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/073_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/073_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/073_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ben Murawski fills a truck with his belongings in an attempt to remove the items from an area being cleared by Caltrans at the Wood Street encampment in Oakland on Sept. 8, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11925274\" 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Emotions ran hot Thursday as Caltrans began evicting residents from Oakland’s largest encampment of unhoused people. Some residents of the Wood Street encampment, with help from volunteers and activists, erected a makeshift barricade to block the only access road to the site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Woody Guthrie’s folk anthem “This Land Is Your Land” blared from a windup amplifier as Oakland police and California Highway Patrol officers faced off with residents and supporters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You destroy people’s lives, you take their belongings,” said Ben Murawski, 47, his voice quivering. “And how are they supposed to get back on their feet to do anything to move forward in life?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two people — Ron McGowan, who lived in the northern area of the encampment and was set to be evicted Thursday, and Jaz Colibri, a resident and organizer — both were arrested after refusing to leave a pickup truck that was blocking the access road. Colibri lay down, motionless, in the bed of the truck, prompting officers to pick her up and physically carry her away, as supporters chanted, “We love you, Jaz!” and “Housing is a human right!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11925196\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11925196\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58517_061_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Three officers hold a person as they are arrested with a dumpster in the background\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58517_061_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58517_061_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58517_061_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58517_061_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58517_061_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wood Street resident Jaz Colibri is arrested and carried by police officers after she attempted to block Caltrans from removing a barricade from the Wood Street encampment in Oakland on Sept. 8, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The evictions came after a more-than-month-long delay, resulting from a lawsuit residents filed in July to block Caltrans from clearing the site. Federal District Judge William Orrick ruled last month they could continue, citing safety concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But despite the delay, for many residents, the evictions came too quickly. Caltrans posted notices on Tuesday that the first of the three-phased evictions would start in two days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How could you complain if you’re on somebody else’s land, and they want you to leave in 30 days? Seems reasonable,” said Matthew Schatzinger, 45, who’s lived at Wood Street for nearly four years. “But to get out of here in two days or then destroy your stuff, or take your stuff, it just doesn’t make sense to me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11925192\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11925192\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58499_038_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"People standing on a car that is spray-painted saying: 'where do we go?'\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58499_038_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58499_038_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58499_038_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58499_038_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58499_038_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wood Street residents and supporters stand on a truck to barricade Caltrans workers from entering the encampment In Oakland to begin clearing garbage on Sept. 8, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In his order, Judge Orrick directed Caltrans to work with the city of Oakland and Alameda County to offer shelter to the estimated 200 residents who live at Wood Street. As of Thursday, the county had made contact with 75 residents and around half had accepted offers of shelter, said Jerri Applegate Randrup, a spokesperson for Alameda County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Randrup said the county offered residents spaces in congregate shelters, Oakland’s “cabin community” or “tuff shed” shelters, and safe RV parking, among other options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jeremy Oliveira, 42, said he got a spot at a hotel that’s been converted into housing for people who were formerly homeless. Even though he’ll have to share a room, he said it was a much better situation than some of the other shelters. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“I’m really happy. It’s gonna help me out a whole lot,” Oliveira said. “It’s going to be good. I’m going to actually be able to get restful sleep.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Schatzinger said he was offered only a spot at a tuff shed site, which he declined because there is no parking within three blocks, residents aren’t allowed to bring in mattresses or bedding and can only use city-provided cots, and there is little space to store his belongings. Instead, he and his neighbor, Jessica Huffman, 42, will likely be looking for some other place to park their RVs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They came to Wood Street after being forced to leave other encampments, Huffman said, and she didn’t want to return to a situation where she’s required to move her RV every few days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s going to be a big problem when we’re forced into residential neighborhoods,” Huffman said. “That’s why the cops all pushed us out here in the first place. But it looks like we’re probably going to have to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the past decade, the encampment at Wood Street has grown from a few RVs parked on the street to a sprawling tangle of structures, vehicles and trailers. It stretches for more than 15 city blocks underneath the I-880 overpass between Wood Street and the BNSF and Union Pacific railroad tracks on land owned by Caltrans, the city of Oakland, BNSF and private entities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11925205\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11925205\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58525_074_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A man puts some items onto a truck\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58525_074_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58525_074_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58525_074_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58525_074_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58525_074_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ben Murawski fills a truck with his belongings in an attempt to remove the items from an area being cleared by Caltrans at the Wood Street encampment in Oakland on Sept. 8, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But attorneys for Caltrans say the encampment posed a serious health and safety risk, citing some 200 fires over the past two years, including one on July 11 that sent plumes of smoke onto the freeway and prompted the transportation agency to begin clearing the site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The frequency with fires, especially in that area,” Mark Guenzi, an attorney for Caltrans, said at an August 26 hearing, “is just very concerning given the potential for catastrophic risk.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The evictions are expected to continue over the next six weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11925268\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11925268 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/017_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Several people in hard hats and construction bests stand in a line under a freeway overpass\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/017_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/017_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/017_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/017_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/017_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Caltrans crews wait to clear the Wood Street encampment in Oakland on Sept. 8, 2022, while residents and advocates block the road. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11925269\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11925269 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/034_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Image from further away of the highway overpass and the clearing of Wood Street encampment\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/034_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/034_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/034_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/034_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/034_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Caltrans workers clear a barricade made by Wood Street residents meant to keep Caltrans out of the encampment in Oakland on Sept. 8, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11925270\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 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800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Caltrans workers clear garbage from the Wood Street encampment in Oakland on Sept. 8, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11925272\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11925272 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/073_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Two people pack items on one side, while another person speaks to a police officer in the foreground with a trailer in the background\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/073_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/073_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/073_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/073_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/073_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ben Murawski fills a truck with his belongings in an attempt to remove the items from an area being cleared by Caltrans at the Wood Street encampment in Oakland on Sept. 8, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11925274\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11925274\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58537_086_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A man in a hat looks on in anguish next to four others \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58537_086_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58537_086_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58537_086_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58537_086_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58537_086_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wood Street resident 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Lake Merritt was particularly dramatic because it’s not very deep, so you can see everything. It’s really an uncountable number of fish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>We know that these fish have died as a result of an algal bloom. What is an algal bloom and how do they typically form? What has been so dangerous about this algal bloom in the bay?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A bloom is when the reproduction of a particular organism kind of goes out of control. And so that’s what’s happening here — a particular organism, heterosigma akashiwo, grew out of control. An algal bloom of any size can lead to low dissolved oxygen in the water as the algae die. Other things are consuming it in the water and their populations then go off the charts and they’re sucking the oxygen out of the water. And then fish don’t have enough oxygen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Algae are a normal part of the bay. There are lots of organisms floating around in the bay that are the foundation of the food web for the bay. When one of those organisms starts growing out of control and we call that a bloom, once we get to a bloom state, then it can dramatically alter the chemistry of the water to the point that there’s no oxygen and/or lots of toxins floating around. It’s the size and the duration of this bloom that have caused the real problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Is it fair to say basically the fish couldn’t breathe?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We don’t know the specific mechanism that produced this fish kill, but it’s highly likely, and certainly the pictures that we saw indicate that these fish were struggling for oxygen, whether that’s because there wasn’t enough oxygen in the water or because the algae released a toxin that damages the fish’s gills. We don’t know. And it could be both.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What is your sense of the cause or causes behind this?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, algae in any body of water need sunlight, nutrients and a certain level of water temperature. So San Francisco Bay, we know, is over-enriched with nutrients, nitrogen and phosphorus. The source of the nitrogen and phosphorus in the bay water is primarily from wastewater treatment plants around the bay. There’s 40 different publicly owned water treatment plants that are treating our wastewater. And after treatment, the effluent is disposed of in the bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>When we say wastewater, we’re talking about sewage water, like human waste?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Treated sewage water. On average, that’s about a little bit over 60% of the nitrogen and phosphorus in the bay. Other inputs are stormwater runoff from urban areas and agricultural runoff, principally from the Central Valley. If you mix that over-enriched bay water with the right amount of sunlight and the right temperature, that sets the stage for harmful algal blooms like this to occur. We have those necessary conditions every summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>My first instinct when I heard about this was to think about climate change. Did this happen because of climate change?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Everyone’s mind goes to climate change these days when there’s some sort of natural disaster. And that’s appropriate because the changing climate is certainly affecting everything. But we have no direct signal at this early stage of a particular climate change mechanism driving this bloom this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The important thing to understand is that the necessary conditions for a harmful algal bloom of this type are in the bay every year, and we’ve known that for decades. We don’t need to invoke climate change in order to explain what’s happened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Again, climate change could have played a role and will likely exacerbate this problem, making it more common in the future. But, what we know is, there are nutrients in the bay that are always at a level that will support harmful algal blooms. The East Bay shoreline gets a lot of sunlight during the summer, and water temperatures reach levels that will support a bloom even before climate change. I’m not saying that climate change doesn’t have a role, but for some people, it’s convenient to point to climate change because it means that they didn’t have responsibility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What is the problem and what is this really about, do you think?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the problems that’s not gotten enough attention is where our wastewater goes when we flush the toilet. I want to acknowledge again that there’s a smaller but measurable component of urban stormwater runoff and a measurable component from agricultural runoff. But we have wastewater treatment facilities that are operating the way they’re supposed to operate. They’re removing solids from the water. They’re treating the water and getting rid of the bacteria. But they’re not designed to remove these nutrients, nitrogen and phosphorus, before the water gets dumped into the bay. So it’s sort of an out-of-sight, out-of-mind problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This problem has been lurking for decades, and those who research it and study it and manage it within the agencies have been aware of it. This red tide, algal bloom, that we’re experiencing is a signal from nature that we’re taking too long.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>In an interview with KQED, Bill Johnson with the San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board said it’s actually too soon to say that human wastewater is to blame. Why has it taken so long, and why are these nutrients not removed from the wastewater?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a challenging problem. To reduce that nutrient load is an expensive proposition. And so before we begin to make the investments, it’s prudent to know how much of an effect we need to have. That takes research. That research needs to be funded adequately in order to have it proceed at the fastest pace it can. And then there needs to be the leadership.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What are some of the things that you believe would help?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s technology to do wastewater recycling. Potable reuse. We can take the water that we flushed down the toilet or that goes down the drain, and clean it up to the level that people can use it, then we’ve removed the nutrients and we kind of have them in hand and we then have a choice of how to dispose of them. And hopefully, that choice would be to dispose of them in a responsible manner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other options in addition to water recycling would be nature-based solutions such as treatment, wetlands, constructed wetlands, wetland plants, and any plants like these same nutrients that the algae like. And they, well, they can soak it up and store it in their tissue, and then that’s treating the water as well. And then a final way would be continuing to invest in the large-scale restoration of the natural wetlands that used to surround San Francisco Bay. Natural marsh plants are also filtering this water that’s in the bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>This sounds to me like infrastructure.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s physical infrastructure of the pipes and the filters and the systems to treat the water. It’s also natural infrastructure that unfortunately we’ve destroyed in the past, but are now turning towards restoring more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What will it take to implement some of these solutions, and who needs to take the lead on it?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Various agencies are responsible, principally the Regional Water Quality Control Board, which issued permits for wastewater treatment facilities and stormwater runoff, etcetera. So there is sort of the lead agency at the state level. The federal level would be the Environmental Protection Agency. But also we have these sewage management districts, 40 treatment plants, and they have responsibility, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For instance, water recycling. As an example, San Francisco does not recycle very much of its water at all. But the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission could make the decision that they need to invest heavily in water recycling. So there’s many different actors that do play a role here and will have to play a role, and they will need a lot of money to implement these solutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What do you hope people take away from the events of this week?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I hope people take away from the fish kill the tremendous diversity and abundance of beautiful organisms that this bay supports, even though we don’t always see them. Many of the species that are going to be affected by this were already endangered or their populations have declined a bunch. And that’s because of the way that we treat this ecosystem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Bay is a gem and it’s a source of joy for all of us who see it. And when you drive over the bay and see that the water is blue and has returned to normal like that, that’s great. But it doesn’t mean that the problem has gone away or that we’ve solved anything. We really need to take this trauma and turn it into a focus on cleaning up our mess and living within the limits that nature prescribes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC1031855459&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11920455/where-can-i-find-a-monkeypox-vaccine-near-me\">\u003cem>Read in English\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Avanza a una sección específica:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#donde\">¿Dónde puedo vacunarme contra la viruela del mono en el Área de la Bahía?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#que\">¿Cómo funciona la vacuna contra la viruela del mono?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#quien\">¿Quién puede recibir la vacuna contra la viruela del mono?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#cuando\">¿Cuándo puedo recibir la vacuna contra la viruela del mono?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#varicela\">Si me vacuné contra la viruela cuando era joven, ¿estoy protegido contra la viruela del mono?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#tratamiento\">¿Qué otros tratamientos existen?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Cualquier persona puede contraer la viruela del mono. El brote de la viruela del mono en Estados Unidos \u003ca href=\"https://www.who.int/es/publications/m/item/monkeypox-public-health-advice-for-men-who-have-sex-with-men\">está afectando particularmente a las comunidades de hombres homosexuales y bisexuales y hombres que tienen relaciones sexuales con otros hombres\u003c/a>. La Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS) señala que \u003ca href=\"https://www.who.int/es/publications/m/item/monkeypox-public-health-advice-for-men-who-have-sex-with-men\">las personas trans y género no conforme “también pueden ser más vulnerables en el contexto del brote actual”\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Actualización más reciente:\u003c/strong>\u003c/em> Los funcionarios de salud de San Francisco anunciaron este miércoles que han expandido las pautas de eligibilidad para la vacuna contra la viruela del mono. A partir del 6 de septiembre, todos los hombres gay, bisexuales y que tienen sexo con otros hombres podrán recibir la vacuna — siempre y cuando vivan en San Francisco. Todas las personas trans en la ciudad también serán elegibles para recibir la vacuna a partir de esa fecha.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Previamente, personas que forman parte de estas comunidades sólo podrían recibir la vacuna en San Francisco si tuvieron varias parejas sexuales en los pasados 14 días. \u003ca href=\"#quien\">\u003cstrong>Lea más sobre quien puede recibir la vacuna en el Área de la Bahía en este momento.\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Otra actualización: El Departamento de Salud Pública de San Francisco informó que a partir del 6 de enero las clínicas de vacunación en esa ciudad ofrecerón la segunda dosis a personas que ya recibieron su primera dosis hace más de 28 días. Otros condados del Área de la Bahía se están preparando para ofrecer la segunda dosis. Anteriormente, no se ofrecía la segunda dosis ya que el suministro de dosis que había ofrecido el gobierno federal no era suficiente.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Entendemos que este proceso puede ser complicado y hasta puede provocar ansiedad, especialmente si crees que estuviste expuesto al virus. Estaremos actualizando esta guía a medida que recibamos nueva información sobre la vacuna contra la viruela del mono en el Área de la Bahía y el resto de California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Varias entidades de salud, incluidos los departamentos de salud pública de San Francisco y California, han decidido referirse a la viruela de mono como “MPX” (pronunciado “em-pox” tanto en inglés como en español), en respuesta a la preocupación de que el nombre “la viruela del mono” pueda ser racista o crear un estigma homofóbico en torno a la enfermedad y a quienes se contagien.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>En un discurso, MPX es usualmente pronunciado “em-pox” o según sus iniciales en inglés “em-pee-ecks”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Puede que vea “la viruela del mono” para referirse a la enfermedad por primera vez, luego será identificado como “MPX” en un artículo o una investigación de una agencia pública. Tenga la seguridad que ambos términos se refieren a la misma condición.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>¿No encuentra respuestas a sus preguntas aquí, o en nuestras guías sobre los síntomas relacionados a la viruela del mono o cómo se propaga el virus? \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#preguntas\">Envíe sus preguntas y díganos qué debemos de investigar.\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"que\">\u003c/a>¿Qué es la vacuna contra la viruela del mono y cómo se administra?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>La vacuna contra la viruela del mono que se ofrece en Estados Unidos se llama Jynneos y es producida en Dinamarca.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Esta vacuna se usa también para prevenir la viruela, puesto que el virus de la viruela del mono está relacionado al virus de la viruela (aunque generalmente esta es menos severa y mucho menos contagiosa que la propia viruela). Podría asumir que la viruela del mono está relacionada a la viruela pero no es así.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jynneos estaba disponible originalmente para personas mayores de 18 años, pero el 9 de agosto, la Administración de Alimentos y Medicamentos (FDA por sus siglas en inglés) anunció la autorización de uso de emergencia (EUA por sus siglas en inglés) y permitió a los proveedores \u003ca href=\"https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/monkeypox-update-fda-authorizes-emergency-use-jynneos-vaccine-increase-vaccine-supply\">administrar la vacuna contra la viruela del mono a jóvenes menores de 18 años\u003c/a> que “presentan un alto riesgo de contagio por la viruela del mono”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Si es elegible para vacunarse contra la viruela del mono, hay dos escenarios en los que puede recibir la dosis:\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Si sospecha o está seguro que estuvo expuesto a la viruela del mono \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">…\u003c/span>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>En este caso, la vacuna es administrada con la esperanza de no contraer la enfermedad, o al menos, reducir sus síntomas. Este método es llamado profilaxis posexposición (PEP por sus siglas en inglés). Lee sobre cuándo la vacuna contra la viruela del mono es más efectiva como PEP.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Si no cree que estuvo expuesto a la viruela del mono, pero forma parte de uno de los grupos que corren mayor riesgo\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>En este caso, la vacuna es administrada con la esperanza de no contraer la viruela del mono. Previamente, Jynneos sólo se ofrecía a personas que estaban seguras, o al menos sospechaban, de haber estado expuestos al virus. Pero los Centros para el Control y la Prevención de Enfermedades (CDC por sus siglas en inglés) han actualizado sus pautas en torno a la vacunación contra la viruela del mono. Este enfoque es conocido también como \u003ca href=\"https://espanol.cdc.gov/poxvirus/monkeypox/index.html?CDC_AA_refVal=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cdc.gov%2Fspanish%2Fmonkeypox%2Findex.html\">profilaxis posexposición, o PEP++\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A los laboratoristas quienes frecuentemente cuentan con muestras del virus de la viruela del mono también se les ofrece la vacuna. En este caso, \u003ca href=\"https://espanol.cdc.gov/poxvirus/monkeypox/index.html?CDC_AA_refVal=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cdc.gov%2Fspanish%2Fmonkeypox%2Findex.html\">el enfoque es llamado profilaxis prexposición\u003c/a> (o PrEP por sus siglas en inglés).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Avanza a \u003ca href=\"#preguntas\">\u003cstrong>quién es actualmente elegible para recibir la vacuna contra la viruela del mono.\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>¿Cuántas inyecciones de la vacuna contra la viruela del mono recibiré?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>La vacuna contra la viruela del mono se administra generalmente en dos dosis con 28 días entre sí. Pero la doctora Susan Philip, funcionaria de salud de San Francisco, ha confirmado que “no existe algún daño” si recibe la segunda dosis de Jynneos después del marco de 28 días, y que ese retraso en la segunda dosis, mientras el suministro es bajo, “nos permitirá usar la vacuna eficientemente”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>¿Cuánto tiempo tendrá que esperar alguien para recibir la segunda dosis? En la clínica de vacunación del Hospital General Zuckerberg de San Francisco (ZSFG por sus siglas en inglés) los pacientes han sido informados por el personal del hospital que su segunda inyección puede tardar, de manera segura, hasta dos años.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El \u003ca href=\"https://profiles.ucsf.edu/peter.chin-hong\">doctor Peter Chin-Hong\u003c/a>, especialista en enfermedades infecciosas del Centro Médico en UCSF, confirma que “es seguro no recibir la segunda dosis de la vacuna en el marco de los 28 días” y “algunos datos sugieren que esperar hasta dos años estaría bien”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Claro, es probable, que no tengamos que esperar tanto”, dijo Chin-Hong, y agregó que la segunda inyección puede servir como una dosis de refuerzo. “La primera dosis es realmente buena (85% a 90% de protección después de cuatro días) y es equivalente a dos dosis de vacuna mRNA para COVID-19”, dijo Ching- Hong. Por lo tanto, si logra recibir la primera dosis de la vacuna contra la viruela del mono y en esa cita le dijeron que debe esperar un largo tiempo para su segunda inyección, no se preocupe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Si es una persona con condiciones de inmunodepresión, puede ser elegible para recibir la segunda dosis, incluso si su condado prioriza la primera inyección. El Departamento de Salud Pública de San Francisco (SFDPH por sus siglas en inglés) por ejemplo, ofrece la segunda dosis a aquellos que tienen “un sistema con condiciones de inmunodepresión severo a moderado pues no desarrollarán inmunidad después de una dosis”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFDPH agrega que este grupo incluye “personas en tratamiento activo contra el cáncer, personas que toman medicamento para inhibir el sistema inmunológico y personas con una infección de VIH avanzada o que no está siendo asistido, entre otros”.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"quien\">\u003c/a>¿Quién puede recibir la vacuna contra la viruela del mono?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Originalmente, SFDPH seguía las pautas de salud de los CDC al ofrecer la vacuna contra la viruela del mono sólo a personas que estaban seguros, o sospechaban, que fueron expuestos al virus. Sin embargo, el 19 de julio, \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/es/node/5217\">la agencia anunció que amplió los criterios de elegibilidad para ofrecer la vacuna Jynneos\u003c/a> a los siguientes residentes de San Francisco:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Hombres homosexuales, bisexuales y otros hombres que tienen sexo con hombres y personas trans que tienen sexo con hombres y han tenido múltiples parejas sexuales (más de una) en los últimos 14 días.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Trabajadores sexuales de cualquier orientación sexual o género.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Personas que han sido identificadas como contactos cercanos a alguien que contrajo la viruela del mono (bajo sospecha o confirmado).\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Personas que han recibido una notificación de un lugar o un evento en el que estuvo expuesto a alguien con la viruela del mono (bajo sospecha o confirmado).\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>La vacuna es ofrecida también a los laboratoristas de San Francisco que cuentan rutinariamente muestras del virus de la viruela del mono o a cualquier médico en alto riesgo de exposición laboral.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Actualmente, la elegibilidad de la vacuna contra la viruela del mono difiere según el condado donde viva. Por ejemplo, el 19 de julio,\u003ca href=\"https://publichealth.sccgov.org/news/news-release/condado-de-santa-clara-amplia-requisitos-para-vacuna-viruela-s%C3%ADmica\"> el condado de Santa Clara amplió sus pautas para la vacuna\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Consulte las pautas actuales de vacunación contra la viruela del mono en su condado, pero tenga en cuenta que algunos condados poseen información y más recursos disponibles sobre la viruela del mono que otros:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/es/node/5217\">Vacunas contra la viruela del mono en San Francisco\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://monkeypox.wpengine.com/vaccine/\">Vacunas contra la viruela del mono en el condado de Alameda\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://publichealth.sccgov.org/disease-information/monkeypox/viruela-del-mono\">Vacunas contra la viruela del mono en el condado de Santa Clara\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.smchealth.org/node/6023\">Vacunas contra la viruela del mono en el condado de San Mateo\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://cchealth.org/mpx/\">Vacunas contra la viruela del mono en el condado de Contra Costa\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.marinhhs.org/monkeypox\">Vacunas contra la viruela del mono en el condado de Marín\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.solanocounty.com/depts/ph/bureaus/communicable_disease/monkeypox.asp\">Vacunas contra la viruela del mono en el condado de Solano\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.countyofnapa.org/3340/Monkeypox-MPX\">Vacunas contra la viruela del mono en el condado de Napa\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://sonomacounty.ca.gov/health-and-human-services/health-services/divisions/public-health/disease-control/diseases-and-conditions/monkeypox-(mpx)\">Vacunas contra la viruela del mono en el condado de Sonoma\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>¿Necesito dar positivo en una prueba de la viruela del mono para recibir la vacuna?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>No necesita dar positivo a una prueba de la viruela del mono para recibir la vacuna.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Las pruebas para la viruela del mono son limitadas hoy y es posible que tenga que cumplir con ciertos requisitos: en San Francisco, por ejemplo, \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/es/node/5187\">los residentes deben presentar un sarpullido o manchas para realizarse una prueba\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"cuando\">\u003c/a>¿Cuándo debería recibir la vacuna contra la viruela del mono?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Los CDC recomiendan que \u003ca href=\"https://espanol.cdc.gov/poxvirus/monkeypox/vaccines/index.html\">la vacuna contra la viruela del mono se administre a una persona dentro de los cuatro días posteriores a la fecha que estuvo expuesta al virus\u003c/a>, siendo la mejor manera de prevenir la aparición de la enfermedad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Si una persona recibe la vacuna entre los cuatro y 14 días después de haber sido expuesta, la vacuna puede que reduzca los síntomas de la viruela del mono, pero es probable que no prevenga la enfermedad por completo. Vacunarse a tiempo es otra razón por la que es importante permanecer alerta ante una posible exposición a la viruela del mono. Si tiene síntomas, lo más recomendable es actuar rápido.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Si ha estado recientemente en un evento o una fiesta en la que tuvo contacto cercano con otros asistentes, es crítico estar atento a los mensajes de los organizadores u otras personas presentes ante una posible exposición a la viruela del mono.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Si recibe la primera dosis de la vacuna contra la viruela del mono después de haber estado expuesto al virus, esto puede ayudar a prevenir el desarrollo de la enfermedad y reducir los síntomas, pero la eficacia de la vacuna dependería de la rapidez con que la reciba después de una exposición.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"donde\">\u003c/a>Si soy elegible ¿dónde puedo recibir la vacuna contra la viruela del mono?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>El suministro de la vacuna contra la viruela del mono en el Área de la Bahía se distribuye directamente desde el Departamento de Salud Pública de California, cuyo suministro proviene del gobierno federal. Hoy, la disponibilidad sigue siendo limitada mientras que la demanda es alta.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Si experimenta los síntomas de la viruela del mono, o si le informaron que estuvo expuesto al virus, debe comunicarse con un proveedor de atención médica de inmediato. Un proveedor de atención médica puede ayudarle a navegar en este proceso, hablar sobre cualquier factor de riesgo adicional que pueda tener y también decirle si es elegible para \u003ca href=\"#tratamiento\">algunos de los tratamientos contra la viruela del mono disponibles hoy.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Si tiene seguro médico, comuníquese con su proveedor tan pronto como pueda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>También \u003ca href=\"https://myturn.ca.gov/es_US.html\">puede programa una cita para recibir su vacuna\u003c/a>, ya sea su primera o su segunda dosis, a través del \u003ca href=\"https://myturn.ca.gov/es_US.html\">sitio My Turn del estado de California\u003c/a>. (Este es el mismo My Turn que se usa para hacer citas para las vacunas COVID-19) El Departamento de Salud Pública de California ha agregado la vacuna contra la viruela del mono a la lista de vacunas que puede obtener a través de este sitio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser Permanente \u003ca href=\"https://healthy.kaiserpermanente.org/health-wellness/monkeypox\">ha recibido vacunas contra la viruela del mono y actualmente sólo las ofrece a sus miembros\u003c/a>. Puede realizar una cita llamando a la línea directa de vacunación contra la viruela del mono del proveedor de salud al (415) 833-9999. Un miembro del personal atenderá su llamada y preguntará si tiene síntomas o estuvo recientemente en contacto con un caso confirmado.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UCSF también ofrece vacunas a quienes actualmente son elegibles. No necesita ser un paciente de UCSF, ni tener seguro médico para programar una cita. Puede visitar \u003ca href=\"https://www.ucsfhealth.org/clinics/monkeypox-vaccines-at-ucsf-es\">la página web de vacunas contra la viruela del mono de UCSF\u003c/a> para obtener instrucciones sobre cómo programar una cita usando el portal MyChart. Las vacunas se administran en: 333 California Street en San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Si no tiene seguro médico, comuníquese con el departamento de salud pública de su condado para solicitar información:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>San Francisco:\u003c/strong> el departamento de salud pública de la ciudad dice que los residentes pueden realizar una cita para recibir la vacuna contra la viruela del mono según el suministro lo permita en \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/es/information/monkeypox\">sf.gov/monkeypox\u003c/a>. Los residentes sin seguro médico pueden también ir a la clínica de vacunación sin cita previa en ZSFG, \u003ca href=\"#donde\">más información al respecto aquí.\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Condado de Santa Clara:\u003c/strong> ha establecido un formulario de vacunación electrónico para que los residentes soliciten una cita en las clínicas de vacunación del condado. \u003ca href=\"https://vax.sccgov.org/\">Accede al formulario aquí\u003c/a>. También puede comunicarse al centro de llamadas de la viruela del mono al (408) 970-2200 de lunes a viernes de 8 a.m. a 5 p.m. Los residentes sin seguro pueden solicitar tratamiento en \u003ca href=\"https://chpscc.org/member-clinics/\">las clínicas comunitarias del condado\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Condado de Alameda:\u003c/strong> los residentes elegibles que no tengan seguro médico pueden comunicarse directamente con el departamento de salud pública en \u003ca href=\"mailto:monkeypox@acgov.org\">monkeypox@acgov.org\u003c/a>. También puede ver una lista de las próximas clínicas comunitarias de vacunación en \u003ca href=\"https://monkeypox.wpengine.com/vaccine/\">la página web del condado\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Condado de Contra Costa:\u003c/strong> el departamento de salud pública ha establecido un formulario electrónico para que los residentes soliciten una cita. \u003ca href=\"http://mpxvaccine.cchealth.org/\">Haga una cita aquí\u003c/a>. También puede llamar a los funcionarios de salud al (925) 313-6740 o comunicarse con \u003ca href=\"https://cchealth.org/centers-clinics/\">las clínicas comunitarias del condado\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Condado de Sonoma:\u003c/strong> los residentes pueden llamar al (707) 565-4568 o comunicarse con una de \u003ca href=\"https://sonomacounty.ca.gov/health-and-human-services/health-services/divisions/public-health/disease-control/immunizations/community-clinics\">las clínicas comunitarias del condado\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Condado de San Mateo:\u003c/strong> los residentes sin seguro pueden inscribirse para recibir la vacuna usando \u003ca href=\"https://www.smchealth.org/monkeypoxvax\">la página web del condado\u003c/a> o también pueden comunicarse con una de \u003ca href=\"https://www.smchealth.org/smmc-find-location\">las clínicas comunitarias del condado\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Condado de Solano:\u003c/strong> los residentes pueden llamar al (707) 784-8001 o comunicarse con uno de \u003ca href=\"https://www.solanocounty.com/depts/ph/fhs/primary_care_clinics/default.asp\">los consultorios comunitarios del condado\u003c/a>. También puede ver una lista de las próximas clínicas comunitarias de vacunación en \u003ca href=\"https://www.solanocounty.com/depts/ph/bureaus/communicable_disease/monkeypox.asp\">la página web del condado\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Condado de Marín:\u003c/strong> los residentes sin seguro pueden comunicarse con una de \u003ca href=\"https://www.marinhhs.org/community-resource-guide/marin-community-clinics-5-locations-larkspur-novato-san-rafael\">los consultorios comunitarios del condado\u003c/a>. También puede ver una lista de las próximas clínicas gratuitas de vacunación en \u003ca href=\"https://www.marinhhs.org/monkeypox\">la página web del condado\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Condado de Napa:\u003c/strong> los residentes pueden llamar al (707) 253-4270 o comunicarse con una de \u003ca href=\"https://www.rchc.net/napa-county-health-centers/\">las clínicas comunitarias del condado\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>El Departamento de Salud Pública de San Francisco recomienda que si vive en la ciudad y no tiene un proveedor, o tiene dificultades para programar una cita, puede ser asistido en SF City Clinic en 356 7th Street (número telefónico: (628) 217-6600) o en la clínica Strut en 270 Castro Street (número telefónico: (415) 581-1600).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Actualmente, hay un sitio de vacunación en San Francisco donde no se requiere una cita: la clínica SZFG Learning Center en 1001 Potrero Avenue. El horario habitual de atención durante la semana es de 8 a.m. a 4 p.m. Si visita el sitio SZFG en un día que está abierto, busque el edificio 30. La clínica estará en el segundo piso.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tenga en cuenta que esta clínica sin cita previa ha tenido que cerrar con breve aviso en el pasado debido a la falta de suministro, por lo que es importante verificar que el sitio esté abierto antes de visitarlo. Puede encontrar las actualizaciones sobre el estado de operación de la clínica ZSFG en \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SF_DPH\">la cuenta de Twitter del Departamento de Salud Pública de San Francisco\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La Fundación contra el Sida de San Francisco tiene una lista de espera para recibir la vacuna con Magnet, la clínica de salud sexual de la organización. Puede llamar al (415) 581-1600 o \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfBxNb__0J6JSfa02xK_fz7_56OLt9PgXuavpOVRdiP9AK0Rg/viewform\">acceder a la lista de espera aquí\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#preguntas\">\u003cstrong>Envíe sus preguntas sobre la viruela del mono y díganos qué debemos de investigar.\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"varicela\">\u003c/a>Si me vacuné contra la viruela en el pasado ¿estoy protegido contra la viruela del mono?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>La vacunación rutinaria contra la viruela en Estados Unidos finalizó en 1972. Pero si recibió una vacuna contra la viruela antes de 1972, es probable que se pregunte si aún está protegido, puesto que el virus de la viruela del mono está relacionado con el virus de la viruela (aunque la viruela del mono es menos severa y menos contagiosa que la viruela).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La doctora Susan Philip, funcionaria de San Francisco, dice que vacunarse contra la viruela “tendría cierta protección cruzada contra la viruela del mono” y “parece que las personas que han sido vacunadas contra la viruela en el pasado poseen una protección parcial, por lo que puede que no tengan un caso tan grave de la viruela del mono”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pero si te vacunaste contra la viruela antes de 1972 ¿todavía tienes inmunidad contra la viruela del mono? Hoy, eso parece incierto. Andrea McCollum, líder del equipo de epidemiología del poxvirus en la división de patología y microorganismos patógenos de graves consecuencias de los CDC dice que “\u003ca href=\"https://www.statnews.com/2022/05/19/a-cdc-expert-answers-questions-on-monkeypox/\">esto es algo que realmente no hemos descubierto en personas que se vacunaron [contra la viruela] 50 años antes, 60 años antes\u003c/a>”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Philip enfatiza que dado que una vacuna histórica contra la viruela “puede que no sea una protección completa” contra la viruela del mono, el Departamento de Salud Pública de San Francisco y los CDC recomiendan que aunque recibió una vacuna contra la viruela cuando era niño, definitivamente debe buscar una vacuna contra la viruela del mono si estuvo expuesto a este virus para “obtener la mayor protección posible”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11924194\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11924194\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-1242023301-1920x1281-2.jpg\" alt=\"Una persona sostiene una botella de medicamentos en su mano.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1281\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-1242023301-1920x1281-2.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-1242023301-1920x1281-2-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-1242023301-1920x1281-2-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-1242023301-1920x1281-2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-1242023301-1920x1281-2-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">TPOXX (también conocido como Tecovirimat o ST-246) se usa para tratar a las personas que experimentan los peores síntomas de la viruela del mono. La FDA aprobó Tecovirimat para tratar la viruela en 2018. \u003ccite>(uki Iwamura/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"tratamiento\">\u003c/a>¿Qué otros tratamientos existen?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>La vacuna contra la viruela del mono puede actuar como una especie de tratamiento, pero sólo si se recibe al poco tiempo de haber estado expuesto, dice el doctor Peter Ching-Hong, especialista de enfermedades infecciosas de UCSF.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Si recibió una vacuna poco después de estar expuesto, algunas personas piensan que dentro de los cuatros días, puede afectar y evitar que se enferme, aunque haya estado expuesto a una infección,” dice Ching-Hong. “Si recibe la vacuna dentro de los 14 días posteriores a la exposición, aunque pueda tener sarpullido o enfermedad, sus síntomas se reducirán”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pero la vacuna contra la viruela del mono no es el único tratamiento disponible en la actualidad. Algunos médicos administran el medicamento TPOXX (también conocido como Tecovirimat o ST-246) a pacientes que experimentan síntomas graves de viruela del mono. Tecovirimat suele ser un tratamiento de dos semanas y puede administrarse a través de una cápsula o una inyección intravenosa. El medicamento dificulta al virus que intenta infectar nuevas células, lo cual limita el crecimiento de la infección.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“La mayoría de las personas mejorarán por sí solas, pero algunas necesitarán tratamiento”, dice el doctor Ching-Hong de UCSF. Entre las personas elegibles para el tratamiento se incluyen aquellos con el sistema inmunológico vulnerable, personas embarazadas y niños menores de 8 años.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Las personas que no poseen esas características de riesgo pero contraen la viruela del mono pueden recibir tratamiento, dice Chin-Hong. Esto incluye a aquellos que desarrollan una enfermedad oral prolongada, pues les resulta muy difícil comer y beber. “Es como tener un montón de úlceras en la boca”, dice Ching-Hong. Aquellos que desarrollan la enfermedad de manera en el área rectal o cerca de los ojos también pueden recibir tratamiento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>TPOXX solo ha sido aprobado por la FDA para tratar infecciones de viruela. Los CDC, sin embargo, permiten que los médicos receten TPOXX para el tratamiento de la viruela del mono a través de un proceso conocido como “protocolo de nuevo fármaco en investigación para amplio acceso”. Un médico deberá presentar una solicitud a la FDA y el paciente debe estar dispuesto a firmar un formulario bajo su consentimiento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La doctora Philip de San Francisco dice que los funcionarios de la ciudad se están asociando con los proveedores de salud para “ampliar el acceso de las personas en toda la ciudad, ya sea que estén afiliados o no al sistema de salud”. La doctora agrega que depende de los CDC agilizar el proceso para que los médicos puedan solicitar TPOXX.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Otro aspecto que los pacientes deben considerar es hablar con su médico sobre cualquier dolor que sientan y dónde. Algunos pacientes con la viruela del mono\u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/news/health/lesions-debilitating-pain-monkeypox-experience\"> consideran el dolor de los sarpullidos como algo “insoportable”\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Existen muchas opciones que pueden aliviar o al menos reducir el dolor si se tiene la viruela del mono. Los médicos pueden recetar un tratamiento que respondería al dolor asociado con las lesiones presentes en la cara, o los brazos, la boca, o el área genital o rectal del paciente, dice el doctor Chin-Hong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“El tratamiento no solo se trata de vacunas y medicamentos. El tratamiento también se enfoca en los síntomas específicos que presenta el paciente”, dice. “Así que asegúrese de pedir ayuda a su profesional de la salud porque puede haber cosas que ayuden a sentir menos dolor”.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"preguntas\">\u003c/a>¿Qué otras preguntas tiene sobre la viruela del mono?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>¿Tiene más preguntas sobre la viruela del mono y no encuentra una respuesta en esta publicación o en \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/monkeypox\">nuestras guías que explican los síntomas y cómo se propaga el virus\u003c/a>?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Puede usar el cuadro a continuación para enviar una pregunta. Lo que nos envíe ayudará nuestros informes sobre la viruela del mono y podremos decidir qué cubrir aquí, en nuestro sitio web y en la radio pública de KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tenga en cuenta que no podemos comunicarnos directamente con aquellos que envían preguntas y no podemos brindar asesoramiento médico personal. Si le preocupa la viruela del mono u otro problema de salud, le recomendamos que se comunique con su proveedor de atención médica o una clínica comunitaria local si no tiene seguro (\u003ca href=\"#donde\">consulte nuestra lista de consultorios comunitarios en su condado\u003c/a>).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[hearken id=\"9840\" src=\"https://modules.wearehearken.com/kqed/embed/9840.js\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Este artículo fue traducido por el periodista, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/justoescribe\">Kervy Robles\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11920455/where-can-i-find-a-monkeypox-vaccine-near-me\">\u003cem>Read in English\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Avanza a una sección específica:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#donde\">¿Dónde puedo vacunarme contra la viruela del mono en el Área de la Bahía?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#que\">¿Cómo funciona la vacuna contra la viruela del mono?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#quien\">¿Quién puede recibir la vacuna contra la viruela del mono?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#cuando\">¿Cuándo puedo recibir la vacuna contra la viruela del mono?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#varicela\">Si me vacuné contra la viruela cuando era joven, ¿estoy protegido contra la viruela del mono?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#tratamiento\">¿Qué otros tratamientos existen?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Cualquier persona puede contraer la viruela del mono. El brote de la viruela del mono en Estados Unidos \u003ca href=\"https://www.who.int/es/publications/m/item/monkeypox-public-health-advice-for-men-who-have-sex-with-men\">está afectando particularmente a las comunidades de hombres homosexuales y bisexuales y hombres que tienen relaciones sexuales con otros hombres\u003c/a>. La Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS) señala que \u003ca href=\"https://www.who.int/es/publications/m/item/monkeypox-public-health-advice-for-men-who-have-sex-with-men\">las personas trans y género no conforme “también pueden ser más vulnerables en el contexto del brote actual”\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Actualización más reciente:\u003c/strong>\u003c/em> Los funcionarios de salud de San Francisco anunciaron este miércoles que han expandido las pautas de eligibilidad para la vacuna contra la viruela del mono. A partir del 6 de septiembre, todos los hombres gay, bisexuales y que tienen sexo con otros hombres podrán recibir la vacuna — siempre y cuando vivan en San Francisco. Todas las personas trans en la ciudad también serán elegibles para recibir la vacuna a partir de esa fecha.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Previamente, personas que forman parte de estas comunidades sólo podrían recibir la vacuna en San Francisco si tuvieron varias parejas sexuales en los pasados 14 días. \u003ca href=\"#quien\">\u003cstrong>Lea más sobre quien puede recibir la vacuna en el Área de la Bahía en este momento.\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Otra actualización: El Departamento de Salud Pública de San Francisco informó que a partir del 6 de enero las clínicas de vacunación en esa ciudad ofrecerón la segunda dosis a personas que ya recibieron su primera dosis hace más de 28 días. Otros condados del Área de la Bahía se están preparando para ofrecer la segunda dosis. Anteriormente, no se ofrecía la segunda dosis ya que el suministro de dosis que había ofrecido el gobierno federal no era suficiente.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Entendemos que este proceso puede ser complicado y hasta puede provocar ansiedad, especialmente si crees que estuviste expuesto al virus. Estaremos actualizando esta guía a medida que recibamos nueva información sobre la vacuna contra la viruela del mono en el Área de la Bahía y el resto de California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Varias entidades de salud, incluidos los departamentos de salud pública de San Francisco y California, han decidido referirse a la viruela de mono como “MPX” (pronunciado “em-pox” tanto en inglés como en español), en respuesta a la preocupación de que el nombre “la viruela del mono” pueda ser racista o crear un estigma homofóbico en torno a la enfermedad y a quienes se contagien.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>En un discurso, MPX es usualmente pronunciado “em-pox” o según sus iniciales en inglés “em-pee-ecks”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Puede que vea “la viruela del mono” para referirse a la enfermedad por primera vez, luego será identificado como “MPX” en un artículo o una investigación de una agencia pública. Tenga la seguridad que ambos términos se refieren a la misma condición.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>¿No encuentra respuestas a sus preguntas aquí, o en nuestras guías sobre los síntomas relacionados a la viruela del mono o cómo se propaga el virus? \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#preguntas\">Envíe sus preguntas y díganos qué debemos de investigar.\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"que\">\u003c/a>¿Qué es la vacuna contra la viruela del mono y cómo se administra?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>La vacuna contra la viruela del mono que se ofrece en Estados Unidos se llama Jynneos y es producida en Dinamarca.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Esta vacuna se usa también para prevenir la viruela, puesto que el virus de la viruela del mono está relacionado al virus de la viruela (aunque generalmente esta es menos severa y mucho menos contagiosa que la propia viruela). Podría asumir que la viruela del mono está relacionada a la viruela pero no es así.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jynneos estaba disponible originalmente para personas mayores de 18 años, pero el 9 de agosto, la Administración de Alimentos y Medicamentos (FDA por sus siglas en inglés) anunció la autorización de uso de emergencia (EUA por sus siglas en inglés) y permitió a los proveedores \u003ca href=\"https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/monkeypox-update-fda-authorizes-emergency-use-jynneos-vaccine-increase-vaccine-supply\">administrar la vacuna contra la viruela del mono a jóvenes menores de 18 años\u003c/a> que “presentan un alto riesgo de contagio por la viruela del mono”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Si es elegible para vacunarse contra la viruela del mono, hay dos escenarios en los que puede recibir la dosis:\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Si sospecha o está seguro que estuvo expuesto a la viruela del mono \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">…\u003c/span>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>En este caso, la vacuna es administrada con la esperanza de no contraer la enfermedad, o al menos, reducir sus síntomas. Este método es llamado profilaxis posexposición (PEP por sus siglas en inglés). Lee sobre cuándo la vacuna contra la viruela del mono es más efectiva como PEP.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Si no cree que estuvo expuesto a la viruela del mono, pero forma parte de uno de los grupos que corren mayor riesgo\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>En este caso, la vacuna es administrada con la esperanza de no contraer la viruela del mono. Previamente, Jynneos sólo se ofrecía a personas que estaban seguras, o al menos sospechaban, de haber estado expuestos al virus. Pero los Centros para el Control y la Prevención de Enfermedades (CDC por sus siglas en inglés) han actualizado sus pautas en torno a la vacunación contra la viruela del mono. Este enfoque es conocido también como \u003ca href=\"https://espanol.cdc.gov/poxvirus/monkeypox/index.html?CDC_AA_refVal=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cdc.gov%2Fspanish%2Fmonkeypox%2Findex.html\">profilaxis posexposición, o PEP++\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A los laboratoristas quienes frecuentemente cuentan con muestras del virus de la viruela del mono también se les ofrece la vacuna. En este caso, \u003ca href=\"https://espanol.cdc.gov/poxvirus/monkeypox/index.html?CDC_AA_refVal=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cdc.gov%2Fspanish%2Fmonkeypox%2Findex.html\">el enfoque es llamado profilaxis prexposición\u003c/a> (o PrEP por sus siglas en inglés).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Avanza a \u003ca href=\"#preguntas\">\u003cstrong>quién es actualmente elegible para recibir la vacuna contra la viruela del mono.\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>¿Cuántas inyecciones de la vacuna contra la viruela del mono recibiré?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>La vacuna contra la viruela del mono se administra generalmente en dos dosis con 28 días entre sí. Pero la doctora Susan Philip, funcionaria de salud de San Francisco, ha confirmado que “no existe algún daño” si recibe la segunda dosis de Jynneos después del marco de 28 días, y que ese retraso en la segunda dosis, mientras el suministro es bajo, “nos permitirá usar la vacuna eficientemente”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>¿Cuánto tiempo tendrá que esperar alguien para recibir la segunda dosis? En la clínica de vacunación del Hospital General Zuckerberg de San Francisco (ZSFG por sus siglas en inglés) los pacientes han sido informados por el personal del hospital que su segunda inyección puede tardar, de manera segura, hasta dos años.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El \u003ca href=\"https://profiles.ucsf.edu/peter.chin-hong\">doctor Peter Chin-Hong\u003c/a>, especialista en enfermedades infecciosas del Centro Médico en UCSF, confirma que “es seguro no recibir la segunda dosis de la vacuna en el marco de los 28 días” y “algunos datos sugieren que esperar hasta dos años estaría bien”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Claro, es probable, que no tengamos que esperar tanto”, dijo Chin-Hong, y agregó que la segunda inyección puede servir como una dosis de refuerzo. “La primera dosis es realmente buena (85% a 90% de protección después de cuatro días) y es equivalente a dos dosis de vacuna mRNA para COVID-19”, dijo Ching- Hong. Por lo tanto, si logra recibir la primera dosis de la vacuna contra la viruela del mono y en esa cita le dijeron que debe esperar un largo tiempo para su segunda inyección, no se preocupe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Si es una persona con condiciones de inmunodepresión, puede ser elegible para recibir la segunda dosis, incluso si su condado prioriza la primera inyección. El Departamento de Salud Pública de San Francisco (SFDPH por sus siglas en inglés) por ejemplo, ofrece la segunda dosis a aquellos que tienen “un sistema con condiciones de inmunodepresión severo a moderado pues no desarrollarán inmunidad después de una dosis”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFDPH agrega que este grupo incluye “personas en tratamiento activo contra el cáncer, personas que toman medicamento para inhibir el sistema inmunológico y personas con una infección de VIH avanzada o que no está siendo asistido, entre otros”.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"quien\">\u003c/a>¿Quién puede recibir la vacuna contra la viruela del mono?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Originalmente, SFDPH seguía las pautas de salud de los CDC al ofrecer la vacuna contra la viruela del mono sólo a personas que estaban seguros, o sospechaban, que fueron expuestos al virus. Sin embargo, el 19 de julio, \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/es/node/5217\">la agencia anunció que amplió los criterios de elegibilidad para ofrecer la vacuna Jynneos\u003c/a> a los siguientes residentes de San Francisco:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Hombres homosexuales, bisexuales y otros hombres que tienen sexo con hombres y personas trans que tienen sexo con hombres y han tenido múltiples parejas sexuales (más de una) en los últimos 14 días.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Trabajadores sexuales de cualquier orientación sexual o género.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Personas que han sido identificadas como contactos cercanos a alguien que contrajo la viruela del mono (bajo sospecha o confirmado).\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Personas que han recibido una notificación de un lugar o un evento en el que estuvo expuesto a alguien con la viruela del mono (bajo sospecha o confirmado).\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>La vacuna es ofrecida también a los laboratoristas de San Francisco que cuentan rutinariamente muestras del virus de la viruela del mono o a cualquier médico en alto riesgo de exposición laboral.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Actualmente, la elegibilidad de la vacuna contra la viruela del mono difiere según el condado donde viva. Por ejemplo, el 19 de julio,\u003ca href=\"https://publichealth.sccgov.org/news/news-release/condado-de-santa-clara-amplia-requisitos-para-vacuna-viruela-s%C3%ADmica\"> el condado de Santa Clara amplió sus pautas para la vacuna\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Consulte las pautas actuales de vacunación contra la viruela del mono en su condado, pero tenga en cuenta que algunos condados poseen información y más recursos disponibles sobre la viruela del mono que otros:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/es/node/5217\">Vacunas contra la viruela del mono en San Francisco\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://monkeypox.wpengine.com/vaccine/\">Vacunas contra la viruela del mono en el condado de Alameda\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://publichealth.sccgov.org/disease-information/monkeypox/viruela-del-mono\">Vacunas contra la viruela del mono en el condado de Santa Clara\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.smchealth.org/node/6023\">Vacunas contra la viruela del mono en el condado de San Mateo\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://cchealth.org/mpx/\">Vacunas contra la viruela del mono en el condado de Contra Costa\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.marinhhs.org/monkeypox\">Vacunas contra la viruela del mono en el condado de Marín\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.solanocounty.com/depts/ph/bureaus/communicable_disease/monkeypox.asp\">Vacunas contra la viruela del mono en el condado de Solano\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.countyofnapa.org/3340/Monkeypox-MPX\">Vacunas contra la viruela del mono en el condado de Napa\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://sonomacounty.ca.gov/health-and-human-services/health-services/divisions/public-health/disease-control/diseases-and-conditions/monkeypox-(mpx)\">Vacunas contra la viruela del mono en el condado de Sonoma\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>¿Necesito dar positivo en una prueba de la viruela del mono para recibir la vacuna?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>No necesita dar positivo a una prueba de la viruela del mono para recibir la vacuna.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Las pruebas para la viruela del mono son limitadas hoy y es posible que tenga que cumplir con ciertos requisitos: en San Francisco, por ejemplo, \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/es/node/5187\">los residentes deben presentar un sarpullido o manchas para realizarse una prueba\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"cuando\">\u003c/a>¿Cuándo debería recibir la vacuna contra la viruela del mono?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Los CDC recomiendan que \u003ca href=\"https://espanol.cdc.gov/poxvirus/monkeypox/vaccines/index.html\">la vacuna contra la viruela del mono se administre a una persona dentro de los cuatro días posteriores a la fecha que estuvo expuesta al virus\u003c/a>, siendo la mejor manera de prevenir la aparición de la enfermedad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Si una persona recibe la vacuna entre los cuatro y 14 días después de haber sido expuesta, la vacuna puede que reduzca los síntomas de la viruela del mono, pero es probable que no prevenga la enfermedad por completo. Vacunarse a tiempo es otra razón por la que es importante permanecer alerta ante una posible exposición a la viruela del mono. Si tiene síntomas, lo más recomendable es actuar rápido.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Si ha estado recientemente en un evento o una fiesta en la que tuvo contacto cercano con otros asistentes, es crítico estar atento a los mensajes de los organizadores u otras personas presentes ante una posible exposición a la viruela del mono.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Si recibe la primera dosis de la vacuna contra la viruela del mono después de haber estado expuesto al virus, esto puede ayudar a prevenir el desarrollo de la enfermedad y reducir los síntomas, pero la eficacia de la vacuna dependería de la rapidez con que la reciba después de una exposición.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"donde\">\u003c/a>Si soy elegible ¿dónde puedo recibir la vacuna contra la viruela del mono?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>El suministro de la vacuna contra la viruela del mono en el Área de la Bahía se distribuye directamente desde el Departamento de Salud Pública de California, cuyo suministro proviene del gobierno federal. Hoy, la disponibilidad sigue siendo limitada mientras que la demanda es alta.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Si experimenta los síntomas de la viruela del mono, o si le informaron que estuvo expuesto al virus, debe comunicarse con un proveedor de atención médica de inmediato. Un proveedor de atención médica puede ayudarle a navegar en este proceso, hablar sobre cualquier factor de riesgo adicional que pueda tener y también decirle si es elegible para \u003ca href=\"#tratamiento\">algunos de los tratamientos contra la viruela del mono disponibles hoy.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Si tiene seguro médico, comuníquese con su proveedor tan pronto como pueda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>También \u003ca href=\"https://myturn.ca.gov/es_US.html\">puede programa una cita para recibir su vacuna\u003c/a>, ya sea su primera o su segunda dosis, a través del \u003ca href=\"https://myturn.ca.gov/es_US.html\">sitio My Turn del estado de California\u003c/a>. (Este es el mismo My Turn que se usa para hacer citas para las vacunas COVID-19) El Departamento de Salud Pública de California ha agregado la vacuna contra la viruela del mono a la lista de vacunas que puede obtener a través de este sitio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser Permanente \u003ca href=\"https://healthy.kaiserpermanente.org/health-wellness/monkeypox\">ha recibido vacunas contra la viruela del mono y actualmente sólo las ofrece a sus miembros\u003c/a>. Puede realizar una cita llamando a la línea directa de vacunación contra la viruela del mono del proveedor de salud al (415) 833-9999. Un miembro del personal atenderá su llamada y preguntará si tiene síntomas o estuvo recientemente en contacto con un caso confirmado.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UCSF también ofrece vacunas a quienes actualmente son elegibles. No necesita ser un paciente de UCSF, ni tener seguro médico para programar una cita. Puede visitar \u003ca href=\"https://www.ucsfhealth.org/clinics/monkeypox-vaccines-at-ucsf-es\">la página web de vacunas contra la viruela del mono de UCSF\u003c/a> para obtener instrucciones sobre cómo programar una cita usando el portal MyChart. Las vacunas se administran en: 333 California Street en San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Si no tiene seguro médico, comuníquese con el departamento de salud pública de su condado para solicitar información:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>San Francisco:\u003c/strong> el departamento de salud pública de la ciudad dice que los residentes pueden realizar una cita para recibir la vacuna contra la viruela del mono según el suministro lo permita en \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/es/information/monkeypox\">sf.gov/monkeypox\u003c/a>. Los residentes sin seguro médico pueden también ir a la clínica de vacunación sin cita previa en ZSFG, \u003ca href=\"#donde\">más información al respecto aquí.\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Condado de Santa Clara:\u003c/strong> ha establecido un formulario de vacunación electrónico para que los residentes soliciten una cita en las clínicas de vacunación del condado. \u003ca href=\"https://vax.sccgov.org/\">Accede al formulario aquí\u003c/a>. También puede comunicarse al centro de llamadas de la viruela del mono al (408) 970-2200 de lunes a viernes de 8 a.m. a 5 p.m. Los residentes sin seguro pueden solicitar tratamiento en \u003ca href=\"https://chpscc.org/member-clinics/\">las clínicas comunitarias del condado\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Condado de Alameda:\u003c/strong> los residentes elegibles que no tengan seguro médico pueden comunicarse directamente con el departamento de salud pública en \u003ca href=\"mailto:monkeypox@acgov.org\">monkeypox@acgov.org\u003c/a>. También puede ver una lista de las próximas clínicas comunitarias de vacunación en \u003ca href=\"https://monkeypox.wpengine.com/vaccine/\">la página web del condado\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Condado de Contra Costa:\u003c/strong> el departamento de salud pública ha establecido un formulario electrónico para que los residentes soliciten una cita. \u003ca href=\"http://mpxvaccine.cchealth.org/\">Haga una cita aquí\u003c/a>. También puede llamar a los funcionarios de salud al (925) 313-6740 o comunicarse con \u003ca href=\"https://cchealth.org/centers-clinics/\">las clínicas comunitarias del condado\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Condado de Sonoma:\u003c/strong> los residentes pueden llamar al (707) 565-4568 o comunicarse con una de \u003ca href=\"https://sonomacounty.ca.gov/health-and-human-services/health-services/divisions/public-health/disease-control/immunizations/community-clinics\">las clínicas comunitarias del condado\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Condado de San Mateo:\u003c/strong> los residentes sin seguro pueden inscribirse para recibir la vacuna usando \u003ca href=\"https://www.smchealth.org/monkeypoxvax\">la página web del condado\u003c/a> o también pueden comunicarse con una de \u003ca href=\"https://www.smchealth.org/smmc-find-location\">las clínicas comunitarias del condado\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Condado de Solano:\u003c/strong> los residentes pueden llamar al (707) 784-8001 o comunicarse con uno de \u003ca href=\"https://www.solanocounty.com/depts/ph/fhs/primary_care_clinics/default.asp\">los consultorios comunitarios del condado\u003c/a>. También puede ver una lista de las próximas clínicas comunitarias de vacunación en \u003ca href=\"https://www.solanocounty.com/depts/ph/bureaus/communicable_disease/monkeypox.asp\">la página web del condado\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Condado de Marín:\u003c/strong> los residentes sin seguro pueden comunicarse con una de \u003ca href=\"https://www.marinhhs.org/community-resource-guide/marin-community-clinics-5-locations-larkspur-novato-san-rafael\">los consultorios comunitarios del condado\u003c/a>. También puede ver una lista de las próximas clínicas gratuitas de vacunación en \u003ca href=\"https://www.marinhhs.org/monkeypox\">la página web del condado\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Condado de Napa:\u003c/strong> los residentes pueden llamar al (707) 253-4270 o comunicarse con una de \u003ca href=\"https://www.rchc.net/napa-county-health-centers/\">las clínicas comunitarias del condado\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>El Departamento de Salud Pública de San Francisco recomienda que si vive en la ciudad y no tiene un proveedor, o tiene dificultades para programar una cita, puede ser asistido en SF City Clinic en 356 7th Street (número telefónico: (628) 217-6600) o en la clínica Strut en 270 Castro Street (número telefónico: (415) 581-1600).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Actualmente, hay un sitio de vacunación en San Francisco donde no se requiere una cita: la clínica SZFG Learning Center en 1001 Potrero Avenue. El horario habitual de atención durante la semana es de 8 a.m. a 4 p.m. Si visita el sitio SZFG en un día que está abierto, busque el edificio 30. La clínica estará en el segundo piso.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tenga en cuenta que esta clínica sin cita previa ha tenido que cerrar con breve aviso en el pasado debido a la falta de suministro, por lo que es importante verificar que el sitio esté abierto antes de visitarlo. Puede encontrar las actualizaciones sobre el estado de operación de la clínica ZSFG en \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SF_DPH\">la cuenta de Twitter del Departamento de Salud Pública de San Francisco\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La Fundación contra el Sida de San Francisco tiene una lista de espera para recibir la vacuna con Magnet, la clínica de salud sexual de la organización. Puede llamar al (415) 581-1600 o \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfBxNb__0J6JSfa02xK_fz7_56OLt9PgXuavpOVRdiP9AK0Rg/viewform\">acceder a la lista de espera aquí\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#preguntas\">\u003cstrong>Envíe sus preguntas sobre la viruela del mono y díganos qué debemos de investigar.\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"varicela\">\u003c/a>Si me vacuné contra la viruela en el pasado ¿estoy protegido contra la viruela del mono?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>La vacunación rutinaria contra la viruela en Estados Unidos finalizó en 1972. Pero si recibió una vacuna contra la viruela antes de 1972, es probable que se pregunte si aún está protegido, puesto que el virus de la viruela del mono está relacionado con el virus de la viruela (aunque la viruela del mono es menos severa y menos contagiosa que la viruela).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La doctora Susan Philip, funcionaria de San Francisco, dice que vacunarse contra la viruela “tendría cierta protección cruzada contra la viruela del mono” y “parece que las personas que han sido vacunadas contra la viruela en el pasado poseen una protección parcial, por lo que puede que no tengan un caso tan grave de la viruela del mono”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pero si te vacunaste contra la viruela antes de 1972 ¿todavía tienes inmunidad contra la viruela del mono? Hoy, eso parece incierto. Andrea McCollum, líder del equipo de epidemiología del poxvirus en la división de patología y microorganismos patógenos de graves consecuencias de los CDC dice que “\u003ca href=\"https://www.statnews.com/2022/05/19/a-cdc-expert-answers-questions-on-monkeypox/\">esto es algo que realmente no hemos descubierto en personas que se vacunaron [contra la viruela] 50 años antes, 60 años antes\u003c/a>”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Philip enfatiza que dado que una vacuna histórica contra la viruela “puede que no sea una protección completa” contra la viruela del mono, el Departamento de Salud Pública de San Francisco y los CDC recomiendan que aunque recibió una vacuna contra la viruela cuando era niño, definitivamente debe buscar una vacuna contra la viruela del mono si estuvo expuesto a este virus para “obtener la mayor protección posible”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11924194\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11924194\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-1242023301-1920x1281-2.jpg\" alt=\"Una persona sostiene una botella de medicamentos en su mano.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1281\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-1242023301-1920x1281-2.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-1242023301-1920x1281-2-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-1242023301-1920x1281-2-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-1242023301-1920x1281-2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-1242023301-1920x1281-2-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">TPOXX (también conocido como Tecovirimat o ST-246) se usa para tratar a las personas que experimentan los peores síntomas de la viruela del mono. La FDA aprobó Tecovirimat para tratar la viruela en 2018. \u003ccite>(uki Iwamura/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"tratamiento\">\u003c/a>¿Qué otros tratamientos existen?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>La vacuna contra la viruela del mono puede actuar como una especie de tratamiento, pero sólo si se recibe al poco tiempo de haber estado expuesto, dice el doctor Peter Ching-Hong, especialista de enfermedades infecciosas de UCSF.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Si recibió una vacuna poco después de estar expuesto, algunas personas piensan que dentro de los cuatros días, puede afectar y evitar que se enferme, aunque haya estado expuesto a una infección,” dice Ching-Hong. “Si recibe la vacuna dentro de los 14 días posteriores a la exposición, aunque pueda tener sarpullido o enfermedad, sus síntomas se reducirán”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pero la vacuna contra la viruela del mono no es el único tratamiento disponible en la actualidad. Algunos médicos administran el medicamento TPOXX (también conocido como Tecovirimat o ST-246) a pacientes que experimentan síntomas graves de viruela del mono. Tecovirimat suele ser un tratamiento de dos semanas y puede administrarse a través de una cápsula o una inyección intravenosa. El medicamento dificulta al virus que intenta infectar nuevas células, lo cual limita el crecimiento de la infección.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“La mayoría de las personas mejorarán por sí solas, pero algunas necesitarán tratamiento”, dice el doctor Ching-Hong de UCSF. Entre las personas elegibles para el tratamiento se incluyen aquellos con el sistema inmunológico vulnerable, personas embarazadas y niños menores de 8 años.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Las personas que no poseen esas características de riesgo pero contraen la viruela del mono pueden recibir tratamiento, dice Chin-Hong. Esto incluye a aquellos que desarrollan una enfermedad oral prolongada, pues les resulta muy difícil comer y beber. “Es como tener un montón de úlceras en la boca”, dice Ching-Hong. Aquellos que desarrollan la enfermedad de manera en el área rectal o cerca de los ojos también pueden recibir tratamiento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>TPOXX solo ha sido aprobado por la FDA para tratar infecciones de viruela. Los CDC, sin embargo, permiten que los médicos receten TPOXX para el tratamiento de la viruela del mono a través de un proceso conocido como “protocolo de nuevo fármaco en investigación para amplio acceso”. Un médico deberá presentar una solicitud a la FDA y el paciente debe estar dispuesto a firmar un formulario bajo su consentimiento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La doctora Philip de San Francisco dice que los funcionarios de la ciudad se están asociando con los proveedores de salud para “ampliar el acceso de las personas en toda la ciudad, ya sea que estén afiliados o no al sistema de salud”. La doctora agrega que depende de los CDC agilizar el proceso para que los médicos puedan solicitar TPOXX.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Otro aspecto que los pacientes deben considerar es hablar con su médico sobre cualquier dolor que sientan y dónde. Algunos pacientes con la viruela del mono\u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/news/health/lesions-debilitating-pain-monkeypox-experience\"> consideran el dolor de los sarpullidos como algo “insoportable”\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Existen muchas opciones que pueden aliviar o al menos reducir el dolor si se tiene la viruela del mono. Los médicos pueden recetar un tratamiento que respondería al dolor asociado con las lesiones presentes en la cara, o los brazos, la boca, o el área genital o rectal del paciente, dice el doctor Chin-Hong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“El tratamiento no solo se trata de vacunas y medicamentos. El tratamiento también se enfoca en los síntomas específicos que presenta el paciente”, dice. “Así que asegúrese de pedir ayuda a su profesional de la salud porque puede haber cosas que ayuden a sentir menos dolor”.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"preguntas\">\u003c/a>¿Qué otras preguntas tiene sobre la viruela del mono?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>¿Tiene más preguntas sobre la viruela del mono y no encuentra una respuesta en esta publicación o en \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/monkeypox\">nuestras guías que explican los síntomas y cómo se propaga el virus\u003c/a>?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Puede usar el cuadro a continuación para enviar una pregunta. Lo que nos envíe ayudará nuestros informes sobre la viruela del mono y podremos decidir qué cubrir aquí, en nuestro sitio web y en la radio pública de KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tenga en cuenta que no podemos comunicarnos directamente con aquellos que envían preguntas y no podemos brindar asesoramiento médico personal. Si le preocupa la viruela del mono u otro problema de salud, le recomendamos que se comunique con su proveedor de atención médica o una clínica comunitaria local si no tiene seguro (\u003ca href=\"#donde\">consulte nuestra lista de consultorios comunitarios en su condado\u003c/a>).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>As the 24th poet laureate of the United States, Ada Limón is an ambassador to the world of beautiful words. Her poems use clear, everyday language. But they have as much literary heft as they do accessibility. Limón has written a half dozen books of poetry, and her most recent work is \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/05/09/1096005629/ada-limon-hurting-kind-review-poetry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Hurting Kind\u003c/a>.\" She's also the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for poetry and many other accolades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Limón was born in Sonoma County, and now lives among the hills and horses of Kentucky. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101890341/u-s-poet-laureate-ada-limon-on-elevating-and-promoting-poetry-when-america-needs-healing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">KQED Forum host Alexis Madrigal spoke with Limón\u003c/a> about her new post as poet laureate and how to read a poem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The following excerpts have been edited for length and clarity.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>ALEXIS MADRIGAL: In a 2008 essay, you were living in New York and pondering regional poetry and asking if you were, in fact, a poet of Sonoma. And then you said, \"I think I would claim myself a California poet. This definition is too tight, and it smells like old wine.\" Do you see yourself now as a Sonoma poet? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>ADA LIMÓN:\u003c/strong> To be honest, I think that the place I feel the most at home is in Sonoma. It does feel like a place where I deeply belong. But I also feel like there is a part of me that now that I've lived so many different places ... I do feel like there's this sort of sense that I belong to America. I think the landscape of the United States is something that I really feel connected to. And now that I've lived so many places in it, I feel like I can speak to that. But, Sonoma definitely still feels like home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Do you feel coming from these different places, living in these different places, that contrasts stick out more?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think that one of the things that I really love about being in different places, even just traveling, is that idea of getting to know the natural elements in each place. When I first arrived in Kentucky, I was really hoping to move back to California permanently, and then I fell madly in love and married my husband and I live in Kentucky and have learned to just love it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But I think the way that I know to love something, or how I can figure that out, is to explore the natural landscape around me. A lot of the poems in the book are about me really figuring out the landscape around me and looking at the old barns and the incredible horse pastures everywhere. That was important to me to figure out — how to love a place, to name the plants and animals, that I'm surrounded by.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Let's have you read \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.oprahdaily.com/entertainment/books/a39654803/ada-limon-hurting-kind-poem-video/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A Good Story\u003c/a>.\" This is from your most recent collection.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's a poem that began for me at a place where I feel like there were so many poems that were dealing with trauma. And I think it's incredibly important that we write and read poems that are hard and that deal with the hard things. But I also really wanted to write about tenderness and be grateful for those moments that tenderness was offered to me. This is where that poem came from.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>It made me think of a time my sister's ex-husband silently made me a bowl of macaroni and cheese, while I cried on my sister's lap. What is the literary infrastructure that makes that pack such a punch?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thank you for that. The poem is in couplets and there are actually long lines in the poem that sort of allow for it to move a little faster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The line length of a poem really determines the rhythm and speed of how the poem is read. A shorter line is going to be much slower if you think sort of Emily Dickinson, that's going to read much slower because it's got the breath in it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That slight pause after the line break is going to make you read it slower and then a longer line is going to read a little faster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can think of Whitman and then sort of the mid-length line is more for conversation. You can think of Shakespeare. It's meant to be read a little fast, but then at the same time it's in couplets. So you're going to break after each of those couplets, which gives you that little moment of pause.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It has that sort of rhythm that goes back and forth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last line is then on its own, which kind of allows for it to stand out a little bit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other part of this poem is that it's dealing with time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I had a student ask me, \"How is it that you can go from the present moment into the past or into the future so easily in your poems?\" And I said, well, this is going to sound weird, but I think time doesn't exist. I say my stepfather told me a story. And then he does this thing. But at the same time, it does feel like it's happening in the present moment because it begins with a hard day. And what does the hard day require? The hard day requires a good story and sometimes that good story isn't something that's happening now. But maybe it's a memory like you were talking about. The person that fed you macaroni and cheese.\u003cbr>\n[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Ada Limón, 24th US poet laureate\"]'There's a real danger in living without feeling and swallowing everything to become sort of courageous and resilient ... sometimes I think we also need to be a mess.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>We praise people so much for courage and bravery and strength and sometimes not for tenderness. In \"The Hurting Kind,\" how do you think about celebrating the ability to hold grief or the ability to hurt? How does one actually do that?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I've been thinking about this a lot, and I feel like oftentimes when we come to a poem, it's not even so much that we have to feel a certain thing, right? You don't have to feel exactly what I want you to feel after a poem I've read or a poem I've given you by somebody else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maybe the important thing is just that you feel period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And maybe that is something that we need to tap into, because I know for me, this is true. We've just become so numb to so much because there's just so much chaos and crisis in the world that it feels like every one of us is being shoved from one emergency to the next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We have to compartmentalize, and of course, we have to go numb a little bit. But I think that there is a real danger in that. There's a real danger in living without feeling and swallowing everything to become sort of courageous and resilient. And listen, I love the word \"resilience\" and I want to be resilient. But sometimes I think we also need to be a mess.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"left\" citation=\"Ada Limón, 24th US poet laureate\"]'There is power in that moment when you break down, that moment when you feel all the feelings and it feels like too much.'[/pullquote]We need to feel and maybe have someone give us macaroni and cheese while we cry. I think those are really important moments. It's what makes us human. It also is what makes us able to find strength.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is power in that moment when you break down, that moment when you feel all the feelings and it feels like too much. That's important because that's where we get the courage to go on, and maybe pursue the action that we need to see in the world. But I do think we need to make space for breathing, for falling apart, for crying. And for grieving those that we lost, because we just, we move on so quickly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We're asked to move on so quickly. 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"content": "\u003cp>People’s Park is one of the most famous sites of the student movement of the 1960s — battled into existence, it has been held together by activists. The current debate is whether the university should be allowed to build student housing, or whether the park should remain completely open space, a sanctuary of sorts, for people in need of help. Issues of housing, homelessness, open space and more combine for a story with many elements of quintessential Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a long time, the university hadn’t done much with it. Volunteers had guarded the space and run programs for various groups. During the pandemic, the eastern edge of the park became a large encampment for unhoused people. In recent years, the university has tried to develop the parcel of land, after its first attempt was blocked in 1969 by protesters. Under the new plans, about 60% of the land would remain a park that the university says will honor the legacy of its creation.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Harvey Smith, member of People's Park Historic District Advocacy Group\"]‘The park should remain a park, but a well-maintained park. This debate goes beyond Berkeley. It goes beyond California. The park has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rest would be turned into a new development, with 1,100 housing units for students and another hundred units of supportive housing run through a local nonprofit. In the meantime, the unhoused residents of the park have been offered a roof over their heads at a converted motel. Earlier this month, the university tried to begin construction, but activists clashed with police as demolition of the trees began. Soon, construction was halted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most recently, a judge issued an injunction and the project has been paused, pending a new review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101890205/the-battle-for-peoples-park\">KQED Forum host Alexis Madrigal spoke with\u003c/a>: Dan Mogulof, assistant vice chancellor of public affairs at UC Berkeley; Harvey Smith, member of People’s Park Historic District Advocacy Group; and Supriya Yelimeli, housing and homelessness reporter for Berkeleyside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The following excerpts have been edited for length and clarity.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The origin and state of People’s Park\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Supriya Yelimeli, Berkeleyside:\u003c/strong> I was there Tuesday evening around 5 p.m., and some activists who run the People’s Park Garden were watering. There were about 10 tents there — people who are occupying the park. The People’s Park Kitchen, also run by activists, has used some of the fencing that was put around the park. There are some folks who are just hanging out there, but it still looks very different than before. There used to be groups of people who kind of just hung out in the area. Now, most of the folks who are at the park now are actively protesting for it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11922915\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11922915\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57541_018_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Several people stand in the sun one has a sign that says: 'We Love People's Park'\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57541_018_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57541_018_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57541_018_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57541_018_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57541_018_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators rally at People’s Park to protest the construction by UC Berkeley of student housing at the park on Aug. 3, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>An abridged story of the park\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Yelimeli: \u003c/strong>In the ’60s, alongside many other big rebellions and civil rights movements, people who lived in the city decided to take the park land and turn it into a public park. At the time, there were plans to turn it into a parking lot. But people walked into the park, they started digging and shoveling. And there was one very famous protest where around 6,000 people marched to the park when the UC tried to reclaim the land. And on that day, one person was shot and killed. That set in motion a lot of the activism and the real vigor for defending the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11922963\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-72160036.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11922963\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-72160036-800x543.jpg\" alt=\"A black and white photo of several people standing outside behind barbed wire.\" width=\"800\" height=\"543\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-72160036-800x543.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-72160036-1020x692.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-72160036-160x109.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-72160036.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators place flowers on a barbed wire fence in People’s Park on the UC Berkeley campus, May 30, 1969. The demonstrators were part of a group of 30,000 Berkeley residents, of a total population of 100,000, who gathered and marched to protest the May 15 killing by police of an unarmed spectator at an earlier demonstration and the subsequent occupation of their city by the National Guard. \u003ccite>(David Fenton/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>The UC’s vision for People’s Park\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dan Mogulof, UC Berkeley:\u003c/strong> The vision really started five years ago. UC Berkeley is facing an urgent student housing crisis and an initiative was launched with relatively modest goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those goals were to provide every incoming freshman with two years of university housing. But to do that, we need 8,000 new beds. Twenty percent of our students don’t even live in the city of Berkeley. Ten percent of our students report being unhoused at any given time. We need to build on every single piece of university-owned property in close proximity to the campus — People’s Park is one of those sites.[aside postID=\"forum_2010101890205\" label=\"Related Post\"]We also understood how important the park site is to members of the Berkeley community — its past, its legacy. We understood there were unhoused people who had been sleeping and gathering there in the pandemic. Instead of blithely rushing ahead, we developed a plan that acknowledges and addresses all of those various interests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11922966\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS47370_036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11922966\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS47370_036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt='A sign outside that reads \"Peoples Park\" with tents outside.' width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS47370_036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS47370_036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS47370_036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS47370_036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS47370_036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign says ‘Save Peoples Park, No More Buildings’ at People’s Park in Berkeley on Feb. 19, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>We’re ready to and want to commemorate the park’s past and legacy. And also make sure that we’re meeting the needs and interests of unhoused people who have been using the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not only was nearly $5 million spent to help them relocate to the Rodeway Inn, another million dollars is being spent by the city and the campus to open a new daytime gathering center at the First Presbyterian Church, where unhoused people can receive services and food and showers, medical care, counseling and the like.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A continuing struggle for student housing\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alexis Madrigal, KQED: Why doesn’t the UC Berkeley just accept fewer students?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mogulof\u003c/strong>: There are a number of fallacies and myths around that question. First of all, the UC campuses don’t decide their own enrollment levels. Enrollment is decided by the regents in concert with the office of the president. They’re facing pressure from throughout the state … to enroll more students. The size of the system hasn’t tracked with the growing population of the state of California. In recent years, we’ve been required to take more students than we had housing for, exacerbating a preexisting crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Harvey Smith, People’s Park Historic District Advocacy Group:\u003c/strong> I’m highly disappointed with the devolution of the UC. When I was a student, there was zero tuition. Now I think students pay about $14,000 a year for tuition plus housing costs. [\u003ca href=\"https://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/?id=110635#expenses\">Editor’s note: The average in-state tuition is $14,000, and out-of-state tuition is $44,000.\u003c/a>]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our organization is totally in favor of more student housing. I applaud the plan to provide more student housing. We’re critical of the delivery of the plan. It’s been reported that up to 10% of Berkeley students at Cal have been homeless — and it’s an urgent problem, but our feeling is that it should be addressed in an appropriate way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The park should remain a park, but a well-maintained park. This debate goes beyond Berkeley. It goes beyond California. The park has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places. Wouldn’t it be easier to build in another part of the UC land holdings?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11922916\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11922916\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57544_016_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Cut trees on top of one another\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57544_016_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57544_016_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57544_016_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57544_016_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57544_016_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut-1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tree branches lay cut on the ground after UC Berkeley student housing construction began at People’s Park in Berkeley on Aug. 3, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>What do the people of People’s Park want?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Yelimeli:\u003c/strong> I wanted to make clear that there are different groups asking for different things at the park. Defend People’s Park, which is mostly a student-run organization, wants People’s Park returned to Indigenous stewardship. They want no development at People’s Park, and they want folks who previously lived there or who got resources at the park to get permanent housing. They also want UC police defunded and for those funds to be redirected to students and staff who need services, as well as people who lived at the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’ve been talking about opposition and support … At the protests, we’ve heard from Moms for Housing, who famously reclaimed a home in Oakland and were able to live there. We have heard alignment from folks at the Wood Street encampment, Oakland. We’ve heard alignment from, you know, groups in San Francisco and in Los Angeles, other people who have been fighting for homeless rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11922964\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS47341_006_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11922964\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS47341_006_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Two people wearing masks and jacket hold a plastic bag and vegetables outside near tents in a park.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS47341_006_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS47341_006_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS47341_006_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS47341_006_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS47341_006_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Romeo Channer (left) and Alecia Harger look through a bag donated at People’s Park in Berkeley on Feb. 19, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>We do have to be respectful of homeless voices who are not represented saying that [People’s Park] is where [they get their] resources — “if I don’t have a phone or my friend doesn’t have a phone, I can go here and hear from someone who will know their whereabouts.” And these are very distinct issues from the student housing crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s a lack of hearing the voices of these folks at all because they’re hard to reach. 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Soon, construction was halted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most recently, a judge issued an injunction and the project has been paused, pending a new review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101890205/the-battle-for-peoples-park\">KQED Forum host Alexis Madrigal spoke with\u003c/a>: Dan Mogulof, assistant vice chancellor of public affairs at UC Berkeley; Harvey Smith, member of People’s Park Historic District Advocacy Group; and Supriya Yelimeli, housing and homelessness reporter for Berkeleyside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The following excerpts have been edited for length and clarity.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The origin and state of People’s Park\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Supriya Yelimeli, Berkeleyside:\u003c/strong> I was there Tuesday evening around 5 p.m., and some activists who run the People’s Park Garden were watering. There were about 10 tents there — people who are occupying the park. The People’s Park Kitchen, also run by activists, has used some of the fencing that was put around the park. There are some folks who are just hanging out there, but it still looks very different than before. There used to be groups of people who kind of just hung out in the area. Now, most of the folks who are at the park now are actively protesting for it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11922915\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11922915\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57541_018_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Several people stand in the sun one has a sign that says: 'We Love People's Park'\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57541_018_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57541_018_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57541_018_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57541_018_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57541_018_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators rally at People’s Park to protest the construction by UC Berkeley of student housing at the park on Aug. 3, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>An abridged story of the park\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Yelimeli: \u003c/strong>In the ’60s, alongside many other big rebellions and civil rights movements, people who lived in the city decided to take the park land and turn it into a public park. At the time, there were plans to turn it into a parking lot. But people walked into the park, they started digging and shoveling. And there was one very famous protest where around 6,000 people marched to the park when the UC tried to reclaim the land. And on that day, one person was shot and killed. That set in motion a lot of the activism and the real vigor for defending the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11922963\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-72160036.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11922963\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-72160036-800x543.jpg\" alt=\"A black and white photo of several people standing outside behind barbed wire.\" width=\"800\" height=\"543\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-72160036-800x543.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-72160036-1020x692.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-72160036-160x109.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-72160036.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators place flowers on a barbed wire fence in People’s Park on the UC Berkeley campus, May 30, 1969. The demonstrators were part of a group of 30,000 Berkeley residents, of a total population of 100,000, who gathered and marched to protest the May 15 killing by police of an unarmed spectator at an earlier demonstration and the subsequent occupation of their city by the National Guard. \u003ccite>(David Fenton/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>The UC’s vision for People’s Park\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dan Mogulof, UC Berkeley:\u003c/strong> The vision really started five years ago. UC Berkeley is facing an urgent student housing crisis and an initiative was launched with relatively modest goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those goals were to provide every incoming freshman with two years of university housing. But to do that, we need 8,000 new beds. Twenty percent of our students don’t even live in the city of Berkeley. Ten percent of our students report being unhoused at any given time. We need to build on every single piece of university-owned property in close proximity to the campus — People’s Park is one of those sites.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>We also understood how important the park site is to members of the Berkeley community — its past, its legacy. We understood there were unhoused people who had been sleeping and gathering there in the pandemic. Instead of blithely rushing ahead, we developed a plan that acknowledges and addresses all of those various interests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11922966\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS47370_036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11922966\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS47370_036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt='A sign outside that reads \"Peoples Park\" with tents outside.' width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS47370_036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS47370_036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS47370_036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS47370_036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS47370_036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign says ‘Save Peoples Park, No More Buildings’ at People’s Park in Berkeley on Feb. 19, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>We’re ready to and want to commemorate the park’s past and legacy. And also make sure that we’re meeting the needs and interests of unhoused people who have been using the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not only was nearly $5 million spent to help them relocate to the Rodeway Inn, another million dollars is being spent by the city and the campus to open a new daytime gathering center at the First Presbyterian Church, where unhoused people can receive services and food and showers, medical care, counseling and the like.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A continuing struggle for student housing\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alexis Madrigal, KQED: Why doesn’t the UC Berkeley just accept fewer students?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mogulof\u003c/strong>: There are a number of fallacies and myths around that question. First of all, the UC campuses don’t decide their own enrollment levels. Enrollment is decided by the regents in concert with the office of the president. They’re facing pressure from throughout the state … to enroll more students. The size of the system hasn’t tracked with the growing population of the state of California. In recent years, we’ve been required to take more students than we had housing for, exacerbating a preexisting crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Harvey Smith, People’s Park Historic District Advocacy Group:\u003c/strong> I’m highly disappointed with the devolution of the UC. When I was a student, there was zero tuition. Now I think students pay about $14,000 a year for tuition plus housing costs. [\u003ca href=\"https://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/?id=110635#expenses\">Editor’s note: The average in-state tuition is $14,000, and out-of-state tuition is $44,000.\u003c/a>]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our organization is totally in favor of more student housing. I applaud the plan to provide more student housing. We’re critical of the delivery of the plan. It’s been reported that up to 10% of Berkeley students at Cal have been homeless — and it’s an urgent problem, but our feeling is that it should be addressed in an appropriate way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The park should remain a park, but a well-maintained park. This debate goes beyond Berkeley. It goes beyond California. The park has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places. Wouldn’t it be easier to build in another part of the UC land holdings?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11922916\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11922916\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57544_016_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Cut trees on top of one another\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57544_016_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57544_016_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57544_016_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57544_016_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57544_016_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut-1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tree branches lay cut on the ground after UC Berkeley student housing construction began at People’s Park in Berkeley on Aug. 3, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>What do the people of People’s Park want?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Yelimeli:\u003c/strong> I wanted to make clear that there are different groups asking for different things at the park. Defend People’s Park, which is mostly a student-run organization, wants People’s Park returned to Indigenous stewardship. They want no development at People’s Park, and they want folks who previously lived there or who got resources at the park to get permanent housing. They also want UC police defunded and for those funds to be redirected to students and staff who need services, as well as people who lived at the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’ve been talking about opposition and support … At the protests, we’ve heard from Moms for Housing, who famously reclaimed a home in Oakland and were able to live there. We have heard alignment from folks at the Wood Street encampment, Oakland. We’ve heard alignment from, you know, groups in San Francisco and in Los Angeles, other people who have been fighting for homeless rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11922964\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS47341_006_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11922964\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS47341_006_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Two people wearing masks and jacket hold a plastic bag and vegetables outside near tents in a park.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS47341_006_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS47341_006_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS47341_006_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS47341_006_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS47341_006_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Romeo Channer (left) and Alecia Harger look through a bag donated at People’s Park in Berkeley on Feb. 19, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>We do have to be respectful of homeless voices who are not represented saying that [People’s Park] is where [they get their] resources — “if I don’t have a phone or my friend doesn’t have a phone, I can go here and hear from someone who will know their whereabouts.” And these are very distinct issues from the student housing crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s a lack of hearing the voices of these folks at all because they’re hard to reach. You can’t always get them on the radio or in the newspaper or in a university press release. There are people who certainly acknowledge that living outside in the cold is not what they want.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are people who are grateful for this opportunity. And then there are folks who are more comfortable living on the streets as well because of past traumas and past terrible experiences with the institutions that surround them. I don’t want to speak for them, those voices should be heard. But it’s not binary. It never is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mogulof:\u003c/strong> I just want to note that all of the plans that were developed in concert with the city were based on what unhoused people told us. We went out of our way to ensure their voices were heard. We had graduate students for the School of Public Policy who were in the park every day asking people about what the services and support they need and want.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We are, to the best of our knowledge, the only university that hired a social worker to provide care and services to connect people with services. We could not agree more that those are voices that should be heard, that have been heard in the past and need to continue to be heard going forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Masuma Mohammadi has been at San José State University for all of five months now, by way of Turkey. “Afghan women have been completely removed from the structure of [public] life in Afghanistan,” Mohammadi said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Her work as a journalist and women’s rights activist put her in the Taliban’s target sites. She was a radio reporter for the United Nations News service for a show called “Hello, Countrymen, Countrywomen,” a popular program in Afghanistan. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It was painful to leave everything behind,” \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mohammadi said.\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">founded the Equality Social and Cultural Organization (ESCO) in 2011, which was active in supporting women journalists and strengthening their presence and media activities. I was also the owner and chief editor of Equality News Agency, based in Kabul, Afghanistan.”\u003c/span>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Halima Kazem-Stojanovic, journalism instructor and member of SJSU's Human Rights Institute\"]‘There’s still so much need to understand this country and this part of the world. And I would like to see native Afghans contribute to that … there’s room and space now for Afghans to do the work.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Today, her research detailing the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2021/10/27/why-the-hazara-people-fear-genocide-in-afghanistan\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">persecution of the ethnic Hazara\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in Afghanistan is work she could never do, let alone publicize, there. Furthermore, no non-Hazara could do this work as well as someone like Mohammadi can.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We don’t hear stories from people, stories from victims, what situation they are living under, what’s their problems, what’s their request from the U.S., from the international community. In this way, we raise their voices,” Mohammadi said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">She’s hoping that the international community will not lose interest in Afghanistan now that the U.S. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">military \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">has pulled out. But in the meantime, she and her family are able to live, safely and un-silenced. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How she got here\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The program that installed Mohammadi here in the San Francisco Bay Area is the brainchild of Halima Kazem-Stojanovic, who was once a refugee herself, more than 40 years ago when Afghanistan fell to the Soviet Union.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“My family came as Afghan political refugees, in what I call the first migration of Afghans into the United States,” said Kazem-Stojanovic. The family settled in San José just before she started kindergarten.\u003c/span>[aside postID=\"forum_2010101890166,forum_2010101889290,perspectives_201601142348\" label=\"Related Posts\"]\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Today, she’s an oral historian on Afghanistan at Stanford’s Hoover Institution, but for 10 years, she was a journalism and human rights professor at San José State — and a core faculty member of its \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sjsu.edu/hri/afghan-scholars/index.php\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Human Rights Institute\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I’ve spent more of my time in Afghanistan than in the United States,” she said. “This has meant incredible opportunities to make very close friendships in Afghanistan. I trained more than 300 journalists in the last 20 years in Afghanistan. Many became wonderful friends, and that’s a very dear title we have among Afghans, when you’re considered a cousin, even though you’re not by blood.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">As \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://theworld.org/stories/2021-08-23/how-kabul-airport-went-calm-chaos\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kabul fell\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to the Taliban in mid-August of 2021, she received hundreds of messages on her WhatsApp and Signal accounts, like:\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">‘How do we get out of here?’\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">‘Can you send money?’\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">‘I can’t go home.’\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kazem-Stojanovic said most of the people she was in contact with are in hiding. “A lot of them smashed their SIM cards,” she added. One photographer she knew dug a hole in his yard to bury his awards, including his Pulitzer Prize. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kazem-Stojanovic reached out to her network in the U.S. to help Afghan academics and journalists get out of the country — but also, to help people once they arrived here. As the child of an economics professor who couldn’t teach in America, she was keenly aware that these refugees would need financial and professional support to establish themselves on this side of the Pacific. And so began the Afghan Visiting Scholars program.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I thought, possibly, I could give some — a few — an opportunity not only to come here, but continue their public-facing work,” Kazem-Stojanovic said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11922471\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57769_ED84C3D8-EA04-4364-B8D8-E9F74848AB92_1_201_a-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11922471\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57769_ED84C3D8-EA04-4364-B8D8-E9F74848AB92_1_201_a-qut-800x668.jpg\" alt=\"Two women stand in front of a university building with two people sitting in the background on green grass\" width=\"800\" height=\"668\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57769_ED84C3D8-EA04-4364-B8D8-E9F74848AB92_1_201_a-qut-800x668.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57769_ED84C3D8-EA04-4364-B8D8-E9F74848AB92_1_201_a-qut-160x134.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57769_ED84C3D8-EA04-4364-B8D8-E9F74848AB92_1_201_a-qut.jpg 985w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Halima Kazem-Stojanovic (right) and Masuma Mohammadi pose for a photo. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Halima Kazem-Stojanovic)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">She found ready collaborators at UC Berkeley’s Human Rights Center and her own San José State. The Human Rights Institute held a \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://fb.watch/eNatqlp5PN/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">press conference\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> last May to welcome two scholars. In his introductory remarks, Director \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dr. William Armaline said, “We had an opportunity to play a role, and thanks to the courage and initiative of Halima and some others, we were able to step in and play a very, very small part in this much larger crisis\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.”\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/10JKCkRozNIYj0B7I2f1Sv?domain=fb.watch\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The Afghan Visiting Scholars Program\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">One year later, she maintains a list of roughly 130 people waiting for academic visas, many of them in Pakistan, India and Turkey. Others are already in the U.S. on humanitarian parole, which allows them to stay for two years. How many scholars has she found placements for so far? About 15.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Together we quickly rolled out a crowdfunding campaign because universities work very slowly, the wheels don’t turn very fast and we were in an emergency. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We were in a crisis,” Kazem-Stojanovic said ruefully. “Gosh, I think we raised over $300,000. And that was the easy part because then it was, all right, well, how do we get people here?” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">She added, “We thought that if we could reach out to members of Congress and senators with lists of people … but they couldn’t do very much. The evacuation lists were so long. 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Stanford University is working with New York-based \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.scholarsatrisk.org/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Scholars at Risk\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://newuniversityinexileconsortium.org/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">New University in Exile Consortium\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> boasts nearly 60 universities around the world that have agreed to host displaced scholars from countries where their lives are in danger. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://refugeerights.org/news-resources/afghan-adjustment-cant-wait\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">International Refugee Assistance Project\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, an estimated 83,000 Afghans were evacuated to the United States, and about 76,000 of them do not have access to a pathway to permanent legal status. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Today, she’s an oral historian on Afghanistan at Stanford’s Hoover Institution, but for 10 years, she was a journalism and human rights professor at San José State — and a core faculty member of its \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sjsu.edu/hri/afghan-scholars/index.php\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Human Rights Institute\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I’ve spent more of my time in Afghanistan than in the United States,” she said. “This has meant incredible opportunities to make very close friendships in Afghanistan. I trained more than 300 journalists in the last 20 years in Afghanistan. Many became wonderful friends, and that’s a very dear title we have among Afghans, when you’re considered a cousin, even though you’re not by blood.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">As \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://theworld.org/stories/2021-08-23/how-kabul-airport-went-calm-chaos\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kabul fell\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to the Taliban in mid-August of 2021, she received hundreds of messages on her WhatsApp and Signal accounts, like:\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">‘How do we get out of here?’\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">‘Can you send money?’\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">‘I can’t go home.’\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kazem-Stojanovic said most of the people she was in contact with are in hiding. “A lot of them smashed their SIM cards,” she added. One photographer she knew dug a hole in his yard to bury his awards, including his Pulitzer Prize. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kazem-Stojanovic reached out to her network in the U.S. to help Afghan academics and journalists get out of the country — but also, to help people once they arrived here. As the child of an economics professor who couldn’t teach in America, she was keenly aware that these refugees would need financial and professional support to establish themselves on this side of the Pacific. And so began the Afghan Visiting Scholars program.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I thought, possibly, I could give some — a few — an opportunity not only to come here, but continue their public-facing work,” Kazem-Stojanovic said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11922471\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57769_ED84C3D8-EA04-4364-B8D8-E9F74848AB92_1_201_a-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11922471\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57769_ED84C3D8-EA04-4364-B8D8-E9F74848AB92_1_201_a-qut-800x668.jpg\" alt=\"Two women stand in front of a university building with two people sitting in the background on green grass\" width=\"800\" height=\"668\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57769_ED84C3D8-EA04-4364-B8D8-E9F74848AB92_1_201_a-qut-800x668.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57769_ED84C3D8-EA04-4364-B8D8-E9F74848AB92_1_201_a-qut-160x134.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57769_ED84C3D8-EA04-4364-B8D8-E9F74848AB92_1_201_a-qut.jpg 985w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Halima Kazem-Stojanovic (right) and Masuma Mohammadi pose for a photo. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Halima Kazem-Stojanovic)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">She found ready collaborators at UC Berkeley’s Human Rights Center and her own San José State. The Human Rights Institute held a \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://fb.watch/eNatqlp5PN/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">press conference\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> last May to welcome two scholars. In his introductory remarks, Director \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dr. William Armaline said, “We had an opportunity to play a role, and thanks to the courage and initiative of Halima and some others, we were able to step in and play a very, very small part in this much larger crisis\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.”\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/10JKCkRozNIYj0B7I2f1Sv?domain=fb.watch\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The Afghan Visiting Scholars Program\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">One year later, she maintains a list of roughly 130 people waiting for academic visas, many of them in Pakistan, India and Turkey. Others are already in the U.S. on humanitarian parole, which allows them to stay for two years. How many scholars has she found placements for so far? 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11921185/newsom-declares-statewide-emergency-amid-rapid-spread-of-monkeypox-virus\">Monkeypox has now been formally declared a public health state of emergency in California.\u003c/a> And when the state released initial data on the demographics of confirmed monkeypox infections in July, the numbers revealed that two ethnic groups \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/Monkeypox-Data.aspx\">composed an overwhelming majority of cases\u003c/a>: white and Latino residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>White people represented 40.5% of cases in California, while Latinos formed 37%. The percentages roughly match up with the overall makeup of the state’s population — 35% of Californians are non-Hispanic whites, while 40% consider themselves Latinos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in the Bay Area, a different picture is emerging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As individual counties in the region share their own numbers on monkeypox cases, this more localized data shows that within the Bay Area, it’s the Latino community that’s being disproportionately affected by the virus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On July 29, the San Francisco Public Health Department confirmed that \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/information/monkeypox-cases\">Latinos made up over 26% of cases\u003c/a> — despite representing only 15% of the city’s population. That same week, \u003ca href=\"https://publichealth.sccgov.org/news/news-release/public-health-department-releases-new-data-showing-latino-gay-and-bisexual-men\">Santa Clara County released its own data\u003c/a>, which showed that over 50% of cases are among Latinos, while this population represents only 26% of the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11921709\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57502_007_KQED_MonkeypoxVaccineLineSFGen_08012022-qut-1020x680.jpg\"]The disproportionate nature of these numbers has alarmed both public health officials and Latino community organizers — some of whom say it’s reminding them of COVID-19, and the asymmetrical impact that virus had on this population in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The COVID-19 pandemic saw \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11860883/trusted-leaders-are-fighting-covid-19-vaccine-fears-in-black-and-latino-communities\">many community-led public health initiatives in predominantly Latino neighborhoods across the region\u003c/a>, including San Jose’s Eastside, Fruitvale in Oakland and San Francisco’s Mission District. In the Mission, the Latino Task Force, a coalition of nonprofits and organizers, partnered with UC San Francisco and the city to bring testing and vaccination services to public transport hubs and food banks. These efforts helped \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11902149/community-covid-clinics-fill-crucial-need-in-underserved-communities-but-are-strapped-for-resources\">make the COVID-19 vaccine easily accessible\u003c/a> to essential workers, uninsured residents and immigrant families. So what lessons can be learned for the new public health challenge of monkeypox?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, KQED’s Brian Watt spoke with Dr. Carina Marquez, associate professor of medicine at UCSF and one of the founders of Unidos en Salud — a partnership of the Latino Task Force, UCSF, UC Berkeley and CZ Biohub — to understand what lessons from the coronavirus pandemic can be applied to the way care providers respond to the monkeypox outbreak, and to hear more about monkeypox’s disproportionate impact on Latino and immigrant communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The following interview has been edited for length and clarity.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>BRIAN WATT: W\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>hat do you make of these early signs of monkeypox spread among Latinos in parts of the Bay?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DR. CARINA MARQUEZ: This isn’t anything new. I think we saw early disparities by race/ethnicity emerged with the COVID-19 pandemic. We see them in other health conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so I wasn’t surprised to see these disparities emerge early on. Of course, I was saddened by it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What are groups like the Latino Task Force doing to help address this?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’re in a unique situation with monkeypox in that we have a vaccine, but it’s very limited. When we were in COVID-19, we started the COVID-19 pandemic without a vaccine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So with the monkeypox vaccine, we have to do everything we can to partner with community to get the word out on how to access the vaccine \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">… \u003c/span> communities want to know what [the vaccine] is and whether they should trust it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11920455\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57399_GettyImages-1408879341-qut-1020x765.jpg\"]Education is the first thing and doing it with trusted messengers in the community is extremely important and certainly particularly important with the Latino community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then how you structurally access the vaccine is really important. My colleagues at San Francisco General Hospital have set up a really great low-barrier walk-up access clinic, but we know that this is not enough. The lines are really long. You have to know when to show up in line to get it. And then there may be a stigma associated with waiting in line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As we’re thinking about vaccine distribution, partnering with community and using what we know has worked with the COVID-19 vaccine — in terms of using neighborhood sites or pop-up sites, to bring vaccines out of the health care system to the communities most impacted — I think are going to be a key part of an equitable response to vaccine distribution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11849488\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11849488\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46154_063_KQED_SanFrancisco_COVIDTesting_11302020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A family gets ready to receive a COVID-19 test in a large plaza.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46154_063_KQED_SanFrancisco_COVIDTesting_11302020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46154_063_KQED_SanFrancisco_COVIDTesting_11302020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46154_063_KQED_SanFrancisco_COVIDTesting_11302020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46154_063_KQED_SanFrancisco_COVIDTesting_11302020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46154_063_KQED_SanFrancisco_COVIDTesting_11302020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A pop-up COVID-19 testing site near the BART station at 24th and Mission streets in San Francisco on Nov. 30, 2020. The site is part of the Unidos en Salud initiative, a collaboration between UCSF and the city’s Latino Task Force. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>I hear you saying that our experience with COVID-19 should have prepared us better for monkeypox. Do you think we are better prepared now than we would have been without COVID-19?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think in some ways we are still in our COVID-19 response. In San Francisco, we still have a number of highly used neighborhood vaccination sites, community partnerships, both with [UCSF] and the San Francisco Department of Public Health, where we’re working together to address equity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We have a lot of room to go, but we can use these relationships and these sites to increase vaccine access. The limiting issue right now is the number of vaccines available, and I hope that that changes quickly. I know many people are advocating for increased vaccine supply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>You mentioned the importance of trust — building trust. I was reading one media report on this topic that suggests, “Hey, you gotta go on Spanish-language radio and make sure that the word is out there.” Do you feel like that’s happening enough? And what is the best way to build trust?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Absolutely. So I think messaging coming from trusted sources is absolutely critical. So we cannot stop at just doing Zoom town halls. We need to be on Spanish-language radio. We need information that is in Spanish, and delivered by trusted community sources, both by community groups as well as Spanish-speaking health care professionals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other thing, in addition to radio and town halls: The “ground game” is really important. So that person-to-person discussion can be had with trusted community members at community-based organizations who are talking to people all the time. Having those conversations is also critical to increasing vaccine uptake and trust in the vaccine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Latino community, we have many people who are uninsured who may not feel comfortable going to a health care center to get the vaccine. So having those conversations with trusted community members can increase that trust and is a critical piece of the response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"arts_13916810\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/Festival.Selfie-1020x664.jpg\"]\u003cstrong>How can Latinx parents or caregivers talk about monkeypox with kids when they’re talking about sexual health?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m a parent of young children. I think that this is part of the bigger conversation about the importance of talking about sexual health with youth in an age-appropriate way. And we have to be very clear about how it transmits, and what it looks like, and when to get tested and who should get vaccinated. But I think just being honest is the best policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What conversation should a family have after a loved one tests positive for monkeypox? I’m thinking about the case of a large sort of multigenerational family, living together in the same space.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We hope that these conversations are filled with compassion and love for the family member.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other big question you’re bringing up is that with monkeypox, the recommended isolation is quite long. It can be, oftentimes, a month. You have to wait until the lesions scab over and new skin grows. So oftentimes, we’re talking about being out of work and having infection control precautions within the house for one month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We as a society need to think about, as we did with COVID-19, how we support people who have to isolate and who don’t have sick pay. And again, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11904834/covid-sick-pay-in-california-how-to-claim-this-new-paid-leave\">this sick pay comes up over and over again\u003c/a> and certainly [is] extremely important for Latino households.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Dr. Carina Marquez, associate professor of medicine, UCSF\"]‘We as a society need to think about … how we support people who have to isolate and who don’t have sick pay.’[/pullquote]The other question is about being in multigenerational households or large households, or if you’re in a shelter or single-room occupancy hotel with other roommates. With COVID-19, we had hotels, places where people could go to be able to isolate safely. That certainly should be part of the discussion about what the city offers for people living in very crowded circumstances to try to limit spread.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Secondly, we know that household transmission \u003cem>can\u003c/em> occur. We are still trying to understand exactly how much, and thinking about the best ways to protect against that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Are there some common themes about monkeypox, misinformation that you and the groups you’re working with are hearing on the regular? Something that just keeps popping up out there that just needs to be immediately debunked?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the biggest things that we need to keep addressing is the stigma associated with [monkeypox].\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Certainly, while anybody could be affected with monkeypox, we are certainly seeing that this current outbreak is predominantly affecting men who have sex with men, gay, bisexual men and trans people. [We should continue] to mention that without making it sound like we are saying, “Oh, it’s a gay disease.” Continually mentioning who’s most infected helps us to direct resources to the community that is most affected, and most needs it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think there’s a lot of questions about how it’s transmitted. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Education is the first thing and doing it with trusted messengers in the community is extremely important and certainly particularly important with the Latino community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then how you structurally access the vaccine is really important. My colleagues at San Francisco General Hospital have set up a really great low-barrier walk-up access clinic, but we know that this is not enough. The lines are really long. You have to know when to show up in line to get it. And then there may be a stigma associated with waiting in line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As we’re thinking about vaccine distribution, partnering with community and using what we know has worked with the COVID-19 vaccine — in terms of using neighborhood sites or pop-up sites, to bring vaccines out of the health care system to the communities most impacted — I think are going to be a key part of an equitable response to vaccine distribution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11849488\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11849488\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46154_063_KQED_SanFrancisco_COVIDTesting_11302020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A family gets ready to receive a COVID-19 test in a large plaza.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46154_063_KQED_SanFrancisco_COVIDTesting_11302020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46154_063_KQED_SanFrancisco_COVIDTesting_11302020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46154_063_KQED_SanFrancisco_COVIDTesting_11302020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46154_063_KQED_SanFrancisco_COVIDTesting_11302020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46154_063_KQED_SanFrancisco_COVIDTesting_11302020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A pop-up COVID-19 testing site near the BART station at 24th and Mission streets in San Francisco on Nov. 30, 2020. The site is part of the Unidos en Salud initiative, a collaboration between UCSF and the city’s Latino Task Force. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>I hear you saying that our experience with COVID-19 should have prepared us better for monkeypox. Do you think we are better prepared now than we would have been without COVID-19?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think in some ways we are still in our COVID-19 response. In San Francisco, we still have a number of highly used neighborhood vaccination sites, community partnerships, both with [UCSF] and the San Francisco Department of Public Health, where we’re working together to address equity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We have a lot of room to go, but we can use these relationships and these sites to increase vaccine access. The limiting issue right now is the number of vaccines available, and I hope that that changes quickly. I know many people are advocating for increased vaccine supply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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The agency also urges patrons: “Be kind to fellow ferry passengers whether they choose to wear a mask or not.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story contains reporting by KQED’s Carly Severn and the Associated Press.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Stay up to date on the latest developments on mask mandates in the Bay Area with our daily newsletter. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/newsletters\">Sign up for the News Daily here.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 2:45 p.m. Friday, July 29\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The BART board of directors approved a resolution Thursday night reinstating a mask requirement on the transit system effective immediately.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a federal judge in Florida struck down an order from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention requiring masks on public transit nationwide, BART broke ranks with most other operators in late April and adopted its own mask mandate. The agency allowed that requirement, which was incorporated into its customer code of conduct, to lapse on July 18.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Skip to: \u003ca href=\"#maskmandate\">What your local Bay Area transit agency says about masks\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Board member Bevan Dufty proposed renewing the mandate because of the highly contagious nature of the currently dominant coronavirus variant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think COVID is at its most transmissible right now, and I think our responsibility is to stay the course and to ensure our riders, many of whom are immunocompromised, are safe and feel welcome in our system,” Dufty said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pushback came from board members Robert Raburn of Oakland and Debora Allen of Clayton. Raburn argued that mask mandates are not supported by current guidance from health authorities. Allen questioned the wisdom and effectiveness of having BART police enforce a mandate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After hearing public comment, the board agreed to reinstate the mask requirement through Oct. 1 by a vote of 7-2. The board will consider extending the mandate further at its Sept. 22 meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AC Transit is the only other major Bay Area transit agency currently requiring riders to wear masks.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Masks on transit: How we got here\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Federal agencies imposed a mask mandate for passengers on most modes of transportation at the outset of the pandemic. And following guidance from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) extended nationwide mask requirements on planes, buses, trains and ferries through May 3, 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But on April 18, a federal judge in Florida \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11911526/tsa-will-no-longer-enforce-travel-mask-mandate-after-federal-judge-strikes-it-down\">struck down the CDC mask mandate\u003c/a>. A few hours later, the TSA announced it would no longer enforce mask rules inside airports and airplanes and on public transportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This ruling meant private and public transportation agencies could drop their own mask mandates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most major airlines, along with the San Francisco, Oakland and San Jose international airports, now have made masks optional. Rideshare giants \u003ca href=\"https://www.uber.com/us/en/safety/\">Uber\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.lyft.com/blog/posts/update-to-lyfts-health-safety-guidelines\">Lyft\u003c/a> also have dropped their masking requirements for passengers and drivers. And private bus companies, like \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/FlixBus_USA/status/1516446461671714820\">FlixBus\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/megabus/status/1516415898168532992\">Megabus\u003c/a>, have followed suit.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>BART and AC Transit are the only Bay Area public transit agencies that currently require face masks\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Several Bay Area transit agencies — including Caltrain and Muni — initially retained their mask rules after the TSA announcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But on April 20, the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) announced that \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/COVID-19/guidance-for-face-coverings.aspx\">the state’s mask requirements for public transit — and transportation hubs, like stations — also \u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/COVID-19/guidance-for-face-coverings.aspx\">were \u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/COVID-19/guidance-for-face-coverings.aspx\"> terminated\u003c/a> “effective immediately.” The statement nonetheless still “strongly” recommended that California residents keep wearing their masks in these settings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"#maskmandate\">Every Bay Area public transit agency subsequently dropped their mask requirements\u003c/a> for riders following the state’s announcement. However, AC Transit, which operates in both Alameda and Contra Costa counties, announced June 2 that its passengers would once again be required to wear face masks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Could we see more agencies or regions reintroducing their own mask rules for public transit — regardless of \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/04/20/1093927926/mask-mandate-appeal-doj\">the Justice Department’s own appeal against the original decision by the Florida judge\u003c/a>? Right now, it’s unclear. CDC officials declined to comment on the status of that appeal, and \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/covid-science-travel-health-business-3b819aa097b4e642a97d39f606924203\">The Associated Press reports that DOJ officials did not immediately respond\u003c/a> to a request for information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On April 22, \u003ca href=\"https://abc7.com/los-angeles-county-masks-mandate-bring-back-face-public-transit/11779646/\">Los Angeles County independently introduced a new health order that once again requires masks\u003c/a> on all public transit within the county. LA County Public Health Director Dr. Barbara Ferrer cited the CDC’s continued guidance that masking on public transit remains a key way of preventing the spread of COVID.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, remember: Regardless of whether a transit agency has dropped its mask requirement, you can always choose to keep wearing your mask in whichever setting you please. 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The agency \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Caltrain/status/1516926371573866496\">stated on Twitter that while its mandate has ended\u003c/a>, “guests can and are strongly encouraged to continue wearing them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>AC Transit\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Are masks required on AC Transit?\u003c/strong> \u003cem>Yes.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AC Transit, which serves both Alameda and Contra Costa counties, brought back its mandate in June. \u003ca href=\"https://www.actransit.org/mask-mandate-policy-restored-june-2022\">Wearing a face mask is required whenever riding an AC Transit bus.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Agency officials stressed that the return of the mandate is due to the recent spike in new COVID-19 cases in Alameda County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11911715\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11911715\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS41958_008_KQED_PublicTransit_03102020_6529-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS41958_008_KQED_PublicTransit_03102020_6529-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS41958_008_KQED_PublicTransit_03102020_6529-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS41958_008_KQED_PublicTransit_03102020_6529-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS41958_008_KQED_PublicTransit_03102020_6529-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS41958_008_KQED_PublicTransit_03102020_6529-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Passengers on the F Muni car in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Muni\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Are masks required on Muni?\u003c/strong> \u003cem>No.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, which operates Muni, is still “strongly recommending” that people who ride Muni continue to wear a mask. 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