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Behind them is a backyard and palm trees.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50653_010_DiscoveryBay_ChildrenCOVID_08162021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50653_010_DiscoveryBay_ChildrenCOVID_08162021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50653_010_DiscoveryBay_ChildrenCOVID_08162021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50653_010_DiscoveryBay_ChildrenCOVID_08162021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50653_010_DiscoveryBay_ChildrenCOVID_08162021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alysha Johnson holds her son River on Aug. 16, 2021, at their home in Discovery Bay. When River contracted COVID-19 during the summer, his body temperature rose to 104 degrees. “It was a pretty big deal how sick he got,” said Johnson. “It wasn’t just a little sniffle.” \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nationwide about 121,000 children tested positive for the virus from August 5 to 12, \u003ca href=\"https://www.aap.org/en/pages/2019-novel-coronavirus-covid-19-infections/children-and-covid-19-state-level-data-report/\">according to the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Children’s Hospital Association\u003c/a>. That’s a 23% increase over the prior week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Time and time again we’re seeing kids return to school and then come home either after an exposure or sick themselves,” said Dr. Nicole Braxley, an emergency medicine physician at Mercy San Juan Medical Center in Carmichael. “The virus sheds for a couple of days before the patient has symptoms. Entire families are suddenly exposed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11885711\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11885711\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50638_014_Alameda_ChildrenCOVID_08172021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50638_014_Alameda_ChildrenCOVID_08172021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50638_014_Alameda_ChildrenCOVID_08172021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50638_014_Alameda_ChildrenCOVID_08172021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50638_014_Alameda_ChildrenCOVID_08172021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50638_014_Alameda_ChildrenCOVID_08172021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stephanie Chenard says goodbye to her son, Desmond, before he goes into his school in Alameda on Aug. 17, 2021. In July, Desmond tested positive for COVID-19. While Desmond’s case was mild and he quickly recovered, this experience has left the family wary of possible infections at school. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>‘The longest few days of my life’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Stephanie Chenard’s 8-year-old son Desmond started third grade in Alameda this Tuesday. That evening after her son returned from his first day of classes, she received an email. The district reported \u003ca href=\"https://www.alameda.k12.ca.us/cvdashboard\">four positive COVID-19 cases\u003c/a> in four different schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s already started,” Chenard texted KQED after receiving the email, including a tearful emoji in her message.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She knows firsthand how much a mild pediatric case can upend family life. About a month ago Desmond started to lose his appetite. He quickly developed a fever. Chenard grimaced when he tested positive for COVID-19. The news devastated her son.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He just burst out into tears,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family canceled a long-awaited summer trip to Lake Tahoe. Instead they quarantined at home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Stephanie Chenard, Mother of Desmond, 8\"]‘The exposure felt like a moral failing.’[/pullquote]Chenard, a 49-year-old college administrator, started making calls. She notified her son’s summer camp. They suspended all activity. She alerted the public swimming pool. She fretted about whether to notify the organizers of a summer music festival. The hardest call was to a friend who had just had an organ transplant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The exposure felt like a moral failing,” said Chenard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fortunately Chenard’s son’s case was mild. His fever broke the same day it started.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Desmond was only sick for eight hours, but I spent 45 hours on notifications alone,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family’s quarantine also required both parents to juggle work and child care. Fortunately neither parent caught the virus. Chenard feels grateful she and her husband are vaccinated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some families are not so lucky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jace Garcia caught COVID-19 playing soccer with a friend in Sacramento earlier this month. The virus struck the 11-year-old in the middle of the night. Jace woke up vomiting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He curled up in the bathroom around the toilet. Body aches racked his slim calves, feet, chest and head.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everything was just squeezing that part of the body towards the bone,” said Jace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11885715\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1238px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11885715\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/ricojace1.png\" alt=\"A parent and a child take a selfie. Both are smiling and wear Oakland A's gear.\" width=\"1238\" height=\"826\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/ricojace1.png 1238w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/ricojace1-800x534.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/ricojace1-1020x681.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/ricojace1-160x107.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1238px) 100vw, 1238px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rico Garcia, left, and Jace Garcia attend an Oakland A’s game before the start of the pandemic. In August of this year, both father and son contracted COVID-19. “As a parent, you feel helpless,” said Garcia. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Rico Garcia)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>His fever spiked around 104 degrees. He shivered under a pile of blankets. Even playing video games did not offer relief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every time I would click down, I would get a tingling sensation in my hand,” said Jace. He tossed the controllers aside. “I felt dizzy.”\u003cbr>\nThe only advice doctors offered was to try to stay hydrated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a parent, you feel helpless,” said Rico Garcia, Jace’s dad. “It was like the longest few days of my life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He worried he might contract the virus. Each morning he anxiously took a rapid test. He hoped his vaccine would offer protection, but on the fourth morning Rico tested positive. Within 24 hours the symptoms set in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It felt like a terrible head cold,” said Garcia. “My brain was foggy. I couldn’t think straight.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11855623\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Vaccination-Prep-1020x680.jpg\"]Then he lost his voice. He called in sick to the radio station where he’s a DJ. Then one morning at breakfast, things got weird.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My first sip of coffee was amazing,” Garcia said. “My ninth and tenth sip tasted like hot water. In the snap of a finger my sense of taste and smell was gone. I went as far as to cut a lime open and bite into it and tasted nothing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually Garcia’s ex-wife also caught the virus from their son. A teacher, she is currently quarantining. Jace is still fighting a lingering cough and congestion. He’s also missing the first 10 days of sixth grade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Epidemiologists say \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/covid-19/health-departments/breakthrough-cases.html\">breakthrough cases\u003c/a> are on the rise all around the U.S., though estimates vary widely because tallies depend on community masking, testing availability and the level of virus circulating regionally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Symptoms can be absent or so mild in the vaccinated, many dismiss this as a cold or seasonal allergies,” \u003ca href=\"https://profiles.ucsf.edu/peter.chin-hong\">Dr. Peter Chin-Hong\u003c/a>, a UCSF professor and infectious disease specialist explains in an email. “In other words, you don’t know what you don’t know.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11883110/the-war-has-changed-a-cdc-document-gives-new-details-on-the-dangers-of-the-delta-variant\">internal presentation\u003c/a> from the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention estimates about 35,000 people a week contract a symptomatic breakthrough infection in the U.S. In the week leading up to July 24, about 384,000 people across the country tested positive for COVID-19, which indicates about 9% of new cases were breakthrough infections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chin-Hong says this is likely an underestimate of the true total, but shouldn’t undermine the vaccines’ effectiveness in peoples’ minds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the end of the day, one can say why focus on breakthrough infections, as the vaccines are really meant to prevent people getting serious disease and dying — which they are still spectacular at,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Weighing the risks\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Saun-Toy Trotter, Psychotherapist, UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital\"]‘Young people experienced more depression and anxiety because of the level of isolation … One element of their well-being is being with peers, learning, stretching, struggling, growing and connecting.’[/pullquote]Until this summer, doctors said it was unusual for kids to pass the virus to a parent, especially someone who was vaccinated. But that’s changing as the delta variant takes hold. The new strain appears to be twice as contagious as the original.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s still rare for a child to experience a severe case or hospitalization or to die from the coronavirus. In states where \u003ca href=\"https://www.aap.org/en/pages/2019-novel-coronavirus-covid-19-infections/children-and-covid-19-state-level-data-report/\">data is available\u003c/a>, fewer than 2% of all pediatric COVID-19 cases required hospitalization and fewer than 0.03% are fatal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet, as schools open and more students test positive, parents and teachers find themselves trying to weigh the risks. Mental health experts learned the lockdown was hard on all of us, especially children — a fact underscored by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6945a3.htm\">spike in emergency room visits\u003c/a> among kids for mental health issues last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Young people experienced more depression and anxiety because of the level of isolation,” said Saun-Toy Trotter, a psychotherapist and a program manager at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital in Oakland. She stresses screens cannot replace in-person interaction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label ='Related Coverage' tag='coronavirus']“One element of their well-being is being with peers, learning, stretching, struggling, growing and connecting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trotter recommends parents ask doctors and teachers lots of questions to weigh the risks. Schools can mitigate transmission through masks, vaccines and ventilation. Sometimes it’s as easy as opening both a window and a door to create a cross-breeze.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before her son started middle school last week, Trotter sent a few emails to school administrators. The responses helped ease her mind. She says in-person learning is the right place for her son, at least for now. She’s watching the data closely.\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>This story has been updated.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were so careful,” said Alysha Johnson, a resident of Discovery Bay in Contra Costa County. “I’m a germaphobe. When this whole thing happened, we didn’t leave the house for six months.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson was crushed when her toddler, River, caught COVID-19 at a summer play group in late July.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a pretty big deal how sick he got,” said Johnson. “It wasn’t just a little sniffle.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her 2-year-old suffered a sore throat, a cough and a fever of 104 degrees. The bout lasted more than a week and sickened Johnson, her sister and her boyfriend — all of whom were vaccinated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11885701\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11885701\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50667_024_DiscoveryBay_ChildrenCOVID_08162021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A parent carries a baby in one hand and a baby bottle in the other. The parent is sitting on a big, brown couch in the living room of their house.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50667_024_DiscoveryBay_ChildrenCOVID_08162021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50667_024_DiscoveryBay_ChildrenCOVID_08162021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50667_024_DiscoveryBay_ChildrenCOVID_08162021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50667_024_DiscoveryBay_ChildrenCOVID_08162021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50667_024_DiscoveryBay_ChildrenCOVID_08162021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alysha Johnson holds her son River while giving him a bottle in the family’s home in Discovery Bay in Contra Costa County on Aug. 16, 2021. When they and their family tested positive for COVID-19, they quarantined together in the house. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It felt like a really bad sinus cold,” Johnson said. “I felt exhausted. I lost my sense of taste and smell. That was the most bizarre sensation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson is relieved she had her shots protecting her against a more severe case of COVID-19. But the fact that kids are transmitting the coronavirus to family members is unnerving many parents as children head back to school, especially as a coronavirus vaccine for kids under 12 is not yet available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the first week of school, 58 students and 10 staff members tested positive in Oakland Unified School District schools. The tallies are much higher in other parts of the country. Last week, more than 3,000 students and staff had to quarantine in\u003ca href=\"https://www.brevardschools.org/cms/lib/FL02201431/Centricity/Domain/10805/Dashboard%20-%2008.13.21%20to%2008.16.21.pdf\"> Florida’s Brevard Public Schools\u003c/a>. And in Hawaii, many schools are pulling the plug and \u003ca href=\"https://www.civilbeat.org/2021/08/facing-new-covid-cases-waianae-school-returns-to-distance-learning/\">returning to remote learning\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11885705\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11885705\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50653_010_DiscoveryBay_ChildrenCOVID_08162021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A parent carries their small child in their arms. Both have their bathing suits on and the child wears inflatable lifesavers as both are in the pool. Both are looking up at the sky. Behind them is a backyard and palm trees.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50653_010_DiscoveryBay_ChildrenCOVID_08162021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50653_010_DiscoveryBay_ChildrenCOVID_08162021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50653_010_DiscoveryBay_ChildrenCOVID_08162021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50653_010_DiscoveryBay_ChildrenCOVID_08162021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50653_010_DiscoveryBay_ChildrenCOVID_08162021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alysha Johnson holds her son River on Aug. 16, 2021, at their home in Discovery Bay. When River contracted COVID-19 during the summer, his body temperature rose to 104 degrees. “It was a pretty big deal how sick he got,” said Johnson. “It wasn’t just a little sniffle.” \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nationwide about 121,000 children tested positive for the virus from August 5 to 12, \u003ca href=\"https://www.aap.org/en/pages/2019-novel-coronavirus-covid-19-infections/children-and-covid-19-state-level-data-report/\">according to the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Children’s Hospital Association\u003c/a>. That’s a 23% increase over the prior week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Time and time again we’re seeing kids return to school and then come home either after an exposure or sick themselves,” said Dr. Nicole Braxley, an emergency medicine physician at Mercy San Juan Medical Center in Carmichael. “The virus sheds for a couple of days before the patient has symptoms. Entire families are suddenly exposed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11885711\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11885711\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50638_014_Alameda_ChildrenCOVID_08172021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50638_014_Alameda_ChildrenCOVID_08172021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50638_014_Alameda_ChildrenCOVID_08172021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50638_014_Alameda_ChildrenCOVID_08172021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50638_014_Alameda_ChildrenCOVID_08172021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50638_014_Alameda_ChildrenCOVID_08172021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stephanie Chenard says goodbye to her son, Desmond, before he goes into his school in Alameda on Aug. 17, 2021. In July, Desmond tested positive for COVID-19. While Desmond’s case was mild and he quickly recovered, this experience has left the family wary of possible infections at school. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>‘The longest few days of my life’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Stephanie Chenard’s 8-year-old son Desmond started third grade in Alameda this Tuesday. That evening after her son returned from his first day of classes, she received an email. The district reported \u003ca href=\"https://www.alameda.k12.ca.us/cvdashboard\">four positive COVID-19 cases\u003c/a> in four different schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s already started,” Chenard texted KQED after receiving the email, including a tearful emoji in her message.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She knows firsthand how much a mild pediatric case can upend family life. About a month ago Desmond started to lose his appetite. He quickly developed a fever. Chenard grimaced when he tested positive for COVID-19. The news devastated her son.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He just burst out into tears,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family canceled a long-awaited summer trip to Lake Tahoe. Instead they quarantined at home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>On Sept. 9, 2020, the Bay Area sky turned so hazy, it hid the sun from view and glowed an ominous dark orange. In the days that followed, dangerous air pollution in the region skyrocketed as dozens of wildfires burned throughout California, in what became the largest wildfire season recorded in modern state history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But like other essential workers, Maribel Villanueva, 46, kept working, caring for children full-time at a day care in East Oakland. She walked and took a 20-minute bus ride to work wearing a cloth mask, which didn’t protect her from the worst of the smoke, said Maribel’s sister, Susana. She developed a loud cough, and on Sept. 17, Maribel was hospitalized with COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Before we even knew that she had COVID, she had cold-like symptoms and said, ‘You know, I think it was the smoke that really affected me. And that’s why I have this cough,’” said Susana, 42, who lived with Maribel and other relatives in their home in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Susana will never know for certain the extent of the smoke’s harm to her sister’s lungs. But two weeks later, on Oct. 2, Maribel died at a hospital from respiratory failure, pneumonia and COVID-19, according to her death certificate. A single mom, she left behind a son who just turned 11 years old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two natural disasters — the coronavirus and record-setting Western wildfires spewing air toxins — converged to exacerbate the pandemic’s health toll last year in California, Oregon and Washington, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/7/33/eabi8789\">study\u003c/a> published Friday in the journal Science Advances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wildfire smoke produces high levels of tiny, harmful particulate matter, so-called \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dosh/wildfire/worker-protection-from-wildfire-smoke.html\">PM 2.5\u003c/a>, that can travel suspended in air thousands of miles away.[aside tag=\"wildfires\" label=\"More wildfire coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California alone, between mid-March and mid-December 2020, exposure to high levels of PM 2.5 contributed to about 1,000 COVID-19 deaths and 26,600 cases in counties where the smoke was found to amplify coronavirus cases or mortality. The researchers of the study, from Harvard University and other institutions, provided KQED with \u003ca href=\"https://analysis-1.maps.arcgis.com/apps/dashboards/c0df43781aeb4085954676f4e9ca9bf9\">county numbers\u003c/a> in advance of publication.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda County, where Maribel Villanueva lived, faced one of the biggest spikes in COVID-19 deaths linked to wildfire smoke pollution out of the 92 counties the researchers analyzed.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Smoke increases risk of lung infections\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Inhaling wildfire smoke can cause inflammation in the lungs and hurt the immune system’s response, making people more prone to severe respiratory tract infections, including from COVID-19, according to medical experts and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/php/smoke-faq.html\">Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It made perfect sense to me that the bad wildfire smoke season we had in 2020 here in Northern California would lead to increased risk of COVID-19,” said John Balmes, a pulmonologist at UCSF who reviewed the study for KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11884786\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11884786\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50615_IMG_3916-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50615_IMG_3916-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50615_IMG_3916-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50615_IMG_3916-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50615_IMG_3916-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50615_IMG_3916-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Susana Villanueva holds a photo of her sister Maribel at her home in Oakland on Aug. 3, 2021. Maribel, a day care worker and single mom, developed a cough after inhaling wildfire smoke in Sept. 2020. She died weeks later from COVID-19. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Previous research has linked air pollution to worse COVID-19 health outcomes, including a recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41370-021-00366-w?utm_medium=affiliate&utm_source=commission_junction&utm_campaign=3_nsn6445_deeplink_PID100107555&utm_content=deeplink\">study\u003c/a> that found that higher PM 2.5 from wildfire smoke led to 18% more COVID-19 cases in Reno, Nevada.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this is the first investigation that quantifies the extra number of coronavirus cases and deaths due to wildfire pollution in multiple states, said senior author Francesca Dominici, a professor of biostatistics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dominici said the study makes a clear link between climate change and the pandemic. \u003ca href=\"https://science2017.globalchange.gov/chapter/8/\">Climate experts\u003c/a> have established that the warming climate is a major driver of drought and heat conditions that lead to more frequent and catastrophic blazes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We now know that these wildfires, because of their very high levels of PM 2.5, are making the pandemic worse,” said Dominici. “Wildfire [smoke] exposure and COVID are actually a really dangerous combination.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dominici’s research team developed a statistical model that crunched county-level data on the coronavirus, smoke and PM 2.5 to estimate excess COVID-19 cases and deaths up to four weeks after a day of extra air pollution due to the blazes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While wildfire smoke exacerbated the coronavirus health burden in most counties, the smoke seemed to have a “protective effect” leading to fewer coronavirus cases or deaths in others, including Los Angeles and San Mateo. That’s because there are many other factors at play, such as adherence to mask mandates, said Dominici.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s entirely possible that during wildfire days people stayed indoors more, and this contained … the spread of the disease,” she said. “And so people were actually exposed less to the levels of PM 2.5 during these days.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>‘Like he was drowning’\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Adrian Sanchez, 72, lived in South Hayward, in a lower-income ZIP code that has suffered one of the highest rates of COVID-19 deaths in Alameda County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The former forklift operator died from the coronavirus on Dec. 5, and lived with both Type 2 diabetes and asthma — two conditions that make COVID-19 and smoke more dangerous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His wife of 46 years, Eudelia, remembers Adrian struggling to breathe on heavy smoke days last summer and fall. He felt “like he was drowning” because of his asthma, she said in Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s going to be very difficult for us to recover. The pain is always going to be there,” said Eudelia, 68, who believes the smoke pollution harmed her husband’s health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Obviously, if the smoke impacts people who are healthy, can you imagine what it does to those who are already sick?” she asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the worst of last year’s wildfire season, between mid-August and mid-October, 162 people in Alameda County died from the coronavirus, according to an analysis of county records by the \u003ca href=\"https://documentingcovid19.io/\">Documenting COVID-19 project\u003c/a> from the Brown Institute for Media Innovation, a collaboration between Columbia and Stanford universities, in collaboration with KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>County medical examiner data, which includes the occupation of those who died, shows that nearly all of the deceased under age 65 were in frontline jobs, including janitors, delivery drivers, caregivers and construction workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11885028\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11885028 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS49775_018_Oakland_MaribelVillanueva_06102021-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1329\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS49775_018_Oakland_MaribelVillanueva_06102021-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS49775_018_Oakland_MaribelVillanueva_06102021-1-800x554.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS49775_018_Oakland_MaribelVillanueva_06102021-1-1020x706.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS49775_018_Oakland_MaribelVillanueva_06102021-1-160x111.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS49775_018_Oakland_MaribelVillanueva_06102021-1-1536x1063.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Susana Villanueva at home in Oakland with Maribel’s son David Lara, 11. After Maribel’s death last fall, Susana and her husband took custody of David. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Air pollution as environmental justice issue\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>To protect themselves, people should avoid smoke as much as possible and wear N95 masks when they venture outdoors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inside buildings, using central air conditioning or \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/list-carb-certified-air-cleaning-devices\">air cleaners\u003c/a> cuts down particulate matter, said Amy MacPherson, a spokesperson with the California Air Resources Board, or CARB, which is tasked with protecting the public from air pollution.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Eudelia Sanchez\"]‘It’s going to be very difficult for us to recover. The pain is always going to be there.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The single most effective way to protect yourself from wildfire smoke is to stay indoors, with windows and doors shut,” said MacPherson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But avoiding smoke is often unrealistic for millions of people who work outside the home and toil outdoors in industries such as construction or agriculture, or who rely on public transportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These workers often live in lower-income communities of color, in older homes that lack air purifiers and that smoke can easily penetrate, said Balmes, the UCSF physician who has researched the impacts of air pollution on lung health for nearly 40 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added that those same communities, with less access to medical care or healthy foods, also suffer disproportionately from chronic conditions such as heart disease and diabetes that can worsen COVID-19 symptoms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Exposure to air pollution in general and wildfire smoke in particular, tends to be greater for low-income people of color, but then they’re also at greater risk for COVID-19,” said Balmes. “So it’s an environmental justice issue that our society should be dealing with.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local governments should do more to provide free N95 masks and portable air filters to lower-wage families, especially essential workers, said Balmes, who was first appointed as a member of CARB by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency is planning to provide \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/our-work/programs/wildfire-smoke-clean-air-center-grant/about\">$5 million\u003c/a> in the next few months to local communities to upgrade ventilation systems and purchase portable air cleaners. The goal is to set up a “network of clean air centers” to help vulnerable populations get relief from the smoke, said CARB spokesperson MacPherson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, the Bay Area Air Quality Management District \u003ca href=\"https://www.baaqmd.gov/news-and-events/page-resources/2021-news/081021-ramp\">announced\u003c/a> it will offer portable air filtration units to about 2,000 lower-income residents diagnosed with asthma, and who are particularly at risk from the pollution expected this wildfire season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And a \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/2419?q=%7B%22search%22%3A%5B%22Wildfire+smoke+emergency+of+2021%22%5D%7D&s=1&r=1\">bill\u003c/a> introduced last month by California and Oregon senators would allow the president to declare a “smoke emergency” and direct funds, equipment, personnel and other resources to set up smoke shelters, air purifiers and air monitors in affected communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Families of both Adrian Sanchez and Maribel Villanueva, the day care worker, said they didn’t have an air purifier at home or N95 masks to wear when they went outdoors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Maribel’s funeral, her sister Susana took custody of Maribel’s young son. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>On Sept. 9, 2020, the Bay Area sky turned so hazy, it hid the sun from view and glowed an ominous dark orange. In the days that followed, dangerous air pollution in the region skyrocketed as dozens of wildfires burned throughout California, in what became the largest wildfire season recorded in modern state history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But like other essential workers, Maribel Villanueva, 46, kept working, caring for children full-time at a day care in East Oakland. She walked and took a 20-minute bus ride to work wearing a cloth mask, which didn’t protect her from the worst of the smoke, said Maribel’s sister, Susana. She developed a loud cough, and on Sept. 17, Maribel was hospitalized with COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Before we even knew that she had COVID, she had cold-like symptoms and said, ‘You know, I think it was the smoke that really affected me. And that’s why I have this cough,’” said Susana, 42, who lived with Maribel and other relatives in their home in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Susana will never know for certain the extent of the smoke’s harm to her sister’s lungs. But two weeks later, on Oct. 2, Maribel died at a hospital from respiratory failure, pneumonia and COVID-19, according to her death certificate. A single mom, she left behind a son who just turned 11 years old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two natural disasters — the coronavirus and record-setting Western wildfires spewing air toxins — converged to exacerbate the pandemic’s health toll last year in California, Oregon and Washington, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/7/33/eabi8789\">study\u003c/a> published Friday in the journal Science Advances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California alone, between mid-March and mid-December 2020, exposure to high levels of PM 2.5 contributed to about 1,000 COVID-19 deaths and 26,600 cases in counties where the smoke was found to amplify coronavirus cases or mortality. The researchers of the study, from Harvard University and other institutions, provided KQED with \u003ca href=\"https://analysis-1.maps.arcgis.com/apps/dashboards/c0df43781aeb4085954676f4e9ca9bf9\">county numbers\u003c/a> in advance of publication.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda County, where Maribel Villanueva lived, faced one of the biggest spikes in COVID-19 deaths linked to wildfire smoke pollution out of the 92 counties the researchers analyzed.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Smoke increases risk of lung infections\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Inhaling wildfire smoke can cause inflammation in the lungs and hurt the immune system’s response, making people more prone to severe respiratory tract infections, including from COVID-19, according to medical experts and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/php/smoke-faq.html\">Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It made perfect sense to me that the bad wildfire smoke season we had in 2020 here in Northern California would lead to increased risk of COVID-19,” said John Balmes, a pulmonologist at UCSF who reviewed the study for KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11884786\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11884786\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50615_IMG_3916-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50615_IMG_3916-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50615_IMG_3916-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50615_IMG_3916-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50615_IMG_3916-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50615_IMG_3916-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Susana Villanueva holds a photo of her sister Maribel at her home in Oakland on Aug. 3, 2021. Maribel, a day care worker and single mom, developed a cough after inhaling wildfire smoke in Sept. 2020. She died weeks later from COVID-19. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Previous research has linked air pollution to worse COVID-19 health outcomes, including a recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41370-021-00366-w?utm_medium=affiliate&utm_source=commission_junction&utm_campaign=3_nsn6445_deeplink_PID100107555&utm_content=deeplink\">study\u003c/a> that found that higher PM 2.5 from wildfire smoke led to 18% more COVID-19 cases in Reno, Nevada.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this is the first investigation that quantifies the extra number of coronavirus cases and deaths due to wildfire pollution in multiple states, said senior author Francesca Dominici, a professor of biostatistics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dominici said the study makes a clear link between climate change and the pandemic. \u003ca href=\"https://science2017.globalchange.gov/chapter/8/\">Climate experts\u003c/a> have established that the warming climate is a major driver of drought and heat conditions that lead to more frequent and catastrophic blazes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We now know that these wildfires, because of their very high levels of PM 2.5, are making the pandemic worse,” said Dominici. “Wildfire [smoke] exposure and COVID are actually a really dangerous combination.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dominici’s research team developed a statistical model that crunched county-level data on the coronavirus, smoke and PM 2.5 to estimate excess COVID-19 cases and deaths up to four weeks after a day of extra air pollution due to the blazes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While wildfire smoke exacerbated the coronavirus health burden in most counties, the smoke seemed to have a “protective effect” leading to fewer coronavirus cases or deaths in others, including Los Angeles and San Mateo. That’s because there are many other factors at play, such as adherence to mask mandates, said Dominici.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s entirely possible that during wildfire days people stayed indoors more, and this contained … the spread of the disease,” she said. “And so people were actually exposed less to the levels of PM 2.5 during these days.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>‘Like he was drowning’\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Adrian Sanchez, 72, lived in South Hayward, in a lower-income ZIP code that has suffered one of the highest rates of COVID-19 deaths in Alameda County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The former forklift operator died from the coronavirus on Dec. 5, and lived with both Type 2 diabetes and asthma — two conditions that make COVID-19 and smoke more dangerous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His wife of 46 years, Eudelia, remembers Adrian struggling to breathe on heavy smoke days last summer and fall. He felt “like he was drowning” because of his asthma, she said in Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s going to be very difficult for us to recover. The pain is always going to be there,” said Eudelia, 68, who believes the smoke pollution harmed her husband’s health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Obviously, if the smoke impacts people who are healthy, can you imagine what it does to those who are already sick?” she asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the worst of last year’s wildfire season, between mid-August and mid-October, 162 people in Alameda County died from the coronavirus, according to an analysis of county records by the \u003ca href=\"https://documentingcovid19.io/\">Documenting COVID-19 project\u003c/a> from the Brown Institute for Media Innovation, a collaboration between Columbia and Stanford universities, in collaboration with KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>County medical examiner data, which includes the occupation of those who died, shows that nearly all of the deceased under age 65 were in frontline jobs, including janitors, delivery drivers, caregivers and construction workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11885028\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11885028 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS49775_018_Oakland_MaribelVillanueva_06102021-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1329\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS49775_018_Oakland_MaribelVillanueva_06102021-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS49775_018_Oakland_MaribelVillanueva_06102021-1-800x554.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS49775_018_Oakland_MaribelVillanueva_06102021-1-1020x706.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS49775_018_Oakland_MaribelVillanueva_06102021-1-160x111.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS49775_018_Oakland_MaribelVillanueva_06102021-1-1536x1063.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Susana Villanueva at home in Oakland with Maribel’s son David Lara, 11. After Maribel’s death last fall, Susana and her husband took custody of David. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Air pollution as environmental justice issue\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>To protect themselves, people should avoid smoke as much as possible and wear N95 masks when they venture outdoors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inside buildings, using central air conditioning or \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/list-carb-certified-air-cleaning-devices\">air cleaners\u003c/a> cuts down particulate matter, said Amy MacPherson, a spokesperson with the California Air Resources Board, or CARB, which is tasked with protecting the public from air pollution.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The single most effective way to protect yourself from wildfire smoke is to stay indoors, with windows and doors shut,” said MacPherson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But avoiding smoke is often unrealistic for millions of people who work outside the home and toil outdoors in industries such as construction or agriculture, or who rely on public transportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These workers often live in lower-income communities of color, in older homes that lack air purifiers and that smoke can easily penetrate, said Balmes, the UCSF physician who has researched the impacts of air pollution on lung health for nearly 40 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added that those same communities, with less access to medical care or healthy foods, also suffer disproportionately from chronic conditions such as heart disease and diabetes that can worsen COVID-19 symptoms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Exposure to air pollution in general and wildfire smoke in particular, tends to be greater for low-income people of color, but then they’re also at greater risk for COVID-19,” said Balmes. “So it’s an environmental justice issue that our society should be dealing with.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local governments should do more to provide free N95 masks and portable air filters to lower-wage families, especially essential workers, said Balmes, who was first appointed as a member of CARB by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency is planning to provide \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/our-work/programs/wildfire-smoke-clean-air-center-grant/about\">$5 million\u003c/a> in the next few months to local communities to upgrade ventilation systems and purchase portable air cleaners. The goal is to set up a “network of clean air centers” to help vulnerable populations get relief from the smoke, said CARB spokesperson MacPherson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, the Bay Area Air Quality Management District \u003ca href=\"https://www.baaqmd.gov/news-and-events/page-resources/2021-news/081021-ramp\">announced\u003c/a> it will offer portable air filtration units to about 2,000 lower-income residents diagnosed with asthma, and who are particularly at risk from the pollution expected this wildfire season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And a \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/2419?q=%7B%22search%22%3A%5B%22Wildfire+smoke+emergency+of+2021%22%5D%7D&s=1&r=1\">bill\u003c/a> introduced last month by California and Oregon senators would allow the president to declare a “smoke emergency” and direct funds, equipment, personnel and other resources to set up smoke shelters, air purifiers and air monitors in affected communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Families of both Adrian Sanchez and Maribel Villanueva, the day care worker, said they didn’t have an air purifier at home or N95 masks to wear when they went outdoors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Maribel’s funeral, her sister Susana took custody of Maribel’s young son. The family gathered during his 11th birthday celebration at Susana’s home. But as he stared at his red velvet cake, the boy looked like he was going to cry, missing his mom, said Susana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I tell him, ‘I will never be able to replace your mom, but I’m here. We love you. I want you to know that we care for you,”’ she said. “So just taking it one day at a time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Jocelyn Barajas is bent over a soup of crushed strawberries, holding a pipette.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s a rising high school freshman in Castro Valley taking summer classes this year. Her science class has started a new experiment, with their goal being to extract DNA from strawberries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At first, Jocelyn was not thrilled with the idea of summer school. Going through her last year of middle school during a pandemic made her lose some faith in education. All her classes were online and she says teachers never gave kids a chance to share what they were going through.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People probably went through depression and we didn’t know about it because we always had our camera offs,” she said. “We never had or could have spoken because there was so little time in all of our virtual classes.”\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003cbr>\nSeveral of Jocelyn’s classmates at Castro Valley High School feel the same way. Online learning made it really difficult for them to engage with what they were learning about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every time I was on a Zoom call or a Google Meet call, I would just storm out and go to a different couch and just watch YouTube,” said Rico Lupian, another incoming freshman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Jocelyn Barajas, Rising High School Freshman\"]‘People probably went through depression and we didn’t know about it because we always had our cameras off.’[/pullquote]Months of isolation away from the classroom has helped bring down the emotional well-being among many students in the Castro Valley Unified School District, they and their teachers told KQED. School officials hope to start the healing process through art and increased access to mental health professionals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To help students readjust to classroom life before the new school year, officials at CVUSD tripled summer school attendance. But experienced educators, like Jazz Monique Hudson, noticed something was off when the students started coming in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She is an \u003ca href=\"http://www.jazzhudson.com/about/\">arts educator \u003c/a>who teaches writing and poetry as part of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.fsmei.org\">Freedom Soul Media Education Initiatives\u003c/a>, which uses a culturally relevant curriculum. “We cannot approach education the same way we did before,” she said. “Not at all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11884099\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11884099\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/IMG_5449-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A head shot of Jazz Monique Hudson. She is wearing a dark-colored jacket and is smiling at the camera. Behind her is a school building.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/IMG_5449-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/IMG_5449-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/IMG_5449-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/IMG_5449-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/IMG_5449-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/IMG_5449-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/IMG_5449-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jazz Monique Hudson is an arts educator and Oakland youth poet laureate who teaches writing and poetry in Castro Valley Unified School District. For her, working with kids in person again has been an opportunity to learn more about how they’ve been processing trauma and what she can do to support them. \u003ccite>(Julia McEvoy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“[We must process] things around anxiety and, like, learning how to be back in the classroom,” she explained. “Let alone use a pencil and paper, because it’s been all on a Chromebook.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hudson gave her students a writing assignment the first week: to write down who they are. When she noticed that a lot of them were struggling to get something down on paper, she stopped the whole lesson and asked them to share instead what they were feeling at the moment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Jazz Monique Hudson, Artist and Educator\"]‘The pandemic was a trauma and a harm and it should be treated as such.’[/pullquote]“A lot of the journal prompts were, ‘I’m feeling anxiety about being in a classroom. I don’t know how to talk to people. I don’t know how to make friends’,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In teaching, Hudson explains, resiliency among children can sometimes be understood as the process of a person learning how to restore themselves back to a feeling of wholeness after a difficult or traumatic event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But I’ve never seen a situation of a person moving into resiliency and going back to who they were before that trauma or before that harm,” she said. “The pandemic was a trauma and a harm and it should be treated as such.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11884098\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11884098 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/IMG_5387-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A whiteboard with a big piece of paper attached to it. On the big piece of paper, there are several categories drawn with a marker. The large piece of paper is titled 'Mental Health,' and the categories are, 'I'm great!', 'I'm okay,' 'I'm meh,' 'I'm struggling,' and 'Please check-in.' There are many post-its in the first two categories.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/IMG_5387-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/IMG_5387-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/IMG_5387-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/IMG_5387-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/IMG_5387-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/IMG_5387-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/IMG_5387-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Daily activities, like sharing with the class how you’re feeling, are meant to help students stay connected to their emotions and articulate what’s going in their lives. 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In those cases, distance learning allowed teachers to see inside kids’ homes, giving them a real look — albeit through computer screens — at what some families and students were experiencing during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marion Meadows, the district’s head of behavioral health, shared what some of the teachers noticed through their virtual classrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They could see depression,” she said. “They could see kids using drugs in the background, they could see their family life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Learning more about how students are experiencing the pandemic was a wake-up call for teachers, who in turn relayed what they saw to administrators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s like a veil has been lifted off the adults’ eyes,” Meadows said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Besides preparing classroom discussions about mental health and trauma management, Meadows says district teachers spent the past year developing anti-racist lesson plans for every single grade. 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"content": "\u003cp>More than 93,000 people died of a drug overdose in the U.S. last year — a record number that reflects a rise of nearly 30% from 2019, according to new data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Officials said the increase was driven by \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/04/22/989833102/overdose-deaths-surged-in-pandemic-as-more-drugs-were-laced-with-fentanyl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the lethal prevalence of fentanyl\u003c/a> as well as pandemic-related stressors and problems in accessing care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is the highest number of overdose deaths ever recorded in a 12-month period, and the largest increase since at least 1999,\" Dr. Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, told NPR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Dr. Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse\"]'This is the highest number of overdose deaths ever recorded in a 12-month period, and the largest increase since at least 1999.'[/pullquote]An \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11874651/fentanyl-is-killing-more-people-in-the-pandemic-in-santa-clara-county-victims-are-getting-younger\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">analysis by KQED\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://documentingcovid19.io/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Documenting COVID-19\u003c/a>, a project run by Columbia University’s Brown Institute for Media Innovation, found that the number of fentanyl overdoses rose sharply from 2019 to 2020 in three Bay Area counties: 170% in Santa Clara County, 68% in San Francisco and 29% in Alameda County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The national data is provisional as states are still reporting their tallies to the CDC's \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/drug-overdose-data.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">National Center for Health Statistics\u003c/a>. 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And other studies have shown that even before the pandemic, overdose rates in Black communities were rising much faster than among white Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drug overdoses accounted for roughly one-quarter as many deaths as COVID-19 did in 2020, using the CDC's number of \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7014e1.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">375,000 pandemic deaths\u003c/a> last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The provisional 93,331 U.S. drug overdose deaths are a sharp increase from the 72,151 deaths estimated in 2019. Deaths in 2020 from opioids alone — 69,710 — nearly eclipsed the total number of fatal overdoses in the previous year, although deaths involving other drugs such as methamphetamine and cocaine also contributed to the increase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's urgent, Volkow said, for governments and agencies to widen access to treatment for people who are suffering from substance use disorders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As NPR's Brian Mann \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/06/19/1006891729/overdose-deaths-rose-during-the-war-on-drugs-but-efforts-to-reduce-them-face-bac\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported last month\u003c/a>, \"If current trends continue, illicit drugs will soon kill more Americans every day than COVID-19.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before 2016, more Americans died from heroin overdoses annually than from powerful synthetic opioids such as fentanyl, according to the CDC. But the number of lives lost to overdoses from synthetic opioids has soared since then.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roughly 57,000 people died from synthetic opioids (predominantly fentanyl) last year, compared with around 13,000 people who died from heroin overdoses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=news_11874651,news_11874753,forum_2010101883209]Fentanyl's properties are similar to morphine — but it's \"50 to 100 times more potent,\" \u003ca href=\"https://www.drugabuse.gov/drug-topics/fentanyl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse\u003c/a>. It is also frequently cut into other illegal drugs, including cocaine. That dangerous trend has triggered outreach efforts to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/07/05/1013203805/party-drugs-are-being-increasingly-laced-with-fentanyl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">train people in using naloxone\u003c/a>, which can reverse an opioid overdose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal government has been taking steps to address drug addiction and overdoses, said Chuck Ingoglia, President and CEO of the National Council for Mental Wellbeing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Congress recently has appropriated lots of new dollars to try to address this,\" he said. \"And it's been interesting to see that the Biden-Harris administration is really prioritizing the full continuum of interventions, everything from harm reduction to increased treatment capacity.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said \u003ca href=\"https://appropriations.house.gov/news/press-releases/appropriations-committee-releases-fiscal-year-2021-labor-hhs-education-funding\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the House appropriations bill\u003c/a> also includes funding for \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/06/17/1007805678/needle-exchanges-access-to-safer-narcotics-could-save-lives-but-its-a-tough-sell\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">syringe exchange programs\u003c/a>, which he said is the first time the federal government has explicitly called for this \"vital component of harm reduction interventions.\" But unless there is long-term funding to create a system to address drug addiction, Ingoglia said, it may be hard to prevent overdoses in the long run.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>NPR health correspondent Rhitu Chatterjee contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2021 NPR. 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South Hayward, as well as East Oakland and other working-class neighborhoods along the I-880 highway, are lagging behind the rest of Alameda County in \u003ca href=\"https://covid-19.acgov.org/data.page\">vaccination rates\u003c/a> even though they are the very places where people have suffered the highest rates of illness and death from COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As demand for doses dwindled at mega vaccination sites such as at the Oakland Coliseum, which is \u003ca href=\"https://covid-19.acgov.org/covid19-assets/docs/press/press-release-2021.05.05.pdf\">set to close\u003c/a> on Sunday, Bay Area public health officials are shifting strategies to target communities where a greater proportion of eligible people remain unvaccinated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In South Hayward, health workers say, some adults are holding out because of unreliable information they got from friends or social media. But others are busy with two jobs, trying to make up income they lost earlier in the pandemic, and find it challenging to take time off to get the shot and recover from possible \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/expect/after.html\">side effects\u003c/a>, said Guadalupe Perez, a long-time \u003cem>promotora\u003c/em> with the Tiburcio Vasquez clinic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some people say, ‘No, I don’t want to go in, especially because I heard somebody got sick. So I don’t want to get sick and miss work,’ ” said Perez. She recommends they weigh the risks of getting seriously ill from the coronavirus versus the short-term tiredness and chills they might feel from the vaccine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11874708\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11874708\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48958_012_Hayward_Promotoras_05102021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48958_012_Hayward_Promotoras_05102021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48958_012_Hayward_Promotoras_05102021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48958_012_Hayward_Promotoras_05102021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48958_012_Hayward_Promotoras_05102021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48958_012_Hayward_Promotoras_05102021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Health outreach worker Guadalupe Perez speaks with a customer at Yeyo’s Meat Market about the COVID-19 vaccine in South Hayward on May 10, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In California, all employees who work for more than 30 days in a year for the same employer are entitled to up to 24 hours of \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/covid/paid-sick-leave.html\">paid sick leave\u003c/a> they can use to get vaccinated and recover, regardless of their immigration status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state has mandated COVID-19-related sick leave of \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/COVID19Resources/FAQ-for-SPSL-2021.html\">up to 80 hours\u003c/a> for larger employers through September. But many low-wage and front-line workers don’t know they have that right, or they fear retaliation if they assert it, according to a recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11870797/low-wage-workers-lack-covid-protections-fear-retaliation-california-survey-shows\">survey\u003c/a> of hundreds of workers in the restaurant, home health care, janitorial and additional industries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others who are eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine have delayed it because of lingering medical questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Norma Bernabe, a tortilla factory worker, said she and her family want to get vaccinated, but they are unsure of when to do it safely. She was very ill with the coronavirus in March, she said, and her husband and 13-year-old son were also sick.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11866749 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/LatinoCovidDeaths-1020x689.jpg']“My husband heard we had to wait 90 days, but I don’t know,” said Bernabe, who also lives in South Hayward, before entering Yeyo’s Meat Market on Gading Road. “That’s why we haven’t made an appointment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention \u003ca href=\"https://covid-19.acgov.org/vaccines-faq#medical\">recommends\u003c/a> most infected people get vaccinated as soon as they finish their isolation period and COVID-19 symptoms disappear, but those who were treated with monoclonal antibodies or convalescent plasma should wait 90 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perez, the \u003cem>promotora\u003c/em>, suggested Bernabe check with her doctor first, and then sign up for the shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of late last month, 121 people residing in ZIP code 94544 had died due to the virus, more than in any other ZIP code in the county, according to the Alameda County Health Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next ZIP code over, 94541, which includes the Cherryland neighborhood, registered the second highest number of COVID-19 fatalities in the county: 107. Both of the populous ZIP codes — where more than 40% of residents identify as Latino and more than a third are immigrants — also had the county’s highest rates of coronavirus deaths per capita.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of those who died were elderly, including residents at more than a dozen long-term care facilities in those ZIP codes. But many of the younger victims were front-line workers — including an airline mechanic, a butcher, a cook, a dishwasher, a registered nurse and a street sweeper, according to county death records obtained by KQED and the \u003ca href=\"https://documentingcovid19.io/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Documenting COVID-19\u003c/a> project at Columbia University’s Brown Institute for Media Innovation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"latinos\" label=\"More Latino coverage\"]Despite the death toll in 94544 and 94541, barely half of the residents 16 and older there are fully vaccinated as of this week, compared to nearly 60% for the entire county, and closer to 80% in wealthier ZIP codes in the Berkeley and Oakland hills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a ways to go,” said Dr. Nicholas Moss, Alameda County health officer. “And it’s compounded by the fact that these are often communities that, because of COVID restrictions and the economic impacts, were in a very difficult spot going into the vaccination campaign.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Latinos in the county got a later start getting vaccinated, he said, because they tend to be younger and fewer of them work in health care jobs, so they didn’t qualify for the early tiers of eligibility. In addition, residents who are not fluent in English or face technology barriers, had a harder time signing up for appointments when vaccine supply was limited, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been a confusing process,” said Moss. “The information has been confusing about when you’re eligible and how to sign up and where we go.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But now that there are enough doses and everyone age 12 and older is eligible, county health officials are focusing on building up the vaccination efforts of community clinics, private health care providers and pharmacies in areas officials consider high priority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11874784\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11874784\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48963_017_Hayward_Promotoras_05102021-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48963_017_Hayward_Promotoras_05102021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48963_017_Hayward_Promotoras_05102021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48963_017_Hayward_Promotoras_05102021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48963_017_Hayward_Promotoras_05102021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48963_017_Hayward_Promotoras_05102021-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Community health workers, or promotoras, explain how to sign up for the COVID-19 vaccine and dispel common myths at Yeyo’s Meat Market in South Hayward on May 10, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To protect more people living in 94544, the county plans to launch a new vaccination site there that will stay open after hours and on Sundays, said Kimi Watkins-Tartt, who directs the Alameda County Public Health Department. That will supplement vaccine clinics at local health centers, like Tiburcio Vasquez, where shots are offered mostly during the work day and on Saturdays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Dr. Nicholas Moss, Alameda County health officer\"]‘These are often communities that, because of COVID restrictions and the economic impacts, were in a very difficult spot going into the vaccination campaign.’[/pullquote]The county also plans to hold several pop-up clinics at events, schools and businesses, said Watkins-Tartt, to give people more opportunities to get their questions answered and feel comfortable about the vaccine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are adding to what’s already there,” she said. “We also just want to be in the community and wait for people to get ready, because even though we want people to get vaccinated as quickly as possible, we also know that a lot of this is also building trust.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county has already opened an inoculation site at the Hayward Adult School, in ZIP code 94541, and held pop-up clinics at local assisted living centers and other housing facilities, as well as at the Muhajireen Mosque in 94544 — all of which have helped to push up vaccination rates, said health officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the virus still circulating as the state prepares to fully reopen next month and remove most mask mandates and social distancing requirements for people who are fully vaccinated, county officials plan to be in South Hayward and other impacted neighborhoods “indefinitely,” said Moss, the county health officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve come to believe that COVID is not going away any time soon, that people are going to get vaccinated or they’ll get COVID,” he said. “I don’t think people are going to be able to avoid it and avoid vaccination.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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He also detailed his plans to improve the voting process before the county is set to hold multiple elections later this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But voting rights attorneys at the hearing expressed little confidence in the county’s elections leadership after an election in which ballots were inadvertently discarded, ballot language requirements were flouted and advocates struggled to communicate with the registrar’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am sorry to say that I have never felt that this office and its leadership meet the standards set by the elections officials around the rest of California,” \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/_jonathanstein?lang=en\">Jonathan Mehta Stein\u003c/a>, executive director of California Common Cause, told the board. “I felt this way before the devastating errors in the November 2020 elections.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"More on Alameda County voting issues\" postID=\"news_11851601\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dupuis reminded supervisors that his office had to implement changes in the voting process amid the COVID-19 pandemic while facing historic levels of voter turnout. Only after a fiery public comment from Stein did supervisors vow to revisit the issue before future elections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The pandemic hit right as we were finishing the [March 2020] primary, and to layer [high turnout] on top of it makes this one of the most historic November elections we’ve seen in this county,” said Dupuis. \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Something of this scale always has opportunities for improvement.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Helen Hutchison, a board member and former president of \u003ca href=\"https://lwvc.org/about/people/helen-hutchison\">the League of Women Voters of California\u003c/a>, said Alameda was hardly alone among counties dealing with unique circumstances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All elections officials in California were under the same pressures as Alameda County in this November election, but no other county had such a high number of reported problems,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The election issues first cropped up when voting began in October. The county was late in setting up the majority of the 60 drop boxes it used to collect mail ballots, citing a delay from a vendor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voting rights advocates have been especially critical of the county’s failure to meet language access requirements for limited English proficient voters. By law, voting sites must display sample ballots in locally prevalent languages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 2014 estimate from The Greenlining Insitute found that Alameda County has more than 117,000 limited-English proficient citizens of voting age. 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"content": "\u003cp>Last week, advocates hosted a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cge7ikQT_U\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">virtual press conference\u003c/a> to discuss what they say is a growing outbreak of COVID-19 in Alameda County's Santa Rita Jail in the wake of an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11853540/im-the-only-one-doing-it-the-cal-law-student-tracking-covid-cases-at-santa-rita-jail\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">alarming spike in cases at the facility in late December\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Legal advocates and family members with loved ones detained inside have specifically highlighted \u003ca href=\"https://srjsolidarity.org/2020/11/17/paralegal-details-multitude-of-ways-the-jail-kitchen-does-not-meet-health-and-safety-food-service-standards/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">poor food quality and sanitation issues\u003c/a> as COVID-19 risk factors for those incarcerated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Namira,\" who wished to remain anonymous for fear of retribution against her or her husband who is incarcerated at Santa Rita Jail, told KQED that conditions are jam-packed. “I’d say that there are shelters for animals that are way cleaner and better,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As soon as he entered Santa Rita Jail, he started feeling sick. Initially, I said no, it’s just the environment,” Namira said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But then, on the phone, she heard her spouse coughing. After talking to him, she called the main Santa Rita Jail number asking for medical attention. They told her to wait until the next morning, but she called again after a few hours. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Namira, whose husband tested positive for COVID-19 in Santa Rita Jail\"]'I’d say that there are shelters for animals that are way cleaner and better.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If there is nobody outside to be there for you — to speak on your behalf, they are very casual,” Namira said. Her husband tested positive for COVID-19 at the end of December and is now at the jail infirmary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He went inside totally healthy,” Namira said. “You can say the inmates did something wrong, but that doesn't mean they should be put in an inhuman situation ... They’re not getting proper meals,” she added. “You have to yell for a day or two to get one or two Tylenols.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m suffering every moment,” she told KQED in tears. “When I hear he’s not getting food — I can’t eat food. Right now I’m healthy, but it’s like I’m going through the same thing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last Monday’s press conference touched on why meals may be a challenge for Santa Rita Jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"cdcr, prison\" label=\"Related Stories\"]“The major services are all for-profit functions,” said civil rights attorney Yolanda Huang speaking on the Zoom press conference. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The food is for-profit. The medical care is for-profit,\" Huang said. \"And when you have that system, then there is a direct incentive to reduce the quality of the medical care or the amount of medical care that's available, as well as the amount of food and the quality of the food.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sgt. Ray Kelly, a spokesman for the Alameda County Sheriff's Office, which runs the jail, says using a private corporation to run the kitchen is a common cost-saving measure used throughout the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said that Aramark, the company that runs the jail's kitchen, was chosen by the county's Board of Supervisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They may be for-profit corporations, but they save taxpayers millions of dollars,\" Kelly said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also highlighted the benefit of the jail's kitchen program, which allows inmate kitchen workers to earn credits while in custody.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Huang said the cost savings may be detrimental for those incarcerated in Santa Rita Jail, and that under the last contract she saw, the jail's budget was limited to $1.39 per meal, per inmate. She claims the jail skimps on nutritional requirements, such as the amount of vegetables given to each incarcerated person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They're getting away with it because there's no way to hold them accountable,” Huang said. “What are we really having the community learn when the institution that is supposed to be enforcing the rules can so flagrantly break the rules?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>A man holding a rifle approached a mass car caravan in Alameda that was honoring “the radical legacy” of Martin Luther King Jr. on Monday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The caravan shut down its protest earlier than intended at the home of Alameda District Attorney Nancy O’Malley when organizers warned participants that the man was seen standing with a rifle nearby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was scared, I was fearful for my life,” 68-year-old protester Melody Davis told KQED. She said the man shouted at protesters to leave. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Melody Davis, protester\"]‘I was scared, I was fearful for my life.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is no indication the man discharged his weapon, nor were any injuries reported. 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It’s gasping for its last breath, and we’re going to continue to do our work and suffocate it … Oakland is the place to lead that charge and that movement, and we did that today.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/e_baldi/status/1351336182806835201\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After starting their protest at the Port of Oakland, where families and people on rollerblades and bikes gathered, hundreds of cars made their way to the island of Alameda to O’Malley’s home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11855903\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11855903\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/031_Oakland_MLKCarCaravan_01182021-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/031_Oakland_MLKCarCaravan_01182021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/031_Oakland_MLKCarCaravan_01182021-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/031_Oakland_MLKCarCaravan_01182021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/031_Oakland_MLKCarCaravan_01182021-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/031_Oakland_MLKCarCaravan_01182021.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A line of vehicles leaves Middle Harbor Shoreline Park near the Port of Oakland during a Martin Luther King Day car caravan on Jan. 18, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11855904\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11855904\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/045_Oakland_MLKCarCaravan_01182021-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/045_Oakland_MLKCarCaravan_01182021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/045_Oakland_MLKCarCaravan_01182021-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/045_Oakland_MLKCarCaravan_01182021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/045_Oakland_MLKCarCaravan_01182021-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/045_Oakland_MLKCarCaravan_01182021.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People cheer as a Martin Luther King Day car caravan organized by APTP makes its way through Alameda on Jan. 18, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11855905\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11855905\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/049_Oakland_MLKCarCaravan_01182021-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/049_Oakland_MLKCarCaravan_01182021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/049_Oakland_MLKCarCaravan_01182021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/049_Oakland_MLKCarCaravan_01182021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/049_Oakland_MLKCarCaravan_01182021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/049_Oakland_MLKCarCaravan_01182021.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A man stops his car during a Martin Luther King Day car caravan organized by APTP on Jan. 18, 2021. The caravan stopped for final remarks outside of Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O’Malley’s house in Alameda. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In speeches at the rally, several protesters demanded accountability for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11823246/it-started-with-oscar-grant-a-police-shooting-in-oakland-and-the-making-of-a-movement-2\">2009 death of Oscar Grant\u003c/a>, who was shot and killed by a BART police officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11854829/crying-out-for-justice-oscar-grants-family-vows-to-keep-fighting-after-da-declines-to-file-new-charges\">the Alameda County District Attorney’s office announced\u003c/a> that it would not be filing charges against Anthony Pirone, one of the former BART Police Department officers who was being investigated for his role in Grant’s killing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As protesters gathered near O’Malley’s house, giving speeches about police brutality and honking their horns, a man with a rifle emerged. Some protesters presumed that he was a resident of the neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">This person with a rifle came out yelling, “Get out of my fucking neighborhood,” over and over until confronted by caravan security, then walked away. Nancy’s neighbor. \u003ca href=\"https://t.co/o6eQ87dukZ\">pic.twitter.com/o6eQ87dukZ\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Indybay (@Indybay) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Indybay/status/1351304784993665024?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 18, 2021\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Davis, who brought her granddaughter Jazzmine Hazzard to the protest, said she heard the man threatening the crowd to “get out of here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/IMG_9804.mov\">a video provided by Hazzard to a KQED reporter\u003c/a> at the scene of the caravan, a handful of people can be seen approaching the man who allegedly had a rifle. He walks away from them. A person can be heard on the video saying the man “got a rifle.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Cat Brooks, APTP founder\"]‘It’s clear that white supremacy is ending right now. It’s gasping for its last breath, and we’re going to continue to do our work and suffocate it.’[/pullquote]Brooks, the protest organizer, said members of the Community Ready Corps spoke to the man wielding the gun and organizers used a radio frequency, which had been in place to direct people along the route, to tell everyone to disperse. “The people did what the people do,” Brooks said, “and calmly and safely exited the area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brooks told KQED “we won today,” and that the man’s actions didn’t prevent organizers from finishing their planned remarks in front of DA Nancy O’Malley’s house: “I stayed in my position, and we finished our program. We did what we came to do despite his efforts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the apparent threat, the scene was relatively calm as people slowly made their way out of the neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The movement continues and it will continue,” Brooks said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Aono has been tracking COVID-19 cases in the jail since the pandemic began in March and says she’s the only one making that data publicly available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sheriff’s Office tweets out regular updates about infection rates and lists total daily case numbers and testing data on its \u003ca href=\"https://www.alamedacountysheriff.org/admin_covid19.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">website. \u003c/a>But it does not provide a public record of that data over time, information she contends is essential.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’ll be like they’ve tested like 6,000 people [total] and they have one case,” she said. “But if you look at the historical data, it’s like, oh, wait, they only actually tested 7% of the entire jail in the past week.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aono says the data from the Sheriff’s Office “provides this veneer of transparency” that’s largely presented out of context.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"santa-rita-jail\"]When the pandemic began, she says, “a lot of advocates were saying Santa Rita was going to be a hot spot because they have taken such notoriously poor care of people in the past.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office began sharing case information on Twitter, Aono put it into a \u003ca href=\"https://t.co/Ta3Rv0nTIs?amp=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">spreadsheet\u003c/a> — one she continues to update.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says she’s contacted \u003ca href=\"https://www.themarshallproject.org/2020/05/01/a-state-by-state-look-at-coronavirus-in-prisons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Marshall Project\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://uclacovidbehindbars.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">UCLA School of Law\u003c/a> — both of which report on prison rights issues — but says no one seems to have the bandwidth to take over the task of keeping track of cases in the jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I should not be the one tracking it, Aono said. That’s patently absurd, that some random law student is the one keeping track of people’s lives — they matter so much more than that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because I’m the only one doing it, I’ve just kept doing it,” she added. “I’m not good at Excel, but I just do it everyday.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kelly says that unlike individual counties and the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, his office doesn’t maintain a public dashboard of cases, which he claims would be too costly and time consuming. 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It read ‘Official Ballot.’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We felt really awful just about the possibility that we had told these people to walk away with their votes uncast,” said Mendel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the rest of the day, Mendel and other poll workers scrambled to contact the Alameda County Registrar of Voters Office, trying in vain to get clear guidance and help correcting their error.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Julie Mendel, poll worker\"]“We felt really awful just about the possibility that we had told these people to walk away with their votes uncast.”[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nobody was like, ‘This is really concerning, I’m going to try to figure out how to solve this problem and get back to you,’ or, ‘I’m going to send an employee to the site to talk to you and figure out what’s going on,’ ” Mendel remembered. “It was like realizing we had made this giant mistake and feeling incredibly alone in trying to handle it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lost votes at the Mills College location (the registrar estimates as many as 160 voters may have inadvertently taken their ballots home) were not the only issue that emerged in Alameda County’s administration of this year’s election. And more than a month after the election, the county’s Board of Supervisors has been virtually silent in response to the issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Problems in 2020 ‘More Systemic and Significant’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voting rights advocates have slammed the county for a delay in setting up vote-by-mail drop boxes, and for failing to post sample ballots in multiple languages, as required by law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have seen issues off and on in past election cycles, but they really came to a head this cycle and were more systemic and significant than we’ve seen previously,” said Julia Marks, voting rights attorney with Asian Americans Advancing Justice — Asian Law Caucus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Julia Marks, voting rights attorney with Asian Americans Advancing Justice — Asian Law Caucus\"]“We have seen issues off and on in past election cycles, but they really came to a head this cycle and were more systemic and significant than we’ve seen previously.”[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 2020 election provided a host of novel challenges for California counties and their election workers, who \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11847064/inside-californias-pandemic-election-how-covid-19-changes-could-shape-the-future-of-voting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">implemented changes to the voting process\u003c/a> on a short timetable in the midst of a pandemic — with levels of turnout not matched in decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the issues in Alameda County raise questions about the management of the registrar’s office, and whether the state’s seventh-largest county should continue to task their top elections official with simultaneously running the county’s information technology department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is no other county in California that is the size of Alameda County that does not have someone who is a full time registrar of voters,” said Kim Alexander, president of the California Voter Foundation. “It’s a big job, and a county the size of Alameda has a lot of voters and many diverse voters whose needs they need to address.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda County Registrar of Voters Tim Dupuis did not respond to requests for an interview for this story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Poll Workers at Mills College ‘Desperate for Support’ \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a coalition of voting rights groups first raised the issues at the Mills College voting location, Dupuis \u003ca href=\"http://www.acgov.org/news/pressreleases/TimDupuis-Nov132020-ROVElectionLong.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said in a statement\u003c/a> that poll workers should have known that the touchscreen printouts were not receipts, and that by Nov. 13, the county had tracked down 22 of the ballots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dupuis said the county’s poll worker helpline “was up and running for on-the -spot poll worker questions and problem solving.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But poll workers at the Mills College location said it was difficult to get a clear answer to their questions or instructions on how to rectify the errors they had made.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As we started to realize that something wasn’t right, we were desperate for support and for help,” said Claire Calderón, another poll worker at the site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like Mendel, Calderón was volunteering at the polls for the first time, after she heard about \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11833846/bay-areas-faithful-election-poll-workers-sidelined-by-pandemic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">many older poll workers staying home\u003c/a> to avoid contracting COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calderón said it took multiple calls to determine whether the printouts were, in fact, ballots. And when she asked what could be done to track down the votes, she says she was told to “sit on her hands” and let her team captain take the blame.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was easily something like 70-75% Black and elderly folks at our voting location,” Calderón said. “It will go down as one of the most haunting experiences of my life, realizing that I had unintentionally participated in voter disenfranchisement and that I had seen close up the apathy with which voters’ votes were treated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11851873\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11851873\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS45652_020_KQED_Oakland_Coliseum_PollingPlace_10312020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS45652_020_KQED_Oakland_Coliseum_PollingPlace_10312020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS45652_020_KQED_Oakland_Coliseum_PollingPlace_10312020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS45652_020_KQED_Oakland_Coliseum_PollingPlace_10312020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS45652_020_KQED_Oakland_Coliseum_PollingPlace_10312020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS45652_020_KQED_Oakland_Coliseum_PollingPlace_10312020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Voting rights advocates say Alameda County failed to meet language access requirements at multiple voting locations, including at Oakland Arena. (Beth LaBerge/KQED) \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Problems With Drop Boxes, Language Access \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclunc.org/sites/default/files/2020.11.12_Advocate_Letter_to_Alameda_ROV_final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a letter to the registrar of voters\u003c/a>, a coalition of voting rights groups that included the ACLU, Asian Americans Advancing Justice — Asian Law Caucus and Oakland Rising claimed that Alameda County’s election troubles started before Election Day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county was late in setting up 38 of the more than 60 vote-by-mail ballot drop boxes it was required to provide. Some neighborhoods \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/politics/alameda-county-voters-wait-on-critical-materials-needed-to-cast-their-ballots/2376964/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">lacked drop boxes for days\u003c/a> after the early voting period began. The registrar said the delay was a result of the drop box vendor and supplier getting deluged by orders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The letter also charged the registrar with failing to provide ballot materials for voters with limited English proficiency. Under state law, the county is required to post copies of ballots, called facsimile ballots, in languages prevalent in the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are more than 200,000 limited-English proficient people in Alameda County,” Marks said. “And so having adequate language assistance is really important to make sure we’re not disenfranchising people who live here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the first few days of early voting, Alameda County posted notices that the facsimile ballots were available on demand, but did not post the actual facsimile ballots, citing a burden in printing thousands of pages for each of the county’s 100 voting locations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like the poll workers at Mills College, voting advocates say it was difficult to get a response from county officials to address the problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If there is an election actively underway, there needs to be extremely responsive communication and problem solving from the county,” said Marks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Language access issues have plagued Alameda County in past elections: The U.S. Department of Justice sued the county in 2011 for violating the rights of Spanish-, Mandarin- and Cantonese-speaking voters. The suit resulted in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/crt/case-document/file/1176851/download\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">consent decree\u003c/a> that required federal monitors to supervise voting in subsequent elections. A similar Justice Department suit against the county in the 1990’s also resulted in language assistance mandates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In their letter to the registrar after this fall’s election, voting rights organizations said “advocates have long been concerned about your office’s lack of preparedness and transparency regarding how Alameda County prepares for elections.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Unique Management of Elections Department\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county’s election management structure dates back to 2006, when longtime IT head Dave MacDonald was appointed acting registrar by the Board of Supervisors, after the departure of the county’s previous election chief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland Tribune reported at the time that MacDonald was only slated to hold both roles temporarily, and that a permanent registrar was to be appointed “before the November [2006] election.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fourteen years later, Alameda still tasks one official to run the county’s elections department as well as its technology support division.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some counties, such as Los Angeles, consolidate record-keeping responsibilities with the registrar’s job. But Alameda is the only county of its size in California with a registrar in charge of another department, and Dupuis is the\u003ca href=\"https://acgov.org/org_charts/gov_overview.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> only dual-department head\u003c/a> in Alameda County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dupuis has held those roles since 2012 — before that, as chief technology officer, he was credited with developing the county’s first mobile app and transitioning the county’s website to the smartphone era.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2019, \u003ca href=\"https://www.techwire.net/news/alameda-county-cio.html#:~:text=News-,For%20Alameda%20County%20CIO%2C%20Cybersecurity%20and%20Change%20Management%20Are%20Key,or%20two%20down%20the%20road.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">he told TechWire\u003c/a>, a trade website for government technology news, that technology is a key component of the county’s voter outreach programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As the ROV/CIO I can bring an understanding of both professions together,” Dupuis said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But election administration has become more complex in California. In 2020, election officials were tasked with sending every voter a mail ballot while still operating in-person voting sites — a management responsibility akin to “putting on a war,” said Alexander, with the California Voter Foundation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do think that it’s important for the person who is managing elections in a county the size of Alameda to have that as their number one job and their only job,” Alexander said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Kim Alexander, president of the California Voter Foundation\"]“I do think that it’s important for the person who is managing elections in a county the size of Alameda to have that as their number one job and their only job.”[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Any changes to Alameda County’s current elections leadership would come from the Board of Supervisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ultimately, it’s the responsibility of the Alameda County Board of Supervisors to make sure that the personnel that they’ve put in charge of elections for their voters in the county have the support and the staffing and the resources that they need to do the job to the voters’ expectations,” Alexander added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>None of Alameda County’s five supervisors agreed to an interview for this story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Supervisor Keith Carson said that the board met with Dupuis in mid-November to review and discuss the election in a closed session, “because of the threat of litigation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the list of requests from voting rights organizations is an ask for more communication between the registrar and voting rights groups in the lead-up to the election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Having a conversation between the registrar and the board behind closed doors can be a first step,” said Marks. “But there has to be something that the public can see because the registrar is accountable to everyone in Alameda County, and we all want to be assured that this won’t happen again.”\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>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 2020 election provided a host of novel challenges for California counties and their election workers, who \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11847064/inside-californias-pandemic-election-how-covid-19-changes-could-shape-the-future-of-voting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">implemented changes to the voting process\u003c/a> on a short timetable in the midst of a pandemic — with levels of turnout not matched in decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the issues in Alameda County raise questions about the management of the registrar’s office, and whether the state’s seventh-largest county should continue to task their top elections official with simultaneously running the county’s information technology department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is no other county in California that is the size of Alameda County that does not have someone who is a full time registrar of voters,” said Kim Alexander, president of the California Voter Foundation. “It’s a big job, and a county the size of Alameda has a lot of voters and many diverse voters whose needs they need to address.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda County Registrar of Voters Tim Dupuis did not respond to requests for an interview for this story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Poll Workers at Mills College ‘Desperate for Support’ \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a coalition of voting rights groups first raised the issues at the Mills College voting location, Dupuis \u003ca href=\"http://www.acgov.org/news/pressreleases/TimDupuis-Nov132020-ROVElectionLong.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said in a statement\u003c/a> that poll workers should have known that the touchscreen printouts were not receipts, and that by Nov. 13, the county had tracked down 22 of the ballots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dupuis said the county’s poll worker helpline “was up and running for on-the -spot poll worker questions and problem solving.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But poll workers at the Mills College location said it was difficult to get a clear answer to their questions or instructions on how to rectify the errors they had made.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As we started to realize that something wasn’t right, we were desperate for support and for help,” said Claire Calderón, another poll worker at the site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like Mendel, Calderón was volunteering at the polls for the first time, after she heard about \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11833846/bay-areas-faithful-election-poll-workers-sidelined-by-pandemic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">many older poll workers staying home\u003c/a> to avoid contracting COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calderón said it took multiple calls to determine whether the printouts were, in fact, ballots. And when she asked what could be done to track down the votes, she says she was told to “sit on her hands” and let her team captain take the blame.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was easily something like 70-75% Black and elderly folks at our voting location,” Calderón said. “It will go down as one of the most haunting experiences of my life, realizing that I had unintentionally participated in voter disenfranchisement and that I had seen close up the apathy with which voters’ votes were treated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11851873\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11851873\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS45652_020_KQED_Oakland_Coliseum_PollingPlace_10312020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS45652_020_KQED_Oakland_Coliseum_PollingPlace_10312020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS45652_020_KQED_Oakland_Coliseum_PollingPlace_10312020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS45652_020_KQED_Oakland_Coliseum_PollingPlace_10312020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS45652_020_KQED_Oakland_Coliseum_PollingPlace_10312020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS45652_020_KQED_Oakland_Coliseum_PollingPlace_10312020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Voting rights advocates say Alameda County failed to meet language access requirements at multiple voting locations, including at Oakland Arena. (Beth LaBerge/KQED) \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Problems With Drop Boxes, Language Access \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclunc.org/sites/default/files/2020.11.12_Advocate_Letter_to_Alameda_ROV_final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a letter to the registrar of voters\u003c/a>, a coalition of voting rights groups that included the ACLU, Asian Americans Advancing Justice — Asian Law Caucus and Oakland Rising claimed that Alameda County’s election troubles started before Election Day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county was late in setting up 38 of the more than 60 vote-by-mail ballot drop boxes it was required to provide. Some neighborhoods \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/politics/alameda-county-voters-wait-on-critical-materials-needed-to-cast-their-ballots/2376964/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">lacked drop boxes for days\u003c/a> after the early voting period began. The registrar said the delay was a result of the drop box vendor and supplier getting deluged by orders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The letter also charged the registrar with failing to provide ballot materials for voters with limited English proficiency. Under state law, the county is required to post copies of ballots, called facsimile ballots, in languages prevalent in the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are more than 200,000 limited-English proficient people in Alameda County,” Marks said. “And so having adequate language assistance is really important to make sure we’re not disenfranchising people who live here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the first few days of early voting, Alameda County posted notices that the facsimile ballots were available on demand, but did not post the actual facsimile ballots, citing a burden in printing thousands of pages for each of the county’s 100 voting locations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like the poll workers at Mills College, voting advocates say it was difficult to get a response from county officials to address the problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If there is an election actively underway, there needs to be extremely responsive communication and problem solving from the county,” said Marks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Language access issues have plagued Alameda County in past elections: The U.S. Department of Justice sued the county in 2011 for violating the rights of Spanish-, Mandarin- and Cantonese-speaking voters. The suit resulted in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/crt/case-document/file/1176851/download\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">consent decree\u003c/a> that required federal monitors to supervise voting in subsequent elections. A similar Justice Department suit against the county in the 1990’s also resulted in language assistance mandates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In their letter to the registrar after this fall’s election, voting rights organizations said “advocates have long been concerned about your office’s lack of preparedness and transparency regarding how Alameda County prepares for elections.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Unique Management of Elections Department\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county’s election management structure dates back to 2006, when longtime IT head Dave MacDonald was appointed acting registrar by the Board of Supervisors, after the departure of the county’s previous election chief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland Tribune reported at the time that MacDonald was only slated to hold both roles temporarily, and that a permanent registrar was to be appointed “before the November [2006] election.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fourteen years later, Alameda still tasks one official to run the county’s elections department as well as its technology support division.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some counties, such as Los Angeles, consolidate record-keeping responsibilities with the registrar’s job. But Alameda is the only county of its size in California with a registrar in charge of another department, and Dupuis is the\u003ca href=\"https://acgov.org/org_charts/gov_overview.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> only dual-department head\u003c/a> in Alameda County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dupuis has held those roles since 2012 — before that, as chief technology officer, he was credited with developing the county’s first mobile app and transitioning the county’s website to the smartphone era.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2019, \u003ca href=\"https://www.techwire.net/news/alameda-county-cio.html#:~:text=News-,For%20Alameda%20County%20CIO%2C%20Cybersecurity%20and%20Change%20Management%20Are%20Key,or%20two%20down%20the%20road.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">he told TechWire\u003c/a>, a trade website for government technology news, that technology is a key component of the county’s voter outreach programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As the ROV/CIO I can bring an understanding of both professions together,” Dupuis said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But election administration has become more complex in California. 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"content": "\u003cp>Amid fanfare in March, California officials celebrated the launch of a multimillion-dollar contract with Verily — Google’s health-focused sister company — that they said would vastly expand COVID-19 testing among the state’s impoverished and underserved communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But seven months later, San Francisco and Alameda counties — two of the state’s most populous — have severed ties with the company’s testing sites amid concerns about patients’ data privacy and complaints that funding intended to boost testing in low-income Black and Latino neighborhoods instead was benefiting higher-income residents in other communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco and Alameda are among at least 28 counties, including Los Angeles, where California has paid Verily to boost testing capacity through contracts collectively worth $55 million, according to a spokesperson for the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services. About half of them have received COVID-19 tests through six mobile units that travel among rural areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11818312 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/HaywardCoronavirusTesting-1020x664.jpg']Gov. Gavin Newsom has heralded the investment as a game changer in addressing persistent inequities in access to COVID-19 testing across the state that tend to fall along lines of ethnicity and income. The goal, he said in April, touting six new Verily testing sites, was to “make sure we’re truly testing California broadly defined, not just parts of California and those that somehow have the privilege of getting ahead of the line.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet the roadblocks for getting underrepresented populations to use the program soon became apparent to Alameda County officials. \u003ca href=\"https://khn.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/Letter-to-Dr.-Ghaly-on-Testing-Platform.pdf\">In a June letter\u003c/a> to California Secretary of Health Mark Ghaly, Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf and other members of the county’s COVID-19 Racial Disparities Task Force raised numerous concerns about the Verily protocols.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among their complaints: People signing up for a test through Verily had to do so online, using an existing or newly created Gmail account; the sign-ups were offered only in English or Spanish; and participants were asked to provide sensitive personal information, including their home address and whether they were managing chronic health conditions such as diabetes, obesity or congestive heart failure, which could expose their data to third-party use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is critical in this crisis that we continue to build trust between government and healthcare providers and vulnerable communities,” the task force members wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Verily had two sites in Alameda County, and one was shuttered by May. The second, located at an Oakland church, closed in August and is set to reopen using a different testing vendor. Alameda County testing director Dr. Jocelyn Freeman Garrick said that while the Verily sites helped the county reach testing goals in terms of raw numbers, they were phased out because of long wait times of a week or more for results, and because the tests were not reaching the residents in greatest need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Verily does not manufacture the COVID-19 tests used at its California sites. It contracts with major corporations such as Quest Diagnostics and Thermo Fisher Scientific to provide the test kits and perform the lab work. What Verily provides is a digital platform where people are screened for symptoms, schedule testing appointments at participating sites and check back for test results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote citation=\"Dr. Noha Aboelata, CEO of Roots Community Health Center\" size=\"medium\" align=\"right\"]‘Corporations that are not really invested in the community come helicoptering in, bearing gifts, but what they’re taking away is much more valuable.’[/pullquote]Dr. Noha Aboelata is CEO of Roots Community Health Center, an East Oakland clinic that serves mostly African Americans and is one of the original Verily sites in Oakland. Her experience with Verily is best described as a tale of two lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In May, Aboelata worked with Verily to establish a walk-up site at her clinic, rather than the drive-thru model the company typically uses. There would be two lines: one for people who scheduled their appointments through Verily’s online portal; and a second for people who had not preregistered with Verily. Roots would staff both lines, and Verily would supply test kits and personal protective equipment including masks, which were “like gold” at the time, Aboelata said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Problems emerged almost immediately, she said. People were suspicious of the requirement that they sign up with a Gmail account, and the request for personal information, such as health status and risk factors. “You don’t necessarily want to share that with Google,” Aboelata said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then there was the language in the privacy policy that allows for sharing data with third parties. “That always is going to raise suspicion and concern in our community,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The people who ended up in the Verily-registered line, she said, tended to be white and to come from wealthier ZIP codes outside East Oakland. And because Verily never changed the website language describing Roots as a drive-thru site, many were angry at having to walk up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had people coming from all over the Bay Area who were frustrated that they had to park in Oakland, where they had probably never been and didn’t seem to want to be,” she said. “They were creating quite a scene, and some were saying, ‘I want to talk to the manager.’” She had to ask a few people to leave. “One of them was saying, ‘This is so Oakland, and I hope you all get the virus.’ It was pretty awful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Roots line for clients who did not register through Verily, on the other hand, was made up mostly of people of color from the community who long had come to the clinic for medical care, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11843963\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1350px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/verily_01_1350.jpg\" alt=\"a Roots Community Health Center tent\" width=\"1350\" height=\"900\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11843963\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/verily_01_1350.jpg 1350w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/verily_01_1350-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/verily_01_1350-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/verily_01_1350-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1350px) 100vw, 1350px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Roots Community Health Center in East Oakland is among the Alameda County COVID-19 testing sites that have severed ties with Verily. People were suspicious of the requirement that they sign up for testing with a Gmail account and the request for personal information, according to center officials. \u003ccite>(Roots Community Health Center)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When Aboelata looked at the data, the disparities were obvious: 12.9% of people tested in the non-Verily line were positive for COVID-19, while just 1.5% of people tested in the Verily-registered line were positive. For Aboelata, it was clear that the two lines were testing two entirely different populations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After just six days of testing, Aboelata asked Verily to leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“From where we sit, this is an old story,” she said. “Corporations that are not really invested in the community come helicoptering in, bearing gifts, but what they’re taking away is much more valuable.” That thing of value, Aboelata believes, is the data Verily requests from everyone who signs up for a test.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"coronavirus-testing\" label=\"related coverage\"]In San Francisco, Verily mobile testing clinics have also been sidelined. County officials declined to provide an explanation. However, multiple people with knowledge of the testing efforts said the Verily registration process proved chaotic for homeless people and others in the Tenderloin district, one of the city’s poorest neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kenneth Kim, clinical director of Glide, an outreach center that helped run the Tenderloin site, said many homeless residents coming in for testing had Gmail accounts, as Verily required, but could not remember their passwords. When staffers at the testing site tried to help them retrieve their passwords, they found that Google’s two-factor authentication process required users to have the same phone number as when they signed up, which few of the homeless participants did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Jonathan Fuchs, who leads San Francisco County’s testing strategy at the Department of Public Health, confirmed that the partnership with Verily was “currently on hold.” He declined to provide further details.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to questions, Verily spokesperson Kathleen Parkes said the program requires users to register with Gmail accounts because Google’s authentication procedures safeguard sensitive data and protect “against unknown individuals sending or receiving information with serious consequences for health or well-being.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Conversations with San Francisco and Alameda remain “active,” Parkes said. The company did not respond to specific questions about the testing disparities cited by community leaders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Verily’s role in COVID-19 testing has been shadowed by controversy since President Donald Trump told reporters at a Rose Garden news conference in March that “Google” was developing a screening website and testing tool. “Google has 1,700 engineers working on this right now,” he said. “They’ve made tremendous progress.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time, COVID-19 tests were in short supply and Trump was under pressure to increase capacity as infections ballooned in California, New York and other states. But Google was not building such a website. Instead, Verily, another Alphabet Inc. subsidiary focused on life sciences, was in the early stages of developing a website to help triage people in need of COVID-19 testing, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Google_Comms/status/1238574670686928906\">Google clarified in a tweet\u003c/a>. It planned to unveil a pilot program in two Bay Area counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Days later, Newsom announced a California partnership with Verily that so far has paid the company $55 million to establish both mobile and brick-and-mortar testing sites. In addition, Verily has partnered with Rite Aid to manage testing at approximately 300 sites in multiple states under a \u003ca href=\"https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_75P00120C00030_7570_-NONE-_-NONE-\">$122.6 million federal contract\u003c/a> between the pharmacy chain and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. California’s Verily contracts are in place through Nov. 30; the HHS contract is set to expire in January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Participants in the Verily initiative sign an authorization form that says their information can be shared with multiple third parties involved in the testing program, including unnamed contractors and state and federal health authorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While the form tells you that Verily may share data with ‘entities that assist with the testing program,’ it doesn’t say who those entities are. If one of those unnamed and unknown entities violates your privacy by misusing your data, you have no way to know and no way to hold them accountable,” said Lee Tien, senior staff attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a nonprofit that advocates for digital privacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The policy states Verily will not use the data collected for its own research or meld it with other Google products without the user’s permission. 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