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But it’s unclear whether the governor’s action will deter voters from going further and passing Proposition 36, which would increase sentences for theft and drug crimes by rolling back pieces of Proposition 47, a criminal justice reform measure passed by voters a decade ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday, Newsom launched the opening salvo in the campaign, arguing that Proposition 36 “takes us back to the 1980s, the war on drugs, mass incarceration. It promotes a promise that can’t be delivered.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those that support Prop 36, they’ll be accountable for it. I wouldn’t want to be on their side of this,” Newsom added. “It’s such a devastating setback in this state; the impact on poor folks, the impact on Black and brown communities, it’s next level — and it doesn’t address what they’re saying.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom signed 10 bills inside a Home Depot in San José, where he criticized the city’s mayor, Matt Mahan, who has emerged as a leading supporter of Proposition 36.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition 36 has gained recent momentum, with a new poll from UC Berkeley’s Institute for Governmental Studies showing that 56% of likely voters support the measure. The proposal, which Republicans and district attorneys have long backed, also drew support from Democratic mayors like Mahan and London Breed in San Francisco. 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On Friday, Mahan said, “The criminal penalties that [Newsom] signed into law today that will incarcerate more people, they’re needed, they’re a step in the right direction, but they’re only a first step.” \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Following Newsom’s comments at the bill signing, Mahan held a press conference in front of San José City Hall, where he argued the new felonies created by Proposition 36 are necessary to compel Californians convicted of theft and drug possession to accept court-ordered treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The criminal penalties that [Newsom] signed into law today that will incarcerate more people, they’re needed, they’re a step in the right direction, but they’re only a first step,” Mahan said. “What we really need is mass treatment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the bills Newsom signed Friday are based on research suggesting that the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11975692/prop-47s-impact-on-californias-criminal-justice-system\">certainty of arrest is a more effective deterrent\u003c/a> to shoplifting than longer sentences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2943\">Assembly Bill 2943\u003c/a> would allow police to arrest a suspected shoplifter without directly witnessing the crime, relying instead on sworn statements or video footage. It would also allow law enforcement to bundle related thefts into a grand theft charge if the items’ value surpasses the felony threshold of $950 set by Proposition 47.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another bill in the package, \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB905\">Senate Bill 905\u003c/a>, would remove the requirement that prosecutors prove a car was locked to get an auto burglary conviction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other proposals signed Friday are more directly aimed at large-scale organized retail theft. Newsom signed bills to place sentencing enhancements on large theft operations and extend the life of a regional property crimes task force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[aside postID=news_11990587 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-1498501086-1020x679.jpg']\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All of these things in this package [are] going to help retailers, law enforcement and district attorneys be able to provide the consequences for the behaviors that we need to make sure that people don’t continue doing this behavior,” said Rachel Michelin, president and CEO of the California Retailers Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters of Proposition 36 argue that stricter punishments are necessary to prevent shoplifting and drug crimes — and to compel drug users into treatment. Participation in drug courts, which require treatment in exchange for reduced punishment, has dropped significantly since the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11975692/prop-47s-impact-on-californias-criminal-justice-system\">passage of Proposition 47\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition 36 would require Californians convicted multiple times of drug possession to complete treatment to potentially avoid prison time. It would also punish shoplifting based on the frequency of the crime, rather than the value of the stolen goods. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 10:15 a.m. Thursday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11988079/2024-mpox-vaccine-formerly-monkeypox-symptoms-rash\">mpox\u003c/a> outbreaks in Congo and elsewhere in Africa \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/what-is-mpox-monkey-pox-congo-emergency-415d11f9e62d104b4c40dd8fe8e80b47\">a global emergency\u003c/a> last week on August 14, with cases confirmed among children and adults in more than a dozen countries and resulting in more than 500 deaths in 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier that week, the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced that the outbreaks of mpox — \u003ca href=\"https://www.ems1.com/infectious-diseases/articles/monkeypox-gets-new-name-after-racist-and-stigmatizing-language-health-officials-say-i1djjhzOPR7VCJrC/#:~:text=%E2%80%9CWhen%20the%20outbreak%20of%20monkeypox,monkeypox%20worldwide%20as%20of%20Nov.\">formerly known as monkeypox\u003c/a> — were a public health emergency, calling for international help to stop the virus’ spread. The Africa CDC said mpox has been detected in 13 countries this year, and more than 96% of all cases and deaths are in Congo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Jump to: \u003ca href=\"#mpox-wastewater\">Why the mpox detected in Bay Area wastewater is a less dangerous strain\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Mpox mostly spreads via close contact with infected people, including through sex. There is a \u003ca href=\"#mpox-vaccine-near-me\">vaccine \u003c/a>for the disease, but few doses are available on the African continent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is something that should concern us all … The potential for further spread within Africa and beyond is very worrying,” WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CDC recommends that any person who has traveled to Congo or any bordering countries in the last 21 days and who develops a new, unexplained skin rash should seek medical evaluation and avoid physical contact with others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday, \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/thailand-confirms-its-mpox-case-is-clade-1b-strain-first-country-2024-08-22/\">Thailand’s Department of Disease Control confirmed\u003c/a> that an mpox case detected in that country was the more infectious form of the virus first seen in Congo. This case in Thailand is now the second such confirmed detection outside of the African continent, after \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/mpox-sweden-congo-9923d0ee8deb362b2af5416bb273d629\">Swedish health officials announced Aug. 15 that they’d identified a case of a person with this more dangerous form of mpox.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11919070/monkeypox-in-the-bay-area-from-symptoms-to-how-to-find-a-vaccine-heres-what-we-know\">The Bay Area experienced its own mpox outbreak in 2022\u003c/a>, but the strain of the virus now spreading from Congo is different in several ways. Keep reading for what you need to know about mpox in 2024, including the \u003ca href=\"#mpox-symptoms\">the symptoms of mpox\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"#mpox-vaccine-near-me\">where to find an mpox vaccine in the Bay Area\u003c/a> and understanding this global emergency declaration.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"mpox-wastewater\">\u003c/a>Understanding the two different strains of mpox\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In 2022, WHO declared mpox to be a global emergency after it spread to more than 70 countries that had not previously reported mpox, mostly affecting gay and bisexual men. In that outbreak, fewer than 1% of people died. Before this outbreak, the disease had mostly been seen in sporadic outbreaks in central and West Africa when people came into close contact with infected wild animals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Jump to: \u003ca href=\"#mpox-vaccine-near-me\">Where to find an mpox vaccine in the Bay Area\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11919070/monkeypox-in-the-bay-area-from-symptoms-to-how-to-find-a-vaccine-heres-what-we-know\">The 2022 mpox global outbreak in the United States \u003c/a>— which particularly affected gay and bisexual men as well as trans and nonbinary people who have sex with men — was caused by a version of the mpox virus known as “clade II.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mpox outbreak spreading from Congo is caused by another type of the virus, called “clade I,” which causes more severe illness and higher fatality rates than the clade II type that’s been circulating in the U.S. — albeit at low levels — since the 2022 outbreak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Data from Stanford University’s WastewaterSCAN project, which monitors the presence of viruses including mpox in human sewage across the U.S., shows that two years after the initial 2022 outbreak, this clade II strain of mpox is still occasionally detected in the Bay Area’s wastewater. Most recently, \u003ca href=\"https://data.wastewaterscan.org/tracker/?charts=CjEQASABSABSBmU5ZTg3ZVIGMzc0MzBhWgpNUFhWX0cyUl9HeIkBigEGNDViZDBlwAEB&selectedChartId=45bd0e\">clade II mpox has been detected as recently as Aug. 18 at San Francisco’s two wastewater plants\u003c/a>, but WastewaterSCAN’s Ali Boehm confirmed that these detections were “low level” and not related to the the clade I outbreak spreading in Congo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Jump to: \u003ca href=\"#mpox-symptoms\">What are the symptoms of mpox?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>So far, in 2024,\u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/mpox-africa-outbreak-vaccines-health-congo-3f79d757e7666600c06cbdad39613bc8\"> there have been almost 19,000 cases of clade I from the Congo outbreak, and over 500 people have died.\u003c/a> Cases are up 160% and deaths are up 19% compared with the same period last year. Salim Abdool Karim, a South African infectious diseases expert who chairs the Africa CDC emergency group, said the new version of mpox spreading from Congo appears to have a death rate of about 3%-4%.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Where has clade I mpox spread globally?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>So far there have been only two clade I cases detected outside of the African continent, and none of them are in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday, \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/thailand-confirms-its-mpox-case-is-clade-1b-strain-first-country-2024-08-22/\">Thailand’s Department of Disease Control confirmed\u003c/a> that an mpox case detected in that country was the more infectious form of the virus first seen in Congo. Thai health officials said that the patient was a European man who had arrived in Thailand last week from an unnamed African country where the disease was spreading.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Aug. 15, the Swedish public health agency said that \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/mpox-sweden-congo-9923d0ee8deb362b2af5416bb273d629\">the clade I case identified in that country\u003c/a> was a patient who recently sought health care in Stockholm after traveling to “the part of Africa where there is a major outbreak,” according to the agency. Officials said the risk to the general public was considered “very low” and that they expected sporadic imported cases to continue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Individual cases of \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/philippines-says-recent-mpox-case-is-mild-clade-2-variant-2024-08-21/\">mpox reported in the Philippines\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/one-case-mpox-detected-pakistan-2024-08-19/\">Pakistan\u003c/a> were confirmed this week to in fact be the less dangerous clade II mpox.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Understanding mpox in the Bay Area\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>According to data from multiple local health departments, the overwhelming majority of mpox cases in the Bay Area during the 2022 outbreak were reported among gay men and other men who have sex with men. At the peak of the 2022 outbreak, San Francisco health officials \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/resource/2022/mpox-data-and-reports\">saw dozens of new mpox cases each week in July of that year\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around the same time, the city \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11919070/monkeypox-in-the-bay-area-from-symptoms-to-how-to-find-a-vaccine-heres-what-we-know\">declared a public health emergency\u003c/a> — the first city in the country to do so. The White House soon followed suit and declared mpox a public health emergency in August, when more than 6,000 cases had been confirmed in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2022, organizers from the LGBTQ+ community \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11919070/monkeypox-in-the-bay-area-from-symptoms-to-how-to-find-a-vaccine-heres-what-we-know\">quickly mobilized to pressure public health officials\u003c/a> at every level of government to make vaccines and treatment widely available to this vulnerable population. The San Francisco AIDS Foundation (SFAF) helped spearhead these efforts and has continued to provide free mpox vaccines. \u003cstrong>(Jump straight to\u003c/strong> \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#mpox-vaccine-near-me\">where to find an mpox vaccine in the Bay Area\u003c/a>.)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are aware of the mpox health emergency in Africa, and although mpox rates in the Bay Area are currently at low levels, we know that infection rates can change or increase — sometimes rapidly,” said Jorge Roman, senior director of clinical services at SFAF in a statement to KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soon after the WHO declared the global emergency on Wednesday, San Francisco public health officials confirmed that the risk of this new strain remains relatively low in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, the San Francisco Department of Public Health (SFDPH) said that “the overall risk to the general population in the United States is considered to be very low.” The agency said it will continue “to closely monitor the situation alongside our federal and state partners.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/resource/2022/mpox-data-and-reports\">Cases of clade II mpox “remain low” in San Francisco\u003c/a>, SFDPH said, “and we will continue to update the community if further actions are needed to protect health.” \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/resource/2022/mpox-data-and-reports\">The current rolling 7-day average of new mpox cases per day in San Francisco is zero.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘A failure of the global community’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Officials at the Africa CDC said nearly 70% of cases in Congo are in children younger than 15, who also accounted for 85% of deaths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jacques Alonda, an epidemiologist working in Congo with international charities, said he and other experts were particularly worried about the spread of mpox in camps for refugees in the country’s conflict-ridden east.[aside postID='news_11988079,news_11973108' label='Related Stories]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The worst case I’ve seen is that of a 6-week-old baby who was just two weeks old when he contracted mpox,” Alonda said, adding the baby has been in their care for a month. “He got infected because hospital overcrowding meant he and his mother were forced to share a room with someone else who had the virus, which was undiagnosed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, scientists also reported the \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/mpox-congo-outbreak-who-fda17cea128f46e48110ad7adcd9e5de\">emergence of a new form\u003c/a> of the deadlier clade I form of mpox, which can kill up to 10% of people in a Congolese mining town that they feared might spread more easily.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike in previous mpox outbreaks, where lesions were mostly seen on the chest, hands and feet, the new form causes milder symptoms and lesions on the genitals. That makes it harder to spot, meaning people might also sicken others without knowing they’re infected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Marks, a professor of medicine at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, said declaring these latest mpox outbreaks in Africa an emergency is warranted if that might lead to more support to contain them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a failure of the global community that things had to get this bad to release the resources needed,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.N. health agency said mpox was recently identified for the first time in four East African countries: Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda. All of those outbreaks are linked to the one in Congo. In Ivory Coast and South Africa, health authorities have reported outbreaks of the less dangerous clade II version of mpox that spread worldwide in 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"mpox-symptoms\">\u003c/a>What to know about mpox symptoms and how the virus spreads\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The mpox virus spreads through close contact with someone who is infected. This could be direct contact with the infectious rashes or scabs someone with mpox develops, scabs, having intimate physical contact with someone who has mpox, such as kissing, cuddling or sex. Coming into contact with infected bodily fluids or items that have been touched by rashes or fluids from an infected person can also expose you to the virus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mpox symptoms often start as flu-like conditions, SFPDH said — which is worth bearing in mind during \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11987343/covid-bay-area-wastewater-variant-symptoms-isolation-guidance\">this current COVID-19 surge\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mpox virus also appears as a rash or sores or spots that can resemble pimples or blisters on the skin anywhere on the body, including the face, inside the mouth, hands, feet, chest, genitals and anus. These spots often start as red, flat spots that then become bumps before the bumps become filled with pus and turn into scabs when they break. These symptoms can be extremely painful. \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/poxvirus/mpox/symptoms/index.html\">If you’re unsure about recognizing an mpox rash, the CDC has a photo guide.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/poxvirus/mpox/symptoms/index.html\">Mpox can have a long incubation period\u003c/a> — that is, the time between when you’re exposed to mpox and when you start to develop symptoms — that can range from three to 17 days, according to the CDC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you suspect you might have mpox symptoms — even if they’re subtle — see your health care provider right away or \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/get-mpox-vaccines-testing-and-medicine\">consult one of SFPDH’s clinics for mpox testing\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/information/mpox\">See more on what to do if you suspect you have mpox.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"mpox-vaccine-near-me\">\u003c/a>Where you can find an mpox vaccine in the Bay Area\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The two-dose mpox vaccine is available to anybody in the Bay Area, with no eligibility requirements to meet. (In the early days of the 2022 outbreak, public health officials were originally only offering vaccines to people who’d been exposed to mpox or were categorized as being in a specific group more at risk from mpox, but rest assured that those criteria are no longer in effect.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said in a statement that people who have received both doses of the mpox vaccine — along with people who have already had clade II mpox — “are \u003ca href=\"https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2024/08/14/united-states-governments-response-clade-i-mpox-outbreak-democratic-republic-congo-other-countries-region.html\">expected to be protected against severe illness from clade I mpox\u003c/a>” as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We recommend that all people who may be at risk of mpox receive both doses of the Jynneos mpox vaccine,” Roman of the San Francisco Aids Foundation said. “Vaccines are plentiful and easily available at this point in time, from San Francisco AIDS Foundation and other City and community partners.” Mpox vaccination is not recommended at this time for those who have previously been infected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Who is recommended to get the mpox vaccine?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFDPH said that previous mpox outbreaks have predominantly affected communities of gay and bisexual men and men who have sex with men (MSM), as well as trans and nonbinary people who have sex with men. City health officials also especially recommend the mpox vaccine for all people living with HIV and anyone taking or eligible to take HIV PrEP.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public health officials also recommend that sex workers, people who’ve been diagnosed with a bacterial sexually transmitted disease (like chlamydia, gonorrhea or syphilis) in the last three months and folks with certain job-related risks of mpox seek the free vaccine. \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/get-mpox-vaccines-testing-and-medicine\">See SFDPH’s full list of people who may be at higher risk of getting mpox.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mpox vaccine was also originally only available for people aged 18 and older, but in 2022 the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued an emergency-use authorization that allows providers to also give the vaccine to young people aged under 18 who are “determined to be at high risk” of infection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vaccine currently available in the U.S. (brand name: Jynneos) is a two-dose series, with roughly a month between doses. Maximal immunity will build two weeks after your second dose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>If you’ve already had both doses of the mpox vaccine, even back in 2022:\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You’re all up to date — and you don’t need to get another mpox vaccine in 2024. There’s no recommendation at this time to get an mpox booster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>If you \u003c/b>\u003cb>\u003ci>haven’t \u003c/i>\u003c/b>\u003cb>already had the mpox vaccine:\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Go ahead and get your first dose as soon as possible, then get your second dose around 28 days later. But if you forget or get overwhelmed by events, don’t stress too much about timing: Just go get your mpox vaccine when you can.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you already have your first dose but forgot to get your second, go get that last dose as soon as possible — even if you got Dose 1 back in 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>Locations offering the mpox vaccine in the Bay Area\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Your mpox vaccine will be 100% free, and you don’t need health insurance to receive one. As with the COVID-19 vaccine, receiving an mpox vaccine won’t make you \u003ca href=\"https://documentedny.com/2021/04/04/public-charge-rule-explained/\">a public charge\u003c/a> or affect any future immigration processes you may enter into, and you won’t be asked about your immigration status to receive the mpox vaccine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you have a regular health care provider, SFDPH recommends you ask them first about getting the mpox vaccine. Your vaccine will be free, but you may be charged a regular copay for seeing your provider.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you don’t have a regular health care provider or insurance, you can find the mpox vaccine free at clinics around the Bay Area. You can opt to schedule an appointment or choose a walk-in clinic, depending on what works best for you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>If you live in or near San Francisco:\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>See \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/information/mpox-vaccine\">a full list of mpox vaccine sites near you in San Francisco\u003c/a>. SFDPH confirms that you don’t have to be a city resident to get vaccinated for mpox in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Mpox vaccination sites elsewhere in the Bay Area and California:\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Find an mpox vaccine clinic near you using \u003ca href=\"https://npin.cdc.gov/DynWidgets/index.html?chost=www.cdc.gov&cpath=/lgbthealth/summer/index.html&csearch=&chash=&ctitle=Get%20Healthy%20and%20Ready%20for%20Summer%20%7C%20LGBT%20Health%20%7C%20CDC&wn=DynWidgets&wf=/DynWidgets/&wid=DynWidgets1&mMode=widget&mPage=&mChannel=&componentName=MpoxLocator#/\">the CDC’s Vaccine Locator\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Find an mpox vaccine clinic near you using \u003ca href=\"https://myturn.ca.gov/\">the state’s myturn.ca.gov site\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>SFAF will also administer free first and second doses of the vaccine at the upcoming Castro Street Fair on Oct. 6, with no appointment needed. You can find the SFAF booth at 470 Castro St., San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Can I get my mpox vaccine at a pharmacy?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some pharmacies offer mpox vaccination appointments online, along with other vaccines like COVID and flu. But if you choose this route, you’ll be asked for insurance details — and it’s important to verify with your insurer first that they’ll cover you receiving the mpox vaccine at a pharmacy like CVS or Walgreens, as the out-of-pocket costs you’ll be quoted may be steep.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you get your health care through a health system like Kaiser Permanente, it’s unlikely you’ll be able to get your mpox vaccine covered by insurance at a pharmacy — the way you can’t get your COVID or flu shot covered by Kaiser at a pharmacy either — and may have to seek it directly from a Kaiser provider.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re able to make an appointment online at a pharmacy for your mpox vaccine, you should consider calling that location ahead of time to verify that they do indeed have supply in stock. A CVS spokesperson told KQED by email that in San Francisco, CVS pharmacies have “limited supply of the monkeypox vaccine in our pharmacies, but a pharmacist can order the vaccine if requested by a patient.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Associated Press writers Gerald Imray in Cape Town, South Africa, Christina Malkia in Kinshasa, Congo and Mark Banchereau in Dakar, Senegal contributed to this report, as well as KQED’s Nisa Khan.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Science and Educational Media Group. The AP is solely responsible for all content.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 10:15 a.m. Thursday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11988079/2024-mpox-vaccine-formerly-monkeypox-symptoms-rash\">mpox\u003c/a> outbreaks in Congo and elsewhere in Africa \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/what-is-mpox-monkey-pox-congo-emergency-415d11f9e62d104b4c40dd8fe8e80b47\">a global emergency\u003c/a> last week on August 14, with cases confirmed among children and adults in more than a dozen countries and resulting in more than 500 deaths in 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier that week, the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced that the outbreaks of mpox — \u003ca href=\"https://www.ems1.com/infectious-diseases/articles/monkeypox-gets-new-name-after-racist-and-stigmatizing-language-health-officials-say-i1djjhzOPR7VCJrC/#:~:text=%E2%80%9CWhen%20the%20outbreak%20of%20monkeypox,monkeypox%20worldwide%20as%20of%20Nov.\">formerly known as monkeypox\u003c/a> — were a public health emergency, calling for international help to stop the virus’ spread. The Africa CDC said mpox has been detected in 13 countries this year, and more than 96% of all cases and deaths are in Congo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Jump to: \u003ca href=\"#mpox-wastewater\">Why the mpox detected in Bay Area wastewater is a less dangerous strain\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Mpox mostly spreads via close contact with infected people, including through sex. There is a \u003ca href=\"#mpox-vaccine-near-me\">vaccine \u003c/a>for the disease, but few doses are available on the African continent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is something that should concern us all … The potential for further spread within Africa and beyond is very worrying,” WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CDC recommends that any person who has traveled to Congo or any bordering countries in the last 21 days and who develops a new, unexplained skin rash should seek medical evaluation and avoid physical contact with others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday, \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/thailand-confirms-its-mpox-case-is-clade-1b-strain-first-country-2024-08-22/\">Thailand’s Department of Disease Control confirmed\u003c/a> that an mpox case detected in that country was the more infectious form of the virus first seen in Congo. This case in Thailand is now the second such confirmed detection outside of the African continent, after \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/mpox-sweden-congo-9923d0ee8deb362b2af5416bb273d629\">Swedish health officials announced Aug. 15 that they’d identified a case of a person with this more dangerous form of mpox.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11919070/monkeypox-in-the-bay-area-from-symptoms-to-how-to-find-a-vaccine-heres-what-we-know\">The Bay Area experienced its own mpox outbreak in 2022\u003c/a>, but the strain of the virus now spreading from Congo is different in several ways. Keep reading for what you need to know about mpox in 2024, including the \u003ca href=\"#mpox-symptoms\">the symptoms of mpox\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"#mpox-vaccine-near-me\">where to find an mpox vaccine in the Bay Area\u003c/a> and understanding this global emergency declaration.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"mpox-wastewater\">\u003c/a>Understanding the two different strains of mpox\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In 2022, WHO declared mpox to be a global emergency after it spread to more than 70 countries that had not previously reported mpox, mostly affecting gay and bisexual men. In that outbreak, fewer than 1% of people died. Before this outbreak, the disease had mostly been seen in sporadic outbreaks in central and West Africa when people came into close contact with infected wild animals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Jump to: \u003ca href=\"#mpox-vaccine-near-me\">Where to find an mpox vaccine in the Bay Area\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11919070/monkeypox-in-the-bay-area-from-symptoms-to-how-to-find-a-vaccine-heres-what-we-know\">The 2022 mpox global outbreak in the United States \u003c/a>— which particularly affected gay and bisexual men as well as trans and nonbinary people who have sex with men — was caused by a version of the mpox virus known as “clade II.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mpox outbreak spreading from Congo is caused by another type of the virus, called “clade I,” which causes more severe illness and higher fatality rates than the clade II type that’s been circulating in the U.S. — albeit at low levels — since the 2022 outbreak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Data from Stanford University’s WastewaterSCAN project, which monitors the presence of viruses including mpox in human sewage across the U.S., shows that two years after the initial 2022 outbreak, this clade II strain of mpox is still occasionally detected in the Bay Area’s wastewater. Most recently, \u003ca href=\"https://data.wastewaterscan.org/tracker/?charts=CjEQASABSABSBmU5ZTg3ZVIGMzc0MzBhWgpNUFhWX0cyUl9HeIkBigEGNDViZDBlwAEB&selectedChartId=45bd0e\">clade II mpox has been detected as recently as Aug. 18 at San Francisco’s two wastewater plants\u003c/a>, but WastewaterSCAN’s Ali Boehm confirmed that these detections were “low level” and not related to the the clade I outbreak spreading in Congo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Jump to: \u003ca href=\"#mpox-symptoms\">What are the symptoms of mpox?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>So far, in 2024,\u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/mpox-africa-outbreak-vaccines-health-congo-3f79d757e7666600c06cbdad39613bc8\"> there have been almost 19,000 cases of clade I from the Congo outbreak, and over 500 people have died.\u003c/a> Cases are up 160% and deaths are up 19% compared with the same period last year. Salim Abdool Karim, a South African infectious diseases expert who chairs the Africa CDC emergency group, said the new version of mpox spreading from Congo appears to have a death rate of about 3%-4%.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Where has clade I mpox spread globally?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>So far there have been only two clade I cases detected outside of the African continent, and none of them are in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday, \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/thailand-confirms-its-mpox-case-is-clade-1b-strain-first-country-2024-08-22/\">Thailand’s Department of Disease Control confirmed\u003c/a> that an mpox case detected in that country was the more infectious form of the virus first seen in Congo. Thai health officials said that the patient was a European man who had arrived in Thailand last week from an unnamed African country where the disease was spreading.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Aug. 15, the Swedish public health agency said that \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/mpox-sweden-congo-9923d0ee8deb362b2af5416bb273d629\">the clade I case identified in that country\u003c/a> was a patient who recently sought health care in Stockholm after traveling to “the part of Africa where there is a major outbreak,” according to the agency. Officials said the risk to the general public was considered “very low” and that they expected sporadic imported cases to continue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Individual cases of \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/philippines-says-recent-mpox-case-is-mild-clade-2-variant-2024-08-21/\">mpox reported in the Philippines\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/one-case-mpox-detected-pakistan-2024-08-19/\">Pakistan\u003c/a> were confirmed this week to in fact be the less dangerous clade II mpox.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Understanding mpox in the Bay Area\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>According to data from multiple local health departments, the overwhelming majority of mpox cases in the Bay Area during the 2022 outbreak were reported among gay men and other men who have sex with men. At the peak of the 2022 outbreak, San Francisco health officials \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/resource/2022/mpox-data-and-reports\">saw dozens of new mpox cases each week in July of that year\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around the same time, the city \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11919070/monkeypox-in-the-bay-area-from-symptoms-to-how-to-find-a-vaccine-heres-what-we-know\">declared a public health emergency\u003c/a> — the first city in the country to do so. The White House soon followed suit and declared mpox a public health emergency in August, when more than 6,000 cases had been confirmed in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2022, organizers from the LGBTQ+ community \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11919070/monkeypox-in-the-bay-area-from-symptoms-to-how-to-find-a-vaccine-heres-what-we-know\">quickly mobilized to pressure public health officials\u003c/a> at every level of government to make vaccines and treatment widely available to this vulnerable population. The San Francisco AIDS Foundation (SFAF) helped spearhead these efforts and has continued to provide free mpox vaccines. \u003cstrong>(Jump straight to\u003c/strong> \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#mpox-vaccine-near-me\">where to find an mpox vaccine in the Bay Area\u003c/a>.)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are aware of the mpox health emergency in Africa, and although mpox rates in the Bay Area are currently at low levels, we know that infection rates can change or increase — sometimes rapidly,” said Jorge Roman, senior director of clinical services at SFAF in a statement to KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soon after the WHO declared the global emergency on Wednesday, San Francisco public health officials confirmed that the risk of this new strain remains relatively low in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, the San Francisco Department of Public Health (SFDPH) said that “the overall risk to the general population in the United States is considered to be very low.” The agency said it will continue “to closely monitor the situation alongside our federal and state partners.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/resource/2022/mpox-data-and-reports\">Cases of clade II mpox “remain low” in San Francisco\u003c/a>, SFDPH said, “and we will continue to update the community if further actions are needed to protect health.” \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/resource/2022/mpox-data-and-reports\">The current rolling 7-day average of new mpox cases per day in San Francisco is zero.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The worst case I’ve seen is that of a 6-week-old baby who was just two weeks old when he contracted mpox,” Alonda said, adding the baby has been in their care for a month. “He got infected because hospital overcrowding meant he and his mother were forced to share a room with someone else who had the virus, which was undiagnosed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, scientists also reported the \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/mpox-congo-outbreak-who-fda17cea128f46e48110ad7adcd9e5de\">emergence of a new form\u003c/a> of the deadlier clade I form of mpox, which can kill up to 10% of people in a Congolese mining town that they feared might spread more easily.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike in previous mpox outbreaks, where lesions were mostly seen on the chest, hands and feet, the new form causes milder symptoms and lesions on the genitals. That makes it harder to spot, meaning people might also sicken others without knowing they’re infected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Marks, a professor of medicine at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, said declaring these latest mpox outbreaks in Africa an emergency is warranted if that might lead to more support to contain them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a failure of the global community that things had to get this bad to release the resources needed,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.N. health agency said mpox was recently identified for the first time in four East African countries: Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda. All of those outbreaks are linked to the one in Congo. In Ivory Coast and South Africa, health authorities have reported outbreaks of the less dangerous clade II version of mpox that spread worldwide in 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"mpox-symptoms\">\u003c/a>What to know about mpox symptoms and how the virus spreads\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The mpox virus spreads through close contact with someone who is infected. This could be direct contact with the infectious rashes or scabs someone with mpox develops, scabs, having intimate physical contact with someone who has mpox, such as kissing, cuddling or sex. Coming into contact with infected bodily fluids or items that have been touched by rashes or fluids from an infected person can also expose you to the virus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mpox symptoms often start as flu-like conditions, SFPDH said — which is worth bearing in mind during \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11987343/covid-bay-area-wastewater-variant-symptoms-isolation-guidance\">this current COVID-19 surge\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mpox virus also appears as a rash or sores or spots that can resemble pimples or blisters on the skin anywhere on the body, including the face, inside the mouth, hands, feet, chest, genitals and anus. These spots often start as red, flat spots that then become bumps before the bumps become filled with pus and turn into scabs when they break. These symptoms can be extremely painful. \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/poxvirus/mpox/symptoms/index.html\">If you’re unsure about recognizing an mpox rash, the CDC has a photo guide.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/poxvirus/mpox/symptoms/index.html\">Mpox can have a long incubation period\u003c/a> — that is, the time between when you’re exposed to mpox and when you start to develop symptoms — that can range from three to 17 days, according to the CDC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you suspect you might have mpox symptoms — even if they’re subtle — see your health care provider right away or \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/get-mpox-vaccines-testing-and-medicine\">consult one of SFPDH’s clinics for mpox testing\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/information/mpox\">See more on what to do if you suspect you have mpox.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"mpox-vaccine-near-me\">\u003c/a>Where you can find an mpox vaccine in the Bay Area\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The two-dose mpox vaccine is available to anybody in the Bay Area, with no eligibility requirements to meet. (In the early days of the 2022 outbreak, public health officials were originally only offering vaccines to people who’d been exposed to mpox or were categorized as being in a specific group more at risk from mpox, but rest assured that those criteria are no longer in effect.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said in a statement that people who have received both doses of the mpox vaccine — along with people who have already had clade II mpox — “are \u003ca href=\"https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2024/08/14/united-states-governments-response-clade-i-mpox-outbreak-democratic-republic-congo-other-countries-region.html\">expected to be protected against severe illness from clade I mpox\u003c/a>” as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We recommend that all people who may be at risk of mpox receive both doses of the Jynneos mpox vaccine,” Roman of the San Francisco Aids Foundation said. “Vaccines are plentiful and easily available at this point in time, from San Francisco AIDS Foundation and other City and community partners.” Mpox vaccination is not recommended at this time for those who have previously been infected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Who is recommended to get the mpox vaccine?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFDPH said that previous mpox outbreaks have predominantly affected communities of gay and bisexual men and men who have sex with men (MSM), as well as trans and nonbinary people who have sex with men. City health officials also especially recommend the mpox vaccine for all people living with HIV and anyone taking or eligible to take HIV PrEP.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public health officials also recommend that sex workers, people who’ve been diagnosed with a bacterial sexually transmitted disease (like chlamydia, gonorrhea or syphilis) in the last three months and folks with certain job-related risks of mpox seek the free vaccine. \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/get-mpox-vaccines-testing-and-medicine\">See SFDPH’s full list of people who may be at higher risk of getting mpox.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mpox vaccine was also originally only available for people aged 18 and older, but in 2022 the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued an emergency-use authorization that allows providers to also give the vaccine to young people aged under 18 who are “determined to be at high risk” of infection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vaccine currently available in the U.S. (brand name: Jynneos) is a two-dose series, with roughly a month between doses. Maximal immunity will build two weeks after your second dose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>If you’ve already had both doses of the mpox vaccine, even back in 2022:\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You’re all up to date — and you don’t need to get another mpox vaccine in 2024. There’s no recommendation at this time to get an mpox booster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>If you \u003c/b>\u003cb>\u003ci>haven’t \u003c/i>\u003c/b>\u003cb>already had the mpox vaccine:\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Go ahead and get your first dose as soon as possible, then get your second dose around 28 days later. But if you forget or get overwhelmed by events, don’t stress too much about timing: Just go get your mpox vaccine when you can.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you already have your first dose but forgot to get your second, go get that last dose as soon as possible — even if you got Dose 1 back in 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>Locations offering the mpox vaccine in the Bay Area\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Your mpox vaccine will be 100% free, and you don’t need health insurance to receive one. As with the COVID-19 vaccine, receiving an mpox vaccine won’t make you \u003ca href=\"https://documentedny.com/2021/04/04/public-charge-rule-explained/\">a public charge\u003c/a> or affect any future immigration processes you may enter into, and you won’t be asked about your immigration status to receive the mpox vaccine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you have a regular health care provider, SFDPH recommends you ask them first about getting the mpox vaccine. Your vaccine will be free, but you may be charged a regular copay for seeing your provider.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you don’t have a regular health care provider or insurance, you can find the mpox vaccine free at clinics around the Bay Area. You can opt to schedule an appointment or choose a walk-in clinic, depending on what works best for you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>If you live in or near San Francisco:\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>See \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/information/mpox-vaccine\">a full list of mpox vaccine sites near you in San Francisco\u003c/a>. SFDPH confirms that you don’t have to be a city resident to get vaccinated for mpox in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Mpox vaccination sites elsewhere in the Bay Area and California:\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Find an mpox vaccine clinic near you using \u003ca href=\"https://npin.cdc.gov/DynWidgets/index.html?chost=www.cdc.gov&cpath=/lgbthealth/summer/index.html&csearch=&chash=&ctitle=Get%20Healthy%20and%20Ready%20for%20Summer%20%7C%20LGBT%20Health%20%7C%20CDC&wn=DynWidgets&wf=/DynWidgets/&wid=DynWidgets1&mMode=widget&mPage=&mChannel=&componentName=MpoxLocator#/\">the CDC’s Vaccine Locator\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Find an mpox vaccine clinic near you using \u003ca href=\"https://myturn.ca.gov/\">the state’s myturn.ca.gov site\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>SFAF will also administer free first and second doses of the vaccine at the upcoming Castro Street Fair on Oct. 6, with no appointment needed. You can find the SFAF booth at 470 Castro St., San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Can I get my mpox vaccine at a pharmacy?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some pharmacies offer mpox vaccination appointments online, along with other vaccines like COVID and flu. But if you choose this route, you’ll be asked for insurance details — and it’s important to verify with your insurer first that they’ll cover you receiving the mpox vaccine at a pharmacy like CVS or Walgreens, as the out-of-pocket costs you’ll be quoted may be steep.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you get your health care through a health system like Kaiser Permanente, it’s unlikely you’ll be able to get your mpox vaccine covered by insurance at a pharmacy — the way you can’t get your COVID or flu shot covered by Kaiser at a pharmacy either — and may have to seek it directly from a Kaiser provider.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re able to make an appointment online at a pharmacy for your mpox vaccine, you should consider calling that location ahead of time to verify that they do indeed have supply in stock. A CVS spokesperson told KQED by email that in San Francisco, CVS pharmacies have “limited supply of the monkeypox vaccine in our pharmacies, but a pharmacist can order the vaccine if requested by a patient.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Associated Press writers Gerald Imray in Cape Town, South Africa, Christina Malkia in Kinshasa, Congo and Mark Banchereau in Dakar, Senegal contributed to this report, as well as KQED’s Nisa Khan.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Science and Educational Media Group. The AP is solely responsible for all content.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"#anchor\">This story contains a correction.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Richmond City Council has killed a November ballot measure that would have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1992910/richmond-oil-refining-tax-on-chevron-a-major-polluter-moves-closer-to-ballot\">imposed a new oil-refining tax on Chevron\u003c/a>, voting unanimously Wednesday to approve a $550 million settlement with the company instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under \u003ca href=\"https://pub-richmond.escribemeetings.com/FileStream.ashx?DocumentId=54987\">the settlement\u003c/a>, which was the product of a week of intensive negotiations, Chevron has agreed to pay the city $50 million a year for the next five years and $60 million a year for the five years after that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richmond officials said the agreement, confirmed in a 7–0 council vote, represents a victory in a long battle to get Chevron to compensate the community for the effects of pollution on the city’s 114,000 residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a historic moment,” Mayor Eduardo Martinez said. “… I say it’s a historic moment because we, the people of Richmond, have created a movement that will echo across the nation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company, whose Richmond refinery has operated for more than 120 years and is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11975650/bay-air-district-hails-decisive-victory-in-battle-to-cut-refinery-pollution\">a major source of air pollution\u003c/a>, will continue to pay other city taxes. Despite the settlement, the City Council and Richmond residents retain the right to impose new taxes on the company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Councilmember Claudia Jimenez, one of the sponsors of the tax measure, said the agreement will not change the city’s determination to hold Chevron accountable for its environmental impact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Let me be clear: We are not settling with Chevron over the issue of pollution,” Jimenez said. “The fight goes on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A representative for Chevron, which had criticized the tax as “a hasty proposal, brought forward by one-sided interests,” praised the settlement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12000227\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12000227\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/002_Richmond_ChevronRefinery_01132022.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/002_Richmond_ChevronRefinery_01132022.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/002_Richmond_ChevronRefinery_01132022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/002_Richmond_ChevronRefinery_01132022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/002_Richmond_ChevronRefinery_01132022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/002_Richmond_ChevronRefinery_01132022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/002_Richmond_ChevronRefinery_01132022-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign directs visitors to the Chevron Refinery, a petroleum refinery, in Richmond on Jan. 13, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This is what finding common ground is all about,” said Brian Hubinger, Chevron Richmond’s public and government affairs manager. “This agreement will allow Chevron Richmond to continue to employ thousands of Bay Area residents and remain focused on providing the affordable, reliable and ever-cleaner energy that this region demands every day while also supplying the city with much-needed additional funding to support our communities’ needs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Councilmember Doria Robinson said decades of campaigning by community and environmental groups led to Wednesday’s settlement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With all due respect to Chevron — I am actually happy we’re able to figure something out together — but you would not have offered your fair share without their work,” she said. “You just wouldn’t have. You haven’t in a hundred years, and you wouldn’t have without that push.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chevron, Richmond’s largest employer and taxpayer, recorded $21.3 billion in profits last year and paid $45.9 million in taxes to Richmond in the 2022–23 fiscal year, representing more than 15% of the city’s total revenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city estimated that the tax measure, proposed this year by a coalition called Make Polluters Pay and placed on the ballot by the City Council in June, would have resulted in annual revenue of $60 million to $90 million. The tax would have been in effect for 50 years, netting as much as $4.5 billion depending on future activity at the refinery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[aside postID=news_11998605 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/RS5929_008-lpr-1440x960.jpg']\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The coalition issued a statement that took credit for compelling Chevron to negotiate the deal and celebrated it as a community victory, though its members appeared split on whether to accept it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Together, Richmond community groups, families, and workers have forced the city’s largest polluter to offer over half a billion dollars to fund the essential services Richmond communities need today, and plan ahead so that when big polluters close down, our families aren’t left to pay for their mess,” the statement said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Kerry Guerin, an attorney with the Richmond office of coalition member Communities for a Better Environment, urged the council to reject the settlement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our campaign did not approach the city with this concept just so that Chevron would cut a deal that is pennies to them,” Guerin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before voting, the council heard from more than two dozen members of the public, many of whom expressed disappointment the measure would not be on the ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Richmond voters deserve the opportunity to vote on their own future this November and hold Chevron accountable,” said Martine Johannesen, a city planning graduate student at UC Berkeley. “But if the City Council approves the tax deal, we ask that the council establish a community oversight board to allocate these settlement funds and reserve the use of the funds to advance a just transition for Richmond.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deal comes after a Contra Costa County Superior Court judge ruled last week that the city’s proposed wording for the tax measure was misleading and “impermissibly partisan.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hastily organized Coalition for Richmond’s Future and a Chevron employee sued the city on June 28, arguing that the ballot description for the measure was both misleading and biased toward support of the tax.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friday’s tentative ruling from Superior Court Judge John P. Devine agreed on both counts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The language was misleading, he said, because it contains a laundry list of specific uses — to fund “clean air and water treatment, roads, parks, fire and emergency response, toxic land cleanup, and improving community health and youth services” — despite the fact the revenue will go into the city’s general fund, used primarily to pay employee wages and benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Devine also noted that Communities for a Better Environment, one of the measure’s chief proponents, drafted the language, not the City Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a ballot label that was not only drafted by proponents of the measure but whose ballot label also echoes the same messages as advertisement campaigns in support of the measure,” Devine wrote. “…The use of such partisan language impermissibly falls outside the limits of substantial compliance” with the state elections code.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City Attorney Dave Aleshire said in a memo prepared for Wednesday’s council meeting that further legal challenges to the tax measure were likely. He noted that Chevron had already expressed its intention to sue and that a similar tax adopted by the Los Angeles County city of Carson in 2017 is still tied up in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The city disagrees with Chevron’s legal critique but cannot deny that litigation is likely and may be long-lasting and expensive,” Aleshire said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several City Council members said they were moved to support the settlement because of the recent conservative turn of the federal courts, which might ultimately rule on the tax measure if Chevron sued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not heartened by what’s been happening in the courts, especially on the upper levels, in terms of judgments going, in my opinion, in blasphemous ways when it comes to protecting our environment,” Robinson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"anchor\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\t\u003cem>Correction: This story incorrectly identified a Chevron official who responded to the company’s agreement with the city of Richmond. 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It was ultimately imperiled, however, by a lawsuit challenging a \u003ca href=\"https://baha.granicus.com/DocumentViewer.php?file=baha_c8c913d24620c401da177ea1291f3cb6.pdf&view=1\">“mathematical error”\u003c/a> in the cost of repaying the bond, as well as by a desire to focus advocacy efforts on a related statewide proposition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area Housing Finance Authority, which introduced the measure, voted unanimously Wednesday to remove it from ballots in all nine counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates for the regional measure said they were “heartbroken” by the decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a really difficult day for the campaign side,” said Heather Hood, a vice president at the affordable housing builder Enterprise Community Partners. She teared up while recommending the authority pull the measure. “I really, deeply regret this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Authority officials estimated the measure would have raised property taxes by around \u003ca href=\"https://mtc.ca.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024-07/7c_Resolution_0034_Attachment_B_Tax_Rate_Statement.pdf\">$19 on average\u003c/a> for every $100,000 of assessed home value, generating roughly $670 million a year. 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Both sides were due to appear in court for a hearing on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The larger issue for advocates, however, was polling results that revealed a narrow path to victory for the regional measure, which depended largely on a separate statewide proposition passing to buoy the bond’s chance of success.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, infrastructure and housing bonds require a two-thirds supermajority to pass. \u003ca href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_5,_Lower_Supermajority_Requirement_to_55%25_for_Local_Bond_Measures_to_Fund_Housing_and_Public_Infrastructure_Amendment_(2024)\">Proposition 5\u003c/a>, which is still slated to appear before voters in November, proposes to amend the California Constitution by lowering the voting threshold for infrastructure and housing bonds from a two-thirds supermajority to 55%. If voters approve Prop 5, the regional bond would have been subject to the lower threshold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The yes vote, including ‘lean yes,’ was 52/54 percent (depending on wording) and 50 percent, respectively,” the staff report reads. “Given voter attitudes, it has been clear for several years that the Bay Area affordable housing bond’s viability is inextricably linked to passage of an amendment to the state’s constitution to adjust the vote threshold.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='More Housing Coverage' tag='housing']A \u003ca href=\"https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/proposition-5-lawsuit.pdf\">separate lawsuit\u003c/a>, filed this month by the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association, had challenged the label that will appear on the ballot for the statewide proposition because it does not specify that the threshold would be reduced. 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More Bay Area schools plan to implement restrictions as the new academic year begins this week, but some advocates say a blanket ban is a bad idea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Reducing phone use in class leads to improved concentration, better academic outcomes, and enhanced social interactions,” Newsom said in his letter on Tuesday, adding that schools and districts that have already rolled out no-phone policies have seen “positive impacts,” including higher test scores and less bullying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s what to know about the efforts so far:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Which Bay Area schools already lock down phones?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>San Mateo-Foster City School District began requiring middle school students to put their phones into lockable bags called Yondr pouches during the 2022–23 academic year. 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Spokesperson Laura Chalkley said the district’s board of trustees “has expressed an interest in exploring expanding the Yondr program, but there has been no formal discussion” yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the East Bay, Mt. Diablo Unified School District is introducing Yondr to two campuses. In April, the district’s board approved the purchase of more than 3,000 pouches for Mt. Diablo and Ygnacio Valley high schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tamalpais Union High School District is also considering the pouches. 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Bangladesh, the eighth-most populated country in the world, is about 90% Muslim and 8% Hindu.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, after 15 years in power, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/bangladesh-hasina-student-protest-quota-violence-fdc7f2632c3d8fcbd913e6c0a1903fd4\">resigned and fled the country\u003c/a> last week following weeks of student-led demonstrations and a mounting police response that led to a strict curfew and “shoot-on-sight” order. 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The country was once part of British India, then after the partition of India in 1947, it became the Pakistani province of East Bengal (later renamed East Pakistan) until internal conflict against the Pakistani military led to its independence in 1971. In 2022, activists raised concerns to ensure recognition of \u003ca href=\"https://hir.harvard.edu/the-past-has-yet-to-leave-the-present-genocide-in-bangladesh/\">the Bangladesh Genocide of 1971\u003c/a>, which largely targeted Bangladeshi Hindus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[aside postID=news_11998819 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Sheikh-Hasina-Wazed-AP-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other Bangladeshis in the Bay Area say targeting minorities is nothing new.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The situation of Bangladesh is not an isolated incident,” said Dhiman Chowdhury, president of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.hrcbm.org/\">Human Rights Congress for Bangladesh Minorities\u003c/a>. 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Both were released on $50,000 bonds. They are scheduled to be arraigned on Aug. 12. 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You can now register online at the California Secretary of State’s website,” part of the message reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donna Johnston, Sutter County’s clerk-recorder, said that the messages appear to be coming from \u003ca href=\"https://fixcalifornia.com/\">Fix California\u003c/a>, an organization led by former Trump administration Cabinet member Ric Grenell that is “committed to pursuing long-term solutions that advance conservative ideas and causes throughout the state,” according to its \u003ca href=\"https://fixcalifornia.com/\">website\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nick Meade, the executive director of Fix California, said that the organization aims to “identify and assist Californians who are eligible but not yet registered to vote.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Fix California adheres to stringent standards, ensuring full compliance with all pertinent state laws governing voter registration; recent claims falsely labeling our organization as a scam are wholly unfounded and distort our true mission,” he said via email. “More, Fix California advises anyone with concerns about their voter registration to verify their status directly via the California Secretary of State’s official website.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s unclear how the group is gathering voter information, but multiple county clerk recorder’s offices said that many of the people who reported getting the messages were registered to vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How to safely check your voter registration\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Most municipalities have their own websites for checking voter registration and information. Bay Area residents should refer to \u003ca href=\"http://www.contracostavote.gov/\">Contra Costa\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.acvote.org/voting/register-to-vote\">Alameda\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/register-vote\">San Francisco\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://smcacre.gov/elections/voter-registration\">San Mateo\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://vote.santaclaracounty.gov/home\">Santa Clara\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.marincounty.org/depts/rv/voter-registration\">Marin\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.countyofnapa.org/399/About-Voter-Registration\">Napa\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.solanocounty.com/depts/rov/voter_registration/voter_registration_information.asp\">Solano\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://sonomacounty.ca.gov/administrative-support-and-fiscal-services/clerk-recorder-assessor-registrar-of-voters/registrar-of-voters/general-information/register-to-vote\">Sonoma\u003c/a> counties’ specific election information websites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Secretary of State also has a site — \u003ca href=\"http://voterstatus.sos.ca.gov\">voterstatus.sos.ca.gov\u003c/a> — where any California voter can check their registration, get information about upcoming elections and polling places and find out how to contact their local elections office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scams targeting voters are more common during election years, but it is not common practice for elections offices to contact people via text message, Contra Costa County deputy clerk-recorder Tommy Gong told KQED. 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