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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The highly contagious delta variant is gaining ground in the United States and is now expected to become the dominant COVID-19 strain in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's led the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health to \"strongly recommended\" that \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/06/30/los-angeles-indoor-masks-vaccinated/\">residents once more start wearing masks inside indoor spaces\u003c/a> like restaurants and stores — even if they're vaccinated against the coronavirus. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11877048/californias-mask-mandate-ends-june-15-heres-why-some-fully-vaccinated-people-will-keep-wearing-them\">California's mask mandate for vaccinated people was previously dropped\u003c/a> when the state reopened on June 15, with some exceptions for spaces like public transit, schools and health care settings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's hard not to be unsettled by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11879587/do-i-need-to-worry-about-the-delta-variant-if-im-vaccinated\">news of the delta variant's spread\u003c/a>. But how worried should people be in the Bay Area, where COVID cases are relatively low and vaccination rates are high?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED spoke to \u003ca href=\"https://profiles.ucsf.edu/kirsten.bibbins-domingo\">Dr. Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo\u003c/a>, chair of UCSF's Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, about the relative risks of the delta variant and how much vaccinated people in the Bay Area should be considering modifying their behavior. Because the updates on the delta variant \"can be a little bit scary, and a little bit confusing,\" says Bibbins-Domingo, it's important to know the relative risks at play.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I don't think we want to create the confusion by saying, \"Oh, everyone needs to mask up again.\" But I do think there is the reality that many people in the Bay Area still \u003cem>are\u003c/em> wearing their masks, even though they've been vaccinated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And I think that it's up to your own personal level of of risk-taking in an environment where the variants are present. There are many people who are going to choose to wear their masks, particularly indoors, when in a public setting, when they don't know whether the people around them are vaccinated or not.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>How Worried Should I Be About Breakthrough Cases Among Vaccinated People? How Rare Are They Really?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>I can't really overstate what great news it is that particularly the mRNA vaccines, those made by Pfizer and Moderna, are 90% effective against this delta variant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's even better news to realize that even when there \u003cem>are\u003c/em> breakthroughs, that they really have not been the ones that are causing very severe disease that are landing you in the hospital or dying, except in very rare cases. So even when they're breakthrough infections, people tend to have more mild disease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Listeners may know that the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/29/world/who-mask-guidelines.html\">World Health Organization has also suggested that people who are vaccinated should wear masks indoors\u003c/a> because of the rise of the delta variant. But that reflects also that worldwide, many, many more people are not vaccinated or are vaccinated with a type of vaccine that is not as effective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[Breakthrough infections] are rare because these vaccines are effective. Ironically, though, when you look at a population where a large number of people are vaccinated, then even in rare cases of a highly transmissible variant, breaking through means that you start to have larger numbers of people. And so it \u003cem>looks\u003c/em> like there's a problem with the vaccines. There really isn't a problem with the vaccines, but they aren't 100%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And I think that is why many people in this environment might decide that if they're in a public indoor setting when they don't know whether people around them are vaccinated, that they will take that extra layer of protection of wearing a mask. But everyone should understand that the vaccines on their own are in the 90% range of effectiveness against this delta variant, and that even when there are breakthroughs, they usually aren't of the type that are landing people in the hospital with severe illness.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What Delta Variant Symptoms Should I Watch for, Even if I'm Vaccinated?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>It's \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/symptoms-testing/symptoms.html\">the same set of symptoms\u003c/a> that people have experienced for a while. The sore throat, the things that might be cold or flu-like symptoms. And it is the recommendation that if you experience those symptoms, even if you've been vaccinated, that you should be tested for this reason.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Again, it's far less common — the vaccines are highly effective. In an environment where a delta variant starts to take hold, they will be cases mostly in the unvaccinated people. That is certainly what we're seeing in California and around the country. But the breakthrough cases among the much larger groups of vaccinated people will also mean that some of them will have symptoms, and will want to be tested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11879589\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11879589\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/gettyimages-1233483127_custom-9cb29703e27f80c3b791a0c6250941669cc03b67-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A sign urges people to get tested for a COVID-19 variant in Blackburn, England. 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The U.K. government on Monday announced a four-week delay to the full lifting of coronavirus restrictions in England due to a surge in infections caused by delta, which first appeared in India. \u003ccite>(Oli Scarff/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Should the Delta Variant Change My Behavior if I'm Traveling Outside of the Bay Area?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>One has to recognize that in the Bay Area we have both high vaccination rates and a high rate of people still masking. And both of those things are contributors to the very low case rates we have in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's not true even in other parts of the state, frankly. So I think when you are in those settings, it \u003cem>is\u003c/em> prudent to be cautious. If you're vaccinated and outdoors, those are really very safe settings. But if I were in an environment that had lower rates of vaccination, I would certainly — in an indoor setting for myself personally — make sure that I have have a mask on.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>How at Risk From the Delta Variant Are Unvaccinated Kids?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>This is a highly transmissible variant that is transmissible also in children, and they make up a large fraction of the unvaccinated population in most places. And it is the reason that even though each one of us who is vaccinated might feel personally protected, we're living in an environment of unvaccinated people that include large groups of people like children and preteens who definitely can be infected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that is why families with children who have not yet been vaccinated are [still] wearing masks this summer. And why all of us have to be vigilant, to watch the transmission of this variant.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>How Does 'Long COVID' Play Into All This?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>This is one of those areas where the science is still evolving, and we are realizing more and more how important this is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We've seen the figures of the acute presentations of COVID, and the deaths from COVID. But really, the longer-term sequelae [after effect] of COVID is important, and is affecting a larger number of people, I think, than we previously had really appreciated. And I think it is one more reason why we really have to make sure that \u003cem>everyone\u003c/em> is protected from that initial infection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because even if your risk of having a complication acutely is low — as we know it is, for example, in young adults — we also know that COVID can do much more than what it does in the acute setting. 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"content": "\u003cp>“I’ve been vaccinated. Do I need to worry about variants?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The answer depends on a few things — including your personal risk tolerance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But first off, know that your vaccine is quite valuable. The COVID-19 vaccines are expected to be \u003ca href=\"https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.who.int/news-room/feature-stories/detail/the-effects-of-virus-variants-on-covid-19-vaccines?gclid=Cj0KCQjwlMaGBhD3ARIsAPvWd6j8znhNQovIK8OvbaGcz4YGEu5aR-x2CAoRMapWaAzTqIF3LB_O-EoaApxxEALw_wcB__;!!Iwwt!Durhw_TeY62X5N0nW_U0N8OGVXf9GTmumfHhTR5Ho2NGr2W5A8hmOG5AGCk6%24\">protective against the new virus variants\u003c/a>, according to the World Health Organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11880128/delta-variant-in-california-what-vaccinated-people-should-know-about-breakthrough-cases-symptoms-and-travel\">Q&A: Talking Breakthrough Infections, Symptoms and Travel Around the Delta Variant With UCSF’s Dr. Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Exactly how much the various vaccines protect against the delta variant — the newest form of the virus that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has dubbed a “variant of concern” — is still somewhat of a guessing game. But if you’re fully vaccinated (two weeks after your second dose) the odds are highly favorable that you won’t get a breakthrough COVID-19 infection, and even better that if you are one of the unfortunate few, you won’t get a severe case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At least for those vaccines approved in Europe and North America, in the case of the variants, these seem to be effective in preventing severe disease, hospitalization and death,” says \u003ca href=\"https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.ivi.int/news-and-stories/ivi-in-the-media/?mod=document&uid=675__;!!Iwwt!HPCxBfjmXi9u48eG7wy5Jf7xh5AjFO9jn9VQIpN5-xPAA9Xmi4JEQwFt9LH7%24\">Dr. Jerome Kim\u003c/a>, director general of the International Vaccine Institute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The alpha variant, first identified in the U.K., is around \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/variants/variant-info.html\">50% more transmissible\u003c/a> than the original form of the virus. The Pfizer vaccine \u003ca href=\"https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2104974?query=recirc_mostViewed_railB_article\">was found to be 90% effective against the most severe forms of infection\u003c/a> (i.e., those resulting in hospitalization or death) caused by this variant. That study also showed high protection against the beta variant, first spotted in South Africa.\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[aside postID=\"news_11880128\"]\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A study from Public Health England, an agency of the Department of Health and Social Care in the U.K., found that AstraZeneca \u003ca href=\"https://www.astrazeneca.com/media-centre/press-releases/2021/covid-19-vaccine-astrazeneca-effective-against-delta-indian-variant.html#!\">also showed a high level of effectiveness against alpha\u003c/a>, with an 86% reduction of hospitalizations. The study has not yet been published.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The delta variant is expected to overtake the alpha variant as the main form of the virus in the United States. \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/06/22/1008859705/delta-variant-coronavirus-unvaccinated-u-s-covid-surge\">More than 20% of new cases\u003c/a> in the U.S. are already due to the delta variant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the delta variant is even more transmissible — \u003ca href=\"https://www.bmj.com/content/373/bmj.n1513\">about 60% higher than alpha\u003c/a> — that’s what people in the U.S. will be at highest risk of soon. It’s part of the reason the CDC upgraded delta from a variant of interest to a variant of concern.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Experts are also concerned because therapies such as monoclonal antibodies and convalescent serum don’t seem to work as well against this variant, says \u003ca href=\"https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.bcm.edu/people-search/jill-weatherhead-32866__;!!Iwwt!CRCarT-rT3I8tHi1Ah0Rkwy31yjBE15DbG1JHnZqWti4jbpB8ch0qnQp9mLc%24\">Dr. Jill Weatherhead\u003c/a>, assistant professor of adult and pediatric infectious diseases at Baylor College of Medicine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for the vaccines, \u003ca href=\"https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(21)01358-1/fulltext#:~:text=On%20May%2019%2C%202021%2C%20the,replaced%20(appendix%20p%201).\">one study of the delta variant in Scotland\u003c/a> from the University of Edinburgh found that while the variant was associated with a doubling in the risk of hospitalization in those infected in the region, the Pfizer and AstraZeneca vaccines offered a 79% and 60% protection, respectively, against infection two weeks after the second dose. And a \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.uk/government/news/vaccines-highly-effective-against-b-1-617-2-variant-after-2-doses\">study from Public Health England\u003c/a> showed that two doses of the Pfizer vaccine were 88% effective against symptomatic disease from the delta variant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for other vaccines, \u003ca href=\"https://dhvi.duke.edu/montefiori-david-charles\">David Montefiori\u003c/a>, director of the Laboratory for AIDS Vaccine Research and Development at Duke University Medical Center, is optimistic. Based on research he has conducted that has not yet been published, including the Moderna vaccine, he says that “delta does not look like it will be much of a threat to vaccines.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Weatherhead has this to say about Johnson & Johnson’s effectiveness for the delta variant: “We just don’t have the data, but that doesn’t mean it’s not efficacious. We know it works against [other variants]. We’re going to have breakthrough infections, but the vaccines really prevent severe disease and death.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just keep in mind that vaccines aren’t effective the second you get them, she adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The problem is you’re really not protected until you’ve gotten both doses of the vaccines and you’ve waited two weeks afterward,” she says. “So you’re still vulnerable in between. That’s why it’s so important to get vaccinated now, before [delta] becomes the dominant variant circulating.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Think about the vaccine as a really good raincoat, suggests \u003ca href=\"https://drleanawen.com/\">Dr. Leana Wen, an emergency physician and public health professor at George Washington University\u003c/a>. “If it’s drizzling out, you’re not going to get wet, and even if it’s raining hard, you probably won’t get wet. But if there’s a hurricane or a thunderstorm, there’s a chance you’ll get wet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In that case, people who really don’t want to get wet might want an additional layer of protection. Other people may not mind getting damp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both of those are reasonable conclusions, Wen says. If the delta — or “delta plus,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/06/23/1009582139/india-has-detected-a-more-contagious-and-vaccine-resistant-variant-delta-plus%5D\">an even newer mutation just discovered in India\u003c/a> — turns out to be a thunderstorm in your area, some vaccinated people may want to rely on the same precautions we’ve adopted throughout the pandemic: masking up, physical distancing when you’re with unvaccinated people and getting tested when traveling upon arrival and departure to make sure you aren’t carrying any variants into or out of your destination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just like stormy weather, outbreaks of COVID-19 due to the delta variant will likely be localized. But unlike a weather forecast, it’s easy to predict where they’ll happen: wherever there are high rates of unvaccinated people, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/06/22/1008859705/delta-variant-coronavirus-unvaccinated-u-s-covid-surge\">Dr. Anthony Fauci of the National Institutes of Health has said\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sheila Mulrooney Eldred is a freelance health journalist in Minneapolis. She’s written about COVID-19 for many publications, including Medscape, Kaiser Health News, Science News for Students and \u003c/em>The Washington Post\u003cem>. More at \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://urldefense.com/v3/__http:/sheilaeldred.pressfolios.com__;!!Iwwt!EK3837L0Aze-xksfoR3K5AMElHCnihZwm5GA1qwGU6K4a94b-GMJup_1kYqv%24\">\u003cem>sheilaeldred.pressfolios.com\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Weatherhead has this to say about Johnson & Johnson’s effectiveness for the delta variant: “We just don’t have the data, but that doesn’t mean it’s not efficacious. We know it works against [other variants]. We’re going to have breakthrough infections, but the vaccines really prevent severe disease and death.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just keep in mind that vaccines aren’t effective the second you get them, she adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The problem is you’re really not protected until you’ve gotten both doses of the vaccines and you’ve waited two weeks afterward,” she says. “So you’re still vulnerable in between. That’s why it’s so important to get vaccinated now, before [delta] becomes the dominant variant circulating.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Think about the vaccine as a really good raincoat, suggests \u003ca href=\"https://drleanawen.com/\">Dr. Leana Wen, an emergency physician and public health professor at George Washington University\u003c/a>. “If it’s drizzling out, you’re not going to get wet, and even if it’s raining hard, you probably won’t get wet. But if there’s a hurricane or a thunderstorm, there’s a chance you’ll get wet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In that case, people who really don’t want to get wet might want an additional layer of protection. Other people may not mind getting damp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both of those are reasonable conclusions, Wen says. If the delta — or “delta plus,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/06/23/1009582139/india-has-detected-a-more-contagious-and-vaccine-resistant-variant-delta-plus%5D\">an even newer mutation just discovered in India\u003c/a> — turns out to be a thunderstorm in your area, some vaccinated people may want to rely on the same precautions we’ve adopted throughout the pandemic: masking up, physical distancing when you’re with unvaccinated people and getting tested when traveling upon arrival and departure to make sure you aren’t carrying any variants into or out of your destination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just like stormy weather, outbreaks of COVID-19 due to the delta variant will likely be localized. But unlike a weather forecast, it’s easy to predict where they’ll happen: wherever there are high rates of unvaccinated people, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/06/22/1008859705/delta-variant-coronavirus-unvaccinated-u-s-covid-surge\">Dr. Anthony Fauci of the National Institutes of Health has said\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sheila Mulrooney Eldred is a freelance health journalist in Minneapolis. She’s written about COVID-19 for many publications, including Medscape, Kaiser Health News, Science News for Students and \u003c/em>The Washington Post\u003cem>. More at \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://urldefense.com/v3/__http:/sheilaeldred.pressfolios.com__;!!Iwwt!EK3837L0Aze-xksfoR3K5AMElHCnihZwm5GA1qwGU6K4a94b-GMJup_1kYqv%24\">\u003cem>sheilaeldred.pressfolios.com\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>. On Twitter: \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/milepostmedia?lang=en\">\u003cem>@milepostmedia\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Pranav Baskar is a freelance journalist who regularly answers coronavirus FAQs for NPR.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Each week, NPR’s Goats and Soda answers frequently asked questions about life during the coronavirus crisis. If you have a question you’d like us to consider for a future post, email them at \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"mailto:goatsandsoda@npr.org\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>goatsandsoda@npr.org\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cem> with the subject line: “Weekly Coronavirus Questions.” See an archive of their FAQs \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/tags/926361810/coronavirus-faqs\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>here\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Coronavirus+FAQ%3A+I%27ve+Been+Vaccinated.+Do+I+Need+To+Worry+About+Variants%3F&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Repondemos muchas de sus preguntas.\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>¿Podré sentarme dentro de un bar, hacer ejercicio en un gimnasio o ir al cine?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Probablemente.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El californiano promedio puede esperar que las cosas vuelvan a la normalidad en la mayoría de los aspectos importantes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ir ”más allá del plan“, para usar la marca del estado y, en su lugar, usar la guía de salud federal para lugares públicos significa que la mayoría de las empresas pueden prescindir de los requisitos de distanciamiento social, los límites de capacidad y los cierres forzosos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pero hay una diferencia entre “puede” y “debe”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los condados seguirán siendo libres de imponer sus propias restricciones de salud pública si así lo desean, pero solo si son más estrictas de lo que exige el estado. Hasta ahora, ningún condado ha dicho que se separará de las reglas del estado, aunque algunos, como San Francisco, dicen que todavía están reflexionando sobre sus opciones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aun así, las empresas no se arriesgan. El martes, más de 35 grupos empresariales enviaron una carta a los gobiernos de los condados de todo el estado pidiéndoles que se adhieran a las reglas estatales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aunque los grupos empresariales, a quienes no les agrada la idea de ser demandados, esperan estándares consistentes, baratos y fáciles de seguir, su restaurante, cine o peluquería favoritos también son libres de imponer sus propias restricciones de salud pública.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eso significa que no debería sorprenderse si todavía ve algunos letreros de “Sin máscara, sin servicio” después del 15 de junio.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>¿Puedo ir a un concierto?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Depende. ¿Estamos hablando de micrófono abierto en el bar local o de Beyonce en un estadio?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El estado ha dicho que impondrá restricciones adicionales a los “megaeventos”. Eso se define como cualquier cosa que atraiga a más de 5,000 personas adentro o 10,000 afuera. (Lo siento, hombre sin nombre tocando una melódica en un pedal de bucle, no eres un mega evento).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>De acuerdo con la guía estatal más reciente, los conciertos, convenciones y otros megaeventos en interiores solo estarán abiertos a las personas que puedan demostrar que han sido vacunadas (mostrando una tarjeta de vacunación, una foto de la tarjeta o documentación de un médico) o que dieron negativo para el coronavirus en las últimas 72 horas. Ese tipo de prueba no se requerirá necesariamente en eventos al aire libre como juegos de béisbol, pero el estado recomienda que los estadios impongan tal regla o requieran enmascaramiento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11878121\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11878121\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1233049916-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Un grup de personas dentro de un bar, ninguno lleva puesto su cubrebocas.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1233049916-1-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1233049916-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1233049916-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1233049916-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1233049916-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1233049916-1-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1233049916-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Un grupo de clientes completamente vacunados se reúnen en el bar dentro de Risky Business, un club privado solo para miembros en Los Ángeles, California, el 21 de mayo de 2021. \u003ccite>(Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Una vez que esté dentro del bar, el gimnasio o el cine, ¿puedo finalmente quitarme la máscara?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Sí, si está vacunado.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los funcionarios de salud pública de California confirmaron el miércoles que, junto con un distanciamiento social relajado, el estado también retirará su mandato de máscara el 15 de junio y, en su lugar, adoptará las recomendaciones de los Centros para el Control y la Prevención de Enfermedades federales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Dr. Mark Ghaly, Secretario de salud y servicios humanos de California\"]‘No estamos exigiendo que las empresas, por ejemplo, tengan a alguien en la puerta para verificar el estado de la vacuna como una forma de cumplir con esto.’[/pullquote]Eso significa que los adultos vacunados deben sentirse libres de ir sin máscara en la mayoría de los espacios públicos. Todavía hay excepciones para lugares donde el potencial para muchas personas vulnerables que se congregan en un lugar confinado es alto: hospitales y otros entornos de atención médica, aulas escolares, prisiones y cárceles, transporte público y hogares de ancianos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Si no está vacunado, aún deberá usar una máscara en interiores en la mayoría de los lugares públicos, aunque no está del todo claro si se hará cumplir o cómo. El miércoles, el Secretario de salud y servicios humanos, Mark Ghaly, dijo que las empresas pueden exigir máscaras a todos los clientes, implementar un sistema de verificación de vacunación o simplemente seguir el sistema de honor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No estamos exigiendo que las empresas, por ejemplo, tengan a alguien en la puerta para verificar el estado de la vacuna como una forma de cumplir con esto”, dijo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11878124\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11878124\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/0682021_ReopeningJune15_PU_Sized_08-1.jpg\" alt=\"Dos personas trabajan en una cocina comercial.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/0682021_ReopeningJune15_PU_Sized_08-1.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/0682021_ReopeningJune15_PU_Sized_08-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/0682021_ReopeningJune15_PU_Sized_08-1-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/0682021_ReopeningJune15_PU_Sized_08-1-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alex Armstrong, de 51 años, y su esposa, Paula Armstrong, de 45, preparan los pedidos durante la hora del almuerzo en su restaurante de Long Beach, el 8 de junio de 2021. “Ha sido un gran desafío para nosotros, pero no pudimos dar marcha atrás”, dijo Armstrong sobre la reapertura parcial del año pasado. \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>¿Y cuando esté en el trabajo?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Para cualquiera que tenga un trabajo, no trabaje desde casa y pase sus horas de trabajo con otros seres humanos, esta sesión de preguntas y respuestas se volvió mucho más complicada.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Rachel Michelin, Asociación de Minoristas de California\"]‘No podemos ser la policía de las máscaras. Esto contradice totalmente el mensaje que salió de la oficina del gobernador, que decía el 15 de junio, estamos abriendo la economía.’[/pullquote]Desde noviembre pasado, el regulador de seguridad en el lugar de trabajo del estado ha estado requiriendo que la mayoría de los empleados en todo el estado se cubran y mantengan una distancia de seis pies entre sí cuando sea posible. También han exigido que las tiendas, los restaurantes y otros empleadores proporcionen equipo de protección personal a su personal, ofrezcan pruebas cuando sea necesario y, en algunos casos, instalen muebles que bloqueen patógenos, como escudos de plexiglás.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Esos requisitos parecen estar desapareciendo, pero no el 15 de junio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El pasado miércoles por la noche, la Junta de Salud y Seguridad Ocupacional (o Cal/OSHA por sus siglas en inglés) acordó tomar en cuenta la nueva guía estatal de máscaras de salud pública y votar sobre las nuevas reglas del lugar de trabajo el 17 de junio. Si se afirman, no entrarían en vigencia hasta el 28 de junio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La junta votó unánimemente para revocar una votación la semana pasada para adoptar nuevas reglas en el lugar de trabajo que permitirían a los trabajadores ir sin máscara, pero solo mientras ellos y todos sus colegas estén vacunados. Los empleadores también deberían proporcionar máscaras N95 al personal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Esa idea no encajó bien con los intereses comerciales del estado. ¿Cómo, preguntaron, se supone que un empleador debe averiguar qué trabajadores no están vacunados? ¿Qué pasa si los empleados vacunados, frotándose las máscaras, comienzan a acosar a sus colegas no vacunados? ¿Qué tan caras van a ser todas estas máscaras?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label ='MÁS EN ESPAÑOL' tag='kqedenespanol']“No podemos ser la policía de las máscaras”, dijo Rachel Michelin, presidenta de la Asociación de Minoristas de California. “Esto contradice totalmente el mensaje que salió de la oficina del gobernador, que decía el 15 de junio, estamos abriendo la economía”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los intereses comerciales de California presionaron directamente al gobernador , pidiéndole que pusiera fin a los reguladores de seguridad en el lugar de trabajo del estado y emitiera una orden ejecutiva para “alinear” las pautas del lugar de trabajo con la orientación del departamento de salud pública estatal y los CDC federales. Renovaron esa solicitud después de la decisión de Cal/OSHA el miércoles por la noche, instando a Newsom a brindar a todos los empleadores con “consistencia y certeza”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom se negó el viernes a decir si actuaría sobre esa solicitud. El miércoles, Ghaly dijo que la administración “de ninguna manera estaba predisponiendo o presionando por un resultado sobre el otro”, pero que por ahora simplemente lo dejaba en manos de la junta de seguridad en el lugar de trabajo.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>¿Las agencias estatales acatarán las pautas estatales de salud pública?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Podrías pensar eso. Y ese bien podría ser el caso. Pero nadie parece saberlo todavía, incluidas las propias agencias.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tome el Departamento de Vehículos Motorizados. A los californianos que esperan en fila en el DMV, se les puede exigir o no que usen una máscara, se mantengan a seis pies de distancia entre sí o se les controle la temperatura antes de ingresar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Esas medidas de salud pública están en vigor ahora. ¿Estarán relajados el 15 de junio?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Las agencias estatales todavía están esperando saberlo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Estoy en el mismo barco en el que está el público en general”, dijo el director del DMV, Steve Gordon, cuya agencia está en proceso de mover las renovaciones de licencias y otras solicitudes comunes de servicio al cliente en línea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Un portavoz de la oficina del gobernador dirigió una pregunta sobre los procedimientos de apertura de las agencias estatales al Departamento de Recursos Humanos de California, donde un portavoz de CalHR no respondió ni a los correos electrónicos ni a los mensajes de voz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11878130\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11878130\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1233471456-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"El gobernador Gavin Newsom da una rueda de prensa, lleva puesto un traje oscuro.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1233471456-1-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1233471456-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1233471456-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1233471456-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1233471456-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1233471456-1-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1233471456-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">El gobernador Gavin Newsom habla en una conferencia de prensa para discutir la reapertura del estado en Universal Studios en Hollywood, California, el 15 de junio de 2021. California permitirá que los trabajadores completamente vacunados laboren sin cubrebocas a partir del 17 de junio, dijo Newsom. \u003ccite>(Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>¿Seguirá California en estado de emergencia?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Sí.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Entonces, ¿eso significa que el estado no va a reabrir realmente?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cuando el viernes se le preguntó al gobernador si, llegado el 15 de junio, también derogaría lanproclamación del estado de emergencia que emitió en los primeros días de la pandemia. en marzo de 2020, Newsom, para sorpresa de muchos y consternación de algunos, dijo que no lo haría.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Entonces, ¿cómo es posible que el estado vuelva a abrir para “seguir como de costumbre” cuando se encuentra simultáneamente bajo una emergencia?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La respuesta podría ser que la definición de “estado de emergencia” según la ley de California no significa necesariamente “emergencia” en el sentido cotidiano de la palabra “algo está en llamas”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Brandon Stracener, Centro de Constitución de California en UC Berkeley\"]‘Terminar de manera abrupta la emergencia cancelaría todo eso … un proceso de transición gradual que involucre a la Legislatura es mucho mejor y permite una respuesta rápida a cualquier aumento inesperado de la pandemia.’[/pullquote]Mientras la Ley de Servicios de Emergencia de California otorga al gobernador poderes excepcionalmente amplios para gobernar por mandato judicial durante un período de crisis, en la práctica el gobernador ha evocado ese poder durante la pandemia para administrar varios programas de ayuda económica y de salud pública y para recaudar ayuda federal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Terminar de manera abrupta la emergencia cancelaría todo eso”, dijo Brandon Stracener, investigador del Centro de Constitución de California en UC Berkeley. “Un proceso de transición gradual que involucre a la Legislatura es mucho mejor y permite una respuesta rápida a cualquier aumento inesperado de la pandemia”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Con órdenes ejecutivas autorizadas por la proclamación, Newsom ha relajado las regulaciones para permitir que más personas administren vacunas , ha prohibido los cortes de agua en hogares con facturas de servicios públicos en mora, ha dado a las ciudades la capacidad de congelar los desalojos comerciales , ha permitido que los gobiernos locales y los tribunales realicen audiencias públicas sobre Zoom y les dio a las empresas en las carreteras estatales la libertad de establecer parklets y otros servicios en la calle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El gobernador espera extender algunos de los programas mucho más allá del 15 de junio, ya sea mientras los efectos de la pandemia atraviesen el estado o hasta que la Legislatura pueda hacerlo permanente por ley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El 2 de junio, por ejemplo, la oficina del gobernador aseguró a los gobiernos locales que aún se les permitiría celebrar reuniones de forma remota. “El Gobernador reconoce”, escribió la secretaria de gabinete Ana Matosantos en una carta abierta, “la importancia de un regreso ordenado a la conducción ordinaria de las reuniones públicas de las agencias y juntas estatales y locales”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Algunos gobiernos locales están decidiendo volver algo a la normalidad; El alcalde de San Francisco, London Breed, presidió cuatro bodas en el Ayuntamiento para marcar su reapertura el lunes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los republicanos en la Legislatura se han enfurecido durante mucho tiempo por el uso sin precedentes del poder ejecutivo por parte del gobernador durante la pandemia, y ahora lo están atacando antes de una elección revocatoria casi segura este otoño. El lunes, los asambleístas Kevin Kiley de Rocklin y James Gallagher de Yuba City y la senadora estatal Melissa Meléndez del condado de Riverside exigieron que la administración explicara qué justificaba la proclamación continua de la emergencia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Algunas emergencias de incendios forestales recientes y sequías pasadas todavía están activas, señala la oficina de Newsom. La ley estatal le da a la Legislatura el control final sobre los poderes de emergencia del gobernador. Todo lo que necesitan hacer es aprobar una resolución que declare el fin de la emergencia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pero no lo han hecho. Y dado que los demócratas disfrutan de supermayorías tanto en la Asamblea como en el Senado, no es probable que lo hagan pronto.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/\">CalMatters\u003c/a> es una organización de medios de comunicación sin fines de lucro, no partidista, que explica las políticas públicas y los temas políticos de California.\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Eso significa que los adultos vacunados deben sentirse libres de ir sin máscara en la mayoría de los espacios públicos. Todavía hay excepciones para lugares donde el potencial para muchas personas vulnerables que se congregan en un lugar confinado es alto: hospitales y otros entornos de atención médica, aulas escolares, prisiones y cárceles, transporte público y hogares de ancianos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Si no está vacunado, aún deberá usar una máscara en interiores en la mayoría de los lugares públicos, aunque no está del todo claro si se hará cumplir o cómo. El miércoles, el Secretario de salud y servicios humanos, Mark Ghaly, dijo que las empresas pueden exigir máscaras a todos los clientes, implementar un sistema de verificación de vacunación o simplemente seguir el sistema de honor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No estamos exigiendo que las empresas, por ejemplo, tengan a alguien en la puerta para verificar el estado de la vacuna como una forma de cumplir con esto”, dijo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11878124\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11878124\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/0682021_ReopeningJune15_PU_Sized_08-1.jpg\" alt=\"Dos personas trabajan en una cocina comercial.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/0682021_ReopeningJune15_PU_Sized_08-1.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/0682021_ReopeningJune15_PU_Sized_08-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/0682021_ReopeningJune15_PU_Sized_08-1-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/0682021_ReopeningJune15_PU_Sized_08-1-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alex Armstrong, de 51 años, y su esposa, Paula Armstrong, de 45, preparan los pedidos durante la hora del almuerzo en su restaurante de Long Beach, el 8 de junio de 2021. “Ha sido un gran desafío para nosotros, pero no pudimos dar marcha atrás”, dijo Armstrong sobre la reapertura parcial del año pasado. \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>¿Y cuando esté en el trabajo?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Para cualquiera que tenga un trabajo, no trabaje desde casa y pase sus horas de trabajo con otros seres humanos, esta sesión de preguntas y respuestas se volvió mucho más complicada.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“No podemos ser la policía de las máscaras”, dijo Rachel Michelin, presidenta de la Asociación de Minoristas de California. “Esto contradice totalmente el mensaje que salió de la oficina del gobernador, que decía el 15 de junio, estamos abriendo la economía”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los intereses comerciales de California presionaron directamente al gobernador , pidiéndole que pusiera fin a los reguladores de seguridad en el lugar de trabajo del estado y emitiera una orden ejecutiva para “alinear” las pautas del lugar de trabajo con la orientación del departamento de salud pública estatal y los CDC federales. Renovaron esa solicitud después de la decisión de Cal/OSHA el miércoles por la noche, instando a Newsom a brindar a todos los empleadores con “consistencia y certeza”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom se negó el viernes a decir si actuaría sobre esa solicitud. El miércoles, Ghaly dijo que la administración “de ninguna manera estaba predisponiendo o presionando por un resultado sobre el otro”, pero que por ahora simplemente lo dejaba en manos de la junta de seguridad en el lugar de trabajo.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>¿Las agencias estatales acatarán las pautas estatales de salud pública?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Podrías pensar eso. Y ese bien podría ser el caso. Pero nadie parece saberlo todavía, incluidas las propias agencias.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tome el Departamento de Vehículos Motorizados. A los californianos que esperan en fila en el DMV, se les puede exigir o no que usen una máscara, se mantengan a seis pies de distancia entre sí o se les controle la temperatura antes de ingresar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Esas medidas de salud pública están en vigor ahora. ¿Estarán relajados el 15 de junio?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Las agencias estatales todavía están esperando saberlo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Estoy en el mismo barco en el que está el público en general”, dijo el director del DMV, Steve Gordon, cuya agencia está en proceso de mover las renovaciones de licencias y otras solicitudes comunes de servicio al cliente en línea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Un portavoz de la oficina del gobernador dirigió una pregunta sobre los procedimientos de apertura de las agencias estatales al Departamento de Recursos Humanos de California, donde un portavoz de CalHR no respondió ni a los correos electrónicos ni a los mensajes de voz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11878130\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11878130\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1233471456-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"El gobernador Gavin Newsom da una rueda de prensa, lleva puesto un traje oscuro.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1233471456-1-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1233471456-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1233471456-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1233471456-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1233471456-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1233471456-1-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1233471456-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">El gobernador Gavin Newsom habla en una conferencia de prensa para discutir la reapertura del estado en Universal Studios en Hollywood, California, el 15 de junio de 2021. California permitirá que los trabajadores completamente vacunados laboren sin cubrebocas a partir del 17 de junio, dijo Newsom. \u003ccite>(Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>¿Seguirá California en estado de emergencia?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Sí.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Entonces, ¿eso significa que el estado no va a reabrir realmente?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cuando el viernes se le preguntó al gobernador si, llegado el 15 de junio, también derogaría lanproclamación del estado de emergencia que emitió en los primeros días de la pandemia. en marzo de 2020, Newsom, para sorpresa de muchos y consternación de algunos, dijo que no lo haría.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Entonces, ¿cómo es posible que el estado vuelva a abrir para “seguir como de costumbre” cuando se encuentra simultáneamente bajo una emergencia?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La respuesta podría ser que la definición de “estado de emergencia” según la ley de California no significa necesariamente “emergencia” en el sentido cotidiano de la palabra “algo está en llamas”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Gavin Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11868240/newsom-announces-plan-to-open-up-business-as-usual-in-california-by-june-15\">said in April\u003c/a> and reaffirmed in May, June 15 is when “we can start to open up…business as usual.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as that much-touted date approaches, the governor’s promise of a sudden milestone is colliding with the loophole-ridden gradualism of California labor law, local control and the imperatives of fighting a diminishing — but not defeated — virus that has killed 62,500 Californians and counting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some mixed messages along the way have added to the confusion. So what will — and won’t — actually happen on Tuesday? Many of your questions, answered.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Will I be able to sit inside a bar, work out at a gym or go to the movies?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Probably.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The average Californian can expect things to look fairly back-to-normal in most of the ways that matter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moving “\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/COVID-19/Beyond-Blueprint-Framework.aspx\">beyond the blueprint\u003c/a>,” to use the state’s branding, and instead using federal health guidance for public places means that most businesses can dispense with social distancing requirements, capacity limits and forced closures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there’s a difference between “can” and “must.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Counties will still be free to impose their own public health restrictions if they choose to — but only if they’re stricter than what the state is requiring. So far, no counties have said that they’ll part ways with the state’s rules, though a few, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/coronavirus/what-will-the-bay-area-look-like-when-california-reopens-on-june-15/2561205/\">like San Francisco\u003c/a>, say they’re still mulling over their options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even so, businesses aren’t taking any chances. On Tuesday, more than 35 business groups sent a letter to county governments across the state begging them to stick to the statewide rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though business groups, who don’t relish the idea of getting sued, are hoping for consistent, cheap and easy-to-follow standards, your favorite restaurant, movie theater or hair salon is also free to impose its own public health restrictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means you shouldn’t be surprised if you still spot a few “No Mask, No Service” signs after June 15.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Can I go to a concert?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Depends. Are we talking open mic at the local bar or Beyoncé at an arena?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state has said it will \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/COVID-19/Beyond-Blueprint-QA.aspx\">impose additional restrictions on “mega events.”\u003c/a> That’s defined as anything that draws more than 5,000 people indoors or 10,000 outside. (Sorry, nameless dude playing a melodica into a loop pedal, you are not a mega event).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the most recent state guidance, concerts, conventions and other indoor mega events will only be open to people who can prove that they’ve either been vaccinated (by showing a vaccination card, a photo of the card, or documentation from a doctor) or that they tested negative for the coronavirus in the last 72 hours. That kind of proof won’t necessarily be required at outdoor events such as baseball games, but the state is recommending that stadiums either impose such a rule or require masking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11878044\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11878044\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1233049916-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Three people sitting inside a bar without facemasks.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1233049916-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1233049916-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1233049916-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1233049916-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1233049916-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1233049916-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1233049916-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fully vaccinated customers gather at the bar inside Risky Business, a private members-only club in the North Hollywood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California on May 21, 2021. \u003ccite>(Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Once I’m inside the bar, gym or movie theater, can I finally take this mask off?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Yes, if you’re vaccinated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s public health officials confirmed Wednesday that along with relaxed social distancing, the state will also drop its mask mandate on June 15 and instead adopt the recommendations of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Dr. Mark Ghaly, Health and Human Services Secretary\"]‘We are not requiring businesses to, for example, have somebody at the door checking for vaccine status as a way to comply with this.’[/pullquote]That means vaccinated adults should feel free to go mask-less in most public spaces. There are still exceptions for venues where the potential for many vulnerable people congregating in a confined place is high: hospitals and other health care settings, school classrooms, prisons and jails, public transit and nursing homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re unvaccinated, you’ll still be required to wear a mask indoors in most public places, though it’s not entirely clear if or how that will be enforced. On Wednesday, Health and Human Services Secretary Mark Ghaly said that businesses can require masks of all customers, implement a vaccination verification system or simply go with the honor system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are not requiring businesses to, for example, have somebody at the door checking for vaccine status as a way to comply with this,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11878051\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11878051\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/0682021_ReopeningJune15_PU_Sized_08.jpg\" alt=\"Two people working at the grill of a restaurant.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/0682021_ReopeningJune15_PU_Sized_08.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/0682021_ReopeningJune15_PU_Sized_08-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/0682021_ReopeningJune15_PU_Sized_08-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/0682021_ReopeningJune15_PU_Sized_08-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alex Armstrong, 51 and his wife, Paula Armstrong, 45, prepare pick up orders during lunch hour at their Long Beach restaurant, VBurger, on June 8, 2021. ‘It’s been very challenging for us, but we couldn’t back out,’ said Armstrong of opening mid-pandemic last year. \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>What about when I’m at work?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>For anyone who has a job, doesn’t work from home and spends their work hours with other human beings, this Q&A just got a lot more complicated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since last November, the state’s workplace safety regulator has been requiring most employees across the state to mask up and maintain 6 feet of distance from one another when possible. They’ve also required stores, restaurants and other employers to provide personal protective equipment to their staff, offer testing when necessary and, in some cases, set up pathogen-blocking furnishings such as plexiglass shields.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those requirements seem to be on the way out, but not on June 15.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Rachel Michelin, president of the California Retailers Association\"]‘We can’t be the mask police. This totally contradicts the messaging that came out of the governor’s office, which was June 15, we’re opening up the economy.’[/pullquote]Wednesday night, the state’s Occupational Safety and Health Board agreed to take the new state public health mask guidance into account and vote on new workplace rules on June 17. If affirmed, those rules wouldn’t ordinarily become official policy until June 28. But on Monday, Newsom vowed to sign an executive order putting the rules into effect immediately.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board unanimously voted to revoke a vote last week to adopt new workplace rules that would let workers go without a mask, but only so long as they and all their colleagues are vaccinated. Employers would have also been required to provide N95 masks to staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That idea did not go over well with the state’s business interests. How, they asked, is an employer supposed to find out which workers are not vaccinated? What if vaccinated employees, chafing at their masks, begin harassing their unvaccinated colleagues? How expensive are all these masks going to be?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label ='Related Coverage' tag='coronavirus']“We can’t be the mask police,” said Rachel Michelin, president of the California Retailers Association. “This totally contradicts the messaging that came out of the governor’s office, which was June 15, we’re opening up the economy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s business interests lobbied the governor directly, asking him to do an end run around the state’s workplace safety regulators and issue an executive order to “align” workplace guidelines with guidance from the state public health department and federal CDC. They renewed that request after the Cal/OSHA decision Wednesday night, urging Newsom to provide all employers with “consistency and certainty.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom declined on Friday to say whether he would act on that request. On Wednesday, Ghaly said the administration was “in no way predisposing or pushing for one outcome over the other” but for now was simply leaving it up to the workplace safety board.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Presumably state agencies will be abiding by the state public health guidelines?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>You might think that. And that might very well be the case. But at least for now, it appears to be up to the agencies themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday night — just hours before the state’s reopening at midnight — the California Department of Human Resources sent an advisory to department heads across state government. State offices that serve the public directly, like offices and stores across the state, will not be required “to inquire about a member of the public’s vaccine status.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, the advisory read, agencies “should provide notice to all customers, guests and members of the public that face coverings are required for unvaccinated individuals. If an individual without a face covering enters a state building, the department should assume the individual is complying with the requirement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State employers are also being told to keep their flexible work-from-home policies in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11878049\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11878049\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1233471456-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1233471456-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1233471456-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1233471456-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1233471456-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1233471456-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1233471456-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1233471456-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks at a press conference to discuss the state reopening at Universal Studios in Hollywood, California on June 15, 2021. California will let fully vaccinated workers go maskless after June 17, Governor Gavin Newsom said on Monday. \u003ccite>(Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Is the state still going to be in a state of emergency?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Yes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Does that mean the state isn’t actually going to reopen?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the governor was asked on Friday whether, come June 15, he would also rescind the state of emergency proclamation that he issued in the early days of the pandemic in March 2020, Newsom — to the surprise of many and dismay of some — said that he would not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So how can the state possibly reopen for “business as usual” when it’s simultaneously under an emergency?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The answer might be that the definition of “state of emergency” under California law doesn’t necessarily mean “emergency” in the everyday “something is on fire” sense of the word.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Brandon Stracener, California Constitution Center at UC Berkeley\"]‘Abruptly terminating the emergency would cancel all that wholesale … A gradual transition process that involves the Legislature is far better, and permits a rapid response to any unexpected surge in the pandemic.’[/pullquote]While the California Emergency Services Act does give the governor exceptionally broad powers to govern by fiat during a period of crisis, in practice the governor has evoked that power during the pandemic to administer various public health and economic relief programs and to collect federal aid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Abruptly terminating the emergency would cancel all that wholesale,” said Brandon Stracener, research fellow at the California Constitution Center at UC Berkeley. “A gradual transition process that involves the Legislature is far better, and permits a rapid response to any unexpected surge in the pandemic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With executive orders empowered by the proclamation, Newsom has loosened regulations to allow more people to administer vaccines, banned water shut-offs on homes with delinquent utility bills, given cities the ability to freeze commercial evictions, allowed local governments and courts to conduct public hearings over Zoom and given businesses on state roads the freedom to set up parklets and other street-side services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor is hoping to extend some of the programs long past June 15 — either as long as the effects of the pandemic coursing through the state last, or until the Legislature can make it permanent by statute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On June 2, for example, the governor’s office assured local governments that they would still be allowed to hold meetings remotely. “The Governor recognizes,” Cabinet Secretary Ana Matosantos wrote in an open letter, “the importance of an orderly return to the ordinary conduct of public meetings of state and local agencies and boards.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some local governments are deciding to return somewhat to normal; San Francisco Mayor London Breed presided over four weddings at City Hall to mark its reopening Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans in the Legislature have long bristled at the governor’s unprecedented use of executive power during the pandemic, and are now attacking him leading up to an all-but-certain recall election this fall. On Monday, Assemblymembers Kevin Kiley of Rocklin and James Gallagher of Yuba City and state Sen. Melissa Melendez from Riverside County demanded that the administration explain what justified the continued proclamation of the emergency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some emergencies from recent wildfires and past droughts are still active, Newsom’s office notes. State law does give the Legislature the ultimate check on the governor’s emergency powers. All they need to do is pass a resolution declaring the emergency to be over. But they haven’t. And with Democrats enjoying supermajorities in both the Assembly and Senate, they aren’t likely to anytime soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11859270\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11859270\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS46696_011_Sacramento_InaugurationDay_01202021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"State Capitol in Sacramento\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS46696_011_Sacramento_InaugurationDay_01202021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS46696_011_Sacramento_InaugurationDay_01202021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS46696_011_Sacramento_InaugurationDay_01202021-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS46696_011_Sacramento_InaugurationDay_01202021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS46696_011_Sacramento_InaugurationDay_01202021-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A fence lines the perimeter of the state Capitol building in Sacramento on Inauguration Day, Jan. 20, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>What about the state Capitol?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The halls of state government will be reopening on June 15, too. But befitting a deliberative body, it’ll be doing so at a slower pace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Starting on Tuesday, the building will be open to a maximum of 500 members of the public. Masks will still be required and social distancing guidelines will still be in effect. After that, the rules committees in both the Assembly and Senate will “continue to assess increasing capacity to a total of 1,000 members of the public as soon as the week of June 21st,” according to a statement released Friday by legislative leaders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the beginning of the pandemic, lobbyists, reporters and the general public have been permitted to enter the Capitol only under very limited and supervised conditions.\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>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11878067/la-gran-reapertura-de-california-que-ha-cambiado-y-que-no-el-15-de-junio\">Leer en español\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s grand reopening day is finally here, but it comes with a few asterisks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This Tuesday, our 15-month-long ordeal of public health restrictions, mandates, bans and color-coded tiers to stem the COVID-19 pandemic will finally come to an end. As Gov. Gavin Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11868240/newsom-announces-plan-to-open-up-business-as-usual-in-california-by-june-15\">said in April\u003c/a> and reaffirmed in May, June 15 is when “we can start to open up…business as usual.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as that much-touted date approaches, the governor’s promise of a sudden milestone is colliding with the loophole-ridden gradualism of California labor law, local control and the imperatives of fighting a diminishing — but not defeated — virus that has killed 62,500 Californians and counting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some mixed messages along the way have added to the confusion. So what will — and won’t — actually happen on Tuesday? Many of your questions, answered.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Will I be able to sit inside a bar, work out at a gym or go to the movies?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Probably.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The average Californian can expect things to look fairly back-to-normal in most of the ways that matter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moving “\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/COVID-19/Beyond-Blueprint-Framework.aspx\">beyond the blueprint\u003c/a>,” to use the state’s branding, and instead using federal health guidance for public places means that most businesses can dispense with social distancing requirements, capacity limits and forced closures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there’s a difference between “can” and “must.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Counties will still be free to impose their own public health restrictions if they choose to — but only if they’re stricter than what the state is requiring. So far, no counties have said that they’ll part ways with the state’s rules, though a few, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/coronavirus/what-will-the-bay-area-look-like-when-california-reopens-on-june-15/2561205/\">like San Francisco\u003c/a>, say they’re still mulling over their options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even so, businesses aren’t taking any chances. On Tuesday, more than 35 business groups sent a letter to county governments across the state begging them to stick to the statewide rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though business groups, who don’t relish the idea of getting sued, are hoping for consistent, cheap and easy-to-follow standards, your favorite restaurant, movie theater or hair salon is also free to impose its own public health restrictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means you shouldn’t be surprised if you still spot a few “No Mask, No Service” signs after June 15.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Can I go to a concert?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Depends. Are we talking open mic at the local bar or Beyoncé at an arena?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state has said it will \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/COVID-19/Beyond-Blueprint-QA.aspx\">impose additional restrictions on “mega events.”\u003c/a> That’s defined as anything that draws more than 5,000 people indoors or 10,000 outside. (Sorry, nameless dude playing a melodica into a loop pedal, you are not a mega event).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the most recent state guidance, concerts, conventions and other indoor mega events will only be open to people who can prove that they’ve either been vaccinated (by showing a vaccination card, a photo of the card, or documentation from a doctor) or that they tested negative for the coronavirus in the last 72 hours. That kind of proof won’t necessarily be required at outdoor events such as baseball games, but the state is recommending that stadiums either impose such a rule or require masking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11878044\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11878044\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1233049916-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Three people sitting inside a bar without facemasks.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1233049916-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1233049916-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1233049916-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1233049916-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1233049916-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1233049916-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1233049916-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fully vaccinated customers gather at the bar inside Risky Business, a private members-only club in the North Hollywood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California on May 21, 2021. \u003ccite>(Patrick T. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>That means vaccinated adults should feel free to go mask-less in most public spaces. There are still exceptions for venues where the potential for many vulnerable people congregating in a confined place is high: hospitals and other health care settings, school classrooms, prisons and jails, public transit and nursing homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re unvaccinated, you’ll still be required to wear a mask indoors in most public places, though it’s not entirely clear if or how that will be enforced. On Wednesday, Health and Human Services Secretary Mark Ghaly said that businesses can require masks of all customers, implement a vaccination verification system or simply go with the honor system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are not requiring businesses to, for example, have somebody at the door checking for vaccine status as a way to comply with this,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11878051\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11878051\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/0682021_ReopeningJune15_PU_Sized_08.jpg\" alt=\"Two people working at the grill of a restaurant.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/0682021_ReopeningJune15_PU_Sized_08.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/0682021_ReopeningJune15_PU_Sized_08-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/0682021_ReopeningJune15_PU_Sized_08-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/0682021_ReopeningJune15_PU_Sized_08-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alex Armstrong, 51 and his wife, Paula Armstrong, 45, prepare pick up orders during lunch hour at their Long Beach restaurant, VBurger, on June 8, 2021. ‘It’s been very challenging for us, but we couldn’t back out,’ said Armstrong of opening mid-pandemic last year. \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>What about when I’m at work?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>For anyone who has a job, doesn’t work from home and spends their work hours with other human beings, this Q&A just got a lot more complicated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since last November, the state’s workplace safety regulator has been requiring most employees across the state to mask up and maintain 6 feet of distance from one another when possible. They’ve also required stores, restaurants and other employers to provide personal protective equipment to their staff, offer testing when necessary and, in some cases, set up pathogen-blocking furnishings such as plexiglass shields.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those requirements seem to be on the way out, but not on June 15.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Wednesday night, the state’s Occupational Safety and Health Board agreed to take the new state public health mask guidance into account and vote on new workplace rules on June 17. If affirmed, those rules wouldn’t ordinarily become official policy until June 28. But on Monday, Newsom vowed to sign an executive order putting the rules into effect immediately.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board unanimously voted to revoke a vote last week to adopt new workplace rules that would let workers go without a mask, but only so long as they and all their colleagues are vaccinated. Employers would have also been required to provide N95 masks to staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That idea did not go over well with the state’s business interests. How, they asked, is an employer supposed to find out which workers are not vaccinated? What if vaccinated employees, chafing at their masks, begin harassing their unvaccinated colleagues? How expensive are all these masks going to be?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“We can’t be the mask police,” said Rachel Michelin, president of the California Retailers Association. “This totally contradicts the messaging that came out of the governor’s office, which was June 15, we’re opening up the economy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s business interests lobbied the governor directly, asking him to do an end run around the state’s workplace safety regulators and issue an executive order to “align” workplace guidelines with guidance from the state public health department and federal CDC. They renewed that request after the Cal/OSHA decision Wednesday night, urging Newsom to provide all employers with “consistency and certainty.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom declined on Friday to say whether he would act on that request. On Wednesday, Ghaly said the administration was “in no way predisposing or pushing for one outcome over the other” but for now was simply leaving it up to the workplace safety board.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Presumably state agencies will be abiding by the state public health guidelines?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>You might think that. And that might very well be the case. But at least for now, it appears to be up to the agencies themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday night — just hours before the state’s reopening at midnight — the California Department of Human Resources sent an advisory to department heads across state government. State offices that serve the public directly, like offices and stores across the state, will not be required “to inquire about a member of the public’s vaccine status.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, the advisory read, agencies “should provide notice to all customers, guests and members of the public that face coverings are required for unvaccinated individuals. If an individual without a face covering enters a state building, the department should assume the individual is complying with the requirement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State employers are also being told to keep their flexible work-from-home policies in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11878049\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11878049\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1233471456-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1233471456-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1233471456-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1233471456-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1233471456-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1233471456-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1233471456-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1233471456-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks at a press conference to discuss the state reopening at Universal Studios in Hollywood, California on June 15, 2021. California will let fully vaccinated workers go maskless after June 17, Governor Gavin Newsom said on Monday. \u003ccite>(Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Is the state still going to be in a state of emergency?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Yes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Does that mean the state isn’t actually going to reopen?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the governor was asked on Friday whether, come June 15, he would also rescind the state of emergency proclamation that he issued in the early days of the pandemic in March 2020, Newsom — to the surprise of many and dismay of some — said that he would not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So how can the state possibly reopen for “business as usual” when it’s simultaneously under an emergency?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The answer might be that the definition of “state of emergency” under California law doesn’t necessarily mean “emergency” in the everyday “something is on fire” sense of the word.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>While the California Emergency Services Act does give the governor exceptionally broad powers to govern by fiat during a period of crisis, in practice the governor has evoked that power during the pandemic to administer various public health and economic relief programs and to collect federal aid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Abruptly terminating the emergency would cancel all that wholesale,” said Brandon Stracener, research fellow at the California Constitution Center at UC Berkeley. “A gradual transition process that involves the Legislature is far better, and permits a rapid response to any unexpected surge in the pandemic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With executive orders empowered by the proclamation, Newsom has loosened regulations to allow more people to administer vaccines, banned water shut-offs on homes with delinquent utility bills, given cities the ability to freeze commercial evictions, allowed local governments and courts to conduct public hearings over Zoom and given businesses on state roads the freedom to set up parklets and other street-side services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor is hoping to extend some of the programs long past June 15 — either as long as the effects of the pandemic coursing through the state last, or until the Legislature can make it permanent by statute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On June 2, for example, the governor’s office assured local governments that they would still be allowed to hold meetings remotely. “The Governor recognizes,” Cabinet Secretary Ana Matosantos wrote in an open letter, “the importance of an orderly return to the ordinary conduct of public meetings of state and local agencies and boards.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some local governments are deciding to return somewhat to normal; San Francisco Mayor London Breed presided over four weddings at City Hall to mark its reopening Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans in the Legislature have long bristled at the governor’s unprecedented use of executive power during the pandemic, and are now attacking him leading up to an all-but-certain recall election this fall. On Monday, Assemblymembers Kevin Kiley of Rocklin and James Gallagher of Yuba City and state Sen. Melissa Melendez from Riverside County demanded that the administration explain what justified the continued proclamation of the emergency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some emergencies from recent wildfires and past droughts are still active, Newsom’s office notes. State law does give the Legislature the ultimate check on the governor’s emergency powers. All they need to do is pass a resolution declaring the emergency to be over. But they haven’t. And with Democrats enjoying supermajorities in both the Assembly and Senate, they aren’t likely to anytime soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11859270\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11859270\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS46696_011_Sacramento_InaugurationDay_01202021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"State Capitol in Sacramento\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS46696_011_Sacramento_InaugurationDay_01202021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS46696_011_Sacramento_InaugurationDay_01202021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS46696_011_Sacramento_InaugurationDay_01202021-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS46696_011_Sacramento_InaugurationDay_01202021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS46696_011_Sacramento_InaugurationDay_01202021-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A fence lines the perimeter of the state Capitol building in Sacramento on Inauguration Day, Jan. 20, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>What about the state Capitol?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The halls of state government will be reopening on June 15, too. But befitting a deliberative body, it’ll be doing so at a slower pace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Starting on Tuesday, the building will be open to a maximum of 500 members of the public. Masks will still be required and social distancing guidelines will still be in effect. After that, the rules committees in both the Assembly and Senate will “continue to assess increasing capacity to a total of 1,000 members of the public as soon as the week of June 21st,” according to a statement released Friday by legislative leaders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the beginning of the pandemic, lobbyists, reporters and the general public have been permitted to enter the Capitol only under very limited and supervised conditions.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Go straight to:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#where\">Where do I still have to wear a mask?\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#safe\">Is it safe to hang out with unvaccinated friends?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#kids\">How does this work with unvaccinated kids?\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#when\">Remind me: What does 'fully vaccinated' mean? \u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Almost half of California's population is fully vaccinated against COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And now, as of June 15, the state has reopened for \"business as usual\" — which includes scrapping the long-standing mask mandate and officially adopting the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's earlier guidance that fully vaccinated people no longer need to wear masks in most places.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(If you're feeling like you already heard about this CDC update, you're not imagining it: These are the same guidelines released back on May 13. Unlike other states, California has waited a month to adopt them.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Some people are nervous and some people are ready. And I can just tell you scientifically, we are ready,\" said Dr. Monica Gandhi, infectious disease expert and professor of medicine at UCSF, about this reopening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These vaccines absolutely work against variants ... it really is safe to ditch that mask inside if you're vaccinated,\" said Gandhi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With all this in mind, you might be wondering: What exactly can you now do after you're fully vaccinated? Where do you still have to wear a mask? And, perhaps more importantly, what should you not do?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Remember: Even though the official guidance has been updated, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11877048/californias-mask-mandate-ends-june-15-heres-why-some-fully-vaccinated-people-will-keep-wearing-them\">many fully vaccinated people will be choosing to still wear their mask\u003c/a> in certain settings, despite the rules saying they don't \u003cem>have\u003c/em> to. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11877048/californias-mask-mandate-ends-june-15-heres-why-some-fully-vaccinated-people-will-keep-wearing-them\">Read more\u003c/a> about the reasons you might consider holding onto your mask a little longer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#ask\">Don't see your question answered here? Wondering about specific situations? Ask KQED\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"where\">\u003c/a>If I'm Fully Vaccinated, in Which Settings Can I Ditch My Mask?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>As of June 15, pretty much everywhere — with a few exceptions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now that California has adopted the CDC's latest guidance, the only places that fully vaccinated people are still required to wear a mask are:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>On public transit, like BART and Muni (because \u003ca href=\"https://www.tsa.gov/news/press/releases/2021/04/30/tsa-extends-face-mask-requirement-airports-and-throughout\">the Transportation Security Administration has extended mask requirements\u003c/a> across all transportation networks throughout the United States — meaning buses, rail systems, planes and at airports — through Sept. 13)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Indoors in K-12 schools and child care settings\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Health care settings, like hospitals\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Homeless shelters, emergency shelters and and cooling centers.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Individual businesses, like stores, may also require customers wear masks. Your workplace may also have its own rules about you, as an employee, wearing a mask.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the CDC, here are \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/daily-life-coping/participate-in-activities.html\">examples of the outdoor situations\u003c/a> in which fully vaccinated Californians now no longer need masks. The asterisk* shows which activities still require unvaccinated people to wear a mask:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Walk, run, wheelchair roll or bike outdoors with members of your household\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Attend a small, outdoor gathering with fully vaccinated family and friends\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Attend a small, outdoor gathering with fully vaccinated and unvaccinated people, particularly in areas of substantial to high transmission*\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Dine at an outdoor restaurant with friends from multiple households*\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Attend a crowded outdoor event like a live performance, parade or sports event*\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>(Because all these updates can get confusing: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11871317/stop-and-smell-the-roses-cdc-says-many-americans-can-now-go-outside-safely-without-a-mask\">The CDC's earlier guidance about outdoor masking \u003c/a>stated that the only place fully vaccinated people had to wear a mask outside was in \u003cem>crowds\u003c/em>. This newest guidance for California, however, has removed this requirement.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11824024\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1900px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11824024\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/10-lb-rogue-weight-plate-near-people-gathered-703016-NEW.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1900\" height=\"1267\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/10-lb-rogue-weight-plate-near-people-gathered-703016-NEW.jpg 1900w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/10-lb-rogue-weight-plate-near-people-gathered-703016-NEW-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/10-lb-rogue-weight-plate-near-people-gathered-703016-NEW-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/10-lb-rogue-weight-plate-near-people-gathered-703016-NEW-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1900px) 100vw, 1900px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California has lifted its mask mandate, and fully vaccinated people no longer need to wear masks during exercise classes — unless a gym requires it. \u003ccite>(Victor Freitas/Pexels)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/daily-life-coping/participate-in-activities.html\">Examples of indoor settings\u003c/a> in which fully vaccinated Californians now no longer need masks (asterisk* shows which activities still require unvaccinated people to wear a mask):\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Visit a barber or hair salon*\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Go to an uncrowded, indoor shopping center or museum*\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Attend a small, indoor gathering of fully vaccinated and unvaccinated people from multiple households*\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Go to an indoor movie theater*\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Attend a full-capacity worship service*\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Sing in an indoor chorus*\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Eat at an indoor restaurant or bar*\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Participate in an indoor, high-intensity exercise class*\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Because it might not always be obvious ahead of time what businesses or locations might require you to put on a mask regardless of your vaccination status, it's a good idea to still bring a mask with you when you leave your home ... just in case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>The short version: \u003c/strong>If you're fully vaccinated, you can go mask-free in pretty much all settings, with important exceptions.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#ask\">Don't see your question answered here? Wondering about specific situations? Ask KQED\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"safe\">\u003c/a>What About Hanging Out With Unvaccinated Friends?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>If you're fully vaccinated and you're meeting up with a friend who for whatever reason hasn't got their vaccine yet, the CDC's guidance now effective in California says that \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/daily-life-coping/participate-in-activities.html\">\u003cem>you\u003c/em> don't have to wear your mask around them \u003c/a>— indoors or outdoors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If your unvaccinated friend is immunocompromised, or otherwise at high risk for getting very sick from COVID, you may want to chat to them about their preferences around masking. Even though your chances of transmitting the coronavirus to them are low as a fully vaccinated person, if masking up makes everyone involved feel safe and more comfortable, it might be something to consider. Read more about \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11877048/californias-mask-mandate-ends-june-15-heres-why-some-fully-vaccinated-people-will-keep-wearing-them#health\">vaccinated people wanting to mask around people with health conditions\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11866713\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11866713\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/pexels-cottonbro-4684262.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/pexels-cottonbro-4684262.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/pexels-cottonbro-4684262-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/pexels-cottonbro-4684262-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/pexels-cottonbro-4684262-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/pexels-cottonbro-4684262-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">If you and your friend are both fully vaccinated, it's safe to hang out with them indoors, without masks. \u003ccite>(Cottonbro/Pexels)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>You might also stay vigilant when it comes to the \u003cem>size\u003c/em> of any gathering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The numbers matter because it's just a matter of how many noses and mouths from different risk groups come together,\" said Dr. Peter Chin-Hong, a professor of medicine and infectious disease specialist at UCSF. \"The more people you bring together [vaccinated or unvaccinated], the higher the chances of somebody who didn't respond to the vaccine, and somebody who might have COVID might be in a larger group. So it's just really a statistical game.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>The short version:\u003c/strong> The CDC's guidance says you don't need a mask around unvaccinated people — but there a few instances in which you might still consider it. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"kids\">\u003c/a>How Does All This Work Around Unvaccinated Kids?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Are indoor play dates/hangouts OK if the adults are all vaccinated but the kids aren't?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While younger children are at lower risk of severe disease if they do get infected, the risk \"is not zero,\" said \u003ca href=\"https://www.uofmhealth.org/profile/922/preeti-n-malani-md\">Dr. Preeti Malani\u003c/a>, an infectious disease specialist and chief health officer at the University of Michigan. And kids can transmit to others, so you still need to be thoughtful about your social bubble.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outdoor play dates are safer, and Dr. \u003ca href=\"https://www.bumc.bu.edu/busm/profile/cassandra-pierre/\">Cassandra Pierre,\u003c/a> an infectious disease specialist at Boston Medical Center, said it's probably fine to let the kiddos go maskless if they are outside — provided there aren't variants of concern circulating widely in your community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11856374\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11856374\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/01202021_KidsCOVID_SH_01_10-e1611253693171.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mae Villanueva, 4, plays at Lake Balboa Park in Van Nuys on Jan. 20, 2021. \u003ccite>(Shae Hammond/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If you want the kids to play indoors, make sure you have an honest conversation with the other family about their risk factors. Did they just fly back from vacation in a spot where variants of concern are circulating widely? Do their kids play on a sports team that just had a COVID-19 case? Have they had a sleepover at someone else's house?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The point is, you have shared risk and shared responsibility in terms of play dates,\" Malani said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for how many families can join the indoor play date? Given CDC guidelines about meeting up with unvaccinated households, Pierre suggests limiting it to one family at a time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://profiles.ucsf.edu/monica.gandhi\">Dr. Monica Gandhi\u003c/a> is an infectious disease doctor at UCSF, and her interpretation is more liberal: If the kids are all low-risk and the adults are all vaccinated, she would suggest no more than four households. \"It's ultimately about what your risk tolerance is,\" Gandhi notes — though case rates in your community should help guide your decision making.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>My relatives want to hold a family reunion. Is it safe for us to gather?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes, but keep it small and keep most of the activities outdoors if you can. \"If you have a big family reunion, there's going to be risk,\" said Malani. \"It's probably not a great time to hang out with 100 people.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Make sure all the vulnerable adults in the family are vaccinated, and again, talk openly about the kids' risk factors. It might be a good idea to hold off on maskless indoor play dates for a week or two before traveling to the reunion, Pierre said. For older kids, maybe they shouldn't be spending a lot of time unmasked with a bunch of friends before they meet up with grandparents, said Dr. Emily Landon, an infectious disease specialist and executive medical director for infection prevention and control at the University of Chicago School of Medicine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What about taking a vacation with my unvaccinated kids?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If it's feasible, consider driving instead of flying, said \u003ca href=\"https://www.vumc.org/viiii/person/david-aronoff-md\">Dr. David Aronoff\u003c/a>, director of the division of infectious diseases at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you do fly, make sure your kids know how to wear a mask properly and keep their distance from other people. Pierre, the mother of 3-year-old twins, suggests avoiding longer flights because longer exposures pose potentially higher risks. Also, consider your sanity: It can be hard to keep young kids masked up and entertained on long-haul flights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The biggest risk on flights is from the exhalations of nearby passengers, so seat your kids in between you and their other parent, not on an aisle, suggest Aronoff and Gandhi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Avoid busy theme parks or crowded indoor activities at your destination. One other thing to consider: Will your kids have to quarantine once they're back home or refrain from school sports or other activities?\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"movies\">\u003c/a>Can I Travel if I'm Fully Vaccinated?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Yes. On April 2, the CDC updated its guidance to say \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11867775/fully-vaccinated-you-can-travel-again-says-new-cdc-covid-19-guidance\">fully vaccinated people can travel within the U.S.\u003c/a> without getting tested for the coronavirus or going into quarantine afterward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During travel, you'll have to wear a mask on planes, buses, trains and other forms of public transit. You'll also have to do so indoors at U.S. transportation hubs such as airports and train or bus stations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After you arrive home from traveling, the CDC still recommends you monitor yourself for COVID symptoms, but says you'll only need to self-quarantine or get a coronavirus test if you do develop symptoms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11867796\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11867796\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48337_GettyImages-1292637776-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Two masked people hugging in an airport\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1299\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48337_GettyImages-1292637776-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48337_GettyImages-1292637776-qut-800x541.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48337_GettyImages-1292637776-qut-1020x690.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48337_GettyImages-1292637776-qut-160x108.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48337_GettyImages-1292637776-qut-1536x1039.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A traveler is hugged outside the Tom Bradley International Terminal after arriving at Los Angeles International Airport. \u003ccite>(Mario Tama/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>What about state-specific advice? Back on April 2, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/COVID-19/Travel-Advisory.aspx\">the California Department of Public Health released revised COVID-19 travel guidance \u003c/a>for both residents and travelers to the state, removing \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-01-07/californians-shouldnt-travel-more-than-120-miles-from-home-state-says\">previous guidelines that asked Californians to travel no further than 120 miles from their homes\u003c/a>. The revised guidelines still urge \u003cem>unvaccinated\u003c/em> Californians to \"avoid non-essential travel outside of California, to other states or countries.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>The short version: \u003c/strong>The CDC now says travel is OK once you're fully vaccinated, but you'll still need to mask in transit.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"when\">\u003c/a>Remind Me: When Am I Fully Vaccinated After My COVID-19 Vaccine?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>It's important to know that \u003ca class=\"c-link\" href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1972824/covid-19-vaccine-your-questions-answered#question11\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1972824/covid-19-vaccine-your-questions-answered#question11\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">you are \u003ci data-stringify-type=\"italic\">not\u003c/i> immediately protected from the coronavirus after your first vaccination shot\u003c/a>. That's because it takes your body time to build up the necessary antibodies that offer protection against getting sick from COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca class=\"c-link\" href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/fully-vaccinated.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/fully-vaccinated.html\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">You're considered \"fully protected\" \u003c/a>and \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/fully-vaccinated-guidance.html\">\"fully vaccinated,\"\u003c/a> according to the CDC, two weeks after your second dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna COVID-19 vaccine, or two weeks after the single-dose Johnson & Johnson/Janssen COVID-19 vaccine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11866647\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11866647\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/GettyImages-1231929310-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1405\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/GettyImages-1231929310-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/GettyImages-1231929310-800x439.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/GettyImages-1231929310-1020x560.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/GettyImages-1231929310-160x88.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/GettyImages-1231929310-1536x843.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/GettyImages-1231929310-2048x1124.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/GettyImages-1231929310-1920x1054.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Licensed vocational nurse Denise Saldana prepares the single-dose Johnson&Johnson/Janssen COVID-19 vaccine \u003ccite>(Frederic J Brown/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So what about your immunity \u003cem>before\u003c/em> that? For the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1972824/covid-19-vaccine-your-questions-answered#question11\">the first dose gives you most of the protection against severe disease\u003c/a> and the second dose takes you all the way there. Plus, experts think the second dose may extend how long the vaccine lasts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fourteen days after your first dose of the Moderna or Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, you are 80% protected on average, said \u003ca href=\"https://profiles.ucsf.edu/robert.wachter\">Dr. Robert Wachter\u003c/a>, chair of the UCSF Department of Medicine. (In case that makes you think about skipping the second dose, remember that the vaccine trials were two doses, so what we know about how well the vaccine works depends on two doses.)\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[aside postID=\"news_11855623\"]\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson & Johnson/Janssen's single dose provides 66% overall protection after two weeks. It becomes more effective at preventing severe or critical illness, at 85%, after 28 days.\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1972824/covid-19-vaccine-your-questions-answered#question11\"> Read more about how immunity develops after getting the vaccine.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it's also important to remember that not everyone's body will react to the vaccine the same way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's super important to wait two weeks after your last shot, because not everybody is the same, and although some people get some efficacy early on with antibodies being formed against the spike proteins, that's not true for most people,\" said Dr. Chin-Hong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We don't know who's going to get the antibody response early and who's not. So giving everyone a two week window period after your last shot gives us the confidence that you're going to act like the people in the clinical trials,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>The short version: \u003c/strong>Give the vaccine the time it needs to get your body protected from COVID-19. You're not fully vaccinated until two weeks after your dose.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"infection\">\u003c/a> If I'm Fully Vaccinated Can I Still Transmit COVID-19?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\"The bulk of the evidence now suggests that it is very, very unlikely that a vaccinated individual — who's fully vaccinated — can transmit to somebody who is not vaccinated. But there's always going to be a small chance,\" Chin-Hong said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, as with everything in the pandemic, it's best to err on the side of caution to protect your friends, family and greater community, and follow the guidelines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>The short version: \u003c/strong>We still don't know for sure yet if being fully vaccinated from COVID-19 stops you from spreading the virus. That's why you'll still be asked to wear a mask in certain scenarios.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Can I Still \u003cem>Get\u003c/em> COVID-19 When Fully Vaccinated?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The CDC says that the risk that fully vaccinated people could become infected with COVID-19 is \"low\" — but that any \u003cem>symptoms\u003c/em> of COVID-19 are the thing you should really watch for.[aside postID=\"science_1972824\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you're exposed to someone with suspected or confirmed COVID-19, but you're fully vaccinated and you have no COVID-like symptoms, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/fully-vaccinated-guidance.html\">you don't need to quarantine and you don't need to get tested for the coronavirus\u003c/a>. That's because your risk of infection is is low, says the CDC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11862753\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11862753\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/pexels-polina-tankilevitch-3873193.jpg\" alt=\"A woman with a face mask\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/pexels-polina-tankilevitch-3873193.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/pexels-polina-tankilevitch-3873193-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/pexels-polina-tankilevitch-3873193-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/pexels-polina-tankilevitch-3873193-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/pexels-polina-tankilevitch-3873193-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A year into the COVID-19 pandemic, we want to know: What do you need? \u003ccite>(Polina Tankilevitch/Pexels)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But if you are exposed and you \u003cem>do\u003c/em> get symptoms, the CDC says you should isolate yourselves from others and get a test. When this happens, it's important to let your health care provider know that you're fully vaccinated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CDC also has more detailed \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/infection-control-after-vaccination.html\">guidance for fully vaccinated people who work in health care settings\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>The short version: \u003c/strong>Your risk of getting COVID-19 when fully vaccinated is low, but watch for symptoms.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"ask\">\u003c/a>Ask Your Question: What Else Do You Want to Know?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>[hearken id=\"7478\" src=\"https://modules.wearehearken.com/kqed/embed/7478.js\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>A previous version of this post was published on April 27. \u003ci data-stringify-type=\"italic\">This post includes additional reporting from NPR’s Maria Godoy and Carmel Wroth, and \u003c/i>KQED Science's Carolina Cuellar.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Go straight to:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#where\">Where do I still have to wear a mask?\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#safe\">Is it safe to hang out with unvaccinated friends?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#kids\">How does this work with unvaccinated kids?\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#when\">Remind me: What does 'fully vaccinated' mean? \u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Almost half of California's population is fully vaccinated against COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And now, as of June 15, the state has reopened for \"business as usual\" — which includes scrapping the long-standing mask mandate and officially adopting the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's earlier guidance that fully vaccinated people no longer need to wear masks in most places.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(If you're feeling like you already heard about this CDC update, you're not imagining it: These are the same guidelines released back on May 13. Unlike other states, California has waited a month to adopt them.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Some people are nervous and some people are ready. And I can just tell you scientifically, we are ready,\" said Dr. Monica Gandhi, infectious disease expert and professor of medicine at UCSF, about this reopening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These vaccines absolutely work against variants ... it really is safe to ditch that mask inside if you're vaccinated,\" said Gandhi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With all this in mind, you might be wondering: What exactly can you now do after you're fully vaccinated? Where do you still have to wear a mask? And, perhaps more importantly, what should you not do?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Remember: Even though the official guidance has been updated, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11877048/californias-mask-mandate-ends-june-15-heres-why-some-fully-vaccinated-people-will-keep-wearing-them\">many fully vaccinated people will be choosing to still wear their mask\u003c/a> in certain settings, despite the rules saying they don't \u003cem>have\u003c/em> to. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11877048/californias-mask-mandate-ends-june-15-heres-why-some-fully-vaccinated-people-will-keep-wearing-them\">Read more\u003c/a> about the reasons you might consider holding onto your mask a little longer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#ask\">Don't see your question answered here? Wondering about specific situations? Ask KQED\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"where\">\u003c/a>If I'm Fully Vaccinated, in Which Settings Can I Ditch My Mask?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>As of June 15, pretty much everywhere — with a few exceptions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now that California has adopted the CDC's latest guidance, the only places that fully vaccinated people are still required to wear a mask are:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>On public transit, like BART and Muni (because \u003ca href=\"https://www.tsa.gov/news/press/releases/2021/04/30/tsa-extends-face-mask-requirement-airports-and-throughout\">the Transportation Security Administration has extended mask requirements\u003c/a> across all transportation networks throughout the United States — meaning buses, rail systems, planes and at airports — through Sept. 13)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Indoors in K-12 schools and child care settings\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Health care settings, like hospitals\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Homeless shelters, emergency shelters and and cooling centers.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Individual businesses, like stores, may also require customers wear masks. Your workplace may also have its own rules about you, as an employee, wearing a mask.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the CDC, here are \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/daily-life-coping/participate-in-activities.html\">examples of the outdoor situations\u003c/a> in which fully vaccinated Californians now no longer need masks. The asterisk* shows which activities still require unvaccinated people to wear a mask:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Walk, run, wheelchair roll or bike outdoors with members of your household\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Attend a small, outdoor gathering with fully vaccinated family and friends\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Attend a small, outdoor gathering with fully vaccinated and unvaccinated people, particularly in areas of substantial to high transmission*\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Dine at an outdoor restaurant with friends from multiple households*\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Attend a crowded outdoor event like a live performance, parade or sports event*\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>(Because all these updates can get confusing: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11871317/stop-and-smell-the-roses-cdc-says-many-americans-can-now-go-outside-safely-without-a-mask\">The CDC's earlier guidance about outdoor masking \u003c/a>stated that the only place fully vaccinated people had to wear a mask outside was in \u003cem>crowds\u003c/em>. This newest guidance for California, however, has removed this requirement.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11824024\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1900px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11824024\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/10-lb-rogue-weight-plate-near-people-gathered-703016-NEW.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1900\" height=\"1267\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/10-lb-rogue-weight-plate-near-people-gathered-703016-NEW.jpg 1900w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/10-lb-rogue-weight-plate-near-people-gathered-703016-NEW-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/10-lb-rogue-weight-plate-near-people-gathered-703016-NEW-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/10-lb-rogue-weight-plate-near-people-gathered-703016-NEW-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1900px) 100vw, 1900px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California has lifted its mask mandate, and fully vaccinated people no longer need to wear masks during exercise classes — unless a gym requires it. \u003ccite>(Victor Freitas/Pexels)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/daily-life-coping/participate-in-activities.html\">Examples of indoor settings\u003c/a> in which fully vaccinated Californians now no longer need masks (asterisk* shows which activities still require unvaccinated people to wear a mask):\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Visit a barber or hair salon*\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Go to an uncrowded, indoor shopping center or museum*\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Attend a small, indoor gathering of fully vaccinated and unvaccinated people from multiple households*\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Go to an indoor movie theater*\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Attend a full-capacity worship service*\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Sing in an indoor chorus*\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Eat at an indoor restaurant or bar*\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Participate in an indoor, high-intensity exercise class*\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Because it might not always be obvious ahead of time what businesses or locations might require you to put on a mask regardless of your vaccination status, it's a good idea to still bring a mask with you when you leave your home ... just in case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>The short version: \u003c/strong>If you're fully vaccinated, you can go mask-free in pretty much all settings, with important exceptions.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#ask\">Don't see your question answered here? Wondering about specific situations? Ask KQED\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"safe\">\u003c/a>What About Hanging Out With Unvaccinated Friends?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>If you're fully vaccinated and you're meeting up with a friend who for whatever reason hasn't got their vaccine yet, the CDC's guidance now effective in California says that \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/daily-life-coping/participate-in-activities.html\">\u003cem>you\u003c/em> don't have to wear your mask around them \u003c/a>— indoors or outdoors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If your unvaccinated friend is immunocompromised, or otherwise at high risk for getting very sick from COVID, you may want to chat to them about their preferences around masking. Even though your chances of transmitting the coronavirus to them are low as a fully vaccinated person, if masking up makes everyone involved feel safe and more comfortable, it might be something to consider. Read more about \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11877048/californias-mask-mandate-ends-june-15-heres-why-some-fully-vaccinated-people-will-keep-wearing-them#health\">vaccinated people wanting to mask around people with health conditions\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11866713\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11866713\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/pexels-cottonbro-4684262.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/pexels-cottonbro-4684262.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/pexels-cottonbro-4684262-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/pexels-cottonbro-4684262-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/pexels-cottonbro-4684262-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/pexels-cottonbro-4684262-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">If you and your friend are both fully vaccinated, it's safe to hang out with them indoors, without masks. \u003ccite>(Cottonbro/Pexels)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>You might also stay vigilant when it comes to the \u003cem>size\u003c/em> of any gathering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The numbers matter because it's just a matter of how many noses and mouths from different risk groups come together,\" said Dr. Peter Chin-Hong, a professor of medicine and infectious disease specialist at UCSF. \"The more people you bring together [vaccinated or unvaccinated], the higher the chances of somebody who didn't respond to the vaccine, and somebody who might have COVID might be in a larger group. So it's just really a statistical game.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>The short version:\u003c/strong> The CDC's guidance says you don't need a mask around unvaccinated people — but there a few instances in which you might still consider it. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"kids\">\u003c/a>How Does All This Work Around Unvaccinated Kids?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Are indoor play dates/hangouts OK if the adults are all vaccinated but the kids aren't?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While younger children are at lower risk of severe disease if they do get infected, the risk \"is not zero,\" said \u003ca href=\"https://www.uofmhealth.org/profile/922/preeti-n-malani-md\">Dr. Preeti Malani\u003c/a>, an infectious disease specialist and chief health officer at the University of Michigan. And kids can transmit to others, so you still need to be thoughtful about your social bubble.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outdoor play dates are safer, and Dr. \u003ca href=\"https://www.bumc.bu.edu/busm/profile/cassandra-pierre/\">Cassandra Pierre,\u003c/a> an infectious disease specialist at Boston Medical Center, said it's probably fine to let the kiddos go maskless if they are outside — provided there aren't variants of concern circulating widely in your community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11856374\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11856374\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/01202021_KidsCOVID_SH_01_10-e1611253693171.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mae Villanueva, 4, plays at Lake Balboa Park in Van Nuys on Jan. 20, 2021. \u003ccite>(Shae Hammond/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If you want the kids to play indoors, make sure you have an honest conversation with the other family about their risk factors. Did they just fly back from vacation in a spot where variants of concern are circulating widely? Do their kids play on a sports team that just had a COVID-19 case? Have they had a sleepover at someone else's house?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The point is, you have shared risk and shared responsibility in terms of play dates,\" Malani said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for how many families can join the indoor play date? Given CDC guidelines about meeting up with unvaccinated households, Pierre suggests limiting it to one family at a time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://profiles.ucsf.edu/monica.gandhi\">Dr. Monica Gandhi\u003c/a> is an infectious disease doctor at UCSF, and her interpretation is more liberal: If the kids are all low-risk and the adults are all vaccinated, she would suggest no more than four households. \"It's ultimately about what your risk tolerance is,\" Gandhi notes — though case rates in your community should help guide your decision making.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>My relatives want to hold a family reunion. Is it safe for us to gather?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes, but keep it small and keep most of the activities outdoors if you can. \"If you have a big family reunion, there's going to be risk,\" said Malani. \"It's probably not a great time to hang out with 100 people.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Make sure all the vulnerable adults in the family are vaccinated, and again, talk openly about the kids' risk factors. It might be a good idea to hold off on maskless indoor play dates for a week or two before traveling to the reunion, Pierre said. For older kids, maybe they shouldn't be spending a lot of time unmasked with a bunch of friends before they meet up with grandparents, said Dr. Emily Landon, an infectious disease specialist and executive medical director for infection prevention and control at the University of Chicago School of Medicine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What about taking a vacation with my unvaccinated kids?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If it's feasible, consider driving instead of flying, said \u003ca href=\"https://www.vumc.org/viiii/person/david-aronoff-md\">Dr. David Aronoff\u003c/a>, director of the division of infectious diseases at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you do fly, make sure your kids know how to wear a mask properly and keep their distance from other people. Pierre, the mother of 3-year-old twins, suggests avoiding longer flights because longer exposures pose potentially higher risks. Also, consider your sanity: It can be hard to keep young kids masked up and entertained on long-haul flights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The biggest risk on flights is from the exhalations of nearby passengers, so seat your kids in between you and their other parent, not on an aisle, suggest Aronoff and Gandhi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Avoid busy theme parks or crowded indoor activities at your destination. One other thing to consider: Will your kids have to quarantine once they're back home or refrain from school sports or other activities?\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"movies\">\u003c/a>Can I Travel if I'm Fully Vaccinated?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Yes. On April 2, the CDC updated its guidance to say \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11867775/fully-vaccinated-you-can-travel-again-says-new-cdc-covid-19-guidance\">fully vaccinated people can travel within the U.S.\u003c/a> without getting tested for the coronavirus or going into quarantine afterward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During travel, you'll have to wear a mask on planes, buses, trains and other forms of public transit. You'll also have to do so indoors at U.S. transportation hubs such as airports and train or bus stations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After you arrive home from traveling, the CDC still recommends you monitor yourself for COVID symptoms, but says you'll only need to self-quarantine or get a coronavirus test if you do develop symptoms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11867796\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11867796\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48337_GettyImages-1292637776-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Two masked people hugging in an airport\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1299\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48337_GettyImages-1292637776-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48337_GettyImages-1292637776-qut-800x541.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48337_GettyImages-1292637776-qut-1020x690.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48337_GettyImages-1292637776-qut-160x108.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48337_GettyImages-1292637776-qut-1536x1039.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A traveler is hugged outside the Tom Bradley International Terminal after arriving at Los Angeles International Airport. \u003ccite>(Mario Tama/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>What about state-specific advice? Back on April 2, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/COVID-19/Travel-Advisory.aspx\">the California Department of Public Health released revised COVID-19 travel guidance \u003c/a>for both residents and travelers to the state, removing \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-01-07/californians-shouldnt-travel-more-than-120-miles-from-home-state-says\">previous guidelines that asked Californians to travel no further than 120 miles from their homes\u003c/a>. The revised guidelines still urge \u003cem>unvaccinated\u003c/em> Californians to \"avoid non-essential travel outside of California, to other states or countries.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>The short version: \u003c/strong>The CDC now says travel is OK once you're fully vaccinated, but you'll still need to mask in transit.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"when\">\u003c/a>Remind Me: When Am I Fully Vaccinated After My COVID-19 Vaccine?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>It's important to know that \u003ca class=\"c-link\" href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1972824/covid-19-vaccine-your-questions-answered#question11\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1972824/covid-19-vaccine-your-questions-answered#question11\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">you are \u003ci data-stringify-type=\"italic\">not\u003c/i> immediately protected from the coronavirus after your first vaccination shot\u003c/a>. That's because it takes your body time to build up the necessary antibodies that offer protection against getting sick from COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca class=\"c-link\" href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/fully-vaccinated.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/fully-vaccinated.html\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">You're considered \"fully protected\" \u003c/a>and \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/fully-vaccinated-guidance.html\">\"fully vaccinated,\"\u003c/a> according to the CDC, two weeks after your second dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna COVID-19 vaccine, or two weeks after the single-dose Johnson & Johnson/Janssen COVID-19 vaccine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11866647\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11866647\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/GettyImages-1231929310-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1405\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/GettyImages-1231929310-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/GettyImages-1231929310-800x439.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/GettyImages-1231929310-1020x560.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/GettyImages-1231929310-160x88.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/GettyImages-1231929310-1536x843.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/GettyImages-1231929310-2048x1124.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/GettyImages-1231929310-1920x1054.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Licensed vocational nurse Denise Saldana prepares the single-dose Johnson&Johnson/Janssen COVID-19 vaccine \u003ccite>(Frederic J Brown/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So what about your immunity \u003cem>before\u003c/em> that? For the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1972824/covid-19-vaccine-your-questions-answered#question11\">the first dose gives you most of the protection against severe disease\u003c/a> and the second dose takes you all the way there. Plus, experts think the second dose may extend how long the vaccine lasts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fourteen days after your first dose of the Moderna or Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, you are 80% protected on average, said \u003ca href=\"https://profiles.ucsf.edu/robert.wachter\">Dr. Robert Wachter\u003c/a>, chair of the UCSF Department of Medicine. (In case that makes you think about skipping the second dose, remember that the vaccine trials were two doses, so what we know about how well the vaccine works depends on two doses.)\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Skip to: \u003ca href=\"#advice\">Advice on handling \"mask challenges\"\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>On June 15, California will fully reopen for \"business as usual.\" The state will officially adopt the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11873527/cdc-says-no-masks-needed-indoors-for-fully-vaccinated-with-a-few-caveats\">Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's guidance that fully vaccinated people can ditch their masks\u003c/a> in most indoor and outdoor settings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From that date onward, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/COVID-19/guidance-for-face-coverings.aspx#June15guidance\">the only places that vaccinated Californians will be required to wear masks\u003c/a> are: on and around public transit (e.g. BART, Muni, ferries and airplanes), indoors in K-12 schools and child care settings, health care settings, homeless shelters, emergency shelters and cooling centers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This update on mask guidance — which the state has waited almost a month to implement after the CDC first announced their new guidelines back in May — will no doubt have many vaccinated Californians delighted to finally stop wearing masks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But what if you're not ready to scrap your face covering just yet?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We asked KQED's social media audiences if they would in fact keep wearing a mask in certain situations after June 15, despite being fully vaccinated. And while many people told us they were looking forward to dispensing with masks, others gave multiple reasons that they wanted to keep wearing theirs a little longer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We consulted Dr. Peter Chin-Hong, a professor of medicine and infectious disease specialist at UCSF, on the reasons we'd heard for mask-wearing beyond June 15, asking how justified these concerns might be from a medical and social perspective. Read on for the full list — or skip to a particular one:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#habit\">Familiarity, habit and control\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#kids\">Concern for unvaccinated kids\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#colds\">Wanting to avoid colds and other viruses\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#health\">Concern for others with health conditions\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#trust\">Trust issues over who isn't really vaccinated\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#pressure\">Social pressure to mask up\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#privacy\">Privacy and convenience\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>(And if you're more in the mood for listening, you can \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11877720/if-youre-vaccinated-you-can-choose-the-unmasked-life-on-june-15-but-will-you\">hear this story explained on The Bay podcast\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"habit\">\u003c/a>Familiarity, Habit and Control\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11836826\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11836826 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/GettyImages-1228061500-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/GettyImages-1228061500-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/GettyImages-1228061500-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/GettyImages-1228061500-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/GettyImages-1228061500-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/GettyImages-1228061500-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/GettyImages-1228061500-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/GettyImages-1228061500-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A couple wearing face masks walk in the boardwalk in Venice, California. (Photo by Apu Gomes/AFP)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Perhaps one of the simplest reasons for continuing to wear masks: We've been collectively wearing them for over a year. We're now used to grabbing one before we leave the house, and accustomed to our jacket pockets being stuffed with face coverings from previous outings. After a year of public health messaging, many of us now automatically associate masks with safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Chin-Hong said June 15 feels to him like \"about the right time\" for California to adopt the CDC's guidance, he also stressed that continuing to cover your face, for whatever reason, is virtually without drawbacks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If people want to wear the masks, it's not going to \u003cem>harm\u003c/em> them,\" he said. \"Nobody ever dies from wearing a mask.\"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[aside postID=\"news_11877720\"]\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you're feeling attached to your mask, you may not even be alone for the first few weeks after June 15. Chin-Hong notes that just because California is formally adopting these latest CDC guidelines on masks doesn't mean a ton of people \u003cem>will\u003c/em> immediately start observing them. The state officially aligned with the CDC's previous set of guidelines — the update that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11871317/stop-and-smell-the-roses-cdc-says-many-americans-can-now-go-outside-safely-without-a-mask\">both vaccinated and unvaccinated people could mostly ditch their masks outdoors\u003c/a> — back in April, but many in the Bay Area have chosen to keep wearing face coverings outside anyway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think it's kind of reflecting, at least regionally, [some] people's hesitancy to sort of dispense with the masks altogether,\" said Chin-Hong. It could also be an indication that we might not see a great collective unmasking after June 15 just yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"kids\">\u003c/a>Concern For Unvaccinated Kids\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11862602\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11862602\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/GettyImages-1231222911-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/GettyImages-1231222911-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/GettyImages-1231222911-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/GettyImages-1231222911-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/GettyImages-1231222911-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/GettyImages-1231222911-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/GettyImages-1231222911-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/GettyImages-1231222911-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Children attend online classes at a learning hub inside the Crenshaw Family YMCA on Feb. 17, 2021 in Los Angeles. \u003ccite>(Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Right now, children younger than 12 years old can't get vaccinated (yet) in the United States. And some parents and caregivers are naturally concerned about keeping those kids safe from COVID, even as fully vaccinated adults around them are taking their masks off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Chin-Hong understands families' fears around this, he said this concern is \"only sensible if you think about context — and I think that's where much of the guidance is probably not comprehensive enough.\" This means it's all about assessing risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Evidence shows that children under 12 are far less likely to contract and transmit COVID than older kids and adults, Chin-Hong said. But he thinks that even when they're armed with these facts, many parents and caregivers are still \"probably just uncomfortable about the idea of not having zero risk, even though everything in life is not zero risk.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His ultimate advice? If you're feeling worried about the kids in your life, masking is \"a very mild intervention,\" meaning that continuing to do it has very few downsides. What's more, for caregivers, continuing to mask up might bring an element of control and agency that can feel highly comforting at this stage of the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another reason parents and caregivers might want to keep wearing masks after June 15? They may want to model mask-wearing for their kids to show it's important to keep your family and community safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You can't tell your kid, for example, to wear a bicycle helmet when you don't wear one yourself,\" Chin-Hong reminded us, calling it \"kind of Parenting 101.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"colds\">\u003c/a>Wanting to Avoid Colds and Other Viruses\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11877357\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11877357\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/pexels-andrea-piacquadio-3960031.jpg\" alt=\"Woman on a couch wrapped in a blanket, sneezing\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1307\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/pexels-andrea-piacquadio-3960031.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/pexels-andrea-piacquadio-3960031-800x545.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/pexels-andrea-piacquadio-3960031-1020x694.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/pexels-andrea-piacquadio-3960031-160x109.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/pexels-andrea-piacquadio-3960031-1536x1046.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">If you've managed to avoid getting the common cold during the pandemic, you're not the only one. \u003ccite>(Andrea Piacquadio/Pexels)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"I haven't had a single cold during the entire pandemic because of my mask\" is the essence of many comments we received from our audience. Several of you said it's your reason for wanting to wear masks in certain settings beyond June 15.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We heard from many audience members who told us they would definitely keep masking on public transit, like BART, which will actually be required for several months anyway. That's because \u003ca href=\"https://www.tsa.gov/news/press/releases/2021/04/30/tsa-extends-face-mask-requirement-airports-and-throughout\">the Transportation Security Administration has extended mask requirements\u003c/a> across all United States transportation networks, including on buses, trains, planes and at airports, through Sept. 13.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Your mask — along with social distancing, and increased hygiene like hand-washing — has probably very well protected you against the usual common colds you'd otherwise have picked up in settings like BART. Unlike COVID, many colds also spread from infection-carrying surfaces (called fomites), and Chin-Hong said that this is where masks really help protect you against colds: because they reduce your ability to touch your nose and mouth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the flip side, if you've heard people talking about how having less exposure to viruses like colds is actually \u003cem>bad\u003c/em> for your immune systems, Chin-Hong is happy to clarify: That's \"completely wrong.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That theory about your immune system not being 'trained enough' is kind of bonkers, because there are 200 different viruses that cause the common cold, at least,\" he said. So in other words, being exposed to one cold virus doesn't reduce your chances of getting another type of cold the next month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That said, Chin-Hong said the true power of the mask is its ability to protect others from \u003cem>your\u003c/em> infectious droplets. It's the reason that many people have worn masks in crowded places for years when they're sick, and why he hopes we'll see this practice continue beyond the COVID pandemic. If more people do that, he said, \"I think we'll all probably have fewer colds in general in the population.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In short: Keeping your mask on in crowed spaces where you're likely to touch surfaces during cold and flu season is a good idea — especially if you're not feeling great yourself.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"health\">\u003c/a>Concern for Others With Health Conditions\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11848580\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1258px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11848580\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/iStock-1265223254.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1258\" height=\"833\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/iStock-1265223254.jpg 1258w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/iStock-1265223254-800x530.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/iStock-1265223254-1020x675.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/iStock-1265223254-160x106.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1258px) 100vw, 1258px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A caregiver and her client. \u003ccite>(verbaska_studio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Many fully vaccinated audience members told us that they would continue to wear masks out of concern for friends and family who are immunocompromised, or who have other health conditions that mean the vaccine might not offer them full protection against the coronavirus. Some audience members told us this concern also extended to wearing masks in public beyond June 15 out of consideration for strangers in the crowd who might also have these health issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wanting to protect others in this way is a very valid thought, said Chin-Hong. And even though the science tells that fully vaccinated individuals are unlikely to spread COVID, if masking up around an immunocompromised person makes everyone involved feel safe and more comfortable, Chin-Hong said go for it. \"Certainly there's no harm in it,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you're immunocompromised yourself, Chin-Hong said the science is even more straightforward: Continuing to wear a mask in higher-risk settings, like crowds or indoors, is a good idea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"trust\">\u003c/a>Trust Issues Over Who Isn't Really Vaccinated\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11850544\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11850544\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/MuniBusMaskRequired.jpg\" alt=\"Pedestrian walks in North Beach, bus in the background\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/MuniBusMaskRequired.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/MuniBusMaskRequired-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/MuniBusMaskRequired-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/MuniBusMaskRequired-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/MuniBusMaskRequired-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A pedestrian walks near a Muni bus with a marquee reading 'Masks Required' in San Francisco on Dec. 4, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The CDC's guidance that California will adopt on June 15 said that fully vaccinated people can ditch their masks in most places. But how can you know if someone who's not wearing a mask in your vicinity really \u003cem>is\u003c/em> fully vaccinated?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This conundrum — the issue of trust and deceit, especially in public — was a recurrent theme in why our audiences told us they'd keep masking after June 15. And it's natural, given how the politicization of masks and the COVID vaccine has been a dangerous, depressing hallmark of the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it's important to consider context in this equation, said Chin-Hong. Even if you're concerned that someone is lying about being fully vaccinated so they can go unmasked, he said that Northern California's high vaccination rates and low coronavirus case counts mean that person's chances of having COVID are much lower than they would have been months ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Even if you don't trust someone,\" said Chin-Hong, \"the chances of you getting it right now in the Bay Area are still relatively small.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, if you're planning to travel to other parts of the state or the country this summer, bear in mind that it's all about the vaccination rates and COVID case count of the region you're in. In certain places, the chances that an unvaccinated person might be carrying the coronavirus are higher than they'd be in the Bay Area. If you're in one of these areas, wearing your mask again even if \u003cem>you're\u003c/em> fully vaccinated might well be a decision you want to take.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"pressure\">\u003c/a>Social Pressure to Mask Up\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11827410\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11827410\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/1920_GettyImages-1223036039-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/1920_GettyImages-1223036039-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/1920_GettyImages-1223036039-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/1920_GettyImages-1223036039-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/1920_GettyImages-1223036039-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/1920_GettyImages-1223036039-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/1920_GettyImages-1223036039-2048x1152.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/1920_GettyImages-1223036039-1920x1080.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People wearing face masks walk past a health and safety guideline board and an open restaurant on Santa Monica Pier. \u003ccite>(Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If you've felt uncomfortable not wearing your mask outdoors when everyone else is — even though, \u003cem>yes,\u003c/em> what you're doing aligns with the CDC outdoor guidance California adopted weeks ago — you're not alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many people told us they'd felt similar social pressure to mask up again in certain places even though they were fully vaccinated. Some told us they didn't want to be mistaken for someone who doesn't believe in science, or for someone who is anti-vaccine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But others told us that it wasn't so much that they felt pressured, but that they actively \u003cem>wanted\u003c/em> to telegraph their courtesy and care for others by keeping their mask on, even when they knew they posed no COVID risk to anyone else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We're social creatures, and these kinds of considerations are \"completely legitimate,\" said Chin-Hong — especially because as discussed above, wearing a mask can reduce the spread of other viruses like the common cold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'd love it if it becomes part of our culture,\" said Chin-Hong.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"privacy\">\u003c/a>Privacy and Convenience\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11817960\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11817960\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42580_005_KQED_SanFrancisco_Masks_04072020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Bertha Flores usando una mascarilla que hizo con su hija.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42580_005_KQED_SanFrancisco_Masks_04072020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42580_005_KQED_SanFrancisco_Masks_04072020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42580_005_KQED_SanFrancisco_Masks_04072020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42580_005_KQED_SanFrancisco_Masks_04072020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u003cspan class=\"highlight\">Bertha\u003c/span> \u003cspan class=\"highlight\">Flores\u003c/span> wears a mask that she made with her daughter on 24th Street in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Another reason given by our audience for appreciating mask-wearing: the privacy it afforded in public settings. As Chin-Hong said, \"What better way to stay incognito than wearing a mask?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We especially heard from several women commenters who told us that a mask reduced the amount of times random men told them to smile, or catcalled them. (Or \u003ca href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/bayarea/comments/nr0dm0/yn_are_you_planning_to_continue_wearing_a_mask/\">as Reddit user scarlet_tanager told us\u003c/a>, \"Strange men leave me the hell alone when I'm masked, which has been an absolute dream.\")\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other commenters told us they appreciated the sheer practicality of a mask when it came to covering their face, and how it allowed them to cut down on wearing makeup, or maintaining personal grooming they'd previously felt necessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A mask can also help shield your face from the Bay Area's notoriously fickle weather, offering more protection from bone-chilling fog and wind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This one's all down to personal preferences around appearance, comfort and convenience. Although it goes without saying that no person should ever feel they have to cover up their face to avoid being the target of street harassment.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"advice\">\u003c/a>OK, So What If I Get Challenged About Wearing My Mask?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11873530\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11873530\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS42579_004_KQED_SanFrancisco_Masks_04072020-qut-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS42579_004_KQED_SanFrancisco_Masks_04072020-qut-1.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS42579_004_KQED_SanFrancisco_Masks_04072020-qut-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS42579_004_KQED_SanFrancisco_Masks_04072020-qut-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS42579_004_KQED_SanFrancisco_Masks_04072020-qut-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS42579_004_KQED_SanFrancisco_Masks_04072020-qut-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alicia and Mai Gonzalez wear masks on 24th Street in San Francisco on April 7, 2020. Alicia's mask is from a Halloween store and Mai was given her mask by her physical therapist. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Even though many audience members told us they were planning to keep wearing their masks beyond June 15, a \u003cem>lot \u003c/em>of people also told us they couldn't wait for California to adopt the CDC's latest guidance, and dispense with mask-wearing. And several of those people expressed frustration that other fully vaccinated people wouldn't also feel this way, and similarly jump at the chance to take off their masks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Add this burgeoning contrast to the existing politicization of mask-wearing, and you might find that choosing to keep your mask on after June 15 could well provoke comments, or see you being challenged on your decision, either in private or in public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If that happens, what should you do?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Your first impulse might be to feel defensive, but Chin-Hong advises against this approach, for how it might escalate such a conversation. He suggests you consider assuming good faith, and that these kinds of comments, as unsolicited or unwanted as they might actually be coming from a place of concern that \u003cem>you\u003c/em> don't feel safe or secure with that person without your mask.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chin-Hong's advice is to initially approach these situations with gratitude and curiosity. You might begin by thanking someone for their concern, then following up by expressing your curiosity for the reason they're making their comment: \"I'm just really curious — why are you saying that?\" This approach, he said, can deescalate a situation much faster than automatically assuming bad intent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if you don't necessarily wish to engage someone in a dialogue by asking them to explain their comment, you can also just thank them for their concern and either change the subject or leave the situation entirely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chin-Hong hopes we don't see more instances of people being challenged about their preferences \u003cem>for\u003c/em> masks — especially because of the potential for this disproportionate impacting certain communities through prejudice. \"You can imagine lots of permutations with anti-Asian violence, because Asian populations have always worn a mask even before COVID,\" he said. \"These are things that I think we'll have to watch out for.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And be kind to each other, at the end of the day,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was originally published on June 9.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Skip to: \u003ca href=\"#advice\">Advice on handling \"mask challenges\"\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>On June 15, California will fully reopen for \"business as usual.\" The state will officially adopt the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11873527/cdc-says-no-masks-needed-indoors-for-fully-vaccinated-with-a-few-caveats\">Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's guidance that fully vaccinated people can ditch their masks\u003c/a> in most indoor and outdoor settings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From that date onward, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/COVID-19/guidance-for-face-coverings.aspx#June15guidance\">the only places that vaccinated Californians will be required to wear masks\u003c/a> are: on and around public transit (e.g. BART, Muni, ferries and airplanes), indoors in K-12 schools and child care settings, health care settings, homeless shelters, emergency shelters and cooling centers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This update on mask guidance — which the state has waited almost a month to implement after the CDC first announced their new guidelines back in May — will no doubt have many vaccinated Californians delighted to finally stop wearing masks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But what if you're not ready to scrap your face covering just yet?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We asked KQED's social media audiences if they would in fact keep wearing a mask in certain situations after June 15, despite being fully vaccinated. And while many people told us they were looking forward to dispensing with masks, others gave multiple reasons that they wanted to keep wearing theirs a little longer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We consulted Dr. Peter Chin-Hong, a professor of medicine and infectious disease specialist at UCSF, on the reasons we'd heard for mask-wearing beyond June 15, asking how justified these concerns might be from a medical and social perspective. Read on for the full list — or skip to a particular one:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#habit\">Familiarity, habit and control\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#kids\">Concern for unvaccinated kids\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#colds\">Wanting to avoid colds and other viruses\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#health\">Concern for others with health conditions\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#trust\">Trust issues over who isn't really vaccinated\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#pressure\">Social pressure to mask up\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#privacy\">Privacy and convenience\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>(And if you're more in the mood for listening, you can \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11877720/if-youre-vaccinated-you-can-choose-the-unmasked-life-on-june-15-but-will-you\">hear this story explained on The Bay podcast\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"habit\">\u003c/a>Familiarity, Habit and Control\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11836826\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11836826 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/GettyImages-1228061500-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/GettyImages-1228061500-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/GettyImages-1228061500-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/GettyImages-1228061500-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/GettyImages-1228061500-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/GettyImages-1228061500-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/GettyImages-1228061500-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/GettyImages-1228061500-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A couple wearing face masks walk in the boardwalk in Venice, California. (Photo by Apu Gomes/AFP)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Perhaps one of the simplest reasons for continuing to wear masks: We've been collectively wearing them for over a year. We're now used to grabbing one before we leave the house, and accustomed to our jacket pockets being stuffed with face coverings from previous outings. After a year of public health messaging, many of us now automatically associate masks with safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Chin-Hong said June 15 feels to him like \"about the right time\" for California to adopt the CDC's guidance, he also stressed that continuing to cover your face, for whatever reason, is virtually without drawbacks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If people want to wear the masks, it's not going to \u003cem>harm\u003c/em> them,\" he said. \"Nobody ever dies from wearing a mask.\"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you're feeling attached to your mask, you may not even be alone for the first few weeks after June 15. Chin-Hong notes that just because California is formally adopting these latest CDC guidelines on masks doesn't mean a ton of people \u003cem>will\u003c/em> immediately start observing them. The state officially aligned with the CDC's previous set of guidelines — the update that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11871317/stop-and-smell-the-roses-cdc-says-many-americans-can-now-go-outside-safely-without-a-mask\">both vaccinated and unvaccinated people could mostly ditch their masks outdoors\u003c/a> — back in April, but many in the Bay Area have chosen to keep wearing face coverings outside anyway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think it's kind of reflecting, at least regionally, [some] people's hesitancy to sort of dispense with the masks altogether,\" said Chin-Hong. It could also be an indication that we might not see a great collective unmasking after June 15 just yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"kids\">\u003c/a>Concern For Unvaccinated Kids\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11862602\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11862602\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/GettyImages-1231222911-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/GettyImages-1231222911-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/GettyImages-1231222911-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/GettyImages-1231222911-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/GettyImages-1231222911-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/GettyImages-1231222911-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/GettyImages-1231222911-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/GettyImages-1231222911-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Children attend online classes at a learning hub inside the Crenshaw Family YMCA on Feb. 17, 2021 in Los Angeles. \u003ccite>(Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Right now, children younger than 12 years old can't get vaccinated (yet) in the United States. And some parents and caregivers are naturally concerned about keeping those kids safe from COVID, even as fully vaccinated adults around them are taking their masks off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Chin-Hong understands families' fears around this, he said this concern is \"only sensible if you think about context — and I think that's where much of the guidance is probably not comprehensive enough.\" This means it's all about assessing risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Evidence shows that children under 12 are far less likely to contract and transmit COVID than older kids and adults, Chin-Hong said. But he thinks that even when they're armed with these facts, many parents and caregivers are still \"probably just uncomfortable about the idea of not having zero risk, even though everything in life is not zero risk.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His ultimate advice? If you're feeling worried about the kids in your life, masking is \"a very mild intervention,\" meaning that continuing to do it has very few downsides. What's more, for caregivers, continuing to mask up might bring an element of control and agency that can feel highly comforting at this stage of the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another reason parents and caregivers might want to keep wearing masks after June 15? They may want to model mask-wearing for their kids to show it's important to keep your family and community safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You can't tell your kid, for example, to wear a bicycle helmet when you don't wear one yourself,\" Chin-Hong reminded us, calling it \"kind of Parenting 101.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"colds\">\u003c/a>Wanting to Avoid Colds and Other Viruses\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11877357\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11877357\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/pexels-andrea-piacquadio-3960031.jpg\" alt=\"Woman on a couch wrapped in a blanket, sneezing\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1307\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/pexels-andrea-piacquadio-3960031.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/pexels-andrea-piacquadio-3960031-800x545.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/pexels-andrea-piacquadio-3960031-1020x694.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/pexels-andrea-piacquadio-3960031-160x109.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/pexels-andrea-piacquadio-3960031-1536x1046.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">If you've managed to avoid getting the common cold during the pandemic, you're not the only one. \u003ccite>(Andrea Piacquadio/Pexels)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"I haven't had a single cold during the entire pandemic because of my mask\" is the essence of many comments we received from our audience. Several of you said it's your reason for wanting to wear masks in certain settings beyond June 15.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We heard from many audience members who told us they would definitely keep masking on public transit, like BART, which will actually be required for several months anyway. That's because \u003ca href=\"https://www.tsa.gov/news/press/releases/2021/04/30/tsa-extends-face-mask-requirement-airports-and-throughout\">the Transportation Security Administration has extended mask requirements\u003c/a> across all United States transportation networks, including on buses, trains, planes and at airports, through Sept. 13.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Your mask — along with social distancing, and increased hygiene like hand-washing — has probably very well protected you against the usual common colds you'd otherwise have picked up in settings like BART. Unlike COVID, many colds also spread from infection-carrying surfaces (called fomites), and Chin-Hong said that this is where masks really help protect you against colds: because they reduce your ability to touch your nose and mouth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the flip side, if you've heard people talking about how having less exposure to viruses like colds is actually \u003cem>bad\u003c/em> for your immune systems, Chin-Hong is happy to clarify: That's \"completely wrong.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That theory about your immune system not being 'trained enough' is kind of bonkers, because there are 200 different viruses that cause the common cold, at least,\" he said. So in other words, being exposed to one cold virus doesn't reduce your chances of getting another type of cold the next month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That said, Chin-Hong said the true power of the mask is its ability to protect others from \u003cem>your\u003c/em> infectious droplets. It's the reason that many people have worn masks in crowded places for years when they're sick, and why he hopes we'll see this practice continue beyond the COVID pandemic. If more people do that, he said, \"I think we'll all probably have fewer colds in general in the population.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In short: Keeping your mask on in crowed spaces where you're likely to touch surfaces during cold and flu season is a good idea — especially if you're not feeling great yourself.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"health\">\u003c/a>Concern for Others With Health Conditions\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11848580\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1258px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11848580\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/iStock-1265223254.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1258\" height=\"833\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/iStock-1265223254.jpg 1258w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/iStock-1265223254-800x530.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/iStock-1265223254-1020x675.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/iStock-1265223254-160x106.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1258px) 100vw, 1258px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A caregiver and her client. \u003ccite>(verbaska_studio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Many fully vaccinated audience members told us that they would continue to wear masks out of concern for friends and family who are immunocompromised, or who have other health conditions that mean the vaccine might not offer them full protection against the coronavirus. Some audience members told us this concern also extended to wearing masks in public beyond June 15 out of consideration for strangers in the crowd who might also have these health issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wanting to protect others in this way is a very valid thought, said Chin-Hong. And even though the science tells that fully vaccinated individuals are unlikely to spread COVID, if masking up around an immunocompromised person makes everyone involved feel safe and more comfortable, Chin-Hong said go for it. \"Certainly there's no harm in it,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you're immunocompromised yourself, Chin-Hong said the science is even more straightforward: Continuing to wear a mask in higher-risk settings, like crowds or indoors, is a good idea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"trust\">\u003c/a>Trust Issues Over Who Isn't Really Vaccinated\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11850544\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11850544\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/MuniBusMaskRequired.jpg\" alt=\"Pedestrian walks in North Beach, bus in the background\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/MuniBusMaskRequired.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/MuniBusMaskRequired-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/MuniBusMaskRequired-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/MuniBusMaskRequired-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/MuniBusMaskRequired-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A pedestrian walks near a Muni bus with a marquee reading 'Masks Required' in San Francisco on Dec. 4, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The CDC's guidance that California will adopt on June 15 said that fully vaccinated people can ditch their masks in most places. But how can you know if someone who's not wearing a mask in your vicinity really \u003cem>is\u003c/em> fully vaccinated?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This conundrum — the issue of trust and deceit, especially in public — was a recurrent theme in why our audiences told us they'd keep masking after June 15. And it's natural, given how the politicization of masks and the COVID vaccine has been a dangerous, depressing hallmark of the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it's important to consider context in this equation, said Chin-Hong. Even if you're concerned that someone is lying about being fully vaccinated so they can go unmasked, he said that Northern California's high vaccination rates and low coronavirus case counts mean that person's chances of having COVID are much lower than they would have been months ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Even if you don't trust someone,\" said Chin-Hong, \"the chances of you getting it right now in the Bay Area are still relatively small.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, if you're planning to travel to other parts of the state or the country this summer, bear in mind that it's all about the vaccination rates and COVID case count of the region you're in. In certain places, the chances that an unvaccinated person might be carrying the coronavirus are higher than they'd be in the Bay Area. If you're in one of these areas, wearing your mask again even if \u003cem>you're\u003c/em> fully vaccinated might well be a decision you want to take.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"pressure\">\u003c/a>Social Pressure to Mask Up\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11827410\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11827410\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/1920_GettyImages-1223036039-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/1920_GettyImages-1223036039-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/1920_GettyImages-1223036039-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/1920_GettyImages-1223036039-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/1920_GettyImages-1223036039-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/1920_GettyImages-1223036039-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/1920_GettyImages-1223036039-2048x1152.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/1920_GettyImages-1223036039-1920x1080.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People wearing face masks walk past a health and safety guideline board and an open restaurant on Santa Monica Pier. \u003ccite>(Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If you've felt uncomfortable not wearing your mask outdoors when everyone else is — even though, \u003cem>yes,\u003c/em> what you're doing aligns with the CDC outdoor guidance California adopted weeks ago — you're not alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many people told us they'd felt similar social pressure to mask up again in certain places even though they were fully vaccinated. Some told us they didn't want to be mistaken for someone who doesn't believe in science, or for someone who is anti-vaccine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But others told us that it wasn't so much that they felt pressured, but that they actively \u003cem>wanted\u003c/em> to telegraph their courtesy and care for others by keeping their mask on, even when they knew they posed no COVID risk to anyone else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We're social creatures, and these kinds of considerations are \"completely legitimate,\" said Chin-Hong — especially because as discussed above, wearing a mask can reduce the spread of other viruses like the common cold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'd love it if it becomes part of our culture,\" said Chin-Hong.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"privacy\">\u003c/a>Privacy and Convenience\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11817960\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11817960\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42580_005_KQED_SanFrancisco_Masks_04072020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Bertha Flores usando una mascarilla que hizo con su hija.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42580_005_KQED_SanFrancisco_Masks_04072020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42580_005_KQED_SanFrancisco_Masks_04072020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42580_005_KQED_SanFrancisco_Masks_04072020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42580_005_KQED_SanFrancisco_Masks_04072020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u003cspan class=\"highlight\">Bertha\u003c/span> \u003cspan class=\"highlight\">Flores\u003c/span> wears a mask that she made with her daughter on 24th Street in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Another reason given by our audience for appreciating mask-wearing: the privacy it afforded in public settings. As Chin-Hong said, \"What better way to stay incognito than wearing a mask?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We especially heard from several women commenters who told us that a mask reduced the amount of times random men told them to smile, or catcalled them. (Or \u003ca href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/bayarea/comments/nr0dm0/yn_are_you_planning_to_continue_wearing_a_mask/\">as Reddit user scarlet_tanager told us\u003c/a>, \"Strange men leave me the hell alone when I'm masked, which has been an absolute dream.\")\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other commenters told us they appreciated the sheer practicality of a mask when it came to covering their face, and how it allowed them to cut down on wearing makeup, or maintaining personal grooming they'd previously felt necessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A mask can also help shield your face from the Bay Area's notoriously fickle weather, offering more protection from bone-chilling fog and wind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This one's all down to personal preferences around appearance, comfort and convenience. Although it goes without saying that no person should ever feel they have to cover up their face to avoid being the target of street harassment.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"advice\">\u003c/a>OK, So What If I Get Challenged About Wearing My Mask?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11873530\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11873530\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS42579_004_KQED_SanFrancisco_Masks_04072020-qut-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS42579_004_KQED_SanFrancisco_Masks_04072020-qut-1.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS42579_004_KQED_SanFrancisco_Masks_04072020-qut-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS42579_004_KQED_SanFrancisco_Masks_04072020-qut-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS42579_004_KQED_SanFrancisco_Masks_04072020-qut-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS42579_004_KQED_SanFrancisco_Masks_04072020-qut-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alicia and Mai Gonzalez wear masks on 24th Street in San Francisco on April 7, 2020. Alicia's mask is from a Halloween store and Mai was given her mask by her physical therapist. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Even though many audience members told us they were planning to keep wearing their masks beyond June 15, a \u003cem>lot \u003c/em>of people also told us they couldn't wait for California to adopt the CDC's latest guidance, and dispense with mask-wearing. And several of those people expressed frustration that other fully vaccinated people wouldn't also feel this way, and similarly jump at the chance to take off their masks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Add this burgeoning contrast to the existing politicization of mask-wearing, and you might find that choosing to keep your mask on after June 15 could well provoke comments, or see you being challenged on your decision, either in private or in public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If that happens, what should you do?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Your first impulse might be to feel defensive, but Chin-Hong advises against this approach, for how it might escalate such a conversation. He suggests you consider assuming good faith, and that these kinds of comments, as unsolicited or unwanted as they might actually be coming from a place of concern that \u003cem>you\u003c/em> don't feel safe or secure with that person without your mask.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chin-Hong's advice is to initially approach these situations with gratitude and curiosity. You might begin by thanking someone for their concern, then following up by expressing your curiosity for the reason they're making their comment: \"I'm just really curious — why are you saying that?\" This approach, he said, can deescalate a situation much faster than automatically assuming bad intent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if you don't necessarily wish to engage someone in a dialogue by asking them to explain their comment, you can also just thank them for their concern and either change the subject or leave the situation entirely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chin-Hong hopes we don't see more instances of people being challenged about their preferences \u003cem>for\u003c/em> masks — especially because of the potential for this disproportionate impacting certain communities through prejudice. \"You can imagine lots of permutations with anti-Asian violence, because Asian populations have always worn a mask even before COVID,\" he said. \"These are things that I think we'll have to watch out for.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And be kind to each other, at the end of the day,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was originally published on June 9.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Last week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated its guidance to say that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11873527/cdc-says-no-masks-needed-indoors-for-fully-vaccinated-with-a-few-caveats\">fully vaccinated Americans no longer need to wear masks\u003c/a> in most places, indoors and outdoors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But California officials announced Monday that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11874066/when-can-you-stop-wearing-a-mask-in-california-state-says-june-15-2\">the state will not align with the CDC’s guidance\u003c/a> until June 15.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why June 15? And what are the rules on face coverings to know right now? Read on for more.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Q. Why Isn’t California Following the CDC?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>A. “It’s in no way saying that the science or the direction by the CDC is wrong or there’s a challenge to it,” said Dr. Mark Ghaly, secretary of the California Health and Human Services Agency at a press briefing about the state’s announcement. It’s more about buying time, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This four-week period will give Californians time to prepare for this change while we continue the relentless focus on delivering vaccines, particularly to underserved communities and those that were hard hit throughout this pandemic,” Ghaly said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Q. Why Has June 15 Been Chosen?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>A. Gov. Gavin Newsom had previously set June 15 as \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11868240/newsom-announces-plan-to-open-up-business-as-usual-in-california-by-june-15\">the date when California will reopen for “business as usual,”\u003c/a> so long as COVID-19 case numbers and vaccination rates met certain thresholds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom said this opening day would also be “subject to ongoing mask-wearing and ongoing vigilance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Q. What Are California’s Current Mask Guidelines For Fully Vaccinated People?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>A. In short, if you’re fully vaccinated and you’re outdoors, the only setting in which you still need a mask in California until June 15 is in a large crowd of strangers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In indoor settings outside your home, including on public transit, you still need a mask even if you’re fully vaccinated until June 15 comes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read more about \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11864473/what-can-you-do-after-youre-fully-vaccinated-against-covid-19\">what fully vaccinated people can (and can’t) do\u003c/a>, including the guidance for visiting unvaccinated people.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Q. What About Businesses Like Trader Joe’s That Say They Won’t Require Masks?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>A. If a business is in California it has to adhere to California guidelines. This includes national chains like Starbucks, Walmart and Trader Joe’s, which have already \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/14/business/trader-joes-mask-guidance/index.html\">announced they will no longer require fully vaccinated customers to don masks in their stores\u003c/a> in places that have adopted the CDC’s new guidelines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Basically, you still need a mask at TJ’s until June 15 is here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Q. What Will Change Starting June 15?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>A. On this “opening day,” California will adopt \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11873527/cdc-says-no-masks-needed-indoors-for-fully-vaccinated-with-a-few-caveats\">the CDC’s updated guidance\u003c/a> that fully vaccinated people can go maskless in most settings, indoors and outdoors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But after June 15, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/coronavirusliveupdates/news/11873943/when-can-you-stop-wearing-a-mask-in-california-state-says-june-15\">California will continue to require mask-wearing in all public schools\u003c/a>, in line with CDC guidelines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Masks will also still be required in some public spaces, including hospitals, on public transit and in congregate housing facilities like nursing homes, homeless shelters and prisons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='coronavirus-resources-and-explainers']\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Q. Where Should I Go For the Latest California Mask Guidelines?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>If you’re looking for online clarity before June 15, you should source your answers from \u003ca href=\"https://covid19.ca.gov/masks-and-ppe/\">the California Department of Public Health’s site\u003c/a> rather than from \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/fully-vaccinated-guidance.html\">the CDC’s webpages\u003c/a>, because of this new disconnect between the CDC and California’s rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the state and the CDC align on mask-wearing on June 15, this will all — hopefully — become a lot simpler.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Q. I’m Already Worried About Wildfires and Smoke. How Does California’s Mask Guidance Square With Smoke Protection?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“The best mask for protecting oneself from wildfire smoke is an N95. That’s also the best mask for protecting oneself from coronavirus,” said Dr. John Balmes, a UCSF pulmonologist and professor of medicine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>N95 masks are \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/respirators-strategy/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">no longer in short supply\u003c/a> either, as they were in the early part of the pandemic, so you don’t need to worry about taking supplies of these masks away from health care providers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Surgical masks are the next best thing, and Balmes estimated surgical masks can reduce exposure to wildfire smoke by roughly 20%. A cloth mask does \u003cem>not\u003c/em> filter out wildfire smoke.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read more about \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11834305/masks-for-smoke-and-covid-19-what-kind-is-best\">which mask to wear during the pandemic in the event of wildfire\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11874057/vacunas-contra-covid-19-para-ninos-de-12-a-15-anos-en-california-encuentre-una-cita-cerca-de-usted\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Leer en español.\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Go straight to:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#find\">How Do I Find a Pfizer Vaccine for Kids Ages 12-15?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#ID\">What Kind of ID Is Needed?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#accompany\">Do I Need to Accompany My Kid to Their Appointment?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Children and young people ages 12-15 are now \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2021/05/12/996185305/federal-panel-recommends-coronavirus-vaccines-for-adolescents-aged-12-15\">eligible for the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine\u003c/a> in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re looking for a vaccine appointment for someone in this age group in the Bay Area, statewide appointments for children ages 12-15 became available on \u003ca href=\"https://myturn.ca.gov/\">the state’s My Turn vaccination site \u003c/a>starting Thursday, May 13. There are, however, a number of ways to secure a COVID-19 vaccine for ages 12-15.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"find\">\u003c/a>How Do I Find a Pfizer Vaccine for Kids Ages 12-15?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>First of all, if you’re looking for a COVID vaccine appointment near you for someone in this age group, you need to make sure that appointment is for the Pfizer vaccine, which is now authorized for people ages 12 and older. That’s because the Moderna and Johnson & Johnson vaccines are still only authorized for use in people 18 and older.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The good news is that with this age expansion, most vaccine appointments will be clearly labeled with the vaccine type or with the ages being served.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You may not even need an appointment. As supplies of COVID-19 vaccines are finally catching up to demand in California, there are many drop-in, no-appointment-required clinics now operating in the Bay Area. You can find \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11855623/where-can-i-get-a-covid-19-vaccine-in-the-bay-area-your-questions-answered#county\">your county’s list of drop-in sites\u003c/a>, or use \u003ca href=\"https://myturn.ca.gov/clinic.html\">My Turn’s guide to walk-up clinics near you\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some vaccination websites will allow you to filter appointments by vaccine type. For example, on \u003ca href=\"https://www.vaccines.gov/search/\">Vaccines.gov\u003c/a> (also known as Vaccine Finder) you can deselect Moderna and Johnson & Johnson vaccines to see only sites offering Pfizer vaccines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>VaccinateCA, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11856204/californias-clearest-covid-19-vaccine-appointment-dashboard-is-run-by-volunteers\">a California volunteer organization that aggregates and confirms details of statewide vaccination sites\u003c/a>, has now expanded nationwide as part of the nonprofit Vaccinate the States. Their vaccine locator map below shows only Pfizer locations in the Bay Area, using information from Vaccines.gov and calls to individual locations:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"width: 0px;overflow: hidden;line-height: 0\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\u003c/span>\u003cspan data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"width: 0px;overflow: hidden;line-height: 0\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\u003c/span>\u003cspan data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"width: 0px;overflow: hidden;line-height: 0\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Don’t assume you or the young people in your care will be proactively contacted about getting the COVID-19 vaccine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are four major ways to find a COVID-19 vaccine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1. Find a Vaccine Through My Turn\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://myturn.ca.gov/\">My Turn\u003c/a> is the state’s tool that allows Californians to schedule COVID vaccination appointments at mass vaccination sites, clinics and pharmacies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>2. Find a Vaccine Through Your County\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11855623/where-can-i-get-a-covid-19-vaccine-in-the-bay-area-your-questions-answered#county\">Visit your county’s public health website \u003c/a>to learn how your county is vaccinating residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>3. Find a Vaccine Through Your Health Care Provider\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you have health insurance that covers a young person in your care, check with your provider to see if they can offer a COVID-19 vaccine. If they don’t have health insurance but get medical care through a city/county-run provider, you can check with that location.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>4. Find a Vaccine Through a Local Pharmacy\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several pharmacy chains are offering online appointments for COVID-19 vaccines — and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/coronavirusliveupdates/news/11872286/some-cvs-pharmacies-now-offering-walk-in-vaccinations\">you can now find a shot without an appointment at any CVS pharmacy\u003c/a> that offers them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cvs.com/immunizations/covid-19-vaccine?icid=cvs-home-hero1-banner-1-link2-coronavirus-vaccine\">CVS COVID-19 Vaccine Appointments \u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.riteaid.com/pharmacy/covid-qualifier?utm_source=state&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=Covid19&utm_content=Covid19scheduler_CA_2_12_21\">Rite Aid COVID-19 Vaccine Appointments\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.mhealthappointments.com/covidappt\">Safeway (Albertsons) COVID-19 Vaccine Appointments\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.walgreens.com/findcare/vaccination/covid-19?ban=covid_vaccine_landing_schedule\">Walgreens COVID-19 Vaccine Appointments\u003c/a> (or call 1-800-WALGREENS, 1-800-925-4733)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://book-costcopharmacy.appointment-plus.com/d0bm29vq/?e_id=5515#/\">Costco COVID-19 Vaccine Appointments\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch3>Do I Need to Make My Kid’s Vaccine Appointment for Them?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Technically, yes. When using \u003ca href=\"https://myturn.ca.gov/\">My Turn\u003c/a> to find a vaccine appointment, people ages 12-17 will need a parent or legal guardian to make the booking, since My Turn asks you to “certify that I am at least 18 years of age, or the parent or legal guardian of the minor patient.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"ID\">\u003c/a>What Kind of ID Can a Young Person Use?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>A driver’s license is a common method of photo ID for many people at vaccination appointments — but people under 16 years old won’t have one. So what kind of ID will be accepted at a vaccine site for the 12-15 age group?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Marin County spokesperson said anything that shows a young person’s date of birth will be an acceptable form of ID for a vaccine appointment. This could include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Their photo ID\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Their birth certificate\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Their student ID card\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Their insurance card\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Their report card, or another document from school that shows their date of birth\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Dr. Anand Chabra, medical director of San Mateo County Health’s Family Health Services Division, said vaccination officials recognize that many young people ages 12-15 “may not have a formal form of ID other than their birth certificate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Young people arriving for a vaccination appointment should therefore bring “whatever they have” in terms of ID, said Chabra. And if their parent or legal guardian is with them, that individual can also be asked to “attest to the information even if they don’t have a form of written ID or a government-issued ID,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One exception to these ID requirements is Contra Costa County, which does not require a person’s ID to provide a vaccination. Contra Costa is also vaccinating anyone regardless of whether they are a county resident or not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When you make a COVID-19 vaccine appointment for someone age 12-15, be sure to note if there are any site-specific details given about acceptable forms of identification.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"accompany\">\u003c/a>Do I Need to Accompany My Kid to Their Vaccine Appointment?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Generally, yes: A parent or legal guardian will need to be present with someone younger than 18 at their vaccine appointment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If a parent or legal guardian cannot accompany a minor who wants to get vaccinated, many vaccination sites allow young people to bring a consent form signed by their parent or legal guardian. \u003ca href=\"https://cepatest.sccgov.org/vaccination_documents\">Santa Clara County, for example, has a consent form available online\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Having this signed consent form would allow a minor to attend the vaccine appointment with an adult who \u003cem>isn’t\u003c/em> their parent or legal guardian (for example, if a group of teens are being driven to their appointments together by one of their parents). The form would also allow them to attend the appointment alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Resources and Explainers' tag='coronavirus-resources-and-explainers']Since it’s possible that each vaccination site has its own guidelines on minors getting their shot without a parent or legal guardian present, be sure to investigate that particular site’s recommendations before making the vaccine appointment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If a minor shows up for a vaccine appointment without a guardian or a signed consent form, that still doesn’t necessarily mean they’ll be turned away — just that what happens next might depend on the vaccination site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Ahmad Kamal, vice chair of the Department of Medicine at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, confirmed that at the Levi’s Stadium vaccination clinic, staff will call a minor’s parent or guardian to discuss consent on the phone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our goal is to make it easier than ever for young people especially to get vaccinated,” said Kamal. 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You can find \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11855623/where-can-i-get-a-covid-19-vaccine-in-the-bay-area-your-questions-answered#county\">your county’s list of drop-in sites\u003c/a>, or use \u003ca href=\"https://myturn.ca.gov/clinic.html\">My Turn’s guide to walk-up clinics near you\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some vaccination websites will allow you to filter appointments by vaccine type. For example, on \u003ca href=\"https://www.vaccines.gov/search/\">Vaccines.gov\u003c/a> (also known as Vaccine Finder) you can deselect Moderna and Johnson & Johnson vaccines to see only sites offering Pfizer vaccines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>VaccinateCA, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11856204/californias-clearest-covid-19-vaccine-appointment-dashboard-is-run-by-volunteers\">a California volunteer organization that aggregates and confirms details of statewide vaccination sites\u003c/a>, has now expanded nationwide as part of the nonprofit Vaccinate the States. 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When using \u003ca href=\"https://myturn.ca.gov/\">My Turn\u003c/a> to find a vaccine appointment, people ages 12-17 will need a parent or legal guardian to make the booking, since My Turn asks you to “certify that I am at least 18 years of age, or the parent or legal guardian of the minor patient.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"disqusTitle": "How to Get Your California Stimulus Check — and Other Tax Credits You're Entitled To",
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"content": "\u003cp>With just one week left until the May 17 tax deadline, Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday proposed a major expansion of California's economic stimulus plan – making it all the more important to make sure you file your taxes on time to get the financial help you're entitled to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in February, Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11861667/gov-newsom-signs-7-6-billion-stimulus-package\">approved a $7.6 billion plan\u003c/a> known as the Golden State Stimulus, which promised a one-time payment of $600 for anyone who earned less than $30,000 last year. The state also offered an additional $600 ($1,200 in total) to low-income folks, including undocumented immigrants who file their taxes with an Individual Taxpayer Identification Number. Additionally, the federal government’s third stimulus package delivers $1,400 to individuals who earned less than $75,000 last year. \u003cem>(\u003ca href=\"#whenstim\">Find out how long you're likely to wait to receive your payment\u003c/a>).\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11872910/flush-with-cash-california-set-to-send-billions-in-rebates-to-taxpayers\">announced a proposal\u003c/a> that would essentially expand the the Golden State Stimulus to households with adjusted gross incomes of up to $75,000. The new, higher income cap would mean two-thirds of the state’s taxpayers would be eligible to receive a $600 check, Newsom said at a press conference in Oakland. The proposal is part of a larger $100 billion California Comeback Plan, which will need approval from the Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While such stimulus efforts are meant to benefit families that have been hit hard by the pandemic, a report released in early April \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/coronavirusliveupdates/news/11868453/millions-of-californians-entitled-to-stimulus-payments-may-not-be-getting-them-heres-how-to-make-sure-you-do\">showed it wasn't reaching those most in need\u003c/a>.[aside postID=\"news_11870566\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We estimate that 2.2 million low-income Californians who are on safety net programs like CalFresh or CalWORKs are missing out on $5.7 billion in stimulus payments,” said Aparna Ramesh, senior research manager with the California Policy Lab and co-author of the report, last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why? In order to send payments quickly, the federal and state governments used previous years' tax filings as indicators for need. But that overlooked folks who weren't required to file taxes at all because they had little to no income and didn't owe money to the IRS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s also folks who made more than $30,000 in 2019 and saw their income drop below the cutoff in 2020. But without your 2020 taxes filed, the state government will use your 2019 information to decide whether you qualify for a stimulus payment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, the most dependable way to ensure you get the payments you are due is to file your taxes for 2020 – even if you’re not required to, and even if you have no income to report from the last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In this guide, we’ve collected essential information to help you make sure you get the aid you're entitled to, ranging from local tax credit programs like the San Francisco Working Families Credit (which grants up to $500 to eligible families) to the Golden State Stimulus plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We've also included relevant information for undocumented and mixed-status families, who \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2021/02/california-600-stimulus-checks-undocumented-workers/\">may also qualify for an additional $600 from the state\u003c/a> this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Related: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11870566/filing-your-taxes-if-you-claimed-unemployment-benefits-what-to-know-where-to-find-help\">read our guide to filing your taxes if you claimed unemployment benefits.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Click on the links below to skip to a specific section:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#qualify\">I Earned Between $30,000 and $75,000. Do I Qualify for the Stimulus?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#automatic\">What You're Automatically Eligible for When You File\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#eitc\">Keeping Track of the California Earned Income Tax Credit\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#whenstim\">When Will I Get My California Stimulus Payment?\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#wfc\">Applying for San Francisco’s Working Families Credit\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#itin\">How to Request an ITIN\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#orgs\">Organizations Offering Free Tax Assistance in the Bay Area\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"qualify\">\u003c/a>My Household Earned Between $30,000 and $75,000. Do I Qualify for the Golden State Stimulus?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Not \u003cem>yet\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11872910/flush-with-cash-california-set-to-send-billions-in-rebates-to-taxpayers\">announced on Monday\u003c/a>, part of a larger $10 billion \"California Comeback Plan,\" is a major expansion of the state’s stimulus package from February and would include households earning between $30,000 and $75,000 per year in a new round of $600 checks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to provide direct relief to people in the middle class,” Newsom said at a press conference Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the package still needs the Legislature’s approval. Several legislators have already expressed their support for Newsom’s expansion – but don’t expect a check in the mail just yet if your family earned between $30,000 and $75,000 last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taxpayers with dependents would also see an additional $500. So, if you already received your $600 check, you could expect the extra $500 to arrive later on (the governor’s office hasn’t released a timeline yet of when the $500 would be sent out).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor also said he plans to add an extra $2 billion to the state’s rent relief program, an amount he believes could cover 100% of back-rent for tenants who have fallen behind in their rent payments during the pandemic. \u003cem>(\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11864513/rent-relief-in-california-how-to-apply-and-what-you-could-get\">Find out how to apply for California’s rent relief program\u003c/a>).\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"automatic\">\u003c/a>What You're Automatically Eligible for When You File\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The first step can sometimes be the hardest. But if you don’t file your taxes on time, you may miss out on the money you're entitled to, regardless of your income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The goal of the $600 checks is to help those facing the greatest economic challenges due to COVID-19,” said Yolanda López, financial capability coordinator with the \u003ca href=\"https://unitycouncil.org/\">Unity Council\u003c/a>, a nonprofit organization in Oakland that offers free tax assistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By simply filing your taxes you will then be eligible to receive this aid through direct deposit to the account you used when filing your taxes, or [money] will be sent as a physical check to the address provided in your filing,” López added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11864244 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/iStock_daycare_01-1020x680.jpeg']Not reporting your earnings may also put you at risk of missing out on everything you could receive from the third stimulus package.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal government calculates your eligibility based on your most recent tax filing. So if you didn't file your 2020 taxes before the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/03/10/975030323/house-gives-final-approval-to-1-9-trillion-covid-19-relief-package\">most recent stimulus\u003c/a> was signed by President Biden on March 11, your eligibility will be calculated based on your 2019 earnings. So if you made more than $75,000 in 2019 — but less than that in 2020 — you may not qualify for these checks, despite seeing your income drop during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if you didn't receive a check from the first or second stimulus packages even though you may have qualified, you can claim these payments in your taxes through something called a Recovery Rebate Credit. The IRS \u003ca href=\"https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/recovery-rebate-credit\">provides instructions on how to include this credit in your taxes\u003c/a> (note: you'll need to look for a letter the IRS sent out to those who didn't receive a check called a 1444 Notice).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the case of undocumented workers, López pointed out that California calculates their eligibility for state aid using their state tax returns, information linked to their \u003ca href=\"https://www.irs.gov/individuals/individual-taxpayer-identification-number\">Individual Taxpayer Identification Number\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An ITIN is a number created by the IRS for taxpayers who don’t have a Social Security number due to their immigration status. While an ITIN helps navigate taxation, it doesn’t provide any privileges or protections. \u003ca href=\"#itin\">Learn more\u003c/a> about how to apply for an ITIN.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"eitc\">\u003c/a>Keeping Track of the California Earned Income Tax Credit\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>For the first time ever, undocumented workers will also be eligible for the California Earned Income Tax Credit this year. This rebate – for Californians who earn up to $30,000 – can provide as much as $3,027 depending on the number of children you have.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This will also be included in your state taxes. Qualifying for the EITC means you qualify for the Golden State Stimulus,” López said. Households that get the state EITC will also be eligible for that one-time $600 pandemic stimulus payment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But to be eligible, make sure you include the California Earned Income Tax Credit FTB 3514 form in your filing, or make sure to ask your tax preparer. Learn more about organizations offering free tax assistance in the Bay Area \u003ca href=\"#orgs\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11861667 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS42402_047_KQED_BethLaBerge_BloomEnergy_Newsom_03282020-qut-1020x680.jpg']In the case of families with mixed status, where the head of household is undocumented and the spouse or children have a legal immigration status, “that is not an obstacle any more to receive the California EITC. If the taxpayer has a valid ITIN number and makes under $30,000, they should qualify,” López pointed out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While ITIN holders qualify for the California EITC, they still are ineligible for the federal earned income tax credit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>López also highlighted how important it is to distinguish between government aid — like stimulus checks and rebates — and taxable benefits like unemployment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You have to report what you got from unemployment as part of your income,\" she said, while clarifying that stimulus checks – either from the state or federal government – are not taxable.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"whenstim\">\u003c/a>When Will I Get My California Stimulus Payment?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>While California \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11861667/gov-newsom-signs-7-6-billion-stimulus-package\">approved the Golden State Stimulus plan back in February\u003c/a>, which includes a one-time payment of $600 for anyone who earned less than $30,000 last year, many residents are still waiting on their money after having filed their 2020 taxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The original timeline provided by the Department of Finance in March specified that eligible taxpayers who filed their 2020 taxes with direct deposit should expect to receive their rebate within a period of up to 45 days, while those without direct deposit may have to wait up to 60 days. That timeline is still accurate, according to the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On top of that $600 stimulus check, Californians receiving \u003ca href=\"https://www.ssa.gov/pubs/EN-05-11125.pdf\">Supplemental Security Income (SSI)\u003c/a> qualify for additional $600 grants. Originally, the state intended to send this aid as a separate payment, but after Gov. Gavin Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB86\">signed SB 86\u003c/a> on April 16, the money will be added to each recipient’s monthly SSI check.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With that now enacted, the grant payments should be received by individuals in the next six to eight weeks,” said H.D. Palmer, deputy director of external affairs for California’s Department of Finance, on April 16. According to that timeline, those receiving SSI should see the extra $600 added their benefits by mid-June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Palmer also provided an update on the status of the state's additional $600 grant payments to families receiving CalWORKs, the state’s aid program for families with scarce resources. “All eligible CalWORKs families have received their Golden State Grant payment,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All CalWORKs Golden State grants were processed on March 27 and April 2, and the Department of Social Services sent out a voice notification to eligible families to confirm the status of the payments. According to the voice notification, families who receive their monthly CalWORKS aid by check will receive the additional $600 in the mail by the end of April.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you receive CalWORKs benefits and have questions about the eligibility requirements for the CalWORKs Golden State grant, \u003ca href=\"mailto:GSG@dss.ca.gov\">send an email to the Department of Social Services\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"wfc\">\u003c/a>Applying for San Francisco’s Working Families Credit\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>While you don't need to do anything more than file your taxes to qualify for state rebates, applying for San Francisco’s Working Families Credit requires a little more work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taxpayers must have already filed their 2020 taxes before filling out a separate WFC application, explained Chandra Johnson, communications director of the San Francisco Human Services Agency (SFHSA), the office that’s managing the application process for this aid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re encouraging all families with low- to moderate-income to apply,” Johnson said. “While they are working on preparing their taxes either individually or working with San Francisco’s free tax assistance centers, we want to make sure that they know that this credit is available for them,” she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you applied for and received this credit for your 2019 taxes, you'll automatically get a COVID-19 relief payment of $250 this year, no application required. But you'll have to apply again after filing your 2020 taxes to get this year's $250 credit (in addition to the automatic pandemic relief payment). SFHSA estimates about 4,000 families will be eligible for that $500 total combined credit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s something we haven’t done before. It’s something designed to be a local stimulus,” Johnson said. “We know families that received the credit last year are already some of the lowest-income working families here in the city. So in many instances, they’re continuing to face economic disparities that have worsened.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To be considered for the WFC, a taxpayer must claim at least one dependent child. And while the income cap for legal residents to qualify is $56,844, the maximum is much lower for undocumented workers — $30,000 — as it’s based on California EITC parameters. This is the first year the WFC is being made available to taxpayers who file with an ITIN, such as undocumented workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Get started on your WFC application (available in six languages) and find organizations that can help you complete it, either virtually or in person, by going \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfhsa.org/services/jobs-money/free-tax-help/how-get-working-families-credit-wfc\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"itin\">\u003c/a>How to Request an ITIN\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>If you do not have a Social Security number, you'll need to file your taxes with an \u003ca href=\"https://www.irs.gov/individuals/individual-taxpayer-identification-number\">Individual Taxpayer Identification Number\u003c/a>. The only agency that can grant an ITIN is the IRS. But an organization or person trained and authorized by the IRS – a certifying acceptance agent (CAA) – can help you request an ITIN.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When you apply for an ITIN, whether by yourself or with the help of a CAA, you’ll need to print, fill out and mail \u003ca href=\"https://www.irs.gov/forms-pubs/about-form-w-7\">a W-7 form\u003c/a>, which requires supporting documentation to verify your identity and foreign status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label ='Immigration Coverage' tag='immigration']While documents like a driver’s license (U.S. or foreign), a birth certificate or medical records can be used for either category, your passport checks off both boxes, as long as it’s valid and has a date of entry into the country marked by U.S. immigration authorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you complete the W-7 form by yourself, keep in mind that you will have to mail the IRS your passport or other documentation you’ll be using – and you won’t get them back until the IRS makes its decision about granting you an ITIN number.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if you apply with the help of a CAA, you can keep your documents throughout the process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a CAA, we certify the documents the IRS asks for, and this way folks don’t need to be without their documentation for an extended period of time,” the \u003ca href=\"https://unitycouncil.org/\">Unity Council's\u003c/a> Yolanda López explained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As an organization, it’s not us that gives someone their ITIN, all we do is help throughout the process,” she said, pointing out that if someone seeks the help of a CAA, they should make sure that the person or organization has been recognized by the IRS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Unity Council has been helping folks get their ITIN for this tax season since the end of last year, as hearing back from the IRS can take several weeks. If you’re planning to request an ITIN for this year, López said it’s best to start as soon as possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"orgs\">\u003c/a>Organizations Offering Free Tax Assistance in the Bay Area\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alameda County\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>In Oakland, the \u003ca href=\"https://unitycouncil.org/\">Unity Council\u003c/a> offers in-person appointments for tax and ITIN assistance in English, Mandarin and Spanish. Appointments available on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. To set up a time, call (510) 535-6101\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Also in Oakland, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.actsfullgospel.org/home\">Acts Full Gospel Church\u003c/a> offers tax assistance through drop-off services at its 1034 66th Ave. location on some Saturdays. No appointment required. For more information, call (510) 567-1300\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>In Hayward, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.getyourrefund.org/4cs/\">Community Child Care Coordinating Council\u003c/a> has partnered with VITA (Volunteer Income Tax Assistance) to provide virtual tax assistance through its website. For more information, call (510) 690-2141\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>For a full list of tax assistance centers, visit \u003ca href=\"https://uwba.org/tax-help/\">United Way Bay Area’s website\u003c/a> or call 211\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Contra Costa County\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>In San Pablo, \u003ca href=\"http://www.sanpabloedc.org/business/lao-family-community-development\">Lao Family Community Development\u003c/a> offers tax assistance through drop-off services at 1865 Rumrill Blvd. (Suite B) on weekdays from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. No appointment required. For more information, call (510) 215 1220. Help available in English and Spanish\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>In Bay Point, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ambroserec.org/bay-point-works-community-career-center\">Bay Point Works Community Career Center\u003c/a> offers drop-off tax assistance at 3105 Willows Pass Rd. on weekdays from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. No appointment required but due to high demand, call (925) 252-2331 when you have arrived at the office. Help available in English, Tongan and Spanish\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>For a full list of tax assistance centers, visit \u003ca href=\"https://uwba.org/tax-help/\">United Way Bay Area’s website\u003c/a> or call 211\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Marin County\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>In San Rafael, \u003ca href=\"https://canalalliance.org/resources\">Canal Alliance\u003c/a> offers virtual appointments every Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. until April 10. By appointment only. In English and Spanish. To set up a time, call (415) 526-7500\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Also in San Rafael, \u003ca href=\"https://camarin.org/\">Community Action Marin\u003c/a> offers drop-off tax assistance services and virtual appointments in English and Spanish. To set up an appointment, call (707) 395-0938. Assistance is only available to those that make less than $60,000 per year\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>To locate other tax assistance centers, call 211 or check out the \u003ca href=\"https://irs.treasury.gov/freetaxprep/\">IRS VITA locator tool\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Napa County\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>In Napa, \u003ca href=\"https://www.puertasabiertasnapa.org/\">Puertas Abiertas Community Resource Center\u003c/a> offers both walk-ins and appointments for assistance in the ITIN process in English and Spanish. In-person help is available at 952 Napa St. from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. To schedule an appointment call (707) 224-1786\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>In St. Helena and Calistoga, \u003ca href=\"http://upvalleyfamilycenters.org/economic-success-and-adult-education/\">UpValley Family Centers\u003c/a> offer in-person tax and ITIN assistance in English and Spanish. In-person help is available at 1500 Cedar St. in Calistoga and 1440 Spring St. in St. Helena. Appointments are required and are available on Tuesdays, Thursdays and select Saturdays. To schedule a time, call (707) 965-5010\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>For a full list of tax assistance centers, visit \u003ca href=\"https://uwba.org/tax-help/\">United Way Bay Area’s website\u003c/a> or call 211\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://medasf.org/programs/free-tax-preparation/\">Mission Economic Development Agency\u003c/a> (MEDA) offers both walk-ins and appointments for assistance in the ITIN process in English and Spanish. In-person help is available at 701 Alabama St. every Thursday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Call (415) 612-2014 for more information\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfcec.org/\">San Francisco Community Empowerment Center\u003c/a> offers virtual and in-person appointments in English, Cantonese and Vietnamese. Call (415) 467-1929 to make an appointment from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://chinesenewcomers.org/en/volunteer-income-tax-assistance-program-vita/\">Chinese Newcomers Service Center\u003c/a> offers virtual appointments in English, Mandarin, Cantonese and Vietnamese. Call (415) 421-2111 to make an appointment from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>For a full list of tax assistance centers, visit \u003ca href=\"https://uwba.org/tax-help/\">United Way Bay Area’s website\u003c/a> or call 211\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>San Mateo County\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>In Redwood City, the Fair Oaks Community Center offers virtual appointments and drop off services in English and Spanish. To set up a time, call (415) 229-9240 or (650) 780-7500\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>In East Palo Alto, the Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center provides virtual appointments in English and Spanish. To set up a time and find out if you qualify, call (650) 321-2193\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>In San Mateo, \u003ca href=\"https://collegeofsanmateo.edu/sparkpoint/vita.asp\">SparkPoint\u003c/a> and VITA (Volunteer Income Tax Assistance) offer virtual appointments for College of San Mateo students and residents who filed their taxes at this VITA site last year. To find out if you qualify and to make an appointment, email \u003ca href=\"mailto:vita@smccd.edu\">vita@smccd.edu\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>For a full list of tax assistance centers, visit \u003ca href=\"https://uwba.org/tax-help/\">United Way Bay Area’s website\u003c/a> or call 211\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Santa Clara County\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>In San Jose, \u003ca href=\"https://sacredheartcs.org/programs/\">Sacred Heart Community Service\u003c/a> offers drop-off services where taxpayers can schedule a time to drop off required documents. For times, call (408) 715-1951 or email \u003ca href=\"mailto:taxhelp@sacredheartcs.org\">taxhelp@sacredheartcs.org\u003c/a>. Assistance is only offered to those who made less than $66,000 in 2020\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.sjpl.org/blog/2021-tax-help-san-jose-public-libraries\">San Jose Public Library\u003c/a> has partnered with VITA (Volunteer Income Tax Assistance) to provide in-person assistance at the Hillview Branch every Saturday until April 10 from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. in English, Vietnamese and Thai. No walk-ins accepted. To make an appointment, call (408) 729-9512. Assistance is only offered to those who made less than $57,000 in 2020\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>For a full list of tax assistance centers, visit \u003ca href=\"https://uwba.org/tax-help/\">United Way Bay Area’s website\u003c/a> or call 211\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Solano County\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>In Benicia, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.bencac.com/\">Benicia Community Action Council\u003c/a> offers drop-off services where taxpayers can schedule a time to drop off required documents. For times, call (707) 745-0900 on weekdays from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>To locate other tax assistance centers you can call 211 or check out the \u003ca href=\"https://irs.treasury.gov/freetaxprep/\">IRS VITA locator tool\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sonoma County\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>In Santa Rosa, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.capsonoma.org/vita-tax-program/\">Community Action Partnership\u003c/a> of Sonoma County offers drop-off services. To pick up a package and schedule a drop-off time, call (707) 544-6911 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on weekdays. Assistance is only available to those that make less than $66,000 per year\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>In Healdsburg, \u003ca href=\"https://www.corazonhealdsburg.org/\">Corazón Healdsburg\u003c/a> offers drop-off tax assistance services on Mondays and Fridays in English and Spanish. To set up a time to drop off your tax information, call (707) 395-0938. Assistance is only available to those that make less than $60,000 per year\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>To locate other tax assistance centers you can call 211 or check out the \u003ca href=\"https://irs.treasury.gov/freetaxprep/\">IRS VITA locator tool\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>A version of this story was originally published on March 8. This story includes reporting from KQED's Mary Franklin Harvin.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>With just one week left until the May 17 tax deadline, Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday proposed a major expansion of California's economic stimulus plan – making it all the more important to make sure you file your taxes on time to get the financial help you're entitled to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in February, Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11861667/gov-newsom-signs-7-6-billion-stimulus-package\">approved a $7.6 billion plan\u003c/a> known as the Golden State Stimulus, which promised a one-time payment of $600 for anyone who earned less than $30,000 last year. The state also offered an additional $600 ($1,200 in total) to low-income folks, including undocumented immigrants who file their taxes with an Individual Taxpayer Identification Number. Additionally, the federal government’s third stimulus package delivers $1,400 to individuals who earned less than $75,000 last year. \u003cem>(\u003ca href=\"#whenstim\">Find out how long you're likely to wait to receive your payment\u003c/a>).\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11872910/flush-with-cash-california-set-to-send-billions-in-rebates-to-taxpayers\">announced a proposal\u003c/a> that would essentially expand the the Golden State Stimulus to households with adjusted gross incomes of up to $75,000. The new, higher income cap would mean two-thirds of the state’s taxpayers would be eligible to receive a $600 check, Newsom said at a press conference in Oakland. The proposal is part of a larger $100 billion California Comeback Plan, which will need approval from the Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While such stimulus efforts are meant to benefit families that have been hit hard by the pandemic, a report released in early April \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/coronavirusliveupdates/news/11868453/millions-of-californians-entitled-to-stimulus-payments-may-not-be-getting-them-heres-how-to-make-sure-you-do\">showed it wasn't reaching those most in need\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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But without your 2020 taxes filed, the state government will use your 2019 information to decide whether you qualify for a stimulus payment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, the most dependable way to ensure you get the payments you are due is to file your taxes for 2020 – even if you’re not required to, and even if you have no income to report from the last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In this guide, we’ve collected essential information to help you make sure you get the aid you're entitled to, ranging from local tax credit programs like the San Francisco Working Families Credit (which grants up to $500 to eligible families) to the Golden State Stimulus plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We've also included relevant information for undocumented and mixed-status families, who \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2021/02/california-600-stimulus-checks-undocumented-workers/\">may also qualify for an additional $600 from the state\u003c/a> this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Related: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11870566/filing-your-taxes-if-you-claimed-unemployment-benefits-what-to-know-where-to-find-help\">read our guide to filing your taxes if you claimed unemployment benefits.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Click on the links below to skip to a specific section:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#qualify\">I Earned Between $30,000 and $75,000. Do I Qualify for the Stimulus?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#automatic\">What You're Automatically Eligible for When You File\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#eitc\">Keeping Track of the California Earned Income Tax Credit\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#whenstim\">When Will I Get My California Stimulus Payment?\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#wfc\">Applying for San Francisco’s Working Families Credit\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#itin\">How to Request an ITIN\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#orgs\">Organizations Offering Free Tax Assistance in the Bay Area\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"qualify\">\u003c/a>My Household Earned Between $30,000 and $75,000. Do I Qualify for the Golden State Stimulus?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Not \u003cem>yet\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11872910/flush-with-cash-california-set-to-send-billions-in-rebates-to-taxpayers\">announced on Monday\u003c/a>, part of a larger $10 billion \"California Comeback Plan,\" is a major expansion of the state’s stimulus package from February and would include households earning between $30,000 and $75,000 per year in a new round of $600 checks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to provide direct relief to people in the middle class,” Newsom said at a press conference Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the package still needs the Legislature’s approval. Several legislators have already expressed their support for Newsom’s expansion – but don’t expect a check in the mail just yet if your family earned between $30,000 and $75,000 last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taxpayers with dependents would also see an additional $500. So, if you already received your $600 check, you could expect the extra $500 to arrive later on (the governor’s office hasn’t released a timeline yet of when the $500 would be sent out).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor also said he plans to add an extra $2 billion to the state’s rent relief program, an amount he believes could cover 100% of back-rent for tenants who have fallen behind in their rent payments during the pandemic. \u003cem>(\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11864513/rent-relief-in-california-how-to-apply-and-what-you-could-get\">Find out how to apply for California’s rent relief program\u003c/a>).\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"automatic\">\u003c/a>What You're Automatically Eligible for When You File\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The first step can sometimes be the hardest. But if you don’t file your taxes on time, you may miss out on the money you're entitled to, regardless of your income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The goal of the $600 checks is to help those facing the greatest economic challenges due to COVID-19,” said Yolanda López, financial capability coordinator with the \u003ca href=\"https://unitycouncil.org/\">Unity Council\u003c/a>, a nonprofit organization in Oakland that offers free tax assistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By simply filing your taxes you will then be eligible to receive this aid through direct deposit to the account you used when filing your taxes, or [money] will be sent as a physical check to the address provided in your filing,” López added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"eitc\">\u003c/a>Keeping Track of the California Earned Income Tax Credit\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>For the first time ever, undocumented workers will also be eligible for the California Earned Income Tax Credit this year. This rebate – for Californians who earn up to $30,000 – can provide as much as $3,027 depending on the number of children you have.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This will also be included in your state taxes. Qualifying for the EITC means you qualify for the Golden State Stimulus,” López said. Households that get the state EITC will also be eligible for that one-time $600 pandemic stimulus payment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But to be eligible, make sure you include the California Earned Income Tax Credit FTB 3514 form in your filing, or make sure to ask your tax preparer. Learn more about organizations offering free tax assistance in the Bay Area \u003ca href=\"#orgs\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In the case of families with mixed status, where the head of household is undocumented and the spouse or children have a legal immigration status, “that is not an obstacle any more to receive the California EITC. If the taxpayer has a valid ITIN number and makes under $30,000, they should qualify,” López pointed out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While ITIN holders qualify for the California EITC, they still are ineligible for the federal earned income tax credit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>López also highlighted how important it is to distinguish between government aid — like stimulus checks and rebates — and taxable benefits like unemployment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You have to report what you got from unemployment as part of your income,\" she said, while clarifying that stimulus checks – either from the state or federal government – are not taxable.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"whenstim\">\u003c/a>When Will I Get My California Stimulus Payment?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>While California \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11861667/gov-newsom-signs-7-6-billion-stimulus-package\">approved the Golden State Stimulus plan back in February\u003c/a>, which includes a one-time payment of $600 for anyone who earned less than $30,000 last year, many residents are still waiting on their money after having filed their 2020 taxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The original timeline provided by the Department of Finance in March specified that eligible taxpayers who filed their 2020 taxes with direct deposit should expect to receive their rebate within a period of up to 45 days, while those without direct deposit may have to wait up to 60 days. That timeline is still accurate, according to the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On top of that $600 stimulus check, Californians receiving \u003ca href=\"https://www.ssa.gov/pubs/EN-05-11125.pdf\">Supplemental Security Income (SSI)\u003c/a> qualify for additional $600 grants. Originally, the state intended to send this aid as a separate payment, but after Gov. Gavin Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB86\">signed SB 86\u003c/a> on April 16, the money will be added to each recipient’s monthly SSI check.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With that now enacted, the grant payments should be received by individuals in the next six to eight weeks,” said H.D. Palmer, deputy director of external affairs for California’s Department of Finance, on April 16. According to that timeline, those receiving SSI should see the extra $600 added their benefits by mid-June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Palmer also provided an update on the status of the state's additional $600 grant payments to families receiving CalWORKs, the state’s aid program for families with scarce resources. “All eligible CalWORKs families have received their Golden State Grant payment,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All CalWORKs Golden State grants were processed on March 27 and April 2, and the Department of Social Services sent out a voice notification to eligible families to confirm the status of the payments. According to the voice notification, families who receive their monthly CalWORKS aid by check will receive the additional $600 in the mail by the end of April.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you receive CalWORKs benefits and have questions about the eligibility requirements for the CalWORKs Golden State grant, \u003ca href=\"mailto:GSG@dss.ca.gov\">send an email to the Department of Social Services\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"wfc\">\u003c/a>Applying for San Francisco’s Working Families Credit\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>While you don't need to do anything more than file your taxes to qualify for state rebates, applying for San Francisco’s Working Families Credit requires a little more work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taxpayers must have already filed their 2020 taxes before filling out a separate WFC application, explained Chandra Johnson, communications director of the San Francisco Human Services Agency (SFHSA), the office that’s managing the application process for this aid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re encouraging all families with low- to moderate-income to apply,” Johnson said. “While they are working on preparing their taxes either individually or working with San Francisco’s free tax assistance centers, we want to make sure that they know that this credit is available for them,” she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you applied for and received this credit for your 2019 taxes, you'll automatically get a COVID-19 relief payment of $250 this year, no application required. But you'll have to apply again after filing your 2020 taxes to get this year's $250 credit (in addition to the automatic pandemic relief payment). SFHSA estimates about 4,000 families will be eligible for that $500 total combined credit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s something we haven’t done before. It’s something designed to be a local stimulus,” Johnson said. “We know families that received the credit last year are already some of the lowest-income working families here in the city. So in many instances, they’re continuing to face economic disparities that have worsened.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To be considered for the WFC, a taxpayer must claim at least one dependent child. And while the income cap for legal residents to qualify is $56,844, the maximum is much lower for undocumented workers — $30,000 — as it’s based on California EITC parameters. This is the first year the WFC is being made available to taxpayers who file with an ITIN, such as undocumented workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Get started on your WFC application (available in six languages) and find organizations that can help you complete it, either virtually or in person, by going \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfhsa.org/services/jobs-money/free-tax-help/how-get-working-families-credit-wfc\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"itin\">\u003c/a>How to Request an ITIN\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>If you do not have a Social Security number, you'll need to file your taxes with an \u003ca href=\"https://www.irs.gov/individuals/individual-taxpayer-identification-number\">Individual Taxpayer Identification Number\u003c/a>. The only agency that can grant an ITIN is the IRS. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>While documents like a driver’s license (U.S. or foreign), a birth certificate or medical records can be used for either category, your passport checks off both boxes, as long as it’s valid and has a date of entry into the country marked by U.S. immigration authorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you complete the W-7 form by yourself, keep in mind that you will have to mail the IRS your passport or other documentation you’ll be using – and you won’t get them back until the IRS makes its decision about granting you an ITIN number.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if you apply with the help of a CAA, you can keep your documents throughout the process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a CAA, we certify the documents the IRS asks for, and this way folks don’t need to be without their documentation for an extended period of time,” the \u003ca href=\"https://unitycouncil.org/\">Unity Council's\u003c/a> Yolanda López explained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As an organization, it’s not us that gives someone their ITIN, all we do is help throughout the process,” she said, pointing out that if someone seeks the help of a CAA, they should make sure that the person or organization has been recognized by the IRS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Unity Council has been helping folks get their ITIN for this tax season since the end of last year, as hearing back from the IRS can take several weeks. If you’re planning to request an ITIN for this year, López said it’s best to start as soon as possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"orgs\">\u003c/a>Organizations Offering Free Tax Assistance in the Bay Area\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alameda County\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>In Oakland, the \u003ca href=\"https://unitycouncil.org/\">Unity Council\u003c/a> offers in-person appointments for tax and ITIN assistance in English, Mandarin and Spanish. Appointments available on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. To set up a time, call (510) 535-6101\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Also in Oakland, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.actsfullgospel.org/home\">Acts Full Gospel Church\u003c/a> offers tax assistance through drop-off services at its 1034 66th Ave. location on some Saturdays. No appointment required. For more information, call (510) 567-1300\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>In Hayward, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.getyourrefund.org/4cs/\">Community Child Care Coordinating Council\u003c/a> has partnered with VITA (Volunteer Income Tax Assistance) to provide virtual tax assistance through its website. For more information, call (510) 690-2141\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>For a full list of tax assistance centers, visit \u003ca href=\"https://uwba.org/tax-help/\">United Way Bay Area’s website\u003c/a> or call 211\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Contra Costa County\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>In San Pablo, \u003ca href=\"http://www.sanpabloedc.org/business/lao-family-community-development\">Lao Family Community Development\u003c/a> offers tax assistance through drop-off services at 1865 Rumrill Blvd. (Suite B) on weekdays from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. No appointment required. For more information, call (510) 215 1220. Help available in English and Spanish\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>In Bay Point, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ambroserec.org/bay-point-works-community-career-center\">Bay Point Works Community Career Center\u003c/a> offers drop-off tax assistance at 3105 Willows Pass Rd. on weekdays from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. No appointment required but due to high demand, call (925) 252-2331 when you have arrived at the office. Help available in English, Tongan and Spanish\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>For a full list of tax assistance centers, visit \u003ca href=\"https://uwba.org/tax-help/\">United Way Bay Area’s website\u003c/a> or call 211\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Marin County\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>In San Rafael, \u003ca href=\"https://canalalliance.org/resources\">Canal Alliance\u003c/a> offers virtual appointments every Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. until April 10. By appointment only. In English and Spanish. To set up a time, call (415) 526-7500\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Also in San Rafael, \u003ca href=\"https://camarin.org/\">Community Action Marin\u003c/a> offers drop-off tax assistance services and virtual appointments in English and Spanish. To set up an appointment, call (707) 395-0938. Assistance is only available to those that make less than $60,000 per year\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>To locate other tax assistance centers, call 211 or check out the \u003ca href=\"https://irs.treasury.gov/freetaxprep/\">IRS VITA locator tool\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Napa County\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>In Napa, \u003ca href=\"https://www.puertasabiertasnapa.org/\">Puertas Abiertas Community Resource Center\u003c/a> offers both walk-ins and appointments for assistance in the ITIN process in English and Spanish. In-person help is available at 952 Napa St. from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. To schedule an appointment call (707) 224-1786\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>In St. Helena and Calistoga, \u003ca href=\"http://upvalleyfamilycenters.org/economic-success-and-adult-education/\">UpValley Family Centers\u003c/a> offer in-person tax and ITIN assistance in English and Spanish. In-person help is available at 1500 Cedar St. in Calistoga and 1440 Spring St. in St. Helena. Appointments are required and are available on Tuesdays, Thursdays and select Saturdays. To schedule a time, call (707) 965-5010\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>For a full list of tax assistance centers, visit \u003ca href=\"https://uwba.org/tax-help/\">United Way Bay Area’s website\u003c/a> or call 211\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://medasf.org/programs/free-tax-preparation/\">Mission Economic Development Agency\u003c/a> (MEDA) offers both walk-ins and appointments for assistance in the ITIN process in English and Spanish. In-person help is available at 701 Alabama St. every Thursday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Call (415) 612-2014 for more information\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfcec.org/\">San Francisco Community Empowerment Center\u003c/a> offers virtual and in-person appointments in English, Cantonese and Vietnamese. Call (415) 467-1929 to make an appointment from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://chinesenewcomers.org/en/volunteer-income-tax-assistance-program-vita/\">Chinese Newcomers Service Center\u003c/a> offers virtual appointments in English, Mandarin, Cantonese and Vietnamese. Call (415) 421-2111 to make an appointment from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>For a full list of tax assistance centers, visit \u003ca href=\"https://uwba.org/tax-help/\">United Way Bay Area’s website\u003c/a> or call 211\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>San Mateo County\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>In Redwood City, the Fair Oaks Community Center offers virtual appointments and drop off services in English and Spanish. To set up a time, call (415) 229-9240 or (650) 780-7500\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>In East Palo Alto, the Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center provides virtual appointments in English and Spanish. To set up a time and find out if you qualify, call (650) 321-2193\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>In San Mateo, \u003ca href=\"https://collegeofsanmateo.edu/sparkpoint/vita.asp\">SparkPoint\u003c/a> and VITA (Volunteer Income Tax Assistance) offer virtual appointments for College of San Mateo students and residents who filed their taxes at this VITA site last year. To find out if you qualify and to make an appointment, email \u003ca href=\"mailto:vita@smccd.edu\">vita@smccd.edu\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>For a full list of tax assistance centers, visit \u003ca href=\"https://uwba.org/tax-help/\">United Way Bay Area’s website\u003c/a> or call 211\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Santa Clara County\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>In San Jose, \u003ca href=\"https://sacredheartcs.org/programs/\">Sacred Heart Community Service\u003c/a> offers drop-off services where taxpayers can schedule a time to drop off required documents. For times, call (408) 715-1951 or email \u003ca href=\"mailto:taxhelp@sacredheartcs.org\">taxhelp@sacredheartcs.org\u003c/a>. Assistance is only offered to those who made less than $66,000 in 2020\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.sjpl.org/blog/2021-tax-help-san-jose-public-libraries\">San Jose Public Library\u003c/a> has partnered with VITA (Volunteer Income Tax Assistance) to provide in-person assistance at the Hillview Branch every Saturday until April 10 from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. in English, Vietnamese and Thai. No walk-ins accepted. To make an appointment, call (408) 729-9512. Assistance is only offered to those who made less than $57,000 in 2020\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>For a full list of tax assistance centers, visit \u003ca href=\"https://uwba.org/tax-help/\">United Way Bay Area’s website\u003c/a> or call 211\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Solano County\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>In Benicia, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.bencac.com/\">Benicia Community Action Council\u003c/a> offers drop-off services where taxpayers can schedule a time to drop off required documents. For times, call (707) 745-0900 on weekdays from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>To locate other tax assistance centers you can call 211 or check out the \u003ca href=\"https://irs.treasury.gov/freetaxprep/\">IRS VITA locator tool\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sonoma County\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>In Santa Rosa, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.capsonoma.org/vita-tax-program/\">Community Action Partnership\u003c/a> of Sonoma County offers drop-off services. To pick up a package and schedule a drop-off time, call (707) 544-6911 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on weekdays. Assistance is only available to those that make less than $66,000 per year\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>In Healdsburg, \u003ca href=\"https://www.corazonhealdsburg.org/\">Corazón Healdsburg\u003c/a> offers drop-off tax assistance services on Mondays and Fridays in English and Spanish. To set up a time to drop off your tax information, call (707) 395-0938. 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Fully vaccinated people now only need to wear a mask in large crowds of strangers, says the CDC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for people who aren’t yet fully vaccinated, the CDC says they can also be maskless outside with members of their household, or go maskless at a small, outdoor gathering as long as others in attendance \u003cem>are\u003c/em> fully vaccinated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All nine Bay Area counties have said they plan to adopt the new guidelines once California formally aligns with the CDC’s new recommendations. On KQED Forum, Priya David Clemens spoke with \u003ca href=\"https://cfar.ucsf.edu/people/monica-gandhi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dr. Monica Gandhi\u003c/a>, infectious disease expert and professor of medicine at UCSF.\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[aside postID=\"news_11864473\"]\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>KQED’s Priya David Clemens: You have been advocating for reducing mask use for some time now. Could you tell us about your thoughts?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dr. Monica Gandhi:\u003c/strong> I do want to stress that I co-wrote one of the first papers in early April 2020 about universal mask use for the American public. I’m definitely very interested in mask use as a mitigation procedure along with ventilation and distancing. However, when you think about ventilation and you think about this virus, there’s actually incredibly clear studies about how hard it is to get coronavirus outside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/p/COQwPYQhaj5/\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most impressive study was published in September from China, where they do very strict contact tracing. And out of 7,324 infections, only one was linked to outdoor transmission. [pullquote size=\"right\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Dr. Monica Gandhi, infectious disease expert and professor of medicine at UCSF\"]‘Don’t be frightened to do what’s right by the science and take off your mask outside. 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