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However, it’s unclear where many of the more than 1,500 people who have left hotels over the course of the program have gone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"homelessness\"]Advocates for people experiencing homeless argue that the city can afford to keep the hotels open longer, pointing to the Biden administration’s recent commitment to reimburse cities for certain COVID-19-related expenses, including hotel rooms, through the end of 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Cohen said San Francisco’s program is also reliant on the city’s general fund, which precludes keeping the hotels open past next June. The city, she added, is closing the hotels gradually to avoid “a humanitarian and logistical nightmare.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It takes significant city and nonprofit staffing to move people from the hotels into housing,” Cohen said. “It’s not a quick process. And so we really need to have the capacity and the workers to do this process. 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And there are vaccines to help ward it off — but also misinformation and fears circulating. “We’ve been concerned about vaccine fatigue and that people will be confused about whether or when they need the flu shot, and not very eager to once again roll up their sleeve,” says \u003ca href=\"https://www.nfid.org/about-nfid/board-of-directors/william-schaffner-md/\">Dr. William Schaffner\u003c/a>, medical director of the National Foundation of Infectious Diseases. “Flu is a nasty virus and worth protecting against.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Two reasons make getting vaccinated against the flu the wise choice,” he says. “First, it’s been proven year after year that you’re in better shape to fight off the flu if you get the vaccine. Second, by getting vaccinated against the flu, you help protect the people around you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s a guide to getting yourself vaccinated against another potentially fatal virus.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>I heard the flu essentially disappeared last year. Do I really need a flu shot this year?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Yes. Last year saw a record-low number of flu cases, likely thanks to widespread mask wearing, remote work and school, and physical distancing. But this year, experts fear that the reopening of schools, decreased adherence to pandemic precautions and surging delta variant infections could create a double whammy: a very serious flu and COVID-19-season. Already, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/rsv/index.html\">cases of RSV, a serious respiratory virus in children, are spiking.\u003c/a> “This suggests that flu will be back [too],” says\u003ca href=\"https://www.immunize.org/aboutus/litjen_tan_bio.asp\"> LJ Tan,\u003c/a> executive director of the\u003ca href=\"https://www.immunize.org/\"> Immunization Action Coalition\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Who should get a flu shot?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Anyone 6 months and older, unless your doctor has specifically recommended that you not get a flu shot because of a prior, rare, severe reaction, says Dr. Lisa Grohskopf, a medical officer in the influenza division at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"time\">\u003c/a>When’s the best time to get the flu shot?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Why not now?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flu season starts in October in the U.S. While there’s some concern that immunity might wane before the end of flu season in May if you get the vaccine too early, there’s not enough data to know the optimal time to get the shot, Grohskopf says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/flu/season/faq-flu-season-2021-2022.htm\">The CDC says aim to get your flu vaccine by the end of October\u003c/a>. By then, cases will have started to mount, and many people will be just a few weeks away from travel for Thanksgiving and Christmas. That said, “getting vaccinated at any time during the flu season [can] still be beneficial,” says \u003ca href=\"https://healthcare.utah.edu/fad/mddetail.php?physicianID=u0028338&name=andrew-t-pavia\">Dr. Andrew Pavia, chief of the pediatric infectious diseases division at the University of Utah Health\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Why do I hear folks talking about ‘waiting’ to get their flu shot?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>As Dr. Peter Chin-Hong, UCSF professor of medicine, told KQED last year, the recommendations medical professionals make about when to get a flu shot are based on the fact that it takes about two weeks after you get vaccinated for antibodies to develop and provide protection against the flu.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is evidence, Chin-Hong said, that \u003ca href=\"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28039340/\">your risk of getting the flu increases every month after your flu shot\u003c/a>, due to the antibodies waning over time. But when medical professionals talk about strategically “waiting” to get a flu shot, they’re aiming that advice at those who are at particularly high risk for more serious complications related to the flu. That includes people over 65, those with chronic medical conditions, people who are pregnant or planning a pregnancy and kids under 5. \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#pregnancy\">Read more about pregnancy and the flu shot. \u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Delaying inoculations for these populations is based on the idea of getting the shot at a time Chin-Hong called “the sweet spot,” around mid-to-late October. Two weeks later, right around early November, the antibodies should have developed, just as flu season is getting serious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Think of it as getting the “biggest bang for your buck,” Chin-Hong said. But ultimately, he added, “Don’t hem and haw about when to get it,” — because there’s a risk you may wind up forgetting to get it at all. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11838604/when-should-you-get-your-flu-shot\">Read more about who might consider delaying their flu shot.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Will the flu vaccine definitely keep me from getting the flu? \u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>No. No vaccine is 100% effective. But if you do get the flu, the vaccine is likely to reduce your chance of getting very sick, being hospitalized or dying, Pavia says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before last year,\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/index.html\"> tens of thousands of people\u003c/a> were hospitalized or died from the flu each year, usually people who weren’t vaccinated.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"covid\">\u003c/a>Can I get the flu and COVID-19 vaccines at the same time?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Absolutely. The CDC had previously recommended spacing out the timing of the COVID-19 vaccine and other immunizations because the vaccines were so new, but “that guidance has changed,” says Grohskopf. The CDC now says it’s safe to get both vaccines at once, she says. “The body’s immune response and side effects are generally the same as when getting one vaccine alone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you do get two shots on the same day, expect to get each vaccine in a different arm, which may reduce any pain and swelling that might occur.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>What about my COVID-19 booster shot — can I get that at the same time as my flu shot?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Right now, third doses of COVID-19 vaccine are authorized only for people with certain immunocompromised conditions. If you qualify, you can get that extra dose and the flu shot on the same day. Once boosters are more broadly authorized, “we’ll be able to co-administer those shots with flu shots as well,” said Lisa Kalajian, a district manager for CVS Health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11838735\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1900px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11838735\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/shots.png\" alt=\"A person is seated receiving their flu shot from a medical professional\" width=\"1900\" height=\"1267\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/shots.png 1900w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/shots-800x533.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/shots-1020x680.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/shots-160x107.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/shots-1536x1024.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1900px) 100vw, 1900px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Where can you get a free flu shot near you? And when should you get it? \u003ccite>(Homeless Coalition Flu Shot Clinic/Flickr)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>The delta variant is making me anxious about going to the doctor’s office or pharmacy for a flu shot this year. Are there other choices?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>If you’re concerned, aim for an off hour and call to make sure the provider (as well as you) will be masked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re still worried, check with local clinics to see if there are any outdoor flu shot clinics in your area.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>How do I make sure I get the right flu shot for me and my family?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“While the most important thing is to get any flu shot, there are some specialized flu shots for specific groups,” says Pavia. The key is usually age.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kids 8 and younger who are getting the flu shot for the first time need two doses, given a month apart, says \u003ca href=\"https://www.bcm.edu/people-search/flor-munoz-rivas-27227\">Dr. Flor Munoz-Rivas,\u003c/a> a pediatric infectious disease specialist at Baylor College of Medicine. Strong immunity doesn’t kick in until two weeks after the second shot, “so parents should be scheduling these shots now,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immune systems weaken with age. That’s why the CDC recommends that adults 65 and older get vaccinated with one of two souped-up flu shots: either the Fluzone High-Dose Quadrivalent vaccine or the FLUAD Quadrivalent vaccine. Both are designed to elicit a more robust immune response. If neither is available, then any flu shot is a good choice.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"pregnancy\">\u003c/a>I’m pregnant. Should I get a flu shot?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Yes. And if you’re in your third trimester, the CDC advises you get a flu shot ASAP so you can pass on the protection to your newborn from day 1. “Babies can’t get the flu shot until they are 6 months old but are protected by their mother’s antibodies from a flu shot — if she gets the shot — until 6 months, when they can get their own flu vaccine,” says Grohskopf. Just be sure to get the shot, not the nasal spray.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>I have an allergy to eggs and heard I can’t get a flu shot. Is that true?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Not really, says the CDC’s Grohskopf.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s true that most flu shots and one nasal spray flu vaccine approved by the Food and Drug Administration are manufactured using egg-based technology, so they contain a small amount of egg proteins. But studies of both the nasal spray and the shots found that allergic reactions are very rare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two egg-free vaccines are available: Flublok Quadrivalent (for people 18 and older) and Flucelvax Quadrivalent (which is approved for ages 2 and up this season). But the CDC says people with a history of egg allergy can get any licensed, age-appropriate flu vaccine. If you have a history of severe allergic reaction to eggs, the CDC recommends you get your shot at a location where the staff can treat you if a rare allergic reaction does occur.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>I’m willing to take my chances, so why should I get the flu vaccine?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>With the pandemic still raging, skipping the flu shot is a much riskier proposition, says Dr. \u003ca href=\"https://www.mountsinai.org/profiles/bernard-camins\">Bernard Camins, \u003c/a>an infectious disease physician at the Mount Sinai Health System in New York City. “You could get the flu and need care but find hospitals overwhelmed because of COVID, or get the flu and get COVID. And especially if you are not vaccinated against the coronavirus, [you] run the risk of your immune system being overwhelmed by two viruses at the same time.” Getting back-to-back infections could result in more serious illness, since the first infection may have already weakened your lungs, says \u003ca href=\"https://einsteinmed.org/faculty/13966/priya-nori/#:~:text=Nori%20is%20associate%20professor%20of,surgery%20at%20Einstein%20and%20Montefiore.&text=Nori%20is%20associate%20professor%20of%20medicine%20and%20of%20orthopaedics%20at,antimicrobial%20stewardship%20program%20at%20Montefiore.\">Dr. Priya Nori\u003c/a>, an infectious disease specialist at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>If I’m already vaccinated against COVID-19, does getting the flu shot mean I’m doubly protected and no longer have to wear a mask?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Not at all. “Don’t stop the public health measures,” says Pavia. Distancing, wearing a mask and washing your hands, especially after coughs and sneezes, can improve the chances that you and others will not get the flu — or COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"where\">\u003c/a>Where can I get a flu shot if I have insurance?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>If you have health insurance, a flu shot is available free without cost as a preventive service from your usual doctor or most pharmacies. (See below.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Make sure you’re wearing your mask, maintain social distancing wherever possible while waiting for your shot and dress in a top with sleeves you can easily pull up to your shoulder to make receiving the injection even easier (and quicker.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Common places to find a flu shot appointment, walk-in site or drive-thru flu shot:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://vaccinefinder.org/find-vaccine\">CDC’s Vaccine Finder tool\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://mydoctor.kaiserpermanente.org/ncal/cold-and-flu/prevention#/prevention\">Kaiser Permanente flu shots (Northern California) \u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cvs.com/immunizations/flu\">CVS flu shots\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.walgreens.com/topic/pharmacy/seasonal-flu.jsp?ban=flu_fy21_influenzapage\">Walgreens flu shots \u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.costco.com/Pharmacy/adult-immunization-program.html\">Costco Pharmacy flu shots\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch3>Where can I get a flu shot if I \u003cem>don’t\u003c/em> have health insurance?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>If you want a flu shot but don’t have health insurance, you can get the vaccine free of charge from several providers and community clinics around the Bay Area. (You can also technically use these free services even if you do have insurance, but you may consider choosing to free up these particular resources for those who are not covered.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a start, your county’s own public health department might offer them. For example, Santa Clara County is once again offering \u003ca href=\"https://publichealth.sccgov.org/disease-information/influenza-flu\">free flu shots at the County Fairgrounds in San Jose this year\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anyone can walk or bike up to the fairgrounds (parking is also available for those with disabilities) without an appointment and get vaccinated, regardless of insurance or immigration status. The county says that \u003ca href=\"https://publichealth.sccgov.org/disease-information/influenza-flu\">free flu shots will also soon become available at the Santa Clara Valley Medical Centers.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Places to get a free or low-cost flu shot in the Bay Area include:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfcdcp.org/aitc/aitc-regular-prices-low-cost-or-free-vaccines/low-cost-or-free-vaccines-at-aitc/#stategf\">San Francisco Public Health’s AITC Immunization & Travel Clinic\u003c/a> (offers a pay-what-you-can option, and says that nobody will be refused for inability to pay)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://cchealth.org/immunization/clinics.php#Uninsured\">Contra Costa Public Health Immunization Clinics\u003c/a> (flu shots are $15 for adults over 19, but fees may be waived if you’re unable to pay)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://acphd.org/clinics/\">Alameda County Immunization Clinics\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[ad fullwidth]\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>And a reminder … the flu vaccine can’t ‘give you the flu’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The virus that the flu shot contains has been inactivated or severely weakened, so \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/flu/prevent/misconceptions.htm#:~:text=Can%20a%20flu%20vaccine%20give,protein%20from%20the%20flu%20virus.\">you just aren’t physically able to “get the flu” from your flu shot, says the CDC\u003c/a>. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/flu/prevent/general.htm\">flu vaccine can cause side effects like any medical product\u003c/a>, but they’re “generally mild and go away on their own within a few days,” the agency says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Common flu shot side effects can include soreness or swelling at the injection site, headache, fever, nausea and muscle aches. But not flu.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Carly Severn contributed to this story.\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=It%27s+Time+For+A+Flu+Shot.+Here%27s+What+You+Need+To+Know&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\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>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#time\">When’s the best time to get a flu shot?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#covid\">How does the flu shot work with the COVID vaccine?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#pregnancy\">What if I’m pregnant or have allergies?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#where\">Where can I get a flu shot near me in the Bay Area — with or without insurance?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>With all the talk about \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11885531/covid-booster-shots-to-roll-out-in-september-in-the-u-s-health-officials-say\">COVID-19 vaccines and boosters\u003c/a>, it’s easy to forget that there’s another respiratory virus poised to strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes, it’s that familiar winter nemesis, the flu. And there are vaccines to help ward it off — but also misinformation and fears circulating. “We’ve been concerned about vaccine fatigue and that people will be confused about whether or when they need the flu shot, and not very eager to once again roll up their sleeve,” says \u003ca href=\"https://www.nfid.org/about-nfid/board-of-directors/william-schaffner-md/\">Dr. William Schaffner\u003c/a>, medical director of the National Foundation of Infectious Diseases. “Flu is a nasty virus and worth protecting against.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Two reasons make getting vaccinated against the flu the wise choice,” he says. “First, it’s been proven year after year that you’re in better shape to fight off the flu if you get the vaccine. Second, by getting vaccinated against the flu, you help protect the people around you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s a guide to getting yourself vaccinated against another potentially fatal virus.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>I heard the flu essentially disappeared last year. Do I really need a flu shot this year?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Yes. Last year saw a record-low number of flu cases, likely thanks to widespread mask wearing, remote work and school, and physical distancing. But this year, experts fear that the reopening of schools, decreased adherence to pandemic precautions and surging delta variant infections could create a double whammy: a very serious flu and COVID-19-season. Already, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/rsv/index.html\">cases of RSV, a serious respiratory virus in children, are spiking.\u003c/a> “This suggests that flu will be back [too],” says\u003ca href=\"https://www.immunize.org/aboutus/litjen_tan_bio.asp\"> LJ Tan,\u003c/a> executive director of the\u003ca href=\"https://www.immunize.org/\"> Immunization Action Coalition\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Who should get a flu shot?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Anyone 6 months and older, unless your doctor has specifically recommended that you not get a flu shot because of a prior, rare, severe reaction, says Dr. Lisa Grohskopf, a medical officer in the influenza division at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"time\">\u003c/a>When’s the best time to get the flu shot?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Why not now?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flu season starts in October in the U.S. While there’s some concern that immunity might wane before the end of flu season in May if you get the vaccine too early, there’s not enough data to know the optimal time to get the shot, Grohskopf says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/flu/season/faq-flu-season-2021-2022.htm\">The CDC says aim to get your flu vaccine by the end of October\u003c/a>. By then, cases will have started to mount, and many people will be just a few weeks away from travel for Thanksgiving and Christmas. That said, “getting vaccinated at any time during the flu season [can] still be beneficial,” says \u003ca href=\"https://healthcare.utah.edu/fad/mddetail.php?physicianID=u0028338&name=andrew-t-pavia\">Dr. Andrew Pavia, chief of the pediatric infectious diseases division at the University of Utah Health\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Why do I hear folks talking about ‘waiting’ to get their flu shot?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>As Dr. Peter Chin-Hong, UCSF professor of medicine, told KQED last year, the recommendations medical professionals make about when to get a flu shot are based on the fact that it takes about two weeks after you get vaccinated for antibodies to develop and provide protection against the flu.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is evidence, Chin-Hong said, that \u003ca href=\"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28039340/\">your risk of getting the flu increases every month after your flu shot\u003c/a>, due to the antibodies waning over time. But when medical professionals talk about strategically “waiting” to get a flu shot, they’re aiming that advice at those who are at particularly high risk for more serious complications related to the flu. That includes people over 65, those with chronic medical conditions, people who are pregnant or planning a pregnancy and kids under 5. \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#pregnancy\">Read more about pregnancy and the flu shot. \u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Delaying inoculations for these populations is based on the idea of getting the shot at a time Chin-Hong called “the sweet spot,” around mid-to-late October. Two weeks later, right around early November, the antibodies should have developed, just as flu season is getting serious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Think of it as getting the “biggest bang for your buck,” Chin-Hong said. But ultimately, he added, “Don’t hem and haw about when to get it,” — because there’s a risk you may wind up forgetting to get it at all. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11838604/when-should-you-get-your-flu-shot\">Read more about who might consider delaying their flu shot.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Will the flu vaccine definitely keep me from getting the flu? \u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>No. No vaccine is 100% effective. But if you do get the flu, the vaccine is likely to reduce your chance of getting very sick, being hospitalized or dying, Pavia says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before last year,\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/index.html\"> tens of thousands of people\u003c/a> were hospitalized or died from the flu each year, usually people who weren’t vaccinated.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"covid\">\u003c/a>Can I get the flu and COVID-19 vaccines at the same time?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Absolutely. The CDC had previously recommended spacing out the timing of the COVID-19 vaccine and other immunizations because the vaccines were so new, but “that guidance has changed,” says Grohskopf. The CDC now says it’s safe to get both vaccines at once, she says. “The body’s immune response and side effects are generally the same as when getting one vaccine alone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you do get two shots on the same day, expect to get each vaccine in a different arm, which may reduce any pain and swelling that might occur.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>What about my COVID-19 booster shot — can I get that at the same time as my flu shot?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Right now, third doses of COVID-19 vaccine are authorized only for people with certain immunocompromised conditions. If you qualify, you can get that extra dose and the flu shot on the same day. Once boosters are more broadly authorized, “we’ll be able to co-administer those shots with flu shots as well,” said Lisa Kalajian, a district manager for CVS Health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11838735\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1900px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11838735\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/shots.png\" alt=\"A person is seated receiving their flu shot from a medical professional\" width=\"1900\" height=\"1267\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/shots.png 1900w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/shots-800x533.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/shots-1020x680.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/shots-160x107.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/shots-1536x1024.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1900px) 100vw, 1900px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Where can you get a free flu shot near you? And when should you get it? \u003ccite>(Homeless Coalition Flu Shot Clinic/Flickr)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>The delta variant is making me anxious about going to the doctor’s office or pharmacy for a flu shot this year. Are there other choices?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>If you’re concerned, aim for an off hour and call to make sure the provider (as well as you) will be masked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re still worried, check with local clinics to see if there are any outdoor flu shot clinics in your area.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>How do I make sure I get the right flu shot for me and my family?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“While the most important thing is to get any flu shot, there are some specialized flu shots for specific groups,” says Pavia. The key is usually age.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kids 8 and younger who are getting the flu shot for the first time need two doses, given a month apart, says \u003ca href=\"https://www.bcm.edu/people-search/flor-munoz-rivas-27227\">Dr. Flor Munoz-Rivas,\u003c/a> a pediatric infectious disease specialist at Baylor College of Medicine. Strong immunity doesn’t kick in until two weeks after the second shot, “so parents should be scheduling these shots now,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immune systems weaken with age. That’s why the CDC recommends that adults 65 and older get vaccinated with one of two souped-up flu shots: either the Fluzone High-Dose Quadrivalent vaccine or the FLUAD Quadrivalent vaccine. Both are designed to elicit a more robust immune response. If neither is available, then any flu shot is a good choice.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"pregnancy\">\u003c/a>I’m pregnant. Should I get a flu shot?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Yes. 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"disqusTitle": "Survey: Most SF Families Living in Chinatown Communal Housing Don't Want Their Kids Back in School",
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"content": "\u003cp>Hundreds of parents who live in communal housing in San Francisco are organizing with a singular message: Keep our kids out of school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.chinatowncdc.org/\">The Chinatown Community Development Center\u003c/a>, which owns and operates communal housing in the city, measured that fear directly: Of 294 families living in such housing who answered a recent survey, representing roughly 400 SFUSD students, 70% oppose in-person learning for their kids, and only 30% are in support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of those families surveyed lived in Chinatown, and many identify as Chinese or Chinese American, said the Chinatown CDC. The organization surveyed its tenants who have at least one child under 18 living in their household, by phone the week before SFUSD's fall semester started.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those who support in-person learning largely said they were worried about unemployment benefits expiring in September, and need to send their children back to school so the adults can work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other hand, those who oppose bringing their kids back to school are especially concerned that children under 12 are not yet vaccinated, and are worried that schools aren’t providing enough ventilation. They also voiced concern over COVID transmission on public transit and asked whether school buses could help mitigate that concern.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But despite the opposition to in-person learning, many of these families don't have much of a choice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new data comes after more than a year of public drumbeating to reopen schools during the pandemic voiced by the city’s most vocal parents — with “decrease the distance!” becoming their signature rallying cry — leading into the San Francisco Unified School District opening its doors to kids in August.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But just one week before that fateful day, on Aug. 10, a swarm of equally furious parents stormed SFUSD’s monthly (virtual) meeting. Their request? The exact opposite the public had heard for months. These parents wanted their kids to stay home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 2,000 of them — mostly Chinese and Chinese American — signed a petition asking SFUSD to offer more options for their kids to safely evade the increasingly spreading delta variant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are concerned that the start of in-person learning in Fall will lead to greater infection rates, not only in the children themselves, but also for vulnerable family members,” their letter read. “We do not wish to force distance learning upon everyone, but believe it is imperative to provide it to those families who need it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11883330\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11883330 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS47777_078_SanFrancisco_ReopenSchoolsMarch_03132021-qut.jpeg\" alt='Protest sign saying \"I want school! Full time. I miss my friends\" in foreground of crowd before City Hall. Protestors in yellow T-shirts, Mayor Breed at podium in background.' width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS47777_078_SanFrancisco_ReopenSchoolsMarch_03132021-qut.jpeg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS47777_078_SanFrancisco_ReopenSchoolsMarch_03132021-qut-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS47777_078_SanFrancisco_ReopenSchoolsMarch_03132021-qut-1020x679.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS47777_078_SanFrancisco_ReopenSchoolsMarch_03132021-qut-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS47777_078_SanFrancisco_ReopenSchoolsMarch_03132021-qut-1536x1022.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor London Breed speaks during a rally to reopen San Francisco public schools on March 13, 2021, the one-year anniversary of school buildings being closed. (Beth LaBerge/KQED) \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That effort comes as no surprise to Jen Chan, resident services manager at the Chinatown CDC, who works with families who live in the organization's single-room occupancy housing, many of whom are Chinese and Chinese American. She says living conditions may be one reason those families would prefer to keep their kids at home, especially in single-room occupancy housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SROs are \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11866033/i-dont-care-if-the-state-says-we-cant-sf-officials-say-city-should-vaccinate-at-risk-sro-residents\">communal spaces where families often live in a single room, sharing kitchens and bathrooms with tenants on the same floor\u003c/a> — families who may be especially concerned about being unable to quarantine should the worst happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There's a lot of fear,” Chan said. And that fear may be particular to the Chinese community due to hard-lived experience, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of our families were immigrants, right? They have heard of the outbreaks of SARS, the outbreak of COVID in their home countries in Hong Kong and in China. And they understand and have been impacted by people getting sick in their family. Deaths in their family,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The notion that scores of parents want their kids to stay at home may be a surprise to those reading news headlines for the last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local news has for months \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/S-F-teachers-share-demands-for-returning-to-15927867.php\">amplified the voices of more organized groups like Decreasing the Distance.\u003c/a> Some of those more amplified voices are calling for schools to reopen sooner rather than later, and are even recalling San Francisco school board members based on the idea that they single-handedly kept kids home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And their message has largely dominated the conversation about schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when it came time to finally let kids back in classrooms, the 450 online spots for distance learning provided by the district were quickly gobbled up. The school district has admitted 700 students who applied by July 30 to be in their online learning program, said SFUSD spokesperson Laura Dudnick.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that isn’t the sum total of the students wanting to stay home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To accommodate that growing number, SFUSD opened its applications for one of two independent learning programs with a deadline of Aug. 27.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, Dudnick added, “we strongly encourage students who are able to participate in in-person learning to do so, as it is the best option for the vast majority of students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the number of families who want distance learning may be far higher than the official ones known to SFUSD. Chan told KQED some who desire distance learning haven’t applied for fear of losing priority in their desired schools, and many think distance learning isn’t even an option.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s one they’d take if they had the chance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pushing for more open spots, local parents and parents of kids in SRO hotels are organizing for their own interests, demanding more distance learning options. KQED has seen screenshots of their group discussions on WeChat — the social media platform of choice for many in the Chinese community — with more than 800 people clamoring for distance learning options. [aside tag=\"education,remote-learning\" label=\"More Coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a second letter, sent Aug. 24, the families laid out their requests: rapid testing available for students of SRO families, SFUSD staff who can be point people to work with SRO families to ensure safety precautions are catered to their specific situations, more choices in remote learning, more language access for school emails to parents and, most of all, more input.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"All decisions must be made with SRO families, by them, and resolutions of their concerns,\" the letter reads. \"Families demand to be engaged so that they can provide meaningful input and direct policies.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Board of Education President Gabriela López says she's working on a resolution with fellow board members to call on the district to address the SRO families' specific asks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have been hearing from and connecting with many families in order to address these serious concerns,\" López said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFUSD Board of Education commissioner Jenny Lam also has been meeting with these SRO families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've been hearing from families for many months as we've been planning the full return,\" Lam said. \"The timing is, while we were returning to in-person [learning], the delta variant was also surging through the city and throughout the state. We are seeing that stabilization now of the delta variant and the positive cases, but certainly empathize and understand the concerns from families.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Lam characterized these concerns as a recent development, the desire to maintain distance learning has been bubbling up for months, Chan from Chinatown CDC said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even as far back as April, Lang Xie, another Chinatown SRO resident, shared similar concerns with KQED — even before the delta variant reared its head.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Xie lives in an SRO with her husband and 10-year-old daughter, Vicky, who attends Gordon J. Lau Elementary School. Both Xie and her husband are fully vaccinated but said they feel uncomfortable sending Vicky back to school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In my opinion, it is still kind of concerning. Even though we are vaccinated, the risk of being infected is still there. If there is nothing important, we would avoid going outside as much as possible,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like others who live in SRO hotels, sharing a single room means they have no space to quarantine from one another, a concern Xie shares, despite some city resources open to them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of those fears, Vicky learned from home during the spring semester, only returning to Gordon J. Lau Elementary School in the fall — but only because the family felt they had no other options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vicky was far from alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of roughly 750 students at Gordon J. Lau Elementary School, only 13 returned during the first week of school last April when in-person learning started again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school is more than 80% Asian, and many students are Chinese, with the school sitting squarely in Chinatown, right along Stockton Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFUSD, then, had long seen signs that many Chinese families weren’t ready to return to school, even before the delta variant rose. And San Francisco isn’t unique in that regard. [ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Surveys have shown this for months\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Multiple surveys conducted during the pandemic have shown a stark divide in who wants to return to in-person learning amid the COVID-19 pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout the pandemic, no matter what level of response was given, the ratios were often the same: White families overwhelmingly want to return to school, and Black and Latino families often want to return, but by a far slimmer majority than White families. But Asian families, and Chinese families in particular, are often far less likely to wish to return to in-person learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In May\u003cstrong>,\u003c/strong> the latest month available, just 27% of Asian families of fourth graders nationally were enrolled in in-person instruction, versus 66% of white families, \u003ca href=\"https://ies.ed.gov/schoolsurvey/\">according to a survey by the Institute of Education Sciences\u003c/a>. The institute is the statistics, research, and evaluation arm of the U.S. Department of Education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And according to that same survey, a whopping 51% of Asian families preferred to learn remotely, compared to just 14% of white families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Closer to home, in an Oakland Unified School District survey circulated in March, 44% of Asian families were ready to return to in-person learning, the smallest number of any ethnic group. And in one December survey conducted by SFUSD, only 36% of Asian families said they’re returning to in-person learning, versus 80% of white families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People living in SRO buildings — like the tenants highlighted by the Chinatown Community Development Center’s survey — feel particularly vulnerable to COVID.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everything’s communal [in an SRO],\" Chan said. “It’s a big worry that other units are going to spread [COVID] to them and vice versa.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11866067\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11866067 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/7c93f304-1.jpg\" alt=\"Long, spare, clean hallway with older Chinese residents standing in their doorways\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1570\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/7c93f304-1.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/7c93f304-1-800x654.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/7c93f304-1-1020x834.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/7c93f304-1-160x131.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/7c93f304-1-1536x1256.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Residents of single-room occupancy hotels fear they have little ability to quarantine due to living in close quarters, with shared bathrooms and kitchens. Seen here, residents of an SRO building on Clayton Street in San Francisco pose for a photo in May 2020. (Photo courtesy Chinatown Community Development Center) \u003ccite>(Photo courtesy Chinatown Community Development Center)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To date, 1,397 people living in SROs have tested positive for COVID-19, spread across 269 SRO buildings, with 26 deaths as a result of the virus, \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/data/covid-19-single-room-occupancies-sros\">according to the city's COVID-19 dashboard\u003c/a>. By April, roughly 412 people from SROs had stayed in city-provided quarantine sites. The statistics are no longer publicly posted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In theory, San Francisco does provide hotel rooms for people living in SROs without their own space to separate when sick. But health professionals don’t always recommend those rooms as an option for SRO residents, and residents don’t always know of their existence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one such tightly packed SRO building, Jun Chang Tan lives in a single room with his wife, 15-year-old son and 8-year-old daughter. He lived on unemployment for most of the summer, after his wife lost her job at a salon that closed during the pandemic and he lost hours at his job as a custodian, a job he only regained a few months ago. During the pandemic, his kids have largely learned from home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tan said in April that he didn’t want his children returning to school yet. He says he can’t be sure they’re safe from COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city prioritized SRO residents for the vaccine, and Tan and his wife eagerly got their shots. But with no space to quarantine, Tan didn’t want his kids to risk becoming infected at school, and he especially fears the vaccine will not protect against new variants of the virus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even though you are vaccinated, there is still a risk,” Tan says. “If they come in contact with COVID at school and bring it back home, then I do not have enough room because we live in a small apartment.” [aside tag=\"covid-19,coronavirus\" label=\"more COVID-19 coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED asked Commissioner Lam if, were she speaking directly to Tan, she would say that sending his children back to school is safe?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I would say yes, it is,\" Lam said. \"I would encourage Mr. Tan that absolutely we have the proper protocols and guidelines in place.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lam is a parent herself, with two SFUSD high schoolers already returning to school. Lam said for learning's sake — and emotional well-being — learning in person is the best option for children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the fall semester, Tan did let his daughter return to school because, he said, he has no feasible choice, and because SFUSD had too few slots for distance learning. He also thinks SFUSD has too high of a requirement to prove your kid can be kept out of school — namely, one of two programs available asks kids who are “medically fragile” to apply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Tan finally let his daughter return to Yick Wo Elementary for the fall semester, however, they got a phone call on the third day: Class would be canceled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A kid in his daughter’s class tested positive for COVID.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There have been 71 reported positive cases in pre-K through fifth grade elementary schools in SFUSD, and 16 reported positive cases in pre-K through eighth grade schools, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/covid-19-response-updates-and-resources/health-and-safety-guidelines/when-someone-gets-sick/covid-19-testing-dashboard\">according to SFUSD's COVID dashboard\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Community-minded solutions\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Back at Gordon J. Lau Elementary School in April, Principal Gloria Choy sat near a sobbing child dressed in a Spider-Man costume.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the families who were fearful to return during that spring semester, and to more broadly return, weren’t just afraid of COVID, but of the violence against the Asian community, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11885993\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11885993 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS48747_026_SanFrancisco_GordonLauElementary_04212021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS48747_026_SanFrancisco_GordonLauElementary_04212021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS48747_026_SanFrancisco_GordonLauElementary_04212021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS48747_026_SanFrancisco_GordonLauElementary_04212021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS48747_026_SanFrancisco_GordonLauElementary_04212021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS48747_026_SanFrancisco_GordonLauElementary_04212021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Principal Gloria Choy at Gordon Lau Elementary School in San Francisco's Chinatown on April 21, 2021. (Beth LaBerge/KQED) \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One of Choy’s school families was attacked riding a Muni bus from Market Street to pick up a free Wi-Fi hot spot from Gordon J. Lau in March. “This person was eyeing them the whole time. And when she got on the bus, the person yanked her backpack and her purse,” Choy said. The would-be thief got frustrated when bystanders tried to help. He “got upset, and just punched her in the face. So my [school] parents, they’re afraid,” Choy said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And families fear that violence may continue even as the pandemic subsides and children return to school in droves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 50% of SFUSD elementary school families traditionally commute by car, 25% walk, 10% take public transit and 10% take yellow school buses, according to district data. But Choy’s school has a much higher proportion of kids busing from outside the neighborhood. About half of Gordon J. Lau families live on the other side of the city, Choy says. They all take Muni in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stop AAPI Hate’s most recent national count saw 9,081 hate incidents reported to the organization from March 19, 2020, through June 2021. Of those hate incidents, 10% were reported by kids age 17 and younger. This number likely undercounts the rate of hate incidents against kids, the organization says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Stop AAPI Hate Youth Campaign conducted in the summer of 2020 found that 77% of AAPI youth surveyed were angry over anti-Asian hate in the U.S., with 60% expressing disappointment over racism, and 30% of AAPI youth expressing fear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://stopaapihate.org/reports/\">Stop AAPI Hate\u003c/a> also released a report on racism’s effects on Asian youth, alongside a long list of recommendations for policymakers and school districts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among them: asking school officials to denounce hate, integrating ethnic studies and anti-racism curricula into coursework, establishing anonymous reporting systems for bullying, holding trainings with teachers and faculty on anti-Asian hate and discrimination, and boosting multilingual outreach to parents and families with culturally responsive mental health resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, a few of these recommendations are already underway: In March the San Francisco Board of Education made ethnic studies a graduation requirement, and they have disseminated an extensive and ever-growing document to educators with resources on emotionally processing and combating hate against the AAPI community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vincent Matthews, SFUSD’s superintendent, addressed that fear back in a March school board meeting, and has done so repeatedly since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The pandemic has brought a lot of pain and suffering for many, and with it conspiracy theories scapegoating the Asian community for the COVID-19 pandemic,” Matthews said in March. “We have to stand together against violence perpetrated against any member of our community, and right now there is an increase in violence against our Asian brothers and sisters. It is unacceptable and we must recommit ourselves to creating safe communities for each and every person. Your child’s physical and emotional safety is our priority whether we are in distance learning or in person.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/SFUnified/status/1379494112919838722\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Commissioner Lam also said she attended a town hall for monolingual Chinese families just in August, where she and her colleagues did their best to hear the concerns of families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the district has held Cantonese-language town halls, Lai Wa Wu, a policy director from the Chinese Progressive Association, said it felt like the community was being talked to, not with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's not so much giving them more information, it's about shifting, creating spaces for there to be real long-term dialogue,” she said. “And that includes resourcing these spaces and taking these spaces seriously, where you give information to the community to help them make more informed decisions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hearing that concern, Lam said she's making an effort to get more staff to bridge the gap with the SRO community, and the monolingual Chinese community. She's hoping to arrange a meeting between their representatives and Superintendent Matthews soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're living through a pandemic that we have not lived through before in over a century. So certainly there are a lot of unknowns and certainty how we live through this together, and we are calling upon our institutions to be able to serve its people,\" Lam said. \"And so I take that responsibility wholeheartedly. Are there things that the district needs to do better? Of course, we always need to be doing better.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for Principal Choy, the solutions need not be grandiose. Even the simple act of providing yellow school buses for kids to avoid attacks on public transit would be a huge help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other solutions may require even more legwork. [ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Bringing kids back\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>KQED spoke to one of the only 13 students to return to Gordon J. Lau Elementary School in April: Amy Lee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On her first day back in the spring, Amy was more than ready for school: She dressed in her warm kitty-cat sweater and carried her pink backpack on her shoulders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joyce — Amy’s mother — and Amy's story shows something unique, Principal Choy says: trust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joyce was relieved when Amy returned to school in the spring. She volunteers at a local YMCA doing relief work with families hit hard by the pandemic and can take work meetings with more ease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am always happy to find the time to do volunteer work and help out the community. Because we are from a low-income family, my abilities are limited and I am only able to help to a certain extent,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So while Amy returned to school before hundreds of her peers, the Lee family also has an advantage many of her classmates don’t: She lives in the same neighborhood as her school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A staple of San Francisco’s historic Chinatown since 1952, the Ping Yuen affordable housing project on Pacific Avenue is home to more than 400 people. That includes Amy and Joyce. And on that particular Wednesday \u003cstrong>i\u003c/strong>n April, the second day of school, she practically dragged her mom out the door with excitement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amy knows where her classmates are this year: “They’re at Zoom,” she told KQED, as if Zoom were a place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11885950\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11885950 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS48732_011_SanFrancisco_GordonLauElementary_04212021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS48732_011_SanFrancisco_GordonLauElementary_04212021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS48732_011_SanFrancisco_GordonLauElementary_04212021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS48732_011_SanFrancisco_GordonLauElementary_04212021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS48732_011_SanFrancisco_GordonLauElementary_04212021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS48732_011_SanFrancisco_GordonLauElementary_04212021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joyce Lee and her daughter Amy check in with Gordon Lau Elementary School staff in San Francisco on April 21, 2021. (Beth LaBerge/KQED) \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As we all walked together to Gordon J. Lau Elementary School, Joyce talked about the advantages of having Amy back in school, especially helpful as COVID ravages the finances of many families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With fewer child-watching duties, Joyce may be able to find additional work to supplement their income. Her husband lost his restaurant job during the pandemic, and they have two other children: a toddler, and a teenager attending Galileo Academy of Science and Technology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel safe allowing my children to return to school because the COVID-19 pandemic in the city has already reduced to a lower risk, the vaccine is available now, and the school district and school have held a meeting with parents about returning to campus,” Lee said during the spring semester.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that trust hasn’t come easily to the rest of the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think some of our Chinese community are still afraid of getting even their shots of vaccines,” Choy says. “I think they have to trust that the vaccine is going to work. I think they have to also trust that our school is going to keep them safe. They're going to have to trust that, you know, when they get on the bus to come to school” they’ll be safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That trust is tenuous. That trust takes time to earn. It takes more than just a translated flyer or a town hall from a school district — it takes resources, effort and genuine back-and-forth conversation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And to assure the safety of the community during the fall semester, that trust needs to come soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Some interviews for this story were conducted in Cantonese with the help of a community translator, recorded and later translated for publication. Translations were conducted for KQED by Sophie Liang.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Hundreds of parents who live in communal housing in San Francisco are organizing with a singular message: Keep our kids out of school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.chinatowncdc.org/\">The Chinatown Community Development Center\u003c/a>, which owns and operates communal housing in the city, measured that fear directly: Of 294 families living in such housing who answered a recent survey, representing roughly 400 SFUSD students, 70% oppose in-person learning for their kids, and only 30% are in support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of those families surveyed lived in Chinatown, and many identify as Chinese or Chinese American, said the Chinatown CDC. The organization surveyed its tenants who have at least one child under 18 living in their household, by phone the week before SFUSD's fall semester started.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those who support in-person learning largely said they were worried about unemployment benefits expiring in September, and need to send their children back to school so the adults can work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other hand, those who oppose bringing their kids back to school are especially concerned that children under 12 are not yet vaccinated, and are worried that schools aren’t providing enough ventilation. They also voiced concern over COVID transmission on public transit and asked whether school buses could help mitigate that concern.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But despite the opposition to in-person learning, many of these families don't have much of a choice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new data comes after more than a year of public drumbeating to reopen schools during the pandemic voiced by the city’s most vocal parents — with “decrease the distance!” becoming their signature rallying cry — leading into the San Francisco Unified School District opening its doors to kids in August.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But just one week before that fateful day, on Aug. 10, a swarm of equally furious parents stormed SFUSD’s monthly (virtual) meeting. Their request? The exact opposite the public had heard for months. These parents wanted their kids to stay home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 2,000 of them — mostly Chinese and Chinese American — signed a petition asking SFUSD to offer more options for their kids to safely evade the increasingly spreading delta variant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are concerned that the start of in-person learning in Fall will lead to greater infection rates, not only in the children themselves, but also for vulnerable family members,” their letter read. “We do not wish to force distance learning upon everyone, but believe it is imperative to provide it to those families who need it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11883330\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11883330 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS47777_078_SanFrancisco_ReopenSchoolsMarch_03132021-qut.jpeg\" alt='Protest sign saying \"I want school! Full time. I miss my friends\" in foreground of crowd before City Hall. Protestors in yellow T-shirts, Mayor Breed at podium in background.' width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS47777_078_SanFrancisco_ReopenSchoolsMarch_03132021-qut.jpeg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS47777_078_SanFrancisco_ReopenSchoolsMarch_03132021-qut-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS47777_078_SanFrancisco_ReopenSchoolsMarch_03132021-qut-1020x679.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS47777_078_SanFrancisco_ReopenSchoolsMarch_03132021-qut-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS47777_078_SanFrancisco_ReopenSchoolsMarch_03132021-qut-1536x1022.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor London Breed speaks during a rally to reopen San Francisco public schools on March 13, 2021, the one-year anniversary of school buildings being closed. (Beth LaBerge/KQED) \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That effort comes as no surprise to Jen Chan, resident services manager at the Chinatown CDC, who works with families who live in the organization's single-room occupancy housing, many of whom are Chinese and Chinese American. She says living conditions may be one reason those families would prefer to keep their kids at home, especially in single-room occupancy housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SROs are \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11866033/i-dont-care-if-the-state-says-we-cant-sf-officials-say-city-should-vaccinate-at-risk-sro-residents\">communal spaces where families often live in a single room, sharing kitchens and bathrooms with tenants on the same floor\u003c/a> — families who may be especially concerned about being unable to quarantine should the worst happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There's a lot of fear,” Chan said. And that fear may be particular to the Chinese community due to hard-lived experience, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of our families were immigrants, right? They have heard of the outbreaks of SARS, the outbreak of COVID in their home countries in Hong Kong and in China. And they understand and have been impacted by people getting sick in their family. Deaths in their family,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The notion that scores of parents want their kids to stay at home may be a surprise to those reading news headlines for the last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local news has for months \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/S-F-teachers-share-demands-for-returning-to-15927867.php\">amplified the voices of more organized groups like Decreasing the Distance.\u003c/a> Some of those more amplified voices are calling for schools to reopen sooner rather than later, and are even recalling San Francisco school board members based on the idea that they single-handedly kept kids home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And their message has largely dominated the conversation about schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when it came time to finally let kids back in classrooms, the 450 online spots for distance learning provided by the district were quickly gobbled up. The school district has admitted 700 students who applied by July 30 to be in their online learning program, said SFUSD spokesperson Laura Dudnick.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that isn’t the sum total of the students wanting to stay home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To accommodate that growing number, SFUSD opened its applications for one of two independent learning programs with a deadline of Aug. 27.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, Dudnick added, “we strongly encourage students who are able to participate in in-person learning to do so, as it is the best option for the vast majority of students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the number of families who want distance learning may be far higher than the official ones known to SFUSD. Chan told KQED some who desire distance learning haven’t applied for fear of losing priority in their desired schools, and many think distance learning isn’t even an option.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s one they’d take if they had the chance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pushing for more open spots, local parents and parents of kids in SRO hotels are organizing for their own interests, demanding more distance learning options. KQED has seen screenshots of their group discussions on WeChat — the social media platform of choice for many in the Chinese community — with more than 800 people clamoring for distance learning options. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Surveys have shown this for months\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Multiple surveys conducted during the pandemic have shown a stark divide in who wants to return to in-person learning amid the COVID-19 pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout the pandemic, no matter what level of response was given, the ratios were often the same: White families overwhelmingly want to return to school, and Black and Latino families often want to return, but by a far slimmer majority than White families. But Asian families, and Chinese families in particular, are often far less likely to wish to return to in-person learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In May\u003cstrong>,\u003c/strong> the latest month available, just 27% of Asian families of fourth graders nationally were enrolled in in-person instruction, versus 66% of white families, \u003ca href=\"https://ies.ed.gov/schoolsurvey/\">according to a survey by the Institute of Education Sciences\u003c/a>. The institute is the statistics, research, and evaluation arm of the U.S. Department of Education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And according to that same survey, a whopping 51% of Asian families preferred to learn remotely, compared to just 14% of white families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Closer to home, in an Oakland Unified School District survey circulated in March, 44% of Asian families were ready to return to in-person learning, the smallest number of any ethnic group. And in one December survey conducted by SFUSD, only 36% of Asian families said they’re returning to in-person learning, versus 80% of white families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People living in SRO buildings — like the tenants highlighted by the Chinatown Community Development Center’s survey — feel particularly vulnerable to COVID.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everything’s communal [in an SRO],\" Chan said. “It’s a big worry that other units are going to spread [COVID] to them and vice versa.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11866067\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11866067 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/7c93f304-1.jpg\" alt=\"Long, spare, clean hallway with older Chinese residents standing in their doorways\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1570\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/7c93f304-1.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/7c93f304-1-800x654.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/7c93f304-1-1020x834.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/7c93f304-1-160x131.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/7c93f304-1-1536x1256.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Residents of single-room occupancy hotels fear they have little ability to quarantine due to living in close quarters, with shared bathrooms and kitchens. 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But health professionals don’t always recommend those rooms as an option for SRO residents, and residents don’t always know of their existence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one such tightly packed SRO building, Jun Chang Tan lives in a single room with his wife, 15-year-old son and 8-year-old daughter. He lived on unemployment for most of the summer, after his wife lost her job at a salon that closed during the pandemic and he lost hours at his job as a custodian, a job he only regained a few months ago. During the pandemic, his kids have largely learned from home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tan said in April that he didn’t want his children returning to school yet. He says he can’t be sure they’re safe from COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city prioritized SRO residents for the vaccine, and Tan and his wife eagerly got their shots. But with no space to quarantine, Tan didn’t want his kids to risk becoming infected at school, and he especially fears the vaccine will not protect against new variants of the virus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even though you are vaccinated, there is still a risk,” Tan says. “If they come in contact with COVID at school and bring it back home, then I do not have enough room because we live in a small apartment.” \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED asked Commissioner Lam if, were she speaking directly to Tan, she would say that sending his children back to school is safe?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I would say yes, it is,\" Lam said. \"I would encourage Mr. Tan that absolutely we have the proper protocols and guidelines in place.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lam is a parent herself, with two SFUSD high schoolers already returning to school. Lam said for learning's sake — and emotional well-being — learning in person is the best option for children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the fall semester, Tan did let his daughter return to school because, he said, he has no feasible choice, and because SFUSD had too few slots for distance learning. He also thinks SFUSD has too high of a requirement to prove your kid can be kept out of school — namely, one of two programs available asks kids who are “medically fragile” to apply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Tan finally let his daughter return to Yick Wo Elementary for the fall semester, however, they got a phone call on the third day: Class would be canceled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A kid in his daughter’s class tested positive for COVID.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There have been 71 reported positive cases in pre-K through fifth grade elementary schools in SFUSD, and 16 reported positive cases in pre-K through eighth grade schools, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/covid-19-response-updates-and-resources/health-and-safety-guidelines/when-someone-gets-sick/covid-19-testing-dashboard\">according to SFUSD's COVID dashboard\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Community-minded solutions\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Back at Gordon J. Lau Elementary School in April, Principal Gloria Choy sat near a sobbing child dressed in a Spider-Man costume.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the families who were fearful to return during that spring semester, and to more broadly return, weren’t just afraid of COVID, but of the violence against the Asian community, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11885993\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11885993 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS48747_026_SanFrancisco_GordonLauElementary_04212021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS48747_026_SanFrancisco_GordonLauElementary_04212021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS48747_026_SanFrancisco_GordonLauElementary_04212021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS48747_026_SanFrancisco_GordonLauElementary_04212021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS48747_026_SanFrancisco_GordonLauElementary_04212021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS48747_026_SanFrancisco_GordonLauElementary_04212021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Principal Gloria Choy at Gordon Lau Elementary School in San Francisco's Chinatown on April 21, 2021. (Beth LaBerge/KQED) \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One of Choy’s school families was attacked riding a Muni bus from Market Street to pick up a free Wi-Fi hot spot from Gordon J. Lau in March. “This person was eyeing them the whole time. And when she got on the bus, the person yanked her backpack and her purse,” Choy said. The would-be thief got frustrated when bystanders tried to help. He “got upset, and just punched her in the face. So my [school] parents, they’re afraid,” Choy said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And families fear that violence may continue even as the pandemic subsides and children return to school in droves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 50% of SFUSD elementary school families traditionally commute by car, 25% walk, 10% take public transit and 10% take yellow school buses, according to district data. But Choy’s school has a much higher proportion of kids busing from outside the neighborhood. About half of Gordon J. Lau families live on the other side of the city, Choy says. They all take Muni in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stop AAPI Hate’s most recent national count saw 9,081 hate incidents reported to the organization from March 19, 2020, through June 2021. Of those hate incidents, 10% were reported by kids age 17 and younger. This number likely undercounts the rate of hate incidents against kids, the organization says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Stop AAPI Hate Youth Campaign conducted in the summer of 2020 found that 77% of AAPI youth surveyed were angry over anti-Asian hate in the U.S., with 60% expressing disappointment over racism, and 30% of AAPI youth expressing fear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://stopaapihate.org/reports/\">Stop AAPI Hate\u003c/a> also released a report on racism’s effects on Asian youth, alongside a long list of recommendations for policymakers and school districts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among them: asking school officials to denounce hate, integrating ethnic studies and anti-racism curricula into coursework, establishing anonymous reporting systems for bullying, holding trainings with teachers and faculty on anti-Asian hate and discrimination, and boosting multilingual outreach to parents and families with culturally responsive mental health resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, a few of these recommendations are already underway: In March the San Francisco Board of Education made ethnic studies a graduation requirement, and they have disseminated an extensive and ever-growing document to educators with resources on emotionally processing and combating hate against the AAPI community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vincent Matthews, SFUSD’s superintendent, addressed that fear back in a March school board meeting, and has done so repeatedly since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The pandemic has brought a lot of pain and suffering for many, and with it conspiracy theories scapegoating the Asian community for the COVID-19 pandemic,” Matthews said in March. “We have to stand together against violence perpetrated against any member of our community, and right now there is an increase in violence against our Asian brothers and sisters. It is unacceptable and we must recommit ourselves to creating safe communities for each and every person. Your child’s physical and emotional safety is our priority whether we are in distance learning or in person.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Commissioner Lam also said she attended a town hall for monolingual Chinese families just in August, where she and her colleagues did their best to hear the concerns of families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the district has held Cantonese-language town halls, Lai Wa Wu, a policy director from the Chinese Progressive Association, said it felt like the community was being talked to, not with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's not so much giving them more information, it's about shifting, creating spaces for there to be real long-term dialogue,” she said. “And that includes resourcing these spaces and taking these spaces seriously, where you give information to the community to help them make more informed decisions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hearing that concern, Lam said she's making an effort to get more staff to bridge the gap with the SRO community, and the monolingual Chinese community. She's hoping to arrange a meeting between their representatives and Superintendent Matthews soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're living through a pandemic that we have not lived through before in over a century. So certainly there are a lot of unknowns and certainty how we live through this together, and we are calling upon our institutions to be able to serve its people,\" Lam said. \"And so I take that responsibility wholeheartedly. Are there things that the district needs to do better? Of course, we always need to be doing better.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for Principal Choy, the solutions need not be grandiose. Even the simple act of providing yellow school buses for kids to avoid attacks on public transit would be a huge help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other solutions may require even more legwork. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>In the past month, four emergency room nurses — exhausted by the onslaught of patients and emotional turmoil wrought by COVID-19 — have quit at the Eureka hospital where Matt Miele works.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miele, who has been a trauma nurse for four years, is actively looking for a less stressful nursing position and has colleagues who are, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“On the bad days, I think, ‘What am I doing and is this what I want to be doing?'” Miele said. “It’s shifting me to my core.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around California — and the nation — nurses are trading in high-pressure jobs for a career change, early retirement or less demanding assignments, leading to staffing shortages in many hospitals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hospitals are struggling to comply with the state’s nurse staffing requirements as pandemic-induced burnout has exacerbated an already chronic nursing shortage nationwide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But burnout isn’t the only thing compounding California’s nursing shortage: The state’s \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/coronavirus/2021/08/california-healthcare-vaccinations-mandate/\">new vaccine mandate for health care workers\u003c/a> is already causing headaches for understaffed hospitals before it is even implemented. Some traveling nurses — who are in high demand nationwide — are turning down California assignments because they don’t want to get vaccinated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hospitals say they are reaching a crisis point, straining under the dual forces of more people seeking routine care and \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/coronavirus/2020/04/california-coronavirus-covid-patient-hospitalization-data-icu/\">surging COVID-19 hospitalizations\u003c/a> driven by the delta variant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Dr. Tom Sugarman, Emergency Physician\"]‘There’s not enough staff to keep beds open, and patients can languish waiting.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oftentimes at hospitals there are long waits and long delays,” said Dr. Tom Sugarman, an emergency physician in the East Bay and senior director of government affairs at Vituity, a physicians’ group. “There’s not enough staff to keep beds open, and patients can languish waiting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March 2020, the California Department of Public Health \u003ca href=\"https://files.covid19.ca.gov/pdf/Aya-healthcare-inc-CDPH.pdf\">contracted with Aya Healthcare\u003c/a> — one of the nation’s largest traveling nurse providers — to pay up to $1 billion over six months to help hospitals meet nursing and other clinical staff shortages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Department officials did not respond to multiple requests about the number of hospitals now seeking emergency staffing, and would not release the updated contract.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, Gov. Gavin Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/8.16.21-EO-N-12-21.pdf\">signed an executive order\u003c/a> reinstating emergency provisions aimed at ensuring adequate staffing. In part, the order allows health care workers from out of state to work in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Unprecedented staff shortages\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Before the pandemic, nursing shortages were common in most areas of the state, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://oshpd.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Registered-Nurse-Shortage-Areas-Report.pdf\">Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now the pandemic has stretched resources to a breaking point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hospitals, some with \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/coronavirus/2021/08/california-covid/\">more COVID-19 patients now than during the winter surge\u003c/a>, say they are confronting unprecedented staffing shortages, particularly among nurses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All of our hospitals are saying staffing is a big problem,” said Lois Richardson, attorney for the California Hospital Association. “We have fewer personnel than at the beginning of the pandemic and more patients.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Lois Richardson, California Hospital Association\"]‘We have fewer personnel than at the beginning of the pandemic and more patients.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The staffing shortage is so severe that Scripps Health is considering temporarily consolidating some of its outpatient centers. Scripps, which has five hospitals and 28 outpatient clinics in the San Diego area, told CalMatters that it is serving nearly 20% more patients on average than before the pandemic. At the same time, job openings at the hospitals have increased 57% since August 2019. For nursing jobs alone, vacancies have increased 96%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve had some staff leave the organization or leave the industry as a whole because they’re burned out,” said Eric Cole, corporate senior vice president of human resources for Scripps. “They’ll wake up in the morning and call off the shift. They’ve done as much as they can do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Emotional and physical exhaustion is the primary reason nurses are fleeing the bedside, experts say. It has been a long and brutal 18 months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We thought the pandemic would be over soon and could take time later to deal with our emotions,” said Zenei Triunfo-Cortez, president of National Nurses United, the largest nursing union in the country, which has more than 100,000 members in its California association. “Then the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/coronavirus/2021/01/california-hospitals-covid-cases/\">second surge\u003c/a> hit, and the third and now it’s the fourth.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mary Lynn Briggs, an ICU nurse in Bakersfield, said that of the dozens of COVID-19 patients she has treated since the pandemic began, only three have survived.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some days coming home from the hospital I yell at God, I yell at myself, I yell at COVID and cry. And that’s all before I pull into my driveway,” Briggs said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her workplace has lost more staff than they can hire, and that means the ones who are left have to pick up the slack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Mary Lynn Briggs, ICU Nurse\"]‘Some days coming home from the hospital I yell at God, I yell at myself, I yell at COVID and cry. And that’s all before I pull into my driveway.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There have been multiple nights where I swear I am tired and I need a night off, and then I get a call from somebody saying we’re going to give the nurse three patients, so I go in because I don’t want anyone to work out of ratio,” Briggs said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Out of ratio” means that a nurse is assigned too many patients. California is the only state that caps the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nationalnursesunited.org/what-does-california-ratios-law-actually-require\">number of patients that can be assigned to a single nurse\u003c/a>. Under state requirements, for instance, an ICU nurse can have no more than two patients and an emergency room nurse, no more than four.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In December, during the winter surge, emergency waivers for the ratios were granted to hospitals throughout the state, allowing ICU nurses to see three patients, for instance. Critics say the conditions threatened patient safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s order last week did not reinstate the waivers of the nurse-patient ratios, which expired on Feb. 8. Individual facilities, however, can still apply for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would not be surprised if they reapply for waivers,” union president Triunfo-Cortez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state health department did not respond to requests seeking information on whether hospitals have applied for staffing waivers in response to the shortages.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Vaccine mandate complicates staffing\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Hospital administrators worry that the state’s \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/coronavirus/2021/08/california-healthcare-vaccinations-mandate/\">vaccine mandate\u003c/a> for health care workers, which goes into effect Sept. 30, could drive some of their workers out. Already, some report resistance among employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One hospital told us they had 474 unvaccinated employees. They did a big education and incentive push. Only 12 people signed up,” said Richardson, the hospital association’s attorney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=news_11883989,news_11882632,news_11885623]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Administrators are particularly concerned about low vaccination rates among support staff like janitors and food service workers. However, some nurses also are wary of the COVID-19 vaccine. Some nurses with large social media followings have participated in \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/vaccine-mandates-spread-protests-follow-spurred-nurses-rcna1654\">protests in Southern California\u003c/a>, arguing that the mandates violate their personal freedom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vaccine order allows only for narrow religious and medical exemptions. Until Sept. 30, unvaccinated workers must undergo weekly COVID-19 testing. The state nursing association issued a statement saying “all eligible people should be vaccinated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While California was first in the nation to impose a vaccine mandate for health care workers, other states have since joined in, but their mandates aren’t as broad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cole of Scripps Health said the state’s \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2021/07/california-vaccine-requirements-workers/\">testing requirement\u003c/a>, imposed this week, already has discouraged some out-of-state, traveling nurses from taking temporary jobs at California hospitals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they don’t want to get vaccinated, they are turning down California assignments,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Traveling nurses in high demand\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>To contend with local shortages, hospitals are increasingly turning to hiring temporary, traveling nurses from around the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the past 18 months, Janet Stovall, a traveling ICU nurse for more than 20 years, has worked in hospitals in the Imperial Valley town of Brawley; Visalia; Wichita, Kan.; and now Folsom and Alameda — and all of them have been running on “very lean staffing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Last night there were ambulances waiting just to get into the ER to be evaluated … They pulled a nurse from the ICU to help with the ER, and we worked without a charge nurse or a break nurse,” Stovall said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stovall said traveling nurses like her are in high demand. At one hospital, “we hadn’t even finished orientation when the VP of patient services called and said, ‘You need to leave right now, test out of orientation, and be at work by 11 p.m.,'” Stovall said. “That’s how desperate they are.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Sophia Morris, Vice President of Account Management at Aya Healthcare\"]‘In the 16 years I’ve been in this space, I have never seen this high a need.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sophia Morris, vice president of account management at \u003ca href=\"https://www.ayahealthcare.com/\">Aya Healthcare\u003c/a>, said California has the second highest number of positions posted for nurses, exceeded only by Texas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nationwide more than 52,000 temporary health care jobs are posted, and Aya is only able to fill about 3,000 per week, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the 16 years I’ve been in this space, I have never seen this high a need,” Morris said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That need is creating intense competition for a limited pool of nurses nationwide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nurses are getting paid premiums to work in Texas and Florida where it’s surging right now,” Sugarman said. “Those nurses have to come from somewhere, and I wouldn’t be surprised if some are coming from California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hospitals have been paying twice as much as pre-pandemic times for travelers, Morris said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To entice nurses to come to California, the state Department of Public Health agreed to pay up to $145 per hour for Aya’s ICU nurses and more if a facility had a “critical need.” Stovall, who works for Aya, said between October and December 2020, she was paid $10,000 per week with an additional $2,000 if she picked up an extra shift.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s working — but not without consequences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The money is pulling full-time staff nurses into traveling positions, further aggravating the staffing shortage nationwide. Stovall, who is based in North Carolina, said her sister-in-law took a week’s vacation from a full-time nursing gig to pick up an $8,000 traveling contract. She also convinced a longtime friend, Candace Brim, to leave her staff position and travel during the height of the pandemic in December.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everywhere we go people ask, ‘Can we get your recruiter’s number? We’ve given it out 20 times,'” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"More Coronavirus Coverage\" tag=\"coronavirus\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Traveling has been key to helping them avoid burnout, Brim and Stovall said. It’s rewarding to be able to come in and “save the situation” at hospitals in dire need of extra hands, Brim said, and the money is good enough that they can afford to take weeks off at a time after difficult assignments. Their contracts in Folsom and Alameda last until Thanksgiving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By the time we finish our contract in November, we will have enough money to sit home the rest of November and December all through the holidays,” Stovall said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Time off has helped them cope with the somber realities of treating COVID-19 patients in the ICU: In the past seven months, every COVID patient Brim and Stovall treated has died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We took care of about 65 COVID patients in Brawley and not a single one made it,” Stovall said. “We coded one every night. Before [COVID-19], you could make a difference in someone’s life. Now I will do anything for a patient, and it does not make a difference …Three days later they don’t make it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Will so many nurses burn out and leave the profession that California will face long-term shortages? It’s possible. Pre-pandemic, one projection said California will be \u003ca href=\"https://bhw.hrsa.gov/sites/default/files/bureau-health-workforce/data-research/nchwa-hrsa-nursing-report.pdf\">short more than 44,000 nurses\u003c/a> by 2030, while other studies suggested that there will be an \u003ca href=\"https://www.rn.ca.gov/pdfs/forms/forecast2019.pdf\">adequate supply of new graduates\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11886461\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1092px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11886461\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/082421_travelingnurses_AW_sized_02-e1630013055384.jpeg\" alt=\"Nurses in scrubs stand in front of a hospital gurney\" width=\"1092\" height=\"728\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In the past seven months, every COVID patient that Janet Stovall (left) and Candace Brim treated has died. “We took care of about 65 COVID patients in Brawley and not a single one made it,” Stovall said. “We coded one every night … Before [COVID], you could make a difference in someone’s life. Now I will do anything for a patient, and it does not make a difference.” \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Low staffing stresses out ER nurses\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In Humboldt County, all floors are at full capacity at the hospital where ER nurse Miele works. Humboldt is one of the areas experiencing record-setting COVID-19 hospitalizations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miele has had patients who waited 10 to 12 hours in the emergency room. Sometimes, the patients he checks on at 9:30 p.m. before he leaves are still in the waiting room the next morning when he returns to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To me it seems like the lowest staffing levels that I’ve seen at the time we need it the most,” he said, adding that he frequently works at a patient-to-emergency-room-nurse ratio that exceeds the four-to-one required by the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People are triaged in the waiting room “like a mass casualty patient event,” getting their initial assessments and tests ordered before ever seeing the inside of an examination room. He said he worries because staff are unable to routinely monitor the patients in the waiting rooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His hospital hasn’t yet rationed care by prioritizing who gets treated based on who is most likely to survive, but it is being discussed, Miele said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Stress is part of the game when you sign up to be an emergency medicine RN,” he said, “but this is another level.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Skip to:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#locations\">Where to find a free COVID test in your county.\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#timing\">How soon after possible COVID exposure to get a test.\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#why\">Why you might want a COVID test even if you have no symptoms.\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>More than 60% of Californians are fully vaccinated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the spread of the delta variant in the Bay Area and a recent jump in new cases across the state, including infections in vaccinated people, serve as a reminder that the pandemic is still not over — and that COVID testing is still crucial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some counties, like San Francisco, have already reopened their testing sites to meet a growing demand. 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But knowing with certainty that you are not infected can make a huge difference for those who are much more vulnerable to the coronavirus, like children under 12, who are not yet eligible for a vaccine, or the immunocompromised.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Knowledge is power,” he said. “Not knowing you have [COVID-19] is much worse than knowing you have it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you get tested and receive a positive result, you can then let those with whom you’ve been in close contact know so they can also get tested and take preventive measures. \"You may break the chain of transmission,\" Chin-Hong said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The COVID symptoms to watch out for right now\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>You may also consider getting tested even if you haven’t been in close contact with someone who has contracted the virus. Health officials recommend you keep an eye out for symptoms like headaches, fever and a sore throat. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Skip to:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#locations\">Where to find a free COVID test in your county.\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#timing\">How soon after possible COVID exposure to get a test.\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#why\">Why you might want a COVID test even if you have no symptoms.\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>More than 60% of Californians are fully vaccinated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the spread of the delta variant in the Bay Area and a recent jump in new cases across the state, including infections in vaccinated people, serve as a reminder that the pandemic is still not over — and that COVID testing is still crucial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some counties, like San Francisco, have already reopened their testing sites to meet a growing demand. And health experts stress that getting tested for COVID-19, even after you’re fully vaccinated, is an effective way to stop the spread of coronavirus faster.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Why getting tested for COVID is still important — even if you’re vaccinated\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\"As a vaccinated person,” said Dr. Peter Chin-Hong, professor of medicine and an infectious disease specialist at UCSF, \"you are very unlikely to go to the hospital, get in a breathing tube and die.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What I can tell you is you potentially could transmit it to others,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breakthrough cases, or instances when a fully vaccinated person contracts COVID-19, are still very rare, Chin-Hong explained. But knowing with certainty that you are not infected can make a huge difference for those who are much more vulnerable to the coronavirus, like children under 12, who are not yet eligible for a vaccine, or the immunocompromised.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Knowledge is power,” he said. “Not knowing you have [COVID-19] is much worse than knowing you have it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you get tested and receive a positive result, you can then let those with whom you’ve been in close contact know so they can also get tested and take preventive measures. \"You may break the chain of transmission,\" Chin-Hong said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The COVID symptoms to watch out for right now\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>You may also consider getting tested even if you haven’t been in close contact with someone who has contracted the virus. Health officials recommend you keep an eye out for symptoms like headaches, fever and a sore throat. Sneezing also is now being seen among some fully vaccinated folks as a COVID-19 symptom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Sneezing hadn’t been seen before until delta, among vaccinated folks,\" Chin-Hong explained. He points out that sneezing could be mistaken for allergies or a mild cold and that would dissuade folks from getting tested. 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If you’ve been in close contact with someone with a COVID diagnosis (that means you were together, unmasked, for more than 15 minutes and less than six feet apart), \"we usually start thinking of exposure as around two days before the diagnosis of the friend,\" said Chin-Hong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"For example, if somebody went to a party with somebody five days ago, but then didn't hang out with that person since five days ago, but that person got diagnosed two days ago, they wouldn't need to worry about it,\" Chin-Hong said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"why\">\u003c/a>No symptoms or known exposure? 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The tallies are much higher in other parts of the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All this means that if you have children under 12 in your home, who aren’t eligible yet for COVID vaccination, you might want to regularly test them yourself to ensure they’re not bringing COVID home from school — or that \u003cem>you’re\u003c/em> bringing COVID into the home and infecting them. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11884622/how-to-keep-your-child-safe-from-the-delta-variant\">Read more on keeping children safe from the delta variant.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>You'll be traveling to a country that demands a test.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many countries are requiring entrants to present a negative COVID test taken within a certain time frame of departure (often 72 hours, or three calendar days). 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The bout lasted more than a week and sickened Johnson, her sister and her boyfriend — all of whom were vaccinated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11885701\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11885701\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50667_024_DiscoveryBay_ChildrenCOVID_08162021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A parent carries a baby in one hand and a baby bottle in the other. The parent is sitting on a big, brown couch in the living room of their house.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50667_024_DiscoveryBay_ChildrenCOVID_08162021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50667_024_DiscoveryBay_ChildrenCOVID_08162021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50667_024_DiscoveryBay_ChildrenCOVID_08162021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50667_024_DiscoveryBay_ChildrenCOVID_08162021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50667_024_DiscoveryBay_ChildrenCOVID_08162021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alysha Johnson holds her son River while giving him a bottle in the family’s home in Discovery Bay in Contra Costa County on Aug. 16, 2021. When they and their family tested positive for COVID-19, they quarantined together in the house. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It felt like a really bad sinus cold,” Johnson said. “I felt exhausted. I lost my sense of taste and smell. That was the most bizarre sensation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson is relieved she had her shots protecting her against a more severe case of COVID-19. But the fact that kids are transmitting the coronavirus to family members is unnerving many parents as children head back to school, especially as a coronavirus vaccine for kids under 12 is not yet available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the first week of school, 58 students and 10 staff members tested positive in Oakland Unified School District schools. The tallies are much higher in other parts of the country. Last week, more than 3,000 students and staff had to quarantine in\u003ca href=\"https://www.brevardschools.org/cms/lib/FL02201431/Centricity/Domain/10805/Dashboard%20-%2008.13.21%20to%2008.16.21.pdf\"> Florida’s Brevard Public Schools\u003c/a>. And in Hawaii, many schools are pulling the plug and \u003ca href=\"https://www.civilbeat.org/2021/08/facing-new-covid-cases-waianae-school-returns-to-distance-learning/\">returning to remote learning\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11885705\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11885705\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50653_010_DiscoveryBay_ChildrenCOVID_08162021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A parent carries their small child in their arms. Both have their bathing suits on and the child wears inflatable lifesavers as both are in the pool. Both are looking up at the sky. Behind them is a backyard and palm trees.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50653_010_DiscoveryBay_ChildrenCOVID_08162021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50653_010_DiscoveryBay_ChildrenCOVID_08162021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50653_010_DiscoveryBay_ChildrenCOVID_08162021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50653_010_DiscoveryBay_ChildrenCOVID_08162021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50653_010_DiscoveryBay_ChildrenCOVID_08162021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alysha Johnson holds her son River on Aug. 16, 2021, at their home in Discovery Bay. When River contracted COVID-19 during the summer, his body temperature rose to 104 degrees. “It was a pretty big deal how sick he got,” said Johnson. “It wasn’t just a little sniffle.” \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nationwide about 121,000 children tested positive for the virus from August 5 to 12, \u003ca href=\"https://www.aap.org/en/pages/2019-novel-coronavirus-covid-19-infections/children-and-covid-19-state-level-data-report/\">according to the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Children’s Hospital Association\u003c/a>. That’s a 23% increase over the prior week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Time and time again we’re seeing kids return to school and then come home either after an exposure or sick themselves,” said Dr. Nicole Braxley, an emergency medicine physician at Mercy San Juan Medical Center in Carmichael. “The virus sheds for a couple of days before the patient has symptoms. Entire families are suddenly exposed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11885711\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11885711\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50638_014_Alameda_ChildrenCOVID_08172021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50638_014_Alameda_ChildrenCOVID_08172021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50638_014_Alameda_ChildrenCOVID_08172021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50638_014_Alameda_ChildrenCOVID_08172021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50638_014_Alameda_ChildrenCOVID_08172021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50638_014_Alameda_ChildrenCOVID_08172021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stephanie Chenard says goodbye to her son, Desmond, before he goes into his school in Alameda on Aug. 17, 2021. In July, Desmond tested positive for COVID-19. While Desmond’s case was mild and he quickly recovered, this experience has left the family wary of possible infections at school. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>‘The longest few days of my life’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Stephanie Chenard’s 8-year-old son Desmond started third grade in Alameda this Tuesday. That evening after her son returned from his first day of classes, she received an email. The district reported \u003ca href=\"https://www.alameda.k12.ca.us/cvdashboard\">four positive COVID-19 cases\u003c/a> in four different schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s already started,” Chenard texted KQED after receiving the email, including a tearful emoji in her message.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She knows firsthand how much a mild pediatric case can upend family life. About a month ago Desmond started to lose his appetite. He quickly developed a fever. Chenard grimaced when he tested positive for COVID-19. The news devastated her son.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He just burst out into tears,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family canceled a long-awaited summer trip to Lake Tahoe. Instead they quarantined at home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Stephanie Chenard, Mother of Desmond, 8\"]‘The exposure felt like a moral failing.’[/pullquote]Chenard, a 49-year-old college administrator, started making calls. She notified her son’s summer camp. They suspended all activity. She alerted the public swimming pool. She fretted about whether to notify the organizers of a summer music festival. The hardest call was to a friend who had just had an organ transplant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The exposure felt like a moral failing,” said Chenard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fortunately Chenard’s son’s case was mild. His fever broke the same day it started.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Desmond was only sick for eight hours, but I spent 45 hours on notifications alone,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family’s quarantine also required both parents to juggle work and child care. Fortunately neither parent caught the virus. Chenard feels grateful she and her husband are vaccinated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some families are not so lucky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jace Garcia caught COVID-19 playing soccer with a friend in Sacramento earlier this month. The virus struck the 11-year-old in the middle of the night. Jace woke up vomiting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He curled up in the bathroom around the toilet. Body aches racked his slim calves, feet, chest and head.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everything was just squeezing that part of the body towards the bone,” said Jace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11885715\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1238px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11885715\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/ricojace1.png\" alt=\"A parent and a child take a selfie. Both are smiling and wear Oakland A's gear.\" width=\"1238\" height=\"826\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/ricojace1.png 1238w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/ricojace1-800x534.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/ricojace1-1020x681.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/ricojace1-160x107.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1238px) 100vw, 1238px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rico Garcia, left, and Jace Garcia attend an Oakland A’s game before the start of the pandemic. In August of this year, both father and son contracted COVID-19. “As a parent, you feel helpless,” said Garcia. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Rico Garcia)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>His fever spiked around 104 degrees. He shivered under a pile of blankets. Even playing video games did not offer relief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every time I would click down, I would get a tingling sensation in my hand,” said Jace. He tossed the controllers aside. “I felt dizzy.”\u003cbr>\nThe only advice doctors offered was to try to stay hydrated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a parent, you feel helpless,” said Rico Garcia, Jace’s dad. “It was like the longest few days of my life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He worried he might contract the virus. Each morning he anxiously took a rapid test. He hoped his vaccine would offer protection, but on the fourth morning Rico tested positive. Within 24 hours the symptoms set in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It felt like a terrible head cold,” said Garcia. “My brain was foggy. I couldn’t think straight.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11855623\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Vaccination-Prep-1020x680.jpg\"]Then he lost his voice. He called in sick to the radio station where he’s a DJ. Then one morning at breakfast, things got weird.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My first sip of coffee was amazing,” Garcia said. “My ninth and tenth sip tasted like hot water. In the snap of a finger my sense of taste and smell was gone. I went as far as to cut a lime open and bite into it and tasted nothing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually Garcia’s ex-wife also caught the virus from their son. A teacher, she is currently quarantining. Jace is still fighting a lingering cough and congestion. He’s also missing the first 10 days of sixth grade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Epidemiologists say \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/covid-19/health-departments/breakthrough-cases.html\">breakthrough cases\u003c/a> are on the rise all around the U.S., though estimates vary widely because tallies depend on community masking, testing availability and the level of virus circulating regionally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Symptoms can be absent or so mild in the vaccinated, many dismiss this as a cold or seasonal allergies,” \u003ca href=\"https://profiles.ucsf.edu/peter.chin-hong\">Dr. Peter Chin-Hong\u003c/a>, a UCSF professor and infectious disease specialist explains in an email. “In other words, you don’t know what you don’t know.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11883110/the-war-has-changed-a-cdc-document-gives-new-details-on-the-dangers-of-the-delta-variant\">internal presentation\u003c/a> from the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention estimates about 35,000 people a week contract a symptomatic breakthrough infection in the U.S. In the week leading up to July 24, about 384,000 people across the country tested positive for COVID-19, which indicates about 9% of new cases were breakthrough infections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chin-Hong says this is likely an underestimate of the true total, but shouldn’t undermine the vaccines’ effectiveness in peoples’ minds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the end of the day, one can say why focus on breakthrough infections, as the vaccines are really meant to prevent people getting serious disease and dying — which they are still spectacular at,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Weighing the risks\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Saun-Toy Trotter, Psychotherapist, UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital\"]‘Young people experienced more depression and anxiety because of the level of isolation … One element of their well-being is being with peers, learning, stretching, struggling, growing and connecting.’[/pullquote]Until this summer, doctors said it was unusual for kids to pass the virus to a parent, especially someone who was vaccinated. But that’s changing as the delta variant takes hold. The new strain appears to be twice as contagious as the original.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s still rare for a child to experience a severe case or hospitalization or to die from the coronavirus. In states where \u003ca href=\"https://www.aap.org/en/pages/2019-novel-coronavirus-covid-19-infections/children-and-covid-19-state-level-data-report/\">data is available\u003c/a>, fewer than 2% of all pediatric COVID-19 cases required hospitalization and fewer than 0.03% are fatal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet, as schools open and more students test positive, parents and teachers find themselves trying to weigh the risks. Mental health experts learned the lockdown was hard on all of us, especially children — a fact underscored by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6945a3.htm\">spike in emergency room visits\u003c/a> among kids for mental health issues last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Young people experienced more depression and anxiety because of the level of isolation,” said Saun-Toy Trotter, a psychotherapist and a program manager at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital in Oakland. She stresses screens cannot replace in-person interaction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label ='Related Coverage' tag='coronavirus']“One element of their well-being is being with peers, learning, stretching, struggling, growing and connecting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trotter recommends parents ask doctors and teachers lots of questions to weigh the risks. Schools can mitigate transmission through masks, vaccines and ventilation. Sometimes it’s as easy as opening both a window and a door to create a cross-breeze.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before her son started middle school last week, Trotter sent a few emails to school administrators. The responses helped ease her mind. She says in-person learning is the right place for her son, at least for now. She’s watching the data closely.\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>This story has been updated.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were so careful,” said Alysha Johnson, a resident of Discovery Bay in Contra Costa County. “I’m a germaphobe. When this whole thing happened, we didn’t leave the house for six months.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson was crushed when her toddler, River, caught COVID-19 at a summer play group in late July.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a pretty big deal how sick he got,” said Johnson. “It wasn’t just a little sniffle.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her 2-year-old suffered a sore throat, a cough and a fever of 104 degrees. The bout lasted more than a week and sickened Johnson, her sister and her boyfriend — all of whom were vaccinated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11885701\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11885701\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50667_024_DiscoveryBay_ChildrenCOVID_08162021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A parent carries a baby in one hand and a baby bottle in the other. The parent is sitting on a big, brown couch in the living room of their house.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50667_024_DiscoveryBay_ChildrenCOVID_08162021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50667_024_DiscoveryBay_ChildrenCOVID_08162021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50667_024_DiscoveryBay_ChildrenCOVID_08162021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50667_024_DiscoveryBay_ChildrenCOVID_08162021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50667_024_DiscoveryBay_ChildrenCOVID_08162021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alysha Johnson holds her son River while giving him a bottle in the family’s home in Discovery Bay in Contra Costa County on Aug. 16, 2021. When they and their family tested positive for COVID-19, they quarantined together in the house. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It felt like a really bad sinus cold,” Johnson said. “I felt exhausted. I lost my sense of taste and smell. That was the most bizarre sensation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson is relieved she had her shots protecting her against a more severe case of COVID-19. But the fact that kids are transmitting the coronavirus to family members is unnerving many parents as children head back to school, especially as a coronavirus vaccine for kids under 12 is not yet available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the first week of school, 58 students and 10 staff members tested positive in Oakland Unified School District schools. The tallies are much higher in other parts of the country. Last week, more than 3,000 students and staff had to quarantine in\u003ca href=\"https://www.brevardschools.org/cms/lib/FL02201431/Centricity/Domain/10805/Dashboard%20-%2008.13.21%20to%2008.16.21.pdf\"> Florida’s Brevard Public Schools\u003c/a>. And in Hawaii, many schools are pulling the plug and \u003ca href=\"https://www.civilbeat.org/2021/08/facing-new-covid-cases-waianae-school-returns-to-distance-learning/\">returning to remote learning\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11885705\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11885705\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50653_010_DiscoveryBay_ChildrenCOVID_08162021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A parent carries their small child in their arms. Both have their bathing suits on and the child wears inflatable lifesavers as both are in the pool. Both are looking up at the sky. Behind them is a backyard and palm trees.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50653_010_DiscoveryBay_ChildrenCOVID_08162021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50653_010_DiscoveryBay_ChildrenCOVID_08162021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50653_010_DiscoveryBay_ChildrenCOVID_08162021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50653_010_DiscoveryBay_ChildrenCOVID_08162021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50653_010_DiscoveryBay_ChildrenCOVID_08162021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alysha Johnson holds her son River on Aug. 16, 2021, at their home in Discovery Bay. When River contracted COVID-19 during the summer, his body temperature rose to 104 degrees. “It was a pretty big deal how sick he got,” said Johnson. “It wasn’t just a little sniffle.” \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nationwide about 121,000 children tested positive for the virus from August 5 to 12, \u003ca href=\"https://www.aap.org/en/pages/2019-novel-coronavirus-covid-19-infections/children-and-covid-19-state-level-data-report/\">according to the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Children’s Hospital Association\u003c/a>. That’s a 23% increase over the prior week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Time and time again we’re seeing kids return to school and then come home either after an exposure or sick themselves,” said Dr. Nicole Braxley, an emergency medicine physician at Mercy San Juan Medical Center in Carmichael. “The virus sheds for a couple of days before the patient has symptoms. Entire families are suddenly exposed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11885711\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11885711\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50638_014_Alameda_ChildrenCOVID_08172021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50638_014_Alameda_ChildrenCOVID_08172021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50638_014_Alameda_ChildrenCOVID_08172021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50638_014_Alameda_ChildrenCOVID_08172021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50638_014_Alameda_ChildrenCOVID_08172021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50638_014_Alameda_ChildrenCOVID_08172021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stephanie Chenard says goodbye to her son, Desmond, before he goes into his school in Alameda on Aug. 17, 2021. In July, Desmond tested positive for COVID-19. While Desmond’s case was mild and he quickly recovered, this experience has left the family wary of possible infections at school. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>‘The longest few days of my life’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Stephanie Chenard’s 8-year-old son Desmond started third grade in Alameda this Tuesday. That evening after her son returned from his first day of classes, she received an email. The district reported \u003ca href=\"https://www.alameda.k12.ca.us/cvdashboard\">four positive COVID-19 cases\u003c/a> in four different schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s already started,” Chenard texted KQED after receiving the email, including a tearful emoji in her message.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She knows firsthand how much a mild pediatric case can upend family life. About a month ago Desmond started to lose his appetite. He quickly developed a fever. Chenard grimaced when he tested positive for COVID-19. The news devastated her son.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He just burst out into tears,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family canceled a long-awaited summer trip to Lake Tahoe. Instead they quarantined at home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Chenard, a 49-year-old college administrator, started making calls. She notified her son’s summer camp. They suspended all activity. She alerted the public swimming pool. She fretted about whether to notify the organizers of a summer music festival. The hardest call was to a friend who had just had an organ transplant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The exposure felt like a moral failing,” said Chenard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fortunately Chenard’s son’s case was mild. His fever broke the same day it started.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Desmond was only sick for eight hours, but I spent 45 hours on notifications alone,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family’s quarantine also required both parents to juggle work and child care. Fortunately neither parent caught the virus. Chenard feels grateful she and her husband are vaccinated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some families are not so lucky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jace Garcia caught COVID-19 playing soccer with a friend in Sacramento earlier this month. The virus struck the 11-year-old in the middle of the night. Jace woke up vomiting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He curled up in the bathroom around the toilet. Body aches racked his slim calves, feet, chest and head.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everything was just squeezing that part of the body towards the bone,” said Jace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11885715\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1238px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11885715\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/ricojace1.png\" alt=\"A parent and a child take a selfie. Both are smiling and wear Oakland A's gear.\" width=\"1238\" height=\"826\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/ricojace1.png 1238w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/ricojace1-800x534.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/ricojace1-1020x681.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/ricojace1-160x107.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1238px) 100vw, 1238px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rico Garcia, left, and Jace Garcia attend an Oakland A’s game before the start of the pandemic. In August of this year, both father and son contracted COVID-19. “As a parent, you feel helpless,” said Garcia. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Rico Garcia)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>His fever spiked around 104 degrees. He shivered under a pile of blankets. Even playing video games did not offer relief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every time I would click down, I would get a tingling sensation in my hand,” said Jace. He tossed the controllers aside. “I felt dizzy.”\u003cbr>\nThe only advice doctors offered was to try to stay hydrated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a parent, you feel helpless,” said Rico Garcia, Jace’s dad. “It was like the longest few days of my life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He worried he might contract the virus. Each morning he anxiously took a rapid test. He hoped his vaccine would offer protection, but on the fourth morning Rico tested positive. Within 24 hours the symptoms set in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It felt like a terrible head cold,” said Garcia. “My brain was foggy. I couldn’t think straight.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Then he lost his voice. He called in sick to the radio station where he’s a DJ. Then one morning at breakfast, things got weird.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My first sip of coffee was amazing,” Garcia said. “My ninth and tenth sip tasted like hot water. In the snap of a finger my sense of taste and smell was gone. I went as far as to cut a lime open and bite into it and tasted nothing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually Garcia’s ex-wife also caught the virus from their son. A teacher, she is currently quarantining. Jace is still fighting a lingering cough and congestion. He’s also missing the first 10 days of sixth grade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Epidemiologists say \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/covid-19/health-departments/breakthrough-cases.html\">breakthrough cases\u003c/a> are on the rise all around the U.S., though estimates vary widely because tallies depend on community masking, testing availability and the level of virus circulating regionally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Symptoms can be absent or so mild in the vaccinated, many dismiss this as a cold or seasonal allergies,” \u003ca href=\"https://profiles.ucsf.edu/peter.chin-hong\">Dr. Peter Chin-Hong\u003c/a>, a UCSF professor and infectious disease specialist explains in an email. “In other words, you don’t know what you don’t know.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11883110/the-war-has-changed-a-cdc-document-gives-new-details-on-the-dangers-of-the-delta-variant\">internal presentation\u003c/a> from the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention estimates about 35,000 people a week contract a symptomatic breakthrough infection in the U.S. In the week leading up to July 24, about 384,000 people across the country tested positive for COVID-19, which indicates about 9% of new cases were breakthrough infections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chin-Hong says this is likely an underestimate of the true total, but shouldn’t undermine the vaccines’ effectiveness in peoples’ minds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the end of the day, one can say why focus on breakthrough infections, as the vaccines are really meant to prevent people getting serious disease and dying — which they are still spectacular at,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Until this summer, doctors said it was unusual for kids to pass the virus to a parent, especially someone who was vaccinated. But that’s changing as the delta variant takes hold. The new strain appears to be twice as contagious as the original.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s still rare for a child to experience a severe case or hospitalization or to die from the coronavirus. In states where \u003ca href=\"https://www.aap.org/en/pages/2019-novel-coronavirus-covid-19-infections/children-and-covid-19-state-level-data-report/\">data is available\u003c/a>, fewer than 2% of all pediatric COVID-19 cases required hospitalization and fewer than 0.03% are fatal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet, as schools open and more students test positive, parents and teachers find themselves trying to weigh the risks. Mental health experts learned the lockdown was hard on all of us, especially children — a fact underscored by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6945a3.htm\">spike in emergency room visits\u003c/a> among kids for mental health issues last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Young people experienced more depression and anxiety because of the level of isolation,” said Saun-Toy Trotter, a psychotherapist and a program manager at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital in Oakland. She stresses screens cannot replace in-person interaction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Skip to: \u003ca href=\"#bayarea\">What do we know about potential booster shots in the Bay Area?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>U.S. health officials Wednesday announced plans to offer COVID-19 booster shots to all Americans to shore up their protection amid the surging delta variant and signs that the vaccines’ effectiveness is falling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plan, as outlined by the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other top authorities, calls for an extra dose eight months after people get their second shot of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine. The doses could begin the week of Sept. 20.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our plan is to protect the American people, to stay ahead of this virus,” CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People who received the single-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine will also probably need extra shots, health officials said. But they said they are waiting for more data. The overall plan is subject to a Food and Drug Administration evaluation of the safety and effectiveness of a third dose and a review by a CDC advisory panel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials said it is “very clear” that the vaccines’ protection against infection wanes over time, and they noted that Israel has begun seeing a worsening of infections among vaccinated people. They said the U.S. needs to get out ahead of the problem before it takes a more lethal turn here and starts leading to hospitalizations and deaths among the vaccinated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Anthony Fauci, the government’s foremost expert on COVID-19, said that one of the key lessons of the virus is that it’s better to “stay ahead of it than chasing after it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Mark Mulligan of NYU Langone Health welcomed the announcement as a “proactive” response to signs that vaccine strength is eroding as the highly contagious delta variant spreads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Part of leadership is being able to see around the corner and make hard decisions without having all the data. It seems to me that’s what they’re doing here,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Why is the U.S. recommending booster shots while other countries wait for vaccines?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Top scientists at the World Health Organization bitterly objected to the U.S. plan, noting that poor countries are not getting enough vaccine for their initial rounds of shots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re planning to hand out extra life jackets to people who already have life jackets, while we’re leaving other people to drown without a single life jacket,” said Dr. Michael Ryan, the WHO’s emergencies chief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The organization’s top scientist, Dr. Soumya Swaminathan, said: “We believe clearly that the data does not indicate that boosters are needed” for everyone. She warned that leaving billions of people in the developing world unvaccinated could foster the emergence of new variants and result in “even more dire situations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy rejected the notion that the U.S. must choose between “America and the world.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We clearly see our responsibility to both, and we’ve got to do everything we can to protect people here at home while recognizing that tamping down the epidemic across the world is going to be key,” Murthy said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>White House officials noted that the U.S. has donated 115 million doses to 80 countries, more than all other nations combined. They said the U.S. has enough vaccine to dispense boosters to the American people.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"bayarea\">\u003c/a>What does this mean in California and the Bay Area?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>As yet, logistics are unclear — but this announcement of booster shots is a move many in the health community here have been anticipating for a while.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Tomás J. Aragón, California Department of Public Health director and state public health officer, said that CDPH “has been planning for and is ready to begin administering booster doses in California starting in late September, pending review and approval by our federal partners and the Western States Scientific Safety Review Workgroup.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that this has been something we’ve been waiting for for some time,” Dr. Bela T. 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Right now, these booster shots are limited to a relatively small group of people with specific conditions.\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11855623/where-can-i-get-a-covid-19-vaccine-in-the-bay-area-your-questions-answered#where\"> Read more about getting a third dose of the vaccine today if you’re immunocompromised.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area might expect to see at least the partial return of the kind of mass COVID vaccination sites that were established earlier this year to handle the demand for first and second doses of the vaccine for the general population age 12 and over. The majority of these mass vaccination sites — such as the Oakland Coliseum and San Francisco’s Moscone Center — were shuttered as demand waned, but a San Mateo County spokesperson said the county expects to “remobilize some mass vaccination capacity to offer timely, large-scale delivery to supplement what our health care partners expect to deliver.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for the timing of any booster shot program, even if these vaccinations start Sept. 20, the rollout for a booster dose could be staggered according to eligibility, rather than being opened up to everyone at the same time. San Francisco Department of Public Health officials said they’re anticipating “a phased rollout similar to how the vaccine was initially distributed: prioritizing the most vulnerable, in collaboration with our health care and pharmacy partners.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Mateo health officials also said they’re “closely monitoring the federal deliberation that will lead to broader use of boosters for other populations, likely commencing with health care workers, residents of high-risk congregate care facilities and older adults.” Dr. Matyas of Solano County Public Health echoes this as an ideal structure for those initial vaccination tiers, after which “then I believe we have the resources to be able to get out there and boost everybody.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>How has the thinking on booster shots evolved?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Israel is already offering booster shots to people over 50 to control its delta surge. And European medical regulators said they are talking with vaccine developers about the idea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, U.S. health officials recommended \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11885225/immunocompromised-and-considering-a-3rd-covid-vaccine-6-things-to-know\">boosters for some people with weakened immune systems\u003c/a>, such as cancer patients and organ transplant recipients. Offering boosters to all Americans would be a major expansion of what is already the biggest vaccination campaign in U.S. history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11885225 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/gettyimages-1234511960_custom-8db10d9e64f2a642bf78df0e5af734fae14aa52d-1020x703.jpg']Some experts have expressed concern that calling for boosters would undermine the public health message — and reinforce opposition to the vaccine — by raising more doubts in the minds of people who have been skeptical about the shots’ effectiveness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Experts believe health officials will recommend that the booster be the same brand of vaccine that people received initially.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for why the vaccines appear to be less effective against stopping infections over time, there are indications that the body’s immune response to the shots fades, as it does with other inoculations. But also, the vaccines simply may not protect against the delta variant as well as they do against the original virus. 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The doses could begin the week of Sept. 20.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our plan is to protect the American people, to stay ahead of this virus,” CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People who received the single-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine will also probably need extra shots, health officials said. But they said they are waiting for more data. The overall plan is subject to a Food and Drug Administration evaluation of the safety and effectiveness of a third dose and a review by a CDC advisory panel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials said it is “very clear” that the vaccines’ protection against infection wanes over time, and they noted that Israel has begun seeing a worsening of infections among vaccinated people. 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