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Vaccinations, social distancing, ventilation, regular cleaning, contact tracing and masking are also important ways to stop the spread of COVID, public health officials said. The only measure that the state requires is masking. Everyone on campus, regardless of whether they’re vaccinated, must wear masks indoors, the state announced last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public health experts \u003ca href=\"https://news.usc.edu/188998/covid-delta-variant-schools-vaccination-mandates-usc-experts/\">predict\u003c/a> a jump in COVID cases linked to schools reopening. Although children are less likely than adults to get sick or die from COVID, they’re also less likely to be vaccinated. 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The state is offering free tests for all public, charter and private schools in California and suggesting schools use one of four \u003ca href=\"https://testing.covid19.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/332/2021/07/School-Testing-Considerations.pdf\">testing protocols\u003c/a> depending on the infection rate in the community or if there’s an outbreak at school:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Low community rate: periodic testing of asymptomatic students and staff\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>High community rate: weekly or biweekly testing of everyone who’s unvaccinated\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Outbreak at school: testing every unvaccinated person who’s been in close contact with someone who’s tested positive\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Symptomatic individuals: testing anyone who has symptoms of COVID\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Another choice facing schools is the type of test to offer: either polymerase chain reaction, also called a PCR test, or a rapid test. Both are done by inserting a cotton swab in the nose. PCR tests are slightly more accurate but take about 48 hours to produce a result. Rapid tests are less accurate but might be more convenient for schools trying to test large numbers of people, Schooley said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vaccination policies are up to each individual district, and in many cases are subject to union approval. Teachers and other school staff are exempt from the state’s vaccination requirement because they’re employees of their districts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, districts are adopting a variety of testing policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://sites.google.com/mercedcsd.org/mcsdcovid-19inforesources/home\">Merced City Schools\u003c/a> is offering free tests to students and staff but isn’t requiring tests unless there’s been an outbreak. In that case, the district will test anyone who’s been in contact with someone who’s tested positive or has symptoms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"coronavirus\" label=\"Related Posts\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decision was a collaborative effort between school and local public health authorities, said Sergio Mendez, the district’s director of pupil services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re feeling very confident in the layers of mitigation we’ve put in. Testing is a big part of it,” Mendez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://sbcusd.com/cms/One.aspx?portalId=59953&pageId=36986778\">San Bernardino City Schools\u003c/a> is assigning “COVID liaisons” to coordinate testing and contact tracing at each school campus. The liaisons, who work for an outside company, will “be responsible for responding to COVID-19 concerns at the school level, providing guidance and information for students, families and staff. Liaisons will also play a key role in mitigation and management,” said district spokeswoman Maria Garcia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Testing will be available for free at each school, but it won’t be required. The district is also asking children and their families to complete a health assessment every day before school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose Unified is \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/news-updates#san-jose-unified-to-require-staff-to-be-vaccinated-or-tested-twice-weekly-for-covid\">requiring\u003c/a> teachers and school staff to get tested twice a week for COVID if they’re not vaccinated. \u003ca href=\"https://www.wccusd.net/cms/lib/CA01001466/Centricity/Domain/3328/REOPENING%20PRESENTATION.pdf\">West Contra Costa Unified\u003c/a>, in the East Bay Area, is strongly encouraging — but not requiring — regular tests for those who are unvaccinated. The district is only testing those who have symptoms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los Angeles Unified’s interim superintendent, Megan Reilly, last week announced the district’s requirement that all students and staff be tested weekly, citing recommendations from the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health. The \u003ca href=\"https://achieve.lausd.net/covidtestingappt\">district is offering free tests\u003c/a> at a dozen locations around the city, as well as a mobile testing clinic that will visit school campuses. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>As students in California prepare to return to in-person instruction, schools are piecing together COVID-19 testing and vaccination measures that are as varied as the state itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state is \u003ca href=\"https://schools.covid19.ca.gov/\">urging schools\u003c/a> to test students and staff regularly and encourage everyone on campus who’s eligible to get vaccinated. But neither vaccinations nor testing is required, and schools have flexibility as to how they implement measures to prevent COVID outbreaks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The result is a patchwork of safety plans that are likely to change as conditions evolve. \u003ca href=\"https://achieve.lausd.net/latestnews\">Los Angeles Unified School District\u003c/a>, for example, is testing all students and staff weekly, regardless of whether they’ve been vaccinated. \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DKIgwCu4tWuWCijywMNW-pAKDMoA9GhzdPol3bAtjPw/edit\">San Francisco Unified\u003c/a>, meanwhile, is recommending that students and staff get tested if they have symptoms, but is not requiring tests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Testing is an important part of tracking the spread of COVID,” said Dr. Robert Schooley, an infectious disease specialist at UC San Diego's School of Medicine and co-creator of the university’s coronavirus safety plan. “There’s no optimal way for schools to use testing, but we do know that it should be targeted and done frequently enough for school and public health officials to know what’s going on with the school population.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>For many Americans, COVID-19 has upended their lives. They've lost their jobs, and with them, the ability to pay their rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While getting evicted is \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/04/12/601783346/first-ever-evictions-database-shows-were-in-the-middle-of-a-housing-crisis\">traumatic\u003c/a> generally, eviction during a pandemic adds new layers of peril: Evicted families may double up with other households or move into crowded shelters. That can lead to the coronavirus spreading quickly, especially within vulnerable communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These concerns underpin the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's new moratorium on evictions, which was \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/08/03/1024345276/the-biden-administration-plans-a-new-eviction-moratorium-after-a-federal-ban-lap\">announced\u003c/a> on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think there's a moral imperative here to make sure that people who are unstably housed in a period of time where we have extraordinary disease transmission in many parts of this country — that this is a true public health threat and that we need to keep people stably housed,\" CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/08/03/1024338498/cdc-director-on-global-vaccine-deliveries-variants-masks-and-mass-eviction-threa\">told\u003c/a> NPR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's what the new ban means for the millions of renters facing eviction and the landlords awaiting money.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>How This Ban Is Different\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The CDC's new \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/communication/Signed-CDC-Eviction-Order.pdf\">60-day order\u003c/a> is a little different from the old one that started last year. It applies only to counties with substantial or high transmission of COVID-19. That includes \u003ca href=\"https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#county-view\">most of the country\u003c/a> right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"eviction, evictions, eviction moratorium\" label=\"Related Posts\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency's authority for such a ban \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/09/02/908874020/cdc-issues-temporary-halt-on-evictions-citing-coronavirus-risks\">derives\u003c/a> from the \u003ca href=\"https://www.phe.gov/Preparedness/planning/authority/Pages/default.aspx\">Public Health Service Act\u003c/a> of 1944, which gives the Department of Health and Human Services (of which CDC is a part) the authority to declare and respond to public health emergencies and control communicable diseases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/09/01/908581048/sweeping-new-eviction-ban-from-trump-administration\">previous\u003c/a> eviction ban was announced by the CDC in September 2020, during the Trump administration, and was \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/06/24/1009828802/cdc-extends-eviction-moratorium-for-30-days\">extended\u003c/a> in March and June of this year. But it \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/08/02/1022964395/to-stop-wave-of-evictions-some-local-counties-scramble-after-federal-ban-expires\">expired\u003c/a> on July 31 after the Supreme Court signaled it wouldn't accept any further extensions without congressional authorization, and Congress didn't act to extend it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California implemented its own eviction moratorium, which was extended through Sept. 30 in \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2021/06/california-eviction-moratorium-deal/\">a last-minute deal announced by Gov. Gavin Newsom and legislative leaders\u003c/a> on July 25.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Biden says he's not certain whether the new CDC order will survive potential legal challenges, but he's hoping it will buy people on the brink of eviction some breathing room. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"By the time it gets litigated, it will probably give some additional time, while we're getting that $45 billion out to people who are in fact behind in the rent and don't have the money,\" he said this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>If you're looking for help paying your rent, \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.consumerfinance.gov/coronavirus/mortgage-and-housing-assistance/renter-protections/emergency-rental-assistance-for-renters/?utm_source=outreach&utm_medium=banner&utm_campaign=treasury_banner/\">\u003cem>the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has guidance\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> on applying for emergency rental assistance.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11884130\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/cori-bush-getty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"599\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11884130\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/cori-bush-getty.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/cori-bush-getty-160x120.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. Rep. Cori Bush, D-Missouri, (center) speaks at a rally at the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2021. Bush slept on the steps of the Capitol for days to protest that the CDC's eviction moratorium was being allowed to expire. \u003ccite>(Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>A Temporary Reprieve — And a Big Push to Distribute Rental Assistance\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The CDC's new ban is temporary. It's set to expire Oct. 3. Still, it's a crucial extension for low-income renters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is a tremendous relief for millions of people who were on the cusp of losing their homes and, with them, their ability to stay safe during the pandemic,\" \u003ca href=\"https://nlihc.org/about/staff\">Diane Yentel\u003c/a>, president and CEO of the National Low Income Housing Coalition, said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Getting federal aid out has been slow so far, though it's starting to move faster. Part of the problem is that states and localities were required to set up their own programs to disburse the funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11882952\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The White House has urged state and local governments to get the funds out efficiently to renters and their landlords and to be flexible around documentation. The U.S. Department of the Treasury, which is administering the \u003ca href=\"https://home.treasury.gov/policy-issues/coronavirus/assistance-for-state-local-and-tribal-governments/emergency-rental-assistance-program\">Emergency Rental Assistance Program\u003c/a>, is promoting \"promising practices\" seen around the country for \u003ca href=\"https://home.treasury.gov/policy-issues/coronavirus/assistance-for-state-local-and-tribal-governments/emergency-rental-assistance-program/promising-practices/eviction-diversion\">eviction diversion\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the application process has been cumbersome in many places.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some communities have required reams of documentation and applications 30 or 40 pages long, Yentel told NPR — \"all of which slows down the process for everyone and often weeds out some of the lowest income and most marginalized tenants who can't produce the documentation that's required in other communities.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>States and localities are struggling with capacity, Yentel said: \"They don't have enough staff. They don't have the right technology to be able to handle the deluge of applications they're getting. And the more complicated they've made their programs, the more challenged they are with capacity issues.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Pandemic Has Exacerbated Existing Inequalities\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Louisiana is among the states with the highest rates of COVID-19 right now as a possible eviction crisis looms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"People are worried. They're terrified,\" says \u003ca href=\"https://lafairhousing.org/cashauna-hill-bio\">Cashauna Hill\u003c/a>, executive director of Louisiana Fair Housing Action Center. \"We've got a huge population of folks who are having difficulty staying afloat during this ... pandemic.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Renters in the state have few protections, she says, and evictions can happen fast — officially through the courts, and informally when tenants move out after receiving an eviction notice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says the neighborhoods in New Orleans with high eviction rates before the pandemic are the same ones that were redlined three generations ago and that are experiencing high numbers of COVID-19 cases and deaths now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The COVID-19 pandemic has just exacerbated those unjust housing outcomes that were already present. And the people who had the least amount of resources and defenses are the people who are being most impacted by this pandemic. So we just have injustice after injustice piling on top of one another for these communities,\" Hill tells NPR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state has received $550 million to help tenants and landlords, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/business-health-coronavirus-pandemic-854f3c23f0d89400fac0aeab486f10dc\">according \u003c/a>to The Associated Press. The governor \u003ca href=\"https://gov.louisiana.gov/index.cfm/newsroom/detail/3309\">says \u003c/a>Louisiana has so far approved $61 million in rental assistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the clock is ticking loudly for many renters in arrears, states do have time to distribute the funds, since the ERAP program runs through 2025.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11884131\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/evictions-nyc.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"599\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11884131\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/evictions-nyc.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/evictions-nyc-160x120.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People hold signs opposing evictions on Thursday, Aug. 5, 2021 in New York City.\u003cbr> \u003ccite>(Stephanie Keith/Getty Images )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Landlords Are Suing the Government Over the Previous Ban\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The National Apartment Association represents owners and operators of rental housing — landlords, in other words. Last week, the association \u003ca href=\"https://www.naahq.org/news-publications/naa-sues-federal-government-recover-industry%E2%80%99s-losses-under-nationwide-eviction\">filed a lawsuit\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.naahq.org/news-publications/naa-sues-federal-government-recover-industry%E2%80%99s-losses-under-nationwide-eviction\"> \u003c/a>against the federal government over the previous eviction ban, seeking to recover damages on behalf of rental housing providers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It opposes the new ban, too, which it calls an unfunded government mandate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We think that [eviction moratoriums] leave renters with an insurmountable amount of debt, and providers essentially holding the bag on the affordability crisis by carrying all that unpaid debt at the same time that they're trying to pay their bills,\" Greg Brown, NAA's senior vice president of government affairs, tells NPR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown says rental debt just keeps mounting — beyond what Congress has appropriated — while the ban continues. \"If we don't make housing providers whole, the future of housing in this country, rental housing in this country becomes even further jeopardized,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal aid has started flowing to landlords to cover renters' debts, he notes. Now, he says, \"we need to focus on getting it to flow faster.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The New Eviction Ban May Face Legal Challenges\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The new ban's more limited framing — applicable only to counties with higher levels of coronavirus transmission — may help it survive potential legal challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://law.utexas.edu/faculty/stephen-i-vladeck\">Stephen Vladeck\u003c/a>, a professor at the University of Texas School of Law and an expert on federal courts, suspects the scope of the CDC's authority is likely to be at the center of any legal challenges against the new ban.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think the Justice Department will have some pretty good arguments that this one is ... much more specifically tied to [the] CDC's express statutory authority to take measures to prevent the spread of communicable diseases like the delta variant of COVID,\" he tells NPR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other hand, Vladeck says, the court's conservative justices could decide the CDC has pushed its authority too far and strike down the new moratorium.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Either way, millions of renters are hoping that the aid they desperately need arrives before an eviction notice does. \u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2021 NPR. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>For many Americans, COVID-19 has upended their lives. They've lost their jobs, and with them, the ability to pay their rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While getting evicted is \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/04/12/601783346/first-ever-evictions-database-shows-were-in-the-middle-of-a-housing-crisis\">traumatic\u003c/a> generally, eviction during a pandemic adds new layers of peril: Evicted families may double up with other households or move into crowded shelters. That can lead to the coronavirus spreading quickly, especially within vulnerable communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These concerns underpin the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's new moratorium on evictions, which was \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/08/03/1024345276/the-biden-administration-plans-a-new-eviction-moratorium-after-a-federal-ban-lap\">announced\u003c/a> on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think there's a moral imperative here to make sure that people who are unstably housed in a period of time where we have extraordinary disease transmission in many parts of this country — that this is a true public health threat and that we need to keep people stably housed,\" CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/08/03/1024338498/cdc-director-on-global-vaccine-deliveries-variants-masks-and-mass-eviction-threa\">told\u003c/a> NPR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's what the new ban means for the millions of renters facing eviction and the landlords awaiting money.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>How This Ban Is Different\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The CDC's new \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/communication/Signed-CDC-Eviction-Order.pdf\">60-day order\u003c/a> is a little different from the old one that started last year. It applies only to counties with substantial or high transmission of COVID-19. That includes \u003ca href=\"https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#county-view\">most of the country\u003c/a> right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency's authority for such a ban \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/09/02/908874020/cdc-issues-temporary-halt-on-evictions-citing-coronavirus-risks\">derives\u003c/a> from the \u003ca href=\"https://www.phe.gov/Preparedness/planning/authority/Pages/default.aspx\">Public Health Service Act\u003c/a> of 1944, which gives the Department of Health and Human Services (of which CDC is a part) the authority to declare and respond to public health emergencies and control communicable diseases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/09/01/908581048/sweeping-new-eviction-ban-from-trump-administration\">previous\u003c/a> eviction ban was announced by the CDC in September 2020, during the Trump administration, and was \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/06/24/1009828802/cdc-extends-eviction-moratorium-for-30-days\">extended\u003c/a> in March and June of this year. But it \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/08/02/1022964395/to-stop-wave-of-evictions-some-local-counties-scramble-after-federal-ban-expires\">expired\u003c/a> on July 31 after the Supreme Court signaled it wouldn't accept any further extensions without congressional authorization, and Congress didn't act to extend it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California implemented its own eviction moratorium, which was extended through Sept. 30 in \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2021/06/california-eviction-moratorium-deal/\">a last-minute deal announced by Gov. Gavin Newsom and legislative leaders\u003c/a> on July 25.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Biden says he's not certain whether the new CDC order will survive potential legal challenges, but he's hoping it will buy people on the brink of eviction some breathing room. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"By the time it gets litigated, it will probably give some additional time, while we're getting that $45 billion out to people who are in fact behind in the rent and don't have the money,\" he said this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>If you're looking for help paying your rent, \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.consumerfinance.gov/coronavirus/mortgage-and-housing-assistance/renter-protections/emergency-rental-assistance-for-renters/?utm_source=outreach&utm_medium=banner&utm_campaign=treasury_banner/\">\u003cem>the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has guidance\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> on applying for emergency rental assistance.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11884130\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/cori-bush-getty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"599\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11884130\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/cori-bush-getty.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/cori-bush-getty-160x120.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. Rep. Cori Bush, D-Missouri, (center) speaks at a rally at the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2021. Bush slept on the steps of the Capitol for days to protest that the CDC's eviction moratorium was being allowed to expire. \u003ccite>(Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>A Temporary Reprieve — And a Big Push to Distribute Rental Assistance\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The CDC's new ban is temporary. It's set to expire Oct. 3. Still, it's a crucial extension for low-income renters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is a tremendous relief for millions of people who were on the cusp of losing their homes and, with them, their ability to stay safe during the pandemic,\" \u003ca href=\"https://nlihc.org/about/staff\">Diane Yentel\u003c/a>, president and CEO of the National Low Income Housing Coalition, said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Getting federal aid out has been slow so far, though it's starting to move faster. Part of the problem is that states and localities were required to set up their own programs to disburse the funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The White House has urged state and local governments to get the funds out efficiently to renters and their landlords and to be flexible around documentation. The U.S. Department of the Treasury, which is administering the \u003ca href=\"https://home.treasury.gov/policy-issues/coronavirus/assistance-for-state-local-and-tribal-governments/emergency-rental-assistance-program\">Emergency Rental Assistance Program\u003c/a>, is promoting \"promising practices\" seen around the country for \u003ca href=\"https://home.treasury.gov/policy-issues/coronavirus/assistance-for-state-local-and-tribal-governments/emergency-rental-assistance-program/promising-practices/eviction-diversion\">eviction diversion\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the application process has been cumbersome in many places.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some communities have required reams of documentation and applications 30 or 40 pages long, Yentel told NPR — \"all of which slows down the process for everyone and often weeds out some of the lowest income and most marginalized tenants who can't produce the documentation that's required in other communities.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>States and localities are struggling with capacity, Yentel said: \"They don't have enough staff. They don't have the right technology to be able to handle the deluge of applications they're getting. And the more complicated they've made their programs, the more challenged they are with capacity issues.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Pandemic Has Exacerbated Existing Inequalities\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Louisiana is among the states with the highest rates of COVID-19 right now as a possible eviction crisis looms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"People are worried. They're terrified,\" says \u003ca href=\"https://lafairhousing.org/cashauna-hill-bio\">Cashauna Hill\u003c/a>, executive director of Louisiana Fair Housing Action Center. \"We've got a huge population of folks who are having difficulty staying afloat during this ... pandemic.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Renters in the state have few protections, she says, and evictions can happen fast — officially through the courts, and informally when tenants move out after receiving an eviction notice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says the neighborhoods in New Orleans with high eviction rates before the pandemic are the same ones that were redlined three generations ago and that are experiencing high numbers of COVID-19 cases and deaths now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The COVID-19 pandemic has just exacerbated those unjust housing outcomes that were already present. And the people who had the least amount of resources and defenses are the people who are being most impacted by this pandemic. So we just have injustice after injustice piling on top of one another for these communities,\" Hill tells NPR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state has received $550 million to help tenants and landlords, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/business-health-coronavirus-pandemic-854f3c23f0d89400fac0aeab486f10dc\">according \u003c/a>to The Associated Press. The governor \u003ca href=\"https://gov.louisiana.gov/index.cfm/newsroom/detail/3309\">says \u003c/a>Louisiana has so far approved $61 million in rental assistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the clock is ticking loudly for many renters in arrears, states do have time to distribute the funds, since the ERAP program runs through 2025.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11884131\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/evictions-nyc.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"599\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11884131\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/evictions-nyc.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/evictions-nyc-160x120.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People hold signs opposing evictions on Thursday, Aug. 5, 2021 in New York City.\u003cbr> \u003ccite>(Stephanie Keith/Getty Images )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Landlords Are Suing the Government Over the Previous Ban\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The National Apartment Association represents owners and operators of rental housing — landlords, in other words. Last week, the association \u003ca href=\"https://www.naahq.org/news-publications/naa-sues-federal-government-recover-industry%E2%80%99s-losses-under-nationwide-eviction\">filed a lawsuit\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.naahq.org/news-publications/naa-sues-federal-government-recover-industry%E2%80%99s-losses-under-nationwide-eviction\"> \u003c/a>against the federal government over the previous eviction ban, seeking to recover damages on behalf of rental housing providers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It opposes the new ban, too, which it calls an unfunded government mandate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We think that [eviction moratoriums] leave renters with an insurmountable amount of debt, and providers essentially holding the bag on the affordability crisis by carrying all that unpaid debt at the same time that they're trying to pay their bills,\" Greg Brown, NAA's senior vice president of government affairs, tells NPR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown says rental debt just keeps mounting — beyond what Congress has appropriated — while the ban continues. \"If we don't make housing providers whole, the future of housing in this country, rental housing in this country becomes even further jeopardized,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal aid has started flowing to landlords to cover renters' debts, he notes. Now, he says, \"we need to focus on getting it to flow faster.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The New Eviction Ban May Face Legal Challenges\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The new ban's more limited framing — applicable only to counties with higher levels of coronavirus transmission — may help it survive potential legal challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://law.utexas.edu/faculty/stephen-i-vladeck\">Stephen Vladeck\u003c/a>, a professor at the University of Texas School of Law and an expert on federal courts, suspects the scope of the CDC's authority is likely to be at the center of any legal challenges against the new ban.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think the Justice Department will have some pretty good arguments that this one is ... much more specifically tied to [the] CDC's express statutory authority to take measures to prevent the spread of communicable diseases like the delta variant of COVID,\" he tells NPR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other hand, Vladeck says, the court's conservative justices could decide the CDC has pushed its authority too far and strike down the new moratorium.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Either way, millions of renters are hoping that the aid they desperately need arrives before an eviction notice does. \u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Here%27s+What+You+Need+To+Know+About+The+New+Eviction+Ban&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated Aug. 4, 2021 at 9:50 a.m. PT\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the highly contagious delta variant surging ferociously, Americans are once again grappling with pandemic anxiety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The surge has prompted a flurry of new mask and vaccine mandates and other steps to try to get the virus back under control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While delta can sometimes infect vaccinated people, infections, hospitalizations and deaths are rising fastest in parts of the country with the most unvaccinated people. Hotspots, however, are popping up everywhere from Massachusetts to California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While we desperately want to be done with this pandemic, COVID-19 is clearly not done with us, and so our battle must last a little longer,” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said a recent White House COVID-19 briefing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if you’re already vaccinated, how worried should you be? What new precautions are called for? Here’s what to know about the fast-spreading variant and how to stay safe and protect others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#anchor1\">\u003cb>\u003cstrong>How much more contagious is the delta variant?\u003c/strong>\u003c/b>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#anchor2\">\u003cb>If I’m vaccinated, can I get sick with delta?\u003c/b>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#anchor3\">\u003cb>What about long COVID-19?\u003c/b>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#anchor4\">\u003cb>Should I go back to wearing a mask in public?\u003c/b>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#anchor5\">\u003cb>Do I need a booster shot?\u003c/b>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#anchor6\">\u003cb>What about kids?\u003c/b>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#anchor7\">\u003cb>Is it safe to fly?\u003c/b>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#anchor8\">\u003cb>How about going to weddings and other large gatherings?\u003c/b>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#anchor9\">\u003cb>Does delta cause different COVID-19 symptoms\u003c/b>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#anchor10\">\u003cb>Do I need to wipe down everything again?\u003c/b>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp> \u003cbr>\n\u003ca id=\"anchor1\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>How much more contagious is the delta variant, really?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Very. As \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/05/07/994710459/is-the-variant-from-india-the-most-contagious-coronavirus-mutant-on-the-planet\">NPR has reported\u003c/a>, delta appears to be around twice as transmissible as the original SARS-CoV-2 strains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/07/08/1013794996/why-the-delta-variant-is-so-contagious-a-new-study-sheds-light\">recent preprint study from China\u003c/a> found that people who are infected with delta have — on average — about 1,000 times more copies of the virus in their respiratory tracts than those infected with the original strain, and are infectious earlier in the course of their illness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No matter how you look at it, delta seems to spread faster, explains \u003ca href=\"https://www.uwmedicine.org/bios/helen-chu\">Helen Chu\u003c/a>, associate professor of medicine at the University of Washington.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can look at it through modeling, you can look at it through population-level data, and you can look at it simply by putting the virus into the cell and looking at how quickly it infects the next cell,” she says. “In all of those measures, it has looked like it’s more transmissible.”\u003cbr>\n\u003ca id=\"anchor2\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>If I’m vaccinated, can I get sick with delta?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cbr>\nYes, but don’t panic. While the vaccines are somewhat less protective against delta, they are still highly effective at preventing people from getting severely ill and dying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"delta-variant\"]During a recent White House briefing, Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, noted that the data from the UK showed the vaccines are 88% effective at preventing people from developing symptoms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vaccinated people are eight times less likely to get sick and 25 times less likely to end up in the hospital compared to unvaccinated people, Fauci said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For context, the CDC \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/covid-19/health-departments/breakthrough-cases.html\">has documented\u003c/a> a total of 6,587 cases of fully vaccinated people who were hospitalized or died from COVID-19, among the more than 163 million people who have been fully vaccinated in this country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That is a rate of 0.01% or less, Fauci said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The bottom line of what we are saying is: Get vaccinated,” Fauci says. “The COVID vaccines give strong protection against the delta variant, and it protects you, your family, and your community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though the CDC only tracks breakthrough infections that lead to hospitalization and death, some states are keeping track of every case. According to an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kff.org/policy-watch/covid-19-vaccine-breakthrough-cases-data-from-the-states/\">analysis by the Kaiser Family Foundation\u003c/a> — among states that track the data — the rate of breakthrough cases among fully vaccinated people ranged from 0.01% in Connecticut to 0.29% in Alaska.\u003cbr>\n\u003ca id=\"anchor3\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What about long COVID-19?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>While the risk of getting sick if you’re vaccinated is very low, if you do get a symptomatic case, it’s still possible to end up with long-haul COVID-19 symptoms, according to virologist \u003ca href=\"https://angelarasmussen.org/about\">Angela Rasmussen\u003c/a>, who works with the Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization at the University of Saskatchewan in Canada. She notes the data is still quite limited, though.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even if you don’t end up in the hospital, there’s certainly a possibility that you could end up with long COVID,” she says. “So, the safest thing to do is to avoid being infected altogether.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/07/28/1021888033/breakthrough-infections-may-cause-long-covid-symptoms-small-study-suggests\">a recent study\u003c/a> from Israel suggested that even people who experience “mild” breakthrough infections may be at risk for symptoms that linger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The study found that about one in five people — 19% — who got infected even though they were vaccinated experienced symptoms found in long COVID patients that lasted at least six weeks, including headaches, body aches, fatigue and loss of taste and smell. The study, however, was very small, including only seven patients out of about 1,500 who experienced lingering health problems.\u003cbr>\n\u003ca id=\"anchor4\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Should I go back to wearing a mask in public?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Yes, and many experts advise you up your mask game to wear the best-fitting mask you can.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In late July, CDC \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/07/27/1021206558/cdc-expected-to-change-mask-guidance-for-vaccinated-people-including-in-schools\">issued new guidelines\u003c/a> that even fully vaccinated people should start masking up again indoors when they are places where the virus is circulating widely. (Check \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/1021795290\">this map with data from the CDC\u003c/a> to see if you need to mask up where you live.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CDC’s new recommendation was based on an investigation of an outbreak that occurred in Provincetown, Massachusetts, around the July 4 holiday. Researchers discovered that fully vaccinated people who caught the virus could carry as much virus as unvaccinated people, which means they could spread the virus to other people. The findings are consistent with outbreak investigations, the CDC’s Walensky said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CDC also updated its guidance to recommend everyone in schools wear masks, regardless of whether they are vaccinated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I understand this is all frustrating news, and I share this frustration,” Walensky said. “We continue to learn each day from emerging science and use this evidence to update our recommendations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before CDC changed its guidance, many health experts were already calling for vaccinated people to resume masking indoors. Many said they’d never stopped masking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://cph.osu.edu/people/wmiller\">Bill Miller\u003c/a>, a physician and epidemiologist at The Ohio State University says he wears a mask in public places, even though he’s fully vaccinated. “I know that I am extremely unlikely to get seriously ill. But I also know that if I am exposed, I may become infected and pass it on to others,” he says.\u003cbr>\n\u003ca id=\"anchor5\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Do I need a booster shot?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>At this point, no. So far, the federal government doesn’t recommend booster shots to enhance immunity, though it is actively studying the question.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The CDC and the FDA are working very hard to get as much data as they possibly can to adequately address that question,” Dr. Fauci told NPR’s \u003cem>Here & Now\u003c/em> recently. Federal health officials and vaccine makers continue to follow participants enrolled in the initial clinical trials to see how well immunity holds up with current vaccinations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, experts say it’s encouraging. “The level of antibodies seem to be holding up pretty well, so we have to watch and see what happens over the course of the coming months,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.nih.gov/about-nih/who-we-are/nih-director/biographical-sketch-francis-s-collins-md-phd\">Francis Collins\u003c/a>, National Institutes of Health director, told NPR in an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, as immunity wanes, a booster could be recommended for certain groups, including elderly people. There’s also research underway to test a \u003ca href=\"https://www.bcm.edu/news/baylor-launches-clinical-trial-for-covid-19-vaccine-booster\">mix-and-match approach to booster shots\u003c/a>. Researchers are giving study participants who were originally vaccinated with any of the three authorized vaccines a booster shot of the Moderna vaccine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>White House COVID-19 response coordinator Jeff Zients said that the administration is ready for the possibility of boosters “if and when the science shows they are needed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, some other countries have either already started or announced plans to start giving very vulnerable or older people boosters soon.\u003cbr>\n\u003ca id=\"anchor6\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What about kids? Can kids get infected and spread delta?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Yes. Although children tend to have milder cases of coronavirus, they are certainly susceptible to infection. Children remain the least protected age group, since the vaccine is not authorized for children under the age of 12.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s possible that children who get infected with the delta variant might have more symptoms than they would if they were infected with an earlier version of the virus. With a more transmissible variant, “when someone gets sick, they tend to have more virus, and they tend to have more symptoms,” Chu, from the University of Washington, explains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That being said, typically “children are not that symptomatic from COVID,” she says. Her best guess? She thinks delta “probably will not lead to significant numbers of children getting hospitalized.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there’s still a reason to keep your kids masked up in public, and that’s the risk they could spread it to more vulnerable people, says Rasmussen, from the University of Saskatchewan. “Even if it doesn’t impact them, it could impact other vulnerable people in their household, such as people who may not have had a robust response to the vaccine, people who are immunocompromised.”\u003cbr>\n\u003ca id=\"anchor7\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Is it safe to fly, especially with my unvaccinated kids? Any other travel precautions to be aware of?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Infectious disease experts say to use extra caution when traveling. “We are now dealing with a different virus, and we are living in this highly contagious virus’ playground,” Dr. Ravina Kullar, infectious diseases specialist and epidemiologist, at UCLA, told NPR via email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Airplanes themselves are generally deemed low risk, given that the air filtration is typically excellent and passengers wear masks. But getting to, and waiting around in, the airport could be risky, especially for unvaccinated kids. With that in mind, Kullar says she would hold off on flying with young kids “until delta plateaus” and plan a road trip instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other experts said short flights may be OK. But if you do fly, make sure you and your kids \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/02/03/962197192/5-hacks-to-make-your-face-mask-more-protective\">wear well-fitted masks,\u003c/a> ideally N95s or KN95s, or double mask. And keep masks on the entire time you’re in the airport and plane.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether you plan to fly or drive, take a look at the level of coronavirus spread in the area you’re traveling to, advises Dr. Helen Boucher, an infectious disease physician at Tufts Medical Center. She suggests canceling plans to travel to places with high or “substantial” spread, according to the CDC designation. (Check \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/1021795290\">NPR’s map here\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo, infectious disease specialist at the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine, agrees strongly: “One should be very wary of taking a child too young to be vaccinated from a low-incidence state to a high-incidence state like Florida,” she told NPR. “Glad I don’t have to make those hard choices for my family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you fly, there’s “no need to quarantine after flying unless a person has symptoms,” Dr. Tina Tan, an infectious disease specialist at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, told NPR via email. But do avoid busy, crowded vacation spots, she warns. Other agree: Beach parties, bars and crowded concerts, even outdoor ones, could pose a risk during the delta surge.\u003cbr>\n\u003ca id=\"anchor8\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Should I turn down invitations to weddings and other large gatherings?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Many public health experts say it’s safe to attend certain gatherings if you’re vaccinated, but keep the variant in mind, especially if you’re somewhere with rising cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OSU’s Bill Miller says he encourages mask wearing for an indoor wedding or event “because you’re bringing people together from different social networks, creating a great opportunity for an outbreak.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One case study serves as a reminder that the risk is not zero: Six vaccinated people got COVID-19 after attending a wedding near Houston, held in a large, outdoor tent. All of the infected people got symptoms, one was hospitalized, and another person — who had received India’s Covaxin vaccine — died, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.06.28.21258780v1.full#T1\">a preprint study\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As scary as that sounds, “there could be rare events like these where people are in an enclosed tent and very close to each other. But the vast majority, the vast, vast majority of viral transmission is happening indoors,” says Chu.\u003cbr>\n\u003ca id=\"anchor9\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Does delta cause different COVID-19 symptoms?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Maybe. Some doctors and public health departments have reported that people infected with delta have different symptoms from the original, classic signs of COVID-19: cough, loss of taste or smell, and fever. Now, some of the more common symptoms appear to be \u003ca href=\"https://covid.joinzoe.com/post/new-top-5-covid-symptoms\">runny nose, sore throat and headache\u003c/a>, according to the ZOE COVID Study, an ongoing app-based research project based in the UK.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Chu warns that it’s hard to know what’s behind that apparent change, “because the population that it’s infecting is not the same population that was infected in the prior waves.” The people getting sick now tend to be much younger, she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since COVID-19 might present differently in younger people, any changes in symptoms could have less to do with the new variant and more to do with the people who are contracting it. “I don’t know that you can disentangle that,” Chu says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is already a disease that produces a pretty broad range of different clinical presentations in people,” adds Rasmussen. She’d like to see better data before concluding the symptoms are, in fact, different.\u003cbr>\n\u003ca id=\"anchor10\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Do I need those bleach wipes again?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>No extra surface cleaning is necessary. Even though it’s more transmissible, delta still transmits the same way the original SARS-CoV-2 virus does. “This type of virus, which is an RNA virus that is enveloped, tends to transmit [through] respiratory transmission,” Chu says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s backed by “some extremely detailed contact tracing” done in the recent preprint study from China, says Rasmussen. The researchers “determined that these cases were transmitted primarily through what they called indirect contact, which is most likely inhalation of infectious aerosols [while] breathing shared air, or through direct physical contact,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means the virus is most likely to be transmitted to someone indoors who is breathing in a nearby infected person’s droplets or aerosols. With delta, the difference is that the infected person will make many more copies of the virus, faster, which makes it easier to spread.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in a way, “that’s good news,” Rasmussen says. “It means that the mitigation measures that we have put in place previously will still work against the delta variant — it’s not being transmitted by some other route.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2021 NPR. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if you’re already vaccinated, how worried should you be? What new precautions are called for? Here’s what to know about the fast-spreading variant and how to stay safe and protect others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#anchor1\">\u003cb>\u003cstrong>How much more contagious is the delta variant?\u003c/strong>\u003c/b>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#anchor2\">\u003cb>If I’m vaccinated, can I get sick with delta?\u003c/b>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#anchor3\">\u003cb>What about long COVID-19?\u003c/b>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#anchor4\">\u003cb>Should I go back to wearing a mask in public?\u003c/b>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#anchor5\">\u003cb>Do I need a booster shot?\u003c/b>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#anchor6\">\u003cb>What about kids?\u003c/b>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#anchor7\">\u003cb>Is it safe to fly?\u003c/b>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#anchor8\">\u003cb>How about going to weddings and other large gatherings?\u003c/b>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#anchor9\">\u003cb>Does delta cause different COVID-19 symptoms\u003c/b>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#anchor10\">\u003cb>Do I need to wipe down everything again?\u003c/b>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp> \u003cbr>\n\u003ca id=\"anchor1\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>How much more contagious is the delta variant, really?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Very. As \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/05/07/994710459/is-the-variant-from-india-the-most-contagious-coronavirus-mutant-on-the-planet\">NPR has reported\u003c/a>, delta appears to be around twice as transmissible as the original SARS-CoV-2 strains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/07/08/1013794996/why-the-delta-variant-is-so-contagious-a-new-study-sheds-light\">recent preprint study from China\u003c/a> found that people who are infected with delta have — on average — about 1,000 times more copies of the virus in their respiratory tracts than those infected with the original strain, and are infectious earlier in the course of their illness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No matter how you look at it, delta seems to spread faster, explains \u003ca href=\"https://www.uwmedicine.org/bios/helen-chu\">Helen Chu\u003c/a>, associate professor of medicine at the University of Washington.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can look at it through modeling, you can look at it through population-level data, and you can look at it simply by putting the virus into the cell and looking at how quickly it infects the next cell,” she says. “In all of those measures, it has looked like it’s more transmissible.”\u003cbr>\n\u003ca id=\"anchor2\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>If I’m vaccinated, can I get sick with delta?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cbr>\nYes, but don’t panic. While the vaccines are somewhat less protective against delta, they are still highly effective at preventing people from getting severely ill and dying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>During a recent White House briefing, Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, noted that the data from the UK showed the vaccines are 88% effective at preventing people from developing symptoms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vaccinated people are eight times less likely to get sick and 25 times less likely to end up in the hospital compared to unvaccinated people, Fauci said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For context, the CDC \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/covid-19/health-departments/breakthrough-cases.html\">has documented\u003c/a> a total of 6,587 cases of fully vaccinated people who were hospitalized or died from COVID-19, among the more than 163 million people who have been fully vaccinated in this country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That is a rate of 0.01% or less, Fauci said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The bottom line of what we are saying is: Get vaccinated,” Fauci says. “The COVID vaccines give strong protection against the delta variant, and it protects you, your family, and your community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though the CDC only tracks breakthrough infections that lead to hospitalization and death, some states are keeping track of every case. According to an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kff.org/policy-watch/covid-19-vaccine-breakthrough-cases-data-from-the-states/\">analysis by the Kaiser Family Foundation\u003c/a> — among states that track the data — the rate of breakthrough cases among fully vaccinated people ranged from 0.01% in Connecticut to 0.29% in Alaska.\u003cbr>\n\u003ca id=\"anchor3\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What about long COVID-19?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>While the risk of getting sick if you’re vaccinated is very low, if you do get a symptomatic case, it’s still possible to end up with long-haul COVID-19 symptoms, according to virologist \u003ca href=\"https://angelarasmussen.org/about\">Angela Rasmussen\u003c/a>, who works with the Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization at the University of Saskatchewan in Canada. She notes the data is still quite limited, though.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even if you don’t end up in the hospital, there’s certainly a possibility that you could end up with long COVID,” she says. “So, the safest thing to do is to avoid being infected altogether.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/07/28/1021888033/breakthrough-infections-may-cause-long-covid-symptoms-small-study-suggests\">a recent study\u003c/a> from Israel suggested that even people who experience “mild” breakthrough infections may be at risk for symptoms that linger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The study found that about one in five people — 19% — who got infected even though they were vaccinated experienced symptoms found in long COVID patients that lasted at least six weeks, including headaches, body aches, fatigue and loss of taste and smell. The study, however, was very small, including only seven patients out of about 1,500 who experienced lingering health problems.\u003cbr>\n\u003ca id=\"anchor4\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Should I go back to wearing a mask in public?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Yes, and many experts advise you up your mask game to wear the best-fitting mask you can.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In late July, CDC \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/07/27/1021206558/cdc-expected-to-change-mask-guidance-for-vaccinated-people-including-in-schools\">issued new guidelines\u003c/a> that even fully vaccinated people should start masking up again indoors when they are places where the virus is circulating widely. (Check \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/1021795290\">this map with data from the CDC\u003c/a> to see if you need to mask up where you live.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CDC’s new recommendation was based on an investigation of an outbreak that occurred in Provincetown, Massachusetts, around the July 4 holiday. Researchers discovered that fully vaccinated people who caught the virus could carry as much virus as unvaccinated people, which means they could spread the virus to other people. The findings are consistent with outbreak investigations, the CDC’s Walensky said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CDC also updated its guidance to recommend everyone in schools wear masks, regardless of whether they are vaccinated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I understand this is all frustrating news, and I share this frustration,” Walensky said. “We continue to learn each day from emerging science and use this evidence to update our recommendations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before CDC changed its guidance, many health experts were already calling for vaccinated people to resume masking indoors. Many said they’d never stopped masking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://cph.osu.edu/people/wmiller\">Bill Miller\u003c/a>, a physician and epidemiologist at The Ohio State University says he wears a mask in public places, even though he’s fully vaccinated. “I know that I am extremely unlikely to get seriously ill. But I also know that if I am exposed, I may become infected and pass it on to others,” he says.\u003cbr>\n\u003ca id=\"anchor5\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Do I need a booster shot?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>At this point, no. So far, the federal government doesn’t recommend booster shots to enhance immunity, though it is actively studying the question.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The CDC and the FDA are working very hard to get as much data as they possibly can to adequately address that question,” Dr. Fauci told NPR’s \u003cem>Here & Now\u003c/em> recently. Federal health officials and vaccine makers continue to follow participants enrolled in the initial clinical trials to see how well immunity holds up with current vaccinations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, experts say it’s encouraging. “The level of antibodies seem to be holding up pretty well, so we have to watch and see what happens over the course of the coming months,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.nih.gov/about-nih/who-we-are/nih-director/biographical-sketch-francis-s-collins-md-phd\">Francis Collins\u003c/a>, National Institutes of Health director, told NPR in an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, as immunity wanes, a booster could be recommended for certain groups, including elderly people. There’s also research underway to test a \u003ca href=\"https://www.bcm.edu/news/baylor-launches-clinical-trial-for-covid-19-vaccine-booster\">mix-and-match approach to booster shots\u003c/a>. Researchers are giving study participants who were originally vaccinated with any of the three authorized vaccines a booster shot of the Moderna vaccine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>White House COVID-19 response coordinator Jeff Zients said that the administration is ready for the possibility of boosters “if and when the science shows they are needed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, some other countries have either already started or announced plans to start giving very vulnerable or older people boosters soon.\u003cbr>\n\u003ca id=\"anchor6\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What about kids? Can kids get infected and spread delta?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Yes. Although children tend to have milder cases of coronavirus, they are certainly susceptible to infection. Children remain the least protected age group, since the vaccine is not authorized for children under the age of 12.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s possible that children who get infected with the delta variant might have more symptoms than they would if they were infected with an earlier version of the virus. With a more transmissible variant, “when someone gets sick, they tend to have more virus, and they tend to have more symptoms,” Chu, from the University of Washington, explains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That being said, typically “children are not that symptomatic from COVID,” she says. Her best guess? She thinks delta “probably will not lead to significant numbers of children getting hospitalized.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there’s still a reason to keep your kids masked up in public, and that’s the risk they could spread it to more vulnerable people, says Rasmussen, from the University of Saskatchewan. “Even if it doesn’t impact them, it could impact other vulnerable people in their household, such as people who may not have had a robust response to the vaccine, people who are immunocompromised.”\u003cbr>\n\u003ca id=\"anchor7\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Is it safe to fly, especially with my unvaccinated kids? Any other travel precautions to be aware of?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Infectious disease experts say to use extra caution when traveling. “We are now dealing with a different virus, and we are living in this highly contagious virus’ playground,” Dr. Ravina Kullar, infectious diseases specialist and epidemiologist, at UCLA, told NPR via email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Airplanes themselves are generally deemed low risk, given that the air filtration is typically excellent and passengers wear masks. But getting to, and waiting around in, the airport could be risky, especially for unvaccinated kids. With that in mind, Kullar says she would hold off on flying with young kids “until delta plateaus” and plan a road trip instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other experts said short flights may be OK. But if you do fly, make sure you and your kids \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/02/03/962197192/5-hacks-to-make-your-face-mask-more-protective\">wear well-fitted masks,\u003c/a> ideally N95s or KN95s, or double mask. And keep masks on the entire time you’re in the airport and plane.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether you plan to fly or drive, take a look at the level of coronavirus spread in the area you’re traveling to, advises Dr. Helen Boucher, an infectious disease physician at Tufts Medical Center. She suggests canceling plans to travel to places with high or “substantial” spread, according to the CDC designation. (Check \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/1021795290\">NPR’s map here\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo, infectious disease specialist at the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine, agrees strongly: “One should be very wary of taking a child too young to be vaccinated from a low-incidence state to a high-incidence state like Florida,” she told NPR. “Glad I don’t have to make those hard choices for my family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you fly, there’s “no need to quarantine after flying unless a person has symptoms,” Dr. Tina Tan, an infectious disease specialist at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, told NPR via email. But do avoid busy, crowded vacation spots, she warns. Other agree: Beach parties, bars and crowded concerts, even outdoor ones, could pose a risk during the delta surge.\u003cbr>\n\u003ca id=\"anchor8\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Should I turn down invitations to weddings and other large gatherings?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Many public health experts say it’s safe to attend certain gatherings if you’re vaccinated, but keep the variant in mind, especially if you’re somewhere with rising cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OSU’s Bill Miller says he encourages mask wearing for an indoor wedding or event “because you’re bringing people together from different social networks, creating a great opportunity for an outbreak.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One case study serves as a reminder that the risk is not zero: Six vaccinated people got COVID-19 after attending a wedding near Houston, held in a large, outdoor tent. All of the infected people got symptoms, one was hospitalized, and another person — who had received India’s Covaxin vaccine — died, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.06.28.21258780v1.full#T1\">a preprint study\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As scary as that sounds, “there could be rare events like these where people are in an enclosed tent and very close to each other. But the vast majority, the vast, vast majority of viral transmission is happening indoors,” says Chu.\u003cbr>\n\u003ca id=\"anchor9\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Does delta cause different COVID-19 symptoms?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Maybe. Some doctors and public health departments have reported that people infected with delta have different symptoms from the original, classic signs of COVID-19: cough, loss of taste or smell, and fever. Now, some of the more common symptoms appear to be \u003ca href=\"https://covid.joinzoe.com/post/new-top-5-covid-symptoms\">runny nose, sore throat and headache\u003c/a>, according to the ZOE COVID Study, an ongoing app-based research project based in the UK.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Chu warns that it’s hard to know what’s behind that apparent change, “because the population that it’s infecting is not the same population that was infected in the prior waves.” The people getting sick now tend to be much younger, she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since COVID-19 might present differently in younger people, any changes in symptoms could have less to do with the new variant and more to do with the people who are contracting it. “I don’t know that you can disentangle that,” Chu says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is already a disease that produces a pretty broad range of different clinical presentations in people,” adds Rasmussen. 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"content": "\u003cp>Whether you're vaccinated or not, you'll now have to wear a mask indoors in public spaces throughout most of the Bay Area starting on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The reinstated mask mandates were announced Monday by health officials in seven Bay Area counties in an effort to curb the rapid spread of the highly contagious COVID-19 delta variant — which is believed to be about twice as transmissible as the original virus strain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Indoor masking is a temporary measure that will help us deal with the delta variant, which is causing a sharp increase in cases, and we know increases in hospitalizations and deaths will follow,\" Dr. Naveena Bobba, San Francisco's acting health officer, said in a statement. \"When we all wear face coverings indoors, we are protecting our fellow residents and helping our healthcare workers.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The counties re-upping their indoor mask requirements include Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara and Sonoma, as well as the city of Berkeley, which has its own health department. Napa and Solano counties have yet to follow suit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Bay Area’s health officers were the first in the nation to announce a shutdown at the start of the pandemic in March 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new mandates apply to all public and private businesses and workplaces, officials said, noting they would \"work with\" local businesses to ensure compliance. Indoor dining is still allowed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The local orders come amid a new surge in delta variant cases and deaths, primarily among unvaccinated people, health officials said in a press conference Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In Contra Costa County we are alarmed at the rate patients are filling our community hospital beds,\" Dr. Chris Farnitano, the county's health officer, said Monday. \"The number of patients in local [Contra Costa] hospitals due to COVID have doubled in just the past 10 days and increased by more than 400% in the month of July. Four out of five of these hospitalized COVID patients are not vaccinated, even though only one out of five Contra Costa adults is not vaccinated.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The people in the hospital with COVID, they're really sick. They're gasping for air, connected to a machine,\" he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farnitano described the new orders as \"a simple step: wearing masks indoors to provide one more layer of protection for everyone.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the current outbreak in California is so far nowhere near as severe as last winter's surge, case rates across the state have shot up alarmingly in recent weeks. Officials are \u003ca href=\"https://covid19.ca.gov/state-dashboard/#county-statewide\">currently reporting\u003c/a> a seven-day statewide average of about 16.7 cases per 100,000 people, up from a low of just 2 cases per 100,000 in early June. 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But last month, several counties across California — \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/18/us/la-masks-covid.html\">starting with Los Angeles County\u003c/a> — began reinstituting those requirements as the delta variant became \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-07-04/delta-variant-spreads-rapidly-now-california-most-dominant-strain-coronavirus-covid-19\">the dominant strain\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Health officials on Monday also continued imploring unvaccinated people to get the shot immediately, emphasizing that even though the Bay Area has among the highest vaccination rates in the country, a significant percentage of people throughout the region remains unprotected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new variant, they added, has thwarted hopes of reaching \"herd immunity\" anytime soon — referring to when enough people become protected from a virus to significantly diminish its spread.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Quite frankly, vaccines are keeping thousands out of Bay Area hospitals right now,\" said Dr. Lisa Hernandez, health officer for the city of Berkeley. \"If you are 12 and older we urge you to get vaccinated as soon as possible, it will protect you, those around you, and help keep our region safer.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Unvaccinated Californians can go to \u003ca title=\"myturn.ca.gov\" href=\"https://myturn.ca.gov/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"6\">myturn.ca.gov\u003c/a> or call (833) 422-4255 to schedule their appointment or go to \u003ca title=\"myturn.ca.gov/clinic\" href=\"https://myturn.ca.gov/clinic.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"7\">myturn.ca.gov/clinic\u003c/a> to find a walk-in clinic in their county.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Associated Press contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Remember that moment just about a month ago when there was a palpable sense everything might be OK?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The economy was reopening. People were packing back into restaurants. Sweaty bodies filled clubs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even exhausted health care workers breathed their first deep sigh of relief as communities across California experienced the first real lull in the COVID-19 pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was like COVID updates — none,” said Dr. Nicole Braxley, an emergency medicine physician at Mercy San Juan Medical Center in Carmichael. “And everyone’s like, ‘Yeah! Let’s talk about something else.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘Not Out of The Woods Yet’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Then the delta variant hit California, and rapidly took hold, particularly in unvaccinated pockets of the state. It now \u003ca href=\"https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#variant-proportions\">appears\u003c/a> to be spreading two to three times faster than the original strain of the virus. Early \u003ca href=\"https://virological.org/t/viral-infection-and-transmission-in-a-large-well-traced-outbreak-caused-by-the-delta-sars-cov-2-variant/724\">research\u003c/a> from China shows that people who catch the delta variant have, on average, about 1,000 times more copies of the virus in their respiratory tracts than those who contracted the original bug.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Dr. Nicole Braxley, Mercy San Juan Medical Center in Carmichael\"]‘There are places in the world and people in countries that would give their right arm to get a vaccine.’[/pullquote]Case tallies are rising across the state. In Sacramento County, where Carmichael is located, \u003ca href=\"https://sac-epidemiology.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapSeries/index.html?appid=e11bc926165742ab99f834079f618dad\">hundreds\u003c/a> of people a day are now testing positive. Less than a month ago, Braxley was seeing one or two COVID-19 patients a week. Now, she’s treating about a dozen people a day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of them are unvaccinated, and many express regrets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had a gentleman that I had to admit for COVID,” said Braxley, the Mercy San Juan Medical Center physician. “And he said, ‘Can you give [the vaccine] to me today? I’ve been meaning to get it.’ It’s too late. The decision has already been made and the damage is done. And so now we just have to admit the patient and hope for the best.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The delta variant is even taking hold in places like San Francisco, where \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/data/covid-19-vaccinations#vaccinated-san-franciscans\">77% of eligible residents\u003c/a> are fully vaccinated. The vast majority of hospitalized cases are among unvaccinated people, but there is also the occasional severe breakthrough case — when a fully vaccinated person contracts the virus — mostly in older people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Liz McCusker, a nurse in the emergency room at Saint Francis Memorial Hospital in San Francisco, remembers an 81-year-old man who arrived with a violent cough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was such a lovely gentleman,” she said. “He’d gone down the path of having the vaccine and taking care of himself, but developed these symptoms and was really very sick. It’s just sad to see that again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His condition never improved, and he eventually died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sort of a reminder that we are not out of the woods yet,” McCusker said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Flashbacks to Last Winter\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Along with spreading faster, the delta variant might also be more potent than the original strain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re seeing patients becoming sicker and their conditions are worsening much more quickly,” Dr. Mira Irons, the American Medical Association’s chief health and science officer, said in a recent “AMA COVID-19 Update” \u003ca href=\"https://www.ama-assn.org/delivering-care/public-health/mira-irons-md-vaccination-efforts-and-novavax-details\">video\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention changed its masking guidance. The agency is now urging anyone living in areas with \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/28/health/substantial-or-high-covid-19-transmission-wellness/index.html\">“substantial” and “high” transmission\u003c/a> of COVID-19 to mask up indoors. The recommendation applies to nearly \u003ca href=\"https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#county-view\">two-thirds\u003c/a> of all US counties, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/OPA/Pages/NR21-234.aspx\">more than 90%\u003c/a> of California. State health officials are also following suit and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11882864/california-once-again-recommends-everyone-mask-up-indoors\">encouraging all residents\u003c/a> to mask up in indoor public spaces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"delta-variant\"]“In recent days, I have seen new scientific data from recent outbreak investigations showing that the delta variant behaves uniquely differently from past strains of the virus that cause COVID-19,” CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said during\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2021/t0727-covid-19-telebrief.mp3\"> a media briefing\u003c/a> on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. vaccine supply is ample, but only about \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/covid-data/covidview/index.html\">half of all Americans\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/Immunization/nCOV2019.aspx\">half of Californians\u003c/a>, are fully vaccinated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And vaccination rates have slowed substantially. In the early days of the rollout, demand for shots far outweighed supply. Now, public health officials are grappling with the opposite problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mass vaccine sites have shut down in urban areas because long lines shrunk to nothing. The same is true in many rural counties. In Lassen County, for instance, fewer than 20% of residents are fully vaccinated. And across the Central Valley, many counties have plateaued at a full vaccination rate of around 35%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are places in the world and people in countries that would give their right arm to get a vaccine,” said Braxley, with tears in her eyes. She apologized for getting emotional. It’s not usually her style, she says, but it’s been a long year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state’s hot spot is, again, Los Angeles County, where \u003ca href=\"http://publichealth.lacounty.gov/media/coronavirus/data/index.htm\">thousands\u003c/a> of people are now testing positive every day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m running around like a chicken without a head,” said Dr. Dinora Chinchilla, a pulmonologist specializing in critical care in Los Angeles County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says she’s drowning under her current load of patients, all of whom are battling the virus. The situation is sparking flashbacks for her to last winter’s peak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It gives me tremendous anxiety to think that we’re going the other direction again,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The night after her interview, Chinchilla sent a text reporting that two more of her patients had died.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A Daunting Task Ahead\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Gov. 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Similar \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2021/05/04/as-california-surpasses-30-million-vaccines-governor-newsom-doubles-down-on-efforts-to-vaccinate-hard-to-reach-communities/\">efforts\u003c/a> are also unfolding in more than a dozen other counties across the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘Race Against Time’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Some counties are also throwing vaccine parties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a recent July rally in Alameda, on an urban community farm adjacent to a low-income housing complex, balloons line fences, hamburger smoke billows from grills, and an emcee jumps on the stage to announce $100 and $500 raffle prizes to the growing crowd. Even Alameda Mayor Marilyn Ezzy Ashcraft stops by.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to meet people where we are,” she said. “But I do feel that it’s a race against time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A group of teens clap enthusiastically for Z’haria Anderson, 15, after a nurse administers a shot of the Pfizer vaccine in her left arm. Anderson, who works on the farm, says her schedule has been packed, and so is delighted the vaccination event came to her today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It just feels really nice knowing that I’m contributing to helping the world get a little bit safer,” Anderson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Z’haria Anderson, 15\"]‘It just feels really nice knowing that I’m contributing to helping the world get a little bit safer.’[/pullquote]Other attendees at the event blamed their belated decision to get vaccinated on being squeamish about the side effects. Some also worried the science wasn’t there yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just think I wanted to watch to see more studies to see how women was reacting to the dosage,” said Roxanne Akins, an Alameda resident. She says she finally showed up because friends and family around her stepped up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They were a great inspiration to go ahead and get this done,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The event offered residents a lively afternoon, but the tally at the end of the day fell far short of the 75 shots the mayor had expected to see administered: All of the bells and whistles inspired just 13 people to get vaccinated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s the battle public health officials continue to face. The process of protecting people is slow and it’s arduous — but it’s the best hope of preventing the delta variant from claiming more lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unvaccinated Californians can go to \u003ca title=\"myturn.ca.gov\" href=\"https://myturn.ca.gov/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"6\">myturn.ca.gov\u003c/a> or call (833) 422-4255 to schedule their appointment or go to \u003ca title=\"myturn.ca.gov/clinic\" href=\"https://myturn.ca.gov/clinic.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"7\">myturn.ca.gov/clinic\u003c/a> to find a walk-in clinic in their county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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