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But how worried should people be in the Bay Area, where COVID cases are relatively low and vaccination rates are high?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED spoke to \u003ca href=\"https://profiles.ucsf.edu/kirsten.bibbins-domingo\">Dr. Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo\u003c/a>, chair of UCSF's Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, about the relative risks of the delta variant and how much vaccinated people in the Bay Area should be considering modifying their behavior. Because the updates on the delta variant \"can be a little bit scary, and a little bit confusing,\" says Bibbins-Domingo, it's important to know the relative risks at play.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This interview has been edited for length and clarity.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Will the Bay Area Follow L.A. and Recommend Masking Again?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Certainly the vaccines are highly effective. They are not 100% perfect. 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So even when they're breakthrough infections, people tend to have more mild disease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" tag=\"coronavirus\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Listeners may know that the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/29/world/who-mask-guidelines.html\">World Health Organization has also suggested that people who are vaccinated should wear masks indoors\u003c/a> because of the rise of the delta variant. But that reflects also that worldwide, many, many more people are not vaccinated or are vaccinated with a type of vaccine that is not as effective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[Breakthrough infections] are rare because these vaccines are effective. Ironically, though, when you look at a population where a large number of people are vaccinated, then even in rare cases of a highly transmissible variant, breaking through means that you start to have larger numbers of people. And so it \u003cem>looks\u003c/em> like there's a problem with the vaccines. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/calmatters-en-espanol/2021/06/california-mariachis-covid-2/\">\u003cem>Leer en español\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hundreds of mariachis come to Boyle Heights in Los Angeles from across the United States and Mexico in search of work. They gather at Mariachi Plaza, a small park with a bandstand and kiosk that holds a special place in their hearts because it was donated by the Mexican state of Jalisco, the birthplace of this music. They wait for people to call or stop by to hire them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the pandemic hit mariachi bands brutally. Most work dried up as events were canceled through the spring and summer of 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some musicians performed at gatherings that defied California’s shelter-in-place rules and social distancing protocols. Without any other source of income, musicians felt they had no choice but to accept jobs even at the risk of coronavirus exposure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 50 mariachi musicians have died of COVID-19 over the past year, said Israel Moreno, president of the Organization of Independent Mariachis of California (OMICAL) in Boyle Heights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11850782\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46378_009_KQED_Oakland_OurLadyofGuadalupeDay_12122020-qut-800x533.jpg\"]About 80% of the group’s roughly 270 members have gotten infected, he said. OMICAL members have rallied to collect donations of food and money, and the group has helped grieving families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We would give a box of food to the mariachis every week,” Moreno said. “For those who passed away we would look for their families to let them know or helped with donations to repatriate the body to their country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Business has picked up for mariachis since the worst days of the pandemic. But it will take a long time for the community to fully recover from the physical, emotional and financial damage.\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>“I Thought We Were Going to Be OK”\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Alex Cisneros has worked as a mariachi for over 25 years. He is proud to say he has supported his family with this job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cisneros, the leader of Mariachi Nuevo Guadalajara, said the band was hired to perform at a house event in celebration of Father’s Day last June. There was a crowd of a few dozen people. At the time, the state prohibited gatherings but police didn’t enforce the rule at residences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Alex Cisneros, leader of Mariachi Nuevo Guadalajara\"]‘There were so many people when I arrived that doctors told me I was still breathing and that they couldn’t take me in.’[/pullquote]Three days before the event, the six musicians who planned to attend got tested for the coronavirus to make sure they were not infected. All of them tested negative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I thought we were going to be OK,” said Cisneros, who plays the violin and sings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When they arrived at the party, they tried to keep some distance from the crowd. But as they continued to play, guests pushed in closer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We kept moving back but there was a point where we couldn’t move anymore,” Cisneros said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Singing and playing brass instruments such as trumpets, a mariachi staple, are considered especially risky for coronavirus transmission because they \u003ca href=\"https://www.health.state.mn.us/diseases/coronavirus/musicguide.pdf\">release respiratory particles\u003c/a> through the air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As he was driving home, Cisneros felt a dry cough and his throat hurt. Initially he ignored the symptoms, thinking his throat was sore from singing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He went to bed, but by the next day he had fever, diarrhea and extreme pain in his bones. He was shivering and vomited. He called his bandmates and cautioned them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As days passed, his health deteriorated. His headaches worsened and he started having harsh pain in his lungs. 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Cisneros said the news was devastating for him, but he’s thankful that Mariachi Nuevo Guadalajara did not suffer major losses.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Back to Work — Performing at Funerals\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The hiring of mariachis began increasing last fall. But instead of happy celebrations, most jobs were to play at funerals. For a while at the beginning of this year, some bands played at one funeral, or more, almost every day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Francisco Hernandez, violinist\"]‘I really try to hold my own tears when I see them because their tears are real when they cry for their loved ones.’[/pullquote]“Recently we played in a funeral at Rose Hills cemetery and we counted in a perimeter of about 100 meters eight funerals,” Israel Moreno said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Francisco Hernandez, violinist of Mariachi Los Potrillos and vice president of OMICAL, said the worst part of playing at funerals is seeing a child mourn a parent or a grandparent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I really try to hold my own tears when I see them because their tears are real when they cry for their loved ones,” said Hernandez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hernandez said there has been so much demand to play at funerals that mariachis wish there were more hours during the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California dropped \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2021/06/california-reopening-june/\">mask mandates on June 15\u003c/a>. Cisneros said his band is booked mainly on weekends, and he is grateful that he has been able to go back to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But nearly a year after he contracted COVID-19, he still suffers from its effects. Although medical experts \u003ca href=\"https://health.clevelandclinic.org/when-should-you-get-vaccinated-if-youve-had-covid-19/\">encourage\u003c/a> people who’ve had COVID to get vaccinated, even if they have persistent symptoms, Cisneros has put it off because he fears he’ll have a bad reaction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I still have throat pain, my lungs hurt and I think even my kidneys got damaged … I have a lot of headaches, too,” he said. “I forget things a lot, my body aches and my bones hurt a lot when it’s cold.”\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article is part of \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/projects/the-california-divide/\">The California Divide\u003c/a>, a collaboration among newsrooms examining income inequity and economic survival in California. 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"content": "\u003cp>Some 800 seafarers from around the world have received COVID-19 vaccinations at the Port of Oakland since May, part of an effort to ease an international crisis that has left hundreds of thousands of merchant ship crew members stuck at sea due to pandemic-related health concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Seth Gomez, senior pharmacist, Alameda County Health Care for the Homeless\"]‘I think it’s important that we get as many people vaccinated as possible, regardless of where they call home.’[/pullquote]The local vaccine drive, organized by the International Maritime Center in Oakland, mirrors similar initiatives in a growing number of ports around the world to administer the single-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine to stranded crews. Ports in India, the Philippines and Belgium have also recently launched their own programs to vaccinate stranded seafarers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the Port of Oakland, medical workers from Alameda County’s Health Care for the Homeless program and Contra Costa Health Services, in partnership with the health care company Curative, typically set up shop aboard docked ships, and vaccinate anyone willing to roll up their sleeves. 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In countries like the Philippines and India, they’re not getting the vaccines,” he said. “So here … they’re so happy they’re taking pictures.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the beginning of the pandemic, many governments shut down their borders and banned international shipping crews from coming ashore. 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One deck seaman on a container ship recently told her he had been stuck at sea for 14 months, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]“Mariners are resilient people. They understand they’re going to be gone from their families, she said. 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In countries like the Philippines and India, they’re not getting the vaccines,” he said. “So here … they’re so happy they’re taking pictures.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the beginning of the pandemic, many governments shut down their borders and banned international shipping crews from coming ashore. That had devastating consequences not just for the world economy (an estimated 80% of global trade is moved by maritime transport), but also the roughly 2 million seafarers who operate the global fleet of merchant ships.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.imo.org/en/MediaCentre/HotTopics/Pages/FAQ-on-crew-changes-and-repatriation-of-seafarers.aspx\">The International Maritime Organization\u003c/a> estimates that as of March 2021, roughly 200,000 seafarers were still stranded on their ships, a logjam the group calls a humanitarian and economic crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11877718\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49569_001_PortofOakland_Vaccination_05272021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11877718\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49569_001_PortofOakland_Vaccination_05272021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49569_001_PortofOakland_Vaccination_05272021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49569_001_PortofOakland_Vaccination_05272021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49569_001_PortofOakland_Vaccination_05272021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49569_001_PortofOakland_Vaccination_05272021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49569_001_PortofOakland_Vaccination_05272021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Crew members of the NYK Delphinus cargo ship wait to receive their Johnson & Johnson vaccines during a Port of Oakland vaccination drive on May 27, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Maritime workers are a crucial but often overlooked part of the vast global shipping industry, and have been impacted particularly hard by the pandemic, said Margaret Reasoner, a volunteer with the Oakland chapter of the International Maritime Center. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“Mariners are resilient people. They understand they’re going to be gone from their families, she said. But, “we don’t think, ‘I’ll go to work and I won’t see my family, I won’t see my kids, for 14 months.’ That’s a long time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ships can’t afford to risk anyone on board contracting the virus, since containment is difficult and health care services limited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11879622\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49592_026_PortofOakland_Vaccination_05272021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11879622\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49592_026_PortofOakland_Vaccination_05272021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49592_026_PortofOakland_Vaccination_05272021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49592_026_PortofOakland_Vaccination_05272021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49592_026_PortofOakland_Vaccination_05272021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49592_026_PortofOakland_Vaccination_05272021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49592_026_PortofOakland_Vaccination_05272021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A cargo ship crew member receives his vaccine during a pop-up event at the Port of Oakland on May 27, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Brian Helmle, a deckhand on the San Francisco Bay Ferry, and a member of the Inlandboatmen’s Union, recently volunteered to help vaccinate crew members of the MV Cape Orlando, docked just across the estuary in Alameda. Doing so, he said, is a good way to show international solidarity with other maritime workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Lea este artículo en \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/calmatters-en-espanol/2021/06/algunos-californianos-discapacitados-se-sienten-abandonados-por-el-estimulo-golden-state-de-newsom/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">español\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A $600 check would go a long way for Janet Clendenin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The costs of the sugar-free foods she buys to manage her diabetes have risen sharply in South Lake Tahoe during the pandemic, Clendenin said. She usually has to crisscross the picturesque region by bus to find discounts at Dollar Tree, Grocery Outlet and Walmart.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So when she learned about Gov. Gavin Newsom’s plan to send $600 payments to the lowest-income Californians in February, Clendenin felt relief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Charis Hill, disability activist\"]‘It’s really hard to see and read coverage of Newsom touting how great this is for middle-class people.’[/pullquote]Then came frustration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clendenin scoured the news for \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2021/02/california-golden-state-stimulus-600-check/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">details on eligibility\u003c/a>. She learned that she could have qualified if she worked in 2020. But a constellation of diabetes, arthritis, migraines, back injuries and nerve pain made work impossible about six years ago. Given her disabilities, she could also have qualified if only she received Supplemental Security Income, a federal safety-net program for elderly, blind and disabled people with limited income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But nowhere could Clendenin find mention of Social Security Disability Insurance, the other main federal program for people with disabilities, which sends her $1,056 a month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I couldn’t believe that we were left out,” said Clendenin. “How unfair is that?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a sentiment shared by many Californians on federal disability insurance, who have asked why Newsom’s stimulus payments skipped them over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While California lawmakers automatically sent checks to 1.2 million people who receive SSI, the 1.2 million Californians on SSDI only qualify if they had income from work in 2020. But that’s rare — \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbpp.org/research/social-security/paul-n-van-de-water-promoting-opportunity-for-social-security-disability\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">research shows\u003c/a> that \u003ca href=\"https://www.ssa.gov/disabilityresearch/documents/TTW5_Brief_2_DIcohort_REV2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">fewer than 1 in 5 SSDI recipients work during a typical year\u003c/a>, often because they are limited by their disabilities or risk losing their benefits if they work too much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11860924\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47239_001_SanFrancisco_HenryZhang_02162021-qut-1020x680.jpg\"]Disability advocates say it’s the latest example of the state abandoning some of its most vulnerable residents during the pandemic, after having directed medical health providers to \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/article243474286.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ration COVID-19 care to elderly and less-healthy people\u003c/a> last spring and \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/coronavirus/2021/02/covid-advisory-group-rejects-higher-vaccine-priority-for-disabled-californians-and-those-with-chronic-conditions/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">deprioritize people with disabilities for vaccines\u003c/a> earlier this year — both policies that were \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/coronavirus/2021/02/california-shifts-priorities-vaccine-chronic-conditions/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reversed after considerable outcry\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Overall the state has been uneven in how it’s helped people with disabilities navigate the pandemic,” said Andrew Imparato, executive director of Disability Rights California. “A lot of people with disabilities have had to fend for themselves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Department of Finance spokesperson H.D. Palmer cites logistical challenges. California maintains an up-to-date list of residents who get SSI \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdss.ca.gov/inforesources/ssi-ssp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">because the state supplements the federal benefit by a few hundred dollars\u003c/a>, but doesn’t have access to the same information for SSDI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Trying to include SSDI … would be a time-consuming and laborious process with the feds that doesn’t line up with the intent of (the Golden State Stimulus) — to get immediate relief to Californians with whom we have an existing relationship,” Palmer wrote in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘Make Hard Decisions Quickly’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The Newsom administration may have also based the decision on a consideration of need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s \u003ca href=\"https://calbudgetcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/CA-Budget-Center-SSI-SSP-IB_Chart-4.-SSP-Individual-Grant-Up-to-FPL-Bar-Chart.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SSI recipients live in poverty by definition\u003c/a>. Elderly, blind and disabled people can only qualify if they have extremely low income and wealth, and they typically receive just $954.72 per month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other hand, people with sufficient work history can qualify for monthly SSDI payments based on their former wages, with the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ssa.gov/OACT/ProgData/icp.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">average national benefit at $1,280\u003c/a> per month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, California’s SSDI recipients often face steep financial challenges. They are more than twice as likely to live in poverty compared to the rest of the population, according to calculations by Andrew Houtenville, an economist at the Institute on Disability at the University of New Hampshire. And people with disabilities often have to cover expensive medical equipment, appointments with specialists and drugs out-of-pocket.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Imparato acknowledged that the state was “trying to make hard decisions quickly” but “including everyone on SSDI probably would have been a more equitable thing to do than excluding them because you don’t have access to their program or because it’s not a means-tested program.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are some signs that lawmakers could still include SSDI recipients. Newsom’s proposed expansion of the Golden State Stimulus still requires approval from state legislators. Though they passed a placeholder budget to meet a June 15 deadline, state lawmakers continue to disagree with Newsom over how much surplus money the state has at its disposal and how to spend it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a legislative staffer familiar with ongoing budget negotiations, some members of the Legislature are pushing the Newsom administration to expand eligibility for the Golden State Stimulus payments to Californians on SSDI, among other groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Evolution of the Golden State Stimulus\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Eligibility for Newsom’s Golden State Stimulus has gone through several twists and turns. In January, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2021/01/newsom-wants-extra-600-stimulus-for-low-wage-californians/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Newsom announced a $2.4 billion plan to send $600 Golden State Stimulus checks\u003c/a> to approximately 4 million low-income workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11874637 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49132_013_SanFrancisco_MEDADairoRomero_05192021-qut-1020x680.jpg']By February, with the \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/GavinNewsom/status/1357089574288117760?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">state’s revenue estimates swelling\u003c/a>, the Legislature negotiated and approved an even more generous \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2021/02/california-600-stimulus-checks-undocumented-workers/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$3.8 billion stimulus payment plan that included extra aid for undocumented workers\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under this plan, the state also sent $600 payments to certain Californians living in poverty — regardless of whether they work. That included very low-income families with children enrolled in CalWORKs, as well as recipients of SSI or the state’s alternative for some immigrant groups, known as the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdss.ca.gov/inforesources/cash-assistance-for-immigrants\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cash Assistance Program for Immigrants\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It took Charis Hill several days of searching online and contacting their state assemblymember to discover that they did not automatically qualify. A Sacramento-based disability activist who lives on $1,027 per month from SSDI, Hill eventually deduced that they could qualify not because they were disabled, but rather because they had done freelance writing and speaking last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hill would have to file taxes, something they hadn’t done in years because their earned income is far below the filing requirement. They decided it was worth it. Their expenses have jumped during the pandemic, especially as they’ve opted for grocery deliveries instead of shopping in stores because they are immunocompromised.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hill said that, unlike many disabled people, they were fortunate to have internet access and a friend who could help them file their taxes. They were lucky to be able to work last year despite experiencing constant pain and fatigue from an inflammatory condition called axial spondyloarthritis. But, they said, it’s wrong that the Golden State Stimulus program is “basing a disabled person’s value on their ability to work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11879468\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11879468\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/20210620_CalMatters_CharisHill_0075_A-scaled-1-800x533.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/20210620_CalMatters_CharisHill_0075_A-scaled-1-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/20210620_CalMatters_CharisHill_0075_A-scaled-1-1020x680.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/20210620_CalMatters_CharisHill_0075_A-scaled-1-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/20210620_CalMatters_CharisHill_0075_A-scaled-1-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/20210620_CalMatters_CharisHill_0075_A-scaled-1.jpeg 1568w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Charis Hill, a disability activist based in Sacramento, was able to get the Golden State Stimulus because they did some freelance work in 2020. But Hill says that it’s unfair that most Californians receiving federal disability insurance don’t currently qualify. \u003ccite>(Salgu Wissmath/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When Newsom proposed a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2021/05/newsom-proposes-expanding-golden-state-stimulus-to-middle-class/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">second round of Golden State stimulus payments aimed at California’s middle class\u003c/a> in May, Hill was hopeful that other SSDI recipients would finally be able to benefit, too. However, as the details of Newsom’s plan emerged, there was still no mention of SSDI recipients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really hard to see and read coverage of Newsom touting how great this is for middle-class people,” said Hill, when people with disabilities are “some of the most impoverished people in the whole country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Financial Burden Can Fall to Caretakers\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Sydney Chandler manages the finances and health care of her cousin, Chris Batiste, who is paralyzed. Batiste breathes through an apparatus and communicates with Chandler through a laptop, blinks and head movements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"disability-rights\"]Chandler, who is a Los Angeles-based writer, said she was livid to learn that SSDI recipients were left out of the state stimulus. To her, it was just another obstacle in the arbitrary and bureaucratic maze that people with disabilities face in trying to attain a liveable income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caretakers often carry a significant financial burden. Batiste receives $975 per month in SSDI, and Chandler said she contributes over $1,000 more each month to help cover his rent and full-time nursing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If it wasn’t for me, he would be one of the homeless,” Chandler said, “and you’re telling me that you couldn’t set up a portal for SSDI (recipients) to input their information?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article is part of the California Divide, a collaboration among newsrooms examining income inequality and economic survival in California.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Disability advocates say it’s the latest example of the state abandoning some of its most vulnerable residents during the pandemic, after having directed medical health providers to \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/article243474286.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ration COVID-19 care to elderly and less-healthy people\u003c/a> last spring and \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/coronavirus/2021/02/covid-advisory-group-rejects-higher-vaccine-priority-for-disabled-californians-and-those-with-chronic-conditions/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">deprioritize people with disabilities for vaccines\u003c/a> earlier this year — both policies that were \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/coronavirus/2021/02/california-shifts-priorities-vaccine-chronic-conditions/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reversed after considerable outcry\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Overall the state has been uneven in how it’s helped people with disabilities navigate the pandemic,” said Andrew Imparato, executive director of Disability Rights California. “A lot of people with disabilities have had to fend for themselves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Department of Finance spokesperson H.D. Palmer cites logistical challenges. California maintains an up-to-date list of residents who get SSI \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdss.ca.gov/inforesources/ssi-ssp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">because the state supplements the federal benefit by a few hundred dollars\u003c/a>, but doesn’t have access to the same information for SSDI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Trying to include SSDI … would be a time-consuming and laborious process with the feds that doesn’t line up with the intent of (the Golden State Stimulus) — to get immediate relief to Californians with whom we have an existing relationship,” Palmer wrote in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘Make Hard Decisions Quickly’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The Newsom administration may have also based the decision on a consideration of need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s \u003ca href=\"https://calbudgetcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/CA-Budget-Center-SSI-SSP-IB_Chart-4.-SSP-Individual-Grant-Up-to-FPL-Bar-Chart.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SSI recipients live in poverty by definition\u003c/a>. Elderly, blind and disabled people can only qualify if they have extremely low income and wealth, and they typically receive just $954.72 per month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other hand, people with sufficient work history can qualify for monthly SSDI payments based on their former wages, with the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ssa.gov/OACT/ProgData/icp.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">average national benefit at $1,280\u003c/a> per month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, California’s SSDI recipients often face steep financial challenges. They are more than twice as likely to live in poverty compared to the rest of the population, according to calculations by Andrew Houtenville, an economist at the Institute on Disability at the University of New Hampshire. And people with disabilities often have to cover expensive medical equipment, appointments with specialists and drugs out-of-pocket.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>By February, with the \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/GavinNewsom/status/1357089574288117760?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">state’s revenue estimates swelling\u003c/a>, the Legislature negotiated and approved an even more generous \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2021/02/california-600-stimulus-checks-undocumented-workers/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$3.8 billion stimulus payment plan that included extra aid for undocumented workers\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under this plan, the state also sent $600 payments to certain Californians living in poverty — regardless of whether they work. That included very low-income families with children enrolled in CalWORKs, as well as recipients of SSI or the state’s alternative for some immigrant groups, known as the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdss.ca.gov/inforesources/cash-assistance-for-immigrants\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cash Assistance Program for Immigrants\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It took Charis Hill several days of searching online and contacting their state assemblymember to discover that they did not automatically qualify. A Sacramento-based disability activist who lives on $1,027 per month from SSDI, Hill eventually deduced that they could qualify not because they were disabled, but rather because they had done freelance writing and speaking last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hill would have to file taxes, something they hadn’t done in years because their earned income is far below the filing requirement. They decided it was worth it. Their expenses have jumped during the pandemic, especially as they’ve opted for grocery deliveries instead of shopping in stores because they are immunocompromised.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hill said that, unlike many disabled people, they were fortunate to have internet access and a friend who could help them file their taxes. They were lucky to be able to work last year despite experiencing constant pain and fatigue from an inflammatory condition called axial spondyloarthritis. But, they said, it’s wrong that the Golden State Stimulus program is “basing a disabled person’s value on their ability to work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11879468\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11879468\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/20210620_CalMatters_CharisHill_0075_A-scaled-1-800x533.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/20210620_CalMatters_CharisHill_0075_A-scaled-1-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/20210620_CalMatters_CharisHill_0075_A-scaled-1-1020x680.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/20210620_CalMatters_CharisHill_0075_A-scaled-1-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/20210620_CalMatters_CharisHill_0075_A-scaled-1-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/20210620_CalMatters_CharisHill_0075_A-scaled-1.jpeg 1568w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Charis Hill, a disability activist based in Sacramento, was able to get the Golden State Stimulus because they did some freelance work in 2020. But Hill says that it’s unfair that most Californians receiving federal disability insurance don’t currently qualify. \u003ccite>(Salgu Wissmath/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When Newsom proposed a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2021/05/newsom-proposes-expanding-golden-state-stimulus-to-middle-class/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">second round of Golden State stimulus payments aimed at California’s middle class\u003c/a> in May, Hill was hopeful that other SSDI recipients would finally be able to benefit, too. However, as the details of Newsom’s plan emerged, there was still no mention of SSDI recipients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really hard to see and read coverage of Newsom touting how great this is for middle-class people,” said Hill, when people with disabilities are “some of the most impoverished people in the whole country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Financial Burden Can Fall to Caretakers\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Sydney Chandler manages the finances and health care of her cousin, Chris Batiste, who is paralyzed. Batiste breathes through an apparatus and communicates with Chandler through a laptop, blinks and head movements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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And we also want to make sure that Californians are not saddled with this rental debt moving into the future.’[/pullquote]The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11878817/california-weighs-extending-eviction-protections-past-june\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">eviction moratorium will be the third one in the state\u003c/a> so far. Current protections are scheduled to expire on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB832\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The new agreement\u003c/a> will extend the eviction moratorium through the end of September and pledges to pay off all unpaid rent from April 2020 through Sept. 30 of this year for people who earn 80% or less of their area’s median income and have been affected by the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No one knows exactly how many people will qualify and how much it will cost. But the state has $5.2 billion to spend on back rents, enough to provide $10,400 each to a half-million tenants, all of it coming from the federal government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that everyone is breathing a sigh of relief,” said Madeline Howard, senior attorney for the Western Center on Law and Poverty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s administration believes the pot of money is more than enough to pay off rental debts for everyone eligible. Another $2 billion in state money will cover people’s unpaid utility bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal, which will be voted on in the Legislature next week, also gives tenants more time to apply for assistance after a landlord tries to evict them while also masking their credit and rental history so those debts won’t show up and prevent them from getting future housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People who are not eligible for the money can still qualify for the eviction ban if they pay at least 25% of what they owe by Sept 30. Since those tenants still will be behind on rent, landlords can take them to court to recover what’s left. But landlords can’t evict them for it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to make sure we’re avoiding those evictions. And we also want to make sure that Californians are not saddled with this rental debt moving into the future,” said Assemblymember David Chiu, D-San Francisco, who also chairs the Assembly’s housing committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11864513 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/pexels-karolina-grabowska-4386433-1020x638.jpg']“Our housing situation in California was a crisis before COVID, and the pandemic has only made it worse — this extension is key to making sure that more people don’t lose the safety net helping them keep their home,” said Senate President Pro Tem Toni Atkins, D-San Diego. “While our state may be emerging from the pandemic, in many ways, the lingering financial impact still weighs heavily on California families.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To qualify, people may only earn 80% or less of their area’s median income and must have been affected by the pandemic — a nondescript requirement everyone can meet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom, who will face a recall election later this year fueled by criticism of his handling of the pandemic, said in a news release he is thankful for the legislative proposal, “which I am eager to sign into law as soon as I receive it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deal needs two-thirds support from the Legislature to pass. A vote is expected on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California has some of the most expensive rent in the country and has a housing shortage. About 25% of California’s renters pay at least half of their income on housing costs, a figure that includes rent and utilities, according to the California Department of Finance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The announcement comes as \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11877600/thousands-of-renters-and-landlords-await-state-aid-as-eviction-moratorium-set-to-expire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the state has struggled to spend $5.2 billion in federal rent relief\u003c/a>. So far, the state has handed out less than 10% of the money applied for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"eviction-moratorium\" label=\"Related coverage\"]The extension gives state officials more time to disburse that money. A report from the California Department of Housing and Community Development showed the state had received $490 million in requests but had paid just $32 million covering 2,500 households as of May 31. That figure does not include some of the state’s larger cities, which run their own rental assistance programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Apartment Association CEO Tom Bannon said California would not have to extend the eviction moratorium if it were able to spend the money faster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s unacceptable that state and local governments have distributed less than 15% of the billions of dollars earmarked for California rental assistance,” said Bannon, whose organization represents landlords. “California has got to distribute these dollars faster so that the eviction moratorium being introduced is the last.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Molly Solomon contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>___\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story has been updated to say that people who make less than 80% of the area median income do not have to pay any portion of what they owe to be eligible for the money.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>From the outset of the coronavirus pandemic, the governors of California and Florida have taken almost polar opposite approaches to managing an unprecedented health crisis: California Gov. Gavin Newsom shut down his state early, prioritizing public health; Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis largely kept his state open for business, prioritizing the economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California just fully reopened on Tuesday, while Florida has been open all year, save for a short lockdown last spring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The split mirrors the political divisions that have bedeviled the United States during the pandemic — with both sides claiming victory at various times. But now, more than a year of data is offering some clear takeaways on which state’s approach has produced better outcomes on a number of fronts.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Jon Jacobo, SF Latino Task Force health committee chair\"]‘We recruited volunteers. We knocked on 1,400 doors over four days and registered people at the door, handed out fliers. We phone-banked — treated it like a traditional political campaign.’[/pullquote]In short, thousands more people per capita in Florida have been infected with, and died from, COVID-19 than in California. And while unemployment remains about twice as high in California, some economists are now \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2021-06-02/la-fi-california-economy-recovery-ucla-forecast-june-2021\">predicting a faster overall recovery\u003c/a> in states like California that locked down early and kept those restrictions in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, given the two states’ widely contrasting approaches to the pandemic, some experts say they would have expected even more disparate health outcomes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think most public health officials would say that Florida humbles us and makes us realize there are parts of this that we understand and there are parts of this that we don’t exactly understand,” said Dr. Bob Wachter, a leading epidemiologist and chair of the Department of Medicine at UCSF.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s easy to criticize California,” Wachter added. “The overall numbers of cases and deaths are so high. But that’s irrelevant, really. You have to look at the per capita rates because California is so much bigger than any other state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By Wachter’s math, if Florida’s COVID-19 death rate had been closer to California’s, there would have been nearly 2,400 fewer people dead there. As of this week, \u003ca href=\"https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#cases_casesper100klast7days\">transmission rates in Florida remain five times higher than in California\u003c/a>, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In all, 57% of all Californians have received at least one dose of the vaccine, compared to about 48% of all Floridians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And beyond health and economic impacts, there have been other trade-offs each state made, with outcomes that may take years to fully evaluate: For one, most Florida kids have been back in school since the fall; most California students did not return until this spring, and even then, not always full time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Wachter, assessing the success or failure of each state is complicated — and to some extent subjective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mean, I think some of that will come down to how you value human life,” he said. “I don’t want to sugarcoat it. The number of deaths in Florida per capita is significantly higher than they are in California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For community leaders on the ground in both states, the decisions made by DeSantis and Newsom had far-reaching implications — especially for communities of color, who were generally hardest hit by the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One year \u003ca href=\"https://revealnews.org/article/how-a-national-health-crisis-fell-on-the-backs-of-local-leaders/\">after we first compared these two states\u003c/a>, in a collaboration between KQED in San Francisco, \u003ca href=\"https://www.wlrn.org/\">WLRN\u003c/a> in Miami and \u003ca href=\"https://revealnews.org/\">Reveal\u003c/a>, we visited communities in each state: the Mission District in San Francisco and the city of Miami Gardens in Florida.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Mission District\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Last spring, as the coronavirus was spreading across the nation, and the world, community leaders in San Francisco’s heavily Latino Mission District realized things were poised to get bad — quickly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although heavily gentrified in pockets, the Mission is still a largely working-class neighborhood. It’s home to many low-income families who often live in homes shared by multiple generations, allowing little room to quarantine if needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jon Jacobo, who grew up here and is active in local politics, said he and others watched with concern in March 2020 as San Francisco officials, and then state leaders, announced some of the nation’s first stay-at home orders — even as spring break continued to draw tourists to Florida.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11878395\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS46114_022_KQED_SanFrancisco_COVIDTesting_11302020-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11878395\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS46114_022_KQED_SanFrancisco_COVIDTesting_11302020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS46114_022_KQED_SanFrancisco_COVIDTesting_11302020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS46114_022_KQED_SanFrancisco_COVIDTesting_11302020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS46114_022_KQED_SanFrancisco_COVIDTesting_11302020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS46114_022_KQED_SanFrancisco_COVIDTesting_11302020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS46114_022_KQED_SanFrancisco_COVIDTesting_11302020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Volunteers from the San Francisco Latino Task Force help register people at a COVID-19 testing site on 24th and Mission streets in San Francisco on Nov. 30, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The immediate thoughts, I think, for everybody were, ‘What is going to happen to the folks that are going to lose their jobs? … What’s going to happen to the individuals that have to go to work?’ ” he said. “Because there’s a lot of people that don’t have that luxury or that privilege.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jacobo and other volunteers — many of them Latino community members themselves — banded together to create what they called the Latino Task Force. Fearful of a coming wave of infections, they started asking the city for resources, including testing, tracing, rental assistance and food donations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But at the time, tests were in short supply and the virus was spreading rapidly — more so in this neighborhood, it seemed to them, than in other nearby communities. So in April 2020, the Latino Task Force and other community leaders partnered with UCSF to set up a testing site in the neighborhood and put some numbers behind their hunch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We recruited volunteers. We knocked on 1,400 doors over four days and registered people at the door, handed out fliers. We phone-banked — treated it like a traditional political campaign,” Jacobo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, over 4,000 people came to get tested. About 40% were Latino.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The people that were positive — \u003ca href=\"https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2020/05/417356/initial-results-mission-district-covid-19-testing-announced\">it was 95% Latino, it was 100% people of color,\u003c/a>” Jacobo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"coronavirus\"]In response, the city expanded testing opportunities and other help for people of color and essential workers throughout the city — in partnership with existing groups like the Latino Task Force, who already had deep ties to city neighborhoods. It’s a lesson San Francisco learned decades ago during the AIDS crisis: The best way to get to hard-to-reach populations, people who might distrust the government, is to use the networks they already trust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Latino Task Force did this in the Mission by not only focusing on testing: They set up a resource hub at a large building at 701 Alabama St. Funded by the city, the street outside morphs every Thursday into a pop-up COVID-19 testing site, and now, a place where people can make vaccine appointments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s also offering all the other things low-income residents have needed during the pandemic. For more than a year, the site has handed out groceries — serving as many as 9,000 families each week. There is also a community wellness team on-site that partners with families when someone tests positive to make sure they have the resources to survive quarantine. Mental health services and job training — all offered in multiple languages — are available as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Mayor London Breed called the collaboration — one of many across the city — a game changer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Part of working with the Latino Task Force had everything to do with making people feel comfortable about getting tested, no questions asked,” she said recently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All this government and community support didn’t erase the disproportionate burden of COVID-19 cases on Latinos in San Francisco during its summer and winter surges. But Jacobo said it did offer a safety net for vulnerable residents — and it left the city and community with a playbook when the vaccines started to roll out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a community health team providing info on what the vaccine is or what the vaccine isn’t. And we’ll literally sign you up for your appointment here,” Jacobo said. “So you don’t have to do anything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/LondonBreed/status/1403425020303396865\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It worked: By early June, San Francisco reported that \u003ca href=\"https://data.sfgov.org/stories/s/COVID-19-Vaccinations-Maps/uue2-6gdn/\">more than 70% of residents in the neighborhood\u003c/a> had received at least one dose. Citywide, more than two-thirds of Latinos are vaccinated. And as California lifts nearly all COVID-19 restrictions — San Francisco officials this week announced more 80% of residents have received at least one dose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breed credits San Franciscans for trusting the science, the data and one another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I must say, I am really proud of how San Franciscans, for the most part, handled this crisis, because if people didn’t comply and didn’t trust the information, we wouldn’t be here,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The same cannot be said across the country in Miami Gardens.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Miami Gardens\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Located in Miami-Dade County, Miami Gardens is the largest Black-majority city in Florida — African Americans make up roughly 71% of the population. And like the Latino community in San Francisco’s Mission District, it is not a monolithic group — there are Bahamians, Jamaicans, Afro-Cubans, residents from West African countries like Nigeria and Ghana; some are Florida natives, some are immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overall, Miami-Dade County is doing pretty well when it comes to vaccines: About 58% of the total population has received at least one dose, according to county data from June 3.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11878385\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1760px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Miami-G.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11878385\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Miami-G.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1760\" height=\"1320\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Miami-G.jpeg 1760w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Miami-G-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Miami-G-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Miami-G-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Miami-G-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1760px) 100vw, 1760px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">On a Friday in May, only four or five people came to receive COVID-19 vaccinations at the Brentwood Pool vaccination site in Miami Gardens, Florida. \u003ccite>(Caitie Switalski Muñoz/WLRN)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>However, that number plummets among the county’s Black residents, only about 20% of whom have received at least one shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vice mayor of Miami Gardens, Reggie Leon, said he feels that disparity is probably due to a combination of inaccessibility and mistrust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We knew that people of color had some trust issues, especially with vaccines. So [my office] started reaching out,” said Leon, who is Black. “We started reaching out to different groups.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the major vaccination sites was a state-run location at the Hard Rock Stadium in the city — home to the Miami Dolphins and where the 2020 Super Bowl was held shortly before the coronavirus hit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the state previously offering testing at the site, Leon said the location just didn’t work for many residents of his city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The stadium wasn’t enough because you had people coming from everywhere to get into the stadium and the stadium didn’t have the flexibility for walk-ups and they didn’t have the flexibility for those people that didn’t have transportation,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn’t just about access, said Dr. Dwight Reynolds, an emergency physician working with the city of Miami Gardens. Many Black men like him were uncomfortable with the stadium site, he said, noting that it was set up by the state with help from the National Guard, and had a lot of security.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Imagine for a moment that you are a male of color. You go into a place where you see white officers — let’s tell it like it is — with guns,” Reynolds said. “OK, would you feel comfortable pulling up to that site although it’s free? Probably not.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/NPR/status/1394293659441500160\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So to try to increase vaccination rates among residents, the city partnered with a Black-owned company to open its own pop-up vaccination site at Brentwood Community Pool, about 2 miles away from the Hard Rock Stadium. At its pop-up site, the city offers doses of the Moderna vaccine, with Black nurses and doctors, including Reynolds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reynolds said he regularly hears from Black Floridians that they feel more comfortable with him holding the needle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To have people that look like you, talk like you, that’s kind of important,” he said. “We look like them. We talk like them. And guess what? We are them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Faith Heywood, a Black nurse herself, got her first shot there in mid-May.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been looking online and it’s, you know, very complicated,” she said. “I’m ready today. I don’t want to think about Monday or Tuesday.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]Despite the location and ease, though, it’s been hard to attract people: On one Friday in May only about four or five people came for a shot all day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reynolds said he’s often been in the difficult position of deciding whether or not to open a vial — and risk having doses go bad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Let’s say at 3 o’clock, 4 o’clock — if you … can’t move those ones that you have left, then you end up having problems,” he said, adding he’s taken to driving extra doses as far as Coral Springs — some 30 miles away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s been slower going here than in San Francisco, where a deeper level of trust had already been established in some lower-income communities by the time the vaccines arrived.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local leaders in both Miami Gardens and San Francisco’s Mission District have centered their efforts around building trust on the ground, but say they have been both helped and stymied by the decisions made at their own state capitols.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘I Would Not Declare Victory Now’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In Florida, Gov. DeSantis followed the lead of his ally, former President Donald Trump: He refused to institute many restrictions recommended by health experts, like a statewide mask mandate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And by spring 2021, DeSantis also made it harder for local governments to enforce their own COVID-19 safety rules. In March, for example, he overturned fines cities and counties administered to individuals and businesses for breaking health restrictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Epidemiologists in both states agree that while the two governors’ decisions did influence health outcomes, so did the individual decisions of the millions of residents in each state — who sometimes acted in spite of their leaders’ examples.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cindy Prins, a University of Florida epidemiologist, said that’s probably one reason why things aren’t as bad in Florida as some experts predicted they would be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think a lot of people continued to wear masks, not go to restaurants, physically distance in some cases, in spite of the fact that things were opened up,” Prins said.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Dr. Dwight Reynolds, emergency physician in Miami Gardens, Florida\"]‘To have people that look like you, talk like you, that’s kind of important. We look like them. We talk like them. And guess what? We are them.’[/pullquote]“It’s very hard to judge success because we don’t have the comparison group of what would have happened if everything was open the whole time,” she continued. “What’s the comparison if everything’s closed?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Wachter, from UCSF, stressed that this pandemic isn’t over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think the Florida story is fully written yet,” he said. “There’s a lot of the variants down there. The variants are nastier. So I would not declare victory now in Florida.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the actions of individual Californians — especially at family gatherings over the holiday season — prompted a major winter surge. Yet Wachter said those outbreaks were notably worse in the southern half of the state, showing that Newsom’s restrictions only went so far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The state had the same rules and standards. But people in L.A. and people in some of the other southern counties were acting differently than the people in the Bay Area were tending to. And you saw a divergence,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This was the \u003ca href=\"https://revealnews.org/article/how-a-national-health-crisis-fell-on-the-backs-of-local-leaders/\">major finding\u003c/a> of our collaboration last spring, early in the pandemic: the huge significance of individual actions, particularly in the absence of a coordinated national response. We all ended up being the Dr. Fauci of our own homes, so to speak.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Where We Go From Here\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Now, with vaccines widespread, the U.S. is entering a new phase of this pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even now, DeSantis and Newsom are still being guided by their opposing ideologies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After 15 months, California lifted nearly all restrictions Tuesday, but counties are still permitted to enforce their own, and all unvaccinated residents are still being asked to mask in most public spaces. Attendees at indoor events with more than 5,000 people will have to either show they’re fully vaccinated or provide a recent negative COVID-19 test result; and Newsom’s administration is in the process of creating a digital “vaccine verification system,” allowing businesses to more easily check people’s vaccination status (though he’s quick to stress that using it is not required).\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11878398\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS46130_038_KQED_SanFrancisco_COVIDTesting_11302020-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11878398\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS46130_038_KQED_SanFrancisco_COVIDTesting_11302020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS46130_038_KQED_SanFrancisco_COVIDTesting_11302020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS46130_038_KQED_SanFrancisco_COVIDTesting_11302020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS46130_038_KQED_SanFrancisco_COVIDTesting_11302020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS46130_038_KQED_SanFrancisco_COVIDTesting_11302020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS46130_038_KQED_SanFrancisco_COVIDTesting_11302020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Health care worker Jaden Anderson tests a child for COVID-19 at a Unidos en Salud testing site on 24th and Mission streets in San Francisco on Nov. 30, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, in Florida, DeSantis recently \u003ca href=\"//www.miamiherald.com/news/coronavirus/article251147909.html\">overrode\u003c/a> all remaining local emergency pandemic-related orders and restrictions. He also signed a bill making it illegal for businesses, schools and governments to require proof of vaccination. Recently, he’s been in a legal battle with the CDC over requiring vaccines on cruises.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In many ways, each governor is playing to his political base — with mixed results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite better health outcomes in California, Newsom is facing a recall attempt largely fueled by anger over his strict lockdowns. Yet just months after the recall qualified, Newsom is looking increasingly strong as his state emerges from the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, DeSantis’ star is also on the rise in the GOP — even though, or maybe because, he flouted many public health guidelines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The coming months will be crucial from a public health perspective. But the debate over whether DeSantis or Newsom best led his state through this crisis will likely drag on, especially given the two governors’ ambitious political aspirations: Both are thought to have presidential hopes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Correction\u003c/b>: Dr. Bob Wachter’s initial estimate of how many fewer COVID-19 deaths there would have been in Florida if it had the same death rate as in California was miscalculated. The original version of this story states: \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>By Wachter’s math, if Florida’s COVID-19 death rate had been closer to California’s, there would have been roughly 5,000 fewer people dead there.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, the correct estimate of fewer deaths (based on each state’s COVID death rate at the time of publication) is less than half that: 2,389. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>WLRN’s Verónica Zaragovia contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In short, thousands more people per capita in Florida have been infected with, and died from, COVID-19 than in California. And while unemployment remains about twice as high in California, some economists are now \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2021-06-02/la-fi-california-economy-recovery-ucla-forecast-june-2021\">predicting a faster overall recovery\u003c/a> in states like California that locked down early and kept those restrictions in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, given the two states’ widely contrasting approaches to the pandemic, some experts say they would have expected even more disparate health outcomes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think most public health officials would say that Florida humbles us and makes us realize there are parts of this that we understand and there are parts of this that we don’t exactly understand,” said Dr. Bob Wachter, a leading epidemiologist and chair of the Department of Medicine at UCSF.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s easy to criticize California,” Wachter added. “The overall numbers of cases and deaths are so high. But that’s irrelevant, really. You have to look at the per capita rates because California is so much bigger than any other state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By Wachter’s math, if Florida’s COVID-19 death rate had been closer to California’s, there would have been nearly 2,400 fewer people dead there. As of this week, \u003ca href=\"https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#cases_casesper100klast7days\">transmission rates in Florida remain five times higher than in California\u003c/a>, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In all, 57% of all Californians have received at least one dose of the vaccine, compared to about 48% of all Floridians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And beyond health and economic impacts, there have been other trade-offs each state made, with outcomes that may take years to fully evaluate: For one, most Florida kids have been back in school since the fall; most California students did not return until this spring, and even then, not always full time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Wachter, assessing the success or failure of each state is complicated — and to some extent subjective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mean, I think some of that will come down to how you value human life,” he said. “I don’t want to sugarcoat it. The number of deaths in Florida per capita is significantly higher than they are in California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For community leaders on the ground in both states, the decisions made by DeSantis and Newsom had far-reaching implications — especially for communities of color, who were generally hardest hit by the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One year \u003ca href=\"https://revealnews.org/article/how-a-national-health-crisis-fell-on-the-backs-of-local-leaders/\">after we first compared these two states\u003c/a>, in a collaboration between KQED in San Francisco, \u003ca href=\"https://www.wlrn.org/\">WLRN\u003c/a> in Miami and \u003ca href=\"https://revealnews.org/\">Reveal\u003c/a>, we visited communities in each state: the Mission District in San Francisco and the city of Miami Gardens in Florida.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Mission District\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Last spring, as the coronavirus was spreading across the nation, and the world, community leaders in San Francisco’s heavily Latino Mission District realized things were poised to get bad — quickly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although heavily gentrified in pockets, the Mission is still a largely working-class neighborhood. It’s home to many low-income families who often live in homes shared by multiple generations, allowing little room to quarantine if needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jon Jacobo, who grew up here and is active in local politics, said he and others watched with concern in March 2020 as San Francisco officials, and then state leaders, announced some of the nation’s first stay-at home orders — even as spring break continued to draw tourists to Florida.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11878395\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS46114_022_KQED_SanFrancisco_COVIDTesting_11302020-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11878395\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS46114_022_KQED_SanFrancisco_COVIDTesting_11302020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS46114_022_KQED_SanFrancisco_COVIDTesting_11302020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS46114_022_KQED_SanFrancisco_COVIDTesting_11302020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS46114_022_KQED_SanFrancisco_COVIDTesting_11302020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS46114_022_KQED_SanFrancisco_COVIDTesting_11302020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS46114_022_KQED_SanFrancisco_COVIDTesting_11302020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Volunteers from the San Francisco Latino Task Force help register people at a COVID-19 testing site on 24th and Mission streets in San Francisco on Nov. 30, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The immediate thoughts, I think, for everybody were, ‘What is going to happen to the folks that are going to lose their jobs? … What’s going to happen to the individuals that have to go to work?’ ” he said. “Because there’s a lot of people that don’t have that luxury or that privilege.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jacobo and other volunteers — many of them Latino community members themselves — banded together to create what they called the Latino Task Force. Fearful of a coming wave of infections, they started asking the city for resources, including testing, tracing, rental assistance and food donations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But at the time, tests were in short supply and the virus was spreading rapidly — more so in this neighborhood, it seemed to them, than in other nearby communities. So in April 2020, the Latino Task Force and other community leaders partnered with UCSF to set up a testing site in the neighborhood and put some numbers behind their hunch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We recruited volunteers. We knocked on 1,400 doors over four days and registered people at the door, handed out fliers. We phone-banked — treated it like a traditional political campaign,” Jacobo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, over 4,000 people came to get tested. 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But people in L.A. and people in some of the other southern counties were acting differently than the people in the Bay Area were tending to. And you saw a divergence,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This was the \u003ca href=\"https://revealnews.org/article/how-a-national-health-crisis-fell-on-the-backs-of-local-leaders/\">major finding\u003c/a> of our collaboration last spring, early in the pandemic: the huge significance of individual actions, particularly in the absence of a coordinated national response. 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He also signed a bill making it illegal for businesses, schools and governments to require proof of vaccination. Recently, he’s been in a legal battle with the CDC over requiring vaccines on cruises.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In many ways, each governor is playing to his political base — with mixed results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite better health outcomes in California, Newsom is facing a recall attempt largely fueled by anger over his strict lockdowns. Yet just months after the recall qualified, Newsom is looking increasingly strong as his state emerges from the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, DeSantis’ star is also on the rise in the GOP — even though, or maybe because, he flouted many public health guidelines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The coming months will be crucial from a public health perspective. 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My dad lost his life in a very horrific way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When people talk about COVID so casually, she said it feels demoralizing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Rachel Maurice, COVID Survivors for Change member\"]‘I wish people would do something to be an advocate for positive change for the whole country. We’ve been saying that we’re in this together, but people now are acting like they’re not in this together anymore.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seeing the flood of social media posts and news about reopening and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11877902/california-promotes-tourism-industry-offering-dream-vacation-giveaways-to-spur-vaccinations-on-eve-of-reopening\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">taking trips\u003c/a>, Vitelli said she’d also like to see more done for those who have lost their lives, whether it’s a national holiday or something similar. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said it’s important to acknowledge all that was lost. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s difficult to see people that are not impacted by COVID just laughing and traveling here and there,” Vitelli said. “It’s just really difficult.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘Everybody’s Starting to Forget’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Some survivors of COVID-19 are calling for direct financial support and more medical leave to help those hurt by the virus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rachel Maurice, who lives in Southern California, would have benefited from paid family leave last year when her 15-year-old daughter tested positive for COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maurice, 36, left work to care for her daughter and then had to quarantine for a total of three weeks, which she said resulted in her losing her job. 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People are looking to move on,” he said. “We hear a lot about this ‘get back to normal,’ right? These are very heartbreaking terms that are not available for millions of Americans.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11877992 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/0692021_ReopeningJune15_PU_Sized_15-1020x680.jpg']“Yes, the pandemic is beginning to come to an end,” Kocher added. “But 40,000 children have lost a parent, [and] millions of Americans are living with the symptoms of long-COVID.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the summit on Saturday, survivors expressed concerns about lifting COVID restrictions, like masking and social distancing requirements, especially when young children remain unvaccinated and when it’s still unclear how to check an unmasked person’s vaccination status. 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"content": "\u003cp>The COVID-19 pandemic put a spotlight on the importance of child care, in-home care and support for the elderly as well as for members of the disability community across the nation. Now, one of the most contentious parts of negotiations with Republicans over President Biden’s infrastructure plan has to do with the administration’s inclusion of \u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/04/why-care-work-infrastructure/618588/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$400 billion in spending for at-home care for the elderly and people with disabilities\u003c/a>, with the administration arguing that such domestic work is as essential to a functioning economy as roads and bridges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED’s Mina Kim spoke with \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/newshour/brief/375509/ai-jen-poo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ai-jen Poo\u003c/a>, director of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.domesticworkers.org/press/spokespersons/ai-jen-poo/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">National Domestic Workers Alliance\u003c/a>, about domestic workers and what it means to include this work in the infrastructure plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The following interview has been edited for length and clarity.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Why Care Work Is Best Described as Infrastructure\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ai-jen Poo:\u003c/strong> We’ve always talked about how domestic work, the work that happens inside of our homes to take care of our family members, our children, our loved ones with disabilities, our aging loved ones, really is the work that makes all other work possible. Having access to care makes it possible for all of us to go out into the world and do what we do every single day.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Ai-jen Poo, director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance\"]‘If you think about the definition of infrastructure, it’s really that which enables society and the economy to function. And what could be more fundamental than having the ability to take care of your loved ones as you prepare to work and participate in our workforce and economy?’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you think about the definition of infrastructure, it’s really that which enables society and the economy to function. And what could be more fundamental than having the ability to take care of your loved ones as you prepare to work and participate in our workforce and economy?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if you think about the traditional definition of infrastructure, roads, bridges, tunnels, all of the people who are rebuilding our bridges and fixing our tunnels, they need care, too. So maybe it’s the first form of infrastructure before anything else.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘Single Greatest Opportunity in Generations’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>What do you think about the fact that care work is now in a presidential infrastructure bill?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ai-jen Poo:\u003c/strong> I think it’s the single greatest opportunity we’ve had in generations to establish the kind of policies and programs we need to support our ability to care for our families as we work. It’s necessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even before the pandemic, many of us were simmering in a care crisis. We have a situation where the baby boom generation is aging into retirement at a rate of 10,000 people per day, turning 65 every 8 seconds. We’ve basically added an entire generation onto our lifespan and we haven’t adopted any of our systems or policy to support a quality of life and the care we need as we live longer. On both ends of the generational spectrum, we need more care than ever before at a time when we have less of it. Our default care infrastructure in previous generations was just expecting that women will stay home and be full-time family caregivers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Ai-jen Poo, director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance\"]‘The fact that the work as a profession has always been associated with women of color has profoundly shaped the way that we’ve treated this work in law, policy and in culture.’[/pullquote]We need programs, policies, systems and a strong care workforce to support us. There are over 2.5 million [care workers], and they’re overwhelmingly women — 92% women and majority women of color, including many immigrant women. This is actually the part of the economy with the highest concentration of undocumented immigrants of any workforce. They are also majority primary income earners for their families and majority mothers of small children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We have a workforce who is essential not only to the families they support, but their own families and communities. And it’s also a workforce that has always been majority women of color. Some of the first domestic workers in the U.S. were enslaved Black women. And the fact that the work as a profession has always been associated with women of color has profoundly shaped the way that we’ve treated this work in law, policy and in culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Starting in the 1930s, when we were putting our foundational labor laws into place, this workforce was excluded intentionally as a result of racism and the legacy of slavery in our country. And it created a situation of extreme insecurity when domestic workers entered a crisis like a pandemic — it just became incredibly exacerbated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11877959\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1355px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49609_015_SanFrancisco_AlexPadillaMissionKids_06012021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1355\" height=\"1003\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11877959\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49609_015_SanFrancisco_AlexPadillaMissionKids_06012021-qut.jpg 1355w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49609_015_SanFrancisco_AlexPadillaMissionKids_06012021-qut-800x592.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49609_015_SanFrancisco_AlexPadillaMissionKids_06012021-qut-1020x755.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49609_015_SanFrancisco_AlexPadillaMissionKids_06012021-qut-160x118.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1355px) 100vw, 1355px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Alex Padilla speaks with children during a visit to Mission Kids Preschool in San Francisco on June 1, 2021. The visit was part of Padilla’s ‘Infrastructure Listening Tour.’ \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Structural Problems in Pay and Working Conditions\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Could you talk a little bit more about some of the more common structural problems that you see regarding pay and working conditions?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ai-jen Poo:\u003c/strong> Eighty-two percent of domestic workers didn’t have a single paid sick day. When the second stay-at-home orders came down, you saw dramatic losses in jobs and income because there’s no job security, there’s no contract or work agreement. The wages are essentially poverty wages. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So most domestic workers didn’t have the savings to be able to fall back on. I remember in March of 2020, in the first weeks of the pandemic, we held a meeting on Zoom with some of our members and one of them held her phone up to the Zoom screen to show us that she literally had 1 cent left in her bank account.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What Investing in the Care Economy Looks Like\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>When you say investment in care workers and the care economy, what does it look like?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ai-jen Poo:\u003c/strong> The Biden \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/03/31/fact-sheet-the-american-jobs-plan/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">American Jobs Plan\u003c/a> proposed a $400 billion investment in Medicaid, home and community-based care. What that money would do is expand access to home and community-based services and care for the elderly, and people with disabilities. And it would support raising wages and access to benefits for the workforce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right now, the average annual income of a home care worker is $17,000 per year. I don’t know a single community where that is sustainable, let alone enough to raise a family on. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Ai-jen Poo, director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance\"]‘If you’re a parent or you’re a primary caregiver for a family member who needs assistance with activities of daily life, you know that it’s an impossible choice between work and family members who need you for their basic human needs.’[/pullquote]What we end up seeing is high rates of turnover because people simply cannot survive and sustain themselves doing this work … because the wages are so poor and the conditions are so tough, we have huge parts of this country that we call home care deserts or direct care deserts because people can’t get the support that they need in order to live in their communities. They end up either having to go into a nursing home or having to rely on overstretched family caregivers who have to make impossible choices about whether or not they can work. The money to Medicaid would specifically raise wages for the home care workforce and strengthen that workforce so that they can stay and sustain themselves doing this work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It would expand access to the services for over 800,000 people who are on waiting lists and the millions more who don’t even know there’s a waiting list to wait on.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A Cultural Shift\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>What evidence do you have that there is a tangible cultural shift happening here?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ai-jen Poo:\u003c/strong> I do feel this incredible rage, we call it the “mom’s rage,” that incredible frustration that moms are feeling and have felt throughout the pandemic. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re a parent or you’re a primary caregiver for a family member who needs assistance with activities of daily life, you know that it’s an impossible choice between work and family members who need you for their basic human needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The kind of rage that I’m feeling, especially from women who disproportionately bear the brunt of caregiving responsibilities in our country, and especially women of color who’ve been pushed out of the workforce by the millions, almost 5 million women pushed out of the workforce in the pandemic because of caregiving challenges. That is an indicator that something is very broken.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If we are to pull ourselves back from the regression to 1988 women’s workforce participation levels, we’re going to have to rebuild and build something really different. I think people know that in their guts. This cultural norm that we have around care being an individual responsibility and a responsibility of individual families is one that is very deep. It’s not like we’re going to move past it overnight. And it’s not that it isn’t the responsibility of women and families and individuals, but it is about what is our responsibility collectively to each other as a society to ensure that we have real choices and real agency when it comes to the people we love.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Protections for Undocumented Domestic Workers\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Can you comment on protections for undocumented domestic workers?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ai-jen Poo:\u003c/strong> There are a tremendous number of undocumented workers — essential workers in this industry. [aside tag=\"undocumented\" label=\"Related Stories\"] We’ve been working really hard to make sure that we seize upon this moment as we’re imagining an economic recovery that is inclusive and supportive of essential workers and includes undocumented domestic workers and care workers that have kept us safe through the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>We need programs, policies, systems and a strong care workforce to support us. There are over 2.5 million [care workers], and they’re overwhelmingly women — 92% women and majority women of color, including many immigrant women. This is actually the part of the economy with the highest concentration of undocumented immigrants of any workforce. They are also majority primary income earners for their families and majority mothers of small children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We have a workforce who is essential not only to the families they support, but their own families and communities. And it’s also a workforce that has always been majority women of color. Some of the first domestic workers in the U.S. were enslaved Black women. And the fact that the work as a profession has always been associated with women of color has profoundly shaped the way that we’ve treated this work in law, policy and in culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Starting in the 1930s, when we were putting our foundational labor laws into place, this workforce was excluded intentionally as a result of racism and the legacy of slavery in our country. And it created a situation of extreme insecurity when domestic workers entered a crisis like a pandemic — it just became incredibly exacerbated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11877959\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1355px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49609_015_SanFrancisco_AlexPadillaMissionKids_06012021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1355\" height=\"1003\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11877959\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49609_015_SanFrancisco_AlexPadillaMissionKids_06012021-qut.jpg 1355w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49609_015_SanFrancisco_AlexPadillaMissionKids_06012021-qut-800x592.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49609_015_SanFrancisco_AlexPadillaMissionKids_06012021-qut-1020x755.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49609_015_SanFrancisco_AlexPadillaMissionKids_06012021-qut-160x118.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1355px) 100vw, 1355px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Alex Padilla speaks with children during a visit to Mission Kids Preschool in San Francisco on June 1, 2021. The visit was part of Padilla’s ‘Infrastructure Listening Tour.’ \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Structural Problems in Pay and Working Conditions\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Could you talk a little bit more about some of the more common structural problems that you see regarding pay and working conditions?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ai-jen Poo:\u003c/strong> Eighty-two percent of domestic workers didn’t have a single paid sick day. When the second stay-at-home orders came down, you saw dramatic losses in jobs and income because there’s no job security, there’s no contract or work agreement. The wages are essentially poverty wages. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So most domestic workers didn’t have the savings to be able to fall back on. I remember in March of 2020, in the first weeks of the pandemic, we held a meeting on Zoom with some of our members and one of them held her phone up to the Zoom screen to show us that she literally had 1 cent left in her bank account.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What Investing in the Care Economy Looks Like\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>When you say investment in care workers and the care economy, what does it look like?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ai-jen Poo:\u003c/strong> The Biden \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/03/31/fact-sheet-the-american-jobs-plan/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">American Jobs Plan\u003c/a> proposed a $400 billion investment in Medicaid, home and community-based care. What that money would do is expand access to home and community-based services and care for the elderly, and people with disabilities. And it would support raising wages and access to benefits for the workforce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right now, the average annual income of a home care worker is $17,000 per year. I don’t know a single community where that is sustainable, let alone enough to raise a family on. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>What we end up seeing is high rates of turnover because people simply cannot survive and sustain themselves doing this work … because the wages are so poor and the conditions are so tough, we have huge parts of this country that we call home care deserts or direct care deserts because people can’t get the support that they need in order to live in their communities. They end up either having to go into a nursing home or having to rely on overstretched family caregivers who have to make impossible choices about whether or not they can work. The money to Medicaid would specifically raise wages for the home care workforce and strengthen that workforce so that they can stay and sustain themselves doing this work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It would expand access to the services for over 800,000 people who are on waiting lists and the millions more who don’t even know there’s a waiting list to wait on.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A Cultural Shift\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>What evidence do you have that there is a tangible cultural shift happening here?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ai-jen Poo:\u003c/strong> I do feel this incredible rage, we call it the “mom’s rage,” that incredible frustration that moms are feeling and have felt throughout the pandemic. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re a parent or you’re a primary caregiver for a family member who needs assistance with activities of daily life, you know that it’s an impossible choice between work and family members who need you for their basic human needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The kind of rage that I’m feeling, especially from women who disproportionately bear the brunt of caregiving responsibilities in our country, and especially women of color who’ve been pushed out of the workforce by the millions, almost 5 million women pushed out of the workforce in the pandemic because of caregiving challenges. That is an indicator that something is very broken.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If we are to pull ourselves back from the regression to 1988 women’s workforce participation levels, we’re going to have to rebuild and build something really different. I think people know that in their guts. This cultural norm that we have around care being an individual responsibility and a responsibility of individual families is one that is very deep. It’s not like we’re going to move past it overnight. And it’s not that it isn’t the responsibility of women and families and individuals, but it is about what is our responsibility collectively to each other as a society to ensure that we have real choices and real agency when it comes to the people we love.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Protections for Undocumented Domestic Workers\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Can you comment on protections for undocumented domestic workers?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ai-jen Poo:\u003c/strong> There are a tremendous number of undocumented workers — essential workers in this industry. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Go straight to:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#where\">Where do I still have to wear a mask?\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#safe\">Is it safe to hang out with unvaccinated friends?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#kids\">How does this work with unvaccinated kids?\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#when\">Remind me: What does 'fully vaccinated' mean? \u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Almost half of California's population is fully vaccinated against COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And now, as of June 15, the state has reopened for \"business as usual\" — which includes scrapping the long-standing mask mandate and officially adopting the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's earlier guidance that fully vaccinated people no longer need to wear masks in most places.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(If you're feeling like you already heard about this CDC update, you're not imagining it: These are the same guidelines released back on May 13. Unlike other states, California has waited a month to adopt them.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Some people are nervous and some people are ready. And I can just tell you scientifically, we are ready,\" said Dr. Monica Gandhi, infectious disease expert and professor of medicine at UCSF, about this reopening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These vaccines absolutely work against variants ... it really is safe to ditch that mask inside if you're vaccinated,\" said Gandhi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With all this in mind, you might be wondering: What exactly can you now do after you're fully vaccinated? Where do you still have to wear a mask? And, perhaps more importantly, what should you not do?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Remember: Even though the official guidance has been updated, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11877048/californias-mask-mandate-ends-june-15-heres-why-some-fully-vaccinated-people-will-keep-wearing-them\">many fully vaccinated people will be choosing to still wear their mask\u003c/a> in certain settings, despite the rules saying they don't \u003cem>have\u003c/em> to. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11877048/californias-mask-mandate-ends-june-15-heres-why-some-fully-vaccinated-people-will-keep-wearing-them\">Read more\u003c/a> about the reasons you might consider holding onto your mask a little longer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#ask\">Don't see your question answered here? Wondering about specific situations? Ask KQED\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"where\">\u003c/a>If I'm Fully Vaccinated, in Which Settings Can I Ditch My Mask?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>As of June 15, pretty much everywhere — with a few exceptions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now that California has adopted the CDC's latest guidance, the only places that fully vaccinated people are still required to wear a mask are:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>On public transit, like BART and Muni (because \u003ca href=\"https://www.tsa.gov/news/press/releases/2021/04/30/tsa-extends-face-mask-requirement-airports-and-throughout\">the Transportation Security Administration has extended mask requirements\u003c/a> across all transportation networks throughout the United States — meaning buses, rail systems, planes and at airports — through Sept. 13)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Indoors in K-12 schools and child care settings\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Health care settings, like hospitals\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Homeless shelters, emergency shelters and and cooling centers.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Individual businesses, like stores, may also require customers wear masks. Your workplace may also have its own rules about you, as an employee, wearing a mask.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the CDC, here are \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/daily-life-coping/participate-in-activities.html\">examples of the outdoor situations\u003c/a> in which fully vaccinated Californians now no longer need masks. The asterisk* shows which activities still require unvaccinated people to wear a mask:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Walk, run, wheelchair roll or bike outdoors with members of your household\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Attend a small, outdoor gathering with fully vaccinated family and friends\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Attend a small, outdoor gathering with fully vaccinated and unvaccinated people, particularly in areas of substantial to high transmission*\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Dine at an outdoor restaurant with friends from multiple households*\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Attend a crowded outdoor event like a live performance, parade or sports event*\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>(Because all these updates can get confusing: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11871317/stop-and-smell-the-roses-cdc-says-many-americans-can-now-go-outside-safely-without-a-mask\">The CDC's earlier guidance about outdoor masking \u003c/a>stated that the only place fully vaccinated people had to wear a mask outside was in \u003cem>crowds\u003c/em>. This newest guidance for California, however, has removed this requirement.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11824024\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1900px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11824024\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/10-lb-rogue-weight-plate-near-people-gathered-703016-NEW.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1900\" height=\"1267\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/10-lb-rogue-weight-plate-near-people-gathered-703016-NEW.jpg 1900w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/10-lb-rogue-weight-plate-near-people-gathered-703016-NEW-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/10-lb-rogue-weight-plate-near-people-gathered-703016-NEW-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/10-lb-rogue-weight-plate-near-people-gathered-703016-NEW-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1900px) 100vw, 1900px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California has lifted its mask mandate, and fully vaccinated people no longer need to wear masks during exercise classes — unless a gym requires it. \u003ccite>(Victor Freitas/Pexels)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/daily-life-coping/participate-in-activities.html\">Examples of indoor settings\u003c/a> in which fully vaccinated Californians now no longer need masks (asterisk* shows which activities still require unvaccinated people to wear a mask):\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Visit a barber or hair salon*\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Go to an uncrowded, indoor shopping center or museum*\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Attend a small, indoor gathering of fully vaccinated and unvaccinated people from multiple households*\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Go to an indoor movie theater*\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Attend a full-capacity worship service*\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Sing in an indoor chorus*\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Eat at an indoor restaurant or bar*\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Participate in an indoor, high-intensity exercise class*\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Because it might not always be obvious ahead of time what businesses or locations might require you to put on a mask regardless of your vaccination status, it's a good idea to still bring a mask with you when you leave your home ... just in case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>The short version: \u003c/strong>If you're fully vaccinated, you can go mask-free in pretty much all settings, with important exceptions.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#ask\">Don't see your question answered here? Wondering about specific situations? Ask KQED\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"safe\">\u003c/a>What About Hanging Out With Unvaccinated Friends?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>If you're fully vaccinated and you're meeting up with a friend who for whatever reason hasn't got their vaccine yet, the CDC's guidance now effective in California says that \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/daily-life-coping/participate-in-activities.html\">\u003cem>you\u003c/em> don't have to wear your mask around them \u003c/a>— indoors or outdoors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If your unvaccinated friend is immunocompromised, or otherwise at high risk for getting very sick from COVID, you may want to chat to them about their preferences around masking. Even though your chances of transmitting the coronavirus to them are low as a fully vaccinated person, if masking up makes everyone involved feel safe and more comfortable, it might be something to consider. Read more about \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11877048/californias-mask-mandate-ends-june-15-heres-why-some-fully-vaccinated-people-will-keep-wearing-them#health\">vaccinated people wanting to mask around people with health conditions\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11866713\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11866713\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/pexels-cottonbro-4684262.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/pexels-cottonbro-4684262.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/pexels-cottonbro-4684262-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/pexels-cottonbro-4684262-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/pexels-cottonbro-4684262-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/pexels-cottonbro-4684262-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">If you and your friend are both fully vaccinated, it's safe to hang out with them indoors, without masks. \u003ccite>(Cottonbro/Pexels)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>You might also stay vigilant when it comes to the \u003cem>size\u003c/em> of any gathering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The numbers matter because it's just a matter of how many noses and mouths from different risk groups come together,\" said Dr. Peter Chin-Hong, a professor of medicine and infectious disease specialist at UCSF. \"The more people you bring together [vaccinated or unvaccinated], the higher the chances of somebody who didn't respond to the vaccine, and somebody who might have COVID might be in a larger group. So it's just really a statistical game.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>The short version:\u003c/strong> The CDC's guidance says you don't need a mask around unvaccinated people — but there a few instances in which you might still consider it. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"kids\">\u003c/a>How Does All This Work Around Unvaccinated Kids?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Are indoor play dates/hangouts OK if the adults are all vaccinated but the kids aren't?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While younger children are at lower risk of severe disease if they do get infected, the risk \"is not zero,\" said \u003ca href=\"https://www.uofmhealth.org/profile/922/preeti-n-malani-md\">Dr. Preeti Malani\u003c/a>, an infectious disease specialist and chief health officer at the University of Michigan. And kids can transmit to others, so you still need to be thoughtful about your social bubble.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outdoor play dates are safer, and Dr. \u003ca href=\"https://www.bumc.bu.edu/busm/profile/cassandra-pierre/\">Cassandra Pierre,\u003c/a> an infectious disease specialist at Boston Medical Center, said it's probably fine to let the kiddos go maskless if they are outside — provided there aren't variants of concern circulating widely in your community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11856374\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11856374\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/01202021_KidsCOVID_SH_01_10-e1611253693171.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mae Villanueva, 4, plays at Lake Balboa Park in Van Nuys on Jan. 20, 2021. \u003ccite>(Shae Hammond/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If you want the kids to play indoors, make sure you have an honest conversation with the other family about their risk factors. Did they just fly back from vacation in a spot where variants of concern are circulating widely? Do their kids play on a sports team that just had a COVID-19 case? Have they had a sleepover at someone else's house?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The point is, you have shared risk and shared responsibility in terms of play dates,\" Malani said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for how many families can join the indoor play date? Given CDC guidelines about meeting up with unvaccinated households, Pierre suggests limiting it to one family at a time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://profiles.ucsf.edu/monica.gandhi\">Dr. Monica Gandhi\u003c/a> is an infectious disease doctor at UCSF, and her interpretation is more liberal: If the kids are all low-risk and the adults are all vaccinated, she would suggest no more than four households. \"It's ultimately about what your risk tolerance is,\" Gandhi notes — though case rates in your community should help guide your decision making.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>My relatives want to hold a family reunion. Is it safe for us to gather?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes, but keep it small and keep most of the activities outdoors if you can. \"If you have a big family reunion, there's going to be risk,\" said Malani. \"It's probably not a great time to hang out with 100 people.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Make sure all the vulnerable adults in the family are vaccinated, and again, talk openly about the kids' risk factors. It might be a good idea to hold off on maskless indoor play dates for a week or two before traveling to the reunion, Pierre said. For older kids, maybe they shouldn't be spending a lot of time unmasked with a bunch of friends before they meet up with grandparents, said Dr. Emily Landon, an infectious disease specialist and executive medical director for infection prevention and control at the University of Chicago School of Medicine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What about taking a vacation with my unvaccinated kids?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If it's feasible, consider driving instead of flying, said \u003ca href=\"https://www.vumc.org/viiii/person/david-aronoff-md\">Dr. David Aronoff\u003c/a>, director of the division of infectious diseases at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you do fly, make sure your kids know how to wear a mask properly and keep their distance from other people. Pierre, the mother of 3-year-old twins, suggests avoiding longer flights because longer exposures pose potentially higher risks. Also, consider your sanity: It can be hard to keep young kids masked up and entertained on long-haul flights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The biggest risk on flights is from the exhalations of nearby passengers, so seat your kids in between you and their other parent, not on an aisle, suggest Aronoff and Gandhi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Avoid busy theme parks or crowded indoor activities at your destination. One other thing to consider: Will your kids have to quarantine once they're back home or refrain from school sports or other activities?\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"movies\">\u003c/a>Can I Travel if I'm Fully Vaccinated?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Yes. On April 2, the CDC updated its guidance to say \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11867775/fully-vaccinated-you-can-travel-again-says-new-cdc-covid-19-guidance\">fully vaccinated people can travel within the U.S.\u003c/a> without getting tested for the coronavirus or going into quarantine afterward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During travel, you'll have to wear a mask on planes, buses, trains and other forms of public transit. You'll also have to do so indoors at U.S. transportation hubs such as airports and train or bus stations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After you arrive home from traveling, the CDC still recommends you monitor yourself for COVID symptoms, but says you'll only need to self-quarantine or get a coronavirus test if you do develop symptoms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11867796\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11867796\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48337_GettyImages-1292637776-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Two masked people hugging in an airport\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1299\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48337_GettyImages-1292637776-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48337_GettyImages-1292637776-qut-800x541.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48337_GettyImages-1292637776-qut-1020x690.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48337_GettyImages-1292637776-qut-160x108.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48337_GettyImages-1292637776-qut-1536x1039.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A traveler is hugged outside the Tom Bradley International Terminal after arriving at Los Angeles International Airport. \u003ccite>(Mario Tama/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>What about state-specific advice? Back on April 2, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/COVID-19/Travel-Advisory.aspx\">the California Department of Public Health released revised COVID-19 travel guidance \u003c/a>for both residents and travelers to the state, removing \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-01-07/californians-shouldnt-travel-more-than-120-miles-from-home-state-says\">previous guidelines that asked Californians to travel no further than 120 miles from their homes\u003c/a>. The revised guidelines still urge \u003cem>unvaccinated\u003c/em> Californians to \"avoid non-essential travel outside of California, to other states or countries.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>The short version: \u003c/strong>The CDC now says travel is OK once you're fully vaccinated, but you'll still need to mask in transit.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"when\">\u003c/a>Remind Me: When Am I Fully Vaccinated After My COVID-19 Vaccine?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>It's important to know that \u003ca class=\"c-link\" href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1972824/covid-19-vaccine-your-questions-answered#question11\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1972824/covid-19-vaccine-your-questions-answered#question11\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">you are \u003ci data-stringify-type=\"italic\">not\u003c/i> immediately protected from the coronavirus after your first vaccination shot\u003c/a>. That's because it takes your body time to build up the necessary antibodies that offer protection against getting sick from COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca class=\"c-link\" href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/fully-vaccinated.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/fully-vaccinated.html\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">You're considered \"fully protected\" \u003c/a>and \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/fully-vaccinated-guidance.html\">\"fully vaccinated,\"\u003c/a> according to the CDC, two weeks after your second dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna COVID-19 vaccine, or two weeks after the single-dose Johnson & Johnson/Janssen COVID-19 vaccine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11866647\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11866647\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/GettyImages-1231929310-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1405\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/GettyImages-1231929310-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/GettyImages-1231929310-800x439.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/GettyImages-1231929310-1020x560.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/GettyImages-1231929310-160x88.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/GettyImages-1231929310-1536x843.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/GettyImages-1231929310-2048x1124.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/GettyImages-1231929310-1920x1054.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Licensed vocational nurse Denise Saldana prepares the single-dose Johnson&Johnson/Janssen COVID-19 vaccine \u003ccite>(Frederic J Brown/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So what about your immunity \u003cem>before\u003c/em> that? For the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1972824/covid-19-vaccine-your-questions-answered#question11\">the first dose gives you most of the protection against severe disease\u003c/a> and the second dose takes you all the way there. Plus, experts think the second dose may extend how long the vaccine lasts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fourteen days after your first dose of the Moderna or Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, you are 80% protected on average, said \u003ca href=\"https://profiles.ucsf.edu/robert.wachter\">Dr. Robert Wachter\u003c/a>, chair of the UCSF Department of Medicine. (In case that makes you think about skipping the second dose, remember that the vaccine trials were two doses, so what we know about how well the vaccine works depends on two doses.)\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[aside postID=\"news_11855623\"]\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson & Johnson/Janssen's single dose provides 66% overall protection after two weeks. It becomes more effective at preventing severe or critical illness, at 85%, after 28 days.\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1972824/covid-19-vaccine-your-questions-answered#question11\"> Read more about how immunity develops after getting the vaccine.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it's also important to remember that not everyone's body will react to the vaccine the same way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's super important to wait two weeks after your last shot, because not everybody is the same, and although some people get some efficacy early on with antibodies being formed against the spike proteins, that's not true for most people,\" said Dr. Chin-Hong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We don't know who's going to get the antibody response early and who's not. So giving everyone a two week window period after your last shot gives us the confidence that you're going to act like the people in the clinical trials,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>The short version: \u003c/strong>Give the vaccine the time it needs to get your body protected from COVID-19. You're not fully vaccinated until two weeks after your dose.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"infection\">\u003c/a> If I'm Fully Vaccinated Can I Still Transmit COVID-19?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\"The bulk of the evidence now suggests that it is very, very unlikely that a vaccinated individual — who's fully vaccinated — can transmit to somebody who is not vaccinated. But there's always going to be a small chance,\" Chin-Hong said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, as with everything in the pandemic, it's best to err on the side of caution to protect your friends, family and greater community, and follow the guidelines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>The short version: \u003c/strong>We still don't know for sure yet if being fully vaccinated from COVID-19 stops you from spreading the virus. That's why you'll still be asked to wear a mask in certain scenarios.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Can I Still \u003cem>Get\u003c/em> COVID-19 When Fully Vaccinated?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The CDC says that the risk that fully vaccinated people could become infected with COVID-19 is \"low\" — but that any \u003cem>symptoms\u003c/em> of COVID-19 are the thing you should really watch for.[aside postID=\"science_1972824\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you're exposed to someone with suspected or confirmed COVID-19, but you're fully vaccinated and you have no COVID-like symptoms, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/fully-vaccinated-guidance.html\">you don't need to quarantine and you don't need to get tested for the coronavirus\u003c/a>. That's because your risk of infection is is low, says the CDC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11862753\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11862753\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/pexels-polina-tankilevitch-3873193.jpg\" alt=\"A woman with a face mask\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/pexels-polina-tankilevitch-3873193.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/pexels-polina-tankilevitch-3873193-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/pexels-polina-tankilevitch-3873193-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/pexels-polina-tankilevitch-3873193-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/pexels-polina-tankilevitch-3873193-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A year into the COVID-19 pandemic, we want to know: What do you need? \u003ccite>(Polina Tankilevitch/Pexels)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But if you are exposed and you \u003cem>do\u003c/em> get symptoms, the CDC says you should isolate yourselves from others and get a test. When this happens, it's important to let your health care provider know that you're fully vaccinated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CDC also has more detailed \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/infection-control-after-vaccination.html\">guidance for fully vaccinated people who work in health care settings\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>The short version: \u003c/strong>Your risk of getting COVID-19 when fully vaccinated is low, but watch for symptoms.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"ask\">\u003c/a>Ask Your Question: What Else Do You Want to Know?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>[hearken id=\"7478\" src=\"https://modules.wearehearken.com/kqed/embed/7478.js\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>A previous version of this post was published on April 27. \u003ci data-stringify-type=\"italic\">This post includes additional reporting from NPR’s Maria Godoy and Carmel Wroth, and \u003c/i>KQED Science's Carolina Cuellar.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Go straight to:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#where\">Where do I still have to wear a mask?\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#safe\">Is it safe to hang out with unvaccinated friends?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#kids\">How does this work with unvaccinated kids?\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#when\">Remind me: What does 'fully vaccinated' mean? \u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Almost half of California's population is fully vaccinated against COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And now, as of June 15, the state has reopened for \"business as usual\" — which includes scrapping the long-standing mask mandate and officially adopting the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's earlier guidance that fully vaccinated people no longer need to wear masks in most places.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(If you're feeling like you already heard about this CDC update, you're not imagining it: These are the same guidelines released back on May 13. Unlike other states, California has waited a month to adopt them.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Some people are nervous and some people are ready. And I can just tell you scientifically, we are ready,\" said Dr. Monica Gandhi, infectious disease expert and professor of medicine at UCSF, about this reopening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These vaccines absolutely work against variants ... it really is safe to ditch that mask inside if you're vaccinated,\" said Gandhi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With all this in mind, you might be wondering: What exactly can you now do after you're fully vaccinated? Where do you still have to wear a mask? And, perhaps more importantly, what should you not do?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Remember: Even though the official guidance has been updated, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11877048/californias-mask-mandate-ends-june-15-heres-why-some-fully-vaccinated-people-will-keep-wearing-them\">many fully vaccinated people will be choosing to still wear their mask\u003c/a> in certain settings, despite the rules saying they don't \u003cem>have\u003c/em> to. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11877048/californias-mask-mandate-ends-june-15-heres-why-some-fully-vaccinated-people-will-keep-wearing-them\">Read more\u003c/a> about the reasons you might consider holding onto your mask a little longer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#ask\">Don't see your question answered here? Wondering about specific situations? Ask KQED\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"where\">\u003c/a>If I'm Fully Vaccinated, in Which Settings Can I Ditch My Mask?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>As of June 15, pretty much everywhere — with a few exceptions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now that California has adopted the CDC's latest guidance, the only places that fully vaccinated people are still required to wear a mask are:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>On public transit, like BART and Muni (because \u003ca href=\"https://www.tsa.gov/news/press/releases/2021/04/30/tsa-extends-face-mask-requirement-airports-and-throughout\">the Transportation Security Administration has extended mask requirements\u003c/a> across all transportation networks throughout the United States — meaning buses, rail systems, planes and at airports — through Sept. 13)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Indoors in K-12 schools and child care settings\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Health care settings, like hospitals\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Homeless shelters, emergency shelters and and cooling centers.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Individual businesses, like stores, may also require customers wear masks. Your workplace may also have its own rules about you, as an employee, wearing a mask.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the CDC, here are \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/daily-life-coping/participate-in-activities.html\">examples of the outdoor situations\u003c/a> in which fully vaccinated Californians now no longer need masks. The asterisk* shows which activities still require unvaccinated people to wear a mask:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Walk, run, wheelchair roll or bike outdoors with members of your household\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Attend a small, outdoor gathering with fully vaccinated family and friends\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Attend a small, outdoor gathering with fully vaccinated and unvaccinated people, particularly in areas of substantial to high transmission*\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Dine at an outdoor restaurant with friends from multiple households*\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Attend a crowded outdoor event like a live performance, parade or sports event*\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>(Because all these updates can get confusing: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11871317/stop-and-smell-the-roses-cdc-says-many-americans-can-now-go-outside-safely-without-a-mask\">The CDC's earlier guidance about outdoor masking \u003c/a>stated that the only place fully vaccinated people had to wear a mask outside was in \u003cem>crowds\u003c/em>. This newest guidance for California, however, has removed this requirement.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11824024\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1900px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11824024\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/10-lb-rogue-weight-plate-near-people-gathered-703016-NEW.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1900\" height=\"1267\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/10-lb-rogue-weight-plate-near-people-gathered-703016-NEW.jpg 1900w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/10-lb-rogue-weight-plate-near-people-gathered-703016-NEW-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/10-lb-rogue-weight-plate-near-people-gathered-703016-NEW-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/10-lb-rogue-weight-plate-near-people-gathered-703016-NEW-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1900px) 100vw, 1900px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California has lifted its mask mandate, and fully vaccinated people no longer need to wear masks during exercise classes — unless a gym requires it. \u003ccite>(Victor Freitas/Pexels)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/daily-life-coping/participate-in-activities.html\">Examples of indoor settings\u003c/a> in which fully vaccinated Californians now no longer need masks (asterisk* shows which activities still require unvaccinated people to wear a mask):\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Visit a barber or hair salon*\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Go to an uncrowded, indoor shopping center or museum*\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Attend a small, indoor gathering of fully vaccinated and unvaccinated people from multiple households*\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Go to an indoor movie theater*\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Attend a full-capacity worship service*\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Sing in an indoor chorus*\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Eat at an indoor restaurant or bar*\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Participate in an indoor, high-intensity exercise class*\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Because it might not always be obvious ahead of time what businesses or locations might require you to put on a mask regardless of your vaccination status, it's a good idea to still bring a mask with you when you leave your home ... just in case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>The short version: \u003c/strong>If you're fully vaccinated, you can go mask-free in pretty much all settings, with important exceptions.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#ask\">Don't see your question answered here? Wondering about specific situations? Ask KQED\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"safe\">\u003c/a>What About Hanging Out With Unvaccinated Friends?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>If you're fully vaccinated and you're meeting up with a friend who for whatever reason hasn't got their vaccine yet, the CDC's guidance now effective in California says that \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/daily-life-coping/participate-in-activities.html\">\u003cem>you\u003c/em> don't have to wear your mask around them \u003c/a>— indoors or outdoors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If your unvaccinated friend is immunocompromised, or otherwise at high risk for getting very sick from COVID, you may want to chat to them about their preferences around masking. Even though your chances of transmitting the coronavirus to them are low as a fully vaccinated person, if masking up makes everyone involved feel safe and more comfortable, it might be something to consider. Read more about \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11877048/californias-mask-mandate-ends-june-15-heres-why-some-fully-vaccinated-people-will-keep-wearing-them#health\">vaccinated people wanting to mask around people with health conditions\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11866713\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11866713\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/pexels-cottonbro-4684262.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/pexels-cottonbro-4684262.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/pexels-cottonbro-4684262-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/pexels-cottonbro-4684262-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/pexels-cottonbro-4684262-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/pexels-cottonbro-4684262-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">If you and your friend are both fully vaccinated, it's safe to hang out with them indoors, without masks. \u003ccite>(Cottonbro/Pexels)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>You might also stay vigilant when it comes to the \u003cem>size\u003c/em> of any gathering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The numbers matter because it's just a matter of how many noses and mouths from different risk groups come together,\" said Dr. Peter Chin-Hong, a professor of medicine and infectious disease specialist at UCSF. \"The more people you bring together [vaccinated or unvaccinated], the higher the chances of somebody who didn't respond to the vaccine, and somebody who might have COVID might be in a larger group. So it's just really a statistical game.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>The short version:\u003c/strong> The CDC's guidance says you don't need a mask around unvaccinated people — but there a few instances in which you might still consider it. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"kids\">\u003c/a>How Does All This Work Around Unvaccinated Kids?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Are indoor play dates/hangouts OK if the adults are all vaccinated but the kids aren't?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While younger children are at lower risk of severe disease if they do get infected, the risk \"is not zero,\" said \u003ca href=\"https://www.uofmhealth.org/profile/922/preeti-n-malani-md\">Dr. Preeti Malani\u003c/a>, an infectious disease specialist and chief health officer at the University of Michigan. And kids can transmit to others, so you still need to be thoughtful about your social bubble.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outdoor play dates are safer, and Dr. \u003ca href=\"https://www.bumc.bu.edu/busm/profile/cassandra-pierre/\">Cassandra Pierre,\u003c/a> an infectious disease specialist at Boston Medical Center, said it's probably fine to let the kiddos go maskless if they are outside — provided there aren't variants of concern circulating widely in your community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11856374\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11856374\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/01202021_KidsCOVID_SH_01_10-e1611253693171.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mae Villanueva, 4, plays at Lake Balboa Park in Van Nuys on Jan. 20, 2021. \u003ccite>(Shae Hammond/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If you want the kids to play indoors, make sure you have an honest conversation with the other family about their risk factors. Did they just fly back from vacation in a spot where variants of concern are circulating widely? Do their kids play on a sports team that just had a COVID-19 case? Have they had a sleepover at someone else's house?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The point is, you have shared risk and shared responsibility in terms of play dates,\" Malani said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for how many families can join the indoor play date? Given CDC guidelines about meeting up with unvaccinated households, Pierre suggests limiting it to one family at a time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://profiles.ucsf.edu/monica.gandhi\">Dr. Monica Gandhi\u003c/a> is an infectious disease doctor at UCSF, and her interpretation is more liberal: If the kids are all low-risk and the adults are all vaccinated, she would suggest no more than four households. \"It's ultimately about what your risk tolerance is,\" Gandhi notes — though case rates in your community should help guide your decision making.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>My relatives want to hold a family reunion. Is it safe for us to gather?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes, but keep it small and keep most of the activities outdoors if you can. \"If you have a big family reunion, there's going to be risk,\" said Malani. \"It's probably not a great time to hang out with 100 people.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Make sure all the vulnerable adults in the family are vaccinated, and again, talk openly about the kids' risk factors. It might be a good idea to hold off on maskless indoor play dates for a week or two before traveling to the reunion, Pierre said. For older kids, maybe they shouldn't be spending a lot of time unmasked with a bunch of friends before they meet up with grandparents, said Dr. Emily Landon, an infectious disease specialist and executive medical director for infection prevention and control at the University of Chicago School of Medicine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What about taking a vacation with my unvaccinated kids?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If it's feasible, consider driving instead of flying, said \u003ca href=\"https://www.vumc.org/viiii/person/david-aronoff-md\">Dr. David Aronoff\u003c/a>, director of the division of infectious diseases at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you do fly, make sure your kids know how to wear a mask properly and keep their distance from other people. Pierre, the mother of 3-year-old twins, suggests avoiding longer flights because longer exposures pose potentially higher risks. Also, consider your sanity: It can be hard to keep young kids masked up and entertained on long-haul flights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The biggest risk on flights is from the exhalations of nearby passengers, so seat your kids in between you and their other parent, not on an aisle, suggest Aronoff and Gandhi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Avoid busy theme parks or crowded indoor activities at your destination. One other thing to consider: Will your kids have to quarantine once they're back home or refrain from school sports or other activities?\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"movies\">\u003c/a>Can I Travel if I'm Fully Vaccinated?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Yes. On April 2, the CDC updated its guidance to say \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11867775/fully-vaccinated-you-can-travel-again-says-new-cdc-covid-19-guidance\">fully vaccinated people can travel within the U.S.\u003c/a> without getting tested for the coronavirus or going into quarantine afterward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During travel, you'll have to wear a mask on planes, buses, trains and other forms of public transit. You'll also have to do so indoors at U.S. transportation hubs such as airports and train or bus stations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After you arrive home from traveling, the CDC still recommends you monitor yourself for COVID symptoms, but says you'll only need to self-quarantine or get a coronavirus test if you do develop symptoms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11867796\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11867796\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48337_GettyImages-1292637776-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Two masked people hugging in an airport\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1299\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48337_GettyImages-1292637776-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48337_GettyImages-1292637776-qut-800x541.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48337_GettyImages-1292637776-qut-1020x690.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48337_GettyImages-1292637776-qut-160x108.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48337_GettyImages-1292637776-qut-1536x1039.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A traveler is hugged outside the Tom Bradley International Terminal after arriving at Los Angeles International Airport. \u003ccite>(Mario Tama/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>What about state-specific advice? Back on April 2, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/COVID-19/Travel-Advisory.aspx\">the California Department of Public Health released revised COVID-19 travel guidance \u003c/a>for both residents and travelers to the state, removing \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-01-07/californians-shouldnt-travel-more-than-120-miles-from-home-state-says\">previous guidelines that asked Californians to travel no further than 120 miles from their homes\u003c/a>. The revised guidelines still urge \u003cem>unvaccinated\u003c/em> Californians to \"avoid non-essential travel outside of California, to other states or countries.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>The short version: \u003c/strong>The CDC now says travel is OK once you're fully vaccinated, but you'll still need to mask in transit.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"when\">\u003c/a>Remind Me: When Am I Fully Vaccinated After My COVID-19 Vaccine?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>It's important to know that \u003ca class=\"c-link\" href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1972824/covid-19-vaccine-your-questions-answered#question11\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1972824/covid-19-vaccine-your-questions-answered#question11\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">you are \u003ci data-stringify-type=\"italic\">not\u003c/i> immediately protected from the coronavirus after your first vaccination shot\u003c/a>. That's because it takes your body time to build up the necessary antibodies that offer protection against getting sick from COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca class=\"c-link\" href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/fully-vaccinated.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/fully-vaccinated.html\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">You're considered \"fully protected\" \u003c/a>and \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/fully-vaccinated-guidance.html\">\"fully vaccinated,\"\u003c/a> according to the CDC, two weeks after your second dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna COVID-19 vaccine, or two weeks after the single-dose Johnson & Johnson/Janssen COVID-19 vaccine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11866647\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11866647\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/GettyImages-1231929310-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1405\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/GettyImages-1231929310-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/GettyImages-1231929310-800x439.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/GettyImages-1231929310-1020x560.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/GettyImages-1231929310-160x88.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/GettyImages-1231929310-1536x843.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/GettyImages-1231929310-2048x1124.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/GettyImages-1231929310-1920x1054.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Licensed vocational nurse Denise Saldana prepares the single-dose Johnson&Johnson/Janssen COVID-19 vaccine \u003ccite>(Frederic J Brown/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So what about your immunity \u003cem>before\u003c/em> that? For the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1972824/covid-19-vaccine-your-questions-answered#question11\">the first dose gives you most of the protection against severe disease\u003c/a> and the second dose takes you all the way there. Plus, experts think the second dose may extend how long the vaccine lasts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fourteen days after your first dose of the Moderna or Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, you are 80% protected on average, said \u003ca href=\"https://profiles.ucsf.edu/robert.wachter\">Dr. Robert Wachter\u003c/a>, chair of the UCSF Department of Medicine. (In case that makes you think about skipping the second dose, remember that the vaccine trials were two doses, so what we know about how well the vaccine works depends on two doses.)\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson & Johnson/Janssen's single dose provides 66% overall protection after two weeks. It becomes more effective at preventing severe or critical illness, at 85%, after 28 days.\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1972824/covid-19-vaccine-your-questions-answered#question11\"> Read more about how immunity develops after getting the vaccine.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it's also important to remember that not everyone's body will react to the vaccine the same way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's super important to wait two weeks after your last shot, because not everybody is the same, and although some people get some efficacy early on with antibodies being formed against the spike proteins, that's not true for most people,\" said Dr. Chin-Hong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We don't know who's going to get the antibody response early and who's not. So giving everyone a two week window period after your last shot gives us the confidence that you're going to act like the people in the clinical trials,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>The short version: \u003c/strong>Give the vaccine the time it needs to get your body protected from COVID-19. You're not fully vaccinated until two weeks after your dose.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"infection\">\u003c/a> If I'm Fully Vaccinated Can I Still Transmit COVID-19?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\"The bulk of the evidence now suggests that it is very, very unlikely that a vaccinated individual — who's fully vaccinated — can transmit to somebody who is not vaccinated. But there's always going to be a small chance,\" Chin-Hong said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, as with everything in the pandemic, it's best to err on the side of caution to protect your friends, family and greater community, and follow the guidelines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>The short version: \u003c/strong>We still don't know for sure yet if being fully vaccinated from COVID-19 stops you from spreading the virus. That's why you'll still be asked to wear a mask in certain scenarios.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Can I Still \u003cem>Get\u003c/em> COVID-19 When Fully Vaccinated?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The CDC says that the risk that fully vaccinated people could become infected with COVID-19 is \"low\" — but that any \u003cem>symptoms\u003c/em> of COVID-19 are the thing you should really watch for.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you're exposed to someone with suspected or confirmed COVID-19, but you're fully vaccinated and you have no COVID-like symptoms, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/fully-vaccinated-guidance.html\">you don't need to quarantine and you don't need to get tested for the coronavirus\u003c/a>. That's because your risk of infection is is low, says the CDC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11862753\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11862753\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/pexels-polina-tankilevitch-3873193.jpg\" alt=\"A woman with a face mask\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/pexels-polina-tankilevitch-3873193.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/pexels-polina-tankilevitch-3873193-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/pexels-polina-tankilevitch-3873193-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/pexels-polina-tankilevitch-3873193-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/pexels-polina-tankilevitch-3873193-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A year into the COVID-19 pandemic, we want to know: What do you need? \u003ccite>(Polina Tankilevitch/Pexels)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But if you are exposed and you \u003cem>do\u003c/em> get symptoms, the CDC says you should isolate yourselves from others and get a test. When this happens, it's important to let your health care provider know that you're fully vaccinated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CDC also has more detailed \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/infection-control-after-vaccination.html\">guidance for fully vaccinated people who work in health care settings\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>The short version: \u003c/strong>Your risk of getting COVID-19 when fully vaccinated is low, but watch for symptoms.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"ask\">\u003c/a>Ask Your Question: What Else Do You Want to Know?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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