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You just have to go online, just sign up online.’ It’s not something he does very easily,” said Dr. Roland, whose practice is in Burlingame, south of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California, swimming in vaccine, is in far better shape than just weeks ago when scoring an appointment was cause for celebration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, Los Angeles, San Diego and other populous counties are advertising that anyone can walk in for a shot, and the state is texting reminders that plenty of appointments are available. Rural Humboldt County even declined 1,000 extra doses last week due to lackluster demand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 18 million of an estimated 32 million people eligible for vaccine in California are fully or partially vaccinated, including nearly half of people in economically vulnerable ZIP codes hardest hit by the pandemic and 73% of residents 65 and older. 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She’s worn down by repeated attempts to get a slot through a toll-free number, so she’ll wait for Dr. Roland, her physician of three decades, to get the vaccine instead. \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[aside tag=\"coronavirus\" label=\"More Related Stories\"]\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not a young girl,” she said. “I’m trying to find somebody that will give me the shot and they have it at the Walgreens in Millbrae and I don’t know why they won’t give me the shot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Going forward, it’s going to take more effort to reach the unvaccinated, say health experts. The group includes people unable to leave their homes or who can’t miss work; for some, a vaccination may not be a priority, or they may have questions that can’t be answered when making a vaccination appointment online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to reach all people, and what happens at this point in the process is each person we try to reach becomes a little harder to reach,” said Dr. Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, epidemiology and biostatistics chair at UCSF. “It’s not as easy as putting up a mass vaccination site and saying if you build it, they will come.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Counties, cities and providers nationwide are turning to paramedics to deliver in-home shots or arrange transportation to vaccination sites, even offering incentives to try to reach as many people as possible. Like California, many states also have more doses than arms to put them in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Families Together of Orange County, a community health center where more than half the patients are Latino, is hitting shopping centers, supermarkets, restaurants and schools, said CEO Alexander Rossel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marin is among the counties phasing out mass vaccination sites in favor of smaller mobile clinics. Santa Cruz County has restarted a medical “strike team” to reach people who need in-home inoculations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But finding who needs help and where they live isn’t easy. “There’s no great list of them,” said Jason Hoppin, a Santa Cruz County spokesman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State officials are expected to soon release more guidance on at-home inoculations to get more people vaccinated as it works to add providers to its list. 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They’re not computer literate and he can hardly tell them to continue checking the numerous pharmacy, hospital, county and state websites offering appointments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s good to have many different channels,” he said. “But one of the places where it would be good to get a vaccine is from their doctor.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the state moves from a lack of vaccine supply to waning demand, family doctors are important in helping people overcome reluctance. 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"content": "\u003cp>For the fifth straight day, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/health-india-coronavirus-1bda2318594d65be400074da41fa13c6\">India set a global daily record of new coronavirus infections\u003c/a> on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Social media has been filled with desperate pleas from those in India seeking hospital beds and oxygen concentrators. \u003ca href=\"https://www.bloombergquint.com/coronavirus-outbreak/hope-and-heartbreak-on-indian-covid-twitter\">One journalist, Vinay Srivastava, even live-tweeted his declining oxygen levels until he died\u003c/a>. And on Sunday, the National Security Council announced that \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/04/25/990676453/u-s-pledges-medical-aid-to-india-where-covid-19-is-overwhelming-hospitals\">the United States will now make more medical aid available to India\u003c/a> in an effort to fight the spike in COVID-19 cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Indians and Indian Americans in the Bay Area, what many are experiencing in daily life — the excitement of getting the vaccine and reopening businesses — contrasts starkly with the reality of family and friends sick and dying in New Delhi and other parts of the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every Indian you speak to will tell you we know somebody who has passed away in the last few days because they weren’t able to find a hospital to take them — or they weren’t able to get access to oxygen,” said Palo Alto resident Kanika Mediratta, who has family and friends in New Delhi. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Kanika Mediratta, started CovidReliefIndia.com\"]‘Every Indian you speak to will tell you we know somebody who has passed away in the last few days because they weren’t able to find a hospital to take them — or they weren’t able to get access to oxygen.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just 10 minutes ago I got a call from one of my very close friends asking if we knew of any supply for a patient [in India] who has oxygen only for the next three hours,” Mediratta said. “Without that, they will die.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mediratta’s brother-in-law — her husband Rohit’s brother — is a neurosurgeon at Apollo Hospital in New Delhi, and told the Palo Alto couple of his firsthand experiences with the region’s severe oxygen shortage that was being mirrored across India. So the Medirattas decided to take action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They started a \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/f/oxygen-concentrators-for-delhi?utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet&utm_medium=copy_link_all&utm_source=customer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">GoFundMe\u003c/a> to raise money for the \u003ca href=\"https://savelifefoundation.org/covid19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Save Life Foundation,\u003c/a> a nonprofit working with the New Delhi government. In about 48 hours they raised enough money to procure 200 units of oxygen. They’ve also created the website \u003ca href=\"http://covidreliefindia.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CovidReliefIndia.com\u003c/a> which explains the severity of India’s need for oxygen and \u003ca href=\"http://covidreliefindia.com/faqs/\">how people can help\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s expected that this first shipment of oxygen units will start reaching the people in need in public hospitals “in the next week or so,” said Rohit Mediratta.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their campaign has been amplified by people including Bay Area Congressman Ro Khanna, whose California District 17 encompasses Silicon Valley. Thus far, through their networks, the couple say they’ve seen people donating money from around the world — Australia, UK, the Middle East. “People who know people, who know people, have been contacting us,” Kanika Mediratta said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/RoKhanna/status/1385794794186813443?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the \u003ca href=\"https://savelifefoundation.org/covid19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Save Life Foundation,\u003c/a> the Medirattas are also directing donations to the humanitarian nonprofit organization \u003ca href=\"https://www.sewausa.org/Kanikas-Campaign-for-COVID-19-Relief-India\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sewa International\u003c/a>. For those unsure which place to donate to, Kanika Mediratta gave some guidance: “If you’re looking to donate specifically for the Delhi region, then Save Life Foundation is working with the Delhi government, and is probably the biggest impact that we will have,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for Bay Area residents wanting their donations to go beyond government agencies, or into other cities and regions in India, Sewa International is a good choice, say the Medirattas. Both organizations are registered nonprofits in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Thousands of people are dying every single day” in India, said Gitesh Desai, a Texas-based spokesperson for Sewa International on the COVID-19 crisis. According to Johns Hopkins University data, \u003ca href=\"https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/region/india\">on April 25 alone there were 2,812 deaths\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Desai said Sewa International is buying oxygen concentrators and has already bought 400 that will be given to hospitals in India. With additional funds raised, Desai said they will be providing food and medicine to families as well as other basic needs to orphanages and senior citizen homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We all want our money to get used in the best way possible and as quickly as possible, because each hour matters right now,” Kanika Mediratta said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added that it’s not just hours that count right now — it’s minutes. “We don’t have till Monday morning, or Tuesday morning, for action to be taken. If you have the capacity to contribute, to participate, to volunteer, we need the help and we need it now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t have a moment to lose right now,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Whatever we can do to help, if we can do anything at all, it’s still not enough,” her husband Rohit added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Severity of COVID-19 in India\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>As of April 25, the country had over 16.9 million recorded cases, second behind only the United States. \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/health-india-religion-coronavirus-c644fc9eb09beb04e16d0215a6693886\">The Health Ministry reported another 2,767 deaths in the past 24 hours\u003c/a>, pushing India’s fatalities to 192,311.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet experts say this toll could be a huge undercount, as suspected cases are not included, and many COVID-19 deaths are being attributed to underlying conditions. [aside tag=\"india, coronavirus\" label=\"More Related Stories\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The unfolding crisis is most visceral in India’s overwhelmed graveyards and crematoriums, and in heartbreaking images of gasping patients dying on their way to hospitals due to lack of oxygen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burial grounds in the capital New Delhi are running out of space. The situation is equally grim at unbearably full hospitals, where desperate people are dying in line — sometimes on the roads outside — waiting to see doctors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Health officials are scrambling to expand critical care units and stock up on dwindling supplies of oxygen. Hospitals and patients alike are struggling to procure scarce medical equipment that’s being sold on the black market at an exponential markup.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The drama is in direct contrast with \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/health-india-religion-coronavirus-c644fc9eb09beb04e16d0215a6693886\">government claims that “nobody in the country was left without oxygen,”\u003c/a> in a statement made Saturday by India’s Solicitor General Tushar Mehta before the Delhi High Court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The breakdown is a stark failure for a country whose prime minister only in January had declared victory over COVID-19, and which boasted of being the “world’s pharmacy” as a global producer of vaccines and a model for other developing nations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article includes additional reporting from the Associated Press.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>More than 60,000 Californians have died from COVID-19, and \u003ca href=\"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-california-report-magazine/id1314750545?mt=2\">The California Report Magazine\u003c/a> has launched a series to remember some of them. This week, we have a tribute to Sylvia Morton. She worked in the emergency department at Riverside Community Hospital before contracting COVID-19. She died on Jan. 8, 2021 at the age of 61, shortly after losing her son Carlos Jr. to the virus.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/f/sylvia-morton-burial-expenses-support-needed?utm_campaign=p_cp_url&utm_medium=os&utm_source=customer\">Sylvia Morton\u003c/a> was working a shift at the hospital, you would know it. 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She wore a Hello Kitty sweater over her scrubs, along with her bedazzled face mask and shield. Her colleagues could often hear Tejano music star Selena blasting from Morton’s office — especially favorites like “Como La Flor” and “Bidi Bidi Bom Bom.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She would start dancing and singing and flipping her hair back and forth like she was on stage,” Ballesteros said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morton’s youngest daughter, Marlene Morton, said her mother loved the artist so much that she changed the name on her hospital badge to Selena. “And she told them, ‘OK, my name is Selena. Everybody has to call me Selena,’ ” Marlene said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She was always happy,” Ballesteros added. “Even at sad times she would always find the silver lining. She was very uplifting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Overcoming a Difficult Childhood\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Sylvia Morton was born in San Bernardino on May 31,1959. She was a proud member of the Cahuilla Tribe and grew up just south of the San Manuel Indian Reservation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her mother died when she was just 3 years old. Her father was an alcoholic, so Morton spent her childhood shuttling between relatives’ homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every single day they had beans,” said Ballesteros. “There was always a pot of beans made. And everyone had a ration. And if you were not home in time, then if it was gone, it was gone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morton told her daughters about wearing hand-me-downs and borrowing her friends’ dolls. In the absence of the nurturing family she craved, she escaped by watching sitcoms like “Gilligan’s Island” and “The Partridge Family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She would sing and be a part of the ‘Partridge Family,’ ” said Ballesteros. “It was someplace happy for her, to be somewhere other than stuck in her reality.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11870870\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11870870 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/IMG_0430-e1619194664473-800x712.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"712\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/IMG_0430-e1619194664473-800x712.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/IMG_0430-e1619194664473-1020x908.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/IMG_0430-e1619194664473-160x142.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/IMG_0430-e1619194664473-1536x1367.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/IMG_0430-e1619194664473.jpeg 1619w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carlos and Sylvia Morton on April 17, 1975. The newlyweds had just returned from Mexico and were celebrating with family. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Yolanda Ballesteros)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In junior high school, Morton took refuge at friends’ homes, where she met a tall, green-eyed goofball named Carlos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“From the moment she met him, she said they would laugh and talk,” said Ballesteros. “She said he was so handsome and funny. She was drawn to him like a magnet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was drawn to her deep dimples and long black hair. Carlos, who lived with his grandmother, invited Morton for breakfast almost every day so she’d have something to eat before school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My mother always said that my dad rescued her,” said Ballesteros. “When she was 12 she decided that he was the love of her life and she was going to marry him. And at 15, she did.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Becoming ‘Mom’ at 15\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>With her dad’s blessing, the pair married in Mexico and began growing their family immediately. Morton became a young mom at the age of 15. They had five children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We kind of grew up together,” said Ballesteros, whose mother had her at 17. She remembered sitting on Morton’s longboard and holding onto her leg while skating downtown for snow cones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I remember when I was about 4 years old, my mom taught me how to do backflips in our front yard,” said Ballesteros. “And she didn’t instruct me. She actually showed me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even as a young mom, Morton was committed to providing her children with more than she had had. Her daughters remember Morton “lining us up like little soldiers” to comb their hair and ensure their clothes were clean.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On weekends, the family would pack into their dad’s ’51 Chevy Deluxe lowrider, which he built with Carlos Jr. They would cruise around while blasting oldies like Brenton Wood, Morton’s favorite.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Leaning Into Ambition\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>At 26, Morton decided to have another baby, “this time as an adult,” said Ballesteros. A few months after giving birth to her baby girl, Marlene, Morton decided to become a certified medical assistant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She wanted us to be educated, to have good careers, to be self-sufficient, to take care of ourselves,” said Ballesteros. “And she showed us by example how to do that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morton’s transition back to school wasn’t always easy on the family. Especially for 8-year-old Yolie, who had been the youngest child up until recently. Now, she had to help her dad care for baby Marlene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“During the graduation ceremony she called me up onstage and she gave me the rose that was given with her certificate,” said Ballesteros, crying. “She told me I earned it as much as she did.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the years after, Morton rose through the ranks from certified medical assistant to radiology technician. In 1996, she moved the family to Riverside after landing a job at Parkview Community Hospital. She became the director of emergency room admissions within a few years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout her career, Morton encouraged young people in the Native American community to dream big, too. A master beader, she learned from the elders around her, and taught weekly art and music classes at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sobobatanf.org/\">Soboba Tribal TANF\u003c/a>. Ballesteros recalled her mother packing the auditorium when talking to students from the local Sherman Indian High School.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She would let them know that getting your diploma is great and it’s a necessity to move further in life, but there’s more,” said Ballesteros. “Push yourself to do more.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11870871\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 738px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11870871 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/IMG_4295.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"738\" height=\"553\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/IMG_4295.jpeg 738w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/IMG_4295-160x120.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 738px) 100vw, 738px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carlos Sr. and Sylvia attending their son Carlos Jr.’s graduation from Pacific High in San Bernardino in June 1994. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Yolanda Ballesteros)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Morton mentored Native students and hired them whenever she could. Her ambition rubbed off on her own children, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just knew that she was always happy going to work. She would not ever call off. She always went. If there’s a will, there’s a way,” said Marlene Morton. “Like, in the middle of the night she’d be on call. We would be on a family dinner and my mom would tell my dad, ‘OK, I’m on call. I need to go.’ I wanted to be like my mom.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Almost all of Morton’s family got into the medical field. The baby of the family, Marlene, eventually inherited her mom’s job heading up the ER billing and coding for Parkview Community Hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now I’m doing a job that my mom created,” said the younger Morton. “I didn’t notice until a few years ago that I actually followed my mom’s footsteps. We do exactly the same thing for work. It feels amazing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Working on the Front Lines During the COVID-19 Pandemic \u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Morton started planning for the COVID-19 pandemic before the outbreaks in California. She and Yolie got to work early sewing masks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She’d wear her N95 mask and then she’d wear a bedazzled mask on top of that,” said Ballesteros. “I bought her a shield. She bedazzled the shield.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morton also moved her Native American art classes to YouTube in a series she called “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcCOB0hJQUTFRmGOJ7zbT6w\">Sylvia Morton’s Native Notions\u003c/a>.” Morton enlisted each of her grandchildren to help make the videos. She squeezed in filming sessions between long, grueling nights in the emergency department at Riverside Community Hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her daughters begged her to take time off from work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At that time that she got COVID, it was like wildfire,” said Ballesteros. “I kept telling her, ‘You have PTO. Use your time off.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morton insisted on working, explaining that she had a responsibility to help during the COVID-19 crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I felt a little selfish because I was like, ‘Your responsibility is us, your family,’ ” said Ballesteros. “But she continued to go to work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The entire family gathered together for the last time on Thanksgiving. Soon after, Morton tested positive for COVID-19. Her son, Carlos Jr., who had also recently started working at the hospital, tested positive, too. Ballesteros said her mother and brother were extremely close.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She was 15 when she had him,” Ballesteros said. “He was a natural-born leader. He really picked that up from my mom.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morton and Carlos Jr. were treated alongside one another in Room #15 at Parkview Community Hospital. Marlene Morton, who was on staff there, rang in the New Year with them. Carlos Jr. died on Jan. 1, just a few hours later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel that it was God giving my mom the last few hours with her son,” said Marlene Morton. “I think my brother felt comfort the moment he saw my mom and knew that she was in the bed next to him. There didn’t have to be words. They could just look at each other.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morton was moved out of the room just hours before her son passed away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She said she knew within her body and her heart [that he had died],” said Marlene Morton. “She said she knew from her motherly instincts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morton’s health declined rapidly after her son passed away. She died a week later on Jan. 8, 2021, at age 61.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11870869\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11870869 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/IMG_1641-800x533.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/IMG_1641-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/IMG_1641-1020x680.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/IMG_1641-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/IMG_1641-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/IMG_1641.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Morton family attends Marlene Morton’s son Fernando’s graduation in May 2019. ‘We are a very loving, supporting and passionate family,’ said Yolanda Ballesteros. ‘We love each other endlessly.’ \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Yolanda Ballesteros)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since then, Marlene Morton and Ballesteros say their parents’ house feels too quiet. They miss family traditions, like packing the entire family into several cars and caravaning an hour away just to get tacos. But looking back at their mother’s life, there’s one thing her daughters know she’d be proud of: her family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sylvia Morton is survived by her husband, four children, 11 grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She was an amazing mother for not being able to have her mother growing up,” said Marlene Morton. “You would not believe that this woman could create such a beautiful family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Overcoming a Difficult Childhood\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Sylvia Morton was born in San Bernardino on May 31,1959. She was a proud member of the Cahuilla Tribe and grew up just south of the San Manuel Indian Reservation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her mother died when she was just 3 years old. Her father was an alcoholic, so Morton spent her childhood shuttling between relatives’ homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every single day they had beans,” said Ballesteros. “There was always a pot of beans made. And everyone had a ration. And if you were not home in time, then if it was gone, it was gone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morton told her daughters about wearing hand-me-downs and borrowing her friends’ dolls. In the absence of the nurturing family she craved, she escaped by watching sitcoms like “Gilligan’s Island” and “The Partridge Family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She would sing and be a part of the ‘Partridge Family,’ ” said Ballesteros. “It was someplace happy for her, to be somewhere other than stuck in her reality.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11870870\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11870870 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/IMG_0430-e1619194664473-800x712.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"712\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/IMG_0430-e1619194664473-800x712.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/IMG_0430-e1619194664473-1020x908.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/IMG_0430-e1619194664473-160x142.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/IMG_0430-e1619194664473-1536x1367.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/IMG_0430-e1619194664473.jpeg 1619w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carlos and Sylvia Morton on April 17, 1975. The newlyweds had just returned from Mexico and were celebrating with family. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Yolanda Ballesteros)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In junior high school, Morton took refuge at friends’ homes, where she met a tall, green-eyed goofball named Carlos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“From the moment she met him, she said they would laugh and talk,” said Ballesteros. “She said he was so handsome and funny. She was drawn to him like a magnet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was drawn to her deep dimples and long black hair. Carlos, who lived with his grandmother, invited Morton for breakfast almost every day so she’d have something to eat before school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My mother always said that my dad rescued her,” said Ballesteros. “When she was 12 she decided that he was the love of her life and she was going to marry him. And at 15, she did.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Becoming ‘Mom’ at 15\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>With her dad’s blessing, the pair married in Mexico and began growing their family immediately. Morton became a young mom at the age of 15. They had five children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We kind of grew up together,” said Ballesteros, whose mother had her at 17. She remembered sitting on Morton’s longboard and holding onto her leg while skating downtown for snow cones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I remember when I was about 4 years old, my mom taught me how to do backflips in our front yard,” said Ballesteros. “And she didn’t instruct me. She actually showed me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even as a young mom, Morton was committed to providing her children with more than she had had. Her daughters remember Morton “lining us up like little soldiers” to comb their hair and ensure their clothes were clean.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On weekends, the family would pack into their dad’s ’51 Chevy Deluxe lowrider, which he built with Carlos Jr. They would cruise around while blasting oldies like Brenton Wood, Morton’s favorite.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Leaning Into Ambition\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>At 26, Morton decided to have another baby, “this time as an adult,” said Ballesteros. A few months after giving birth to her baby girl, Marlene, Morton decided to become a certified medical assistant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She wanted us to be educated, to have good careers, to be self-sufficient, to take care of ourselves,” said Ballesteros. “And she showed us by example how to do that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morton’s transition back to school wasn’t always easy on the family. Especially for 8-year-old Yolie, who had been the youngest child up until recently. Now, she had to help her dad care for baby Marlene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“During the graduation ceremony she called me up onstage and she gave me the rose that was given with her certificate,” said Ballesteros, crying. “She told me I earned it as much as she did.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the years after, Morton rose through the ranks from certified medical assistant to radiology technician. In 1996, she moved the family to Riverside after landing a job at Parkview Community Hospital. She became the director of emergency room admissions within a few years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout her career, Morton encouraged young people in the Native American community to dream big, too. A master beader, she learned from the elders around her, and taught weekly art and music classes at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sobobatanf.org/\">Soboba Tribal TANF\u003c/a>. Ballesteros recalled her mother packing the auditorium when talking to students from the local Sherman Indian High School.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She would let them know that getting your diploma is great and it’s a necessity to move further in life, but there’s more,” said Ballesteros. “Push yourself to do more.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11870871\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 738px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11870871 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/IMG_4295.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"738\" height=\"553\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/IMG_4295.jpeg 738w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/IMG_4295-160x120.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 738px) 100vw, 738px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carlos Sr. and Sylvia attending their son Carlos Jr.’s graduation from Pacific High in San Bernardino in June 1994. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Yolanda Ballesteros)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Morton mentored Native students and hired them whenever she could. Her ambition rubbed off on her own children, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just knew that she was always happy going to work. She would not ever call off. She always went. If there’s a will, there’s a way,” said Marlene Morton. “Like, in the middle of the night she’d be on call. We would be on a family dinner and my mom would tell my dad, ‘OK, I’m on call. I need to go.’ I wanted to be like my mom.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Almost all of Morton’s family got into the medical field. The baby of the family, Marlene, eventually inherited her mom’s job heading up the ER billing and coding for Parkview Community Hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now I’m doing a job that my mom created,” said the younger Morton. “I didn’t notice until a few years ago that I actually followed my mom’s footsteps. We do exactly the same thing for work. It feels amazing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Working on the Front Lines During the COVID-19 Pandemic \u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Morton started planning for the COVID-19 pandemic before the outbreaks in California. She and Yolie got to work early sewing masks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She’d wear her N95 mask and then she’d wear a bedazzled mask on top of that,” said Ballesteros. “I bought her a shield. She bedazzled the shield.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morton also moved her Native American art classes to YouTube in a series she called “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcCOB0hJQUTFRmGOJ7zbT6w\">Sylvia Morton’s Native Notions\u003c/a>.” Morton enlisted each of her grandchildren to help make the videos. She squeezed in filming sessions between long, grueling nights in the emergency department at Riverside Community Hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her daughters begged her to take time off from work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At that time that she got COVID, it was like wildfire,” said Ballesteros. “I kept telling her, ‘You have PTO. Use your time off.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morton insisted on working, explaining that she had a responsibility to help during the COVID-19 crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I felt a little selfish because I was like, ‘Your responsibility is us, your family,’ ” said Ballesteros. “But she continued to go to work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The entire family gathered together for the last time on Thanksgiving. Soon after, Morton tested positive for COVID-19. Her son, Carlos Jr., who had also recently started working at the hospital, tested positive, too. Ballesteros said her mother and brother were extremely close.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She was 15 when she had him,” Ballesteros said. “He was a natural-born leader. He really picked that up from my mom.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morton and Carlos Jr. were treated alongside one another in Room #15 at Parkview Community Hospital. Marlene Morton, who was on staff there, rang in the New Year with them. Carlos Jr. died on Jan. 1, just a few hours later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel that it was God giving my mom the last few hours with her son,” said Marlene Morton. “I think my brother felt comfort the moment he saw my mom and knew that she was in the bed next to him. There didn’t have to be words. They could just look at each other.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morton was moved out of the room just hours before her son passed away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She said she knew within her body and her heart [that he had died],” said Marlene Morton. “She said she knew from her motherly instincts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morton’s health declined rapidly after her son passed away. She died a week later on Jan. 8, 2021, at age 61.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11870869\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11870869 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/IMG_1641-800x533.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/IMG_1641-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/IMG_1641-1020x680.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/IMG_1641-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/IMG_1641-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/IMG_1641.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Morton family attends Marlene Morton’s son Fernando’s graduation in May 2019. ‘We are a very loving, supporting and passionate family,’ said Yolanda Ballesteros. ‘We love each other endlessly.’ \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Yolanda Ballesteros)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since then, Marlene Morton and Ballesteros say their parents’ house feels too quiet. They miss family traditions, like packing the entire family into several cars and caravaning an hour away just to get tacos. But looking back at their mother’s life, there’s one thing her daughters know she’d be proud of: her family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sylvia Morton is survived by her husband, four children, 11 grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She was an amazing mother for not being able to have her mother growing up,” said Marlene Morton. “You would not believe that this woman could create such a beautiful family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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This paid time off gives you 80 extra hours of leave — on top of any existing PTO or sick time balances you have — to be used if you find yourself unable to work because you have COVID-19, or are caring for a family member who does. But it also covers going to your own vaccine appointment, and also any sick time afterward “due to vaccine-related symptoms.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>COVID-19 SPSL applies to all employers in California, public or private, with more than 25 employees, including those with collective bargaining agreements. So if you work for a small business, you might unfortunately find you’re not able to access COVID-19 SPSL — but if that’s you, it could still be worth talking to your employer to see what’s possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This leave is also retroactive to Jan. 1, 2021. So if you didn’t know about it (or your employer didn’t tell you about it), and you have already taken PTO to get your vaccine or sick time after your shot, you can now request to your employer that you claim that time back and have it covered by COVID-19 SPSL. \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/COVID19Resources/FAQ-for-SPSL-2021.html\">Find out more about this coverage.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>2. Caregivers: Consider a Drive-Thru Vaccine Appointment\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Are you a parent or someone who cares for children or family members who’s unable to secure someone to cover you as you go get your COVID-19 vaccine, and worried about the idea of standing in line with kids for a stretch of time?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you have access to a car, you might find a drive-thru vaccine appointment more convenient for bringing family members along. You can find drive-thru appointments through the state’s \u003ca href=\"https://myturn.ca.gov/\">My Turn\u003c/a> vaccination site — look for locations like the Oakland Coliseum and the site at Albany’s Golden Gate Fields racetrack (it’ll show as ‘Buchanan St. Parking Lot next to Albany Bulb’ on My Turn).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re bringing children along to your vaccination appointment, remember that drive-thru lines can get long, even if you have a scheduled appointment time, so be prepared to keep your car-mates occupied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Children might also naturally have questions about the vaccination process (why are you getting it? Do the needles hurt? Why can’t kids get vaccinated yet?) and you might like to think ahead about how you’ll answer any curiosity around vaccines. Caregivers of younger children might also like to watch this video, “\u003ca href=\"https://pbskids.org/video/daniel-tigers-neighborhood/2365025113\">It’s Time for Daniel’s Shot\u003c/a>,” from PBS Kids’ Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood, in advance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11855623 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Vaccination-Prep-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>3. 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The agencies said the chance of the blood clotting disorder is “very low” and has affected mainly women under age 50.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CDC vaccine advisory committee did not recommend an additional warning. Several members expressed concerns that a warning could increase vaccine hesitancy, while others worried about the ramifications of not including a warning. That information will likely be added to the instructions and fact sheets for the Johnson & Johnson vaccine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2021/04/13/986709618/u-s-recommends-pausing-use-of-johnson-johnson-vaccine-over-blood-clot-concerns\">The hold\u003c/a> on Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine was prompted by six reported cases of a severe blood clotting disorder called cerebral venous sinus thrombosis, or CVST, among the 7.2 million shots of the one-dose vaccine administered in the United States. 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It found a troubling lack of workplace protections for reducing the spread of COVID-19, with many employees worried they were putting their lives at risk to earn a paycheck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About two-thirds of the survey’s respondents were concentrated in the Bay Area, and included many immigrants and people of color. Many feared contracting the virus at work and infecting others at home, as well as not being able to support their families if they got sick.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, employers \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dosh/coronavirus/ETS.html#:~:text=California%20recently%20approved%20Cal%2FOSHA,OSHA's%20Aerosol%20Transmissible%20Diseases%20standard.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">must\u003c/a> provide health and safety information and training, and let workers know of coronavirus-related benefits available to them, such as paid sick leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But more than half of the surveyed workers said their employer did not inform them what to do if they had COVID-19 symptoms or exposure. And three in five surveyed said they weren’t informed about their right to use paid sick leave for COVID-19, according to the report titled “Few Options, Many Risks.” [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Winnie Kao, attorney with the Asian Law Caucus\"]‘Workers really feel that they’re risking their livelihood to push back in any way, and that if you speak up either about your symptoms or about lack of protections, you’re potentially losing your job.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The results are troubling for efforts to contain the virus, since one in three respondents felt uncomfortable reporting coronavirus symptoms to their bosses, said Winnie Kao, an attorney with San Francisco’s Asian Law Caucus and one of the authors of the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There might be protections out there on paper, but many folks don’t know about them,” said Kao, who leads her organization’s workers rights project. “Workers really feel that they’re risking their livelihood to push back in any way, and that if you speak up either about your symptoms or about lack of protections, you’re potentially losing your job.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kao said many workers are not speaking up about COVID-19 concerns out of fear of retaliation or doubt that their employer will address the problem. But even worse, dozens of workers who did ask for COVID-19 protections, such as masks or paid leave, reported retaliation from their employers, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11870819\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11870819\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/View20recent20photos-800x919.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"919\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/View20recent20photos-800x919.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/View20recent20photos-160x184.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/View20recent20photos.jpeg 828w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lorena Velazquez, a mother of two sons, says her employer retaliated by cutting her hours after she took time off to get her COVID-19 vaccine and recover from side effects. \u003ccite>(Fight for $15 campaign)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The survey was disseminated through nonprofit groups serving immigrants and low-wage workers, and about 40% of respondents identified as Asian, with another 40% Latinos. The vast majority of participants responded to the survey in Chinese or Spanish, suggesting they were immigrants, said Kao.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lower-income communities of color have been disproportionately impacted by the virus. For example, since the beginning of the pandemic, 10,400 working-age Latinos in California have died from COVID-19, four times the number of white people in the same age group, according to California Department of Public Health figures. People who work outside the home face a higher risk of exposure to the virus, say public health experts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But basic prevention measures were not available to many of the workers surveyed, with 33% of all respondents — including more than half of restaurant workers — saying they could not physically distance most of the time at work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Employers in California are responsible for providing masks or reimbursing employees who buy their own, but 12% of respondents said they did not receive face coverings or protective equipment from their bosses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another troubling finding of the report: nearly one in five workers reported being paid less than the state’s minimum wage. The report authors say that’s often a signal of other violations in the workplace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokeswoman for the California Department of Industrial Relations said the agency’s enforcement divisions have been working hard to educate employers about their responsibilities and to investigate workplace complaints.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the beginning of the pandemic, the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA) has issued more than $4.6 million in citations for COVID-related health and safety violations, said Erika Monterroza, with the Department of Industrial Relations. She added that the Labor Commissioner’s Office is investigating more than 1,200 wage and retaliation complaints connected to the coronavirus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unsafe working conditions, wage theft and employer retaliation are long-standing problems for the lowest paid workers in the state. But the pandemic has brought a new urgency to addressing these abuses, and fixing them will require more funding, staffing and attention at the government agencies that enforce labor laws, said Alejandra Domenzain, a co-author of the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"large\" align=\"center\" citation=\"Alejandra Domenzain, program coordinator, Labor Occupational Health Program, UC Berkeley\"]‘As long as there is no vigorous enforcement of labor laws, employers will continue to violate workers’ rights.[/pullquote]\u003cbr>\n“As long as there is no vigorous enforcement of labor laws, employers will continue to violate workers’ rights,” said Domenzain, a program coordinator at the Labor Occupational Health Program at UC Berkeley. “If an employer knows that there will be absolutely no accountability, then there’s very little incentive for a lot of these low-wage employers to comply with the law.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, workers \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/covid/paid-sick-leave.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">are entitled\u003c/a> to up to 80 hours of paid sick leave (depending on the size of their employer) if they have coronavirus symptoms, must care for a relative with COVID-19 or have vaccine-related side effects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when Lorena Velazquez took time off to get her vaccine on April 6 and then recover from an ensuing fever and arm pain, she said her employer at a McDonald’s in Oakland retaliated by cutting her hours in half.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I used to work four days per week regularly, but then they only gave me two days,” said Velazquez, 45, in Spanish. “Now I’m worried about paying my bills and rent.” [aside tag=\"workers-rights, low-wage\" label=\"More Related Stories\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the help of worker advocates, Velazquez filed a complaint about the alleged retaliation with the Labor Commissioner’s Office this week. Other workers at the same McDonald’s also filed complaints with Cal/OSHA, alleging their employer failed to notify them of potential exposure to co-workers confirmed with COVID-19, \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dosh/coronavirus/AB6852020FAQs.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">as required\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The restaurant’s manager was not available to respond to requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, Velazquez, who has two young sons to support, rallied with other fast food workers outside the McDonald’s on E. 12th St. in Oakland in support of a state bill that aims to improve conditions for fast food workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB257\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Assembly Bill 257\u003c/a>, by Democratic Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez of San Diego, would also make fast food franchisors liable for violations of employment, safety and other laws by their franchisees.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Resources:\u003c/h3>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Additional information on reporting a labor violation can be found \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/DLSE/Know_Your_Rights.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here\u003c/a> (available in English, Spanish, Chinese, Korean, Russian, Tagalog and Vietnamese).\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Report a labor law violation \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/HowToReportViolationtoBOFE.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>How to file a retaliation/discrimination complaint can be found \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/HowToFileRetaliationComplaint.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Front-line workers in the Bay Area and other parts of California say their bosses often fail to inform them of their rights during the pandemic, and sometimes even retaliate when they ask for COVID-19 protections, according to a new survey of hundreds of workers in the restaurant, home health care, janitorial and other industries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.advancingjustice-alc.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/ALC-Workers-Rights-COVID-Report-202103-R7_digital.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">report\u003c/a>, which was published Wednesday, polled more than 630 mostly low-wage workers as coronavirus cases spiked last fall. It found a troubling lack of workplace protections for reducing the spread of COVID-19, with many employees worried they were putting their lives at risk to earn a paycheck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About two-thirds of the survey’s respondents were concentrated in the Bay Area, and included many immigrants and people of color. Many feared contracting the virus at work and infecting others at home, as well as not being able to support their families if they got sick.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, employers \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dosh/coronavirus/ETS.html#:~:text=California%20recently%20approved%20Cal%2FOSHA,OSHA's%20Aerosol%20Transmissible%20Diseases%20standard.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">must\u003c/a> provide health and safety information and training, and let workers know of coronavirus-related benefits available to them, such as paid sick leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But more than half of the surveyed workers said their employer did not inform them what to do if they had COVID-19 symptoms or exposure. And three in five surveyed said they weren’t informed about their right to use paid sick leave for COVID-19, according to the report titled “Few Options, Many Risks.” \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the help of worker advocates, Velazquez filed a complaint about the alleged retaliation with the Labor Commissioner’s Office this week. Other workers at the same McDonald’s also filed complaints with Cal/OSHA, alleging their employer failed to notify them of potential exposure to co-workers confirmed with COVID-19, \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dosh/coronavirus/AB6852020FAQs.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">as required\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The restaurant’s manager was not available to respond to requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, Velazquez, who has two young sons to support, rallied with other fast food workers outside the McDonald’s on E. 12th St. in Oakland in support of a state bill that aims to improve conditions for fast food workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB257\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Assembly Bill 257\u003c/a>, by Democratic Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez of San Diego, would also make fast food franchisors liable for violations of employment, safety and other laws by their franchisees.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Resources:\u003c/h3>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Additional information on reporting a labor violation can be found \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/DLSE/Know_Your_Rights.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here\u003c/a> (available in English, Spanish, Chinese, Korean, Russian, Tagalog and Vietnamese).\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Report a labor law violation \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/HowToReportViolationtoBOFE.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>How to file a retaliation/discrimination complaint can be found \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/HowToFileRetaliationComplaint.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This story contains a \u003ca href=\"#correction\">correction\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11873099/como-declarar-sus-impuestos-si-recibio-beneficios-por-desempleo-que-saber-y-donde-encontrar-ayuda\">Leer en español\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Skip straight to: \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#help\">Where to find free or low-cost tax help resources online\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>The 2021 IRS deadline for filing your taxes has been pushed to May 17 to give people more time to get organized in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even with this extra time, your situation is likely to be even more complicated if you’ve been unemployed during the course of the pandemic — since you have to pay taxes on federal unemployment if you earned above a certain amount in benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the new IRS tax filing deadline now less than a month away, here's what you need to know about filing your taxes if you've claimed unemployment benefits this year — and where you can find free or low-cost tax help, even after many such support services closed up shop on the original IRS deadline of April 15.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>I Received Unemployment Benefits in 2020. How Are They Taxed?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Unlike many other states, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ftb.ca.gov/file/personal/income-types/unemployment.html\">Californians do not have to pay state income tax on unemployment benefits\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc418\">Unemployment benefits \u003cem>are\u003c/em> subject to federal taxes\u003c/a>, but the American Rescue Plan created \u003ca href=\"https://www.irs.gov/forms-pubs/new-exclusion-of-up-to-10200-of-unemployment-compensation\">new thresholds for what’s taxable\u003c/a> in this case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If your modified adjusted gross income (AGI) is less than $150,000, for singles or married people filing separately, you don’t have to pay taxes on the first $10,200 of 2020 unemployment benefits you earned. For married people filing jointly, if each spouse received unemployment, this exemption applies to the first $10,200 worth of benefits for both individuals. If your modified AGI is $150,000 or more, this exemption does not apply to you. And the threshold stays the same for all statuses — it will not double to $300, 000 if you are married and filing a joint return, for example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you file a Form 1040-NR (or \u003ca href=\"https://www.irs.gov/forms-pubs/about-form-1040-nr\">U.S. Non Resident Alien Income Tax Return\u003c/a>), the IRS says your spouse isn’t eligible for the tax break on the first $10,200 worth of benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the Employment Development Department (EDD), \u003ca href=\"https://www.edd.ca.gov/unemployment/Get_Tax_Information_(Form_1099G).htm\">Pandemic Additional Compensation\u003c/a> — that extra $600 federal benefit bump people got from March until late July, and the extra $300 federal benefit bump people started getting in late December — is taxable and must be included in your gross income. However, don’t confuse this money with one-off stimulus checks from the U.S. government (most recently $1,400), which are not taxable. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11867087\">Read more about pandemic federal benefits if you're claiming unemployment in California.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What Kind of Unemployment Documentation Do I Need For Filing My Taxes?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>If you received unemployment benefits in 2020, EDD should have already sent you \u003ca href=\"https://www.edd.ca.gov/unemployment/pdf/1099G-info-sheet.pdf\">your 1099G form\u003c/a>, which is a record of the total taxable income EDD has issued to you in a calendar year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you haven’t gotten this form for some reason, you can print one or request a paper copy through your \u003ca href=\"https://edd.ca.gov/Unemployment/UI_Online.htm\">UI Online\u003c/a> account on EDD’s website.\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[aside postID=\"news_11862122\"]\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>EDD recommends that if your 1099G form shows a $0 amount, you should call 1-866-401-2849 (Monday through Friday, from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m.) \u003ca href=\"https://askedd.edd.ca.gov/AskEDD/s/topicdetail?cat=Form_1099G&catN=Form_1099G&scat=Form%201099G&scatN=Form_1099G&ttitle=I%20don%E2%80%99t%20agree%20with%20the%20amount%20on%20my%20Form%201099G.&topicid=ka0t0000000Li5ZAAS&parentSubCat=false\">You can also report form problems online\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What If I Didn’t Collect Unemployment Benefits in 2020, but I Still Received a Form 1099G?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Considering \u003ca href=\"https://www.edd.ca.gov/unemployment/pdf/fraud-info-sheet.pdf\">EDD has already confirmed it’s paid out more than $10 billion in fraudulent claims\u003c/a>, there will certainly be tax forms going out to people whose identities have been used to file fake claims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you get a form documenting funds you never received, EDD says to call 1-866-401-2849, but “I would encourage people to use the online tool versus trying to call,” said Amy Spivey, director of the \u003ca href=\"https://tax.uchastings.edu/litc/\">UC Hastings Low-Income Taxpayer Clinic\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can \u003ca href=\"https://askedd.edd.ca.gov/AskEDD/s/topic?parentSubCat=false&scatN=Form_1099G&scatL=Form+1099G&category=Form_1099G&cat=Form_1099G\">report fraud on your 1099G form\u003c/a> on \u003ca href=\"https://askedd.edd.ca.gov/AskEDD/s/\">EDD's site\u003c/a>. Just follow the topic boxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11870636\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1900px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11870636\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/edd-screenshot.jpg\" alt=\"A screenshot of the EDD websi\" width=\"1900\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/edd-screenshot.jpg 1900w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/edd-screenshot-800x539.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/edd-screenshot-1020x687.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/edd-screenshot-160x108.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/edd-screenshot-1536x1035.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1900px) 100vw, 1900px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A screenshot of EDD's website, showing various options for questioning issues with your 1099G form. \u003ccite>(EDD)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If you feel there is an error on your 1099G form and can’t get an amended one from EDD before filing time, make sure you \u003cem>don’t\u003c/em> report that income when you file your taxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Spivey, if there’s a mismatch between the earnings on your return and a 1099G the IRS has for you in its system, you’ll likely get a notice flagging underreported income. \"And then at that point, you could respond directly to the IRS as well,\" advised Spivey. The downside of that, she said, is that if you're eligible for a refund, it could delay it.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>How Do Withholdings Work With Unemployment Income?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\"You aren’t required to take any tax withholdings from your unemployment,\" said Spivey — but you could have opted in to a flat 10% withholding previously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spivey said most people she’s seen through her work \u003cem>haven’t\u003c/em> had withholdings on their unemployment benefits. \"I had expected that this was going to be a big problem for the 2020 tax filing season,\" said Spivey, \"but ultimately, I don’t think it’s been much of an issue.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She attributed that to the exemption thresholds put in through the American Rescue Plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Should I Just Submit for an Extension on Filing My Taxes?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Spivey said she anticipates \"a significant number of people that will not do [their taxes] this year, and then get charged penalties and interest.\" Sometimes people then experience a \"snowball effect,\" she said. \"They don't do one year and then it causes anxiety, and then they just don't do them for a couple of years.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spivey strongly encouraged people to file their taxes to avoid getting sucked into this cycle. If you need more time, \u003ca href=\"https://www.irs.gov/forms-pubs/extension-of-time-to-file-your-tax-return\">submitting for an extension via a Form 4868\u003c/a> will buy you until Oct. 15 to file your tax return.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you're anticipating needing help to file, remember that filing after the official deadline will mean that many of the free and low-cost options for tax prep that \u003cem>would\u003c/em> have been available before that date are no longer available. And speaking of tax help ...\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"help\">\u003c/a>Where Can I Find Free or Low-Cost Help Filing My Taxes, and When Will It Be Available?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Spivey said one of the main questions she’s getting lately is: \"Who can still help me?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s because a chunk of the free and low-cost support services close up shop on April 15, despite the deadline extension to May 17.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is year-round tax help through groups like \u003ca href=\"https://tax-aid.org/\">Tax-Aid\u003c/a>. 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