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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>LightHouse's Friday vaccination clinic at 1155 Market St. in San Francisco is open by appointment only. To make an appointment, call 628-652-2700. You'll speak to a member of San Francisco's city vaccination call center who will ask for some basic personal information and your health care provider details, and give you more accessibility details about the appointment process and what to expect at the pop-up clinic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LightHouse's appointment line is staffed from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday to Friday. If you need to call outside those hours, you can leave a voicemail message to request a callback. This line is available in both Spanish and English, and LightHouse says that interpreters for other languages can be made available when you leave a voicemail requesting a callback. \u003ca href=\"https://lighthouse-sf.org/mc-events/lighthouse-hq-covid-19-vaccination-site-4/?mc_id=10396\">More information about LightHouse's vaccination clinic\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Remember: When it's your time to get vaccinated, your COVID-19 vaccine will be free. You do not need health insurance to be vaccinated. You also will not be asked for proof of citizenship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Stacy Lira was nearly a year into her unofficial job as an unemployment-claim detective when things went from bad to worse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 46-year-old mother of three, who lost her job managing an Inland Empire convenience store last spring, was rushed to the hospital in mid-February. She was struggling to breathe after testing positive for COVID-19. But Lira was adamant that she couldn’t leave home without one thing: She needed her carefully filed unemployment records so she could keep calling from the hospital about the nearly $20,000 she says the state owes her family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you miss one day,” Lira explained, “that could have been the day that it all worked out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the ranks of desperate California workers like Lira swell, the state’s embattled Employment Development Department insists it’s getting things under control. It has help from an ever-expanding roster of private contractors that are staffing up call centers, modernizing tech systems and rooting out fraud, agency officials have stressed on \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CA_EDD/status/1361057652290297857?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">social media\u003c/a> and at political \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/2021/01/bank-of-america-lost-hundreds-of-millions-on-california-unemployment-fiasco/\">hearings in Sacramento\u003c/a>. That effort, all told, has so far cost the state at least $236 million during the pandemic, the agency told CalMatters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11867087 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/pexels-cottonbro-5054213-scaled.jpg']The contracts are part of a \u003ca href=\"https://themarkup.org/coronavirus/2020/07/16/unemployment-benefits-website-failures-deloitte-ibm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">nationwide unemployment gold rush\u003c/a>, as tech companies and consultants pitch overwhelmed public agencies new solutions for fraud and outdated claims systems. One \u003ca href=\"https://news.bloomberglaw.com/tech-and-telecom-law/deloitte-others-reap-big-contracts-from-unemployment-deluge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bloomberg Law report\u003c/a> last summer tallied $173.8 million in pandemic-era unemployment contracts for the consulting giants Accenture, Deloitte and EY alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in California, it’s not easy to track who’s getting paid for what, because there is no easily accessible public list of all state contracts for unemployment services. The state and its contractors stress that both the demand for benefits and volume of fraud are unprecedented. 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CalMatters requested and analyzed detailed contract records for five vendors working on key customer service and anti-fraud projects, with contracts totaling at least $103.8 million, ballooning in cost over time, but which the state says were crucial in a crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The volume of work was staggering,” EDD spokesperson Aubrey Henry \u003ca href=\"https://edd.ca.gov/About_EDD/pdf/news-20-21.pdf\">said in a statement\u003c/a>. Calls from the public jumped 3,400% to 48 million in April 2020, as the state scrambled to process more than 20 million claims, he said, up from 3.8 million claims at the peak of the Great Recession.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Vendors, mass hiring, redirecting workers from within the department, and borrowing workers from other departments, and continued staffing up, were all part of an effort to respond to the historic demand for benefits,” Henry said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The majority of these new contracts went to consulting giant Deloitte, but several other vendors have also signed major deals in recent months, according to the contracts provided to CalMatters:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>At least $69 million went to Deloitte in no-bid emergency contracts for call center and IT services.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Government contracting giant Maximus signed on to provide up to $11.5 million worth of phone staffing services.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The state paid $9.5 million to IT firm V3Gate to obtain ID.me identity verification services.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Outreach Solutions As A Service, a Sacramento consultancy, sold the state $9.4 million worth of services and software, mostly from Salesforce.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Thomson Reuters signed $4.2 million in contracts for analytics related to fraud.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>The state has yet to disclose a price tag for another \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CA_EDD/status/1361057652290297857?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">recently announced\u003c/a> deal with Accenture, which the EDD said it is still negotiating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://e.infogram.com/d9e6c62c-aa27-464d-8fd0-98ce84087faa?src=embed\" title=\"EDD Gold Rush\" width=\"800\" height=\"750\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While recent state audits \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletters/whatmatters/2021/01/how-edd-failed-to-detect-fraud/\">recommend\u003c/a> more tech vendors to deal with remaining challenges, some government watchdogs question what EDD and agencies like it are getting for their money with the pricey contracts. In recent years, the trend toward outsourcing increasingly large chunks of the social safety net has led to a trail of lawsuits and investigations in other states, including scrutiny of \u003ca href=\"https://news.bloomberglaw.com/privacy-and-data-security/deloitte-sued-over-pandemic-unemployment-website-data-breaches\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Deloitte\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/12/how-one-company-is-making-millions-off-trumps-war-on-the-poor/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Maximus\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California lawmakers, meanwhile, have called Deloitte’s call centers “a mess,” and blamed the company for failing to answer millions of calls from jobless workers, \u003ca href=\"https://www.capradio.org/articles/2021/03/11/cost-of-deloittes-edd-phone-center-balloons-to-55m-as-millions-of-calls-go-unanswered/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CapRadio\u003c/a> reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one notable exception to the unemployment spending spree, the department has kept making money during the pandemic-induced recession on a high-profile contract with Bank of America. Under that deal \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/2020/11/how-bank-of-america-helped-fuel-californias-unemployment-meltdown/\">first detailed by CalMatters\u003c/a>, the bank provides prepaid unemployment debit cards to workers — many of whom have reported issues with fraud and frozen accounts — and the state and the bank \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2021/02/how-edd-and-bank-of-america-make-millions-on-california-unemployment/\">split millions in revenue\u003c/a> from transaction fees charged to merchants when the cards are used to purchase things.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since last fall, however, the EDD has refused to say how much Bank of America has made on the deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Stacy Lira, unemployment claimant\"]'I am constantly trying to figure something out for those three claims. If I’m lucky, I’m done around 6 or 7 at night.'[/pullquote]“We understand other vendors are involved with EDD, but there is little visibility into all projects and contracts,” a bipartisan group of five dozen state lawmakers wrote to Gov. Gavin Newsom in \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/states/f/?id=00000173-c015-dbfe-a97f-dbff611b0000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">August\u003c/a>. “The public is owed a clear explanation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether the EDD and its widening array of contractors get it right this time will have huge consequences for workers and businesses who rely on the state’s job safety net. California’s \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/2021/03/california-unemployment-crisis-reform/\">$21 billion and counting\u003c/a> in unemployment debt, with few prospects for major reform, is one factor that could undermine the state's economic recovery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the biggest question for state unemployment programs forged in the Great Depression, strained by the Great Recession and nearly broken by a global pandemic is who they are being built to serve. As taxpayers again pick up the tab to keep the program running, some jobless workers worry that they’re being victimized by panic about fraud while still not getting the money they’re owed.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 id=\"h-keeping-up-with-a-claim-frenzy\">Keeping Up With a Claim Frenzy\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Stacy Lira has always been the family bookkeeper, so it made sense that she would handle the unemployment paperwork when she, her husband and her daughter all found themselves out of work last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she didn’t realize that would spiral into an all-day, everyday routine. Each morning, Lira wakes up in the living room of the family’s two-bedroom apartment in Victorville, pulls out the neat plastic filing bins she keeps stowed under the bed, and gets to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First, there were the months-long delays for her and her daughters’ initial payments. Then thousands of dollars in suspected fraudulent charges on her Bank of America unemployment debit card. Her husband still hasn’t seen a penny, Lira said, after filing for benefits last spring. All their tax forms are a mess.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am constantly trying to figure something out for those three claims,” Lira said. “If I’m lucky, I’m done around 6 or 7 at night.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On top of all the long hours, extended stretches of little or no income have taken a financial and emotional toll. It’s hard for Lira to sleep at night. Every time she hears a truck outside, she worries the power company has finally come to turn off the electricity. With no money to pay the car registration, the family took a Lyft to the hospital when her son’s baby was born in January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"edd\"]And then came the virus. Lira’s memory is still a blur, but her lungs seized up, and she was frantic that no one would be able to figure out the unemployment money or keep food in the cabinets if she was gone. Finally, after a week in the hospital, Lira has mostly recovered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That day in there at the hospital,” she said, “I almost wanted COVID to take over.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Behind the scenes at EDD, a very different scramble has been playing out in response to millions of calls each month from claimants like Lira. In April, Deloitte signed an $11 million emergency call center contract; the department said that “staff cannot keep up.” By early 2021, the contract had grown to $55 million, plus another $14 million for “urgent and temporary” IT services from Deloitte.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maximus is providing another 300 call center staffers for tax questions under an $11.5 million contract, according to the department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition, a new crop of tech vendors has been brought in to augment the state’s old computer systems and beef up cybersecurity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In April 2020, the unemployment agency started buying Salesforce software from the firm Outreach Solutions As A Service, to help with the bottleneck of claims. The cost started at $2.7 million and more than tripled by November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile ID.me was hired in September, via an IT firm called V3Gate, for its “robust and established identity verification” services in a $3.5 million contract, which nearly tripled by January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thomson Reuters, which acquired an analytics tool called Pondera previously used by the state, was hired in November for $771,000 worth of identification and fraud analytics work. That contract grew more than five-fold by January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To Jon Coss of Thomson Reuters, the spike in contract spending was unavoidable, due to a combustible mix of historic underfunding of unemployment programs, the federal easing of verification requirements on emergency jobless aid during the pandemic and an avalanche of increasingly sophisticated fraud.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was an impossible situation,” Coss said. “States have been passed, and they’re outgunned by these fraud networks now. I just don’t think it’s possible to do it purely with staffing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coss, vice president of risk, fraud and compliance in Thomson Reuters’ government division, also argues that it’s better for the state long term to contract out technical work during emergencies, rather than hiring new full-time workers whose positions may not be necessary when there are fewer jobless claims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While some contracts went through a competitive bidding process, others did not. Now, as the unemployment debacle fuels the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/explainers/recalling-california-governor-explained/\">campaign to recall\u003c/a> Gov. Gavin Newsom, it’s colliding with bigger questions about how the state has doled out money during the COVID-19 crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California has also signed \u003ca href=\"https://www.capradio.org/articles/2021/02/16/investigation-big-newsom-donors-including-blue-shield-received-no-bid-contracts-during-covid-19-response/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">hundreds of millions\u003c/a> of dollars worth of public health contracts with UnitedHealth and other large Newsom political donors, some through no-bid or expedited emergency processes. “There is no time to do competitive bidding given the urgent need,” Krista Canellakis, deputy secretary for general services at the state Government Operations Agency, recently told \u003ca href=\"https://www.capradio.org/articles/2021/03/25/another-282m-in-no-bid-pandemic-contracts-to-major-newsom-contributor-unitedhealth/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CapRadio\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 id=\"h-technical-problems-persist\">Technical Problems Persist\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Underlying the race to answer clogged phone lines and sort out delayed payments is the EDD’s long-problematic tech backbone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The computer system that California uses to track unemployment claims isn’t just old. It’s a relic of the post-World War II era, when COBOL was the world’s default programming language.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last fall, as the department nearly came unglued amid \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2020/10/unemployment-benefits-frozen-accounts-edd/\">mass account freezes\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/2020/12/who-will-pay-for-all-of-californias-unemployment-fraud/\">panic about fraud\u003c/a>, Newsom said the agency’s 30-year-old system needed to be “strewn to the waste bin of history.”[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Assemblymember David Chiu, D-San Francisco\"]'Why do we keep entering into no-bid contracts with someone with a history of cost overruns and problematic IT work?'[/pullquote]But instead, state workers say they have been jumping between the old system and newer software from Deloitte and, most recently, Salesforce. The Deloitte claim management system, known as CUBS, has been around since after the Great Recession, when the EDD started paying the company what would balloon to nearly $150 million for various online tools and services before the pandemic. Spiraling budgets aside, the problem is that CUBS developed its own reputation for glitches, earning a new moniker among some department personnel: “Completely Useless Bull S***.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As far back as 2013, when Deloitte was blamed for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kcra.com/article/edd-s-new-software-has-thousands-of-defects-some-critical/6408644\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">cutting off payments\u003c/a> to thousands of workers, state lawmakers \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-edd-deloitte-20131023-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">questioned\u003c/a> why the department was still working with the company. The scrutiny returned at a July 2020 oversight hearing, when Assemblymember David Chiu, D-San Francisco, said that Deloitte had “abdicated responsibility” for its role in running state unemployment systems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Why do we keep entering into no-bid contracts with someone with a history of cost overruns and problematic IT work?” Chiu asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deloitte, which state records show was awarded two more major contracts during the pandemic totaling at least $69 million, maintains that it’s not to blame for the state’s problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is important to understand that many of California’s unemployment system functions have not yet been modernized — and they are not part of our contracted scope of services,” Deloitte spokesperson Karen Walsh said in a statement to CalMatters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, there are practical reasons that the state may opt for repeat business with a long-term contractor such as Deloitte, said Michael Bernick, special counsel at law firm Duane Morris and a former EDD director. The selection process was always complicated, he said, with state technology departments often helping agencies pick vendors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Part of the explanation is these guys have the knowledge base built up,” Bernick said. “If you replace them, another firm has to come in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pandemic has changed that calculation. In the face of fraud now estimated at \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/explainers/california-edd-unemployment-crisis-explained/\">as much as $31 billion\u003c/a>, the state says it had no choice but to look to a new crop of tech contractors for help.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 id=\"h-silicon-valley-saviors\">Silicon Valley Saviors?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The EDD says ID.me — known a one-stop-shop service for identity verification — has helped stop $60 billion in fraud, but its rollout has at times been turbulent in California. There are entire internet subcultures dedicated to frustrated unemployment claimants swapping tips on uploading identity documents or navigating hours-long waits for ID.me video calls to verify their identities. ID.me CEO Blake Hall says the company is working to improve those times, and that many people don’t realize how extreme the fraud is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Thomson Reuters uses buzzy technologies such as machine learning to spot fraud trends and suspicious activity in California’s million-claim backlog, which includes many suspected bogus claims. Coss said he sees evidence that the tech onslaught is working — for now. While it appears fraud targeting the agency may be waning, other states and social service programs are now getting some of that unwanted attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re gonna go to another system in California, or they’re going to go to an unemployment system in another state,” Coss said. “It’s what we call whack-a-mole.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Day in and day out, one nagging issue is the sprawling workforce behind each contract, creating a confusing web of customer service contacts with varying degrees of training. Take Bank of America, which contracts out some customer service work for its prepaid unemployment debit card division to a call center company called TTEC.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Camelia Carter, customer service contractor\"]'It was an absolute nightmare. We were back-to-back with people in desperation every single day.'[/pullquote]Camelia Carter, who was driving for Uber and Lyft in Florida before the pandemic hit, said she got hired at TTEC in mid-April and worked from home with limited virtual training. After what she describes as distressing calls from desperate unemployment claimants and mounting frustration about vague timelines to resolve their issues, Carter said she was fired in July for violating company policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Four other current and former TTEC customer service workers, who asked not to be identified due to fears about professional repercussions, shared similar concerns about being unable to help callers in dire situations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve never seen a bigger clusterf*** in my life,” said Carter, who added that she has reported her concerns to state and federal regulators. “It was an absolute nightmare. We were back-to-back with people in desperation every single day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bank of America has repeatedly insisted that it is investing heavily in customer service to resolve unemployment claims. The company told lawmakers in January that it lost “\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/2021/01/bank-of-america-lost-hundreds-of-millions-on-california-unemployment-fiasco/\">hundreds of millions of dollars\u003c/a>” on fraud and related costs of its contract with EDD.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The irony of the repeated technical failures in Silicon Valley’s home state isn’t lost on Mathieu Cabart, originally from France, who was working in a Santa Monica restaurant before he lost his job when coronavirus shutdowns hit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cabart, 40, has been fighting with Bank of America over $2,980 he says was drained from his unemployment account in mysterious ATM transactions. He’s gone to police and elected representatives for help, so far to no avail. But he’s managed to keep a sense of humor about the unreliable phone systems and glitchy websites in the tech capital of the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a saying in France,” Cabart said. “The cobbler always wears the worst shoes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>CalMatters \u003c/em>\u003cem>is a nonprofit, nonpartisan media venture explaining California policies and politics.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The contracts are part of a \u003ca href=\"https://themarkup.org/coronavirus/2020/07/16/unemployment-benefits-website-failures-deloitte-ibm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">nationwide unemployment gold rush\u003c/a>, as tech companies and consultants pitch overwhelmed public agencies new solutions for fraud and outdated claims systems. One \u003ca href=\"https://news.bloomberglaw.com/tech-and-telecom-law/deloitte-others-reap-big-contracts-from-unemployment-deluge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bloomberg Law report\u003c/a> last summer tallied $173.8 million in pandemic-era unemployment contracts for the consulting giants Accenture, Deloitte and EY alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in California, it’s not easy to track who’s getting paid for what, because there is no easily accessible public list of all state contracts for unemployment services. The state and its contractors stress that both the demand for benefits and volume of fraud are unprecedented. Still, ongoing confusion adds to what state lawmakers have called the EDD's “\u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/states/f/?id=00000173-c015-dbfe-a97f-dbff611b0000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">very poor history\u003c/a>”of paying outside entities to patch holes in the safety net as workers try to survive in financial limbo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The $236 million in contracts that the department has signed since last March pay for outside companies to help track jobless claims, verify worker identities, analyze records for potential fraud, assist with customer service and more. CalMatters requested and analyzed detailed contract records for five vendors working on key customer service and anti-fraud projects, with contracts totaling at least $103.8 million, ballooning in cost over time, but which the state says were crucial in a crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The volume of work was staggering,” EDD spokesperson Aubrey Henry \u003ca href=\"https://edd.ca.gov/About_EDD/pdf/news-20-21.pdf\">said in a statement\u003c/a>. Calls from the public jumped 3,400% to 48 million in April 2020, as the state scrambled to process more than 20 million claims, he said, up from 3.8 million claims at the peak of the Great Recession.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Vendors, mass hiring, redirecting workers from within the department, and borrowing workers from other departments, and continued staffing up, were all part of an effort to respond to the historic demand for benefits,” Henry said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The majority of these new contracts went to consulting giant Deloitte, but several other vendors have also signed major deals in recent months, according to the contracts provided to CalMatters:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>At least $69 million went to Deloitte in no-bid emergency contracts for call center and IT services.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Government contracting giant Maximus signed on to provide up to $11.5 million worth of phone staffing services.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The state paid $9.5 million to IT firm V3Gate to obtain ID.me identity verification services.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Outreach Solutions As A Service, a Sacramento consultancy, sold the state $9.4 million worth of services and software, mostly from Salesforce.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Thomson Reuters signed $4.2 million in contracts for analytics related to fraud.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>The state has yet to disclose a price tag for another \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CA_EDD/status/1361057652290297857?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">recently announced\u003c/a> deal with Accenture, which the EDD said it is still negotiating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://e.infogram.com/d9e6c62c-aa27-464d-8fd0-98ce84087faa?src=embed\" title=\"EDD Gold Rush\" width=\"800\" height=\"750\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While recent state audits \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletters/whatmatters/2021/01/how-edd-failed-to-detect-fraud/\">recommend\u003c/a> more tech vendors to deal with remaining challenges, some government watchdogs question what EDD and agencies like it are getting for their money with the pricey contracts. In recent years, the trend toward outsourcing increasingly large chunks of the social safety net has led to a trail of lawsuits and investigations in other states, including scrutiny of \u003ca href=\"https://news.bloomberglaw.com/privacy-and-data-security/deloitte-sued-over-pandemic-unemployment-website-data-breaches\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Deloitte\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/12/how-one-company-is-making-millions-off-trumps-war-on-the-poor/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Maximus\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California lawmakers, meanwhile, have called Deloitte’s call centers “a mess,” and blamed the company for failing to answer millions of calls from jobless workers, \u003ca href=\"https://www.capradio.org/articles/2021/03/11/cost-of-deloittes-edd-phone-center-balloons-to-55m-as-millions-of-calls-go-unanswered/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CapRadio\u003c/a> reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one notable exception to the unemployment spending spree, the department has kept making money during the pandemic-induced recession on a high-profile contract with Bank of America. Under that deal \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/2020/11/how-bank-of-america-helped-fuel-californias-unemployment-meltdown/\">first detailed by CalMatters\u003c/a>, the bank provides prepaid unemployment debit cards to workers — many of whom have reported issues with fraud and frozen accounts — and the state and the bank \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2021/02/how-edd-and-bank-of-america-make-millions-on-california-unemployment/\">split millions in revenue\u003c/a> from transaction fees charged to merchants when the cards are used to purchase things.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since last fall, however, the EDD has refused to say how much Bank of America has made on the deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“We understand other vendors are involved with EDD, but there is little visibility into all projects and contracts,” a bipartisan group of five dozen state lawmakers wrote to Gov. Gavin Newsom in \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/states/f/?id=00000173-c015-dbfe-a97f-dbff611b0000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">August\u003c/a>. “The public is owed a clear explanation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether the EDD and its widening array of contractors get it right this time will have huge consequences for workers and businesses who rely on the state’s job safety net. California’s \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/2021/03/california-unemployment-crisis-reform/\">$21 billion and counting\u003c/a> in unemployment debt, with few prospects for major reform, is one factor that could undermine the state's economic recovery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the biggest question for state unemployment programs forged in the Great Depression, strained by the Great Recession and nearly broken by a global pandemic is who they are being built to serve. As taxpayers again pick up the tab to keep the program running, some jobless workers worry that they’re being victimized by panic about fraud while still not getting the money they’re owed.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 id=\"h-keeping-up-with-a-claim-frenzy\">Keeping Up With a Claim Frenzy\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Stacy Lira has always been the family bookkeeper, so it made sense that she would handle the unemployment paperwork when she, her husband and her daughter all found themselves out of work last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she didn’t realize that would spiral into an all-day, everyday routine. Each morning, Lira wakes up in the living room of the family’s two-bedroom apartment in Victorville, pulls out the neat plastic filing bins she keeps stowed under the bed, and gets to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First, there were the months-long delays for her and her daughters’ initial payments. Then thousands of dollars in suspected fraudulent charges on her Bank of America unemployment debit card. Her husband still hasn’t seen a penny, Lira said, after filing for benefits last spring. All their tax forms are a mess.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am constantly trying to figure something out for those three claims,” Lira said. “If I’m lucky, I’m done around 6 or 7 at night.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On top of all the long hours, extended stretches of little or no income have taken a financial and emotional toll. It’s hard for Lira to sleep at night. Every time she hears a truck outside, she worries the power company has finally come to turn off the electricity. With no money to pay the car registration, the family took a Lyft to the hospital when her son’s baby was born in January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>And then came the virus. Lira’s memory is still a blur, but her lungs seized up, and she was frantic that no one would be able to figure out the unemployment money or keep food in the cabinets if she was gone. Finally, after a week in the hospital, Lira has mostly recovered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That day in there at the hospital,” she said, “I almost wanted COVID to take over.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Behind the scenes at EDD, a very different scramble has been playing out in response to millions of calls each month from claimants like Lira. In April, Deloitte signed an $11 million emergency call center contract; the department said that “staff cannot keep up.” By early 2021, the contract had grown to $55 million, plus another $14 million for “urgent and temporary” IT services from Deloitte.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maximus is providing another 300 call center staffers for tax questions under an $11.5 million contract, according to the department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition, a new crop of tech vendors has been brought in to augment the state’s old computer systems and beef up cybersecurity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In April 2020, the unemployment agency started buying Salesforce software from the firm Outreach Solutions As A Service, to help with the bottleneck of claims. The cost started at $2.7 million and more than tripled by November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile ID.me was hired in September, via an IT firm called V3Gate, for its “robust and established identity verification” services in a $3.5 million contract, which nearly tripled by January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thomson Reuters, which acquired an analytics tool called Pondera previously used by the state, was hired in November for $771,000 worth of identification and fraud analytics work. That contract grew more than five-fold by January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To Jon Coss of Thomson Reuters, the spike in contract spending was unavoidable, due to a combustible mix of historic underfunding of unemployment programs, the federal easing of verification requirements on emergency jobless aid during the pandemic and an avalanche of increasingly sophisticated fraud.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was an impossible situation,” Coss said. “States have been passed, and they’re outgunned by these fraud networks now. I just don’t think it’s possible to do it purely with staffing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coss, vice president of risk, fraud and compliance in Thomson Reuters’ government division, also argues that it’s better for the state long term to contract out technical work during emergencies, rather than hiring new full-time workers whose positions may not be necessary when there are fewer jobless claims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While some contracts went through a competitive bidding process, others did not. Now, as the unemployment debacle fuels the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/explainers/recalling-california-governor-explained/\">campaign to recall\u003c/a> Gov. Gavin Newsom, it’s colliding with bigger questions about how the state has doled out money during the COVID-19 crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California has also signed \u003ca href=\"https://www.capradio.org/articles/2021/02/16/investigation-big-newsom-donors-including-blue-shield-received-no-bid-contracts-during-covid-19-response/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">hundreds of millions\u003c/a> of dollars worth of public health contracts with UnitedHealth and other large Newsom political donors, some through no-bid or expedited emergency processes. “There is no time to do competitive bidding given the urgent need,” Krista Canellakis, deputy secretary for general services at the state Government Operations Agency, recently told \u003ca href=\"https://www.capradio.org/articles/2021/03/25/another-282m-in-no-bid-pandemic-contracts-to-major-newsom-contributor-unitedhealth/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CapRadio\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 id=\"h-technical-problems-persist\">Technical Problems Persist\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Underlying the race to answer clogged phone lines and sort out delayed payments is the EDD’s long-problematic tech backbone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The computer system that California uses to track unemployment claims isn’t just old. It’s a relic of the post-World War II era, when COBOL was the world’s default programming language.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last fall, as the department nearly came unglued amid \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2020/10/unemployment-benefits-frozen-accounts-edd/\">mass account freezes\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/2020/12/who-will-pay-for-all-of-californias-unemployment-fraud/\">panic about fraud\u003c/a>, Newsom said the agency’s 30-year-old system needed to be “strewn to the waste bin of history.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>But instead, state workers say they have been jumping between the old system and newer software from Deloitte and, most recently, Salesforce. The Deloitte claim management system, known as CUBS, has been around since after the Great Recession, when the EDD started paying the company what would balloon to nearly $150 million for various online tools and services before the pandemic. Spiraling budgets aside, the problem is that CUBS developed its own reputation for glitches, earning a new moniker among some department personnel: “Completely Useless Bull S***.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As far back as 2013, when Deloitte was blamed for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kcra.com/article/edd-s-new-software-has-thousands-of-defects-some-critical/6408644\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">cutting off payments\u003c/a> to thousands of workers, state lawmakers \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-edd-deloitte-20131023-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">questioned\u003c/a> why the department was still working with the company. The scrutiny returned at a July 2020 oversight hearing, when Assemblymember David Chiu, D-San Francisco, said that Deloitte had “abdicated responsibility” for its role in running state unemployment systems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Camelia Carter, who was driving for Uber and Lyft in Florida before the pandemic hit, said she got hired at TTEC in mid-April and worked from home with limited virtual training. After what she describes as distressing calls from desperate unemployment claimants and mounting frustration about vague timelines to resolve their issues, Carter said she was fired in July for violating company policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Four other current and former TTEC customer service workers, who asked not to be identified due to fears about professional repercussions, shared similar concerns about being unable to help callers in dire situations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve never seen a bigger clusterf*** in my life,” said Carter, who added that she has reported her concerns to state and federal regulators. “It was an absolute nightmare. We were back-to-back with people in desperation every single day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bank of America has repeatedly insisted that it is investing heavily in customer service to resolve unemployment claims. The company told lawmakers in January that it lost “\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/2021/01/bank-of-america-lost-hundreds-of-millions-on-california-unemployment-fiasco/\">hundreds of millions of dollars\u003c/a>” on fraud and related costs of its contract with EDD.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The irony of the repeated technical failures in Silicon Valley’s home state isn’t lost on Mathieu Cabart, originally from France, who was working in a Santa Monica restaurant before he lost his job when coronavirus shutdowns hit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cabart, 40, has been fighting with Bank of America over $2,980 he says was drained from his unemployment account in mysterious ATM transactions. He’s gone to police and elected representatives for help, so far to no avail. But he’s managed to keep a sense of humor about the unreliable phone systems and glitchy websites in the tech capital of the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a saying in France,” Cabart said. “The cobbler always wears the worst shoes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>CalMatters \u003c/em>\u003cem>is a nonprofit, nonpartisan media venture explaining California policies and politics.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Even as California prepares to expand vaccine eligibility on April 15 to all residents 16 and older, the state has managed to inoculate only about half its senior population — the 65-and-older target group deemed most vulnerable to death and serious illness in the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overall, nearly 56% of California seniors have received the full course of a COVID-19 vaccine, according to the latest \u003ca href=\"https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#vaccinations\">data from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\u003c/a>. That’s about average compared with other states — not nearly as high as places like South Dakota, where almost 74% of seniors are fully vaccinated, but also not as far behind as Hawaii, which has reached 44%. The data, current as of Tuesday, does not include seniors who have received only the first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna vaccine. [aside tag=\"vaccines\" label=\"more vaccine coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But California’s overall progress masks huge variations in senior vaccination rates among the state’s 58 counties, which largely are running their own vaccine rollouts with different eligibility rules and outreach protocols. The discrepancies notably break down by geographic region, with the state’s remote rural counties — generally conservative strongholds — in some cases struggling to give away available doses, while the more populous — and generally left-leaning — metropolitan areas often have far more demand than supply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco Bay Area counties like Marin and Contra Costa, for example, more than two-thirds of seniors are fully vaccinated. Meanwhile, in the far northern reaches of the state, encompassing some of California’s most dramatic and rugged terrain, rural counties like Tehama, Shasta and Del Norte have fully vaccinated only about a third of senior residents, according to CDC data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We definitely share one thing in common and that is that we have a fairly high percentage of people who are vaccine hesitant. And that even spreads into the seniors,” Dr. Warren Rehwaldt, health officer for Del Norte County, said of the Northern California counties with relatively low vaccination rates. Del Norte, which is 62% white and voted solidly for Donald Trump in the 2020 election, has vaccinated 36.6% of residents 65 and older.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county, population 28,000, has spotty internet service, leaving the health department reliant on phone appointments for its twice-weekly clinics, which have the capacity to give out 300 doses in a day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think we have filled any of them completely, and they are tapering off,” Rehwaldt said. Often, 100 or more appointment slots go unused, even after the county expanded eligibility to age 50 and up. “We expected that, but we didn’t expect it this fast,” he said. [pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Dr. Warren Rehwaldt, health officer for Del Norte County']'[It's] a really high hurdle to overcome serious misgivings about the vaccine itself'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every Thursday morning, Rehwaldt joins a local public radio broadcast to encourage people to get their shots, and the department regularly airs public service announcements. “But it’s a really high hurdle to overcome serious misgivings about the vaccine itself,” Rehwaldt said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked what resources might help bolster vaccination rates, Rehwaldt said he’d opt for a mobile van to travel to remote areas of his county. But moments later, he sighed and said he wasn’t sure a van would help much after all. “What kind of resources are going to overcome hesitancy? It’s not a resource problem,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shasta County, whose population is about 80% white and voted in even stronger numbers for Trump, is also struggling to reach the 65-plus group, with just 36.6% of seniors fully vaccinated. Public information officer Kerri Schuette acknowledged health workers were encountering some hesitancy among residents but said their efforts also were hampered by early supply issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other end of the spectrum are counties like Marin, a largely suburban and affluent stretch of communities just north of San Francisco where 71.4% of seniors are fully vaccinated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a thread of privilege that does lead to ease of access to vaccines that needs to be acknowledged,” said county Public Health Officer Dr. Matt Willis. Many seniors in the county have access to computers and cars, he said, and have been able to access vaccine appointments with relative ease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the county made an aggressive plan to vaccinate seniors even before the first doses arrived, he said. Rather than waiting for the federal government’s program that relied on pharmacies to vaccinate residents in long-term care facilities, for example, the health department sent in workers as soon as it had vaccines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county also kept its eligibility rules tightly focused on seniors ages 75 and older through the middle of February, while other counties were expanding to younger age groups and a broad array of occupations. At one point, the county briefly expanded eligibility to teachers, but pulled back just one week later when doses grew scarce. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Even as California prepares to expand vaccine eligibility on April 15 to all residents 16 and older, the state has managed to inoculate only about half its senior population — the 65-and-older target group deemed most vulnerable to death and serious illness in the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overall, nearly 56% of California seniors have received the full course of a COVID-19 vaccine, according to the latest \u003ca href=\"https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#vaccinations\">data from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\u003c/a>. That’s about average compared with other states — not nearly as high as places like South Dakota, where almost 74% of seniors are fully vaccinated, but also not as far behind as Hawaii, which has reached 44%. The data, current as of Tuesday, does not include seniors who have received only the first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna vaccine. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Skip to:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#passports\">What will COVID-19 vaccine passports look like?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#travel\">Could I need a COVID-19 vaccine passport to travel?\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#ethics\">The ethics and privacy concerns around vaccine passports\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>As more people receive the COVID-19 vaccine in the United States, excitement is growing for the return to activities such as attending sporting events, watching a movie in a theater, dining in at restaurants and even getting on a plane for that long-delayed trip.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On April 2, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11867775/fully-vaccinated-you-can-travel-again-says-new-cdc-covid-19-guidance\">the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) updated its travel guidelines to allow for fully vaccinated individuals to travel within the U.S.\u003c/a> without getting tested for the coronavirus and without needing to quarantine afterward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet there’s still the question of how people can return to all these activities safely and without posing a risk to vulnerable populations. 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He added that passports will likely be in electronic form: “Like a QR code on your phone. But it could be in paper form, too.\"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[aside postID=\"news_11855623\"]\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The idea is this would be something that you carry \u003cem>with\u003c/em> you, and it would certify your ability to participate in certain kinds of activities. The big question is: which activities? And who is going to be demanding it?\" Studdert asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A critical element of a vaccine passport is that it would need to be standardized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The move towards a passport or some more formal certification would essentially elevate this to the status of a formal document,” Studdert said. “But gathering all that information from all the vaccination sites around the country, from the counties and from the states, and ensuring that the right people are given the right authorization is a gigantic undertaking, and one that I think the government will need to guide very carefully.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Do Vaccine Passports Exist Already?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Currently, broad vaccine passports \u003cem>don’t\u003c/em> exist in the U.S. And with just 17.5% of the U.S. population now fully vaccinated, according to the CDC, this talk around vaccine passports might be premature, said Dr. Monica Gandhi, infectious disease expert and professor of medicine at UCSF.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are people desperate to get the vaccine who have not been able to get the vaccine yet, we're sort of in this transition period in terms of availability,” Gandhi said. “Right now, we're already having a kind of two-tiered system where those who are vaccinated feel more safe and those who aren't, don't.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That said, early iterations of a vaccine passport \u003cem>are\u003c/em> already being seen around the world. \u003ca href=\"https://covid19vaccine.health.ny.gov/excelsior-pass\">New York just launched the Excelsior Pass\u003c/a>, which proves an individual has been vaccinated or recently tested negative for the virus. The pass will initially be accepted at Madison Square Garden and will eventually be used at various venues statewide.[aside postID=\"science_1972824\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Countries in the European Union are developing a passport that would allow for more travel for its citizens who have been vaccinated or tested negative for the virus. Meanwhile, \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/28/green-pass-how-are-vaccine-passports-working-in-israel\">Israel’s green passports\u003c/a> allow holders, who have been vaccinated or recovered from the coronavirus, to participate in entertainment and social gatherings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The airlines industry is testing a tool called the IATA Travel Pass, which verifies if a traveler meets all COVID regulations during a trip.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The corporate travel management platform TripActions has also built an app where users can upload necessary documentation for domestic and international travel, that can essentially be used a health passport.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11829701\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1900px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11829701\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/air-travel.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1900\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/air-travel.jpg 1900w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/air-travel-800x539.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/air-travel-1020x687.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/air-travel-160x108.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/air-travel-1536x1035.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1900px) 100vw, 1900px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The airline industry has been hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic \u003ccite>(Sourav Mishra/Pexels)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"travel\">\u003c/a>Will I \u003cem>Need\u003c/em> a Vaccine Passport to Travel?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Travel, schools and health care are among the handful of areas where vaccines have been required, historically.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vaccine passports are widely being discussed in the context of the travel industry. Studdert said many countries including the U.K., Australia and those in the EU are developing the passport idea around travel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Catherine Hamm, former travel editor with the Los Angeles Times, said it’s still unclear whether vaccine passports would replace rules and restrictions that are currently in place for travel.[aside postID=\"news_11867775\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would think that if passports become common, and given the number that are under development, that seems likely, I think that those will be in addition to the rules,” said Hamm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she said whether not being vaccinated will prevent people from engaging in activities they’re not supposed to remains unclear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The only thing apparently in the pandemic that is certain is that there is uncertainty and confusion about what we can and cannot do, particularly as it relates to travel,” Hamm said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>What Activities Could I Need a Vaccine Passport For?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Businesses outside of travel are also considering how useful vaccine passports might be. And Studdert said he suspects that we'll see the vaccine passport technology and protocol coming out of the travel sector subsequently spreading to other areas of life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Studdert notes, however, that there's a difference between requiring a vaccine passport for essential activities and requiring one for non-essential activities. And he doubts that the United States will see any regulation at the state or federal level around vaccine passports for \u003cem>essential\u003c/em> activities, given the \"legal questions and ethical questions there.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when it comes to non-essential activities, like \"going to the theater, or to a sporting event or to a restaurant in a bar,\" Studdert thinks the case for businesses and premises being allowed to require vaccine passports is \"a harder case to oppose.” \"\u003cb>\u003c/b>I think that we allow that kind of thing for lots of activities in our society,\" Studdert said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whatever businesses decide, Studdert said it’s important for the government to regulate the practice and ensure that certain groups are not being discriminated against, by a place using vaccine passports as \"a pretext for excluding certain groups.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11867483\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1900px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11867483\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/COVID-vaccine.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1900\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/COVID-vaccine.jpg 1900w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/COVID-vaccine-800x539.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/COVID-vaccine-1020x687.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/COVID-vaccine-160x108.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/COVID-vaccine-1536x1035.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1900px) 100vw, 1900px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A woman receives a dose of a COVID-19 vaccine at a vaccination clinic hosted by Providence St. Mary Medical Center on March 30, 2021 in Apple Valley, California. \u003ccite>(Mario Tama/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"ethics\">\u003c/a>What Are Other Ethical Issues Around Vaccine Passports?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/09/23/914427907/as-pandemic-deaths-add-up-racial-disparities-persist-and-in-some-cases-worsen\">The pandemic has impacted poor, Black and brown communities disproportionately\u003c/a> in every aspect. Not only do these communities have less access to COVID-19 testing, but workers in those communities are usually the ones doing frontline essential work, and are therefore more at-risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BIPOC communities also have less access to vaccines. And vaccine passports will further exacerbate those inequities, said Alexis Hancock, staff technologist with Electronic Frontier Foundation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We've seen disparity between people who have gotten COVID and died from it, we've seen disparities with people with testing, and now we're seeing disparities with vaccines. They're not widely available yet,” Hancock said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not everyone has a smartphone. And we've already seen people not being able to actually access vaccine appointments, because of technology barriers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What About Privacy and Vaccine Passports?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Hancock said vaccine passports also bring up questions around data collection depending on who issues them — whether it’s the government or a third-party company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Digital vaccine passports build an infrastructure and culture of mass surveillance,\" Hancock said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He notes that while there's absolutely precedent for requiring proof of vaccinations for certain diseases for international travel, or for having your medical information stored by your school or place of work, by contrast we're now seeing a \"scope creep\" around this data: \"beyond international travel, beyond workplaces and schools, and it's going to restaurants, talking about getting services and libraries and access to that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What's more, Hancock said it’s important to think about how data will be stored and what happens to that information long-term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It could step outside of HIPAA regulations. It won’t necessarily be the medical record that you have to keep confidential between you and your health care provider, and you decide to share the information upon your own volition,” Hancock said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have very variable privacy laws when it comes to our data. Some people out there may be saying, ‘Well, it's just showing that I'm vaccinated. What's the big deal?’ It’s the fact that you're sharing medical data \u003cem>outside\u003c/em> the context of the normal protections.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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Most capacity limits for businesses and recreational activities will be lifted, although larger indoor events, such as conventions, will be allowed only with testing or vaccination verification requirements, he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Monica Gandhi, infectious disease expert and professor of medicine at UCSF, said California can begin reopening because many residents were exposed to the virus during the winter surge and many others are getting vaccinated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He wouldn’t have been able to keep it closed past June 15 anyway, because the cases would have been so low,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vaccine eligibility will expand to people in California ages 16 and older beginning April 15, although some counties have already started vaccinating young adults.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state has so far administered more than 20 million doses, including 4 million in the hardest-hit ZIP codes. More than \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11859829/see-how-many-people-got-the-covid-19-vaccine-in-your-county-so-far\">a third of residents in the state\u003c/a> — over 13.6 million people — have received at least one shot, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom said he expects 30 million doses to be administered by the end of April, putting the state on track to inoculate most of the estimated 32 million people eligible to receive it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two-month advance notice should give people enough time to schedule their first dose, wait the recommended three to four weeks for a second shot and get through the two-week period for the vaccine to fully kick in, Ghaly said. It also gives businesses and other services ample time to prepare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The announcement comes as states across the country have lifted health restrictions as more people get vaccinated, despite \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/nearly-half-us-coronavirus-infections-come-from-5-states-53888dc78894cc76cb1bb50f8300f102\">rising infection rates\u003c/a> in some places, new variants and concerns of another surge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California had some of the nation’s strictest pandemic rules in the country, becoming the first to institute a statewide stay-at-home order last spring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"coronavirus\"]Tuesday’s announcement signals a potential end date to more than a year of isolation. While many other states have pushed ahead, California has generally resisted reopening too quickly and, in several instances, has moved to reinstate restrictions to stem rising new cases and hospitalizations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the pandemic has taken its toll, killing more than 58,000 Californians, while shuttering scores of businesses and forcing millions of students to attend school remotely for much of the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the short term, California’s vaccination progress means that counties can more easily shift to less-restrictive tiers, allowing them to increase capacity limits for various activities like indoor dining, shopping, worship services and sporting events. Every county in the Bay Area, except Solano County, has recently moved into the second-least restrictive orange tier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vaccine milestone also triggers a lower threshold for counties to enter the least-restrictive yellow tier: an adjusted rate of fewer than two new daily cases per 100,000 residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“San Francisco is currently in the orange tier, and fingers crossed governor, we’ll be in the yellow tier next week,” said Mayor London Breed during Tuesday’s announcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new reopening plan comes as the first-term Democratic governor faces a likely recall election pushed by those critical of his handling of the pandemic. Many Republicans across the state and nation contend that political pressure, not vaccination progress, is driving Newsom’s decision to loosen restrictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It took millions of Californians signing a recall petition for him to finally begin reopening our state,” Kevin Faulconer, a former San Diego mayor and Republican who is hoping to replace Newsom, said in a statement Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joanna Rodriguez, a spokeswoman for the Republican Governors Association, called Newsom’s announcement “too little too late.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While Newsom continued to live by a different set of rules than those he mandated on everyone else,” she said, “his failed leadership wreaked havoc on the state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nonetheless, Tuesday’s announcement was welcome news to millions of people across the state, eager to resume their normal lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Rodriguez, owner and general manager of the Cadillac Bar & Grill in San Francisco’s near-empty downtown, can’t wait for customers to return for happy hour cocktails and for theaters to reopen to live audiences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everybody has something to look forward to now,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post includes reporting from KQED’s Matthew Green, Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí, Guy Marzorati and The Associated Press.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Matthews' decision to prolong his tenure also comes just a week before many pre-K through second grade students prepare\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/covid-19-response-updates-and-resources/return-person-learning/return-person-learning-plan-frequently-asked-questions-faqs/timeline-frequently-asked-questions-faqs\"> to return to their classrooms \u003c/a>— for the first time in more than a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Susan Solomon, president of the United Educators of San Francisco, who also recently announced plans to step down in June, echoed the call for stability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We look forward to continuing to work with Superintendent Matthews over the next year,\" she said in a statement. \"We have a lot of work to do to safely transition all of our students and families back to in-person learning, and it is our hope that consistency will move us in that direction.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jenny Lam, a school board commissioner, said the tumultuousness of the past year, and the district's pending reopening, is exactly why the board asked Matthews to stay on for another year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Given that we're just one week away from returning our students to in-person learning, we're grateful to Dr. Matthews because this will allow the board to focus on a replacement and a full return of K-12 for the fall,\" she told KQED.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For thousands of students in the district, however, it remains unclear when in-person classes might resume. Some middle school students and the highest-risk high school students are scheduled to return to classrooms later this month. But there is still no firm date of return in place for the vast majority of high school students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lam said the board will take up a vote on her resolution at Tuesday's school board meeting to affirm a return to in-person classes by fall for all students in the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Since May of last year I've been vocal and consistent, as a board commissioner, in our efforts to return for in-person learning, working safely and in partnership with families and staff,\" Lam said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked why San Francisco remains behind other large school districts in its reopening timeline, Lam said, \"As a large urban school district there are many considerations ... and we will continue to push until we get all our students back to in-person learning.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Lea este artículo en \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/calmatters-en-espanol/2021/04/hogares-de-ancianos-california-covid/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">español\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a devastating sweep that killed \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/COVID-19/SNFsCOVID_19.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">more than 9,000\u003c/a> residents and workers, COVID-19 has nearly disappeared from California’s nursing homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the height of the winter surge, more than 80 residents of nursing facilities died every day from COVID-19. In March, however, fewer than 15 new cases were reported each day, and deaths dropped to between one and six people daily, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/COVID-19/SNFsCOVID_19.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according to\u003c/a> the California Department of Public Health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Health experts credit a massive nationwide campaign to vaccinate elderly and frail residents and their caregivers. About 87% of the 85,000 people who live in California’s skilled nursing facilities have been fully vaccinated, according to the state health agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is no question whatsoever that the vaccine has made a huge difference,” said Dr. Mike Wasserman, a geriatrician and past president of the California Association of Long Term Care Medicine. “When you have a nursing home that is fully vaccinated, the residents are protected, and we are seeing a dramatic decrease in cases and deaths.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deaths and infections also have \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/coronavirus/2021/03/when-will-nursing-homes-reopen-to-visitors-state-officials-wont-say/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">declined\u003c/a> in California’s \u003ca href=\"http://caassistedliving.org/about-assisted-living/assisted-living-in-california/assisted-living-by-numbers/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">more than 7,400\u003c/a> assisted living centers and other long-term care facilities. About 3,700 residents and staff there have died from COVID-19. Over the past week, there’s been \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdss.ca.gov/Portals/9/Additional-Resources/Research-and-Data/DSSDS/RCFE-03-29.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">223\u003c/a> active COVID cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nationwide, COVID-19 cases in skilled nursing and assisted living facilities have dropped 96% since Dec. 20, according to a report released Tuesday by two long-term care industry groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://flo.uri.sh/visualisation/5720972/embed\" title=\"Interactive or visual content\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px;\" sandbox=\"allow-same-origin allow-forms allow-scripts allow-downloads allow-popups allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Long-term care residents were first in line for vaccinations, along with health care workers, for the nation’s first, scarce doses of vaccines. More than \u003ca href=\"https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#vaccinations-ltc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">830,000\u003c/a> COVID vaccine doses have been administered to residents and workers at nursing homes, assisted living facilities and group homes, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That’s more than any other state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For many long-term care residents, the pandemic’s ultimate toll remains grim, with higher rates of depression, incontinence and weight loss linked to long-term social isolation, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.jamda.com/article/S1525-8610(21)00306-6/pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">new study\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now California’s nursing homes are cautiously reopening. At some homes, fully vaccinated residents now can dine together in small groups, receive visitors and meet for group activities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a year of window visits, Ouida and David Dill reunited indoors on Monday for the first time since the lockdown a year ago at the Lincoln Glen Nursing Facility in San Jose, where David has lived for more than four years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ouida has been vaccinated, but her husband, who survived COVID-19 earlier this year, cannot be vaccinated for several more weeks, so they must remain 6 feet apart during their visit. “I can’t wait to just be able to touch him,” said Ouida.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11867999\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11867999\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/032921_NursingHome_AW_sized_06-800x541.jpeg\" alt=\"Ouida and David Dill have to stay separated by six feet because he is not yet vaccinated. 'I can’t wait to just be able to touch him,' she said. Photo by Anne Wernikoff, CalMatters\" width=\"800\" height=\"541\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/032921_NursingHome_AW_sized_06-800x541.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/032921_NursingHome_AW_sized_06-1020x690.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/032921_NursingHome_AW_sized_06-160x108.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/032921_NursingHome_AW_sized_06.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ouida and David Dill have to stay separated by 6 feet because he is not yet vaccinated. ‘I can’t wait to just be able to touch him,’ she said. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ouida Dill was allowed into a community room to see her husband of 60 years, seated in a wheelchair with a bright red and yellow plaid blanket on his lap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was exhilarating,” said Ouida, 79. “Even though he was sleepy, I could tell it was a positive thing. It just feels more like normal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as she read Shel Silverstein poems to her husband, they had to remain at least 6 feet apart. While she is fully vaccinated, her husband is not. The 83-year-old former satellite test engineer contracted COVID-19 during the nursing home’s outbreak, giving him some immunity, but because of the type of treatment he received, he cannot be vaccinated until mid-April, Ouida said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said that David, who cannot walk and suffers from dementia, regressed somewhat during his year of isolation. Before the pandemic, she ate at least one meal with him on most days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nursing home where David lives managed to avoid COVID-19 through most of the pandemic, according to administrator Rebecca Turner. But it was struck during the winter surge with an outbreak that infected 47 residents and killed 14.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even as long-term care homes reopen, family members and health experts remain concerned about the number of workers who have been vaccinated, as they have been a primary conduit for infections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Turner said about 72% of its residents and nearly all caregivers have been vaccinated, although some of her workers were hesitant at first.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Statewide, about 88% of workers in skilled nursing facilities have been fully vaccinated, according to state data. But that drops to \u003ca href=\"https://publicintegrity.org/health/coronavirus-and-inequality/vaccine-long-term-care-workers-refusing-shots-nursing-home/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">only 65%\u003c/a> of workers when other long-term care centers, such as assisted living homes, are included, according to federal data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11867998\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11867998\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/032921_NursingHome_AW_sized_11-800x554.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"554\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/032921_NursingHome_AW_sized_11-800x554.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/032921_NursingHome_AW_sized_11-1020x706.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/032921_NursingHome_AW_sized_11-160x111.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/032921_NursingHome_AW_sized_11.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Betty Carter, center, participates in group exercise with others from her cohort at Lincoln Glen Skilled Nursing Facility. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Wasserman, the geriatrician, said state officials need to ensure that new patients and staff have access to vaccines and any boosters after the end of the federal long-term care vaccination campaign this winter. Fortunately, pharmacies that serve long-term care facilities now can get vaccinations directly through the federal government, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think we are taking a short moment to feel relieved. And then we’re starting to worry again,” Wasserman said. “We’re not worried about the next three months. We’re worried about what comes after. If we are not prepared, we could go through this again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>CalMatters COVID-19 coverage, translation and distribution is supported by generous grants from the Blue Shield of California Foundation, the California Wellness Foundation and the California Health Care Foundation.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Over the past week, there’s been \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdss.ca.gov/Portals/9/Additional-Resources/Research-and-Data/DSSDS/RCFE-03-29.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">223\u003c/a> active COVID cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nationwide, COVID-19 cases in skilled nursing and assisted living facilities have dropped 96% since Dec. 20, according to a report released Tuesday by two long-term care industry groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://flo.uri.sh/visualisation/5720972/embed\" title=\"Interactive or visual content\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px;\" sandbox=\"allow-same-origin allow-forms allow-scripts allow-downloads allow-popups allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Long-term care residents were first in line for vaccinations, along with health care workers, for the nation’s first, scarce doses of vaccines. 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At some homes, fully vaccinated residents now can dine together in small groups, receive visitors and meet for group activities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a year of window visits, Ouida and David Dill reunited indoors on Monday for the first time since the lockdown a year ago at the Lincoln Glen Nursing Facility in San Jose, where David has lived for more than four years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ouida has been vaccinated, but her husband, who survived COVID-19 earlier this year, cannot be vaccinated for several more weeks, so they must remain 6 feet apart during their visit. “I can’t wait to just be able to touch him,” said Ouida.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11867999\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11867999\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/032921_NursingHome_AW_sized_06-800x541.jpeg\" alt=\"Ouida and David Dill have to stay separated by six feet because he is not yet vaccinated. 'I can’t wait to just be able to touch him,' she said. Photo by Anne Wernikoff, CalMatters\" width=\"800\" height=\"541\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/032921_NursingHome_AW_sized_06-800x541.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/032921_NursingHome_AW_sized_06-1020x690.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/032921_NursingHome_AW_sized_06-160x108.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/032921_NursingHome_AW_sized_06.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ouida and David Dill have to stay separated by 6 feet because he is not yet vaccinated. ‘I can’t wait to just be able to touch him,’ she said. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ouida Dill was allowed into a community room to see her husband of 60 years, seated in a wheelchair with a bright red and yellow plaid blanket on his lap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was exhilarating,” said Ouida, 79. “Even though he was sleepy, I could tell it was a positive thing. It just feels more like normal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as she read Shel Silverstein poems to her husband, they had to remain at least 6 feet apart. While she is fully vaccinated, her husband is not. The 83-year-old former satellite test engineer contracted COVID-19 during the nursing home’s outbreak, giving him some immunity, but because of the type of treatment he received, he cannot be vaccinated until mid-April, Ouida said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said that David, who cannot walk and suffers from dementia, regressed somewhat during his year of isolation. Before the pandemic, she ate at least one meal with him on most days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nursing home where David lives managed to avoid COVID-19 through most of the pandemic, according to administrator Rebecca Turner. But it was struck during the winter surge with an outbreak that infected 47 residents and killed 14.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even as long-term care homes reopen, family members and health experts remain concerned about the number of workers who have been vaccinated, as they have been a primary conduit for infections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Turner said about 72% of its residents and nearly all caregivers have been vaccinated, although some of her workers were hesitant at first.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Statewide, about 88% of workers in skilled nursing facilities have been fully vaccinated, according to state data. But that drops to \u003ca href=\"https://publicintegrity.org/health/coronavirus-and-inequality/vaccine-long-term-care-workers-refusing-shots-nursing-home/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">only 65%\u003c/a> of workers when other long-term care centers, such as assisted living homes, are included, according to federal data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11867998\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11867998\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/032921_NursingHome_AW_sized_11-800x554.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"554\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/032921_NursingHome_AW_sized_11-800x554.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/032921_NursingHome_AW_sized_11-1020x706.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/032921_NursingHome_AW_sized_11-160x111.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/032921_NursingHome_AW_sized_11.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Betty Carter, center, participates in group exercise with others from her cohort at Lincoln Glen Skilled Nursing Facility. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Wasserman, the geriatrician, said state officials need to ensure that new patients and staff have access to vaccines and any boosters after the end of the federal long-term care vaccination campaign this winter. Fortunately, pharmacies that serve long-term care facilities now can get vaccinations directly through the federal government, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think we are taking a short moment to feel relieved. And then we’re starting to worry again,” Wasserman said. “We’re not worried about the next three months. We’re worried about what comes after. If we are not prepared, we could go through this again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>CalMatters COVID-19 coverage, translation and distribution is supported by generous grants from the Blue Shield of California Foundation, the California Wellness Foundation and the California Health Care Foundation.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Add travel to the activities vaccinated Americans can enjoy again, according to new U.S. guidance issued Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated its guidance to say fully vaccinated people can travel within the U.S. without getting tested for the coronavirus or going into quarantine afterward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Previously, the agency had cautioned against unnecessary travel even for vaccinated people, but noted that it would update its guidance as more people got vaccinated and evidence mounted about the protection the shots provide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>”Every day you get more data, and you change your guidance based on the existing data,” said Dr. Ali Khan, dean of the University of Nebraska’s College of Public Health.\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[aside postID=\"news_11855623\"]\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Khan said the update reinforces the safety and effectiveness of the vaccines, and is another incentive for people to get vaccinated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the CDC, nearly 100 million people in the U.S. — or about 30% of the population — have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. A person is considered fully vaccinated two weeks after receiving the last required dose of vaccine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/travelers/travel-during-covid19.html\">Unvaccinated people are still advised to avoid unnecessary travel\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new guidance says:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Fully vaccinated people can travel within the U.S. without getting tested for the coronavirus or quarantining. People should still wear a mask, socially distance and avoid crowds, the agency says.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/travelers/travel-during-covid19.html\">For international travel, the agency says vaccinated people do not need to get a COVID-19 test\u003c/a> before leaving, though some destinations may require it.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Vaccinated people should still get a negative COVID-19 test before boarding a flight to the U.S., and be tested three to five days after returning. They do not need to quarantine. The agency noted the potential introduction of virus variants and differences in vaccine coverage around the world for the cautious guidance on overseas travel.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>The CDC cited recent research on the real-world effects of the vaccines for its updated guidance. Already, the agency had said \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/cdc-fully-vaccinated-can-gather-without-masks-b9775dcde0254037e012ea9447e49917\">fully vaccinated people could visit with each other indoors without wearing masks or social distancing.\u003c/a> It also said vaccinated people could visit with unvaccinated people from a single household under similar conditions, as long as the unvaccinated individuals were at low risk for severe illness if infected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On April 1, \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 Californians to “avoid non-essential travel outside of California, to other states or countries.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. began its vaccine rollout in mid-December. The first vaccines — from Pfizer and Moderna — require two doses taken a few weeks apart. A one-shot vaccine by Johnson & Johnson was given the green light by regulators at the end of February.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Department of Science Education. The AP is solely responsible for all content.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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Many people have already been struggling to find available slots, coming up against a lack of appointments and an often-confusing variety of online systems and sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On this episode of The Bay, we’ll give you some strategies for finding an appointment when you’re eligible. Continue reading for the April 15 vaccine appointment checklist…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guest: \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/TeacupInTheBay\">Carly Severn\u003c/a>, KQED Senior Engagement Editor\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Waiting for April 15 to Get Your Vaccine? Here’s What to Do\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Be Proactive and Stay Vigilant\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Can you pre-schedule your appointment before April 15? The answer is: \u003cem>Maybe\u003c/em>, because it depends on the provider you’re making your appointment through. The California Department of Public Health said that people ages 50 and older wouldn’t be able to pre-schedule their appointments on My Turn ahead of their eligibility date of April 1 — but then \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/coronavirusliveupdates/news/11867423/congratulations-you-are-eligible-californians-50-are-already-eligible-to-sign-up-for-vaccines\">My Turn opened up 50+ eligibility on March 31 anyway\u003c/a>. So stay vigilant, and familiarize yourself with the process before “opening day.” Your county might open up before you expect them to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Make Sure You Aren’t \u003cem>Already\u003c/em> Eligible (Because of Where You Live or Work)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Your county or region may also have opened up 16+ eligibility early. For example, Contra Costa County opened up vaccine eligibility early, on March 30, to all people ages 16+ who live or work in the county. Alameda County, San Francisco, Santa Clara and Solano have all now done the same, and opened vaccinations to everyone ages 16+.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More widely, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/UCDavisHealth/status/1379244099337908227\">UC Davis Health has also opened up vaccine appointments\u003c/a> to “anyone aged 16+”, saying that the health center has “enough vaccine supply and appointments to expand eligibility before the state’s expansion on April 15.” There’s no residency requirement, but appointments are already scarce because of demand. \u003ca href=\"https://health.ucdavis.edu/coronavirus/covid-19-vaccine/my-turn/patient-login.html\">Make an appointment as a current UC Davis Health patient\u003c/a>, or \u003ca href=\"https://vaccinescheduling.ucdavis.edu/MyChart/covid19/#/\">make an appointment as a non-UC Davis Health patient\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11866647\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" 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://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/GettyImages-1231929310-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/GettyImages-1231929310-800x439.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/GettyImages-1231929310-1020x560.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/GettyImages-1231929310-160x88.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/GettyImages-1231929310-1536x843.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/GettyImages-1231929310-2048x1124.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/GettyImages-1231929310-1920x1054.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (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>\u003cstrong>Familiarize Yourself With the Systems\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s worth familiarizing yourself in advance with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11855623/where-can-i-get-a-covid-19-vaccine-in-the-bay-area-your-questions-answered#where\">the various systems of vaccine scheduling online\u003c/a>, so that you’re ready when your own eligibility \u003cem>does\u003c/em> come around. Get familiar with My Turn and your own county’s systems, and find out \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11855623/where-can-i-get-a-covid-19-vaccine-in-the-bay-area-your-questions-answered#where\">which pharmacies near you might be offering the vaccine\u003c/a> when your time comes. Remember, starting April 15 you’ll be one of \u003cem>many\u003c/em> people out there trying to find an appointment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And on that note…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Have Your Insurance Card Ready\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many appointment systems will ask you to upload details of your health insurance, if you have it. Often you’ll be asked to upload photos of the front and the back of your health insurance card, so it’s a good idea to a) know where your card is and b) even have the photos ready and waiting on your phone and on your computer, so you have them if you need them quickly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you don’t have health insurance, don’t worry: Your vaccine will still be free, and you can’t be denied your vaccine because you don’t have insurance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sign Up for Notifications \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if you’re not eligible to get vaccinated right now — or you’re \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/coronavirusliveupdates/science/1973382/californians-expanding-vaccine-to-ages-50-and-up-with-universal-eligibility-to-follow\">waiting on universal eligibility to open up starting April 15 \u003c/a>— you can sign up for the state’s \u003ca href=\"https://myturn.ca.gov/\">My Turn notification tool\u003c/a>, which promises to let you know if it’s your turn to get vaccinated and schedule vaccination appointments via email or text notifications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You should also \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11855623/where-can-i-get-a-covid-19-vaccine-in-the-bay-area-your-questions-answered#county\">sign up for your county’s notification system\u003c/a> if they have one. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11855623/where-can-i-get-a-covid-19-vaccine-in-the-bay-area-your-questions-answered#county\">Check your county\u003c/a>. (One note for Alameda County residents: Consider also signing up for the city of Berkeley’s \u003ca href=\"https://public.govdelivery.com/accounts/CABERKE/signup/22371\">vaccine interest list, \u003c/a>as their \u003ca href=\"https://curative.com/sites/25054#9/37.8675/-122.2969\">Albany vaccination site run in partnership with Curative\u003c/a> is often open to Alameda County residents generally, not just Berkeley residents.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Make Sure You Aren’t \u003cem>Already\u003c/em> Eligible (Because of Your Health)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People with certain health conditions and disabilities that put them at “the very highest risk” from the coronavirus according to the state became eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine back on March 15. \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/COVID-19/vaccine-high-risk-factsheet.aspx\">See the state’s list of eligible disabilities and conditions.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if you’re not eligible according to the state’s list, you might be according to San Francisco’s own list, which \u003ca href=\"https://sfmayor.org/article/san-francisco-expand-covid-19-vaccinations-people-disabilities-and-severe-underlying\">broadened its definitions of qualifying disabilities and health conditions beyond the state’s\u003c/a> to include \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/information/other-conditions-eligible-covid-19-vaccine-sf\">\u003cem>more\u003c/em> conditions and disabilities\u003c/a>. And you don’t have to live in San Francisco to be vaccinated in the city if you meet its health requirements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser Permanente, which is offering the COVID-19 vaccine to its members, has also expanded upon the state of California’s high-risk criteria to include \u003ca href=\"https://mydoctor.kaiserpermanente.org/covid-19/vaccine-availability-eligibility\">more health conditions and disabilities \u003c/a>than are \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/COVID-19/vaccine-high-risk-factsheet.aspx\">listed by the state\u003c/a> — and they’re also wider than \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/information/other-conditions-eligible-covid-19-vaccine-sf\">San Francisco’s health criteria\u003c/a>. Find \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11855623/where-can-i-get-a-covid-19-vaccine-in-the-bay-area-your-questions-answered#health\">more information about getting vaccinated this way through Kaiser Permanente\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Visit KQED’s vaccine guide: \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11855623/where-can-i-get-a-covid-19-vaccine-in-the-bay-area-your-questions-answered\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>English\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>en \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11856006/cuando-y-donde-puede-vacunarse-contra-covid-19-en-el-area-de-la-bahia-aqui-tiene-las-respuestas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>español\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Episode transcript \u003ca href=\"https://bit.ly/3md4t2b\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"description": "Related: Where Can I Get a COVID-19 Vaccine Near Me? Your Questions Answered Californians ages 50 and older are now eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine. And they have two weeks to book appointments before the state opens up fuller eligibility to all people ages 16 and older, starting on April 15. But booking a COVID-19 vaccine appointment near you is easier said than done. Many people have already been struggling to find available slots, coming up against a lack of appointments and an often-confusing variety of online systems and sites. On this episode of The Bay, we’ll give you some",
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Many people have already been struggling to find available slots, coming up against a lack of appointments and an often-confusing variety of online systems and sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On this episode of The Bay, we’ll give you some strategies for finding an appointment when you’re eligible. Continue reading for the April 15 vaccine appointment checklist…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guest: \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/TeacupInTheBay\">Carly Severn\u003c/a>, KQED Senior Engagement Editor\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Waiting for April 15 to Get Your Vaccine? Here’s What to Do\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Be Proactive and Stay Vigilant\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Can you pre-schedule your appointment before April 15? The answer is: \u003cem>Maybe\u003c/em>, because it depends on the provider you’re making your appointment through. The California Department of Public Health said that people ages 50 and older wouldn’t be able to pre-schedule their appointments on My Turn ahead of their eligibility date of April 1 — but then \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/coronavirusliveupdates/news/11867423/congratulations-you-are-eligible-californians-50-are-already-eligible-to-sign-up-for-vaccines\">My Turn opened up 50+ eligibility on March 31 anyway\u003c/a>. So stay vigilant, and familiarize yourself with the process before “opening day.” Your county might open up before you expect them to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Make Sure You Aren’t \u003cem>Already\u003c/em> Eligible (Because of Where You Live or Work)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Your county or region may also have opened up 16+ eligibility early. For example, Contra Costa County opened up vaccine eligibility early, on March 30, to all people ages 16+ who live or work in the county. 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(One note for Alameda County residents: Consider also signing up for the city of Berkeley’s \u003ca href=\"https://public.govdelivery.com/accounts/CABERKE/signup/22371\">vaccine interest list, \u003c/a>as their \u003ca href=\"https://curative.com/sites/25054#9/37.8675/-122.2969\">Albany vaccination site run in partnership with Curative\u003c/a> is often open to Alameda County residents generally, not just Berkeley residents.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Make Sure You Aren’t \u003cem>Already\u003c/em> Eligible (Because of Your Health)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People with certain health conditions and disabilities that put them at “the very highest risk” from the coronavirus according to the state became eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine back on March 15. \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/COVID-19/vaccine-high-risk-factsheet.aspx\">See the state’s list of eligible disabilities and conditions.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if you’re not eligible according to the state’s list, you might be according to San Francisco’s own list, which \u003ca href=\"https://sfmayor.org/article/san-francisco-expand-covid-19-vaccinations-people-disabilities-and-severe-underlying\">broadened its definitions of qualifying disabilities and health conditions beyond the state’s\u003c/a> to include \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/information/other-conditions-eligible-covid-19-vaccine-sf\">\u003cem>more\u003c/em> conditions and disabilities\u003c/a>. 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The students “have to come up with a way for a salamander to cross between its two habitats, a river-dwelling and a forest-dwelling, without getting hit by a car.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hands-on learning like this has been all but impossible during the pandemic, and despite herculean efforts by teachers to adapt their curriculums for Zoom, virtual education hasn’t worked for many children. “We know that learning loss is real during this pandemic,” said Gerry Salazar, who runs outdoor education for the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11867332\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11867332\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/9C44EB6B-2D40-4BE9-83EF-5C9E333EE1D7-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/9C44EB6B-2D40-4BE9-83EF-5C9E333EE1D7-1-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/9C44EB6B-2D40-4BE9-83EF-5C9E333EE1D7-1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/9C44EB6B-2D40-4BE9-83EF-5C9E333EE1D7-1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/9C44EB6B-2D40-4BE9-83EF-5C9E333EE1D7-1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/9C44EB6B-2D40-4BE9-83EF-5C9E333EE1D7-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/9C44EB6B-2D40-4BE9-83EF-5C9E333EE1D7-1-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/9C44EB6B-2D40-4BE9-83EF-5C9E333EE1D7-1-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Outdoor educators with LAUSD’s Eco Van program encourage the children, spaced 6 feet apart in the Jim Gilliam Park of Los Angeles to think creatively about how the salamander will cross the road safely. \u003ccite>(Deepa Fernandes/The California Report)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A national study found the educational slide has been widespread as children log in to school from home. Zoom school just isn’t providing what all kids need, and children of color are falling further behind their white peers. It is hoped that the return to in-person schooling will help children catch up, yet even in hybrid learning, most students will still be zooming with their teachers for some portion of the day. The problem is acute for the youngest students because hands-on learning has been almost impossible in the virtual environment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Enter a unique idea, the brainchild of Gerry Salazar, born after the pandemic forced Camp Skyhook — LAUSD’s outdoor learning center located in the Los Angeles mountains — to close.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Salazar and his team wanted a program where science learning fun could travel to the kids. The idea was to bring the mountains and forests to where the students were, and not via a computer screen. \u003ca href=\"https://skyhookfoundation.org/2021/02/a-covid-19-story-in-three-acts-the-origin-of-the-lausd-skyhook-eco-vans/\">The Skyhook Eco Van program\u003c/a> is where Los Angeles kids from across the district do exactly that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Salazar managed to acquire four sleek black vans — a donation from the Skyhook Foundation — and his team of outdoor educators equipped each one with plastic tubs full of science learning materials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Getting kids outside to learn is at the heart of everything Salazar does. “We know that the outdoors are therapeutic for all of these kids,” Salazar said. During the stay-home periods, he didn’t want students to lose access to nature altogether.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Gerry Salazar, LAUSD\"]‘I’ve always felt that the outdoors is a bit of a human equalizer … [Nature] provides opportunities for children to be able to lower their anxiety, to lower their stress levels.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a program that relied on donations to be realized. Salazar would like to see it grow but knows the funding realities might not allow this long term. “We are mindful that ongoing costs may not have the future funding, post CARES Act, necessary to operate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the one-time cost of the vans was covered by philanthropists, including Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, the district has to cover the staffing and gas costs. “The current fleet of four may be sufficient when considering the entirety of outdoor and environmental education programs offered,” Salazar said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This salamander lesson at Baldwin Hills’ Jim Gilliam Park is the second time the Eco Van has come to work with this group of children, all made possible due to LAUSD’s partnership with the city’s Department of Recreation and Parks where students come daily to utilize the Wi-Fi and child care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The children look eagerly at one outdoor educator, who they call Ms. Willow, as she peppers them with questions. “What is a salamander? Has anybody ever seen a salamander?” There are some guesses, some giggles and then a first grader responds correctly. “It is definitely a lizard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This little boy is wiggling about, raking his fingers back and forth through the grass around him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He is eager to open his ziplock and get to work. “I’m going to build a house that protects the salamander from the wind,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Storey said they tweaked the usual lessons they would give the kids to reflect that in the mountains, they’d really encounter animals. “Salamanders are small,” she said. “They are important to the ecosystem.” For the park lesson, children get a paper salamander. Step one? Color it in. It’s a task the children gleefully attack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11851837\" label=\"More on education during the pandemic\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Being outdoors to learn is more than just nice, said Salazar. “I’ve always felt that the outdoors is a bit of a human equalizer.” Nature “provides opportunities for children to be able to lower their anxiety, to lower their stress levels,” Salazar said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He predicts other long-term benefits as well. “They may look to these open spaces like these neighborhood parks to seek out their own wellness and it [may] empower them to be responsible for their own general health.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The learning benefits are tangible, said Ashley Storey. “First graders are jumping ahead as they are grasping onto concepts that probably wouldn’t even come to them until later grades [like] third, fourth grade.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This stands in contrast to data analyzed late last year by McKinsey & Company that found by the end of the fall, students had only learned 67% of the math compared to same-age peers the previous fall. That equated to about three months of learning loss, according to researchers. For schools with predominantly children of color, that math level fell to 59% of what was learned in the same period the year before. There was a learning loss in reading ability of up to two months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Learning about ecosystems is clearly more engaging when taught as an engineering project. The tactile nature of all these lessons makes learning, especially for very young children, a much more meaningful experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other lessons contained in large plastic tubs in the back of the Eco Van include a “skull lab.” Storey said, “Students get a replica skull of different animals and they have to try to figure out which animal the skull belonged to” by measuring it, looking at the kind of teeth it has, and asking questions to narrow down an answer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11867335\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11867335\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/95004A9C-3D7C-4BC5-8EE9-265E06441850_1_201_a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/95004A9C-3D7C-4BC5-8EE9-265E06441850_1_201_a.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/95004A9C-3D7C-4BC5-8EE9-265E06441850_1_201_a-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/95004A9C-3D7C-4BC5-8EE9-265E06441850_1_201_a-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/95004A9C-3D7C-4BC5-8EE9-265E06441850_1_201_a-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/95004A9C-3D7C-4BC5-8EE9-265E06441850_1_201_a-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">LAUSD outdoor educator Ashley Storey holds a replica skull of a small squirrel. She stands inside the back of the Eco Van, which takes STEM education to children in parks across Los Angeles. \u003ccite>(Deepa Fernandes/The California Report)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In all the activities the outdoor educators do with students, Salazar said many STEM standards are checked off, and the same activity can be made more sophisticated for higher grades, or simplified for kindergarteners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The goal, Salazar said, is to provide an “introduction to learning about their environment and how they influence that environment and how they are influenced by it as well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s a goal that used to be met when students came up to Camp Skyhook and spent days learning outside. But during this year-plus of distance learning, that hasn’t been possible, so the Eco Vans have filled in some of that gap. And they will continue to operate for the rest of this school year, pulling up to parks and school campuses where children are learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11866954\" label=\"Bay Area education resumes in-person learning\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beyond this school year, however, like much of the education world, Salazar doesn’t know what the future holds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For now, at least, this handful of children is learning in the great outdoors. When their Zoom school day finished and the Eco Van arrived, the kids started with the building blocks of their lessons: cardboard, duct tape, plasticine, pipe cleaners and toilet rolls. But in this bucolic outdoor classroom in the park, students have mixed those materials into a diorama of a forest, with duct tape as the busy road the salamander has to cross. The perfect salamander crossing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These children-built ecosystem models allowed paper salamanders to cross the road, safely, under a real beaming sun, surrounded by the little smiling student engineers. Mission accomplished for Storey and her team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Deepa Fernandes is a reporting fellow at Pacific Oaks College, which is funded in part by First 5 LA.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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