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"content": "\u003cp>A year into the coronavirus pandemic, the enormous changes in our lives have become unremarkable: The collection of fabric masks. Visits with friends or family only in small outdoor gatherings. Working or learning from home. Downtowns deserted at noon on a weekday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While some changes happened gradually, there was one day that marked the beginning of the new normal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>March 11, 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On that day in the United States, the pandemic future arrived all at once.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>A historic day begins with other news\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>March 11 was a Wednesday. Joe Biden had \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/03/11/814268568/here-are-the-voters-who-powered-biden-to-his-big-tuesday-wins?ft=nprml&f=\">won\u003c/a> primaries the night before in Idaho, Michigan, Mississippi and Missouri, putting him on \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/03/11/814298678/the-democratic-nomination-is-now-in-view-for-joe-biden-and-6-other-takeaways\">a path toward\u003c/a> clinching the Democratic nomination. Bernie Sanders \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/03/11/814266895/sanders-an-unlikely-front-runner-2-weeks-ago-faces-a-stark-reality?ft=nprml&f=\">said\u003c/a> he was staying in the race, despite his disappointing results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The big news in the morning — and what was expected to be the top headline of the day — was the sentencing of movie mogul Harvey Weinstein. Sitting in a Manhattan courtroom, Weinstein was \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/03/11/814051801/harvey-weinstein-sentenced-to-23-years-in-prison?ft=nprml&f=\">sentenced to 23 years\u003c/a> in prison for rape and sexual abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two days earlier, stocks had \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/03/09/813619387/dow-dives-1-900-points-nyse-halts-trading-as-stock-indexes-plummet\">tumbled\u003c/a> in reaction to Saudi Arabia cutting the price of oil, spurring the market's worst drop since 2008.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the coronavirus — which had already sparked lockdowns in China and Italy — had become a major concern in the U.S. The first case in the U.S. was announced on Jan. 21 in Everett, Washington. 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And some Americans were trying to figure out whether to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/03/11/814353639/cruise-industry-hit-hard-by-coronavirus-outbreak-effects?ft=nprml&f=\">cancel the expensive cruises\u003c/a> they had booked — days earlier, the State Department had put out a warning against such travel, following outbreaks on several ships.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had issued guidance on getting tested for the virus, but it was hard to figure out where such tests \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/03/11/814189027/no-guarantee-youll-get-tested-for-covid-19-even-if-your-doctor-requests-it?ft=nprml&f=103537970\">might be available\u003c/a>. And there were — as there continue to be – instances of racism and xenophobia \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/03/09/813700167/as-coronavirus-spreads-racism-and-xenophobia-are-too?ft=nprml&f=510351\">targeting\u003c/a> Asian Americans as fears of the virus spread through the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Dr. Fauci testifies: \"It's going to get worse\"\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and Dr. Robert Redfield, the director of the CDC, had been called to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/03/11/814460233/coronavirus-1-000-cases-now-in-u-s-and-it-s-going-to-get-worse-fauci-says\">testify about the coronavirus\u003c/a> on March 11 before the House Committee on Oversight and Reform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Observers in the chamber sat shoulder to shoulder, and there was not a mask in sight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Is the worst yet to come, Dr. Fauci?\" asked Rep. 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Eight countries, including the U.S., now had more than 1,000 cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In the past two weeks, the number of cases of COVID-19 outside China has increased 13-fold, and the number of affected countries has tripled,\" said WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"WHO has been assessing this outbreak around the clock and we are deeply concerned both by the alarming levels of spread and severity, and by the alarming levels of inaction,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have therefore made the assessment that COVID-19 can be characterized as a pandemic.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The global health emergency was now \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/03/11/814474930/coronavirus-covid-19-is-now-officially-a-pandemic-who-says\">officially a pandemic\u003c/a> — the first one to be \u003ca href=\"https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseases/coronavirus\">caused by a coronavirus\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The stock market reacted quickly to the new designation: the Dow Jones Industrial Average \u003ca href=\"https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/stock-market-news-live-updates-march-11-2020-115430808.html\">dropped\u003c/a> more than 1,200 points.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the end of the day, the Dow was down more than 20% from its peak in February – and had \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/03/11/814412314/here-we-go-again-dow-drops-700-points-as-stock-market-turmoil-continues?ft=nprml&f=\">entered\u003c/a> bear market territory. An 11-year bull market had come to an end.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>In prime-time Oval Office address, Trump bans travel from Europe\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>At 3:18 p.m., with the pandemic now official and stocks cratering, President Donald Trump sent out \u003ca href=\"https://www.thetrumparchive.com/?dates=%5B%222020-03-11%22%2C%222020-03-12%22%5D\">a tweet\u003c/a>: \"I am fully prepared to use the full power of the Federal Government to deal with our current challenge of the CoronaVirus!\" He said he would address the nation from the Oval Office that evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At 9:02 p.m., Trump began his remarks: \"My fellow Americans: Tonight, I want to speak with you about our nation's unprecedented response to the coronavirus outbreak that started in China and is now spreading throughout the world.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is the most aggressive and comprehensive effort to confront a foreign virus in modern history,\" he continued. \"I am confident that by counting and continuing to take these tough measures, we will significantly reduce the threat to our citizens, and we will ultimately and expeditiously defeat this virus,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then he \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/03/11/814597993/trump-set-to-deliver-address-as-coronavirus-deemed-a-pandemic\">made\u003c/a> a stunning announcement: a 30-day ban on travel from European countries to the U.S., beginning on Friday at midnight — just two days later — \"to keep new cases from entering our shores.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Experts were skeptical the ban would make much of a difference. \"It may have political value, but [it] has zero public health value,\" Lawrence Gostin, a global health law professor at Georgetown University, told NPR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Most of Europe has the same or fewer cases than the U.S. Restricting travel certainly won't make America safer,\" Gostin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Confusion followed the speech, about who and what would be affected by the ban. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A year into the coronavirus pandemic, the enormous changes in our lives have become unremarkable: The collection of fabric masks. Visits with friends or family only in small outdoor gatherings. Working or learning from home. Downtowns deserted at noon on a weekday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While some changes happened gradually, there was one day that marked the beginning of the new normal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>March 11, 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On that day in the United States, the pandemic future arrived all at once.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>A historic day begins with other news\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>March 11 was a Wednesday. Joe Biden had \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/03/11/814268568/here-are-the-voters-who-powered-biden-to-his-big-tuesday-wins?ft=nprml&f=\">won\u003c/a> primaries the night before in Idaho, Michigan, Mississippi and Missouri, putting him on \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/03/11/814298678/the-democratic-nomination-is-now-in-view-for-joe-biden-and-6-other-takeaways\">a path toward\u003c/a> clinching the Democratic nomination. Bernie Sanders \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/03/11/814266895/sanders-an-unlikely-front-runner-2-weeks-ago-faces-a-stark-reality?ft=nprml&f=\">said\u003c/a> he was staying in the race, despite his disappointing results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The big news in the morning — and what was expected to be the top headline of the day — was the sentencing of movie mogul Harvey Weinstein. Sitting in a Manhattan courtroom, Weinstein was \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/03/11/814051801/harvey-weinstein-sentenced-to-23-years-in-prison?ft=nprml&f=\">sentenced to 23 years\u003c/a> in prison for rape and sexual abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two days earlier, stocks had \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/03/09/813619387/dow-dives-1-900-points-nyse-halts-trading-as-stock-indexes-plummet\">tumbled\u003c/a> in reaction to Saudi Arabia cutting the price of oil, spurring the market's worst drop since 2008.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the coronavirus — which had already sparked lockdowns in China and Italy — had become a major concern in the U.S. The first case in the U.S. was announced on Jan. 21 in Everett, Washington. On Jan. 30, the World Health Organization \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/01/30/798894428/who-declares-coronavirus-outbreak-a-global-health-emergency\">declared\u003c/a> a global health emergency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some schools in the U.S. had \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/03/11/814438424/when-should-schools-close-for-coronavirus?ft=nprml&f=\">already closed\u003c/a>, affecting about 850,000 students. And some Americans were trying to figure out whether to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/03/11/814353639/cruise-industry-hit-hard-by-coronavirus-outbreak-effects?ft=nprml&f=\">cancel the expensive cruises\u003c/a> they had booked — days earlier, the State Department had put out a warning against such travel, following outbreaks on several ships.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had issued guidance on getting tested for the virus, but it was hard to figure out where such tests \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/03/11/814189027/no-guarantee-youll-get-tested-for-covid-19-even-if-your-doctor-requests-it?ft=nprml&f=103537970\">might be available\u003c/a>. And there were — as there continue to be – instances of racism and xenophobia \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/03/09/813700167/as-coronavirus-spreads-racism-and-xenophobia-are-too?ft=nprml&f=510351\">targeting\u003c/a> Asian Americans as fears of the virus spread through the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Dr. Fauci testifies: \"It's going to get worse\"\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and Dr. Robert Redfield, the director of the CDC, had been called to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/03/11/814460233/coronavirus-1-000-cases-now-in-u-s-and-it-s-going-to-get-worse-fauci-says\">testify about the coronavirus\u003c/a> on March 11 before the House Committee on Oversight and Reform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Observers in the chamber sat shoulder to shoulder, and there was not a mask in sight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Is the worst yet to come, Dr. Fauci?\" asked Rep. 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Eight countries, including the U.S., now had more than 1,000 cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In the past two weeks, the number of cases of COVID-19 outside China has increased 13-fold, and the number of affected countries has tripled,\" said WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"WHO has been assessing this outbreak around the clock and we are deeply concerned both by the alarming levels of spread and severity, and by the alarming levels of inaction,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have therefore made the assessment that COVID-19 can be characterized as a pandemic.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The global health emergency was now \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/03/11/814474930/coronavirus-covid-19-is-now-officially-a-pandemic-who-says\">officially a pandemic\u003c/a> — the first one to be \u003ca href=\"https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseases/coronavirus\">caused by a coronavirus\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The stock market reacted quickly to the new designation: the Dow Jones Industrial Average \u003ca href=\"https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/stock-market-news-live-updates-march-11-2020-115430808.html\">dropped\u003c/a> more than 1,200 points.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the end of the day, the Dow was down more than 20% from its peak in February – and had \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/03/11/814412314/here-we-go-again-dow-drops-700-points-as-stock-market-turmoil-continues?ft=nprml&f=\">entered\u003c/a> bear market territory. An 11-year bull market had come to an end.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>In prime-time Oval Office address, Trump bans travel from Europe\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>At 3:18 p.m., with the pandemic now official and stocks cratering, President Donald Trump sent out \u003ca href=\"https://www.thetrumparchive.com/?dates=%5B%222020-03-11%22%2C%222020-03-12%22%5D\">a tweet\u003c/a>: \"I am fully prepared to use the full power of the Federal Government to deal with our current challenge of the CoronaVirus!\" He said he would address the nation from the Oval Office that evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At 9:02 p.m., Trump began his remarks: \"My fellow Americans: Tonight, I want to speak with you about our nation's unprecedented response to the coronavirus outbreak that started in China and is now spreading throughout the world.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is the most aggressive and comprehensive effort to confront a foreign virus in modern history,\" he continued. \"I am confident that by counting and continuing to take these tough measures, we will significantly reduce the threat to our citizens, and we will ultimately and expeditiously defeat this virus,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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The White House says Biden plans to sign it on Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s welcome news to some Bay Area city leaders, who have advocated for more relief from the federal government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Mayor London Breed lauded the package, called the American Rescue Plan, for providing funding for vaccinations, direct support for families and people in need, and helping cities “maintain critical services and avoid layoffs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is what happens when we have a federal government that wants to invest in the success of states and cities,” Breed \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/LondonBreed/status/1369738349032828929?s=20\">said on Twitter\u003c/a> Wednesday. “The future of San Francisco and the country is brighter today as a result.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo and Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf were also among Bay Area leaders pushing for more funding in the federal relief package.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“American cities like San Jose have been on the front lines of the #COVID19 pandemic & paid a steep price,” Liccardo \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/sliccardo/status/1364988774581592066?s=20\">tweeted\u003c/a> in February, joining more than 400 mayors across the United States calling on Congress to pass the relief plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill will direct a new round of aid to Americans — in the form of direct payments, extended unemployment benefits, an expanded child tax credit and more — almost a year after the pandemic first upended daily life in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/LondonBreed/status/1369738349032828929\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Biden said in remarks on Saturday at the White House that funding for the American Rescue Plan will “get the country in a place to get back to normal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This plan puts us on a path to beating the virus,” he said, following the Senate’s vote. “This plan gives those families who are struggling the most the help and the breathing room they need to get through this moment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Biden also vowed to get the direct payments of up to $1,400 out the door starting “this month.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The House voted 220-211 with no Republicans voting in favor of the bill, despite calls for bipartisan support from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other Democratic leaders. One Democrat, Rep. Jared Golden of Maine, voted against the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The House passed a similar version of the plan last month, but had to approve changes to the legislation made by the Senate. One key difference is that the Senate’s version of the bill doesn’t include an increase to the federal minimum wage, a provision that was ruled out by the nonpartisan Senate parliamentarian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Sam Liccardo, mayor of San Jose\"]‘American cities like San Jose have been on the front lines of the [COVID-19] pandemic [and] paid a steep price.’[/pullquote]The Senate also tightened the caps for direct payments, narrowing who would qualify for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beyond support for individuals and families — including an expanded child tax credit, the bill allocates billions of dollars to schools and to the distribution of COVID-19 vaccines, testing and supplies. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though Republicans have largely opposed the plan since Biden introduced it in January, the budget reconciliation process allowed Democrats to push the bill forward without support from across the aisle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The White House and congressional Democrats point to public opinion polls showing overwhelming support for the legislation, including the backing in some surveys from a majority of Republicans. While no GOP lawmakers in Congress voted for it, Democrats point out that some Republican state and local government officials are pressing for the aid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Biden is expected to sign the bill swiftly; the current enhanced federal unemployment benefits expire Sunday. He’ll also deliver the first prime-time address of his term Thursday to mark the one-year anniversary of the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s a closer look at some of the big-ticket provisions in the Senate-amended bill:\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Direct Payments\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The bill allocates funds for a third economic impact payment to qualifying Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Individuals earning up to $75,000 and couples earning up to $150,000 would receive the full direct payments of $1,400 per person. Individuals will also receive an additional $1,400 payment for each dependent claimed on their tax returns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Senate Democrats agreed to lower the income cutoff at which payments phase out from $100,000 to $80,000 for individuals, and from $200,000 to $160,000 for couples filing jointly, following demands from \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/03/03/973367877/senate-democrats-white-house-agree-to-tighter-income-limits-for-stimulus-checks\">moderate Democrats\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Unemployment Benefits\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Under the Senate version, federal unemployment insurance payments will remain at $300 per week — \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/03/05/974020325/senate-democrats-agree-to-extend-unemployment-benefits-through-september\">down from $400 per week\u003c/a> in the earlier package passed by the House. The benefits will extend through Sept. 6. The Senate’s bill makes the first $10,200 in unemployment payments nontaxable for households with incomes under $150,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Child Tax Credit\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The legislation would temporarily expand the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/02/26/970999998/with-one-move-congress-could-lift-millions-of-children-out-of-poverty\">child tax credit\u003c/a>, increasing the amount to $3,000 for children ages 6 to 17 and $3,600 for children under age 6.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The amount is gradually reduced for couples earning over $150,000 and individuals earning over $75,000 per year. Families eligible for the full credit would get payments of up to $300 per child per month from July through the end of the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Congressional Democrats and the White House may want to figure out how to make the credit permanent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11862122 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47577_iStock-915488206-qut-1020x538.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Paycheck Protection Program\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The bill includes $7.25 billion in new money for the small-business loan program known as the Paycheck Protection Program and would allow more nonprofits to apply, including those groups that engage in advocacy and some limited lobbying. It also allows larger nonprofits to be eligible.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Education\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>There are over $128 billion in grants to state educational agencies, with 90% allocated to local educational agencies, plus $39 billion in grants to higher education institutions. Nearly $15 billion in funds are directed to the Child Care and Development Block Grant program to help support child care facilities, particularly in high-need areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Senate version added a provision to make any student loan forgiveness passed between Dec. 31, 2020, and Jan. 1, 2026, tax-free — rather than having the forgiven debt be treated as taxable income.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Support for Low-Income Families\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The bill includes $4.5 billion for the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, known as LIHEAP, to help families with home heating and cooling costs. One provision would give the agriculture secretary the authority and funding to temporarily boost the value of cash vouchers for the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) up to $35 per month for women and children for a four-month period during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is $1.4 billion in funding for programs authorized under the Older Americans Act, including support for nutrition programs, community-based support programs and the National Family Caregiver Support Program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill provides $37 million to the Commodity Supplemental Food Program for low-income seniors.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Public Health\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is set to receive $7.5 billion to track, administer and distribute COVID-19 vaccines. Another $46 billion would go toward diagnosing and tracing coronavirus infections, and $2 billion would go toward buying and distributing various testing supplies and personal protective equipment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s a variety of provisions in the legislation to offer support to different industries. The Small Business Administration would get $25 billion for a new grant program for “restaurants and other food and drinking establishments.” Grants would be up to $10 million per entity and $5 million per physical location, with a maximum of 20 locations. The legislation sets aside $5 billion of the total money to be targeted to businesses with less than $500,000 in revenue in 2019. The bill includes another $1.25 billion for the Small Business Administration’s Shuttered Venue Operators Grant program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To support the transportation sector, the bill allocates nearly $30 billion for transit costs, including payroll and personal protective equipment; $8 billion for airports; $3 billion for a temporary payroll support program to help support the aerospace manufacturing industry; and $1.5 billion to recall and pay Amtrak employees who were furloughed because of the pandemic and to restore various daily routes. Another $15 billion would also be allocated to support workers in the airline industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Rental Assistance\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>There is $25 billion for emergency rental assistance, including $5 billion for emergency housing vouchers for people experiencing homelessness, survivors of domestic violence and victims of human trafficking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story includes reporting from NPR’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/people/728257568/chloee-weiner\">Chloee Weiner\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/people/468259099/barbara-sprunt\">Barbara Sprunt\u003c/a>, and KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/jrodriguez\">Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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Counties only recently started offering vaccinations to this hard-hit workforce, but agricultural workers are so far accepting the vaccine at high rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Diana Tellefson Torres, executive director, United Farm Workers Foundation\"]‘We want to make sure the process is accessible. 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Just having something on a website isn’t going to get farmworkers somewhere because there is limited digital literacy and that limitation has been a huge barrier,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some counties like Riverside have sent mobile clinics to agricultural worksites. Tulare County has opened its large \u003ca href=\"https://www.internationalagricenter.com/\">International Agri-Center\u003c/a>, well known in its farming community, where growers can send their employees for vaccinations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farmworkers, like other essential employees, can also get vaccinated at other distribution sites, like pharmacies, but that often requires taking time off work, navigating a county or pharmacy website or the My Turn online form and getting lucky finding an appointment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a nationwide United Farm Workers Foundation survey of 10,149 farmworkers – the vast majority of them in California – 73% said they would get the vaccine as soon as possible while only 5% said they would not. Twenty-two percent said they were neutral. That’s slightly more pro-vaccine than the 69% of all Americans who say they have been or will be vaccinated and the 30% who say they would not, according to a new \u003ca href=\"https://www.pewresearch.org/science/2021/03/05/growing-share-of-americans-say-they-plan-to-get-a-covid-19-vaccine--or-already-have/\">Pew Research Center survey\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Higher Infection Rates\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>About \u003ca href=\"https://ag.purdue.edu/agecon/Pages/FoodandAgVulnerabilityIndex.aspx?_ga=2.152868540.4695762.1607534115-582371292.1607534115\">46,000\u003c/a> agricultural workers in California have been infected with COVID-19, according to estimates from Purdue University researchers. Their infection rates tend to run higher than the general population – 13% of farmworkers recruited for a study in the Salinas Valley tested positive for COVID-19 between July and November, compared to 5% of the general population, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://news.berkeley.edu/2020/12/02/california-farmworkers-hit-hard-by-covid-19-study-finds/\">UC Berkeley study\u003c/a> published in December.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like Cruz, Mauricio Chavez of Hollister got his COVID-19 shot at Monterey Mushrooms. Although he works at a different, neighboring mushroom farm, its workers were invited to the vaccine clinic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At work they told us this wasn’t mandatory, it was voluntary,” he said. But he didn’t think twice about it. “I haven’t seen my parents in a year, they’re 80 and 82 … that’s a year we don’t get back.” Because his parents were also recently immunized, “this opens up the opportunity for me to see them again soon,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11860883 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/SanJose_COVIDTesting-1038x576.jpg']Chavez said agricultural workers may be more inclined to get the vaccine because so many have either been infected or know someone who was. He has coworkers who have fallen ill, although not necessarily at work, but likely at home because they live in crowded housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have 10 or 15 people living in one house, and all you need is one person to get infected,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About four in 10 Californians who live with an agricultural or food processing worker live in an overcrowded home – defined as having more people than rooms, according to a CalMatters \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2020/08/guest-worker-covid-outbreak-california/\">analysis\u003c/a> of census data.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Rumors and Misinformation\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Despite some concerns about vaccine misinformation and hesitancy among farmworkers, if there is education and access, farmworkers will generally accept the vaccine, de Barraicua said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, rumors and misinformation are common. Cruz said she’s heard that the vaccine is a government ploy to track them, or an attempt to make people sick and reduce the population. Cruz brushes the rumors aside, but knows this type of gossip could discourage some of her peers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other concerns are more technical. Some workers think they can’t be vaccinated because they don’t have health insurance, even though shots are free. According to a second UFW Foundation survey of nearly 15,000 farmworkers, 78% of respondents said they did not have health insurance, and 34% had medical conditions that put them at high risk for severe illness from COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='farmworkers']There is also a fear about sharing any type of personal information because of their immigration status, de Barraicua said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she’s attended events where some farmworkers said they didn’t get any advanced notice about the vaccination events, giving them little time to ask questions and ease their doubts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Organizations like the UFW Foundation and Lideres Campesinas have been working with health officials across the state to provide vaccine education to workers in the fields.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the worksite vaccination clinics are a partnership between a county and employers. 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"content": "\u003cp>After months under California's most restrictive COVID-19 guidelines, San Francisco \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11862817/san-francisco-santa-clara-napa-counties-move-to-less-restrictive-reopening-tier\">entered the so-called red tier\u003c/a> this week, meaning some businesses and services can reopen to the public for the first time since 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A county's ranking in the tier system, called California's \"\u003ca href=\"https://covid19.ca.gov/safer-economy/\">Blueprint for a Safer Economy\u003c/a>,\" is determined based on the seven-day average of its overall COVID-19 cases, and the positivity rate. 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1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sea otter swims at the Aquarium of the Bay in San Francisco on March 4, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11863536\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47539_014_SanFrancisco_AquariumoftheBay_03042021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11863536\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47539_014_SanFrancisco_AquariumoftheBay_03042021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47539_014_SanFrancisco_AquariumoftheBay_03042021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47539_014_SanFrancisco_AquariumoftheBay_03042021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47539_014_SanFrancisco_AquariumoftheBay_03042021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47539_014_SanFrancisco_AquariumoftheBay_03042021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Helen Yool at the Aquarium of the Bay in San Francisco on March 4, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11863533\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11863533\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47531_029_SanFrancisco_SkyStarWheel_03042021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47531_029_SanFrancisco_SkyStarWheel_03042021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47531_029_SanFrancisco_SkyStarWheel_03042021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47531_029_SanFrancisco_SkyStarWheel_03042021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47531_029_SanFrancisco_SkyStarWheel_03042021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47531_029_SanFrancisco_SkyStarWheel_03042021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ariel Mestayer-Orallo takes a passenger's temperature at SkyStar Observation Wheel in Golden Gate Park on March 4, 2021, on the first day of reopening as San Francisco enters the red tier. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11863532\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11863532\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47527_019_SanFrancisco_SkyStarWheel_03042021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47527_019_SanFrancisco_SkyStarWheel_03042021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47527_019_SanFrancisco_SkyStarWheel_03042021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47527_019_SanFrancisco_SkyStarWheel_03042021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47527_019_SanFrancisco_SkyStarWheel_03042021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47527_019_SanFrancisco_SkyStarWheel_03042021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A passenger rides in a gondola on the SkyStar Observation Wheel in Golden Gate Park on March 4, 2021, on the first day of reopening as San Francisco enters the red tier. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11863577\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47526_016_SanFrancisco_SkyStarWheel_03042021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11863577\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47526_016_SanFrancisco_SkyStarWheel_03042021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47526_016_SanFrancisco_SkyStarWheel_03042021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47526_016_SanFrancisco_SkyStarWheel_03042021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47526_016_SanFrancisco_SkyStarWheel_03042021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47526_016_SanFrancisco_SkyStarWheel_03042021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>After months under California's most restrictive COVID-19 guidelines, San Francisco \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11862817/san-francisco-santa-clara-napa-counties-move-to-less-restrictive-reopening-tier\">entered the so-called red tier\u003c/a> this week, meaning some businesses and services can reopen to the public for the first time since 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A county's ranking in the tier system, called California's \"\u003ca href=\"https://covid19.ca.gov/safer-economy/\">Blueprint for a Safer Economy\u003c/a>,\" is determined based on the seven-day average of its overall COVID-19 cases, and the positivity rate. Counties under the red tier are allowed to reopen some nonessential businesses — like bookstores, museums and fitness centers — with limited capacity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the announcement, aquariums and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13893481/de-young-and-sfmoma-reopen-this-weekend-hopefully-for-good\">museums have been slowly opening\u003c/a> their doors. The Asian Art Museum reopened on Thursday, and de Young Museum and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art plan to reopen this weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11863543\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11863543\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47550_001_SanFrancisco_Pier39Reopening_03042021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47550_001_SanFrancisco_Pier39Reopening_03042021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47550_001_SanFrancisco_Pier39Reopening_03042021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47550_001_SanFrancisco_Pier39Reopening_03042021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47550_001_SanFrancisco_Pier39Reopening_03042021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47550_001_SanFrancisco_Pier39Reopening_03042021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A 'Welcome Back' sign at Pier 39 in San Francisco on March 4, 2021, outlining new safety measures due to COVID-19. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Here are some of the other businesses that can reopen under red tier restrictions:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Clothing and shoe stores, with 50% capacity\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Dance studios, with 10% capacity\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Hair salons and barbershops can open indoors, with modifications\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Libraries, with 50% capacity\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Movie theaters, with 25% capacity or 100 people, whichever is fewer\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Restaurants can open indoor dining with 25% capacity or 100 people, whichever is fewer\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://covid19.ca.gov/safer-economy/\">Check out the full list of what's open, and what's not, here.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just days after moving from the more restrictive purple tier to the red tier, residents are already taking advantage of reopened businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11863568\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47567_025_SanFrancisco_EmbarcaderoReopening_03032021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11863568\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47567_025_SanFrancisco_EmbarcaderoReopening_03032021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47567_025_SanFrancisco_EmbarcaderoReopening_03032021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47567_025_SanFrancisco_EmbarcaderoReopening_03032021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47567_025_SanFrancisco_EmbarcaderoReopening_03032021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47567_025_SanFrancisco_EmbarcaderoReopening_03032021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Diners eat inside of a tent at La Mar Cebicheria Peruana restaurant in San Francisco on March 3, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11863544\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47552_003_SanFrancisco_Pier39Reopening_03042021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11863544\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47552_003_SanFrancisco_Pier39Reopening_03042021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47552_003_SanFrancisco_Pier39Reopening_03042021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47552_003_SanFrancisco_Pier39Reopening_03042021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47552_003_SanFrancisco_Pier39Reopening_03042021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47552_003_SanFrancisco_Pier39Reopening_03042021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jorge Arreola sanitizes a table at Pier Market after the restaurant reopened for indoor dining on March 4, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11863538\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11863538\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47544_022_SanFrancisco_AquariumoftheBay_03042021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47544_022_SanFrancisco_AquariumoftheBay_03042021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47544_022_SanFrancisco_AquariumoftheBay_03042021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47544_022_SanFrancisco_AquariumoftheBay_03042021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47544_022_SanFrancisco_AquariumoftheBay_03042021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47544_022_SanFrancisco_AquariumoftheBay_03042021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Espinosa family at the Aquarium of the Bay at Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco on March 4, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11863563\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47543_018_SanFrancisco_AquariumoftheBay_03042021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"sea otter swimming\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11863563\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47543_018_SanFrancisco_AquariumoftheBay_03042021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47543_018_SanFrancisco_AquariumoftheBay_03042021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47543_018_SanFrancisco_AquariumoftheBay_03042021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47543_018_SanFrancisco_AquariumoftheBay_03042021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47543_018_SanFrancisco_AquariumoftheBay_03042021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sea otter swims at the Aquarium of the Bay in San Francisco on March 4, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11863536\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47539_014_SanFrancisco_AquariumoftheBay_03042021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11863536\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47539_014_SanFrancisco_AquariumoftheBay_03042021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47539_014_SanFrancisco_AquariumoftheBay_03042021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47539_014_SanFrancisco_AquariumoftheBay_03042021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47539_014_SanFrancisco_AquariumoftheBay_03042021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47539_014_SanFrancisco_AquariumoftheBay_03042021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Helen Yool at the Aquarium of the Bay in San Francisco on March 4, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11863533\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11863533\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47531_029_SanFrancisco_SkyStarWheel_03042021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47531_029_SanFrancisco_SkyStarWheel_03042021-qut.jpg 1920w, 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They are often declared white, Latino or Black on official forms by uninformed hospital workers, according to community leaders and various studies. Sometimes they are simply listed as “other.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly 9,000 American Indians in California have been sickened by COVID-19 and 163 have died, according to the state public health authority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Native American leaders said those figures do not reflect the death and sickness they’ve seen invade their communities, both on and off reservation land. It also doesn’t reflect national data that shows Native Americans, who are especially vulnerable to COVID-19 because of chronic diseases such as diabetes, heart disease and hypertension, are dying at horrifying high rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows American Indians and Alaska Natives are the single group hardest-hit by the pandemic. They are diagnosed with COVID-19 at nearly twice the rate of white people, hospitalized almost four times as frequently and die at a rate of two and a half times that of whites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Virginia Hedrick, executive director of the Consortium for Urban Indian Health']'For me, this is a culminating event. This is historical trauma playing out in real time.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of December, 2,689 non-Hispanic American Indians had died from COVID-19, according to the CDC. However, many states do not separate out American Indians into their own category, which \u003ca href=\"https://www.brookings.edu/research/american-indians-and-alaska-natives-are-dying-of-covid-19-at-shocking-rates/\">public health experts suggest\u003c/a> has lowered the overall tally of native deaths in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, native people comprise .3% of all deaths and diagnoses of COVID-19, and account for about .5% of the total population, at about 330,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Department of Public Health said it has worked to decrease instances of racial misclassification in recent years, but conceded that officials may have misclassified American Indians in an attempt to prevent double-counting cases. Under state guidance, anyone who states they have American Indian heritage in combination with another race or ethnicity are counted as Hispanic/Latino or multiracial instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This approach is the national standard for reporting disease rates and has several advantages,” the health department wrote in a statement to The Salinas Californian. “However, it also has limitations. Any classification system will not be able to capture the complexity and richness of racial identity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Acknowledging the problem doesn’t change the fact that the data is wrong, experts said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The problem is in the data itself,” said Virginia Hedrick, executive director of the Consortium for Urban Indian Health, a California nonprofit alliance of service providers dedicated to improving American Indian healthcare. “I don’t trust the state data. I haven’t ever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For me, this is a culminating event. This is historical trauma playing out in real time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11863264\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11863264\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47511_95dbbce9-4e3a-46a3-b75b-aa3d2b3fe3af-003_20210226_USAToday_DeathClassification_0035_A-scaled-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47511_95dbbce9-4e3a-46a3-b75b-aa3d2b3fe3af-003_20210226_USAToday_DeathClassification_0035_A-scaled-qut.jpg 1568w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47511_95dbbce9-4e3a-46a3-b75b-aa3d2b3fe3af-003_20210226_USAToday_DeathClassification_0035_A-scaled-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47511_95dbbce9-4e3a-46a3-b75b-aa3d2b3fe3af-003_20210226_USAToday_DeathClassification_0035_A-scaled-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47511_95dbbce9-4e3a-46a3-b75b-aa3d2b3fe3af-003_20210226_USAToday_DeathClassification_0035_A-scaled-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47511_95dbbce9-4e3a-46a3-b75b-aa3d2b3fe3af-003_20210226_USAToday_DeathClassification_0035_A-scaled-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photos of Elizabeth Sigala and Betty Ann Sigala who passed away from Covid-19 last year, in Leticia Aguilar’s home in Elk Grove on February 26, 2021 \u003ccite>(Salgu Wissmath/USA TODAY)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Native American Deaths Going Uncounted\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>For many Native Americans in California, it seems like every few weeks there’s another death. San Carlos Apache tribe member Britta Guerrero has donated to a number of funerals and attended a few via Zoom, streaming the proceedings in her living room. The familiar ceremonies and readings meant to guide her through her grief felt remote, unreal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think that we are able to even deal with the trauma of loss yet,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guerrero, the executive director of the Sacramento Native American Health Center, has seen nine die in her immediate circle over the past year. Her clinic has donated or sent flowers to a dozen more funerals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve been trying to go through the motions of grieving and burying people,” Guerrero said. “We know a lot of people are missing, and we won’t understand the gravity of that until we’re back together and we see who is gone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guerrero’s own experience in the community and her work in American Indian healthcare have shown her the official tally of American Indian deaths is too low.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s misclassification there,” she said, pointing to the health department’s decision to count people with multiple racial heritages as multiracial or Hispanic/Latino instead of American Indian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That sense of loss the living suffer is heightened by fear that their loved ones might be scrubbed from American Indian history by an inaccurate document.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11863265\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11863265\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47510_a7485ecc-2648-459d-baab-cf1aeb37657d-005_20210226_USAToday_DeathClassification_0073_A-1-scaled-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1047\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47510_a7485ecc-2648-459d-baab-cf1aeb37657d-005_20210226_USAToday_DeathClassification_0073_A-1-scaled-qut.jpg 1568w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47510_a7485ecc-2648-459d-baab-cf1aeb37657d-005_20210226_USAToday_DeathClassification_0073_A-1-scaled-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47510_a7485ecc-2648-459d-baab-cf1aeb37657d-005_20210226_USAToday_DeathClassification_0073_A-1-scaled-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47510_a7485ecc-2648-459d-baab-cf1aeb37657d-005_20210226_USAToday_DeathClassification_0073_A-1-scaled-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47510_a7485ecc-2648-459d-baab-cf1aeb37657d-005_20210226_USAToday_DeathClassification_0073_A-1-scaled-qut-1536x1026.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left, Sergio Hinojosa Jr., Leticia Aguilar, Jordan Hinojosa, Jenny Sigala, Sergio Hinojosa III, and Angelina Hinojosa pose for a portrait in their home in Elk Grove on February 26, 2021. \u003ccite>(Salgu Wissman/USA TODAY)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Aguilar made sure she was the one to fill out her grandmother and aunt’s death certificates. If she didn’t, she worried her grandmother, who was of American Indian and Filipino descent, and her aunt, who had American Indian, Filipino and Mexican heritage, wouldn’t be classified as Native American by hospital staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aguilar became aware of how common racial misclassification was in the run-up to the census last spring, which motivated her to ensure her relatives’ deaths were counted. The idea that their identity and culture could have been erased by the state counting system made her sick with anger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That only contributes to the invisibility of our people, which makes it harder for us to even access resources because we can’t prove we exist,” she said. “There is so much more meaning behind making sure we are properly counted as native people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘We’re born Indian and we die white’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Evidence of racial misclassification of American Indians stretches back decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 1997 \u003ca href=\"https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/abs/10.2105/AJPH.87.8.1363\">American Journal of Public Health\u003c/a> study that compared birth certificates of American Indians in California from 1979 to 1993 with death certificates during the same time span found that at the time of death, about 75% of native children were racially misclassified.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Misclassification was more likely if the child resided in an urban county outside of Indian Health Service delivery areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And a 2016 report by the CDC found that nationally, American Indians were misclassified \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/series/sr_02/sr02_172.pdf\">up to 40%\u003c/a> of the time on their death certificates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These mistakes have far-reaching consequences. In one instance, racial misclassification resulted in undercounting the transmission of STDs through Arizona’s Native American population by up to 60%, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2882975/\">2010 Public Health Report article\u003c/a>. An undercount can result in less funding for treatment, as well as additional unintended health consequences, such as infertility, which is associated with untreated STDs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re born Indian and we die white,” said Hedrick, of the Consortium for Urban Indian Health. “I would argue that there are likely more Native Americans in hospital beds that are racially misclassified” than we know.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tribal members said each American Indian death needs to be counted as an American Indian death. To do otherwise is to further erase a people who have faced \u003ca href=\"https://www.nlm.nih.gov/nativevoices/timeline/547.html\">kidnapping and forced assimilation\u003c/a> of their children, \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2019/06/18/governor-newsom-issues-apology-to-native-americans-for-states-historical-wrongdoings-establishes-truth-and-healing-council/\">indentured servitude\u003c/a> and an 1851 state-funded extermination order that killed \u003ca href=\"https://newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/revealing-the-history-of-genocide-against-californias-native-americans\">as many as 16,000\u003c/a>, only to find themselves uncounted, made invisible. [ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>State and County Roadblocks\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Tribal healthcare experts and leaders said they have struggled to challenge the state’s data on COVID-19 deaths because in some cases they were deliberately left in the dark by state and county governments, which are not required to provide data on COVID-19 cases to tribes. That left tribal leaders unable to contain the spread of the virus on their own reservations and fully understand the threat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Concerned about the high rate of COVID-19 among the state’s native population, California State Assemblymember James Ramos of the Serrano/Cahuilla tribes, chair of the Committee of Native Affairs, held a hearing on the disparities this past November. There, he learned some counties refused to communicate with tribal leaders even to tell them if there was a positive case on the reservation because of health privacy protections. Other governments, such as state or county governments, are able to receive such data, which is more thorough than the COVID-19 data released on public sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one case, citing HIPAA laws, a county refused to divulge case and death data to the chairman of the Yurok Tribe. The chairman oversees every aspect of the tribe, including healthcare. The Yurok, whose reservation straddles Del Norte and Humboldt counties in northern California, were forced to hire a health officer before they could get the needed information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramos said state and county government endangered native people by denying them information. He said California has a history of refusing to understand or work with tribal governments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He worried that if these issues aren’t tackled now, they won’t be solved before the next pandemic and will end in deaths of more native people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramos, too, has seen a loved one succumb to the virus. His uncle, an elder in his tribe and a source of support and inspiration for Ramos himself, died of COVID-19 in February. They buried him the day before Valentine’s Day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11863267\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11863267\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47509_19d0911f-92d2-4338-a7ee-8ae87d56481a-Chairman_James-scaled-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1013\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47509_19d0911f-92d2-4338-a7ee-8ae87d56481a-Chairman_James-scaled-qut.jpg 1568w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47509_19d0911f-92d2-4338-a7ee-8ae87d56481a-Chairman_James-scaled-qut-800x517.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47509_19d0911f-92d2-4338-a7ee-8ae87d56481a-Chairman_James-scaled-qut-1020x659.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47509_19d0911f-92d2-4338-a7ee-8ae87d56481a-Chairman_James-scaled-qut-160x103.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47509_19d0911f-92d2-4338-a7ee-8ae87d56481a-Chairman_James-scaled-qut-1536x992.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yurok Tribal Chairman Joseph James, pictured here at the podium, gives his inauguration speech in 2018 \u003ccite>(Photo courtesy of Yurok Tribe)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In Central California, the Tule River Tribe in Tulare County also found itself cut off from potentially lifesaving data. Of its roughly 1,600 members living on the reservation, 179 have been diagnosed with COVID-19, or roughly 11%. Another 177 of the 357 who live off the reservation have been stricken ill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adam Christman, chairperson of the Tule River Indian Health Center and Tule River Tribe Public Health Authority, said California did not grant the reservation health center access to the California Reportable Disease Information Exchange, the state system all testing entities report results to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Having access to that system would make it easier for us to identify who should be isolating based on those test results, and monitoring them for quarantine and contact tracing,” Christman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After months of agitating for access, the tribe simply gave up asking.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘Nobody’s going to help us’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Without data or consistent government support, tribal leaders and members have leaned on each other to keep each other safe by social distancing, wearing masks and getting vaccinated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After an outbreak of six cases, the Yurok tribal council closed its reservation multiple times, suspended housing and utility payments and provided supplies such as food, PPE, firewood and emergency generators to residents. They also launched a contact-tracing team, a food sovereignty program and are working with United Health Services on vaccinating their eligible population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11863268\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11863268\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47515_2de44e15-7ab5-47ec-afeb-60325f5c7a5f-DSC_0052-scaled-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1050\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47515_2de44e15-7ab5-47ec-afeb-60325f5c7a5f-DSC_0052-scaled-qut.jpg 1568w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47515_2de44e15-7ab5-47ec-afeb-60325f5c7a5f-DSC_0052-scaled-qut-800x536.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47515_2de44e15-7ab5-47ec-afeb-60325f5c7a5f-DSC_0052-scaled-qut-1020x683.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47515_2de44e15-7ab5-47ec-afeb-60325f5c7a5f-DSC_0052-scaled-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47515_2de44e15-7ab5-47ec-afeb-60325f5c7a5f-DSC_0052-scaled-qut-1536x1029.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ricardo Torres, the secretary of the board for the Sacramento Native American Health Center, has helped to mask or vaccinate thousands of Native Americans in the Sacramento area. \u003ccite>(Photo courtesy of Ricardo Torres)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Basically the way we looked at it, nobody’s coming, nobody’s going to help us,” said Yurok Tribal Chairman Joseph James. “We’re a sovereign government. There’s things we need to work on to improve our daily lives and provide for our own people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the urban American Indian community of Sacramento, advocates and healthcare professionals at the Sacramento Native American Health Center have inoculated 72% of all American Indians 65 and older in the region eligible for the vaccine right now, far more than the state or national vaccination rate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ricardo Torres, a member of the Winnemem Wintu Tribe and SNAHC secretary of the board, helps manage a COVID-19 outreach campaign that has seen thousands of native community members receive masks and vaccines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the last 12 months, Torres saw more than a dozen friends and acquaintances die from COVID-19. He worries more will follow, since only people 75 years and older initially had access to the vaccine in California. Native people born today have a life expectancy of just \u003ca href=\"https://www.ihs.gov/newsroom/factsheets/disparities/\">73 years\u003c/a>, more than five years less than the U.S. all-races population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our population is young,” said Torres. “We don’t have a lot of 75-and-over people. They’re already dead…The people that we need to get vaccinated are the younger people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A history of mistreatment at the hands of medical providers has led to distrust in the native community, and the swiftness of the vaccine rollout did not engender comfort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People can be vaccine-hesitant,” said Guerrero, of the Sacramento Native American Health Center. “There’s a lack of trust in the federal government…so now we’re really pushing a boulder up a hill.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until more Native Americans are vaccinated, tribal leaders said community members will continue to voluntarily social distance, wear masks and pray for good health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As the Indian people as a whole, as first peoples of this nation, we’ve dealt with pandemic, sickness, illness, historically since the beginning of time,” said the Yurok Tribe’s James. “Our people went through this before. We survived, and we’ll continue to survive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article is part of the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/projects/the-california-divide/\">California Divide\u003c/a>, a collaboration among newsrooms examining income inequality and economic survival in California.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of December, 2,689 non-Hispanic American Indians had died from COVID-19, according to the CDC. However, many states do not separate out American Indians into their own category, which \u003ca href=\"https://www.brookings.edu/research/american-indians-and-alaska-natives-are-dying-of-covid-19-at-shocking-rates/\">public health experts suggest\u003c/a> has lowered the overall tally of native deaths in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, native people comprise .3% of all deaths and diagnoses of COVID-19, and account for about .5% of the total population, at about 330,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Department of Public Health said it has worked to decrease instances of racial misclassification in recent years, but conceded that officials may have misclassified American Indians in an attempt to prevent double-counting cases. Under state guidance, anyone who states they have American Indian heritage in combination with another race or ethnicity are counted as Hispanic/Latino or multiracial instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This approach is the national standard for reporting disease rates and has several advantages,” the health department wrote in a statement to The Salinas Californian. “However, it also has limitations. Any classification system will not be able to capture the complexity and richness of racial identity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Acknowledging the problem doesn’t change the fact that the data is wrong, experts said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The problem is in the data itself,” said Virginia Hedrick, executive director of the Consortium for Urban Indian Health, a California nonprofit alliance of service providers dedicated to improving American Indian healthcare. “I don’t trust the state data. I haven’t ever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For me, this is a culminating event. This is historical trauma playing out in real time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11863264\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11863264\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47511_95dbbce9-4e3a-46a3-b75b-aa3d2b3fe3af-003_20210226_USAToday_DeathClassification_0035_A-scaled-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47511_95dbbce9-4e3a-46a3-b75b-aa3d2b3fe3af-003_20210226_USAToday_DeathClassification_0035_A-scaled-qut.jpg 1568w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47511_95dbbce9-4e3a-46a3-b75b-aa3d2b3fe3af-003_20210226_USAToday_DeathClassification_0035_A-scaled-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47511_95dbbce9-4e3a-46a3-b75b-aa3d2b3fe3af-003_20210226_USAToday_DeathClassification_0035_A-scaled-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47511_95dbbce9-4e3a-46a3-b75b-aa3d2b3fe3af-003_20210226_USAToday_DeathClassification_0035_A-scaled-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47511_95dbbce9-4e3a-46a3-b75b-aa3d2b3fe3af-003_20210226_USAToday_DeathClassification_0035_A-scaled-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photos of Elizabeth Sigala and Betty Ann Sigala who passed away from Covid-19 last year, in Leticia Aguilar’s home in Elk Grove on February 26, 2021 \u003ccite>(Salgu Wissmath/USA TODAY)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Native American Deaths Going Uncounted\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>For many Native Americans in California, it seems like every few weeks there’s another death. San Carlos Apache tribe member Britta Guerrero has donated to a number of funerals and attended a few via Zoom, streaming the proceedings in her living room. The familiar ceremonies and readings meant to guide her through her grief felt remote, unreal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think that we are able to even deal with the trauma of loss yet,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guerrero, the executive director of the Sacramento Native American Health Center, has seen nine die in her immediate circle over the past year. Her clinic has donated or sent flowers to a dozen more funerals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve been trying to go through the motions of grieving and burying people,” Guerrero said. “We know a lot of people are missing, and we won’t understand the gravity of that until we’re back together and we see who is gone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guerrero’s own experience in the community and her work in American Indian healthcare have shown her the official tally of American Indian deaths is too low.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s misclassification there,” she said, pointing to the health department’s decision to count people with multiple racial heritages as multiracial or Hispanic/Latino instead of American Indian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That sense of loss the living suffer is heightened by fear that their loved ones might be scrubbed from American Indian history by an inaccurate document.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11863265\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11863265\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47510_a7485ecc-2648-459d-baab-cf1aeb37657d-005_20210226_USAToday_DeathClassification_0073_A-1-scaled-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1047\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47510_a7485ecc-2648-459d-baab-cf1aeb37657d-005_20210226_USAToday_DeathClassification_0073_A-1-scaled-qut.jpg 1568w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47510_a7485ecc-2648-459d-baab-cf1aeb37657d-005_20210226_USAToday_DeathClassification_0073_A-1-scaled-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47510_a7485ecc-2648-459d-baab-cf1aeb37657d-005_20210226_USAToday_DeathClassification_0073_A-1-scaled-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47510_a7485ecc-2648-459d-baab-cf1aeb37657d-005_20210226_USAToday_DeathClassification_0073_A-1-scaled-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47510_a7485ecc-2648-459d-baab-cf1aeb37657d-005_20210226_USAToday_DeathClassification_0073_A-1-scaled-qut-1536x1026.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left, Sergio Hinojosa Jr., Leticia Aguilar, Jordan Hinojosa, Jenny Sigala, Sergio Hinojosa III, and Angelina Hinojosa pose for a portrait in their home in Elk Grove on February 26, 2021. \u003ccite>(Salgu Wissman/USA TODAY)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Aguilar made sure she was the one to fill out her grandmother and aunt’s death certificates. If she didn’t, she worried her grandmother, who was of American Indian and Filipino descent, and her aunt, who had American Indian, Filipino and Mexican heritage, wouldn’t be classified as Native American by hospital staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aguilar became aware of how common racial misclassification was in the run-up to the census last spring, which motivated her to ensure her relatives’ deaths were counted. The idea that their identity and culture could have been erased by the state counting system made her sick with anger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That only contributes to the invisibility of our people, which makes it harder for us to even access resources because we can’t prove we exist,” she said. “There is so much more meaning behind making sure we are properly counted as native people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘We’re born Indian and we die white’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Evidence of racial misclassification of American Indians stretches back decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 1997 \u003ca href=\"https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/abs/10.2105/AJPH.87.8.1363\">American Journal of Public Health\u003c/a> study that compared birth certificates of American Indians in California from 1979 to 1993 with death certificates during the same time span found that at the time of death, about 75% of native children were racially misclassified.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Misclassification was more likely if the child resided in an urban county outside of Indian Health Service delivery areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And a 2016 report by the CDC found that nationally, American Indians were misclassified \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/series/sr_02/sr02_172.pdf\">up to 40%\u003c/a> of the time on their death certificates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These mistakes have far-reaching consequences. In one instance, racial misclassification resulted in undercounting the transmission of STDs through Arizona’s Native American population by up to 60%, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2882975/\">2010 Public Health Report article\u003c/a>. An undercount can result in less funding for treatment, as well as additional unintended health consequences, such as infertility, which is associated with untreated STDs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re born Indian and we die white,” said Hedrick, of the Consortium for Urban Indian Health. “I would argue that there are likely more Native Americans in hospital beds that are racially misclassified” than we know.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tribal members said each American Indian death needs to be counted as an American Indian death. To do otherwise is to further erase a people who have faced \u003ca href=\"https://www.nlm.nih.gov/nativevoices/timeline/547.html\">kidnapping and forced assimilation\u003c/a> of their children, \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2019/06/18/governor-newsom-issues-apology-to-native-americans-for-states-historical-wrongdoings-establishes-truth-and-healing-council/\">indentured servitude\u003c/a> and an 1851 state-funded extermination order that killed \u003ca href=\"https://newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/revealing-the-history-of-genocide-against-californias-native-americans\">as many as 16,000\u003c/a>, only to find themselves uncounted, made invisible. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>State and County Roadblocks\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Tribal healthcare experts and leaders said they have struggled to challenge the state’s data on COVID-19 deaths because in some cases they were deliberately left in the dark by state and county governments, which are not required to provide data on COVID-19 cases to tribes. That left tribal leaders unable to contain the spread of the virus on their own reservations and fully understand the threat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Concerned about the high rate of COVID-19 among the state’s native population, California State Assemblymember James Ramos of the Serrano/Cahuilla tribes, chair of the Committee of Native Affairs, held a hearing on the disparities this past November. There, he learned some counties refused to communicate with tribal leaders even to tell them if there was a positive case on the reservation because of health privacy protections. Other governments, such as state or county governments, are able to receive such data, which is more thorough than the COVID-19 data released on public sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one case, citing HIPAA laws, a county refused to divulge case and death data to the chairman of the Yurok Tribe. The chairman oversees every aspect of the tribe, including healthcare. The Yurok, whose reservation straddles Del Norte and Humboldt counties in northern California, were forced to hire a health officer before they could get the needed information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramos said state and county government endangered native people by denying them information. He said California has a history of refusing to understand or work with tribal governments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He worried that if these issues aren’t tackled now, they won’t be solved before the next pandemic and will end in deaths of more native people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramos, too, has seen a loved one succumb to the virus. His uncle, an elder in his tribe and a source of support and inspiration for Ramos himself, died of COVID-19 in February. They buried him the day before Valentine’s Day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11863267\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11863267\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47509_19d0911f-92d2-4338-a7ee-8ae87d56481a-Chairman_James-scaled-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1013\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47509_19d0911f-92d2-4338-a7ee-8ae87d56481a-Chairman_James-scaled-qut.jpg 1568w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47509_19d0911f-92d2-4338-a7ee-8ae87d56481a-Chairman_James-scaled-qut-800x517.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47509_19d0911f-92d2-4338-a7ee-8ae87d56481a-Chairman_James-scaled-qut-1020x659.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47509_19d0911f-92d2-4338-a7ee-8ae87d56481a-Chairman_James-scaled-qut-160x103.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47509_19d0911f-92d2-4338-a7ee-8ae87d56481a-Chairman_James-scaled-qut-1536x992.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yurok Tribal Chairman Joseph James, pictured here at the podium, gives his inauguration speech in 2018 \u003ccite>(Photo courtesy of Yurok Tribe)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In Central California, the Tule River Tribe in Tulare County also found itself cut off from potentially lifesaving data. Of its roughly 1,600 members living on the reservation, 179 have been diagnosed with COVID-19, or roughly 11%. Another 177 of the 357 who live off the reservation have been stricken ill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adam Christman, chairperson of the Tule River Indian Health Center and Tule River Tribe Public Health Authority, said California did not grant the reservation health center access to the California Reportable Disease Information Exchange, the state system all testing entities report results to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Having access to that system would make it easier for us to identify who should be isolating based on those test results, and monitoring them for quarantine and contact tracing,” Christman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After months of agitating for access, the tribe simply gave up asking.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘Nobody’s going to help us’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Without data or consistent government support, tribal leaders and members have leaned on each other to keep each other safe by social distancing, wearing masks and getting vaccinated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After an outbreak of six cases, the Yurok tribal council closed its reservation multiple times, suspended housing and utility payments and provided supplies such as food, PPE, firewood and emergency generators to residents. They also launched a contact-tracing team, a food sovereignty program and are working with United Health Services on vaccinating their eligible population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11863268\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11863268\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47515_2de44e15-7ab5-47ec-afeb-60325f5c7a5f-DSC_0052-scaled-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1050\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47515_2de44e15-7ab5-47ec-afeb-60325f5c7a5f-DSC_0052-scaled-qut.jpg 1568w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47515_2de44e15-7ab5-47ec-afeb-60325f5c7a5f-DSC_0052-scaled-qut-800x536.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47515_2de44e15-7ab5-47ec-afeb-60325f5c7a5f-DSC_0052-scaled-qut-1020x683.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47515_2de44e15-7ab5-47ec-afeb-60325f5c7a5f-DSC_0052-scaled-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47515_2de44e15-7ab5-47ec-afeb-60325f5c7a5f-DSC_0052-scaled-qut-1536x1029.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ricardo Torres, the secretary of the board for the Sacramento Native American Health Center, has helped to mask or vaccinate thousands of Native Americans in the Sacramento area. \u003ccite>(Photo courtesy of Ricardo Torres)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Basically the way we looked at it, nobody’s coming, nobody’s going to help us,” said Yurok Tribal Chairman Joseph James. “We’re a sovereign government. There’s things we need to work on to improve our daily lives and provide for our own people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the urban American Indian community of Sacramento, advocates and healthcare professionals at the Sacramento Native American Health Center have inoculated 72% of all American Indians 65 and older in the region eligible for the vaccine right now, far more than the state or national vaccination rate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ricardo Torres, a member of the Winnemem Wintu Tribe and SNAHC secretary of the board, helps manage a COVID-19 outreach campaign that has seen thousands of native community members receive masks and vaccines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the last 12 months, Torres saw more than a dozen friends and acquaintances die from COVID-19. He worries more will follow, since only people 75 years and older initially had access to the vaccine in California. Native people born today have a life expectancy of just \u003ca href=\"https://www.ihs.gov/newsroom/factsheets/disparities/\">73 years\u003c/a>, more than five years less than the U.S. all-races population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our population is young,” said Torres. “We don’t have a lot of 75-and-over people. They’re already dead…The people that we need to get vaccinated are the younger people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A history of mistreatment at the hands of medical providers has led to distrust in the native community, and the swiftness of the vaccine rollout did not engender comfort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People can be vaccine-hesitant,” said Guerrero, of the Sacramento Native American Health Center. “There’s a lack of trust in the federal government…so now we’re really pushing a boulder up a hill.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until more Native Americans are vaccinated, tribal leaders said community members will continue to voluntarily social distance, wear masks and pray for good health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As the Indian people as a whole, as first peoples of this nation, we’ve dealt with pandemic, sickness, illness, historically since the beginning of time,” said the Yurok Tribe’s James. “Our people went through this before. 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