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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Newsom declared a state of emergency for the coronavirus on March 4, 2020, shortly after an older adult was the first confirmed death from the disease in California — the first of nearly 95,000 deaths in the state to date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, Newsom has used his authority under the emergency declaration to issue 596 orders. Some were small, like delaying deadlines for filing taxes or renewing driver’s licenses. But others were life-changing, including issuing a statewide stay-at-home order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While the threat of this virus is still real, our preparedness and collective work have helped turn this once crisis emergency into a manageable situation,” California Health and Human Services Secretary Mark Ghaly said in the statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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In other words, there is no ‘ongoing emergency’ to justify his proposal for student loan handouts,” \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/MarshaBlackburn/status/1571847319603093504\">said Sen. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some public health experts agreed with Biden’s characterization of a “change” in the pandemic. “It is a reasonable thing to do as we collectively move on from this emergency footing that we’ve been on for the last couple of years, and try to navigate a new normal,” said Dr. Bob Wachter, chair of UCSF’s Department of Medicine. “It’s an appropriate way of thinking about the threat as it stands today.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Acknowledging the shift shouldn’t stand in the way of funds for COVID-related efforts, said Dr. Tom Frieden, who led the CDC during the Obama administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t have a pandemic of Alzheimer’s disease or influenza or heart disease. 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(Since the CDC recommended the shot earlier this month, hundreds of thousands of Americans have received it.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But health officials have long struggled to convince Americans to get their shots. Only \u003ca href=\"https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#vaccinations_vacc-people-additional-dose-totalpop\">68% of Americans completed their original vaccine course\u003c/a>, and fewer than half of those have gotten any booster shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most troubling are booster rates for people over 65, said Jennifer Nuzzo, the director of Brown University’s Pandemic Center. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>President Biden’s declaration that “the pandemic is over” could complicate the administration’s effort to battle COVID-19, public health experts say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Biden made the remarks in a Sunday broadcast of “60 Minutes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We still have a problem with COVID. We’re still doing a lot of work on it. But the pandemic is over,” he said. “If you notice, no one’s wearing masks. Everybody seems to be in pretty good shape. And so I think it’s changing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The president’s comments come as public health officials are trying to convince Americans to get a new booster shot, and as the White House has worked unsuccessfully for months to convince Congress to provide more than $22 billion in new funding for the COVID-19 response. Since Sunday night, Republicans have already used his words to question vaccine mandates that are still in place for the nation’s military and other federally funded programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, nearly 400 Americans are dying each day of COVID, \u003ca href=\"https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#trends_dailydeaths_select_00\">according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Multiple public health experts called Biden’s remarks “unfortunate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you have the president of the U.S. saying the pandemic is over, why would people line up for their boosters? Why would Congress allocate additional funding for these other strategies and tools?” said Dr. Celine Gounder, an epidemiologist and senior fellow with the Kaiser Family Foundation. “I am profoundly disappointed. I think this is a real lack of leadership.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The remarks could cause political difficulties\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The White House is currently fighting an uphill battle in Congress \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/09/02/1120746237/white-house-ukraine-covid-19-monkeypox-supplemental-funding\">to secure $22.4 billion in emergency COVID-19 funding\u003c/a> to support vaccinations, testing and further research. Some Republican support is needed in the Senate to secure the funding, which the administration has been seeking since the spring. It has been hard to come by as some GOP lawmakers argue that there is still unspent money from earlier COVID-19 funding measures that can be used.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In announcing the funding request earlier this month, an official told reporters on a briefing call that there is not currently “enough funding to get through a surge in the fall.” The administration \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/08/29/1119880329/the-government-will-no-longer-be-sending-free-covid-19-tests-to-americans\">has already stopped the program to send free test kits to Americans\u003c/a> because of a lack of funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The president’s words could undercut the effort to get this money further.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans are already using the statement to question the justification for ongoing pandemic measures, including \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/mikepompeo/status/1571858080110968835\">the military’s vaccine requirement\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RepMaryMiller/status/1571851989046149127\">mandates for vaccines and masks in federally funded Head Start education programs\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Biden admitted last night that the COVID pandemic is over. In other words, there is no ‘ongoing emergency’ to justify his proposal for student loan handouts,” \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/MarshaBlackburn/status/1571847319603093504\">said Sen. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some public health experts agreed with Biden’s characterization of a “change” in the pandemic. “It is a reasonable thing to do as we collectively move on from this emergency footing that we’ve been on for the last couple of years, and try to navigate a new normal,” said Dr. Bob Wachter, chair of UCSF’s Department of Medicine. “It’s an appropriate way of thinking about the threat as it stands today.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Acknowledging the shift shouldn’t stand in the way of funds for COVID-related efforts, said Dr. Tom Frieden, who led the CDC during the Obama administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t have a pandemic of Alzheimer’s disease or influenza or heart disease. But Congress still needs to fund programs to address those problems,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The ongoing booster campaign could face challenges\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Biden administration’s public health leaders have sometimes struggled at times to present a clear, unified message about COVID-19. His administration has at times been criticized for \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/01/07/1071449137/cdc-is-criticized-for-failing-to-communicate-promises-to-do-better\">a lack of communication\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/05/17/997422911/cdc-criticized-for-confusing-updated-mask-recommendation\">issuing guidance that seemingly conflicts with available data\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, the president’s remarks have thrown another wrench into the mix at a crucial moment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The administration has just rolled out a new bivalent booster shot designed to target the omicron subvariants that have dominated caseloads in the country in recent months, and the agency is working to convince Americans to go out and get it. (Since the CDC recommended the shot earlier this month, hundreds of thousands of Americans have received it.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But health officials have long struggled to convince Americans to get their shots. Only \u003ca href=\"https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#vaccinations_vacc-people-additional-dose-totalpop\">68% of Americans completed their original vaccine course\u003c/a>, and fewer than half of those have gotten any booster shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most troubling are booster rates for people over 65, said Jennifer Nuzzo, the director of Brown University’s Pandemic Center. Data from the CDC show that while the vast majority of older Americans got the original vaccines, far fewer — only about a quarter — have also taken the two original boosters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we do nothing else to reduce the number of deaths from COVID, we need to make sure that people who are at the greatest risk of severe illness and death — and that’s people over the age of 65 — that they get their booster,” Nuzzo said. “I don’t want to inadvertently send the signal that that’s not something they need to do anymore.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She and other public health experts pointed to the winter, when a surge of new cases is likely as cold weather pushes socialization indoors, and holidays prompt people to travel to visit family and friends. A winter wave of cases will require tests, vaccines and other efforts to combat COVID, they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would say, let’s not declare the pandemic over,” said Dr. Carlos Del Rio, an infectious disease specialist at Emory University. “Let’s say that we’re in a very good place, and we need to continue working hard in order to stay in that good place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=How+Biden%27s+declaring+the+pandemic+%27over%27+complicates+efforts+to+fight+COVID&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 11 a.m. Wednesday, September 21\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to claim lives across the country, the flu remains a potentially serious threat to your health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jump straight to:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#whenflushot\">When should I get my flu shot?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#boosterflushot\">Can I get a COVID booster and my flu shot at the same time?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#highrisk\">Which flu shot should I get if I’m 65 and older, I’m pregnant, or I need a shot for my kids?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#flushotnearme\">Where can I get a flu shot, with or without insurance?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that, annually, the flu caused 140,000-710,000 hospitalizations and 12,000-52,000 deaths between 2010 and 2020. But the organization says that \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/flu/fluvaxview/coverage-2021estimates.htm\">in the 2020-2021 flu season, only around half of adults got a flu shot\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Getting a flu vaccine can prevent you from getting sick with the flu, which is a draining, unpleasant experience even if your symptoms are not severe. And if you \u003cem>do\u003c/em> get the flu, having a flu shot can also stop you from getting sick enough to have to go to the hospital (and be exposed to all the COVID risks hospital settings can bring).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CDC says the flu vaccine also offers other potential health impacts, such as being associated with \u003ca class=\"tp-link-policy\" href=\"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24150467/\" data-domain-ext=\"gov\">lower rates of certain cardiac events\u003c/a> for people who have heart disease. It’s also the best, safest way not only to protect \u003cem>yourself\u003c/em> against the influenza virus, but also to minimize the chance you will spread it to others — folks who could be at far higher risk for serious complications or even death if they were to become infected. \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/flu/vaccines-work/vaccineeffect.htm\">Read more from the CDC about what the flu shot can do for you.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And read on to find out whether you should be getting your flu shot right now, and where to find free or low-cost flu shot options near you.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Will this flu season be bad?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>It’s true that \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/flu/season/faq-flu-season-2020-2021.htm\">2020 saw a record-low number of flu cases\u003c/a> — most likely due to widespread mask-wearing, increased hygiene, social distancing and remote work and school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year’s flu season also “didn’t surge in the numbers that people expected,” said UCSF professor of medicine Dr. Peter Chin-Hong — but “it did drag on for much longer.” Whereas a typical flu season peaks in February, Chin-Hong said that last year’s “went from October of 2021 to June of 2022 — so, a much longer tail than usually we would expect.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what about this winter’s flu risks? Chin-Hong said he and other medical professionals are “worried for several reasons.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along with the lifting of COVID restrictions, there’s the fact that \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/australia-flu-season-warning-sign-us-this-year-rcna40123\">Australia has just had its worst flu season in five years\u003c/a>. Because the continent’s winter happens during the United States’ summer, Australia’s flu season is traditionally an indicator of how bad ours might be — and, of concern, it was as “robust as any of the pre-pandemic flu seasons,” said Chin-Hong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Michael Kim, vice president of medical affairs for MarinHealth, echoes these particular worries in the context of the lifting of COVID safety measures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think we’re all concerned that flu season this year might be particularly severe, especially since people are not masking as much, as well as people haven’t been exposed to flu as much in the last couple of years,” said Kim.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"whenflushot\">\u003c/a>Should I get a flu shot now, or wait?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The recommendations medical professionals make about when to get a flu shot are based on the fact that it takes about two weeks after you get vaccinated for antibodies to develop and provide protection against the flu.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This flu season, the CDC says that September and October are “generally good times to be vaccinated against flu,” and that “\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/flu/season/faq-flu-season-2022-2023.htm\">ideally, everyone should be vaccinated by the end of October\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11838737\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1900px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11838737\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/shots2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1900\" height=\"1267\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/shots2.png 1900w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/shots2-800x533.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/shots2-1020x680.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/shots2-160x107.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/shots2-1536x1024.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1900px) 100vw, 1900px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">It takes two weeks after your flu shot for your body to develop the antibodies it needs to protect you from the flu virus. \u003ccite>(Queen's University/Flickr)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Yes, there’s evidence, says Chin-Hong, that \u003ca href=\"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28039340/\">your risk of getting the flu increases every month after your flu shot, due to the antibodies waning over time\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when medical professionals talk about strategically “waiting” to get a flu shot, they’re aiming that advice at those who are at particularly high risk for more serious complications related to the flu. That includes people over 65, those with chronic medical conditions, people who are pregnant or planning a pregnancy, and kids under 5.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Delaying inoculations for these populations is based on the idea of getting the shot at a time Chin-Hong calls “the sweet spot,” around mid-to-late October. Two weeks later, right around early November, the antibodies should have developed, just as flu season is getting serious. Think of it as getting the “biggest bang for your buck,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So if you’re in one of those vulnerable categories? Yes, you can think about waiting, says Chin-Hong. People over 65 might also consider requesting the special flu vaccines for this age group — read more about this below. As with all health matters, if you’re looking for advice, it’s best to consult your health care provider or someone you see regularly for your medical needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And what if you’re under 65, not pregnant and don’t have other risk factors for severe flu? If you can truly trust yourself to plan ahead and not forget to make the appointment, “getting it before the end of October is probably the best,” said Chin-Hong. But remember: Not only are you human and it might slip your mind, but predictions about how the flu season might behave are just that — predictions. The timing of this year’s flu season might surprise us, and throw previous notions of a “best time” to get the vaccine into disarray.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just like we can’t predict the next COVID surge, we don’t know if influenza will have a different pattern this year,” said Chin-Hong, noting how Australia’s particularly bad flu season started earlier than expected. So take that “October rule” with “a grain of salt,” he advised, and “get it [your flu shot] when you get it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What if you plan to get your flu shot in October with the best of intentions, but you still forget? If November 1 comes and goes and you realize you haven’t been vaccinated, all is not lost — since the CDC says that “vaccination after October can still provide protection during the peak of flu season,” which is usually February.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other words, just go get the shot already — whenever that may be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11838740\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/shots3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1900\" height=\"1267\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/shots3.png 1900w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/shots3-800x533.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/shots3-1020x680.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/shots3-160x107.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/shots3-1536x1024.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1900px) 100vw, 1900px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"boosterflushot\">\u003c/a>Can I get my COVID booster and my flu shot at the same time?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Yes, you can. Ashish Jha, White House COVID response coordinator, went so far in a September 6 briefing as to tell the audience “\u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/press-briefings/2022/09/06/press-briefing-by-white-house-covid-19-response-team-and-public-health-officials-88/\">I really believe this is why God gave us two arms\u003c/a> — one for the flu shot and the other one for the COVID shot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That “COVID shot” is the newly available COVID booster — that is, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2022/s0901-covid-19-booster.html\">new Moderna and Pfizer booster shots of the reformulated COVID-19 vaccine\u003c/a>. The updated shots, called bivalent vaccines, target both the original strain of the coronavirus and the widespread BA.4/BA.5 omicron subvariants that have largely evaded previous boosters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anyone age 12 and up who got their last COVID vaccine shot at least two months ago — whether that was their primary vaccination series or their last booster shot — can now get an updated COVID booster. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11924327/where-can-i-find-a-new-omicron-covid-booster-shot-near-me\">Read more about how to find an updated COVID booster near you.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/flu/season/faq-flu-season-2022-2023.htm#Flu-Vaccine-and-COVID-19-Vaccine-Coadministration\">The CDC confirms that it’s safe to get both the flu shot and the bivalent COVID booster at the same time\u003c/a> “if you are eligible and the timing coincides.” Several pharmacy chains are prompting those making an online appointment for a bivalent COVID booster to also “add on” a flu shot at the same time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Getting both shots simultaneously certainly offers you convenience, said Chin-Hong: “It’s one-stop shopping and again: out of sight, out of mind.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The only thing that might give you pause about getting your COVID bivalent booster and your flu shot: If you want to get your booster ASAP, some experts believe that \u003ca href=\"https://www.statnews.com/2022/09/09/doubling-up-on-covid-booster-flu-shot-may-have-downside/\">it might be slightly too early right now to get your flu shot\u003c/a>, considering how immunity from the vaccine wanes. That said, other medical professionals say that \u003ca href=\"https://www.statnews.com/2022/09/09/doubling-up-on-covid-booster-flu-shot-may-have-downside/\">the benefits of folks remembering to actually \u003cem>get\u003c/em> both their booster and their flu shot probably outweigh the downsides\u003c/a>, even if it means the timing of their flu vaccine is a little early.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chin-Hong reiterated that “if you really wanted to optimize” the timing of your flu shot, yes, “sometime in October \u003cem>is\u003c/em> probably the best.” But ultimately, he says that just \u003cem>getting\u003c/em> the shots is better than not getting them at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"highrisk\">\u003c/a>If I have risk factors for severe flu, what kind of flu shot should I get?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If you’re age 65 or older, there’s something new for you to know this flu season: There are now three types of flu vaccines it’s recommended you get, because they’ll be even more effective for you than a regular flu shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chin-Hong said folks in this age group should seek out these three types of vaccines because you’ll be getting “essentially a high-dose shot” or a vaccine that contains an “adjuvant” — which, in simple terms, “makes the flu shot more powerful in terms of waking up the immune system,” he said. \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/flu/prevent/keyfacts.htm\">Read more about the three kinds of flu shots available to people age 65 and older.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pregnant people can get a regular flu shot, although there are some types of flu vaccine that are off-limits to pregnant people. The CDC says that getting vaccinated when you’re pregnant will not only help protect you from the flu, but also — if your baby is born during the immunity period — protect your infant in the first few months of their life, when they’re too young to get vaccinated themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This benefit to the baby is also the reason that pregnant people are one of the few groups who might want to consider getting a flu shot \u003cem>early\u003c/em>, instead of waiting — to ensure their baby isn’t left completely unprotected for those first six months after birth, when they can’t get a vaccine. \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/flu/prevent/keyfacts.htm\">Read more about the benefits of getting a flu shot if you’re pregnant.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Children age 6 months and older can get a regular dose of the flu shot. \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/flu/highrisk/children-high-risk.htm\">Flu can be particularly dangerous for kids\u003c/a>, and the CDC says that a 2022 study showed that flu vaccination reduced children’s risk of severe, life-threatening influenza by 75%.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"flushotnearme\">\u003c/a>Where can I get a flu shot if I have insurance?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If you have health insurance, a flu shot is available without extra cost as a preventive service from your usual health care provider, or at most pharmacies (see below).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a good idea to wear a mask, maintain social distancing wherever possible while waiting for your shot, and dress in a top with sleeves you can easily pull up to your shoulder, to make receiving the injection even easier (and quicker).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Common places to find a flu shot appointment, walk-in site or drive-thru flu shot:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.vaccines.gov/find-vaccines/\">CDC’s Find Flu Vaccines tool\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://mydoctor.kaiserpermanente.org/ncal/cold-and-flu/prevention#/prevention\">Kaiser Permanente flu shots (Northern California) \u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cvs.com/immunizations/flu\">CVS flu shots\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.walgreens.com/topic/pharmacy/seasonal-flu.jsp?ban=flu_fy21_influenzapage\">Walgreens flu shots \u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.riteaid.com/pharmacy/scheduler\">Rite Aid flu shots\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.costco.com/Pharmacy/adult-immunization-program.html\">Costco Pharmacy flu shots\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.albertsons.com/pharmacy/pharmacy-services/immunizations.html\">Albertsons (Safeway) flu shots\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>Where can I get a flu shot if I \u003cem>don’t\u003c/em> have health insurance?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If you want a flu shot but don’t have health insurance, you can get the vaccine free of charge from several providers and community clinics around the Bay Area. (You can also technically use these free services even if you do have insurance, but you may consider choosing to free up these particular resources for those who are not covered.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Your county’s own public health department may also be offering flu shots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Places to get a free or low-cost flu shot in the Bay Area include:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfcdcp.org/aitc/aitc-regular-prices-low-cost-or-free-vaccines/\">San Francisco Department of Public Health’s AITC clinic\u003c/a> (offers a pay-what-you-can option, and says nobody will be refused for inability to pay)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://cchealth.org/immunization/clinics.php#Uninsured\">Contra Costa Public Health Immunization Clinic\u003c/a> (flu shots are $15 for adults over 19, but fees may be waived if you’re unable to pay)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://acphd.org/clinics/\">Alameda County Immunization Clinics\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[ad fullwidth]\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>And a reminder … the flu vaccine can’t give you the flu\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The virus that the flu shot contains has been inactivated or severely weakened, so \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/flu/prevent/misconceptions.htm#:~:text=Can%20a%20flu%20vaccine%20give,protein%20from%20the%20flu%20virus.\">you just aren’t physically able to get the flu from your flu shot\u003c/a>, confirms the CDC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/flu/prevent/general.htm#side-effects\">The flu vaccine can cause side effects\u003c/a> like any medical product, but they’re “\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/flu/prevent/general.htm\">generally mild and go away on their own within a few days\u003c/a>,” the agency says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Common flu shot side effects can include soreness or swelling at the injection site, headache, fever, nausea and muscle aches. (But not the flu.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story contains reporting by KQED’s Alexander Gonzalez.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 11 a.m. Wednesday, September 21\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to claim lives across the country, the flu remains a potentially serious threat to your health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jump straight to:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#whenflushot\">When should I get my flu shot?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#boosterflushot\">Can I get a COVID booster and my flu shot at the same time?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#highrisk\">Which flu shot should I get if I’m 65 and older, I’m pregnant, or I need a shot for my kids?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#flushotnearme\">Where can I get a flu shot, with or without insurance?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that, annually, the flu caused 140,000-710,000 hospitalizations and 12,000-52,000 deaths between 2010 and 2020. But the organization says that \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/flu/fluvaxview/coverage-2021estimates.htm\">in the 2020-2021 flu season, only around half of adults got a flu shot\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Getting a flu vaccine can prevent you from getting sick with the flu, which is a draining, unpleasant experience even if your symptoms are not severe. And if you \u003cem>do\u003c/em> get the flu, having a flu shot can also stop you from getting sick enough to have to go to the hospital (and be exposed to all the COVID risks hospital settings can bring).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CDC says the flu vaccine also offers other potential health impacts, such as being associated with \u003ca class=\"tp-link-policy\" href=\"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24150467/\" data-domain-ext=\"gov\">lower rates of certain cardiac events\u003c/a> for people who have heart disease. It’s also the best, safest way not only to protect \u003cem>yourself\u003c/em> against the influenza virus, but also to minimize the chance you will spread it to others — folks who could be at far higher risk for serious complications or even death if they were to become infected. \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/flu/vaccines-work/vaccineeffect.htm\">Read more from the CDC about what the flu shot can do for you.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And read on to find out whether you should be getting your flu shot right now, and where to find free or low-cost flu shot options near you.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Will this flu season be bad?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>It’s true that \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/flu/season/faq-flu-season-2020-2021.htm\">2020 saw a record-low number of flu cases\u003c/a> — most likely due to widespread mask-wearing, increased hygiene, social distancing and remote work and school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year’s flu season also “didn’t surge in the numbers that people expected,” said UCSF professor of medicine Dr. Peter Chin-Hong — but “it did drag on for much longer.” Whereas a typical flu season peaks in February, Chin-Hong said that last year’s “went from October of 2021 to June of 2022 — so, a much longer tail than usually we would expect.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what about this winter’s flu risks? Chin-Hong said he and other medical professionals are “worried for several reasons.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along with the lifting of COVID restrictions, there’s the fact that \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/australia-flu-season-warning-sign-us-this-year-rcna40123\">Australia has just had its worst flu season in five years\u003c/a>. Because the continent’s winter happens during the United States’ summer, Australia’s flu season is traditionally an indicator of how bad ours might be — and, of concern, it was as “robust as any of the pre-pandemic flu seasons,” said Chin-Hong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Michael Kim, vice president of medical affairs for MarinHealth, echoes these particular worries in the context of the lifting of COVID safety measures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think we’re all concerned that flu season this year might be particularly severe, especially since people are not masking as much, as well as people haven’t been exposed to flu as much in the last couple of years,” said Kim.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"whenflushot\">\u003c/a>Should I get a flu shot now, or wait?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The recommendations medical professionals make about when to get a flu shot are based on the fact that it takes about two weeks after you get vaccinated for antibodies to develop and provide protection against the flu.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This flu season, the CDC says that September and October are “generally good times to be vaccinated against flu,” and that “\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/flu/season/faq-flu-season-2022-2023.htm\">ideally, everyone should be vaccinated by the end of October\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11838737\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1900px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11838737\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/shots2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1900\" height=\"1267\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/shots2.png 1900w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/shots2-800x533.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/shots2-1020x680.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/shots2-160x107.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/shots2-1536x1024.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1900px) 100vw, 1900px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">It takes two weeks after your flu shot for your body to develop the antibodies it needs to protect you from the flu virus. \u003ccite>(Queen's University/Flickr)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Yes, there’s evidence, says Chin-Hong, that \u003ca href=\"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28039340/\">your risk of getting the flu increases every month after your flu shot, due to the antibodies waning over time\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when medical professionals talk about strategically “waiting” to get a flu shot, they’re aiming that advice at those who are at particularly high risk for more serious complications related to the flu. That includes people over 65, those with chronic medical conditions, people who are pregnant or planning a pregnancy, and kids under 5.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Delaying inoculations for these populations is based on the idea of getting the shot at a time Chin-Hong calls “the sweet spot,” around mid-to-late October. Two weeks later, right around early November, the antibodies should have developed, just as flu season is getting serious. Think of it as getting the “biggest bang for your buck,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So if you’re in one of those vulnerable categories? Yes, you can think about waiting, says Chin-Hong. People over 65 might also consider requesting the special flu vaccines for this age group — read more about this below. As with all health matters, if you’re looking for advice, it’s best to consult your health care provider or someone you see regularly for your medical needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And what if you’re under 65, not pregnant and don’t have other risk factors for severe flu? If you can truly trust yourself to plan ahead and not forget to make the appointment, “getting it before the end of October is probably the best,” said Chin-Hong. But remember: Not only are you human and it might slip your mind, but predictions about how the flu season might behave are just that — predictions. The timing of this year’s flu season might surprise us, and throw previous notions of a “best time” to get the vaccine into disarray.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just like we can’t predict the next COVID surge, we don’t know if influenza will have a different pattern this year,” said Chin-Hong, noting how Australia’s particularly bad flu season started earlier than expected. So take that “October rule” with “a grain of salt,” he advised, and “get it [your flu shot] when you get it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What if you plan to get your flu shot in October with the best of intentions, but you still forget? If November 1 comes and goes and you realize you haven’t been vaccinated, all is not lost — since the CDC says that “vaccination after October can still provide protection during the peak of flu season,” which is usually February.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other words, just go get the shot already — whenever that may be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11838740\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/shots3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1900\" height=\"1267\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/shots3.png 1900w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/shots3-800x533.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/shots3-1020x680.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/shots3-160x107.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/shots3-1536x1024.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1900px) 100vw, 1900px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"boosterflushot\">\u003c/a>Can I get my COVID booster and my flu shot at the same time?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Yes, you can. Ashish Jha, White House COVID response coordinator, went so far in a September 6 briefing as to tell the audience “\u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/press-briefings/2022/09/06/press-briefing-by-white-house-covid-19-response-team-and-public-health-officials-88/\">I really believe this is why God gave us two arms\u003c/a> — one for the flu shot and the other one for the COVID shot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That “COVID shot” is the newly available COVID booster — that is, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2022/s0901-covid-19-booster.html\">new Moderna and Pfizer booster shots of the reformulated COVID-19 vaccine\u003c/a>. The updated shots, called bivalent vaccines, target both the original strain of the coronavirus and the widespread BA.4/BA.5 omicron subvariants that have largely evaded previous boosters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anyone age 12 and up who got their last COVID vaccine shot at least two months ago — whether that was their primary vaccination series or their last booster shot — can now get an updated COVID booster. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11924327/where-can-i-find-a-new-omicron-covid-booster-shot-near-me\">Read more about how to find an updated COVID booster near you.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/flu/season/faq-flu-season-2022-2023.htm#Flu-Vaccine-and-COVID-19-Vaccine-Coadministration\">The CDC confirms that it’s safe to get both the flu shot and the bivalent COVID booster at the same time\u003c/a> “if you are eligible and the timing coincides.” Several pharmacy chains are prompting those making an online appointment for a bivalent COVID booster to also “add on” a flu shot at the same time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Getting both shots simultaneously certainly offers you convenience, said Chin-Hong: “It’s one-stop shopping and again: out of sight, out of mind.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The only thing that might give you pause about getting your COVID bivalent booster and your flu shot: If you want to get your booster ASAP, some experts believe that \u003ca href=\"https://www.statnews.com/2022/09/09/doubling-up-on-covid-booster-flu-shot-may-have-downside/\">it might be slightly too early right now to get your flu shot\u003c/a>, considering how immunity from the vaccine wanes. That said, other medical professionals say that \u003ca href=\"https://www.statnews.com/2022/09/09/doubling-up-on-covid-booster-flu-shot-may-have-downside/\">the benefits of folks remembering to actually \u003cem>get\u003c/em> both their booster and their flu shot probably outweigh the downsides\u003c/a>, even if it means the timing of their flu vaccine is a little early.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chin-Hong reiterated that “if you really wanted to optimize” the timing of your flu shot, yes, “sometime in October \u003cem>is\u003c/em> probably the best.” But ultimately, he says that just \u003cem>getting\u003c/em> the shots is better than not getting them at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"highrisk\">\u003c/a>If I have risk factors for severe flu, what kind of flu shot should I get?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If you’re age 65 or older, there’s something new for you to know this flu season: There are now three types of flu vaccines it’s recommended you get, because they’ll be even more effective for you than a regular flu shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chin-Hong said folks in this age group should seek out these three types of vaccines because you’ll be getting “essentially a high-dose shot” or a vaccine that contains an “adjuvant” — which, in simple terms, “makes the flu shot more powerful in terms of waking up the immune system,” he said. \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/flu/prevent/keyfacts.htm\">Read more about the three kinds of flu shots available to people age 65 and older.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pregnant people can get a regular flu shot, although there are some types of flu vaccine that are off-limits to pregnant people. 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"content": "\u003cp>Dr. Anthony Fauci, who played a critical role in steering humanity through the two pandemics of our time, AIDS and COVID-19, announced Monday he is stepping down from his role in the federal government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of December, he will leave the position he’s held for 38 years as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, as well as his job as chief of the NIAID Laboratory of Immunoregulation, and his role as Chief Medical Advisor to President Joe Biden.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The straight-talking scientist and physician was the government’s top infectious disease doctor for decades, and one of the few scientists that many Americans knew by name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fauci, 81, served under seven U.S. presidents and helped lead the country through numerous health crises. He was instrumental in combatting the AIDS epidemic, starting as the youthful director of NIAID in the early 1980s. He also took center stage in a politically fraught response to the nation’s COVID-19 pandemic, and he was both praised and assailed for his tell-it-like-it-is philosophy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Biden hailed him as a “dedicated public servant” in a statement issued Monday. “Because of Dr. Fauci’s many contributions to public health, lives here in the United States and around the world have been saved,” the President said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Department of Health and Human Services secretary Xavier Becerra, who took leadership of the agency a year into the COVID pandemic, said he relied on Fauci’s counsel and praised him for “his ability to break down complex science in simple terms to the American people to save lives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>As AIDS crisis grew, he led by listening\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Fauci’s actions during the AIDS epidemic helped marshal a scientific and government response that saved millions of lives. His approach to engaging AIDS activists also transformed the way patients and activists interacted with medical science for many diseases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Tony Fauci is a really interesting character in the history of the AIDS epidemic,” says Jon Cohen, a journalist at \u003cem>Science\u003c/em> magazine who wrote \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/books/edition/Shots_in_the_Dark/sSt25bOlGgYC?hl=en&gbpv=1&printsec=frontcover\">a book\u003c/a> about Fauci’s passionate but ultimately unsuccessful effort to develop an AIDS vaccine. “He becomes the voice of science, he can translate science into English better than anyone, and he can speak to every president, every congressperson, every world leader, and he can speak to patients,” Cohen said in an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"anthony-fauci\"]Those abilities emerged during the earliest days of the AIDS epidemic, when the Reagan administration tried to downplay or ignore the deadly disease afflicting particularly gay men and users of drugs by injection, as well as people with hemophilia who died because their medication was derived from contaminated blood products.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of Fauci’s strategy was to engage the patients and activists who were demanding not only answers but a rapid federal response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was one of the few [powerful people in Washington] that opened his doors early to us to listen and to hear us out,” said Peter Staley, one of the founding members of Act Up New York, a prominent AIDS activist group. “And he was one of the few that wasn’t afraid of us, and thought we had something to bring to the table.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Staley recalls regular dinners that Fauci held in the home of a gay man who worked in his office. Those dinners “would last for many hours over many bottles of wine, and we debated these issues, and it would sometimes get very heated,” Staley said. They didn’t always agree, “but I came to respect the man intensely during that period.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The AIDS activists pushed for being part of the research and having a seat at the table, as scientists and government officials figured out how to develop drugs and test vaccines to control the AIDS epidemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A gifted communicator\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Fauci also oversaw a laboratory at the NIH and saw patients throughout his long career, keeping connected to the science as well as the human dimensions of infectious disease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Tony won the respect of the angriest, most frustrated people because they saw him as an ally and because he listened to them and he incorporated them — he made them part of finding solutions,” Cohen said. And that approach “radically overhauled how we think about disease and research and patients, not just AIDS.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breast cancer activists adopted this cooperative approach and many other disease advocates followed suit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fauci was also instrumental in an effort, undertaken by the George W. Bush administration, to make AIDS medicines available globally. The multi-billion-dollar program, called the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, or PEPFAR, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ft.com/content/72424694-a86e-11e9-984c-fac8325aaa04\">has saved millions of lives\u003c/a>, primarily in Africa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fauci’s gift for communication put him at the center of many public health crises, in Republican as well as Democratic administrations. Those included viral outbreaks ranging from Zika and West Nile disease to the annual flu. To help calm a jittery American public during the Ebola scare in 2014, Fauci stepped up to the cameras and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2014/10/24/358593823/fighting-the-stigma-of-ebola-with-hugs\">embraced an Ebola patient\u003c/a> – a nurse, Nina Pham — who had been treated at the NIH.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want to tell you what a great pleasure, and in many respects a privilege it has been for me and the staff here… to have had the opportunity to treat and care for and get to know such an extraordinarily courageous and lovely person,” he said in his distinctive Brooklyn accent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His political acumen stood him in good stead with seven presidential administrations, starting with Ronald Reagan. No other leading federal scientist in modern times held a top position for as many years as Fauci did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fauci even got a shout-out from George H.W. Bush during a 1988 vice-presidential debate. The candidates had been asked to name their heroes, and Bush included Fauci in his list. “You probably never heard of him,” Bush said. “He’s a very fine researcher, top doctor at the National Institute[s] of Health. Working hard, doing something about research on this disease of AIDS.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Diplomacy and politics in the early days of COVID\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Fauci’s biggest political challenge came during the Trump administration. Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, Trump frequently brought Fauci to the White House as a member of the Coronavirus Task Force, to participate in meetings and press conferences. But as the disease spiraled out of control, the president tired of Fauci’s warnings. Fauci found diplomatic ways to correct the president’s often errant statements about the coronavirus, for example when Trump wondered whether COVID-19 could be treated with bleach injections or by shining ultraviolet light into people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The relationship hit a low point a few days before Election Day, 2020, when a crowd at a Trump campaign rally in Opa-Locka, Fla., started changing “Fire Fauci! Fire Fauci!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump replied, “Don’t tell anybody, but let me wait until a little bit after the election. I appreciate the advice. He’s been wrong on a lot,” Trump continued. “He’s a nice man but he’s been wrong on a lot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump did not fire Fauci, who had made some missteps during the early days of the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At first, scientists didn’t fully understand how the virus spread or how to contain it. Fauci initially misjudged the degree to which the virus spread from people who had no symptoms of disease. He quickly changed his view as scientists learned more. Like many scientists, he was also uncertain about the value of masks early on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he never wavered in his view that people needed to stop gathering in large numbers, to wash their hands, isolate if ill and otherwise to take personal responsibility to avoid spreading the virus. Those positions earned him the ire of some Americans, who felt public health guidance infringed on their personal freedom. It was also inconsistent with Trump’s false claim that the pandemic was being overblown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fauci had amassed a powerful following among people committed to a science-based response to COVID-19. His face popped up on T-shirts, coffee mugs and yard signs – and on Tony Fauci bobbleheads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was even invited to throw the ceremonial first pitch at the start of the Washington Nationals’ 2020 home-opener, five months short of his 80\u003csup>th\u003c/sup> birthday. Suffice it to say it was outside the strike zone, a fact which the president noted among his complaints about Fauci’s performance. (He redeemed himself two years later throwing a cleaner pitch this month in game between the Seattle Mariners and the New York Yankees, in Seattle.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With Joe Biden’s election, Fauci became the president’s chief medical adviser. Fauci admitted in the administration’s very first press briefing that it was a relief to work for a president who took the science seriously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can tell you I take no pleasure at all in being in a situation of contradicting the president,” he said. “So, it was really something that you really feel you couldn’t say something and there wouldn’t be any repercussions. The idea that you can get up here and talk about what you know, and what the science is and that’s it. Let the science speak. 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And while he handled the administration and the bureaucracy well, that wasn’t necessarily what he got up for every morning to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Indeed, under Fauci’s guidance, scientists at his institute aggressively pursued a vaccine for COVID-19. And, in an astonishing span of less than a year, they brought one into being, in partnership with the drug company Moderna. It was even more effective than Fauci had dared hope, achieving an efficacy of over 90%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was giddy with laughter,” Benjamin recalls. “I remember watching him on TV with the joy of a new parent who has something that’s just precious, and understood just how valuable that vaccine was going to be.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/statement-anthony-s-fauci-md\">In a statement,\u003c/a> Fauci said it had been “the honor of a lifetime to have led the NIAID.” He said he’ll continue to work after departing from his current government positions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“After more than 50 years of government service, I plan to pursue the next phase of my career while I still have so much energy and passion for my field,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2022 NPR. 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And that approach “radically overhauled how we think about disease and research and patients, not just AIDS.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breast cancer activists adopted this cooperative approach and many other disease advocates followed suit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fauci was also instrumental in an effort, undertaken by the George W. Bush administration, to make AIDS medicines available globally. The multi-billion-dollar program, called the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, or PEPFAR, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ft.com/content/72424694-a86e-11e9-984c-fac8325aaa04\">has saved millions of lives\u003c/a>, primarily in Africa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fauci’s gift for communication put him at the center of many public health crises, in Republican as well as Democratic administrations. Those included viral outbreaks ranging from Zika and West Nile disease to the annual flu. To help calm a jittery American public during the Ebola scare in 2014, Fauci stepped up to the cameras and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2014/10/24/358593823/fighting-the-stigma-of-ebola-with-hugs\">embraced an Ebola patient\u003c/a> – a nurse, Nina Pham — who had been treated at the NIH.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want to tell you what a great pleasure, and in many respects a privilege it has been for me and the staff here… to have had the opportunity to treat and care for and get to know such an extraordinarily courageous and lovely person,” he said in his distinctive Brooklyn accent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His political acumen stood him in good stead with seven presidential administrations, starting with Ronald Reagan. No other leading federal scientist in modern times held a top position for as many years as Fauci did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fauci even got a shout-out from George H.W. Bush during a 1988 vice-presidential debate. The candidates had been asked to name their heroes, and Bush included Fauci in his list. “You probably never heard of him,” Bush said. “He’s a very fine researcher, top doctor at the National Institute[s] of Health. Working hard, doing something about research on this disease of AIDS.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Diplomacy and politics in the early days of COVID\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Fauci’s biggest political challenge came during the Trump administration. Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, Trump frequently brought Fauci to the White House as a member of the Coronavirus Task Force, to participate in meetings and press conferences. But as the disease spiraled out of control, the president tired of Fauci’s warnings. Fauci found diplomatic ways to correct the president’s often errant statements about the coronavirus, for example when Trump wondered whether COVID-19 could be treated with bleach injections or by shining ultraviolet light into people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The relationship hit a low point a few days before Election Day, 2020, when a crowd at a Trump campaign rally in Opa-Locka, Fla., started changing “Fire Fauci! Fire Fauci!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump replied, “Don’t tell anybody, but let me wait until a little bit after the election. I appreciate the advice. He’s been wrong on a lot,” Trump continued. “He’s a nice man but he’s been wrong on a lot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump did not fire Fauci, who had made some missteps during the early days of the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At first, scientists didn’t fully understand how the virus spread or how to contain it. Fauci initially misjudged the degree to which the virus spread from people who had no symptoms of disease. He quickly changed his view as scientists learned more. Like many scientists, he was also uncertain about the value of masks early on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he never wavered in his view that people needed to stop gathering in large numbers, to wash their hands, isolate if ill and otherwise to take personal responsibility to avoid spreading the virus. Those positions earned him the ire of some Americans, who felt public health guidance infringed on their personal freedom. It was also inconsistent with Trump’s false claim that the pandemic was being overblown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fauci had amassed a powerful following among people committed to a science-based response to COVID-19. His face popped up on T-shirts, coffee mugs and yard signs – and on Tony Fauci bobbleheads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was even invited to throw the ceremonial first pitch at the start of the Washington Nationals’ 2020 home-opener, five months short of his 80\u003csup>th\u003c/sup> birthday. Suffice it to say it was outside the strike zone, a fact which the president noted among his complaints about Fauci’s performance. (He redeemed himself two years later throwing a cleaner pitch this month in game between the Seattle Mariners and the New York Yankees, in Seattle.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With Joe Biden’s election, Fauci became the president’s chief medical adviser. Fauci admitted in the administration’s very first press briefing that it was a relief to work for a president who took the science seriously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can tell you I take no pleasure at all in being in a situation of contradicting the president,” he said. “So, it was really something that you really feel you couldn’t say something and there wouldn’t be any repercussions. The idea that you can get up here and talk about what you know, and what the science is and that’s it. Let the science speak. 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"content": "\u003cp>When \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2022/04/california-republicans-convention/\">California Republicans gathered in Anaheim\u003c/a> this spring, attention focused on candidate speeches and endorsement battles as the party tries to win its first statewide race since 2006.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a little-noticed, hour-long session in a small conference room at the Marriott could very well be more consequential for the state GOP this election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The meeting focused on running for local school board seats, and it was led by Shawn Steel, a former party chair. Now, he’s one of the biggest evangelists for strengthening the GOP by recruiting new candidates and voters in what are, officially at least, nonpartisan races.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Ellie Hockenbury, spokesperson, California Republican Party\"]‘Whereas it is often the case that top-of-the-ticket races help turnout for down-ballot races, we also believe that local races could be just as big a motivator for many to drive turnout.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you’re a minority party, like Republicans in California … you have to think, ‘Well, what can we do as a party to make a big difference?’” Steel told CalMatters. “You see the schools are just in great free fall and chaos. Parents don’t want to send their kids there. So this is the time to get people that are otherwise angst-ridden, upset, powerless.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, Democrats have long used school boards as a recruiting and training ground for political candidates — with help from teachers unions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But while the state Democratic party isn’t amping up its school board efforts in 2022, the GOP is going in big with its \u003ca href=\"https://www.cagop.org/s/parentrevolt\">Parent Revolt program\u003c/a> — what party officials call their most tailored school board recruitment and training program ever. It includes \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CAGOP/status/1544790671273299968?s=20&t=2ieVokP71SLOfI0-0pHVqQ\">virtual training sessions\u003c/a> that detail how and where to run for office, plus tips for digital campaigns and going door to door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The goal: \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/ppic-statewide-survey-californians-and-education-april-2022/\">to capitalize on COVID pandemic frustrations\u003c/a> and concerns over “critical race theory” and other issues among parents of school-age children — and win not only school board seats but also, eventually, legislative and congressional races by reengaging core Republican voters and attracting independents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are about 2,500 races for local school board seats in California in November — about half of the total 5,000 seats, according to the California School Boards Association. The filing deadline for candidates was Friday, though it was extended until today for seats held by incumbents not seeking reelection. While no statewide tally exists, of the nine seats up for election in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cde.ca.gov/ds/ad/ceflargesmalldist.asp\">three largest school districts \u003c/a>— Los Angeles, San Diego and \u003ca href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/Fresno_Unified_School_District,_California,_elections_(2022)\">Fresno\u003c/a> — three are open seats, where no incumbent is running.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Republican Party would not disclose its goals for recruited candidates, other than as many as possible. It also wouldn’t say how much it is spending on its Parent Revolt effort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We recognized early that education is going to be a major motivating issue for many Californians this year,” said Ellie Hockenbury, spokesperson for the state GOP. “Whereas it is often the case that top-of-the-ticket races help turnout for down-ballot races, we also believe that local races could be just as big a motivator for many to drive turnout. Having strong candidates in school board races could help our slate of candidates at every level.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11922866\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-17-at-3.29.38-PM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11922866\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-17-at-3.29.38-PM-800x528.png\" alt=\"A woman has her arms around two younger girls outside.\" width=\"800\" height=\"528\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-17-at-3.29.38-PM-800x528.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-17-at-3.29.38-PM-1020x674.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-17-at-3.29.38-PM-160x106.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-17-at-3.29.38-PM.png 1532w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sonja Shaw with her two daughters in Chino on Aug. 14, 2022. \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One candidate is Sonja Shaw, \u003ca href=\"http://shaw2022.com/\">who is running for a seat on the Chino Valley school board\u003c/a> in the Inland Empire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shaw, a parent of an eighth grader and a 10th grader, used to volunteer in the classroom, but says that during the pandemic, the school board became less accessible and less transparent about its decision-making. “When they closed down, parents were exited out of the school system,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then the GOP provided a level of guidance on running a campaign that Shaw otherwise wouldn’t have had: “We were treading water, without knowing where we’re going,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These local races are hardly low-stakes: School board members around the state will be at the forefront of determining how \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/2022/06/covid-relief-spending-california-schools/\">federal funding\u003c/a> is spent and addressing \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/2022/05/substitute-teacher-shortage-california/\">labor shortages\u003c/a>, teacher pay and \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/2022/06/buttonwillow-california-students-covid-photos/\">inequities in education\u003c/a> exacerbated by the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m just trying — and the party is trying — to get the word out: There’s a whole lot of stuff going on in your backyard,” said Steel, the former party chair, in an interview. “Don’t worry about the Ukraine, don’t worry about D.C. You can do something socially useful, and start showing up to your school board meetings.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Will the strategy work? Some political consultants think it could be a smart way to go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s the one instance where the David really can defeat the Goliath — when David continues to be so arrogant,” said Sean Walsh, a GOP strategist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Rusty Hicks, chair of the California Democratic Party, said he sees some within the Republican Party using “this really challenging moment in our history” to\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>further divide the state for political gain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ultimately I think parents want the best education for their kids,” he told CalMatters. “And is banning books and punishing teachers and those kinds of activities — is that top of mind for parents? No, I don’t believe so.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘A logical outgrowth’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In California’s 2022 election, the big action on education isn’t in the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-voter-guide-2022/superintendent-of-public-instruction/\">statewide race for the superintendent of public instruction\u003c/a>. That’s a departure from the last midterm election in 2018, when it was one of the state’s most hotly contested races.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the help of teachers unions, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-voter-guide-2022/superintendent-of-public-instruction/tony-thurmond/\">Tony Thurmond\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/2018/11/california-schools-chief-tuck-thurmond/\">narrowly defeated school choice advocate Marshall Tuck\u003c/a>. The two — both Democrats in the nonpartisan race — spent $60 million combined. This year, there has been little challenge to Thurmond, who won 46% of the vote in the June 7 primary, just shy of the majority he needed to win outright without going to November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His challenger on Nov. 8, Republican \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-voter-guide-2022/superintendent-of-public-instruction/lance-christensen/\">Lance Christensen\u003c/a>, earned a top-two spot with only 12% of the vote. He has raised only about $55,000 so far, compared to nearly $1.7 million for Thurmond, who is also boosted by $2.3 million in independent expenditures on his behalf.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The GOP’s lack of attention to the superintendent race is a reflection of the party’s record statewide and the daunting odds of unseating a Democratic-backed incumbent, given the 2-to-1 Democratic advantage in voter registration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, Republicans have “become a party that focuses on presidential politics and local campaigns,” said Dan Schnur, a politics professor at UC Berkeley, USC and Pepperdine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The focus on school board races, he said, “is a logical outgrowth of that strategy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials, consultants and candidates for both parties say school choice is not at the forefront of the election this year for a number of reasons, including the pandemic, the shift of the issue to the local level, and the passage of \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1505\">Assembly Bill 1505\u003c/a> in 2019, which changed how publicly funded charter schools operate in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, the GOP is seeking to capitalize on the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/ppic-statewide-survey-californians-and-education-april-2022/\">increased political engagement of parents\u003c/a> — which started with COVID policies, but has carried over to national issues such as critical race theory and sex education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think there’s a real demand that this power structure is challenged and overturned, and that’s what we’re seeing right now,” Steel said. “We don’t lead it. We don’t own it. But if we can help inspire people, particularly newcomers … ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But not every candidate running for school board as a Republican gets the party’s support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jeffrey Erik Perrine, a member of the far-right Proud Boys, was banned from participating in the Sacramento County Republican Party’s events after aggressive behavior, including threats to members and derogatory comments about immigrants, said Betsy Mahan, chair of the county party. Mahan said Perrine’s removal was not strictly about his association with the Proud Boys, but about his behavior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t ask people what organizations they belong to,” she said. “We look at how they act and if they are supportive in general of our party platform.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state party says it doesn’t give directly to school board candidates, but said its training provides nonmonetary support. The April workshop and virtual event in July had at least 100 attendees each. The party has also conducted one-on-one sessions with prospective candidates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similar to its California Trailblazers program, which focuses on candidates running for legislative seats,\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>participants received a binder of information that includes not just deadlines and required forms, but also vendor options, website design tools and tips on how to make the most of campaign funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s also a website dedicated to the cause, plus emails sent out weekly from a rotation of Republican leaders: Steel, party Chair Jessica Millan Patterson, U.S. Rep. Michelle Steel, gubernatorial candidate \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-voter-guide-2022/governor/brian-dahle/\">state Sen. Brian Dahle\u003c/a>, Christensen and Republican National Committee member Harmeet Dhillon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the party’s July event, speakers didn’t dictate specific talking points. Instead, they encouraged participants to focus on the issues important to their communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11922870\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-17-at-3.36.02-PM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11922870\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-17-at-3.36.02-PM-800x531.png\" alt='A person holding a binder that says \"California Trailblazers.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"531\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-17-at-3.36.02-PM-800x531.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-17-at-3.36.02-PM-1020x676.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-17-at-3.36.02-PM-160x106.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-17-at-3.36.02-PM.png 1532w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sonja Shaw, a candidate for a seat on the Chino Valley school board, holds a state GOP training binder on Aug. 14, 2022. \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For \u003ca href=\"https://kellyfelton4tusd.com/\">Kelly Felton, a first-time candidate\u003c/a> running for a Tustin Unified School District seat in Orange County, that issue was the “political narratives” being taught to her kids (one in seventh grade, and one in 10th), including critical race theory, sex education and the use of gender pronouns.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June 2021, she began attending Tustin Unified school board meetings, where she said she joined many other angry parents. Feeling shut out, Felton decided to enter politics, and took part in the state GOP July training session, which she said taught her “the practicality of running.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It did inspire me to think that I can do it,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One point emphasized in the training sessions: It usually doesn’t cost a lot to run for school board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cost varies depending on the district size, according to Mari Barke, a member of the Orange County Board of Education and director of the California Policy Center’s project to recruit and train local elected officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barke espouses the low-cost\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>“walk to win” strategy by going door to door, but acknowledges that’s not always possible in large districts, rural areas or gated communities. That’s where mailers come in handy, and they can cost anywhere from $10,000 in a smaller district to $40,000 in a larger one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the GOP, that’s a more cost-effective way to win seats. The state party has said it wants to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2022/04/california-republicans-convention/\">focus its limited resources on congressional races\u003c/a>, rather than statewide legislative races.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fueled by parents’ anger over pandemic school shutdowns, a record \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/updates/a-record-number-of-efforts-to-recall-school-board-candidates-in-california\">50 school board members in California were the targets of recalls\u003c/a> in 2021, according to EdSource. And \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/newsletters/california-playbook/2022/02/17/what-the-sf-school-board-recall-doesnt-mean-00009719\">three San Francisco school board members were recalled\u003c/a> in February.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But according to Steel, running for school board in regular elections is a better use of time for candidates than recalls — which can be powerful at times, but are often shortsighted. “I like to say run or recruit. Don’t bitch to me anymore,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hicks, the California Democratic Party leader, said the Republican party’s focus on local races is not surprising, given that the Democratic Party has largely targeted state and federal races for the last two decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a result, Republicans have been able to maintain some level of relevance on the local level,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Is Hicks worried?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No, because at the end of the day while Republicans in California are trying to throw everything at the wall and hope something sticks — to keep people angry and to frankly, in my view, destroy a traditional, free public education in California — Democrats have been focused on the most important things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That includes smaller class sizes and ensuring students have pathways to college and careers, Hicks said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schnur, the politics professor, said that while education is an issue that Democrats believe belongs to them, the pandemic concerns could help the GOP.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s more than likely that Republicans can reinforce their strengths in their regions of core support,” he said. “But it’s an open question whether they can expand beyond that base.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Counter-messaging by Democrats\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While the state Democratic Party doesn’t have a specific strategy focused on school boards, it is operating the California version of the Democrats’ national strategy, called “Contest Every Race,” recruiting candidates to run for city council, school board and other local seats, with a \u003ca href=\"https://contesteveryrace.com/about/\">focus on rural areas\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hicks said the party looks to its county chapters to take the lead on local races. In Placer County, for example, the local Democratic Party is hosting \u003ca href=\"https://www.mobilize.us/mobilize/event/492383/\">phone bank events\u003c/a> every Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Contra Costa County, the local party responded to concerns from school board members who reported being harassed and threatened. It passed two resolutions, one supporting the pandemic measures taken by school board members and calling out “coordinated efforts by a ‘network of conservative groups with ties to major Republican donors and party-aligned think tanks’ to engage in culture war fights designed to intimidate school board members so they can be replaced by radical conservatives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A second resolution passed in November 2021 backed the district’s \u003ca href=\"https://contracostadems.com/2021/11/18/resolution-saluting-school-board-members-for-supporting-inclusive-and-historically-accurate-instruction-for-our-students-despite-a-coordinated-misinformation-campaign/\">ethnic studies curriculum\u003c/a> and criticized the effort to mislead parents into confusing critical race theory with ethnic studies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To counter some of the anti-union messaging from GOP-recruited candidates, the California Teachers Association has spoken out in support of pro-union candidates, many of whom happen to be Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11922863\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-956268204.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11922863\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-956268204-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"A man wearing a business suit stands at a podium with other people in the background.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-956268204-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-956268204-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-956268204-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-956268204.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rusty Hicks attends the Stamp Out Hunger food drive, launched by Edward James Olmos, at MEND: Meet Each Need with Dignity, on May 8, 2018, in Pacoima. \u003ccite>(Greg Doherty/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hicks said that while there’s no formal partnership between the Democratic Party and the CTA, it makes sense that they’re often allied. “I think the Democratic Party is the party of working people,” he said. “I think that means not just workers on the job, but also ensuring that workers on the job get their kids a quality education.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lisa Gardiner, spokesperson for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cta.org/about-us\">310,000-member California Teachers Association\u003c/a>, said the union’s local chapters do endorse school board candidates, but not along partisan lines. She also disputed that teachers unions have too much influence over school boards, saying that “the real power resides in parents, educators, students and communities working together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“November’s school board elections are a critical opportunity for all of us to stand together to support racially and socially equitable schools, and the public education our students need to succeed,” she said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Prospects for success\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The state GOP isn’t alone in recruiting or training school board candidates who oppose critical race theory and vaccine mandates and take issue with school unions. Other organizations involved include Let Them Breathe, a group that advocates for more parental say, including against mask mandates;\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>the Californians for Equal Rights Foundation; and \u003ca href=\"https://www.pe.com/2022/03/27/why-conservative-christians-want-to-take-over-southwest-riverside-county-school-boards/\">churches\u003c/a>, though as nonprofits they’re not permitted to do more than provide information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some candidates who took part in the GOP sessions said they’ve taken part in training by other groups as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morgan Polikoff, an associate professor at USC’s Rossier School of Education, said while there are legitimate concerns about how school boards handled the pandemic, partisan influence can sometimes turn toxic — and isn’t politically beneficial, either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What I would hope is that these efforts actually engage seriously with issues that matter to voters … and not on sort of manufactured stuff about transgender athletes, or pick a topic, that these culture wars that conservative candidates in other places are running on,” Polikoff said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How likely are candidates to succeed?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Polikoff said that depends on how much candidates can stay on message with issues that matter to parents and voters. “In my view, the reason why the Republican Party has really struggled in California is the candidates are too extreme for where the majority of the state is,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you’re a minority party, like Republicans in California … you have to think, ‘Well, what can we do as a party to make a big difference?’” Steel told CalMatters. “You see the schools are just in great free fall and chaos. Parents don’t want to send their kids there. So this is the time to get people that are otherwise angst-ridden, upset, powerless.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, Democrats have long used school boards as a recruiting and training ground for political candidates — with help from teachers unions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But while the state Democratic party isn’t amping up its school board efforts in 2022, the GOP is going in big with its \u003ca href=\"https://www.cagop.org/s/parentrevolt\">Parent Revolt program\u003c/a> — what party officials call their most tailored school board recruitment and training program ever. It includes \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CAGOP/status/1544790671273299968?s=20&t=2ieVokP71SLOfI0-0pHVqQ\">virtual training sessions\u003c/a> that detail how and where to run for office, plus tips for digital campaigns and going door to door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The goal: \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/ppic-statewide-survey-californians-and-education-april-2022/\">to capitalize on COVID pandemic frustrations\u003c/a> and concerns over “critical race theory” and other issues among parents of school-age children — and win not only school board seats but also, eventually, legislative and congressional races by reengaging core Republican voters and attracting independents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are about 2,500 races for local school board seats in California in November — about half of the total 5,000 seats, according to the California School Boards Association. The filing deadline for candidates was Friday, though it was extended until today for seats held by incumbents not seeking reelection. While no statewide tally exists, of the nine seats up for election in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cde.ca.gov/ds/ad/ceflargesmalldist.asp\">three largest school districts \u003c/a>— Los Angeles, San Diego and \u003ca href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/Fresno_Unified_School_District,_California,_elections_(2022)\">Fresno\u003c/a> — three are open seats, where no incumbent is running.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Republican Party would not disclose its goals for recruited candidates, other than as many as possible. It also wouldn’t say how much it is spending on its Parent Revolt effort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We recognized early that education is going to be a major motivating issue for many Californians this year,” said Ellie Hockenbury, spokesperson for the state GOP. “Whereas it is often the case that top-of-the-ticket races help turnout for down-ballot races, we also believe that local races could be just as big a motivator for many to drive turnout. Having strong candidates in school board races could help our slate of candidates at every level.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11922866\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-17-at-3.29.38-PM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11922866\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-17-at-3.29.38-PM-800x528.png\" alt=\"A woman has her arms around two younger girls outside.\" width=\"800\" height=\"528\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-17-at-3.29.38-PM-800x528.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-17-at-3.29.38-PM-1020x674.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-17-at-3.29.38-PM-160x106.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-17-at-3.29.38-PM.png 1532w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sonja Shaw with her two daughters in Chino on Aug. 14, 2022. \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One candidate is Sonja Shaw, \u003ca href=\"http://shaw2022.com/\">who is running for a seat on the Chino Valley school board\u003c/a> in the Inland Empire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shaw, a parent of an eighth grader and a 10th grader, used to volunteer in the classroom, but says that during the pandemic, the school board became less accessible and less transparent about its decision-making. “When they closed down, parents were exited out of the school system,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then the GOP provided a level of guidance on running a campaign that Shaw otherwise wouldn’t have had: “We were treading water, without knowing where we’re going,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These local races are hardly low-stakes: School board members around the state will be at the forefront of determining how \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/2022/06/covid-relief-spending-california-schools/\">federal funding\u003c/a> is spent and addressing \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/2022/05/substitute-teacher-shortage-california/\">labor shortages\u003c/a>, teacher pay and \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/2022/06/buttonwillow-california-students-covid-photos/\">inequities in education\u003c/a> exacerbated by the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m just trying — and the party is trying — to get the word out: There’s a whole lot of stuff going on in your backyard,” said Steel, the former party chair, in an interview. “Don’t worry about the Ukraine, don’t worry about D.C. You can do something socially useful, and start showing up to your school board meetings.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Will the strategy work? Some political consultants think it could be a smart way to go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s the one instance where the David really can defeat the Goliath — when David continues to be so arrogant,” said Sean Walsh, a GOP strategist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Rusty Hicks, chair of the California Democratic Party, said he sees some within the Republican Party using “this really challenging moment in our history” to\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>further divide the state for political gain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ultimately I think parents want the best education for their kids,” he told CalMatters. “And is banning books and punishing teachers and those kinds of activities — is that top of mind for parents? No, I don’t believe so.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘A logical outgrowth’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In California’s 2022 election, the big action on education isn’t in the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-voter-guide-2022/superintendent-of-public-instruction/\">statewide race for the superintendent of public instruction\u003c/a>. That’s a departure from the last midterm election in 2018, when it was one of the state’s most hotly contested races.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the help of teachers unions, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-voter-guide-2022/superintendent-of-public-instruction/tony-thurmond/\">Tony Thurmond\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/2018/11/california-schools-chief-tuck-thurmond/\">narrowly defeated school choice advocate Marshall Tuck\u003c/a>. The two — both Democrats in the nonpartisan race — spent $60 million combined. This year, there has been little challenge to Thurmond, who won 46% of the vote in the June 7 primary, just shy of the majority he needed to win outright without going to November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His challenger on Nov. 8, Republican \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-voter-guide-2022/superintendent-of-public-instruction/lance-christensen/\">Lance Christensen\u003c/a>, earned a top-two spot with only 12% of the vote. He has raised only about $55,000 so far, compared to nearly $1.7 million for Thurmond, who is also boosted by $2.3 million in independent expenditures on his behalf.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The GOP’s lack of attention to the superintendent race is a reflection of the party’s record statewide and the daunting odds of unseating a Democratic-backed incumbent, given the 2-to-1 Democratic advantage in voter registration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, Republicans have “become a party that focuses on presidential politics and local campaigns,” said Dan Schnur, a politics professor at UC Berkeley, USC and Pepperdine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The focus on school board races, he said, “is a logical outgrowth of that strategy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials, consultants and candidates for both parties say school choice is not at the forefront of the election this year for a number of reasons, including the pandemic, the shift of the issue to the local level, and the passage of \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1505\">Assembly Bill 1505\u003c/a> in 2019, which changed how publicly funded charter schools operate in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, the GOP is seeking to capitalize on the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/ppic-statewide-survey-californians-and-education-april-2022/\">increased political engagement of parents\u003c/a> — which started with COVID policies, but has carried over to national issues such as critical race theory and sex education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think there’s a real demand that this power structure is challenged and overturned, and that’s what we’re seeing right now,” Steel said. “We don’t lead it. We don’t own it. But if we can help inspire people, particularly newcomers … ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But not every candidate running for school board as a Republican gets the party’s support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jeffrey Erik Perrine, a member of the far-right Proud Boys, was banned from participating in the Sacramento County Republican Party’s events after aggressive behavior, including threats to members and derogatory comments about immigrants, said Betsy Mahan, chair of the county party. Mahan said Perrine’s removal was not strictly about his association with the Proud Boys, but about his behavior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t ask people what organizations they belong to,” she said. “We look at how they act and if they are supportive in general of our party platform.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state party says it doesn’t give directly to school board candidates, but said its training provides nonmonetary support. The April workshop and virtual event in July had at least 100 attendees each. The party has also conducted one-on-one sessions with prospective candidates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similar to its California Trailblazers program, which focuses on candidates running for legislative seats,\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>participants received a binder of information that includes not just deadlines and required forms, but also vendor options, website design tools and tips on how to make the most of campaign funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s also a website dedicated to the cause, plus emails sent out weekly from a rotation of Republican leaders: Steel, party Chair Jessica Millan Patterson, U.S. Rep. Michelle Steel, gubernatorial candidate \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-voter-guide-2022/governor/brian-dahle/\">state Sen. Brian Dahle\u003c/a>, Christensen and Republican National Committee member Harmeet Dhillon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the party’s July event, speakers didn’t dictate specific talking points. Instead, they encouraged participants to focus on the issues important to their communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11922870\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-17-at-3.36.02-PM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11922870\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-17-at-3.36.02-PM-800x531.png\" alt='A person holding a binder that says \"California Trailblazers.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"531\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-17-at-3.36.02-PM-800x531.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-17-at-3.36.02-PM-1020x676.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-17-at-3.36.02-PM-160x106.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-17-at-3.36.02-PM.png 1532w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sonja Shaw, a candidate for a seat on the Chino Valley school board, holds a state GOP training binder on Aug. 14, 2022. \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For \u003ca href=\"https://kellyfelton4tusd.com/\">Kelly Felton, a first-time candidate\u003c/a> running for a Tustin Unified School District seat in Orange County, that issue was the “political narratives” being taught to her kids (one in seventh grade, and one in 10th), including critical race theory, sex education and the use of gender pronouns.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June 2021, she began attending Tustin Unified school board meetings, where she said she joined many other angry parents. Feeling shut out, Felton decided to enter politics, and took part in the state GOP July training session, which she said taught her “the practicality of running.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It did inspire me to think that I can do it,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One point emphasized in the training sessions: It usually doesn’t cost a lot to run for school board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cost varies depending on the district size, according to Mari Barke, a member of the Orange County Board of Education and director of the California Policy Center’s project to recruit and train local elected officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barke espouses the low-cost\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>“walk to win” strategy by going door to door, but acknowledges that’s not always possible in large districts, rural areas or gated communities. That’s where mailers come in handy, and they can cost anywhere from $10,000 in a smaller district to $40,000 in a larger one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the GOP, that’s a more cost-effective way to win seats. The state party has said it wants to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2022/04/california-republicans-convention/\">focus its limited resources on congressional races\u003c/a>, rather than statewide legislative races.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fueled by parents’ anger over pandemic school shutdowns, a record \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/updates/a-record-number-of-efforts-to-recall-school-board-candidates-in-california\">50 school board members in California were the targets of recalls\u003c/a> in 2021, according to EdSource. And \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/newsletters/california-playbook/2022/02/17/what-the-sf-school-board-recall-doesnt-mean-00009719\">three San Francisco school board members were recalled\u003c/a> in February.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But according to Steel, running for school board in regular elections is a better use of time for candidates than recalls — which can be powerful at times, but are often shortsighted. “I like to say run or recruit. Don’t bitch to me anymore,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hicks, the California Democratic Party leader, said the Republican party’s focus on local races is not surprising, given that the Democratic Party has largely targeted state and federal races for the last two decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a result, Republicans have been able to maintain some level of relevance on the local level,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Is Hicks worried?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No, because at the end of the day while Republicans in California are trying to throw everything at the wall and hope something sticks — to keep people angry and to frankly, in my view, destroy a traditional, free public education in California — Democrats have been focused on the most important things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That includes smaller class sizes and ensuring students have pathways to college and careers, Hicks said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schnur, the politics professor, said that while education is an issue that Democrats believe belongs to them, the pandemic concerns could help the GOP.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s more than likely that Republicans can reinforce their strengths in their regions of core support,” he said. “But it’s an open question whether they can expand beyond that base.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Counter-messaging by Democrats\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While the state Democratic Party doesn’t have a specific strategy focused on school boards, it is operating the California version of the Democrats’ national strategy, called “Contest Every Race,” recruiting candidates to run for city council, school board and other local seats, with a \u003ca href=\"https://contesteveryrace.com/about/\">focus on rural areas\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hicks said the party looks to its county chapters to take the lead on local races. In Placer County, for example, the local Democratic Party is hosting \u003ca href=\"https://www.mobilize.us/mobilize/event/492383/\">phone bank events\u003c/a> every Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Contra Costa County, the local party responded to concerns from school board members who reported being harassed and threatened. It passed two resolutions, one supporting the pandemic measures taken by school board members and calling out “coordinated efforts by a ‘network of conservative groups with ties to major Republican donors and party-aligned think tanks’ to engage in culture war fights designed to intimidate school board members so they can be replaced by radical conservatives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A second resolution passed in November 2021 backed the district’s \u003ca href=\"https://contracostadems.com/2021/11/18/resolution-saluting-school-board-members-for-supporting-inclusive-and-historically-accurate-instruction-for-our-students-despite-a-coordinated-misinformation-campaign/\">ethnic studies curriculum\u003c/a> and criticized the effort to mislead parents into confusing critical race theory with ethnic studies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To counter some of the anti-union messaging from GOP-recruited candidates, the California Teachers Association has spoken out in support of pro-union candidates, many of whom happen to be Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11922863\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-956268204.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11922863\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-956268204-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"A man wearing a business suit stands at a podium with other people in the background.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-956268204-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-956268204-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-956268204-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-956268204.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rusty Hicks attends the Stamp Out Hunger food drive, launched by Edward James Olmos, at MEND: Meet Each Need with Dignity, on May 8, 2018, in Pacoima. \u003ccite>(Greg Doherty/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hicks said that while there’s no formal partnership between the Democratic Party and the CTA, it makes sense that they’re often allied. “I think the Democratic Party is the party of working people,” he said. “I think that means not just workers on the job, but also ensuring that workers on the job get their kids a quality education.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lisa Gardiner, spokesperson for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cta.org/about-us\">310,000-member California Teachers Association\u003c/a>, said the union’s local chapters do endorse school board candidates, but not along partisan lines. She also disputed that teachers unions have too much influence over school boards, saying that “the real power resides in parents, educators, students and communities working together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“November’s school board elections are a critical opportunity for all of us to stand together to support racially and socially equitable schools, and the public education our students need to succeed,” she said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Prospects for success\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The state GOP isn’t alone in recruiting or training school board candidates who oppose critical race theory and vaccine mandates and take issue with school unions. Other organizations involved include Let Them Breathe, a group that advocates for more parental say, including against mask mandates;\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>the Californians for Equal Rights Foundation; and \u003ca href=\"https://www.pe.com/2022/03/27/why-conservative-christians-want-to-take-over-southwest-riverside-county-school-boards/\">churches\u003c/a>, though as nonprofits they’re not permitted to do more than provide information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some candidates who took part in the GOP sessions said they’ve taken part in training by other groups as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morgan Polikoff, an associate professor at USC’s Rossier School of Education, said while there are legitimate concerns about how school boards handled the pandemic, partisan influence can sometimes turn toxic — and isn’t politically beneficial, either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What I would hope is that these efforts actually engage seriously with issues that matter to voters … and not on sort of manufactured stuff about transgender athletes, or pick a topic, that these culture wars that conservative candidates in other places are running on,” Polikoff said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How likely are candidates to succeed?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Polikoff said that depends on how much candidates can stay on message with issues that matter to parents and voters. “In my view, the reason why the Republican Party has really struggled in California is the candidates are too extreme for where the majority of the state is,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>In a small town in California’s Central Valley, a trio of siblings lost both their parents to COVID-19 within two weeks of each other in 2021. Overnight, their deaths made the oldest son a pseudo-parent to his teenage siblings, and forced the brothers and sister to figure out a future without their mom and dad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, 32,000 children under 18 have experienced the \u003ca href=\"https://imperialcollegelondon.github.io/orphanhood_USA/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">death of a parent or primary caregiver from COVID-19\u003c/a>, according to research by the Global Reference Group for Children Affected by COVID-19. Those children — so-called “COVID orphans” — are likely to face not just financial hardship but a lifetime of mental health, educational, relational and emotional challenges, researchers say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, California has become the first state to create a financial safety net for some of these children when they reach adulthood. The state has allocated $100 million in its \u003ca href=\"https://www.ebudget.ca.gov/FullBudgetSummary.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recently adopted budget\u003c/a> for the Hope, Opportunity, Perseverance, and Empowerment for Children Trust Account Fund, which will seed trust funds for children from lower-income families who lost a parent or primary caregiver to COVID-19. Trust funds will also be created for long-term foster youth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The funds, known as “baby bonds,” would be started with state money and allowed to grow until the child turns 18. At that time, the young person would be able to access the fund for housing, education or other expenses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It will make it so that people who are in the most need, who’ve lost a parent or caregiver to COVID, will have a little bit of extra help,” said Emily Walton, policy director of COVID Survivors for Change, a national organization advocating for benefits for Americans impacted by COVID-19. “The lack of several thousand dollars could stop a child from jumping on to the next thing and getting an education or getting a job in a place where they know they can be successful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The details of the plan will be laid out later this summer in one of several trailer bills, which add specifics to the state budget. Advocates say eligibility will most likely be tied to enrollment in Medi-Cal, the state’s health insurance system for lower-income Californians. Amounts deposited are expected to reflect the age of the child and how long before that person turns 18.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Emily Walton, policy director, COVID Survivors for Change\"]‘It will make it so that people who are in the most need, who’ve lost a parent or caregiver to COVID, will have a little bit of extra help.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Central Valley agricultural town of Coalinga, Martin, Angel and Miranda Basulto felt lost after both of their parents died in January of 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their father, Martin Basulto, a truck driver, thought he was exposed to COVID-19 at work. Their mother, Rosa Garcia Cortez, who worked as a front desk receptionist at a local hotel, got sick after taking care of their dad. Basulto, 44, and Garcia Cortez, 46, were taken to a local hospital, and within weeks both died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martin, now 27, was in charge of his family. He moved back home from Fresno to take over responsibilities like paying the mortgage and making sure his sister Miranda got to high school on time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the beginning, I didn’t care about school. I was so angry,” said Miranda, now 17 and about to start her senior year. “We are all going to die someday, so what is the point of trying in life?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But then someone asked her if she wanted to die without living up to her full potential.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That hit me because I know my parents wanted to do a lot of things in their life they couldn’t do,” she said. “So, I want to live my life to the fullest potential.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11866749,news_11919233,news_11901484\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s on the honor roll now and looking forward to college — a dream her father had for her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The baby bonds are critical for their family, Martin said. He remembers their parents would help him with groceries or step in when he could not pay his own phone bill when he first moved away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now it’s his turn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The smallest amount can go a long way,” Martin said. “I want her to be prepared for when she goes to college and I’ll help in any way I can, so any other help available is greatly appreciated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Latino children account for the majority — 66% — of kids orphaned by COVID in California. Many of them are the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/coronavirus/2021/09/covid-california-deaths/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sons and daughters of essential workers\u003c/a> who were already facing economic uncertainty before the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the country, non-white children lost parents or caregivers at four times the rate of their white peers, according to a report titled “\u003ca href=\"https://www.covidcollaborative.us/assets/uploads/pdf/HIDDEN-PAIN.Report.Final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hidden Pain, Children Who Lost a Parent or Caregiver to COVID-19 and What the Nation Can Do to Help Them\u003c/a>,” released in December by the COVID Collaborative. Nationally, 250,000 kids have been left orphaned by the death of at least one parent or primary caregiver as of March 2022, reports the Global Reference Group on Children Affected by COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Children who have lost a primary caregiver to COVID-19 have unique needs, said Marlo Cales, executive director of the Mourning Sun Children’s Foundation, an Apple Valley-based support organization for youth and their families who are grieving a death of a loved one or their loss through abandonment, imprisonment or other types of separation. Cales said that for COVID-19 survivors, bereavement was intensified because many could not gather or grieve their loss with others. The ongoing pandemic is prolonging grief, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are really feeling more alone and isolated,” she said. “Not only have they lost their person, they seem to be struggling with the inability to be able to connect with or find services that are meeting their particular needs of loss and grief because of the pandemic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s new program for this population is in line with a broader effort to provide trust funds for all children from lower-income families who qualify for Medi-Cal, regardless of COVID’s impact on their families, said Shamika Gaskins, president and CEO of Grace and End Child Poverty in California, which advocated for the money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is really a part of our longer-term vision to end child poverty in California by closing the racial wealth gap and providing opportunities for our most vulnerable children,” Gaskins said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Delaware, Washington, Connecticut, Washington, D.C., New York and Iowa are considering or have created their own trust fund programs for children from lower-income families. Eligibility for most of the programs or proposals is tied to qualifying for the Medicaid program in each of those states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Connecticut and Washington, D.C., \u003ca href=\"https://www.zerotothree.org/resources/4245-dc-council-passes-the-child-wealth-building-act-and-more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">approved baby bond programs last year\u003c/a>. The Connecticut program \u003ca href=\"https://portal.ct.gov/OTT/Debt-Management/CT-Baby-Bonds\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">begins in July 2023\u003c/a> with deposits of up to $3,200 for each child. The D.C. program started with babies born in October 2021, and the funds are seeded with $500 plus annual deposits as long as the family’s income qualifies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But California’s new program is the first in the nation to provide trust funds specifically for children who have lost parents or caregivers to COVID and for long-term foster youth. Walton, of COVID Survivors for Change, said the organization is working with a handful of states to consider scholarships or similar trust funds for children who have lost a parent or caregiver to COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Shamika Gaskins, president and CEO, Grace and End Child Poverty in California\"]‘This is really a part of our longer-term vision to end child poverty in California by closing the racial wealth gap and providing opportunities for our most vulnerable children.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a teacher in Marin County, Kate McLaughlin doesn’t think her daughter, Éala, would currently qualify for the trust fund, but she is reassured that should her daughter need the support in the future, she could access it. Her husband, Jason McLaughlin, died from the virus last year when their daughter was 3. He was 48.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our people are not just a number,” she said, of those who died from COVID-19. “I want people to know Jason McLaughlin was a really great guy and an incredible father, and he was on this planet, and his life mattered.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a kidney transplant survivor, Jason was immunocompromised.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family hunkered down when the pandemic began in 2020. Kate believes Jason was exposed on one of their quick runs to a grocery store or Home Depot. He was sick at home for 10 days before being hospitalized. Kate and Éala both tested positive, too, but only Kate had symptoms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around Valentine’s Day of 2021, Jason’s working kidney started to fail. He was put on dialysis but died within days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was able to be with him in his last moments,” Kate said. “The biggest challenge for us is adjusting to the gigantic loss in our lives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Jason’s hometown Boston Celtics recently played the Warriors in the playoffs, Kate felt a wave of heartache. He had looked forward to watching games with his daughter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He would be loving it. He should be here to watch this game, to watch it with her,” Kate said. “Dealing with those constant reminders that he is gone is terrible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A study published in the medical journal \u003ca href=\"https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article/148/6/e2021053760/183446/COVID-19-Associated-Orphanhood-and-Caregiver-Death?autologincheck=redirected\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pediatrics\u003c/a> in October found that orphanhood is a secondary tragedy brought on by the pandemic. Researchers say that children’s lives are forever changed by the loss of a parent or caregiver, and addressing it should be a top priority. It is considered an adverse childhood experience, linked to mental health challenges, lower self-esteem, suicide and other problems later in life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s trust funds began as a bill introduced by Democratic Sen. Nancy Skinner of Berkeley that was sailing through the Legislature. In May, Skinner pulled the bill because the funds for kids orphaned by COVID were going to be included in the budget proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At a time when California has immense wealth, we can afford to ensure that children who have suffered an inconceivable loss will be comforted knowing they’ll have a little help at a time when they no longer have parents to rely on,” Skinner has said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11920431\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/062222_BakersfieldPortait_LV__006-CM.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11920431\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/062222_BakersfieldPortait_LV__006-CM-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"a young Black woman stands for a portrait in front of greenery while holding a photograph of her father, who died from COVID\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/062222_BakersfieldPortait_LV__006-CM-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/062222_BakersfieldPortait_LV__006-CM-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/062222_BakersfieldPortait_LV__006-CM-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/062222_BakersfieldPortait_LV__006-CM-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/062222_BakersfieldPortait_LV__006-CM.jpg 1568w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">MacLemore Porter, whose father died of COVID, poses for a photo in her backyard in Bakersfield on June 22, 2022. \u003ccite>(Larry Valenzuela, CalMatters/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In Bakersfield, Hillary Porter is keeping an eye on the progress of the trust fund program. She is one of the surviving parents who advocated for the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March of 2020, Hillary; her husband, Lloyd Porter; and their daughter MacLemore were packing up their home in New York City for a move back to California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then Lloyd, an actor, got sick with COVID-19. Six weeks later he died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He really fought the good fight. He kind of rallied back,” Hillary said. “I was in the process of planning rehab for him and suddenly he was gone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hillary and their daughter moved back to California as the family had planned. Lloyd grew up in Bakersfield and Hillary in Salinas. College sweethearts, the couple met at Fresno State when they were officers of Black student organizations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lloyd was the kind of guy who took off his sweatshirt and gave it to a young man arriving in San Francisco who didn’t realize how cold it would be, his wife said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because my husband passed away in May of 2020, we couldn’t have a funeral, couldn’t gather with friends or family. It was very much that we were in a bubble,” she said. “That adds another layer of trauma or grief.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She is looking to the trust fund to help kids with mental health support, as well as to help pay for college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The kids, when they are turning into adults, can now dream a little bigger,” Hilary said. “It could change the trajectory of their goals at 18.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Central Valley agricultural town of Coalinga, Martin, Angel and Miranda Basulto felt lost after both of their parents died in January of 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their father, Martin Basulto, a truck driver, thought he was exposed to COVID-19 at work. Their mother, Rosa Garcia Cortez, who worked as a front desk receptionist at a local hotel, got sick after taking care of their dad. Basulto, 44, and Garcia Cortez, 46, were taken to a local hospital, and within weeks both died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martin, now 27, was in charge of his family. He moved back home from Fresno to take over responsibilities like paying the mortgage and making sure his sister Miranda got to high school on time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the beginning, I didn’t care about school. I was so angry,” said Miranda, now 17 and about to start her senior year. “We are all going to die someday, so what is the point of trying in life?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But then someone asked her if she wanted to die without living up to her full potential.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That hit me because I know my parents wanted to do a lot of things in their life they couldn’t do,” she said. “So, I want to live my life to the fullest potential.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s on the honor roll now and looking forward to college — a dream her father had for her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The baby bonds are critical for their family, Martin said. He remembers their parents would help him with groceries or step in when he could not pay his own phone bill when he first moved away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now it’s his turn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The smallest amount can go a long way,” Martin said. “I want her to be prepared for when she goes to college and I’ll help in any way I can, so any other help available is greatly appreciated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Latino children account for the majority — 66% — of kids orphaned by COVID in California. Many of them are the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/coronavirus/2021/09/covid-california-deaths/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sons and daughters of essential workers\u003c/a> who were already facing economic uncertainty before the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the country, non-white children lost parents or caregivers at four times the rate of their white peers, according to a report titled “\u003ca href=\"https://www.covidcollaborative.us/assets/uploads/pdf/HIDDEN-PAIN.Report.Final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hidden Pain, Children Who Lost a Parent or Caregiver to COVID-19 and What the Nation Can Do to Help Them\u003c/a>,” released in December by the COVID Collaborative. Nationally, 250,000 kids have been left orphaned by the death of at least one parent or primary caregiver as of March 2022, reports the Global Reference Group on Children Affected by COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Children who have lost a primary caregiver to COVID-19 have unique needs, said Marlo Cales, executive director of the Mourning Sun Children’s Foundation, an Apple Valley-based support organization for youth and their families who are grieving a death of a loved one or their loss through abandonment, imprisonment or other types of separation. Cales said that for COVID-19 survivors, bereavement was intensified because many could not gather or grieve their loss with others. The ongoing pandemic is prolonging grief, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are really feeling more alone and isolated,” she said. “Not only have they lost their person, they seem to be struggling with the inability to be able to connect with or find services that are meeting their particular needs of loss and grief because of the pandemic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s new program for this population is in line with a broader effort to provide trust funds for all children from lower-income families who qualify for Medi-Cal, regardless of COVID’s impact on their families, said Shamika Gaskins, president and CEO of Grace and End Child Poverty in California, which advocated for the money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is really a part of our longer-term vision to end child poverty in California by closing the racial wealth gap and providing opportunities for our most vulnerable children,” Gaskins said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Delaware, Washington, Connecticut, Washington, D.C., New York and Iowa are considering or have created their own trust fund programs for children from lower-income families. Eligibility for most of the programs or proposals is tied to qualifying for the Medicaid program in each of those states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Connecticut and Washington, D.C., \u003ca href=\"https://www.zerotothree.org/resources/4245-dc-council-passes-the-child-wealth-building-act-and-more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">approved baby bond programs last year\u003c/a>. The Connecticut program \u003ca href=\"https://portal.ct.gov/OTT/Debt-Management/CT-Baby-Bonds\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">begins in July 2023\u003c/a> with deposits of up to $3,200 for each child. The D.C. program started with babies born in October 2021, and the funds are seeded with $500 plus annual deposits as long as the family’s income qualifies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But California’s new program is the first in the nation to provide trust funds specifically for children who have lost parents or caregivers to COVID and for long-term foster youth. Walton, of COVID Survivors for Change, said the organization is working with a handful of states to consider scholarships or similar trust funds for children who have lost a parent or caregiver to COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a teacher in Marin County, Kate McLaughlin doesn’t think her daughter, Éala, would currently qualify for the trust fund, but she is reassured that should her daughter need the support in the future, she could access it. Her husband, Jason McLaughlin, died from the virus last year when their daughter was 3. He was 48.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our people are not just a number,” she said, of those who died from COVID-19. “I want people to know Jason McLaughlin was a really great guy and an incredible father, and he was on this planet, and his life mattered.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a kidney transplant survivor, Jason was immunocompromised.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family hunkered down when the pandemic began in 2020. Kate believes Jason was exposed on one of their quick runs to a grocery store or Home Depot. He was sick at home for 10 days before being hospitalized. Kate and Éala both tested positive, too, but only Kate had symptoms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around Valentine’s Day of 2021, Jason’s working kidney started to fail. He was put on dialysis but died within days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was able to be with him in his last moments,” Kate said. “The biggest challenge for us is adjusting to the gigantic loss in our lives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Jason’s hometown Boston Celtics recently played the Warriors in the playoffs, Kate felt a wave of heartache. He had looked forward to watching games with his daughter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He would be loving it. He should be here to watch this game, to watch it with her,” Kate said. “Dealing with those constant reminders that he is gone is terrible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A study published in the medical journal \u003ca href=\"https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article/148/6/e2021053760/183446/COVID-19-Associated-Orphanhood-and-Caregiver-Death?autologincheck=redirected\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pediatrics\u003c/a> in October found that orphanhood is a secondary tragedy brought on by the pandemic. Researchers say that children’s lives are forever changed by the loss of a parent or caregiver, and addressing it should be a top priority. It is considered an adverse childhood experience, linked to mental health challenges, lower self-esteem, suicide and other problems later in life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s trust funds began as a bill introduced by Democratic Sen. Nancy Skinner of Berkeley that was sailing through the Legislature. In May, Skinner pulled the bill because the funds for kids orphaned by COVID were going to be included in the budget proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At a time when California has immense wealth, we can afford to ensure that children who have suffered an inconceivable loss will be comforted knowing they’ll have a little help at a time when they no longer have parents to rely on,” Skinner has said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11920431\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/062222_BakersfieldPortait_LV__006-CM.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11920431\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/062222_BakersfieldPortait_LV__006-CM-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"a young Black woman stands for a portrait in front of greenery while holding a photograph of her father, who died from COVID\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/062222_BakersfieldPortait_LV__006-CM-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/062222_BakersfieldPortait_LV__006-CM-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/062222_BakersfieldPortait_LV__006-CM-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/062222_BakersfieldPortait_LV__006-CM-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/062222_BakersfieldPortait_LV__006-CM.jpg 1568w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">MacLemore Porter, whose father died of COVID, poses for a photo in her backyard in Bakersfield on June 22, 2022. \u003ccite>(Larry Valenzuela, CalMatters/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In Bakersfield, Hillary Porter is keeping an eye on the progress of the trust fund program. She is one of the surviving parents who advocated for the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March of 2020, Hillary; her husband, Lloyd Porter; and their daughter MacLemore were packing up their home in New York City for a move back to California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then Lloyd, an actor, got sick with COVID-19. Six weeks later he died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He really fought the good fight. He kind of rallied back,” Hillary said. “I was in the process of planning rehab for him and suddenly he was gone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hillary and their daughter moved back to California as the family had planned. Lloyd grew up in Bakersfield and Hillary in Salinas. College sweethearts, the couple met at Fresno State when they were officers of Black student organizations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lloyd was the kind of guy who took off his sweatshirt and gave it to a young man arriving in San Francisco who didn’t realize how cold it would be, his wife said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because my husband passed away in May of 2020, we couldn’t have a funeral, couldn’t gather with friends or family. It was very much that we were in a bubble,” she said. “That adds another layer of trauma or grief.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She is looking to the trust fund to help kids with mental health support, as well as to help pay for college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The Bay Area is finally trying to have a normal, pandemic-free summer. And we seem to be inching closer. But it’s still not quite working out as planned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most recent culprit: the highly transmissible \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/07/11/1110804098/omicron-ba5-variant-covid-reinfections\">BA.5 omicron subvariant\u003c/a>, now \u003ca href=\"https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#variant-proportions\">the dominant strain of COVID-19\u003c/a> across the country and the region. Unlike other strains, this one appears to be largely impervious to the antibodies that people may have gained from previous COVID infections, resulting in noticeably higher rates of reinfection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BA.5 is also four times more resistant to COVID-19 vaccines, according to a new\u003ca href=\"https://newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-ba-5-omicron-variant/\"> Mayo Clinic study\u003c/a>, which categorizes the variant as “hypercontagious.” (Vaccines, however, still provide people with \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/07/15/1111648759/covid-19-coronavirus-omicron-variant-ba5-cdc-vaccines-masks-mayo-clinic\">much better protection\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That, in turn, has sparked a moderate surge in cases and hospitalizations in the Bay Area and beyond — nothing like the one we experienced last winter, but still enough to stoke some concern and warrant a heightened degree of caution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To make some sense of the latest phase in this seemingly endless pandemic, Forum host Alexis Madrigal spoke earlier this week with Dr. Bob Wachter, chair of the UCSF Department of Medicine, and Dr. Yvonne “Bonnie” Maldonado, a professor of pediatrics and epidemiology at Stanford University School of Medicine. The two medical experts spent the hour answering a slew of questions from listeners, some of which are highlighted below.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The following has been edited for brevity and clarity.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>On what has — and hasn’t — changed\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>More than two years into this thing, what \u003c/b>\u003cem style=\"font-weight: bold\">hasn’t\u003c/em>\u003cb> changed about the pandemic and our response to it?\u003c/b>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Dr. Bob Wachter, UCSF\"]‘We’ve never seen anything quite like this virus before. Everyone is at some level of risk. Everybody has to do this three-dimensional chess game pretty much every day to try to figure out what’s safe to do, what’s not safe to do.’[/pullquote]\u003cstrong>Dr. Bob Wachter\u003c/strong>: We’ve never seen anything quite like this virus before. Everyone is at some level of risk. Everybody has to do this three-dimensional chess game pretty much every day to try to figure out what’s safe to do, what’s not safe to do. It’s causing massive disruption of our society and a lot of anxiety. So that hasn’t changed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a lot of the aspects of the virus have changed in terms of how infectious it is, how our immunity is working against it, and how severe it is. I think it’s very hard for people to process all of this, in part because we came to some of these understandings kind of the hard way. And once you’ve come to them, it’s hard to give them up as the facts change on the ground — and a lot of the facts have changed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dr. Yvonne Maldonado\u003c/strong>: This is still a public health emergency. As you know, the Biden administration just decided to extend our public health emergency that started in January 2020. That situation is not different. It is still a very deadly disease when you compare it to any other circulating viral illness that we see today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s still worse than, say, our annual influenza epidemic. So it’s still a force to be dealt with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unfortunately, what has changed is our risk perception. We’re very good at getting used to lots of things that we feel like we can’t control. And that’s the problem. We think we can’t control this and we really can. We need to keep it high on the list of things you should do to keep yourself and your loved ones healthy.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>On kids and school\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What do we know now about kids and COVID that maybe we didn’t understand earlier in the pandemic?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dr. Maldonado\u003c/strong>: We heard initially that children don’t get infected. That’s not true. That they don’t get sick. That’s also not true. And that they can’t transmit to others. That’s also not true.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Almost every single day since the beginning of the pandemic we’ve had children admitted to our hospital, not just with COVID [discovered after they’re admitted for something else], but \u003cem>for\u003c/em> COVID. And so it’s a serious disease — and not just runny noses and coughs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unfortunately, what we’re seeing in kids is over 13 million cases with tens of thousands of hospitalizations since the beginning of the pandemic, just in the United States. And over 1,500 children who have died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some people say that, you know, that pales in comparison to deaths in adults. But still, this virus is in the top five causes of death right now in the U.S. for every single age group under 18. So when you break down the cases, it may be that the numbers look small, but they are the most preventable causes of death that we have right now in children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What advice do you have for parents about how to safely send their kids back to school this fall? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dr. \u003cstrong>Maldonado\u003c/strong>\u003c/b>: Let me just start off by saying that what’s really changed is we have lots of vaccine options now for children. The FDA and the CDC just approved vaccines for everybody six months of age and older, similar to the flu.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Dr. Yvonne Maldonado, Stanford University School of Medicine\"]‘Everybody now who is in school should be able to be vaccinated, and that is going to be really a great way to get kids back in, get them learning again.’[/pullquote]I would even make it a rule that classrooms should be, if not enforcing vaccinations, at least tracking them, masking, and other kinds of mitigation in the classroom. Because we know that these vaccines can maybe not fully prevent infections, but can prevent serious complications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the other issue, as we heard before, is that BA.5 is very infectious. We don’t know what’s going to happen in the fall. We think there’s a new variant now called BA.2.75 that seems to be working its way across the world and appears to be \u003cem>even more\u003c/em> contagious. And it also actually has a number of more mutations in the spike protein that attaches to human cells. So it could also have more immune evasion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So I can’t imagine there wouldn’t be new variants coming along in the fall. Just make sure kids are masked when they’re in school, make sure ventilation works in classrooms. Everybody now who is in school should be able to be vaccinated, and that is going to be really a great way to get kids back in, get them learning again.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>On boosters, antivirals and other drugs\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Should I get the second booster now, or wait for the new ones that may be available this fall? \u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dr. Wachter\u003c/strong>: Yes, I think you should get it now [even if you’ve recently recovered from COVID]. The data on the value of the second booster is more and more persuasive. A recent study showed that the mortality rate was one-fourth if you’ve gotten the second booster versus the first. That first booster was incredibly valuable and you definitely need to get the first one. But if you got it more than six months ago, its efficacy has waned in the face of the new variant that evades immunity better. So I’m recommending that people get it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’re also not sure how much better the rejiggered booster will be in the fall. And I can’t see a circumstance where you get boosted this week with booster No. 2 and somehow you’re not then able to get a better booster that comes out in November. So I think for anybody over 50, definitely get it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What are your current thoughts about Paxlovid, the antiviral therapy? 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I definitely know of cases where people have infected other folks, so you have to go back into isolation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why it’s happening, nobody knows exactly. How to prevent it, nobody knows that either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And is it bad enough to not use the drug? I still think that the best clinical trial of the drug said it lowers the hospitalization rate among high-risk people by 90%. So for someone who’s at higher risk, I would definitely use it. I’m a little bit on the fence for a fully vaccinated boosted person who, let’s say, is younger than about 60. I probably wouldn’t. I’m 64. 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It’s an injection that they can get once every six months or so, and that can be highly protective. So on top of mitigation, I do think people should consult their providers. And if their providers are not aware of Evusheld, they should ask them to seek counsel from, say, a public health agency or a specialist who knows about it. Because it’s highly efficient in protecting people and being able to let them and their families go out and live their lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>On travel, recreation and invincibility\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>I’m 71 with no co-morbidities, and have a trip planned to Morocco and Italy in the fall. Do I go?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dr. Wachter\u003c/strong>: Yes. I think that this virus is going to be with us for the foreseeable future. I think limiting your life in terms of not traveling, I don’t think makes any sense — especially if you’re going places where the prevalence is less than it is in California. 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It tells me that even this virus, even BA.5, is not so divergent that it is escaping all arms of the immune system.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She adds that new booster shots \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/06/30/1109047124/covid-boosters-omicron-fda\">specifically targeting omicron\u003c/a> — which could roll out as soon as this fall — should also be helpful in preventing serious illness and deaths.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Are there long-term consequences for people who get COVID-19 multiple times?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Findings of \u003ca href=\"https://assets.researchsquare.com/files/rs-1749502/v1/499445df-ebaf-4ab3-b30f-3028dff81fca.pdf?c=1655499468\">a pre-print study\u003c/a> published in June suggest that people who get sick multiple times may have a higher risk of long-COVID symptoms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Ziyad Al-Aly, a clinical epidemiologist at Washington University in St. Louis, looked at thousands of cases of reinfection and saw a wide range of problems in the months that followed: certain respiratory conditions, cough, shortness of breath, fatigue, brain fog and other conditions including metabolic disease, cardiac disease, kidney disease and diabetes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Altogether, we concluded that reinfection contributes to additional risk,” Al-Aly says. “So even if you’re vaccinated … it’s absolutely best to avoid reinfection.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And a \u003ca href=\"https://www.cell.com/cell/pdf/S0092-8674(22)00710-3.pdf\">study published last week\u003c/a> in the journal \u003cem>Cell \u003c/em>concludes that repeat infections are likely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Researchers studied blood samples from people who had been vaccinated and boosted, and they found they had a reduced ability to neutralizethe BA.5 virus, compared to prior sub-variants, BA.1 and BA.2.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition, blood from people who had breakthrough infections from BA.1 also showed reduced neutralization, “suggesting that repeat Omicron infections are likely in the population,” the authors conclude.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What can people do to protect themselves?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>There are steps you can take to reduce your exposure to the virus, like masking up in crowded indoor spaces. 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