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Year after year after year they have paid taxes, but they haven’t gotten in return the same benefits as other Californians.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, low-income, undocumented immigrants 26 and older are only eligible for Medi-Cal if they face a health care emergency, or to obtain prenatal care if they are pregnant. 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But that plan is now in doubt as the state enters an economic downturn, with tax revenues expected to fall by billions of dollars and potential budget cuts on the horizon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Job loss and abrupt halting of economic activity make it clear that we have entered a recession,” the Legislative Analyst’s Office communicated in a\u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/handouts/FO/2020/Preliminary-Assessment-of-the-Economic-Impact-of-COVID-19-041620.pdf\"> letter\u003c/a> to the state Senate Budget Committee earlier this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California has enrolled undocumented children in Medi-Cal since 2016, and this year became the first state to offer health coverage to undocumented young adults through age 25. More than 60,000 have enrolled so far, about two-thirds of those eligible, according to the California Department of Health Care Services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But an estimated 1.5 million undocumented Californians remain uninsured. They comprise about 40% of the total number of state residents who lack health insurance, according to \u003ca href=\"http://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/ca-coverage-gains-to-erode-without-further-state-action/\">a report\u003c/a> by the UC Berkeley Labor Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the state to fully recover from the pandemic, more undocumented residents must gain access to health care, starting with vulnerable seniors, said state Sen. Maria Elena Durazo. D-Los Angeles, who authored a \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB29\">2018 bill\u003c/a> that would expand Medi-Cal to undocumented residents 65 and older.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know there's uncertainty around the economy and the finances, but it should continue to be a priority,” Durazo said. “Undocumented workers continue to work. Year after year after year they have paid taxes, but they haven’t gotten in return the same benefits as other Californians.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, low-income, undocumented immigrants 26 and older are only eligible for Medi-Cal if they face a health care emergency, or to obtain prenatal care if they are pregnant. Undocumented immigrants are excluded from the Affordable Care Act, and cannot purchase coverage through Covered California, the state’s ACA health exchange.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If they are not insured by an employer or able to purchase a private plan, they must generally rely on county health programs, which can vary widely throughout the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11814920\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11814920\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42934_018_KQED_SanPablo_LifeLong_04272020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42934_018_KQED_SanPablo_LifeLong_04272020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42934_018_KQED_SanPablo_LifeLong_04272020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42934_018_KQED_SanPablo_LifeLong_04272020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42934_018_KQED_SanPablo_LifeLong_04272020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eleana Ellner, a nurse at LifeLong Brookside San Pablo Health Center, prepares to take temperatures and check in visitors on April 27, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Undocumented residents who live in Contra Costa County can enroll in a \u003ca href=\"https://clinicconsortium.org/contra-costa-cares/\">county program\u003c/a> that provides primary care free of charge at community clinics and health centers. 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"content": "\u003cp>Nurse Thalia DeWolf has been answering a lot of phone calls recently from the patients she calls “the planners” — people who have thought a lot about the kind of death they want, and the kind of death they don’t want.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Normally, these are people with a protracted terminal illness who are interested in taking life-ending medications to avoid prolonged suffering. Increasingly, she’s been hearing from her regular cancer patients, and otherwise healthy people, who are afraid of dying from COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They really want control over their end of life,” said DeWolf, a nurse with \u003ca href=\"https://bayareaendoflifeoptions.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bay Area End of Life Options\u003c/a>. “They don’t want to be whisked into a system that’s already overwhelmed and be ventilated and possibly be away from their family members.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Healthy callers are asking for advice about how to write into their advanced directives for medical care that they want to take life-ending medication if they became ill from the coronavirus to ensure a quick, peaceful death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Mike Ellis, a retired engineer who lives in Petaluma\"]‘Death in America has become inhuman and antiseptic. I didn’t want to be put on a ventilator, to be bedridden, and to end my life that way.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have to tell them, ‘No, you cannot,’” DeWolf said. “They don’t realize there are specific steps that you have to go through.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/stateofhealth/87522/governor-brown-signs-physician-assisted-suicide-bill-into-law-california-right-to-die\">legalized the practice\u003c/a> referred to as “aid in dying” or “death with dignity” in 2016. It is now one of 10 states that allow terminally ill patients to take lethal medication to hasten their death. California’s law includes several safeguards to address concerns about coercion, including a 15-day waiting period between a patient’s first request for the medication and when they can actually get it. Patients also have to be physically capable of ingesting the medication themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These rules make most people who contract COVID-19 ineligible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What I commonly say to them is that medical aid in dying isn’t likely going to be an option for you,” DeWolf said of her interested callers. “By the time you’re terminal from coronavirus, you’re probably unconscious, and you don’t have capacity to make medical decisions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Social workers at \u003ca href=\"https://www.deathwithdignity.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Death with Dignity\u003c/a>, a national advocacy organization based in Portland, Oregon, have also been answering a steady increase in calls about the coronavirus. About 80% come from people who want these medications “just in case” the pneumonia they have proves to be the coronavirus, or so they can “be ready,” Executive Director Peg Sandeen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This kind of grassroots interest could influence future legislation. The group was sponsoring death with dignity bills in New York, Maryland and Massachusetts before state legislatures closed down because of the pandemic. They have plans to add another three states to their efforts next year. 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They then used the total number of COVID-19 deaths statewide (roughly 1,200, as of last week) to calculate a death rate of just 0.03% — similar to the average death rate from seasonal flu.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Millions of cases, small amount of death,\" Erickson stressed repeatedly during the press conference, saying fears about the virus were overblown and questioning the need for widespread quarantine measures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But public health experts were quick to point out the major flaws in the doctors’ methodology – namely that only a tiny percentage of Californians have actually been tested, a group that is more likely to test positive and is not representative of the larger population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Dr. Carl Bergstrom, University of Washington\"]'This pandemic has been so severely politicized in this country that evidence, no matter how poor, gets amplified enormously if it benefits one side or another.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But public health experts were quick to debunk the doctors’ findings as misguided and riddled with statistical errors — and an example of the kind of misleading information they are forced to waste precious time disputing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The doctors should never have assumed that the patients they tested — who came for walk-in COVID-19 tests or who sought urgent care for symptoms they experienced in the middle of a pandemic — are representative of the general population, said Dr. Carl Bergstrom, a University of Washington biologist who specializes in infectious disease modeling. 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The press conference video garnered more than 5 million views before YouTube removed it on Monday for \u003ca href=\"https://www.turnto23.com/news/coronavirus/video-interview-with-dr-dan-erickson-and-dr-artin-massihi-taken-down-from-youtube\">violating community guidelines\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elon Musk, the Tesla founder who \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/04/27/coronavirus-tesla-might-re-start-some-fremont-factory-production-on-wednesday/\">wants to reopen\u003c/a> his Fremont manufacturing plant this week, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1254495050228260865\">praised\u003c/a> the doctors on Twitter, to his more than 33 million followers. 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As owners of local urgent care clinics, it appears these two individuals are releasing biased, non-peer reviewed data to advance their personal financial interests without regard for the public’s health.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/CT_Bergstrom/status/1254481543759683584\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two doctors did not respond to a CalMatters request for comment on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This pandemic has been so severely politicized in this country that evidence, no matter how poor, gets amplified enormously if it benefits one side or another,” said Bergstrom, who also was one of the first experts \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CT_Bergstrom/status/1254481543759683584\">to critique\u003c/a> the doctors’ study on Twitter. “We always hoped this crisis wouldn’t come, but that if it did we’d all be in this together. That’s been a huge surprise for all of us doing infectious disease epidemiology. It’s amazing to have to deal with this misinformation that’s being spread around for political purposes and the ways that interferes with adequate public health response.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. Richard Pan, D-Sacramento, a pediatrician who chairs the Senate Health Committee, said lawmakers who favor reopening the state had not yet cited the Bakersfield doctors’ conclusions as a justification to do so. But if they did, he said, they’d “be on pretty weak ground.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/i0khDiSoqBw\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The doctors “basically hyped a bunch of data and weren’t transparent about their methods. And they really played on the fact that they’re physicians. I think it’s quite disingenuous of them,” Pan said. “Then we have to push back on any media that promotes this information. 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While re-opening the economy might be good for their Urgent Care Centers (sic), it would kill medical personnel on the actual front lines.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other highly publicized studies of antibody test results by Stanford and USC researchers — also suggesting that the virus’ true spread in the community was much higher than expected and that resulting death rates were comparatively low — were\u003ca href=\"https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/04/experts-demolish-studies-suggesting-covid-19-is-no-worse-than-flu/\"> similarly criticized\u003c/a> for sampling bias and for the poor reliability of the tests used. 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"content": "\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11813091/hand-sanitizer-for-the-people-the-allyship-of-an-actor-and-phd-student\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hand Sanitizer for the People: The Allyship of an Actor and PhD Student\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>(April 19)\u003c/em>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11814414\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11814414\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/02_RS42829_006_KQED_SanFrancisco_HandSanitizer_04172020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/02_RS42829_006_KQED_SanFrancisco_HandSanitizer_04172020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/02_RS42829_006_KQED_SanFrancisco_HandSanitizer_04172020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/02_RS42829_006_KQED_SanFrancisco_HandSanitizer_04172020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/02_RS42829_006_KQED_SanFrancisco_HandSanitizer_04172020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jamal Trulove (left) poses with Frank Lucas on Fillmore Street after Lucas received free hand sanitizer and a mask from Trulove on April 17, 2020. 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The sanitizer is manufactured by the UCSF Science Policy Group and distributed to underserved communities. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“People are worried about food, people are worried about rent ... 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I can make hand sanitizer, I can make it in a lab,” Elina Kostyanovskaya said. After some initial funding from the San Francisco Democratic Socialists of America and the California Wellness Foundation, lab space from a fellow UCSF student and a materials order — they began.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11813353/sf-supervisor-wants-all-citys-homeless-tested-for-covid-19-after-shelter-outbreak\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SF Supervisor Wants All City's Homeless Tested for COVID-19 After Shelter Outbreak\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>(April 21)\u003c/em>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11814417\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11814417\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/05_RS42869_003_KQED_SanFrancisco_HomelessShelter_04212020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/05_RS42869_003_KQED_SanFrancisco_HomelessShelter_04212020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/05_RS42869_003_KQED_SanFrancisco_HomelessShelter_04212020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/05_RS42869_003_KQED_SanFrancisco_HomelessShelter_04212020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/05_RS42869_003_KQED_SanFrancisco_HomelessShelter_04212020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Currently unhoused, Sue Ranek sits outside of the Multi-Service Center Homeless Shelter in San Francisco on April 21, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Matt Haney, whose district includes SoMa and the Tenderloin, introduced a resolution on April 20 urging the city’s public health department to provide free, universal testing at city shelters and single room occupancy hotels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Thousands of workers every day continue to go into work and serve some of the most vulnerable people in San Francisco,” Haney said in a virtual press conference. “And thousands of San Franciscans continue to live in crowded shelters and congregate living sites like SROs. All of them lack something that should be easily available, which is testing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11813410/car-free-slow-streets-coming-to-san-francisco-this-week\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Car-Free 'Slow Streets' Coming to San Francisco This Week\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>(April 22)\u003c/em>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11814418\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11814418\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/06_RS42876_001_KQED_SanFrancisco_ClosedStreets_04212020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/06_RS42876_001_KQED_SanFrancisco_ClosedStreets_04212020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/06_RS42876_001_KQED_SanFrancisco_ClosedStreets_04212020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/06_RS42876_001_KQED_SanFrancisco_ClosedStreets_04212020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/06_RS42876_001_KQED_SanFrancisco_ClosedStreets_04212020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco on April 17, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/blog/slow-streets-program-help-social-distancing\">Slow Streets\u003c/a>\" program will be rolled out incrementally, with up to three, roughly eight-block corridors per week closed off to through traffic, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency announced on April 21. In all, the agency identified 12 different corridors throughout the city — from Bayview-Hunters Point to the Sunset District — to make largely traffic-free.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11813696/latinos-around-the-bay-area-are-disproportionately-affected-by-covid-19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Latinos Around the Bay Area Are Disproportionately Affected by COVID-19\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>(April 23)\u003c/em>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11814419\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11814419\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/07_RS42898_009_KQED_SanFrancisco_Mission_04232020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/07_RS42898_009_KQED_SanFrancisco_Mission_04232020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/07_RS42898_009_KQED_SanFrancisco_Mission_04232020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/07_RS42898_009_KQED_SanFrancisco_Mission_04232020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/07_RS42898_009_KQED_SanFrancisco_Mission_04232020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aliza Zenilman (left) and Alfonso Buenas, volunteers with United in Health, speak with Mission residents about getting tested for COVID-19 during a community testing study taking place April 25 - 28 supported by UCSF Labs. Through a partnership between UCSF infectious disease researchers, the Latino Task Force for COVID-19 and the San Francisco Department of Public Health, the testing will take place for as many residents as possible within the testing area. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Local data from public health departments reveal that Latinos are disproportionately affected by the coronavirus in the Bay Area, mirroring initial nationwide findings that the virus is hitting different racial groups unequally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For instance, in San Francisco, Latinos account for 15% of the population, according to \u003ca href=\"https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?q=San%20Francisco%20County%20%20DP05&g=0500000US06085,06075&tid=ACSDP5Y2018.DP05\">data from the U.S. Census Bureau\u003c/a>, but comprise 25% of confirmed COVID-19 cases, according to \u003ca href=\"https://data.sfgov.org/stories/s/fjki-2fab\">data accessed from the health department\u003c/a> on April 22.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11814420\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11814420\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/08_RS42895_004_KQED_SanFrancisco_Mission_04232020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/08_RS42895_004_KQED_SanFrancisco_Mission_04232020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/08_RS42895_004_KQED_SanFrancisco_Mission_04232020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/08_RS42895_004_KQED_SanFrancisco_Mission_04232020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/08_RS42895_004_KQED_SanFrancisco_Mission_04232020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pedestrians walk in San Francisco's Mission District on April 23, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11806938/how-to-file-for-unemployment-in-california-during-the-coronavirus-pandemic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">How to File for Unemployment in California During the Coronavirus Pandemic\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>(Translated April 22, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11813594/como-solicitar-el-seguro-del-desempleo-en-california-durante-la-pandemia-del-coronavirus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Leer en español\u003c/a>)\u003c/em>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11814421\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11814421\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42104_006_KQED_EDD_UnemploymentApplication_03162020_8404-qut-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42104_006_KQED_EDD_UnemploymentApplication_03162020_8404-qut-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42104_006_KQED_EDD_UnemploymentApplication_03162020_8404-qut-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42104_006_KQED_EDD_UnemploymentApplication_03162020_8404-qut-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42104_006_KQED_EDD_UnemploymentApplication_03162020_8404-qut-1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A woman looks at the Employment Development Department (EDD) website, where California residents can file for unemployment. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11813091/hand-sanitizer-for-the-people-the-allyship-of-an-actor-and-phd-student\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hand Sanitizer for the People: The Allyship of an Actor and PhD Student\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>(April 19)\u003c/em>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11814414\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11814414\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/02_RS42829_006_KQED_SanFrancisco_HandSanitizer_04172020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/02_RS42829_006_KQED_SanFrancisco_HandSanitizer_04172020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/02_RS42829_006_KQED_SanFrancisco_HandSanitizer_04172020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/02_RS42829_006_KQED_SanFrancisco_HandSanitizer_04172020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/02_RS42829_006_KQED_SanFrancisco_HandSanitizer_04172020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jamal Trulove (left) poses with Frank Lucas on Fillmore Street after Lucas received free hand sanitizer and a mask from Trulove on April 17, 2020. The sanitizer is manufactured by The UCSF Science Policy Group. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11814415\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11814415\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/04_RS42837_019_KQED_SanFrancisco_HandSanitizer_04172020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/04_RS42837_019_KQED_SanFrancisco_HandSanitizer_04172020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/04_RS42837_019_KQED_SanFrancisco_HandSanitizer_04172020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/04_RS42837_019_KQED_SanFrancisco_HandSanitizer_04172020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/04_RS42837_019_KQED_SanFrancisco_HandSanitizer_04172020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jamal Trulove calls out to people passing by on Fillmore Street to let them know that they are giving away free hand sanitizer and a face mask. The sanitizer is manufactured by the UCSF Science Policy Group and distributed to underserved communities. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“People are worried about food, people are worried about rent ... And a lot of these families, they're living five to six people in a two bedroom, it's tough,” Jamal Trulove said. “If there's not attention being shown in our communities,” in regards to prevention and testing, “we won’t find out the cases, we’ll only find out about the deaths.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11814416\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11814416\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/03_RS42833_013_KQED_SanFrancisco_HandSanitizer_04172020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/03_RS42833_013_KQED_SanFrancisco_HandSanitizer_04172020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/03_RS42833_013_KQED_SanFrancisco_HandSanitizer_04172020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/03_RS42833_013_KQED_SanFrancisco_HandSanitizer_04172020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/03_RS42833_013_KQED_SanFrancisco_HandSanitizer_04172020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">UCSF Ph.D. student Elina Kostyanovskaya speaks with a women about hand sanitizer during an outreach event on Fillmore Street. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This is one thing I know how to do. I can make hand sanitizer, I can make it in a lab,” Elina Kostyanovskaya said. After some initial funding from the San Francisco Democratic Socialists of America and the California Wellness Foundation, lab space from a fellow UCSF student and a materials order — they began.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11813353/sf-supervisor-wants-all-citys-homeless-tested-for-covid-19-after-shelter-outbreak\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SF Supervisor Wants All City's Homeless Tested for COVID-19 After Shelter Outbreak\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>(April 21)\u003c/em>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11814417\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11814417\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/05_RS42869_003_KQED_SanFrancisco_HomelessShelter_04212020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/05_RS42869_003_KQED_SanFrancisco_HomelessShelter_04212020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/05_RS42869_003_KQED_SanFrancisco_HomelessShelter_04212020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/05_RS42869_003_KQED_SanFrancisco_HomelessShelter_04212020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/05_RS42869_003_KQED_SanFrancisco_HomelessShelter_04212020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Currently unhoused, Sue Ranek sits outside of the Multi-Service Center Homeless Shelter in San Francisco on April 21, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Matt Haney, whose district includes SoMa and the Tenderloin, introduced a resolution on April 20 urging the city’s public health department to provide free, universal testing at city shelters and single room occupancy hotels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Thousands of workers every day continue to go into work and serve some of the most vulnerable people in San Francisco,” Haney said in a virtual press conference. “And thousands of San Franciscans continue to live in crowded shelters and congregate living sites like SROs. All of them lack something that should be easily available, which is testing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11813410/car-free-slow-streets-coming-to-san-francisco-this-week\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Car-Free 'Slow Streets' Coming to San Francisco This Week\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>(April 22)\u003c/em>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11814418\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11814418\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/06_RS42876_001_KQED_SanFrancisco_ClosedStreets_04212020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/06_RS42876_001_KQED_SanFrancisco_ClosedStreets_04212020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/06_RS42876_001_KQED_SanFrancisco_ClosedStreets_04212020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/06_RS42876_001_KQED_SanFrancisco_ClosedStreets_04212020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/06_RS42876_001_KQED_SanFrancisco_ClosedStreets_04212020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco on April 17, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/blog/slow-streets-program-help-social-distancing\">Slow Streets\u003c/a>\" program will be rolled out incrementally, with up to three, roughly eight-block corridors per week closed off to through traffic, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency announced on April 21. In all, the agency identified 12 different corridors throughout the city — from Bayview-Hunters Point to the Sunset District — to make largely traffic-free.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11813696/latinos-around-the-bay-area-are-disproportionately-affected-by-covid-19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Latinos Around the Bay Area Are Disproportionately Affected by COVID-19\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>(April 23)\u003c/em>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11814419\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11814419\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/07_RS42898_009_KQED_SanFrancisco_Mission_04232020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/07_RS42898_009_KQED_SanFrancisco_Mission_04232020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/07_RS42898_009_KQED_SanFrancisco_Mission_04232020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/07_RS42898_009_KQED_SanFrancisco_Mission_04232020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/07_RS42898_009_KQED_SanFrancisco_Mission_04232020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aliza Zenilman (left) and Alfonso Buenas, volunteers with United in Health, speak with Mission residents about getting tested for COVID-19 during a community testing study taking place April 25 - 28 supported by UCSF Labs. Through a partnership between UCSF infectious disease researchers, the Latino Task Force for COVID-19 and the San Francisco Department of Public Health, the testing will take place for as many residents as possible within the testing area. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Local data from public health departments reveal that Latinos are disproportionately affected by the coronavirus in the Bay Area, mirroring initial nationwide findings that the virus is hitting different racial groups unequally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>In her 40 years of smoking, Katie Kennedy has tried to quit four times, but always returned to cigarettes. This time, her fifth, she is turning to a new mental image when a craving comes on: rows of COVID-19 patients hooked up to ventilators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kennedy’s dad also smoked. He was on a ventilator before he died, and Kennedy was struck by how invasive the machine was, and how much discomfort and distress it inflicted on him. She vowed never to die like that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just decided it's time to protect my lungs as much as I can,” said Kennedy, 59, who started a cessation class in Sacramento in March. “COVID-19 is quite a motivator.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early studies suggest that smokers who develop COVID-19 are \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32118640\">14 times\u003c/a> more likely to need intensive treatment compared to nonsmokers, and twice as likely to die. Doctors in California are seizing this moment to highlight the connection between COVID-19 and smoking as another reason people should quit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Smokers’ Helpline (1-800-NO-BUTTS), which provides free advice to help people stop smoking, is redirecting research money to give callers two weeks of nicotine patches at no cost, sent directly to their homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Katie Kennedy\"]'I just decided it's time to protect my lungs as much as I can. COVID-19 is quite a motivator'[/pullquote]Calls to the helpline were actually down 27.5% in March, as compared to the same month last year — a drop counselors attribute mainly to people feeling too stressed out to consider quitting. Nonetheless, they say some callers are referencing the coronavirus and the utter upheaval of the stay-at-home order as their inspiration to quit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I spoke with a gentleman last week who is seriously taking this time to reorganize his life,” said Nallely Espina, a counselor with the helpline. “He’s setting a new routine for himself at home and staying away from his smoker friends, which was one of his main triggers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another smoker, in his mid-20s, was prompted to call after he read a news article about how young people who smoke could have more severe health complications if they contract the virus, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About half of Espina's callers are using the time at home to revamp their habits, starting yoga, meditation and eating a healthier diet, she said. But the other half are supremely frazzled, being trapped inside with their families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Espina helped one dad come up with some new coping strategies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Going outside and having that cigarette, it’s his time out from the kids,” she said. “So for him, we decided let's still go outside, but instead of having a cigarette, maybe you spend those minutes doing a few pushups and burpees. And he loved that idea, he went for it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California public health agencies are incorporating information about the link between smoking and the coronavirus into their social media and public outreach \u003ca href=\"https://www.nobutts.org/covid\">messages\u003c/a>, building on a 30-year legacy of aggressive anti-smoking campaigns and policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California was the first state to ban smoking on airplanes and in restaurants and bars, and over the years has added numerous other public spaces to that list, making smoking logistically difficult and culturally unpopular. As a result, it has the second-lowest smoking rate in the country — \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/statesystem/cigaretteuseadult.html\">11.3% of the population\u003c/a> — after Utah, where Mormon values are attributed with keeping smoking to 8.9%.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Pondering Smoking’s Role in Spread and Severity\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>While health advocates are nudging smokers to quit, some researchers are also pondering whether California’s low-smoking rate will have any impact on how the state fares through the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a really great question,” said Ruth Malone, a professor emerita of nursing at UCSF, who has studied tobacco control for 20 years. “Smokers do much worse if they contract the virus, which is not too surprising given that it attacks lung tissue. There is also some new research suggesting that it might even promote transmission because of the particular pathways that it hooks onto.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proving a correlation would require sophisticated modeling to isolate smoking as a risk factor from the many other factors that seem to contribute to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6915e4.htm?s_cid=mm6915e4_x\">geographic differences\u003c/a> in the spread and severity of the virus. Some of those factors include population density, when the virus was introduced into a community and the timing of mitigation measures, like shelter-in-place orders, which California was the first state to institute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"smoking\"]Researchers have long known that smoking makes it harder to fight off respiratory infections because it increases mucus production and paralyzes cilia, the hair-like fibers in the respiratory tract and lungs that normally flush invaders out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If any organism gets down there in the lower airways, whether it’s the coronavirus or another virus, you've got the mucus that it can get stuck in, and it can't get whisked away because the cilia are not working,” said John Swartzberg, professor emeritus of infectious diseases at UC Berkeley. “So those organisms have a perfect home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32244852\">Newer science\u003c/a> indicates smoking may also increase a person’s chance of contracting the coronavirus, because tobacco increases certain enzyme receptors in a cell — angiotensin-converting enzyme-2 — where scientists believe the virus attaches and infects it, said Marcos Garcia-Ojeda, an immunologist at UC-Merced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Imagine a human cell as a house that has doors and windows where the virus can enter, he added. “If you smoke, now you have increased the amount of windows and doors for the virus to come in,” he said. [ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tobacco-control advocates are calling on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to collect more robust data on the connection between smoking and the coronavirus. The development of a reliable and widely available coronavirus antibody test could also help characterize the connection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Once we start doing very robust antibodies studies, we'll be able to take a population of people infected and see how many of them are smokers versus nonsmokers. Then you could see what the morbidity in each group is,” said Swartzberg. “That study would be very simple to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Figuring out if low smoking rates contribute to a reduction of overall infections would be harder, requiring more complex models that can control for other potential factors. For example, the smoking rate in New York City — the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic in the U.S. — is roughly the same as in California. That could either invalidate the idea that a low-smoking rate would be protective, experts say, or it indicates that smoking is just one of many variables that influence the impact the outbreak has at the population level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Ruth Malone, UCSF professor emerita of nursing\"]'Smokers do much worse if they contract the virus, which is not too surprising given that it attacks lung tissue.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We went to physical distancing policies and closing nonessential businesses a few days earlier than New York. I think those were a critical few days,” said John Balmes, a pulmonologist and professor of medicine at UCSF. “Also, we’re less densely populated than many of the eastern and Midwestern cities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other hand, California has a large homeless population, where close quarters and poor sanitation give the virus greater chance of spreading. 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Because delaying the budget adjustments means cutting deeper,” he told city council members. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">During the meeting, Councilmember Dan Kalb urged his colleagues to begin assessing what city services are “truly vital” as they begin to discuss layoffs. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Councilmember Sheng Thao added, “It’s crucial that we include our city employees and the local unions in the conversation as we move forward.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Reiskin and the city’s director of finance, Adam Benson, said they will continue to work with Mayor Libby Schaaf on balancing the proposed budget for the next fiscal year, which is expected to be released in mid-May\u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>San Francisco\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, new projections predict the city’s deficit will double, growing to between $1.1 and $1.7 billion over the next two fiscal years, according to San Francisco Controller Ben Rosenfield.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those deficit calculations only reflect anticipated lost revenue from hotel and property transfer taxes due to the shelter-in-place order, said Rosenfield. 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It is largely funded by outside investors but given the current economic situation, Corbett said the city might have to start absorbing costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Palo Alto\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Similarly in Palo Alto, city officials are calculating a $15 to $20 million loss to the city’s general fund in the current fiscal year. City Hall has already trimmed down its staff of about 1,100 employees to 600 essential workers, with roughly 100 of them working reduced hours. 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