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"content": "\u003cp>There’s nothing Alyse Whitney likes to do more than hit a karaoke bar with her friends, have a few drinks and sing her heart out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Feeling the presence of being kind of a rock star for the night is really fun and makes me realize that, hey, I’m good at something. This is my thing,” the Los Angeles resident told KQED in a recent video interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last time Whitney went out karaokeing was right before the pandemic shut down all the bars. She and her friend were the only customers in the place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We sang almost all of Celine’s [Dion] catalog. We changed the words to Enrique Iglesias’ ‘Escape’ to say, ‘You can run, you can hide, but you can’t escape COVID!’ ” recalled Whitney. “And we didn’t realize it was going to be such a big deal and how impactful that night would have been as a last hurrah.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11873303\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11873303 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48981_IMG_7026-qut-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48981_IMG_7026-qut-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48981_IMG_7026-qut-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48981_IMG_7026-qut-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48981_IMG_7026-qut-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48981_IMG_7026-qut-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48981_IMG_7026-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alyse Whitney enjoying a night out at a karaoke bar. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Alyse Whitney)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Whitney and her friend staggered out of there at four in the morning. They closed the place down — literally, as it turned out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This was March 6, 2020,” Whitney said. “And my karaoke drought started March 7.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The drought Whitney is talking about didn’t just affect people who like sing in karaoke bars. COVID-19 impacted vocalists across the state — both amateur and professional — in community centers, schools, churches, recording studios, theaters, clubs and concert halls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Last year was going to be a pretty big year in terms of my singing engagements,” said vocalist, singing teacher and actress \u003ca href=\"https://cjsings.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Candace Johnson\u003c/a>. “So I was really looking forward to the [concert] calendar. And then — BOOM — it was all gone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11873304\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11873304 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48985_candace-qut-800x441.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"441\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48985_candace-qut-800x441.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48985_candace-qut-1020x563.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48985_candace-qut-160x88.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48985_candace-qut-1536x847.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48985_candace-qut.jpg 1914w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Singer and teacher Candace Johnson leading a class on Zoom during the pandemic. \u003ccite>(Zoom screenshot)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The blow to singers across the state wasn’t just financial as their gigs dried up. They also mourned the loss of connection and community. And on top of that, they were forced to confront a devastating truth: This beloved, healthy, everyday activity had become a killer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know that COVID-19 is caused by a transmission of the virus primarily through aerosol particles, and about three times as many aerosols are emitted during singing compared to talking,” said \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">UC Davis \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">civil and environmental engineering professor \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003ca href=\"https://faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu/cappa/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chris Cappa\u003c/a>, who’s been studying how COVID-19 is spread. “\u003c/span>This means that singing is inherently a riskier activity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most singing in public stopped. But it didn’t go away entirely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout this pandemic, KQED has been chronicling the journeys of individuals and singing groups across California. Read on to find out how singing transformed over the past year, and went from almost disappearing entirely, to helping many across the state maintain solidarity, social purpose and a sense of humor through these dark, dark times.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>March 2020\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>On the morning of March 11, 2020, Americans awoke to the latest in a deluge of coffee-spilling headlines: Despite practicing social distancing, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/13/us/coronavirus-washington-choir-outbreak-trnd/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">53 members of a community choir in Washington state\u003c/a> tested positive for COVID-19 and started showing symptoms of the coronavirus after attending a rehearsal the previous evening. Two members died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time this superspreader event occurred, COVID-19 tests were hard to come by, and health officials didn’t truly know how the virus was spread. In the early days, public messaging focused on things like telling people to avoid shaking hands with others, disinfecting surfaces and keeping their fingers off their faces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regardless, the wildfire-like spread of the coronavirus over a couple of hours of choral singing inside a Washington church was enough to send shockwaves throughout the singing community in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11873305\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11873305\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48980_001-Sunrise-Jamie-Pham-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48980_001-Sunrise-Jamie-Pham-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48980_001-Sunrise-Jamie-Pham-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48980_001-Sunrise-Jamie-Pham-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48980_001-Sunrise-Jamie-Pham-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48980_001-Sunrise-Jamie-Pham-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Los Angeles Master Chorale performed its last live concert on Jan. 26, 2020. \u003ccite>(Jamie Pham)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“That was a real warning shot for us,” said \u003ca href=\"https://lamasterchorale.org/jean-davidson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jean Davidson\u003c/a>, president and CEO of the \u003ca href=\"https://lamasterchorale.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Los Angeles Master Chorale\u003c/a>, one of the most high-profile classical vocal ensembles in the state. “And we erred on the side of caution and canceled all of our rehearsals and performances.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The chorale’s last live, in-person concert took place on Jan. 26, 2020. Its last rehearsal was March 4, 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>May 2020\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In those first desolate and bewildering months of lockdown, singing retreated almost entirely indoors and became mostly a solitary act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But despite the extraordinary circumstances and significant health risks, singers weren’t completely willing to give up on the idea of rehearsing together or even singing in public. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"J. T. Williams\"]‘The audience has helped me get through very dark and difficult days.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last May, in San Francisco, bass-baritone J. T. Williams started appearing on their balcony most late afternoons to sing opera arias. They soon started streaming the concerts on \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/OperaFromTheBalcony/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>J. T. said they’d been struggling with suicidal thoughts near the start of the pandemic. They found healing in the smiles, waves and applause of the people who listened from neighboring homes or stopped by while out walking their dogs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11873306\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 552px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11873306 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48983_J-T-Williams-qut-e1621018557411.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"552\" height=\"599\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48983_J-T-Williams-qut-e1621018557411.jpg 552w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48983_J-T-Williams-qut-e1621018557411-160x174.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 552px) 100vw, 552px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">J. T. Williams started singing opera arias on their balcony soon after the pandemic hit. \u003ccite>(Zoom screenshot)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The audience has helped me get through very dark and difficult days,” Williams said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, singers were starting to figure out how to make music together online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many turned to platforms like \u003ca href=\"https://zoom.us/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Zoom\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://hangouts.google.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google Hangouts\u003c/a>. But they were not built for making music. The delays caused by varying data transfer speeds made it almost impossible for people in different locations to sing together in sync.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Groups like the \u003ca href=\"https://www.piedmontchoirs.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Piedmont East Bay Children’s Choir\u003c/a> forged ahead with online rehearsals, even though it was slow going.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a practice held via Zoom KQED sat in on in May 2020, the group’s artistic director, \u003ca href=\"https://www.piedmontchoirs.org/staff/eric-tuan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Eric Tuan\u003c/a>, tried to get the young singers to build a chord from the bottom up. “Actually mute yourselves,” he was forced to admit. “It’s not going to work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11810148\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11810148\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42474_eric-leading-online-rehearsal-qut-800x537.jpg\" alt=\"Piedmont East Bay Children's Choir artistic director Eric Tuan leads a virtual rehearsal via Zoom on March 30, 2020.\" width=\"800\" height=\"537\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42474_eric-leading-online-rehearsal-qut-800x537.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42474_eric-leading-online-rehearsal-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42474_eric-leading-online-rehearsal-qut-1020x684.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42474_eric-leading-online-rehearsal-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Piedmont East Bay Children’s Choir Artistic Director Eric Tuan leads a virtual rehearsal via Zoom. \u003ccite>(Zoom screenshot)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But for others, virtual collaboration wasn’t even an option.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Singing teacher \u003ca href=\"http://www.bethwilmurt.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Beth Wilmurt\u003c/a> spent the early months of the COVID-19 stay-at-home orders making short instructional videos for the young members of the \u003ca href=\"https://sfcmc.org/youth/group-classes-and-ensembles/#childrens-chorus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Francisco Community Music Center Children’s Chorus\u003c/a> she leads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hi everybody. It’s just me and my ukulele,” Wilmurt said at the top of one of her very first videos. “I thought you could sing with me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"CMC Children's Chorus: Warm-up and "Ride This Train" with Beth Wilmurt\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/7B7WCRSwt8I?start=223&feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen>\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the 8-12 year-olds in Wilmurt’s group come from low-income households. They don’t all have access to internet connections fast enough for online meetups. In the absence of in-person get-togethers for singing, Wilmurt’s videos provided the students with a way to learn songs in their own time from home. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Beth Wilmurt\"]‘It’s palpable, the energy that choirs bring singing together, there’s just nothing like it. And, we can’t do it with the technology yet.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Days can really blend one into the other here,” said Yaron Milgrom, the father of three young singers in Wilmurt’s chorus. “Music and singing songs, it’s just part of keeping a sense of normalcy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wilmurt has been teaching this children’s choir for over 20 years. She said what keeps her sticking with it is the sense of connection the kids feel when they get to meet up in person to sing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s palpable, the energy that choirs bring singing together, there’s just nothing like it,” Wilmurt said. “And, we can’t do it with the technology yet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>June 2020\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>As the pitiless Spring dragged on, it became increasingly clear that breaking into song around others was one of the most unsafe things a person could do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though California was beginning to emerge from the shelter-in-place orders, infections were on the rise. The state’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Department of Public Health\u003c/a> started \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/CDPH%20Document%20Library/COVID-19/Guidance-for-the-Prevention-of-COVID-19-Transmission-for-Gatherings--en.pdf#search=singing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">issuing warnings\u003c/a> against singing in public, and it continued to do this throughout the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when Californians took to the streets in protest after George Floyd was murdered by a policeman in Minneapolis, they sang anyway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the San Francisco Bay Area, people marched to the late Oakland-born rapper Mac Dre’s “Feelin’ Myself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In L.A., they sang “Alright” by Kendrick Lamar. The song has been embraced at Black Lives Matter rallies around the country in recent years because it speaks to hope in difficult times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"LA riots 2020 GOERGE Floyd Los Angeles protest Kendrick Lamar we’re gonna be all right turn up\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/M9sDwLV_eQc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen>\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also in June, in the wake of Floyd’s death, Vallejo-born R&B artist \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/hermusicofficial/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">H.E.R.\u003c/a> released the song “I Can’t Breathe.” The singer’s gut-wrenching performance won the \u003ca href=\"https://www.grammy.com/grammys/news/her-wins-song-of-the-year-2021-winner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Song of the Year Award at this year’s Grammys\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around the same time as many Californians took to the streets, many others stayed indoors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.novajimenez.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nova Jimenez\u003c/a> was among them. The singer and vocal music teacher said she felt so sad at the start of the pandemic that she just locked herself in her room and sang. “It felt like the end of the world,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One day, Jimenez had an idea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Here I am singing by myself, and I thought, well, maybe, maybe someone wants to hear me, I don’t know,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a professional singer, Jimenez realized in that moment maybe she could use her talent to help others overcome their feelings of exhaustion, loneliness and despair. So she placed an online ad offering her services for free to front-line workers, or anyone homebound or isolated due to the pandemic, and in need of a little uplift.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vocalist has performed nearly 100 “\u003ca href=\"https://www.novajimenez.com/news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sidewalk Serenades\u003c/a>” through the pandemic for front-line workers and people who are isolated in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One Sunday, KQED caught up with Jimenez as she was serenading elders outside a retirement home called \u003ca href=\"https://channinghouse.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Channing House\u003c/a> in Palo Alto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11873310\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11873310\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS47195_nova-1-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS47195_nova-1-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS47195_nova-1-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS47195_nova-1-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS47195_nova-1-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS47195_nova-1-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nova Jimenez performs a sidewalk serenade outside Channing House in Palo Alto. \u003ccite>(Chloe Veltman/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Hello, Channing House!” she said after setting up her microphone, music stand and portable amp on the sidewalk across from the drab concrete building. “Oh, dear friends, I’m so happy to see you!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dozens of residents appeared on their balconies and in the parking lot to listen. “It’s so exciting to have Nova come and sing for us,” said resident Nancy Fiene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wearing a dress emblazoned with red peonies and white daisies, Jimenez exuded the spirit of warmth and romance as she sang old-time favorites like “Solamente Una Vez” and “La Vie en Rose.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Life has been far from rosy for the residents of Channing House this past year. They’ve been rocked by two COVID-19 outbreaks and five people have died. It’s been a time of loss and confinement. Fiene said Jimenez’s performances at Channing House have provided a break from all of that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She’s got a lot of pizzazz,” said Fiene. “It’s a little bit of a breath of fresh air from the outside world,” said Fiene’s husband, Tom. “We’ve been pretty well isolated here for months.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11873311\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11873311\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS47193_george-nancy-tom-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS47193_george-nancy-tom-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS47193_george-nancy-tom-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS47193_george-nancy-tom-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS47193_george-nancy-tom-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS47193_george-nancy-tom-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Channing House residents Nancy Fiene, Tom Fiene and George Young. \u003ccite>(Chloe Veltman/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To add to the sense of community, Jimenez’s concerts often end with singalongs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want you to feel like you’re going to just let it out and sing to the heavens!” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The singer launched into her rendition of “Brand New Day” from the musical “The Wiz.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly everyone joined in for the choruses. They waved their arms and clapped. Some even danced around in the parking lot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Afterward, the Channing House parking lot erupted in claps, cheers and cries of “Encore! Encore!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Thank you Channing House. Te amo! Te amo! I love you!” said Jimenez. Then the performer packed up her gear and the residents went back inside, maybe feeling just a bit more hopeful about the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>July 2020\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In July, state officials put \u003ca href=\"https://files.covid19.ca.gov/pdf/guidance-places-of-worship.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">limitations on places of worship\u003c/a> after they were the site of several superspreader events. Indoor services had to be restricted to a maximum of 25% capacity or 100 people, whichever is lower, and there was a total ban on singing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new rules incensed \u003ca href=\"https://www.actsfullgospel.org/bishop\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Robert L. Jackson\u003c/a>, senior pastor of \u003ca href=\"https://www.actsfullgospel.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Acts Full Gospel Church\u003c/a> in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11873727\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11873727\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48990_bishop-bob-qut-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48990_bishop-bob-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48990_bishop-bob-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48990_bishop-bob-qut.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Acts Full Gospel Church senior pastor Robert L. Jackson. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Acts Full Gospel Church)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s like trying to play basketball without a basketball. It’s like playing football without a football,” Jackson said. “You just can’t have a service, a worship service to God, without singing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like many other faith leaders, Jackson moved his services online and outdoors. He said singing was a regular part of his Sunday “drive-in” services out in the church parking lot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People were singing in their cars,” said Jackson. “Most of them had the windows down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>August 2020\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Live vocal performances continued to be a rarity for the rest of last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Californians started to come up with creative ways, often involving technology, to keep singing going as the pandemic restrictions dragged on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j63FFPh-loo\">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j63FFPh-loo\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Starting last August, \u003ca href=\"https://www.fox.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fox\u003c/a> managed to tape two seasons of “\u003ca href=\"https://www.fox.com/the-masked-singer/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Masked Singer\u003c/a>” in Los Angeles using cleverly edited virtual audiences. The hit reality TV show turned out to be the ultimate entertainment for these pandemic times with its mask-wearing celebrity contestants, like an appearance by Long Beach native and Olympic snowboarder \u003ca href=\"https://www.teamusa.org/us-ski-and-snowboard/athletes/Chloe-Kim\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chloe Kim\u003c/a>, disguised as a cute, green jellyfish.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>September 2020\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In September, the Silicon Valley-based \u003ca href=\"https://ragazzi.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ragazzi Boys Chorus\u003c/a> went from struggling to sing together during remote rehearsals to being able to sing perfectly in sync online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"JackTrip Virtual Studio demo\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/N-tQy_hdJHk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen>\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The transformation happened because a of choir member’s parent. Watching his kid struggle with online rehearsals on Zoom inspired entrepreneur Mike Dickey to develop a new technology called \u003ca href=\"https://www.jacktrip.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">JackTrip\u003c/a>. The free, open-source software, created in partnership with \u003ca href=\"https://ccrma.stanford.edu/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stanford University\u003c/a>, allows singers to sync their voices online from their homes in real time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Solutions to the latency problem for musicians have existed for years, but they’re complicated and expensive to set up. “The idea with JackTrip is to help make online music performance and education as easy and accessible as possible,” Dickey said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>December 2020\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>As the statewide COVID-19 daily case count was hitting an all-time high at the end of the year, a San Francisco theater company decided it would do whatever it took to put on a show. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"J. P. Gonzalez, cast member\"]‘I can reach people with my voice. I love singing. I love music. It’s so healing and it’s so powerful. That’s like the ultimate goal for me is to make people feel good.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In December, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfplayhouse.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Francisco Playhouse\u003c/a> became the first professional performing arts company on the west coast (one of only a couple in the entire country) to produce a musical with a full cast in an indoor venue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company’s production of “\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfplayhouse.org/sfph/2020-2021-season/songs-for-a-new-world/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Songs for a New World\u003c/a>” was quite an undertaking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://vimeo.com/491741601\">https://vimeo.com/491741601\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had to test three times before we even showed up,” said cast member \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfplayhouse.org/sfph/actor/john-paul-gonzalez/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">J. P. Gonzalez\u003c/a>, a native of Lompoc, north of Santa Barbara.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They all podded up — actors and stage management in one pod, director and designers in another. “So basically we never mixed,” said Gonzalez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They prerecorded all of the songs. “We couldn’t sing live on stage,” Gonzalez said. “So we had two days to record all the music.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once on stage, they lip-synched their way through the performance. And the stage was partitioned to further protect cast members from the potential for flying aerosols even while lip-synching.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11873316\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11873316\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48984_phpto-by-Jessica-Palopoli-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48984_phpto-by-Jessica-Palopoli-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48984_phpto-by-Jessica-Palopoli-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48984_phpto-by-Jessica-Palopoli-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48984_phpto-by-Jessica-Palopoli-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48984_phpto-by-Jessica-Palopoli-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The cast of ‘Songs for a New World’ at SF Playhouse. \u003ccite>(Jessica Palopoli)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We had plexiglass dividers on stage,” said Gonzalez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, they didn’t share dressing rooms and wore masks when not singing or filming. “We were masked completely the entire time,” Gonzalez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>COVID spikes in December meant that there was no live audience in the theater. The entire production was filmed and distributed online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez said he was very glad to be part of the production, despite the unorthodox process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can reach people with my voice. I love singing. I love music. It’s so healing and it’s so powerful,” said Gonzalez. “That’s like the ultimate goal for me is to make people feel good.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>January 2021\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Before the pandemic, the \u003ca href=\"https://hospiceslo.org/services/threshold-singers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Threshold Singers\u003c/a> in San Luis Obispo on the central coast (one of many “\u003ca href=\"https://thresholdchoir.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">threshold choirs\u003c/a>” around the country) sang at the bedsides of terminally ill patients in hospices and homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In January of this year, even as COVID-19 cases continued to spike in California, and bedside singing had by then been out of the question for many months, the choir members figured out how to meet to sing together in person — from the safety of their own cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11873317\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11873317\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48987_unnamed-qut-800x558.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"558\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48987_unnamed-qut-800x558.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48987_unnamed-qut-1020x712.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48987_unnamed-qut-160x112.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48987_unnamed-qut.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The members of the Threshold Singers of San Luis Obispo meet in the parking lot of the local hospice. \u003ccite>(Ruth Baillie)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This time when we sing it, I really want us to think about who we’re singing for,” said Ruth Baillie, the group’s director, speaking into the microphone from her vehicle parked outside the local hospice during a rehearsal. Half a dozen other cars were parked in a semi-circle opposite hers. “So let’s think about being at the bedside. Can you picture somebody you want us to sing this to?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then Baillie sounded the starting note of “Rest Easy,” a slow and soothing song by \u003ca href=\"https://gesundheitpublishing.com/about/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Marilyn Power Scott\u003c/a>, and the singers started to sing in harmony, a cappella, from their cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.drivewaychoir.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Driveway choirs\u003c/a> like this one have been springing up around the country during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Singers connect from their vehicles with the help of a cheap FM transmitter that hooks into a mixer. The participants use microphones and can hear each other when tuned to the same frequency on their car radios. Baillie said the person receiving the song in the hospice can join in, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can hand them a radio and they can listen to the radio,” Baillie said. “And if we give them a microphone, we can talk to them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>February 2021\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In February, the state health department restrictions on places of worship involving singing came to a head when \u003ca href=\"https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf/20a136_bq7c.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a case\u003c/a> brought by a \u003ca href=\"https://southbaypentecostal.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Diego church\u003c/a> reached the Supreme Court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Churches in California had been hitting back against the rules imposed in July 2020 with a string of lawsuits, saying they infringed on their constitutional rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11873790\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11873790\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49032_acts-full-gospel-church-choir-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49032_acts-full-gospel-church-choir-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49032_acts-full-gospel-church-choir-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49032_acts-full-gospel-church-choir-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49032_acts-full-gospel-church-choir-qut-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49032_acts-full-gospel-church-choir-qut.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Acts Full Gospel Church praise choir singing in pre-pandemic times. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Acts Full Gospel Church)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Supreme Court ruled in a 6-to-3 decision that California could no longer restrict indoor church services. But the justices upheld the state’s ban on singing and chanting, which angered faith leaders around the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even though we have all the safety precautions, they still say, ‘OK, you can assemble, according to the Supreme Court. But no singing and no chanting.’ And I’m saying, ‘Hey, we have to be able to sing,’ said Bishop Jackson of Ask Full Gospel Church in Oakland. “So now we’re trying to figure it out — how we can sing and still be in accordance with what the law is asking us to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>April 2021\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>On April 2, Acts Full Gospel went ahead with its Good Friday service. \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?v=197116925509640&ref=watch_permalink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Viewers watching on Facebook\u003c/a> could see it was held indoors, in a masked, socially distanced setting complete with plexiglass barriers — and plenty of singing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California has since reversed its ban on singing and chanting in places of worship. The state is still recommending religious groups don’t do these things though — especially indoors.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>May 2021\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>At this point, \u003ca href=\"https://covid19.ca.gov/vaccination-progress-data/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">well over half\u003c/a> of California’s residents are now fully or partially vaccinated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even though California is reopening on many fronts, singing has been slower than most other activities to make a return to the public sphere, though groups like the \u003ca href=\"https://sfopera.com/on-stage/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Francisco Opera\u003c/a> have already started experimenting with live performances in socially distanced settings, like the recent drive-in production of “Barber of Seville” and concert series featuring members of the the company’s young artists program, the Adler Fellows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11873319\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11873319\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48986_Adler_rehearsal_2_lores-qut-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48986_Adler_rehearsal_2_lores-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48986_Adler_rehearsal_2_lores-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48986_Adler_rehearsal_2_lores-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48986_Adler_rehearsal_2_lores-qut.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The San Francisco Opera’s Adler Fellows rehearse for outdoor performances at the Marin Civic Center. \u003ccite>(Kristen Loken)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One person who’s been waiting for a long time for singing to make a comeback is Alyse Whitney — the karaoke queen in L.A.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview via Zoom from her apartment, Whitney recalled the day she tried karaoke for the very first time. It was on the east coast where she grew up, on a field trip to New York City for kids like her, who had been adopted from Korea. She was around 11 or 12 at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We went to a buffet of Korean food in Flushing. There was a karaoke private room. And I remember singing ‘N Sync. I believe it was ‘Bye Bye Bye,’ ” Whitney said. “We just had a really fun time and that memory stuck with me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After that, her adoptive parents bought Whitney a home karaoke machine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It had a tape deck and it was the hit of every party, every sleepover that I hosted as a kid,” she said.\u003cbr>\n[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Alyse Whitney\"]‘Even though this year was really hard, there’s that light at the end of the tunnel … And I think it’s a disco light.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whitney said that tape deck is still in her childhood bedroom at her parents’ house. She thought about bringing it with her when she moved to Los Angeles last September to work as managing editor for celebrity and entrepreneur Chrissy Teigen’s \u003ca href=\"https://cravingsbychrissyteigen.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">lifestyle and cooking website\u003c/a>. On top of the weirdness of starting a new job in a new city in the middle of the pandemic was the sadness of not being able to karaoke with her friends back east.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I thought about hosting a karaoke virtually,” said Whitney. “I talked to friends about it, but we thought it was weird with the feedback on Zoom and the delays. It wouldn’t have worked.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since Whitney couldn’t get out and explore the karaoke scene in her new city during the pandemic, her mom treated her to some shiny new gear for her birthday last October.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a big gold karaoke machine that sits under my TV,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11873318\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11873318\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48982_IMG_8109-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48982_IMG_8109-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48982_IMG_8109-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48982_IMG_8109-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48982_IMG_8109-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48982_IMG_8109-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Snapshots from Alyse Whitney’s collection depicting many good times doing karaoke with friends. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Alyse Whitney)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And in recent months, she’s been putting that big gold karaoke machine to good use, hosting karaoke parties in her apartment for her neighbors. They live in the same fourplex and included Whitney in their pod after she moved in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I moved in my neighbors came over and they said, ‘Welcome to the neighborhood.’ They brought croissants and wine. They were so sweet,” Whitney said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They even formed a band.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We call ourselves D5. And we all have a pose and our position in the band,” said Whitney. “It’s a fun time.” [aside tag=\"singing, choir\" label=\"More Related Stories\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she said singing at home isn’t the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s what I’m looking forward to when I can emerge into the world and go back and do a karaoke room, and celebrate, and remember that even though this year was really hard, there’s that light at the end of the tunnel,” Whitney said. “And I think it’s a disco light.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, Whitney was finally able to visit an L.A. karaoke bar for the first time: \u003ca href=\"https://maxkaraokestudio.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Max Karaoke\u003c/a> in Little Tokyo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The smiley, bespectacled 30-year-old wore her sparkly jumpsuit, did high kicks on the dance floor (which she said she regretted the following day) and sang her signature song — “Mr. Brightside” by The Killers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was exhilarating,” Whitney said. “I can’t wait to go back.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This was March 6, 2020,” Whitney said. “And my karaoke drought started March 7.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The drought Whitney is talking about didn’t just affect people who like sing in karaoke bars. COVID-19 impacted vocalists across the state — both amateur and professional — in community centers, schools, churches, recording studios, theaters, clubs and concert halls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Last year was going to be a pretty big year in terms of my singing engagements,” said vocalist, singing teacher and actress \u003ca href=\"https://cjsings.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Candace Johnson\u003c/a>. “So I was really looking forward to the [concert] calendar. And then — BOOM — it was all gone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11873304\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11873304 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48985_candace-qut-800x441.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"441\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48985_candace-qut-800x441.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48985_candace-qut-1020x563.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48985_candace-qut-160x88.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48985_candace-qut-1536x847.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48985_candace-qut.jpg 1914w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Singer and teacher Candace Johnson leading a class on Zoom during the pandemic. \u003ccite>(Zoom screenshot)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The blow to singers across the state wasn’t just financial as their gigs dried up. They also mourned the loss of connection and community. And on top of that, they were forced to confront a devastating truth: This beloved, healthy, everyday activity had become a killer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know that COVID-19 is caused by a transmission of the virus primarily through aerosol particles, and about three times as many aerosols are emitted during singing compared to talking,” said \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">UC Davis \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">civil and environmental engineering professor \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003ca href=\"https://faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu/cappa/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chris Cappa\u003c/a>, who’s been studying how COVID-19 is spread. “\u003c/span>This means that singing is inherently a riskier activity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most singing in public stopped. But it didn’t go away entirely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout this pandemic, KQED has been chronicling the journeys of individuals and singing groups across California. Read on to find out how singing transformed over the past year, and went from almost disappearing entirely, to helping many across the state maintain solidarity, social purpose and a sense of humor through these dark, dark times.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>March 2020\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>On the morning of March 11, 2020, Americans awoke to the latest in a deluge of coffee-spilling headlines: Despite practicing social distancing, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/13/us/coronavirus-washington-choir-outbreak-trnd/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">53 members of a community choir in Washington state\u003c/a> tested positive for COVID-19 and started showing symptoms of the coronavirus after attending a rehearsal the previous evening. Two members died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time this superspreader event occurred, COVID-19 tests were hard to come by, and health officials didn’t truly know how the virus was spread. In the early days, public messaging focused on things like telling people to avoid shaking hands with others, disinfecting surfaces and keeping their fingers off their faces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regardless, the wildfire-like spread of the coronavirus over a couple of hours of choral singing inside a Washington church was enough to send shockwaves throughout the singing community in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11873305\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11873305\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48980_001-Sunrise-Jamie-Pham-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48980_001-Sunrise-Jamie-Pham-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48980_001-Sunrise-Jamie-Pham-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48980_001-Sunrise-Jamie-Pham-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48980_001-Sunrise-Jamie-Pham-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48980_001-Sunrise-Jamie-Pham-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Los Angeles Master Chorale performed its last live concert on Jan. 26, 2020. \u003ccite>(Jamie Pham)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“That was a real warning shot for us,” said \u003ca href=\"https://lamasterchorale.org/jean-davidson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jean Davidson\u003c/a>, president and CEO of the \u003ca href=\"https://lamasterchorale.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Los Angeles Master Chorale\u003c/a>, one of the most high-profile classical vocal ensembles in the state. “And we erred on the side of caution and canceled all of our rehearsals and performances.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The chorale’s last live, in-person concert took place on Jan. 26, 2020. Its last rehearsal was March 4, 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>May 2020\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In those first desolate and bewildering months of lockdown, singing retreated almost entirely indoors and became mostly a solitary act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But despite the extraordinary circumstances and significant health risks, singers weren’t completely willing to give up on the idea of rehearsing together or even singing in public. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last May, in San Francisco, bass-baritone J. T. Williams started appearing on their balcony most late afternoons to sing opera arias. They soon started streaming the concerts on \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/OperaFromTheBalcony/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>J. T. said they’d been struggling with suicidal thoughts near the start of the pandemic. They found healing in the smiles, waves and applause of the people who listened from neighboring homes or stopped by while out walking their dogs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11873306\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 552px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11873306 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48983_J-T-Williams-qut-e1621018557411.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"552\" height=\"599\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48983_J-T-Williams-qut-e1621018557411.jpg 552w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48983_J-T-Williams-qut-e1621018557411-160x174.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 552px) 100vw, 552px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">J. T. Williams started singing opera arias on their balcony soon after the pandemic hit. \u003ccite>(Zoom screenshot)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The audience has helped me get through very dark and difficult days,” Williams said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, singers were starting to figure out how to make music together online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many turned to platforms like \u003ca href=\"https://zoom.us/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Zoom\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://hangouts.google.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google Hangouts\u003c/a>. But they were not built for making music. The delays caused by varying data transfer speeds made it almost impossible for people in different locations to sing together in sync.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Groups like the \u003ca href=\"https://www.piedmontchoirs.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Piedmont East Bay Children’s Choir\u003c/a> forged ahead with online rehearsals, even though it was slow going.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a practice held via Zoom KQED sat in on in May 2020, the group’s artistic director, \u003ca href=\"https://www.piedmontchoirs.org/staff/eric-tuan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Eric Tuan\u003c/a>, tried to get the young singers to build a chord from the bottom up. “Actually mute yourselves,” he was forced to admit. “It’s not going to work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11810148\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11810148\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42474_eric-leading-online-rehearsal-qut-800x537.jpg\" alt=\"Piedmont East Bay Children's Choir artistic director Eric Tuan leads a virtual rehearsal via Zoom on March 30, 2020.\" width=\"800\" height=\"537\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42474_eric-leading-online-rehearsal-qut-800x537.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42474_eric-leading-online-rehearsal-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42474_eric-leading-online-rehearsal-qut-1020x684.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42474_eric-leading-online-rehearsal-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Piedmont East Bay Children’s Choir Artistic Director Eric Tuan leads a virtual rehearsal via Zoom. \u003ccite>(Zoom screenshot)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But for others, virtual collaboration wasn’t even an option.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Singing teacher \u003ca href=\"http://www.bethwilmurt.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Beth Wilmurt\u003c/a> spent the early months of the COVID-19 stay-at-home orders making short instructional videos for the young members of the \u003ca href=\"https://sfcmc.org/youth/group-classes-and-ensembles/#childrens-chorus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Francisco Community Music Center Children’s Chorus\u003c/a> she leads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hi everybody. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Days can really blend one into the other here,” said Yaron Milgrom, the father of three young singers in Wilmurt’s chorus. “Music and singing songs, it’s just part of keeping a sense of normalcy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wilmurt has been teaching this children’s choir for over 20 years. She said what keeps her sticking with it is the sense of connection the kids feel when they get to meet up in person to sing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s palpable, the energy that choirs bring singing together, there’s just nothing like it,” Wilmurt said. “And, we can’t do it with the technology yet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>June 2020\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>As the pitiless Spring dragged on, it became increasingly clear that breaking into song around others was one of the most unsafe things a person could do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though California was beginning to emerge from the shelter-in-place orders, infections were on the rise. The state’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Department of Public Health\u003c/a> started \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/CDPH%20Document%20Library/COVID-19/Guidance-for-the-Prevention-of-COVID-19-Transmission-for-Gatherings--en.pdf#search=singing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">issuing warnings\u003c/a> against singing in public, and it continued to do this throughout the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when Californians took to the streets in protest after George Floyd was murdered by a policeman in Minneapolis, they sang anyway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the San Francisco Bay Area, people marched to the late Oakland-born rapper Mac Dre’s “Feelin’ Myself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In L.A., they sang “Alright” by Kendrick Lamar. The song has been embraced at Black Lives Matter rallies around the country in recent years because it speaks to hope in difficult times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"LA riots 2020 GOERGE Floyd Los Angeles protest Kendrick Lamar we’re gonna be all right turn up\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/M9sDwLV_eQc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen>\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also in June, in the wake of Floyd’s death, Vallejo-born R&B artist \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/hermusicofficial/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">H.E.R.\u003c/a> released the song “I Can’t Breathe.” The singer’s gut-wrenching performance won the \u003ca href=\"https://www.grammy.com/grammys/news/her-wins-song-of-the-year-2021-winner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Song of the Year Award at this year’s Grammys\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around the same time as many Californians took to the streets, many others stayed indoors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.novajimenez.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nova Jimenez\u003c/a> was among them. The singer and vocal music teacher said she felt so sad at the start of the pandemic that she just locked herself in her room and sang. “It felt like the end of the world,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One day, Jimenez had an idea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Here I am singing by myself, and I thought, well, maybe, maybe someone wants to hear me, I don’t know,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a professional singer, Jimenez realized in that moment maybe she could use her talent to help others overcome their feelings of exhaustion, loneliness and despair. So she placed an online ad offering her services for free to front-line workers, or anyone homebound or isolated due to the pandemic, and in need of a little uplift.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vocalist has performed nearly 100 “\u003ca href=\"https://www.novajimenez.com/news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sidewalk Serenades\u003c/a>” through the pandemic for front-line workers and people who are isolated in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One Sunday, KQED caught up with Jimenez as she was serenading elders outside a retirement home called \u003ca href=\"https://channinghouse.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Channing House\u003c/a> in Palo Alto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11873310\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11873310\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS47195_nova-1-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS47195_nova-1-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS47195_nova-1-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS47195_nova-1-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS47195_nova-1-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS47195_nova-1-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nova Jimenez performs a sidewalk serenade outside Channing House in Palo Alto. \u003ccite>(Chloe Veltman/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Hello, Channing House!” she said after setting up her microphone, music stand and portable amp on the sidewalk across from the drab concrete building. “Oh, dear friends, I’m so happy to see you!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dozens of residents appeared on their balconies and in the parking lot to listen. “It’s so exciting to have Nova come and sing for us,” said resident Nancy Fiene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wearing a dress emblazoned with red peonies and white daisies, Jimenez exuded the spirit of warmth and romance as she sang old-time favorites like “Solamente Una Vez” and “La Vie en Rose.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Life has been far from rosy for the residents of Channing House this past year. They’ve been rocked by two COVID-19 outbreaks and five people have died. It’s been a time of loss and confinement. Fiene said Jimenez’s performances at Channing House have provided a break from all of that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She’s got a lot of pizzazz,” said Fiene. “It’s a little bit of a breath of fresh air from the outside world,” said Fiene’s husband, Tom. “We’ve been pretty well isolated here for months.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11873311\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11873311\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS47193_george-nancy-tom-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS47193_george-nancy-tom-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS47193_george-nancy-tom-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS47193_george-nancy-tom-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS47193_george-nancy-tom-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS47193_george-nancy-tom-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Channing House residents Nancy Fiene, Tom Fiene and George Young. \u003ccite>(Chloe Veltman/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To add to the sense of community, Jimenez’s concerts often end with singalongs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want you to feel like you’re going to just let it out and sing to the heavens!” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The singer launched into her rendition of “Brand New Day” from the musical “The Wiz.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly everyone joined in for the choruses. They waved their arms and clapped. Some even danced around in the parking lot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Afterward, the Channing House parking lot erupted in claps, cheers and cries of “Encore! Encore!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Thank you Channing House. Te amo! Te amo! I love you!” said Jimenez. Then the performer packed up her gear and the residents went back inside, maybe feeling just a bit more hopeful about the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>July 2020\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In July, state officials put \u003ca href=\"https://files.covid19.ca.gov/pdf/guidance-places-of-worship.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">limitations on places of worship\u003c/a> after they were the site of several superspreader events. Indoor services had to be restricted to a maximum of 25% capacity or 100 people, whichever is lower, and there was a total ban on singing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new rules incensed \u003ca href=\"https://www.actsfullgospel.org/bishop\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Robert L. Jackson\u003c/a>, senior pastor of \u003ca href=\"https://www.actsfullgospel.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Acts Full Gospel Church\u003c/a> in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11873727\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11873727\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48990_bishop-bob-qut-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48990_bishop-bob-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48990_bishop-bob-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48990_bishop-bob-qut.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Acts Full Gospel Church senior pastor Robert L. 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The hit reality TV show turned out to be the ultimate entertainment for these pandemic times with its mask-wearing celebrity contestants, like an appearance by Long Beach native and Olympic snowboarder \u003ca href=\"https://www.teamusa.org/us-ski-and-snowboard/athletes/Chloe-Kim\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chloe Kim\u003c/a>, disguised as a cute, green jellyfish.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>September 2020\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In September, the Silicon Valley-based \u003ca href=\"https://ragazzi.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ragazzi Boys Chorus\u003c/a> went from struggling to sing together during remote rehearsals to being able to sing perfectly in sync online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"JackTrip Virtual Studio demo\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/N-tQy_hdJHk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen>\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The transformation happened because a of choir member’s parent. 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The free, open-source software, created in partnership with \u003ca href=\"https://ccrma.stanford.edu/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stanford University\u003c/a>, allows singers to sync their voices online from their homes in real time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Solutions to the latency problem for musicians have existed for years, but they’re complicated and expensive to set up. “The idea with JackTrip is to help make online music performance and education as easy and accessible as possible,” Dickey said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>December 2020\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>As the statewide COVID-19 daily case count was hitting an all-time high at the end of the year, a San Francisco theater company decided it would do whatever it took to put on a show. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Gonzalez\u003c/a>, a native of Lompoc, north of Santa Barbara.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They all podded up — actors and stage management in one pod, director and designers in another. “So basically we never mixed,” said Gonzalez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They prerecorded all of the songs. “We couldn’t sing live on stage,” Gonzalez said. “So we had two days to record all the music.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once on stage, they lip-synched their way through the performance. And the stage was partitioned to further protect cast members from the potential for flying aerosols even while lip-synching.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11873316\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11873316\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48984_phpto-by-Jessica-Palopoli-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48984_phpto-by-Jessica-Palopoli-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48984_phpto-by-Jessica-Palopoli-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48984_phpto-by-Jessica-Palopoli-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48984_phpto-by-Jessica-Palopoli-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48984_phpto-by-Jessica-Palopoli-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The cast of ‘Songs for a New World’ at SF Playhouse. \u003ccite>(Jessica Palopoli)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We had plexiglass dividers on stage,” said Gonzalez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, they didn’t share dressing rooms and wore masks when not singing or filming. “We were masked completely the entire time,” Gonzalez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>COVID spikes in December meant that there was no live audience in the theater. The entire production was filmed and distributed online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez said he was very glad to be part of the production, despite the unorthodox process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can reach people with my voice. I love singing. I love music. It’s so healing and it’s so powerful,” said Gonzalez. “That’s like the ultimate goal for me is to make people feel good.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>January 2021\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Before the pandemic, the \u003ca href=\"https://hospiceslo.org/services/threshold-singers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Threshold Singers\u003c/a> in San Luis Obispo on the central coast (one of many “\u003ca href=\"https://thresholdchoir.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">threshold choirs\u003c/a>” around the country) sang at the bedsides of terminally ill patients in hospices and homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In January of this year, even as COVID-19 cases continued to spike in California, and bedside singing had by then been out of the question for many months, the choir members figured out how to meet to sing together in person — from the safety of their own cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11873317\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11873317\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48987_unnamed-qut-800x558.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"558\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48987_unnamed-qut-800x558.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48987_unnamed-qut-1020x712.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48987_unnamed-qut-160x112.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48987_unnamed-qut.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The members of the Threshold Singers of San Luis Obispo meet in the parking lot of the local hospice. \u003ccite>(Ruth Baillie)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This time when we sing it, I really want us to think about who we’re singing for,” said Ruth Baillie, the group’s director, speaking into the microphone from her vehicle parked outside the local hospice during a rehearsal. Half a dozen other cars were parked in a semi-circle opposite hers. “So let’s think about being at the bedside. Can you picture somebody you want us to sing this to?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then Baillie sounded the starting note of “Rest Easy,” a slow and soothing song by \u003ca href=\"https://gesundheitpublishing.com/about/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Marilyn Power Scott\u003c/a>, and the singers started to sing in harmony, a cappella, from their cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.drivewaychoir.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Driveway choirs\u003c/a> like this one have been springing up around the country during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Singers connect from their vehicles with the help of a cheap FM transmitter that hooks into a mixer. The participants use microphones and can hear each other when tuned to the same frequency on their car radios. Baillie said the person receiving the song in the hospice can join in, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can hand them a radio and they can listen to the radio,” Baillie said. “And if we give them a microphone, we can talk to them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>February 2021\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In February, the state health department restrictions on places of worship involving singing came to a head when \u003ca href=\"https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf/20a136_bq7c.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a case\u003c/a> brought by a \u003ca href=\"https://southbaypentecostal.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Diego church\u003c/a> reached the Supreme Court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Churches in California had been hitting back against the rules imposed in July 2020 with a string of lawsuits, saying they infringed on their constitutional rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11873790\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11873790\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49032_acts-full-gospel-church-choir-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49032_acts-full-gospel-church-choir-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49032_acts-full-gospel-church-choir-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49032_acts-full-gospel-church-choir-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49032_acts-full-gospel-church-choir-qut-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49032_acts-full-gospel-church-choir-qut.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Acts Full Gospel Church praise choir singing in pre-pandemic times. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Acts Full Gospel Church)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Supreme Court ruled in a 6-to-3 decision that California could no longer restrict indoor church services. But the justices upheld the state’s ban on singing and chanting, which angered faith leaders around the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even though we have all the safety precautions, they still say, ‘OK, you can assemble, according to the Supreme Court. But no singing and no chanting.’ And I’m saying, ‘Hey, we have to be able to sing,’ said Bishop Jackson of Ask Full Gospel Church in Oakland. “So now we’re trying to figure it out — how we can sing and still be in accordance with what the law is asking us to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>April 2021\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>On April 2, Acts Full Gospel went ahead with its Good Friday service. \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?v=197116925509640&ref=watch_permalink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Viewers watching on Facebook\u003c/a> could see it was held indoors, in a masked, socially distanced setting complete with plexiglass barriers — and plenty of singing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California has since reversed its ban on singing and chanting in places of worship. The state is still recommending religious groups don’t do these things though — especially indoors.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>May 2021\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>At this point, \u003ca href=\"https://covid19.ca.gov/vaccination-progress-data/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">well over half\u003c/a> of California’s residents are now fully or partially vaccinated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even though California is reopening on many fronts, singing has been slower than most other activities to make a return to the public sphere, though groups like the \u003ca href=\"https://sfopera.com/on-stage/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Francisco Opera\u003c/a> have already started experimenting with live performances in socially distanced settings, like the recent drive-in production of “Barber of Seville” and concert series featuring members of the the company’s young artists program, the Adler Fellows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11873319\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11873319\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48986_Adler_rehearsal_2_lores-qut-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48986_Adler_rehearsal_2_lores-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48986_Adler_rehearsal_2_lores-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48986_Adler_rehearsal_2_lores-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48986_Adler_rehearsal_2_lores-qut.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The San Francisco Opera’s Adler Fellows rehearse for outdoor performances at the Marin Civic Center. \u003ccite>(Kristen Loken)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One person who’s been waiting for a long time for singing to make a comeback is Alyse Whitney — the karaoke queen in L.A.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview via Zoom from her apartment, Whitney recalled the day she tried karaoke for the very first time. It was on the east coast where she grew up, on a field trip to New York City for kids like her, who had been adopted from Korea. She was around 11 or 12 at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We went to a buffet of Korean food in Flushing. There was a karaoke private room. And I remember singing ‘N Sync. I believe it was ‘Bye Bye Bye,’ ” Whitney said. “We just had a really fun time and that memory stuck with me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After that, her adoptive parents bought Whitney a home karaoke machine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It had a tape deck and it was the hit of every party, every sleepover that I hosted as a kid,” she said.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Two years ago, Dr. Tung Nguyen launched \u003ca href=\"https://www.pivotnetwork.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PIVOT\u003c/a>, a progressive nonprofit that provides information to Vietnamese readers about everything from politics to American culture. Then came the pandemic, and he noticed family members and people in his community spouting misinformation. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Christina Johnson, Vietnamese American Roundtable secretary\"]‘We’ve grown up being cultural brokers, informational brokers for our families. Now we’re really utilizing that skill and expanding it to do it for our communities.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Particularly on YouTube, there are some very high trafficked [sites], and I’m not sure where they are coming from,” said Nguyen, an internal medicine specialist at UCSF. “They seem to have a lot of people listening to what they say, and a lot of what they say is not accurate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So in December, right before the vaccine became available for distribution, Nguyen launched an offshoot of PIVOT, \u003ca href=\"https://www.vietcovid.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">VietCOVID.org\u003c/a>, to share accurate information in Vietnamese about the virus, how it spreads and what people can do to protect themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many younger Vietnamese Americans with a limited grasp of medical vocabulary in Vietnamese, he explains, face a credibility gap speaking to their elders. “The younger people may know the science, but they can’t explain it in a way that actually makes them credible in Vietnamese. Of course, if they do it in English, the older people won’t know or care.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nguyen says his goal to help younger Vietnamese Americans speak with authority to their elders about the virus and the vaccine. “We create materials in both English and Vietnamese so that the English speaking people can read it and understand what it says and can point the Vietnamese part to their family members,” Nguyen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11873175\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11873175\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/VietCovid-Facebook-Post-800x800.jpeg\" alt=\"VietCOVID.org presents information in both English and Vietnamese so that younger and older Vietnamese readers can understand the virus and the vaccine.\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/VietCovid-Facebook-Post-800x800.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/VietCovid-Facebook-Post-1020x1020.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/VietCovid-Facebook-Post-160x160.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/VietCovid-Facebook-Post.jpeg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">VietCOVID.org presents information in both English and Vietnamese so that younger and older Vietnamese readers can understand the virus and the vaccine.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San Jose is home to one of the largest Vietnamese American communities in the country, and it’s one of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-12-31/filipino-vietnamese-americans-coronavirus-silicon-valley\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">hardest hit by the COVID-19\u003c/a> pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Misinformation and YouTube\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>A YouTube spokeswoman told KQED the social media giant employs more than 20,000 content screeners globally, but declined to specify how many of those focus specifically on Vietnamese content, either in Vietnam or in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not difficult to find YouTube channels spouting misinformation about the pandemic in Vietnamese – misinformation that’s often couched as personal opinion – to tens of thousands of subscribers. And YouTube’s \u003ca href=\"https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/9891785?hl=en&ref_topic=9282436\">community guidelines\u003c/a> don’t always stop certain channels from spreading harmful content.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED brought one such video in Vietnamese to YouTube’s attention. It was from a channel with more than 96,000 subscribers which has been suspended twice for violating YouTube’s content guidelines. YouTube didn’t remove the video from its website because a spokeswoman said it didn’t violate its guidelines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Nick Nguyen, a board member with PIVOT and a writer for Viet Fact Check, worries the video still spreads harmful misinformation. He argues YouTube’s promise to combat misinformation takes a back seat to its monetization of popular channels, especially when the channels operate in languages other than English. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they are responsive to our small community, then they will have to spend time and money on other groups who fairly ask, ‘Why aren’t you taking down this content in Farsi or Spanish?’ ” Nick Nguyen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Cultural Brokers in a Pandemic\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In the absence of effective misinformation control, a number of young Vietnamese Americans have been taking matters into their own hands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peter Lai in Connecticut started an Instagram account called \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/viet.fake.news.buster/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Viet Fake News Buster\u003c/a>, where he \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CMdvek4hxtX/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pinpoints parts of YouTube videos\u003c/a> that spread misinformation and encourages his followers to flag the videos for YouTube to take down. In Southern California, young Vietnamese American volunteers translate news articles from English into Vietnamese for \u003ca href=\"https://www.the-interpreter.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Interpreter\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11873355\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/christina-johnson-1.jpeg\" alt=\"Christina Johnson, secretary for the Vietnamese American Roundtable, felt resources on the pandemic provided by local health officials weren't understandable to her community. So she created resources herself.\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11873355\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/christina-johnson-1.jpeg 500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/christina-johnson-1-160x160.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christina Johnson, secretary for the Vietnamese American Roundtable, thought resources on the pandemic provided by local health officials weren’t understandable to her community. So she and the VAR team created them. \u003ccite>(Courtesy VAR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the South Bay, there’s the \u003ca href=\"https://varoundtable.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Vietnamese American Roundtable\u003c/a>, which had organized webinars for local Vietnamese American business owners on shelter-in-place guidelines on \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/VARoundtable/?ref=page_internal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Facebook\u003c/a>, and sent those who sign up for them vaccination alerts in Vietnamese.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This information needs to be out in Vietnamese and there’s no one go-to, or yellow page, or a one-page resource for all our community that is translated into Vietnamese,” said Vietnamese American Roundtable Secretary Christina Johnson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added that the information needs to be more than accurate, but culturally nuanced, too. 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"content": "\u003cp>His answer was crystal clear: “No. Never will.” That’s how a prison guard at California Rehabilitation Center in Norco feels about taking the COVID-19 vaccine, and he’s not alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s the Sacramento-area correctional officer with more than 15 years on the job who “doesn’t believe in” vaccinations. A sergeant from Northern California with eight years of experience who “appreciates” prisons offering employees the vaccine, but still doesn’t feel comfortable taking it, and then there's a prison psychologist from Southern California who feels protected because of having had a prior case of COVID.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All spoke to CalMatters only on condition of anonymity, and they are among the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/covid19/population-status-tracking/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">57% of California prison employees skipping free COVID vaccinations\u003c/a> offered on the job as of May 10, according to data from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. Experts don’t think it’s common that those workers chose to be vaccinated anyplace less convenient.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As California \u003ca href=\"https://abc7.com/herd-immunity-sf-san-francisco-covid-19-cases-california/10586281/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pursues herd immunity\u003c/a> — or something close to it — some 37,000 state prison workers remain unvaccinated. In 30 of 35 institutions, less than half of employees are fully vaccinated. Currently, less than 3% of staff are waiting on their second jab, according to the statewide data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://flo.uri.sh/visualisation/6109069/embed\" title=\"Interactive or visual content\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Active COVID cases inside California prisons have slowly declined since peaking in late December 2020, around the time the system rolled out its voluntary vaccination program for inmates and staff. In the past two weeks, state data shows just 14 COVID cases reported among California prisoners — but 108 cases among prison staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the state’s prodding may slowly boost the staff vaccination rate, critics say urging isn’t enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a recent statement filed in U.S. District Court in Oakland as part of \u003ca href=\"https://www.clearinghouse.net/detail.php?id=589#:~:text=Summary%3A%20On%20August%2020%2C%202001,services%20were%20inadequate%2C%20and%20violated\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a class-action suit that forced California’s prison health care under court control\u003c/a>, attorneys for prisoners \u003ca href=\"https://rbgg.com/wp-content/uploads/Dkt-3579-3579-3-PLATA-Joint-CMC-Statement_04.27.21_0489.OVR_.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">asked that staff vaccinations become mandatory\u003c/a>. “We believe that the time has come for the Receiver and (the corrections department) to protect the interests of the incarcerated population, their employees and the community by requiring that all staff be vaccinated,” wrote plaintiffs’ attorneys from the Prison Law Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Corrections officer at California Rehabilitation Center, Norco\"]'A lot of us have already had COVID and recovered, so we don’t see the point in getting the vaccine.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State attorneys representing the prison’s health care system didn’t directly address the request, instead reiterating educational and marketing efforts to encourage more staff to get vaccinated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement emailed to CalMatters, a spokesperson from California Correctional Health Care Services, which provides health care inside California prisons, said prisons are beefing up their outreach and “providing open vaccine clinics over the next couple weeks to assist our staff in furthering their vaccine efforts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates say vaccine reluctance among guards and other prison staff jeopardizes the health of fellow workers and people held in prison who have no control over their proximity to others. And they point out a precedent: The University of \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/us-news-health-education-california-coronavirus-vaccine-28a4729ef178edad794d4362c5f2482a#:~:text=SAN%20FRANCISCO%20(AP)%20%E2%80%94%20Two,State%20University%20campuses%20this%20fall.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">California is requiring all students, faculty and staff on its campuses be vaccinated before returning this fall.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People in prison and the staff, frankly, are at greater risk than college students and people who work for the university and colleges,” said \u003ca href=\"https://prisonlaw.com/about-us/staff/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Don Specter, executive director of the Prison Law Office.\u003c/a> “So if they can do it, I don’t see a reason why the prisons can’t do it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a step the state isn’t prepared to take absent new guidance from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention or court intervention, according to the emailed statement from the prison health services spokesperson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s hesitancy on the part of everybody, including the judge, to instill mandate,” said Hadar Aviram, professor at UC Hastings College of the Law. “There isn’t actually a legal problem to say to people, ‘If you don’t get vaccinated, you have no business working (in state prisons).' ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for many prison employees, making vaccination a job requirement would be a step too far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of us have already had COVID and recovered, so we don’t see the point in getting the vaccine,” said a correctional officer who tested positive in December 2020 at Norco, where 38% of employees have had COVID. “I have the natural antibodies. I get sick every year from something at work, so I figured it’d be a matter of time. I was amazed I lasted all the way to December.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many prison workers, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2021/04/california-covid-vaccine-resistance/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">like many Americans\u003c/a>, aren’t sold on being vaccinated against COVID. Some cite fears about the possible side effects of the vaccine, others contend that they are protected by antibodies developed from prior COVID illness, and still others say they simply don’t believe in vaccines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“About half of my unit is vaccinated,” said a correctional officer in Northern California. “The others ... are waiting to see what’s going on and what the long-term effects (of the vaccine) are going to be.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Hadar Aviram, professor at UC Hastings College of Law\"]'We ended up reaching herd immunity in some prisons the tragic way — because people just got sick and died.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since last summer, the coronavirus has \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2020/11/california-prisons-covid/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">swept through the state prisons\u003c/a>, leaving at least 222 people dead and infecting more than 50,000 prisoners. Guards were also infected. Throughout the system, more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/covid19/cdcr-cchcs-covid-19-status/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">16,000 prison staff have tested positive\u003c/a> for the virus, and 26 employees have died, according to the data. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is not a whim,” said Aviram, the UC Hastings law professor. “The fact that there’s very few cases in prison now isn’t because we won the battle over the virus. It’s because the virus won. We ended up reaching herd immunity in some prisons the tragic way — because people just got sick and died.” [aside tag=\"san-quentin\" label=\"More Related Coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the virus spreading among employees, prison officials have asked union officials to help them get more people vaccinated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Using incentives, education and behavioral science methods, the union launched “an aggressive campaign in partnership with state government, strongly urging all our members to get vaccinated,” said Glen Stailey, California Correctional Peace Officers Association union president. That includes videos showing union board members being vaccinated, and consulting with UC Berkeley’s Goldman School of Public Policy on how to convince more workers to get the vaccine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a push that hasn’t gone unnoticed by staff, who say the fact that fully vaccinated employees can skip weekly COVID tests are influencing some employees to say, “maybe I will ... get the vaccine, whether or not they want it,” said a veteran correctional officer from the Sacramento area who doesn’t believe in vaccinations — and says the union’s marketing has failed to change her mind. “It’s just one of those things where, you know, it makes it a little bit easier for them at work or wherever they are.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the more than 26,000 department employees who have opted for full vaccination, many still say they are uncomfortable encouraging their colleagues to do the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been vaccinated,” said a rehabilitation specialist who works in Southern California. “I don’t have a problem doing that. 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Could you tell us about your thoughts?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dr. Monica Gandhi:\u003c/strong> I do want to stress that I co-wrote one of the first papers in early April 2020 about universal mask use for the American public. I’m definitely very interested in mask use as a mitigation procedure along with ventilation and distancing. However, when you think about ventilation and you think about this virus, there’s actually incredibly clear studies about how hard it is to get coronavirus outside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/p/COQwPYQhaj5/\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most impressive study was published in September from China, where they do very strict contact tracing. And out of 7,324 infections, only one was linked to outdoor transmission. [pullquote size=\"right\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Dr. Monica Gandhi, infectious disease expert and professor of medicine at UCSF\"]‘Don’t be frightened to do what’s right by the science and take off your mask outside. 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And then a very extensive \u003ca href=\"https://www.canterbury.ac.uk/science-engineering-and-social-sciences/spear/docs/EXECUTIVE-SUMMARY-Outdoor-Transmission-of-COVID-19.pdf\">review from the University of Canterbury\u003c/a> was done earlier in the fall and looked at a massive number of studies around the planet and thought that outside transmission was so rare that they couldn’t actually quantify it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then when the\u003ca href=\"https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/advice-for-public/when-and-how-to-use-masks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> World Health Organization\u003c/a> revised their mask guidance in December — even before vaccines — they said masks are not required outside unless you’re in non-distanced situations. That’s some of the evidence even prior to vaccinations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11871334\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1418px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11871334\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/INDOORS-4-27.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1418\" height=\"623\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/INDOORS-4-27.png 1418w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/INDOORS-4-27-800x351.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/INDOORS-4-27-1020x448.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/INDOORS-4-27-160x70.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1418px) 100vw, 1418px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The CDC’s latest guidance for outdoor mask-wearing, for fully vaccinated and vaccinated people. \u003ccite>(CDC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>So Dr. Gandhi, what do you do when you’re outside? 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The more of us that do it, it’ll become the new social norm. And we can smile at each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What was it like? Did you get some strange looks? Some people may feel you are not being respectful.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco has been a city that has very been very compliant with mask wearing. We have used this symbol of mask wearing as respect, and that we follow the science.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The issue is that it is following the science to understand how quickly viral particles disperse in the outside air for modeling, and all the epidemiology evidence. [aside tag=\"coronavirus\" label=\"More Related Stories\"] It’s tremendously respectful to science to not wear your mask outside even if you’re not vaccinated. And I’m fully vaccinated. 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"content": "\u003cp>For the fifth straight day, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/health-india-coronavirus-1bda2318594d65be400074da41fa13c6\">India set a global daily record of new coronavirus infections\u003c/a> on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Social media has been filled with desperate pleas from those in India seeking hospital beds and oxygen concentrators. \u003ca href=\"https://www.bloombergquint.com/coronavirus-outbreak/hope-and-heartbreak-on-indian-covid-twitter\">One journalist, Vinay Srivastava, even live-tweeted his declining oxygen levels until he died\u003c/a>. And on Sunday, the National Security Council announced that \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/04/25/990676453/u-s-pledges-medical-aid-to-india-where-covid-19-is-overwhelming-hospitals\">the United States will now make more medical aid available to India\u003c/a> in an effort to fight the spike in COVID-19 cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Indians and Indian Americans in the Bay Area, what many are experiencing in daily life — the excitement of getting the vaccine and reopening businesses — contrasts starkly with the reality of family and friends sick and dying in New Delhi and other parts of the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every Indian you speak to will tell you we know somebody who has passed away in the last few days because they weren’t able to find a hospital to take them — or they weren’t able to get access to oxygen,” said Palo Alto resident Kanika Mediratta, who has family and friends in New Delhi. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Kanika Mediratta, started CovidReliefIndia.com\"]‘Every Indian you speak to will tell you we know somebody who has passed away in the last few days because they weren’t able to find a hospital to take them — or they weren’t able to get access to oxygen.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just 10 minutes ago I got a call from one of my very close friends asking if we knew of any supply for a patient [in India] who has oxygen only for the next three hours,” Mediratta said. “Without that, they will die.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mediratta’s brother-in-law — her husband Rohit’s brother — is a neurosurgeon at Apollo Hospital in New Delhi, and told the Palo Alto couple of his firsthand experiences with the region’s severe oxygen shortage that was being mirrored across India. So the Medirattas decided to take action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They started a \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/f/oxygen-concentrators-for-delhi?utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet&utm_medium=copy_link_all&utm_source=customer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">GoFundMe\u003c/a> to raise money for the \u003ca href=\"https://savelifefoundation.org/covid19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Save Life Foundation,\u003c/a> a nonprofit working with the New Delhi government. In about 48 hours they raised enough money to procure 200 units of oxygen. They’ve also created the website \u003ca href=\"http://covidreliefindia.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CovidReliefIndia.com\u003c/a> which explains the severity of India’s need for oxygen and \u003ca href=\"http://covidreliefindia.com/faqs/\">how people can help\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s expected that this first shipment of oxygen units will start reaching the people in need in public hospitals “in the next week or so,” said Rohit Mediratta.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their campaign has been amplified by people including Bay Area Congressman Ro Khanna, whose California District 17 encompasses Silicon Valley. Thus far, through their networks, the couple say they’ve seen people donating money from around the world — Australia, UK, the Middle East. “People who know people, who know people, have been contacting us,” Kanika Mediratta said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/RoKhanna/status/1385794794186813443?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the \u003ca href=\"https://savelifefoundation.org/covid19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Save Life Foundation,\u003c/a> the Medirattas are also directing donations to the humanitarian nonprofit organization \u003ca href=\"https://www.sewausa.org/Kanikas-Campaign-for-COVID-19-Relief-India\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sewa International\u003c/a>. For those unsure which place to donate to, Kanika Mediratta gave some guidance: “If you’re looking to donate specifically for the Delhi region, then Save Life Foundation is working with the Delhi government, and is probably the biggest impact that we will have,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for Bay Area residents wanting their donations to go beyond government agencies, or into other cities and regions in India, Sewa International is a good choice, say the Medirattas. Both organizations are registered nonprofits in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Thousands of people are dying every single day” in India, said Gitesh Desai, a Texas-based spokesperson for Sewa International on the COVID-19 crisis. According to Johns Hopkins University data, \u003ca href=\"https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/region/india\">on April 25 alone there were 2,812 deaths\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Desai said Sewa International is buying oxygen concentrators and has already bought 400 that will be given to hospitals in India. With additional funds raised, Desai said they will be providing food and medicine to families as well as other basic needs to orphanages and senior citizen homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We all want our money to get used in the best way possible and as quickly as possible, because each hour matters right now,” Kanika Mediratta said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added that it’s not just hours that count right now — it’s minutes. “We don’t have till Monday morning, or Tuesday morning, for action to be taken. If you have the capacity to contribute, to participate, to volunteer, we need the help and we need it now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t have a moment to lose right now,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Whatever we can do to help, if we can do anything at all, it’s still not enough,” her husband Rohit added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Severity of COVID-19 in India\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>As of April 25, the country had over 16.9 million recorded cases, second behind only the United States. \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/health-india-religion-coronavirus-c644fc9eb09beb04e16d0215a6693886\">The Health Ministry reported another 2,767 deaths in the past 24 hours\u003c/a>, pushing India’s fatalities to 192,311.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet experts say this toll could be a huge undercount, as suspected cases are not included, and many COVID-19 deaths are being attributed to underlying conditions. 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A 45-year-old woman died after receiving the vaccine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Friday’s meeting, the CDC said it had found \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/acip/meetings/downloads/slides-2021-04-23/03-COVID-Shimabukuro-508.pdf\">a few more cases\u003c/a> of thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome, of which CVST cases are a subset. It has now identified 13 reported cases among women 18 to 49, and two cases among women 50 and older. No cases were found among men.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means the rate of reported cases is 7 per million shots administered among women 18 to 49. The rate is 0.9 per million among women 50 and older.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the 15 cases of thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome, 12 are of CVST, the rare clotting disorder that originally prompted the CDC’s recommended hold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three of the 15 women have died, while seven remain hospitalized. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An expert advisory committee to the CDC \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/04/14/987383916/u-s-health-officials-continue-pause-of-johnson-johnson-vaccine\">decided \u003c/a>April 14 that it needed more time to assess the data before recommending whether to restart the shots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The European Union’s drug regulator \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2021/04/20/989149900/eu-regulator-possible-link-between-johnson-johnson-vaccine-and-rare-blood-clots\">released its assessment\u003c/a> this week that the shot’s benefits “in preventing COVID-19 outweigh the risks of side effects.” The agency determined that the vaccine can still be used without restrictions and that a warning should be added to its product information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some had criticized the U.S. pause.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Ashish Jha, dean of Brown University’s School of Public Health, argued that given that most cases of the blood-clotting issue appear in women, the committee last week should have recommended continuing the pause only for women 18 to 49 and resumed it for everyone else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Keeping vaccine paused for everyone makes little sense,” Jha \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/ashishkjha/status/1382536894156836865\">tweeted\u003c/a>, adding that the risk-benefit analysis for keeping the vaccine paused for everyone was “WAY off.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re still allowed to cross a busy street, or eat raw/uncooked fish, or stick our face in a fan. But we can’t get a shot that protects ourselves and others from serious illness and allows a return to normal life — because it *might* have a 1-in-7-million fatal clotting issue,” \u003cem>The Atlantic\u003c/em>‘s Graeme Wood \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/gcaw/status/1381943577853403137\">noted\u003c/a> last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CDC’s principal deputy director, Dr. Anne Schuchat, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/04/13/986767069/johnson-johnson-vaccine-and-blood-clots-what-you-need-to-know\">said\u003c/a> when the pause was announced, it was intended “to prepare the health care system to recognize and treat patients appropriately.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The White House said the pause would not have a significant impact on its vaccination plan because most of the vaccines used in the U.S. come from Pfizer and Moderna, but the stoppage did lead to \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/13/us/politics/johnson-johnson-vaccine-pause-states.html\">canceled appointments\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2021 NPR. 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"content": "\u003cp>As their younger peers have returned to physical classrooms, high school students in Berkeley, Oakland and San Francisco have mostly remained in distance learning, though some are due to come back next week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED spoke with three students at Berkeley High School and one at Oakland's Fremont High School to hear how they have coped with this year of COVID, and what they are looking forward to when they finally \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11863282/what-students-think-about-reopening-schools-california-newsom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">make it back\u003c/a> inside their schools.\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003cbr>\nEdited for length and clarity.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sascha Amendola, 15, Berkeley High School\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\"I woke up one day and was like, 'Wow, I used to be so much closer to this one person.' \"\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11869416\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48327_007_Berkeley_HSStudent_03192021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11869416 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48327_007_Berkeley_HSStudent_03192021-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48327_007_Berkeley_HSStudent_03192021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48327_007_Berkeley_HSStudent_03192021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48327_007_Berkeley_HSStudent_03192021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48327_007_Berkeley_HSStudent_03192021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48327_007_Berkeley_HSStudent_03192021-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Beth LaBerge/KQED\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I do really want to go back to school, and I feel like I would just learn better, and my grades would probably stay up instead of maybe slowly deteriorating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are friends like my girlfriend who are like, \"Oh, it's too dangerous.\" She's high risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I'm not mad about it. I just hate the coronavirus. I want to play basketball and stuff with my friends. A lot of them are going back to in-person school. It's going to be really hard not to give them a high five or something. But I'm definitely keeping myself safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I feel like quarantine has made everybody a little less social. I woke up one day and was like, \"Wow, I used to be so much closer to this one person.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When you're with a friend, you can do stuff without Wi-Fi cutting out. Or you walk around, get food and go places. It's just a lot easier to bond with them. You know, FaceTime, all you do is just talk, you don't really do anything else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I don't know anyone that's purposely skipped class, but I know people that didn't turn on their alarms and slept in through the whole school day. And then sometimes people have joined them on video when they're in their beds, and then they're like, \"Turn the camera off.\" One time in the team sports class, someone forgot to turn the camera off and you could see them holding a video game controller, playing a game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some people, they're so upset and in pain that they don't want to do anything. Someone will be like, \"I should just kill myself,\" in a joking way. Which means they're not OK and they need someone to talk to and comfort them and nurture them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One time I was on FaceTime with someone and they were doing schoolwork, and there was silence for a little while, and then I was like, \"How are you?\" And they're like, \"Not good.\" And then they really got into it and started crying and broke down in front of me. And I thought, \"Damn, I should have seen this; there are always little hints telling you that this person is not well, and you should always pay attention.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Karina Dealba Perez, 17, Fremont High School\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\"Some days I wake up, I have to go to work at nine in the morning, and I have to miss class.\"\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11870024\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2029/04/covidhighschool-scaled-e1618851959588.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11870024 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2029/04/covidhighschool-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Julia McEvoy/KQED\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Junior year was my first time on honor roll, with my grades getting much better. Then we got into distance learning and it just went really downhill. I'm a senior, and since the start of online learning, I've been failing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I had been working before, but I only worked weekends. But then since my parents weren't working, I had to put in a lot of hours, usually more than 40. And that's what really didn't allow me to focus on school as well. But I really had no choice. So I was like, you know what? I'm not even going to focus on school right now. And now that the school year is over, it's hitting me that I have to graduate. I don't want to be a dropout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My mom's really worried. She's like, \"I want you [in school],\" but she also understands that we need money coming in, we're not stable. She hadn't been working because my brother had kids, so she has to take care of them while he goes to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other students, I understand, don't go through the same thing. They're OK. They're stable. They can get on the computer in the morning and continue on with their days. Some days I wake up, I have to go to work at nine in the morning, and I have to miss class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before COVID, I was honestly thinking of college. I want to attend because I would be the first of my siblings to go. My parents, they didn't even graduate high school. So, I wanted to show them that I can do more with myself. I definitely still want to focus on school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Simone Schubert, 14, Berkeley High School\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\"I've learned not to really get excited about anything because generally something happens with COVID and it doesn't happen.\"\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11870326\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/BerkeleyHighSchoolStudent.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11870326\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/BerkeleyHighSchoolStudent-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/BerkeleyHighSchoolStudent-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/BerkeleyHighSchoolStudent-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/BerkeleyHighSchoolStudent-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/BerkeleyHighSchoolStudent-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/BerkeleyHighSchoolStudent.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Beth LaBerge/KQED\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I'm kind of excited to be actually meeting the people I've been in some classes with for the past few months — my teachers and my classmates. But throughout the past year, I've learned not to really get excited about anything because generally something happens with COVID and it doesn't happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For me, I'm actually quite fine with doing distance learning, and I've got pretty good grades. I don't really know how I'd be doing at Berkeley High — it would be my first year there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are a lot of different problems with going back to school. One of the things I was thinking about was going to the bathroom, because during COVID you just don't want to touch anything. You just kind of feel weird if you bump into a bookshelf or a railing or something.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are a lot of different things the adults in charge of the school system have to think about, a lot of moving parts. For students it's kind of simple: We just think about how it would affect our lives. But this would also affect all of our teachers as well. There will always be people who are upset about the way things are, whether or not the way things are is very good or very bad. There always will be hate. What we do about it is what really matters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kai Lim-Moreno, 14, Berkeley High School\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\"I just have to look on the bright side and think ... I haven't lost any family and that I'm still alive.\"\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11869450\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS47839_011_Berkeley_HighSchoolStudentKaiLimMoreno_03122021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11869450 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS47839_011_Berkeley_HighSchoolStudentKaiLimMoreno_03122021-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS47839_011_Berkeley_HighSchoolStudentKaiLimMoreno_03122021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS47839_011_Berkeley_HighSchoolStudentKaiLimMoreno_03122021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS47839_011_Berkeley_HighSchoolStudentKaiLimMoreno_03122021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS47839_011_Berkeley_HighSchoolStudentKaiLimMoreno_03122021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS47839_011_Berkeley_HighSchoolStudentKaiLimMoreno_03122021-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Beth LaBerge/KQED\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I'm really excited to get to actually walk around the Berkeley campus and see what it's like, and get to meet people face to face that are in my classes. It has taken a long time, but I feel like we've taken longer because we're looking at different ideas and planning it out so that we don't have to worry about having to shut down again. I know they're not taking this long because they just want to make kids wait longer. They're doing it because they're trying to make it as safe as possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I feel like it's nobody's fault that teachers don't want to go back. Teachers are trying to protect themselves and their students. At the end of the day, it just comes down to somebody is always going to not be happy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the beginning of the school year, I was so bored I couldn't think of anything to do anymore. I just kept doing the same things over and over and nothing felt new or interesting. There was no mystery about what's going to happen anymore. That started to really affect me. There's nothing for me to look forward to — I know everything that's going to happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But I joined the crew team, which really helps because it's in person, four days a week. I get to see my friends and I'm getting exercise. I didn't exercise before, but I started getting out in the fresh air and just enjoying things and talking to friends more. Sometimes I'll have a really great day, and the next day I'll have a hard day when I'll just be thinking about all the things I could be doing. But then I just remind myself that I will get to do it again, that I have to live in the moment, and the more I think about all I could be doing the sadder I'm going to get. I just have to look on the bright side and think of all the positive things I'm getting to do and that I haven't lost any family and that I'm still alive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Surprisingly, I have been able to keep up academically. I'm getting challenged enough that I feel like I'm learning things. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>As their younger peers have returned to physical classrooms, high school students in Berkeley, Oakland and San Francisco have mostly remained in distance learning, though some are due to come back next week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED spoke with three students at Berkeley High School and one at Oakland's Fremont High School to hear how they have coped with this year of COVID, and what they are looking forward to when they finally \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11863282/what-students-think-about-reopening-schools-california-newsom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">make it back\u003c/a> inside their schools.\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003cbr>\nEdited for length and clarity.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sascha Amendola, 15, Berkeley High School\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\"I woke up one day and was like, 'Wow, I used to be so much closer to this one person.' \"\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11869416\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48327_007_Berkeley_HSStudent_03192021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11869416 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48327_007_Berkeley_HSStudent_03192021-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48327_007_Berkeley_HSStudent_03192021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48327_007_Berkeley_HSStudent_03192021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48327_007_Berkeley_HSStudent_03192021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48327_007_Berkeley_HSStudent_03192021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48327_007_Berkeley_HSStudent_03192021-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Beth LaBerge/KQED\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I do really want to go back to school, and I feel like I would just learn better, and my grades would probably stay up instead of maybe slowly deteriorating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are friends like my girlfriend who are like, \"Oh, it's too dangerous.\" She's high risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I'm not mad about it. I just hate the coronavirus. I want to play basketball and stuff with my friends. A lot of them are going back to in-person school. It's going to be really hard not to give them a high five or something. But I'm definitely keeping myself safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I feel like quarantine has made everybody a little less social. I woke up one day and was like, \"Wow, I used to be so much closer to this one person.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When you're with a friend, you can do stuff without Wi-Fi cutting out. Or you walk around, get food and go places. It's just a lot easier to bond with them. You know, FaceTime, all you do is just talk, you don't really do anything else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I don't know anyone that's purposely skipped class, but I know people that didn't turn on their alarms and slept in through the whole school day. And then sometimes people have joined them on video when they're in their beds, and then they're like, \"Turn the camera off.\" One time in the team sports class, someone forgot to turn the camera off and you could see them holding a video game controller, playing a game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some people, they're so upset and in pain that they don't want to do anything. Someone will be like, \"I should just kill myself,\" in a joking way. Which means they're not OK and they need someone to talk to and comfort them and nurture them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One time I was on FaceTime with someone and they were doing schoolwork, and there was silence for a little while, and then I was like, \"How are you?\" And they're like, \"Not good.\" And then they really got into it and started crying and broke down in front of me. And I thought, \"Damn, I should have seen this; there are always little hints telling you that this person is not well, and you should always pay attention.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Karina Dealba Perez, 17, Fremont High School\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\"Some days I wake up, I have to go to work at nine in the morning, and I have to miss class.\"\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11870024\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2029/04/covidhighschool-scaled-e1618851959588.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11870024 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2029/04/covidhighschool-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Julia McEvoy/KQED\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Junior year was my first time on honor roll, with my grades getting much better. Then we got into distance learning and it just went really downhill. I'm a senior, and since the start of online learning, I've been failing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I had been working before, but I only worked weekends. But then since my parents weren't working, I had to put in a lot of hours, usually more than 40. And that's what really didn't allow me to focus on school as well. But I really had no choice. So I was like, you know what? I'm not even going to focus on school right now. And now that the school year is over, it's hitting me that I have to graduate. I don't want to be a dropout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My mom's really worried. She's like, \"I want you [in school],\" but she also understands that we need money coming in, we're not stable. She hadn't been working because my brother had kids, so she has to take care of them while he goes to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other students, I understand, don't go through the same thing. They're OK. They're stable. They can get on the computer in the morning and continue on with their days. Some days I wake up, I have to go to work at nine in the morning, and I have to miss class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before COVID, I was honestly thinking of college. I want to attend because I would be the first of my siblings to go. My parents, they didn't even graduate high school. So, I wanted to show them that I can do more with myself. I definitely still want to focus on school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Simone Schubert, 14, Berkeley High School\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\"I've learned not to really get excited about anything because generally something happens with COVID and it doesn't happen.\"\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11870326\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/BerkeleyHighSchoolStudent.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11870326\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/BerkeleyHighSchoolStudent-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/BerkeleyHighSchoolStudent-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/BerkeleyHighSchoolStudent-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/BerkeleyHighSchoolStudent-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/BerkeleyHighSchoolStudent-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/BerkeleyHighSchoolStudent.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Beth LaBerge/KQED\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I'm kind of excited to be actually meeting the people I've been in some classes with for the past few months — my teachers and my classmates. But throughout the past year, I've learned not to really get excited about anything because generally something happens with COVID and it doesn't happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For me, I'm actually quite fine with doing distance learning, and I've got pretty good grades. I don't really know how I'd be doing at Berkeley High — it would be my first year there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are a lot of different problems with going back to school. One of the things I was thinking about was going to the bathroom, because during COVID you just don't want to touch anything. You just kind of feel weird if you bump into a bookshelf or a railing or something.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are a lot of different things the adults in charge of the school system have to think about, a lot of moving parts. For students it's kind of simple: We just think about how it would affect our lives. But this would also affect all of our teachers as well. There will always be people who are upset about the way things are, whether or not the way things are is very good or very bad. There always will be hate. What we do about it is what really matters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kai Lim-Moreno, 14, Berkeley High School\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\"I just have to look on the bright side and think ... I haven't lost any family and that I'm still alive.\"\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11869450\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS47839_011_Berkeley_HighSchoolStudentKaiLimMoreno_03122021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11869450 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS47839_011_Berkeley_HighSchoolStudentKaiLimMoreno_03122021-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS47839_011_Berkeley_HighSchoolStudentKaiLimMoreno_03122021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS47839_011_Berkeley_HighSchoolStudentKaiLimMoreno_03122021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS47839_011_Berkeley_HighSchoolStudentKaiLimMoreno_03122021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS47839_011_Berkeley_HighSchoolStudentKaiLimMoreno_03122021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS47839_011_Berkeley_HighSchoolStudentKaiLimMoreno_03122021-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Beth LaBerge/KQED\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I'm really excited to get to actually walk around the Berkeley campus and see what it's like, and get to meet people face to face that are in my classes. It has taken a long time, but I feel like we've taken longer because we're looking at different ideas and planning it out so that we don't have to worry about having to shut down again. I know they're not taking this long because they just want to make kids wait longer. They're doing it because they're trying to make it as safe as possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I feel like it's nobody's fault that teachers don't want to go back. Teachers are trying to protect themselves and their students. At the end of the day, it just comes down to somebody is always going to not be happy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the beginning of the school year, I was so bored I couldn't think of anything to do anymore. I just kept doing the same things over and over and nothing felt new or interesting. There was no mystery about what's going to happen anymore. That started to really affect me. There's nothing for me to look forward to — I know everything that's going to happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But I joined the crew team, which really helps because it's in person, four days a week. I get to see my friends and I'm getting exercise. I didn't exercise before, but I started getting out in the fresh air and just enjoying things and talking to friends more. Sometimes I'll have a really great day, and the next day I'll have a hard day when I'll just be thinking about all the things I could be doing. But then I just remind myself that I will get to do it again, that I have to live in the moment, and the more I think about all I could be doing the sadder I'm going to get. I just have to look on the bright side and think of all the positive things I'm getting to do and that I haven't lost any family and that I'm still alive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Surprisingly, I have been able to keep up academically. I'm getting challenged enough that I feel like I'm learning things. 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