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It was unclear how much of its deposits were above the $250,000 insurance limit at the moment, but previous regulatory reports showed that much of Silicon Valley Bank’s deposits exceeded that limit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FDIC said Friday that deposits below the $250,000 limit would be available Monday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Silicon Valley Bank still appeared stable this year, but on Thursday it announced plans to raise up to $1.75 billion to strengthen its capital position. That sent investors scurrying and shares plunging 60%. They rocketed lower again Friday before the opening of the Nasdaq, where it is traded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As its name implied, Silicon Valley Bank was a major financial conduit among the technology sector, its founders and start-ups as well as its workers. 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Instead, it has been deemed a response to hustle culture and burnout; employees are \"quitting\" going above and beyond and declining to do tasks they are not being paid for.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>How employees have changed their approach to work\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Workplace culture has gone through many changes during the COVID-19 pandemic, including with the \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/07/10/1108555815/pandemic-reinvention-stories-work-life-balance#:~:text=We've%20all%20heard%20about,conditions%20and%20career%20development%20opportunities.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">great resignation\u003c/a>.\" Some workers are \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2022/01/25/1075115539/the-great-resignation-more-like-the-great-renegotiation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">negotiating\u003c/a> for better work conditions and benefits with newfound leverage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some workers have expressed a desire for a less rigid line between their \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/07/08/1110435807/as-americans-go-back-to-the-office-some-want-a-less-rigid-work-personal-boundary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">work and personal selves\u003c/a>. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>California lost more than 2.7 million jobs in just the first two months of the pandemic in 2020, when Gov. Gavin Newsom issued the nation’s first statewide stay-at-home order that forced many businesses to close.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It has taken more than two years for the state to get most of those jobs back, and July’s upbeat jobs report indicates the state has recovered 97.3% of those pandemic job losses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now an attorney with the Duane Morris law firm, Bernick — who closely tracks California’s labor market — said he suspects California is still being propped up by billions of dollars from federal stimulus spending and the state’s budget surplus. The recently passed Inflation Reduction Act in Congress will also send more money to the state, lowering some prescription drug costs while \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/8758c06e78dc33a9e472bff6517bdb85\">helping millions pay their monthly health insurance premiums\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, Bernick cautioned, “That is not going to continue forever.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The biggest reason for the decline in California’s unemployment rate is the large number of new jobs added in July. But another factor is that an estimated 23,400 people stopped looking for work in July, reducing the state’s labor force. Some industries are continuing to see an acute labor shortage, mostly in restaurants and hotels, according to Sung Won Sohn, an economics professor at Loyola Marymount University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the labor force will go up in the future because people need to earn extra income to beat inflation,” he said. “We are already seeing so-called gig employment rising because some people are holding two or three jobs. The fear of an oncoming recession, if we are not in one already, will cause people to look for work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s budget includes $9.5 billion in refunds to about 23 million people, something Newsom touted Friday when boasting about the low unemployment rate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have historic reserves and we’re putting money back in peoples’ pockets as we continue to lead the nation’s economic recovery,” he said in a news release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the country, \u003ca href=\"https://www.bls.gov/news.release/laus.nr0.htm\">unemployment rates dropped in 14 states in July, rose in three, and stayed the same in 33\u003c/a>, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s unemployment rate is slightly lower than the one in Texas, but still higher than those in Florida and Alabama — all Republican-led states whose leaders Newsom has publicly feuded with in recent months.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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Truckers held similar \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletters/whatmatters/2022/07/ab-5-law-california-trucking/\">protests last week at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s very clear that there is so much uncertainty about how these independent drivers, these entrepreneurs, are going to be able to stay in business,” said Matt Schrap, CEO of the Harbor Trucking Association. The organization represents truckers servicing West Coast ports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The blockade, which couldn’t come at a worse time for the port, is further exacerbating longstanding global supply-chain issues spurred by the pandemic that have led to months of epic cargo ship traffic jams, with mountains of goods stockpiled on docks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.portofoakland.com/wp-content/uploads/Open-letter-for-truckers-07-21-2022.pdf\">In an open letter sent on Thursday evening\u003c/a>, Danny Wan, executive director of the port, said he had met with protest organizers, and emphasized that he understood their frustrations, offering to support them in any negotiations with state. But he implored them to allow operations at the port to resume, warning of the collateral damage further disruptions would inflict.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wan said the port had set aside “free speech zones” for truckers to protest without disrupting the flow of commerce, and warned that any demonstrators whose trucks continued to obstruct terminal entrances or exits could be cited and face additional penalties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Port officials and organizers planned to meet again on Friday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At issue is \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB5\">Assembly Bill 5\u003c/a>, a law passed in 2019 making it harder for companies to legally classify many workers as independent contractors instead of as employees. Under state labor law, employees are entitled to minimum wage and benefits such as workers compensation, overtime and sick pay. The law\u003ca href=\"https://scocal.stanford.edu/opinion/dynamex-operations-west-inc-v-superior-court-34584\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> codified a 2018 state Supreme Court decision\u003c/a> that required companies to treat workers as employees if their jobs are considered a key part of business operations. It also spurred Lyft, Uber and DoorDash to throw a huge amount of cash behind \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11843123/prop-22-explained-why-gig-companies-are-spending-huge-money-on-an-unprecedented-measure\">Proposition 22\u003c/a>, a 2020 ballot measure approved by voters that exempted most rideshare drivers\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> – \u003c/span>and that last year was ruled unconstitutional by a state court judge. (The companies have since appealed and don’t have to comply while court proceedings play out.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, a federal appeals court \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-courts-economy-business-government-and-politics-332e244b793604ba65946a3f3b99e271\">ruled last year that the law applies to some 70,000 truck drivers in the state \u003c/a>who are independent operators and don’t work for any one single company. The decision essentially requires companies that commission their services to classify them as employees, rather than independent contractors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the International Brotherhood of Teamsters called the ruling a “massive victory” for exploited truckers, the California Trucking Association staunchly objected, arguing the change would limit the flexibility of drivers who own their trucks and operate on their own hours. Ultimately, the association said, classifying truckers as employees would hinder their ability to make a living.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The trade group appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, stalling enforcement of the law, \u003ca href=\"https://www.supremecourt.gov/docket/docketfiles/html/public/21-194.html\">but the court last month denied their petition\u003c/a>, allowing the lower-court ruling to stand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Protesters say the strike is largely intended to push Gov. Gavin Newsom and lawmakers to exempt truck drivers from California labor law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So the law is going to make us into employees of the company, even though I own my own truck, I pay for diesel, I pay for insurance,” said Randeep Dhillon, a self-employed trucker. Under the new law, he said, “I’m going to have to work under somebody else. My boss is going to tell me, ‘Hey, you have to be here at this time. You have to go at this time. You got to do this many loads.’ Now, if I feel like taking a day off, I can take a day off. If I want to reject a load … I’m like, ‘Hey, I don’t want to go.’ I’m an independent contractor. I have that right.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there’s been no word on when the state might begin enforcing the law, which is still being contested in lower courts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Labor coverage\" tag=\"labor\"]In a statement on Thursday, a spokesperson for Newsom said “no one should be caught by surprise by the law’s requirements at this time,” and urged the trucking industry “to support this transition just as California has and continues to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California is committed to supporting our truck drivers and ensuring [they] receive the protections and compensation they are entitled to,” the spokesperson said, pointing to available resources like employment tax incentives and small business financing. “The state will continue to partner with truckers and the ports to ensure the continued movement of goods to California’s residents and businesses, which is critical to all of us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher, the former Assemblymember who authored AB 5 and now heads the California Labor Federation, took to Twitter this week to defend the law, arguing that it’s meant to help protect truckers from being exploited by some of the companies that hire them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What the law says is that you can’t pretend a driver/worker is an independent business to avoid paying gas/equipment, workers comp, social security, wages for hours waiting, etc. by simply saying ‘they own their own truck,'” \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/LorenaSGonzalez/status/1550088780408713217\">she said in a tweet\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Schrap of the Harbor Trucking Association says there needs to be some type of clarification about AB 5 and its impact on truckers. He pointed to the spate of industries exempted under the law, and questioned why trucking wasn’t among them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Obviously, there’s still outstanding questions,” he said. “If there weren’t outstanding questions about how this is going to apply, I don’t think any of these men and women would be down there protesting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are plenty of opportunities for truckers to become employees if they want to, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fact of the matter is, is that these individuals do not want to be employees,” he said. “That’s where the clarification is needed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ci data-stringify-type=\"italic\">KQED’s Holly J. McDede contributed reporting to this story. \u003c/i>This story also includes reporting from the Associated Press.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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But the program limits which brands families can buy, making an already scarce supply even scarcer for program participants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California received a federal waiver in February, when the shortage began, to make changes to the program to ensure formula was still getting to families that need it. Still, it took three more months for the state to expand the list of approved formula brands because of federal restrictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even with the latest loosening of the program regulations, families are still struggling to find formula. Families and advocates say the state should lift all restrictions and allow families enrolled in the program to purchase any kind of formula they can find.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At this point, at this level of shortage and with zero alternatives and selection, they should loosen the restrictions to the greatest degree possible,” said Jennifer Kelleher Cloyd, CEO of First 5 San Jose. “The way our benefits systems work, they are not quickly nimble or flexible for situations like these.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Department of Public Health said when the shortage began it tried to expand the list of approved formula but had to wait because of federal rules restricting which states were allowed to do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, inflation and supply chain delays had already curtailed formula distribution. Then in February, a recall of certain formulas and the closure of the nation’s largest formula manufacturing facility, Abbott Nutrition in Michigan, hampered the industry. Abbott makes the popular Similac brand of formula.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At first, the federal government allowed only states that contract with Abbott for their program formula to expand their list of approved brands.[aside postID=\"news_11914291,news_11911563,news_11910942\" label=\"More Stories\"]California does not contract with Abbott, so it didn’t add brands and upheld its exclusive contract with Enfamil-maker Mead Johnson, according to the Department of Public Health. The limited federal waiver the state received in February allowed recipients to exchange formula, waive medical documentation for formula and allow differently sized containers of formula to be purchased. Recipients could seek permission to buy other brands if they got a medical prescription from their physician.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time the state got the waiver, Mead Johnson was making enough formula for families enrolled in the Women, Infants and Children program, according to an email from Ronald Owens, a public information officer at the Department of Public Health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mead Johnson was fully operational at the time of the Abbott recall and able to supply enough contract formula to California,” according to Owens’ email. The agency denied a request for an interview and only provided written responses to questions via email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it wasn’t just lower-income families buying Mead Johnson formula; it was all families looking for any available brand. So as the shortage worsened, the Mead Johnson supply wasn’t enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On May 25, federal officials allowed states to work with their contracted companies to expand their lists of approved formula brands. In California, Mead Johnson agreed the state could add other brands to the list on May 26. The next day, the state released the list of alternative options for families on the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Owens wrote that the state moved to expand quickly because the rate of voucher redemption dropped significantly in May to 970,430 benefits used, from a high of 985,011 in March.[pullquote size='medium' align='left' citation=\"Kelly Sawyer-Patricof, co-CEO, Baby2Baby\"]‘The shortage has been challenging for every parent, but absolutely devastating for families living in poverty.’[/pullquote]Despite the expanded list, with so little formula on shelves families are still struggling. The Women, Infants and Children program allows substitutions, but they are limited for many families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The shortage has been challenging for every parent, but absolutely devastating for families living in poverty,” said Kelly Sawyer-Patricof, co-CEO of Baby2Baby, a Los Angeles-based nonprofit that provides necessities, like formula and diapers, for lower-income children and families. “The families we serve don’t have the luxury of switching to a more expensive brand, buying in bulk, or driving to multiple stores to search for formula.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Infants under 6 months old cannot eat anything besides formula and breast milk. Infants older than 6 months can have pureed and solid foods but also need breast milk or formula. 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Those approved for Enfamil infant and Gentlease now have more than 10 other brands to choose from, but others with more specific needs may have only one or a few options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Owens wrote that families in limited categories can request to be moved to a broader category if it’s appropriate for their infants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For families, it’s not just the formula voucher program that has been affected but the food stamps they rely on to feed their families. The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, known as food stamps, gives families a certain dollar amount for food, including formula. Some parents have used their food stamps to purchase formula at inflated prices if they could not find the brand allowed by their vouchers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But buying formula with food stamps cuts into a family’s food budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Starlyn Darby has been using food stamps to purchase the kind of formula her son Zelimir eats when she can find it. But that leaves her less to feed her other children.[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Starlyn Darby\"]‘Since there is a shortage of formula, I feel like they need to increase the food stamps to be able to buy the ones that are more expensive.’[/pullquote]“It has been more expensive and I would be lucky to find it,” said Darby, who has looked all over Oakland for the formula she needs. “Since there is a shortage of formula, I feel like they need to increase the food stamps to be able to buy the ones that are more expensive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eight-month-old Zelimir also breastfeeds, but Darby said she doesn’t produce enough breast milk for her son, who is underweight. She’s been cutting back on his formula to stretch it and trying to breastfeed him more often, but she is anxious he may not be getting enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Southern California, Stephanie Del Toro, a social work youth advocate for First Place for Youth, manages former foster youth as they are transitioning into adulthood. Many of them have babies and rely on her to help them find formula.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not having transportation, not having big circles of support, they have to figure it out on their own and that’s where my role plays a big part,” Del Toro said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former foster youth Jewell Stewart, 19, is counting down the months to when her 9-month-old, Ma’laya Sanders, will outgrow formula. Her most recent container of Enfamil Gentlease formula came from her partner’s family more than 60 miles away in Moreno Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just keep thinking she’s not going to need formula for that much longer,” Stewart said. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated April 12, 2022 at 8:36 AM ET\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From rising rent to higher heating bills, surging inflation impacts everybody, but it poses a particular hardship for people with little extra money to spare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, the Labor Department reported that \u003ca href=\"https://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.nr0.htm\">consumer prices in March were 8.5% higher than a year ago\u003c/a> — the sharpest increase since December of 1981.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While no one likes paying more for haircuts or hamburgers, high inflation is especially painful for lower-income families, whose spending is heavily weighted toward necessities such as gasoline and groceries, which have seen some of the largest price hikes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gasoline prices have jumped 48% in the last year while grocery prices are up 10%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These families have little fat in their household budgets to start with, so when inflation cuts into their limited spending power, something has to give.[aside postID=\"forum_2010101888006\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/43/2022/02/inflation-2-1020x816.jpg\"]Take Laura Kemp, a widow in Muldrow, Oklahoma, who says that her heating bill last month was $306, more than double the $125 she paid a year ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I live in a two-bedroom mobile home,\" she says. \"I don't understand what's going on. Every month it's increasing and it's taking up about a third of my income.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kemp feels like she's losing ground, priced out of even small indulgences like a McDonald's meal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"By the 10th of the month, I have $200 left,\" she says. \"The $200 a month is now going into my gas tank.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm not making it to the end of the month anymore,\" she adds. \"Even getting a Big Mac now — a Big Mac meal is $8 — I can't afford it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the weather warms up, Kemp plans to plant a vegetable garden in hopes of defraying her food bill. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The state’s immense loss came after EDD, inundated with unemployment claims early in the pandemic, began expediting the process by waiving a proof-of-work requirement. Investigators have said the rollback allowed organized crime and incarcerated people to siphon money from the state through fraudulent claims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recipients who receive EDD notices must use \u003ca href=\"https://edd.ca.gov/about_edd/coronavirus-2019/pandemic-unemployment-assistance.htm#SelfEmployment\">pay stubs, tax returns, business licenses or job offer letters\u003c/a> to prove they were employed or planned to be employed in the lead-up to filing their claim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those who filed on or after Jan. 31 have only 21 days to send documentation. Those who filed before that date, and received a payment after Dec. 27, 2020, have 90 days to comply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We probably need to implement this with compassion,” said Jesse Rothstein, a professor of public policy and economics at UC Berkeley. “We won’t be able to collect in every case.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>When Henry Genung was 4 months old, doctors cut a hole in his windpipe and inserted a tube to help him breathe. Born with a rare genetic mutation that blocked his upper airway, Henry, who is now 18 months old, will need the tube for several more years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For three months, Henry hasn’t had a new rubber tracheostomy tube even though doctors recommend that they be replaced weekly to reduce the risk of infection. Instead, Henry’s parents have resorted to soaking his used tubes in hydrogen peroxide and boiling them for five minutes. Their medical supplier and doctor’s office told them they don’t know how soon new supplies will be available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s an ongoing saga of delayed shipments,” said Myah Genung, Henry’s mother, who lives in Los Angeles with her husband Dillon and son.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11897227\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11897227\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/111621-Henry-Genung-CM-02.jpg\" alt=\"A baby sitting on a couch smiling, wearing a T-shirt. \" width=\"1000\" height=\"1250\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/111621-Henry-Genung-CM-02.jpg 1000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/111621-Henry-Genung-CM-02-800x1000.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/111621-Henry-Genung-CM-02-160x200.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Henry Genung was born with CLAPO syndrome, which causes malformations of the lymph nodes and obstructs his breathing. He had a tracheostomy put in at 4 months and the tube is supposed to be replaced weekly, but the Genung family has been unable to get new tracheostomy tubes since September because of the port logjam and supply chain backlogs. \u003ccite>(Photo courtesy of Maya Genung)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>With upwards of 80 container ships languishing off the coast of Southern California, patients and medical suppliers are worried that stories like Genung’s will become increasingly common.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/2021/11/california-ports/\">logjam at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach\u003c/a> — which handle \u003ca href=\"https://www.portoflosangeles.org/business/statistics/facts-and-figures\">40% of all waterbound imports\u003c/a> to the U.S. — has triggered shortages of everything from computer chips to paper products to kitchen appliances, and drawn the \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/10/13/biden-port-los-angeles-supply-chain/\">attention of President Joe Biden\u003c/a>. But, while many people are worrying about delayed Christmas gifts, many Californians are grappling with shortages of lifesaving medical supplies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California hospitals say medical supplies are more difficult to acquire now or are taking much longer to be delivered. Although the Hospital Association of Southern California says no one has reported any acute shortages yet, administrators are concerned about the delayed shipments that are anchored off the coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Experts say the shortages and inflation will drive health care costs up, increasing insurance premiums. In addition, some medical device suppliers are considering cutting off sales to patients on Medi-Cal, the state’s insurance for low-income people, as they look for ways to reduce costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 id=\"h-where-are-the-medical-supplies\">Where are the medical supplies?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Port gridlock is the latest chapter in a long saga of medical supply chain disruptions during the pandemic. Demand for personal protective equipment and respirators skyrocketed globally at the same time that overseas manufacturers temporarily closed to reduce the spread of COVID-19 among workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last winter, hospitals desperate for bed space were sending less-severe COVID-19 patients home on supplemental oxygen. “We couldn’t keep oxygen concentrators on the wall, couldn’t keep them in inventory,” said Terry Racciato, who owns a durable medical equipment supply company in San Diego. “The shipping backlog prevented them from getting into the country, much less getting to patients that need them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, specialized equipment like walkers, canes, wheelchairs, crutches, syringes, needles, catheters, surgical gloves, feeding tubes and suction canisters are increasingly hard to come by.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11852807\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11852807\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/1000.jpeg\" alt=\"Phlebotomist lab assistant Jennifer Cukati, right, and Registered Nurse Carina Klescewski, left, care for a COVID-19 patient inside the Sutter Roseville Medical Center ICU in Roseville, Calif.\" width=\"1000\" height=\"665\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/1000.jpeg 1000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/1000-800x532.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/1000-160x106.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Phlebotomist lab assistant Jennifer Cukati, right, and Registered Nurse Carina Klescewski, left, care for a COVID-19 patient inside the Sutter Roseville Medical Center ICU in Roseville, Calif. \u003ccite>(Renee C. Byer/The Sacramento Bee via AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In September, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/coronavirus-covid-19-and-medical-devices/medical-device-shortages-during-covid-19-public-health-emergency#shortage\">FDA announced\u003c/a> nationwide shortages of ventilators. Specimen collection tubes also have been in short supply since the summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Compounding the issue, hospitals, which are admitting above-average numbers of patients who delayed care during the pandemic, are trying to stay ahead of any potential winter COVID-19 surge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A key concern for hospital directors right now is that they’re trying to schedule an enormous backlog of patients that weren’t able to get into facilities in the last year due to COVID patients that might have needed a scheduled surgery in 2019 or 2020 or 2021,” said Dr. William Padula, an assistant professor of pharmaceutical & health economics at the USC Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics. “With the backlog of supplies in the medical sector, they might not be able to get the procedure that they were anticipating, or they might not be able to get the materials that they need to follow up from a procedure for rehabilitative care. So it really creates a concern that those who have already delayed or foregone certain procedures now have to wait more so until the supplies catch up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prime Healthcare, which operates hospitals throughout the state, has been able to shift supplies as needed between its hospitals, but has joined other health systems and the California Chamber of Commerce in \u003ca href=\"https://calchamberalert.com/2021/11/05/calchamber-practical-steps-to-ease-supply-chain-crisis/\">requesting help\u003c/a> from Gov. Gavin Newsom and the Legislature to speed up the movement of medical goods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a number of hospitals and health care suppliers saying ‘Hey we’ve got products sitting out there.’ So they’re pretty concerned about that issue in particular,” said Leah Silverthorn, policy advocate for CalChamber, which sent the letter to Newsom and the Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Increased purchasing of all consumer goods coupled with labor shortages, outdated port infrastructure\u003cem>, \u003c/em>and prior disruptions to shipping and manufacturing early in the pandemic have culminated in the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/2021/11/california-ports/\">offshore traffic jam\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the two ports have \u003ca href=\"https://www.portoflosangeles.org/references/2021-news-releases/news_111521_dwelpostpone\">reduced the backlog of idling containers by 26%\u003c/a> in the past three weeks by threatening steep fines, more than 40,000 containers have sat at the terminals for at least nine days. Before the pandemic, the average wait was less than four days, according to port operations reports in Los Angeles and Long Beach. Some ships have been anchored off the coast for more than 30 days while they await a spot to dock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s some concern about a winter surge of COVID and having access to those containers,” Silverthorn said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CalChamber is working with its nearly 1,000 health care members to track down the container numbers for delayed shipments and identify the ships.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s kind of a bottleneck of data right now,” Silverthorn said. “The data lies with each link of the shipping supply chain, and so trying to aggregate it in a convenient way is challenging.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, no one knows how many containers may be carrying medical supplies or the quantity of goods waiting offshore. Experts say the lack of data is a systemic problem in the supply chain that makes it nearly impossible to prioritize critical health care devices. No information system connects the manufacturers, shipping companies, port terminal operators, suppliers and buyers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is already 2021, but shipping companies cannot give an accurate hour-by-hour estimation about when goods will arrive or where they are,” said Tinglong Dai, a professor of operations management and business analytics at Johns Hopkins University who specializes in health care operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dai has spent the 20 months of the pandemic advocating for supply chain transparency, particularly when it comes to medical supplies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What they are producing is very important to public health,” he said, “and public health authorities have no idea exactly how much inventory we’re going to have if and when similar crises will arise in the future.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to the letter to Newsom and an earlier \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2021/10/20/governor-newsom-signs-executive-order-to-help-tackle-supply-chain-issues/\">executive order\u003c/a>, GO-Biz, the governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development, and other state agencies have been working to identify sites that can be used to store empty, abandoned and slow-moving containers that are exacerbating the backlog, said GO-Biz spokesperson Heather Purcell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11892157\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11892157\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/GettyImages-1344305961-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Gavin Newsom, wearing a black mask and standing beyond a podium with the Seal of California, scribbles in a tiny notepad.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1706\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/GettyImages-1344305961-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/GettyImages-1344305961-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/GettyImages-1344305961-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/GettyImages-1344305961-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/GettyImages-1344305961-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/GettyImages-1344305961-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/GettyImages-1344305961-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Gavin Newsom takes notes before speaking at a news conference on Oct. 1, 2021, in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This will free up crowded dock space to move integral medical supplies. Additionally, GO-Biz is directly in coordination with a terminal operator to speed up the movement of medical supplies,” Purcell said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Purcell said the state has no way to identify medical supplies other than consulting with individual buyers. Even then, the contents of specific containers are frequently unknown.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 id=\"h-shortages-and-delays\">Shortages and delays\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Cedars Sinai in Los Angeles has experienced supply chain problems acquiring catheters, syringes and blood collection tubes, communications director Duke Helfand said. However, the hospital has been able to rely on pre-existing reserves and alternate suppliers to avoid any impact on patients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similarly, Community Medical Centers in the Central Valley have experienced periodic shortages of computers, suction canisters and masks during the pandemic, according to Lucky Malhi, vice president of supply chain management. His team has worked round-the-clock to secure supplies through alternate distributors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But patients requiring supplies for home use, like the Genungs’ son Henry, typically don’t have the option to find alternate suppliers, so they have felt the scarcity much more sharply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Myah Genung said she has turned to Facebook groups where parents of “trach babies” share extra supplies. She has snagged humidifying filters for Henry’s breathing tube through social media, but more often than not, there are more people seeking supplies than there are extras.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re just having to make do the best we can,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than \u003ca href=\"http://rc.rcjournal.com/content/59/6/895#ref-20\">100,000 tracheostomy\u003c/a> procedures are performed annually across the country. Racchiato, whose supply company, SpecialCare, primarily distributes directly to patients, said replacement tubes are one of the most difficult things to acquire right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are people who are trying to sterilize (the tubes) themselves and reuse them. They’re risking serious infection because new supplies aren’t available,” Racciato said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most tracheostomy tubes are only supposed to be used once, said Dr. Maggie Kuhn, associate professor of otolaryngology at UC Davis Health. Reusing the tubes can cause serious problems, including increased risk of infection and device malfunctioning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have observed complications from this practice which can be life-threatening, including mucous plugging and airway trauma,” Kuhn said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other devices like oxygen concentrators face months-long delays compared to typical delivery times of one to two weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Complicating matters, one of the largest manufacturers of continuous positive airway pressure, or CPAP, machines \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/17/health/cpap-breathing-devices-recall.html\">recalled millions of devices\u003c/a> in June and is reserving its inventory for patients that need replacement machines. As a result, Racciato said she has at least 1,000 patients diagnosed with sleep apnea who have been on a waiting list without treatment for five months.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 id=\"h-prices-increase-while-access-decreases\">Prices increase while access decreases\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/inflation-and-the-great-global-logjam\">Inflationary pressure\u003c/a> on the medical supply market also has some suppliers concerned about how long they can stay in business. Scarcity of raw materials and logistical challenges along with the port backlogs have steeply driven up the cost of manufacturing and shipping, creating a volatile market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“(Shipping) containers have gone from $2,000 for rental to anywhere from $15,000 to $20,000 for the same container,” said Steve Yaeger, a Los Angeles-based medical supplier who specializes in respiratory equipment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the beginning of the pandemic, Yaeger said his overhead has increased 25%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you see the cost of goods go up like that, all of a sudden you’re figuring out, ‘OK are we even going to make any money this year?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Experts say inflation among medical supplies will result in higher health care costs for patients as hospitals and other providers struggle to maintain adequate profit margins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>William Padula, a senior fellow at the USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics, said the “supply chain disaster” will result in hospitals negotiating for higher reimbursement rates with insurers and patients paying higher premiums.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The natural consequence on the consumer side is … premiums will go up,” Padula said. [aside tag=\"politics\" label=\"More political coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Already, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cms.gov/newsroom/fact-sheets/2022-medicare-parts-b-premiums-and-deductibles2022-medicare-part-d-income-related-monthly-adjustment\">highest premium increase\u003c/a> in the program’s history for Medicare Part B and higher deductibles for other aspects of the program, in part due to increased utilization in the past year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In their statement, Medicare blamed the increase of premiums on COVID and the cost of that new drug for Alzheimers, which is expected to take off, but COVID is very broad. It really is about the supply chain,” Padula said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although it’s too soon to tell how much premiums will increase across the board, historically commercial insurers have followed Medicare’s lead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That gives a lot of commercial payers a pass to increase by a similar amount at a minimum,” Padula said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The resultant cost hikes have also forced small and mid-sized suppliers to rethink which patients they can afford to serve, potentially leading to decreased access for those with Medi-Cal or Medicare, which have fixed reimbursement rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California has temporarily increased these reimbursement rates for the duration of the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletters/whatmatters/2021/11/california-covid-state-of-emergency/\">COVID-19 public health emergency\u003c/a>, which is set to expire at the end of March. Beyond that, providers aren’t sure how long they can hold on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ron Biasca, a medical supplier based in Eureka, said increased costs are forcing his company to reassess what services it provides to Medicare and Medi-Cal patients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are evaluating all entitlements right now to look at what we’re making money on. We are going to have to make some hard decisions and just not accept the insurance payment,” Biasca said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roughly \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/poverty/2017/08/paying-doctors-now-will-treat-poor-californians/\">one-third of all Californians rely on Medi-Cal\u003c/a> for health care and frequently face long wait times and \u003ca href=\"https://www.chcf.org/publication/measuring-up-access-care-medi-cal-compared-other-types-health-insurance-2018/\">difficulty finding doctors\u003c/a> and other providers who will accept their insurance. And the out-of-pocket costs are inaccessible even for people with private health insurance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11897232\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11897232\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/111621-Genung-Family-Portrait-CM-01.jpg\" alt=\"The family, mother father and child, are well-dressed. \" width=\"1000\" height=\"1250\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/111621-Genung-Family-Portrait-CM-01.jpg 1000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/111621-Genung-Family-Portrait-CM-01-800x1000.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/111621-Genung-Family-Portrait-CM-01-160x200.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maya and Dillon Genung hold their son Henry in a family portrait. \u003ccite>( Image courtesy of Maya Genung)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Genung said she has tried to purchase the tracheostomy tubes her son needs online but they cost between $300 to $600 each. “You would be spending thousands and thousands of dollars a month just to purchase it yourself,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reusing the tubes fills her with worry. Henry’s condition requires him to be immunosuppressed, and reusing tubes increases the risk of infection or breakage as the equipment wears down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not foolproof because you’re not in a sterile environment. You’re at home, you’re in your kitchen, doing your best to make it work,” Genung said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A week ago, Henry was admitted to Children’s Hospital Los Angeles with pneumonia. Doctors told his parents there’s no way of knowing if the infection was caused by the reuse of tubes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The only small silver lining is that the hospital gave Genung two new tracheostomy tubes, enough to get Henry through another month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article was originally published by \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2021/11/medical-supplies-shortage-california/\">CalMatters\u003c/a>. KQED producer Keith Mizuguchi contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>When Henry Genung was 4 months old, doctors cut a hole in his windpipe and inserted a tube to help him breathe. Born with a rare genetic mutation that blocked his upper airway, Henry, who is now 18 months old, will need the tube for several more years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For three months, Henry hasn’t had a new rubber tracheostomy tube even though doctors recommend that they be replaced weekly to reduce the risk of infection. Instead, Henry’s parents have resorted to soaking his used tubes in hydrogen peroxide and boiling them for five minutes. Their medical supplier and doctor’s office told them they don’t know how soon new supplies will be available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s an ongoing saga of delayed shipments,” said Myah Genung, Henry’s mother, who lives in Los Angeles with her husband Dillon and son.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11897227\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11897227\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/111621-Henry-Genung-CM-02.jpg\" alt=\"A baby sitting on a couch smiling, wearing a T-shirt. \" width=\"1000\" height=\"1250\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/111621-Henry-Genung-CM-02.jpg 1000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/111621-Henry-Genung-CM-02-800x1000.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/111621-Henry-Genung-CM-02-160x200.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Henry Genung was born with CLAPO syndrome, which causes malformations of the lymph nodes and obstructs his breathing. He had a tracheostomy put in at 4 months and the tube is supposed to be replaced weekly, but the Genung family has been unable to get new tracheostomy tubes since September because of the port logjam and supply chain backlogs. \u003ccite>(Photo courtesy of Maya Genung)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>With upwards of 80 container ships languishing off the coast of Southern California, patients and medical suppliers are worried that stories like Genung’s will become increasingly common.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/2021/11/california-ports/\">logjam at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach\u003c/a> — which handle \u003ca href=\"https://www.portoflosangeles.org/business/statistics/facts-and-figures\">40% of all waterbound imports\u003c/a> to the U.S. — has triggered shortages of everything from computer chips to paper products to kitchen appliances, and drawn the \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/10/13/biden-port-los-angeles-supply-chain/\">attention of President Joe Biden\u003c/a>. But, while many people are worrying about delayed Christmas gifts, many Californians are grappling with shortages of lifesaving medical supplies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California hospitals say medical supplies are more difficult to acquire now or are taking much longer to be delivered. Although the Hospital Association of Southern California says no one has reported any acute shortages yet, administrators are concerned about the delayed shipments that are anchored off the coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Experts say the shortages and inflation will drive health care costs up, increasing insurance premiums. In addition, some medical device suppliers are considering cutting off sales to patients on Medi-Cal, the state’s insurance for low-income people, as they look for ways to reduce costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 id=\"h-where-are-the-medical-supplies\">Where are the medical supplies?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Port gridlock is the latest chapter in a long saga of medical supply chain disruptions during the pandemic. Demand for personal protective equipment and respirators skyrocketed globally at the same time that overseas manufacturers temporarily closed to reduce the spread of COVID-19 among workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last winter, hospitals desperate for bed space were sending less-severe COVID-19 patients home on supplemental oxygen. “We couldn’t keep oxygen concentrators on the wall, couldn’t keep them in inventory,” said Terry Racciato, who owns a durable medical equipment supply company in San Diego. “The shipping backlog prevented them from getting into the country, much less getting to patients that need them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, specialized equipment like walkers, canes, wheelchairs, crutches, syringes, needles, catheters, surgical gloves, feeding tubes and suction canisters are increasingly hard to come by.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11852807\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11852807\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/1000.jpeg\" alt=\"Phlebotomist lab assistant Jennifer Cukati, right, and Registered Nurse Carina Klescewski, left, care for a COVID-19 patient inside the Sutter Roseville Medical Center ICU in Roseville, Calif.\" width=\"1000\" height=\"665\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/1000.jpeg 1000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/1000-800x532.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/1000-160x106.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Phlebotomist lab assistant Jennifer Cukati, right, and Registered Nurse Carina Klescewski, left, care for a COVID-19 patient inside the Sutter Roseville Medical Center ICU in Roseville, Calif. \u003ccite>(Renee C. Byer/The Sacramento Bee via AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In September, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/coronavirus-covid-19-and-medical-devices/medical-device-shortages-during-covid-19-public-health-emergency#shortage\">FDA announced\u003c/a> nationwide shortages of ventilators. Specimen collection tubes also have been in short supply since the summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Compounding the issue, hospitals, which are admitting above-average numbers of patients who delayed care during the pandemic, are trying to stay ahead of any potential winter COVID-19 surge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A key concern for hospital directors right now is that they’re trying to schedule an enormous backlog of patients that weren’t able to get into facilities in the last year due to COVID patients that might have needed a scheduled surgery in 2019 or 2020 or 2021,” said Dr. William Padula, an assistant professor of pharmaceutical & health economics at the USC Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics. “With the backlog of supplies in the medical sector, they might not be able to get the procedure that they were anticipating, or they might not be able to get the materials that they need to follow up from a procedure for rehabilitative care. So it really creates a concern that those who have already delayed or foregone certain procedures now have to wait more so until the supplies catch up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prime Healthcare, which operates hospitals throughout the state, has been able to shift supplies as needed between its hospitals, but has joined other health systems and the California Chamber of Commerce in \u003ca href=\"https://calchamberalert.com/2021/11/05/calchamber-practical-steps-to-ease-supply-chain-crisis/\">requesting help\u003c/a> from Gov. Gavin Newsom and the Legislature to speed up the movement of medical goods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a number of hospitals and health care suppliers saying ‘Hey we’ve got products sitting out there.’ So they’re pretty concerned about that issue in particular,” said Leah Silverthorn, policy advocate for CalChamber, which sent the letter to Newsom and the Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Increased purchasing of all consumer goods coupled with labor shortages, outdated port infrastructure\u003cem>, \u003c/em>and prior disruptions to shipping and manufacturing early in the pandemic have culminated in the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/2021/11/california-ports/\">offshore traffic jam\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the two ports have \u003ca href=\"https://www.portoflosangeles.org/references/2021-news-releases/news_111521_dwelpostpone\">reduced the backlog of idling containers by 26%\u003c/a> in the past three weeks by threatening steep fines, more than 40,000 containers have sat at the terminals for at least nine days. Before the pandemic, the average wait was less than four days, according to port operations reports in Los Angeles and Long Beach. Some ships have been anchored off the coast for more than 30 days while they await a spot to dock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s some concern about a winter surge of COVID and having access to those containers,” Silverthorn said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CalChamber is working with its nearly 1,000 health care members to track down the container numbers for delayed shipments and identify the ships.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s kind of a bottleneck of data right now,” Silverthorn said. “The data lies with each link of the shipping supply chain, and so trying to aggregate it in a convenient way is challenging.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, no one knows how many containers may be carrying medical supplies or the quantity of goods waiting offshore. Experts say the lack of data is a systemic problem in the supply chain that makes it nearly impossible to prioritize critical health care devices. No information system connects the manufacturers, shipping companies, port terminal operators, suppliers and buyers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is already 2021, but shipping companies cannot give an accurate hour-by-hour estimation about when goods will arrive or where they are,” said Tinglong Dai, a professor of operations management and business analytics at Johns Hopkins University who specializes in health care operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dai has spent the 20 months of the pandemic advocating for supply chain transparency, particularly when it comes to medical supplies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What they are producing is very important to public health,” he said, “and public health authorities have no idea exactly how much inventory we’re going to have if and when similar crises will arise in the future.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to the letter to Newsom and an earlier \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2021/10/20/governor-newsom-signs-executive-order-to-help-tackle-supply-chain-issues/\">executive order\u003c/a>, GO-Biz, the governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development, and other state agencies have been working to identify sites that can be used to store empty, abandoned and slow-moving containers that are exacerbating the backlog, said GO-Biz spokesperson Heather Purcell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11892157\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11892157\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/GettyImages-1344305961-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Gavin Newsom, wearing a black mask and standing beyond a podium with the Seal of California, scribbles in a tiny notepad.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1706\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/GettyImages-1344305961-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/GettyImages-1344305961-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/GettyImages-1344305961-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/GettyImages-1344305961-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/GettyImages-1344305961-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/GettyImages-1344305961-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/GettyImages-1344305961-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Gavin Newsom takes notes before speaking at a news conference on Oct. 1, 2021, in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This will free up crowded dock space to move integral medical supplies. Additionally, GO-Biz is directly in coordination with a terminal operator to speed up the movement of medical supplies,” Purcell said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Purcell said the state has no way to identify medical supplies other than consulting with individual buyers. Even then, the contents of specific containers are frequently unknown.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 id=\"h-shortages-and-delays\">Shortages and delays\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Cedars Sinai in Los Angeles has experienced supply chain problems acquiring catheters, syringes and blood collection tubes, communications director Duke Helfand said. However, the hospital has been able to rely on pre-existing reserves and alternate suppliers to avoid any impact on patients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similarly, Community Medical Centers in the Central Valley have experienced periodic shortages of computers, suction canisters and masks during the pandemic, according to Lucky Malhi, vice president of supply chain management. His team has worked round-the-clock to secure supplies through alternate distributors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But patients requiring supplies for home use, like the Genungs’ son Henry, typically don’t have the option to find alternate suppliers, so they have felt the scarcity much more sharply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Myah Genung said she has turned to Facebook groups where parents of “trach babies” share extra supplies. She has snagged humidifying filters for Henry’s breathing tube through social media, but more often than not, there are more people seeking supplies than there are extras.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re just having to make do the best we can,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than \u003ca href=\"http://rc.rcjournal.com/content/59/6/895#ref-20\">100,000 tracheostomy\u003c/a> procedures are performed annually across the country. Racchiato, whose supply company, SpecialCare, primarily distributes directly to patients, said replacement tubes are one of the most difficult things to acquire right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are people who are trying to sterilize (the tubes) themselves and reuse them. They’re risking serious infection because new supplies aren’t available,” Racciato said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most tracheostomy tubes are only supposed to be used once, said Dr. Maggie Kuhn, associate professor of otolaryngology at UC Davis Health. Reusing the tubes can cause serious problems, including increased risk of infection and device malfunctioning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have observed complications from this practice which can be life-threatening, including mucous plugging and airway trauma,” Kuhn said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other devices like oxygen concentrators face months-long delays compared to typical delivery times of one to two weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Complicating matters, one of the largest manufacturers of continuous positive airway pressure, or CPAP, machines \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/17/health/cpap-breathing-devices-recall.html\">recalled millions of devices\u003c/a> in June and is reserving its inventory for patients that need replacement machines. As a result, Racciato said she has at least 1,000 patients diagnosed with sleep apnea who have been on a waiting list without treatment for five months.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 id=\"h-prices-increase-while-access-decreases\">Prices increase while access decreases\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/inflation-and-the-great-global-logjam\">Inflationary pressure\u003c/a> on the medical supply market also has some suppliers concerned about how long they can stay in business. Scarcity of raw materials and logistical challenges along with the port backlogs have steeply driven up the cost of manufacturing and shipping, creating a volatile market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“(Shipping) containers have gone from $2,000 for rental to anywhere from $15,000 to $20,000 for the same container,” said Steve Yaeger, a Los Angeles-based medical supplier who specializes in respiratory equipment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the beginning of the pandemic, Yaeger said his overhead has increased 25%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you see the cost of goods go up like that, all of a sudden you’re figuring out, ‘OK are we even going to make any money this year?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Experts say inflation among medical supplies will result in higher health care costs for patients as hospitals and other providers struggle to maintain adequate profit margins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>William Padula, a senior fellow at the USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics, said the “supply chain disaster” will result in hospitals negotiating for higher reimbursement rates with insurers and patients paying higher premiums.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The natural consequence on the consumer side is … premiums will go up,” Padula said. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Despite these measures, state officials are still working to find ways to increase the operational capacity of both ports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The backlog’s origin story is complicated. Early in the pandemic, factories had to shut down or reduce their output. Shipping companies reduced their schedules, assuming people would be buying less stuff. Protective gear was sent to locations across the globe that don’t export many goods, so some of those shipping containers didn’t get returned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, people did buy stuff — a lot of stuff. Warehouses struggled to hire enough workers to keep up with demand and they started getting backed up, leaving containers full of new goods at the ports, where they started to create traffic jams, said Chris Tang, a professor at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management who studies supply chain issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, Gov. 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Prepandemic, it was spending a quarter of the money for 2.5 million pounds of food.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Katie Fitzgerald, chief operating officer of Feeding America\"]‘What happens when food prices go up is, food insecurity for those who are experiencing it just gets worse.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cost of canned green beans and peaches is up nearly 9% for them, Altfest said; canned tuna and frozen tilapia are up more than 6%; and a case of five-pound frozen chickens for holiday tables is up 13%. The price for dry oatmeal has climbed 17%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesdays, hundreds of people line up outside a church in east Oakland for its weekly food giveaway. Shiloh Mercy House feeds about 300 families on those days, far less than the 1,100 families it was nourishing at the height of the pandemic, said Jason Bautista, the charity’s event manager. But he’s still seeing new people every week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And a lot of people are just saying they can’t afford food,” he said. “I mean they have the money to buy certain things, but it’s just not stretching.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Families can also use a community market Shiloh opened in May. Refrigerators contain cartons of milk and eggs while sacks of hamburger buns and crusty baguettes sit on shelves. Oakland resident Sonia Lujan-Perez, 45, picked up chicken, celery, onions, bread and potatoes — enough to supplement a Thanksgiving meal for herself, her 3-year-old daughter and her 18-year-old son. The state of California pays her to care for daughter Melanie, who has special needs, but it’s not enough with monthly rent at $2,200 and the cost of milk, citrus, spinach and chicken so high.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That is wonderful for me because I will save a lot of money,” she said, adding that the holiday season is rough with Christmas toys for the children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many people also rely on other government aid, including the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kate Waters, a spokesperson for the USDA, which administers the SNAP program, said there were no immediate plans for an emergency boost in SNAP benefits to compensate for the rising food costs. But she said that previous moves by the Biden administration such as the permanent increase in SNAP benefits earlier this year and a fresh wave of funding for food banks should help ease the burden. In addition, Waters said the fact that schools are open and offering free lunches and, in some cases, free breakfast, should also help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bryan Nichols, vice president of sales for Transnational Foods, which delivers to more than 100 food banks associated with Feeding America, said canned foods from Asia — such as fruit cocktail, pears and mandarin oranges— have been stuck overseas because of a lack of shipping container space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11895843\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-1227684444.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11895843\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-1227684444.jpg\" alt=\"A man and a woman wearing masks, gloves and blue shirts load boxes into the trunk of a blue car.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-1227684444.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-1227684444-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-1227684444-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-1227684444-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Volunteers load free groceries into cars at a community food distribution bank in the Crenshaw neighborhood of Los Angeles, July 18, 2020, during the coronavirus pandemic. \u003ccite>(Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Issues in supply seem to be improving and prices stabilizing, but he expects costs to stay high after so many people got out of the shipping business during the pandemic. “An average container coming from Asia prior to COVID would cost about $4,000. Today, that same container is about $18,000,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the Care and Share Food Bank for Southern Colorado in Colorado Springs, CEO Lynne Telford says the cost for a truckload of peanut butter — 40,000 pounds — has soared 80% from June 2019 to $51,000 in August. Mac and cheese is up 19% from a year ago and the wholesale cost of ground beef has increased 5% in three months. They’re spending more money to buy food to make up for waning donations and there’s less to choose from.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The upcoming holidays worry her. For one thing, the donation cost to buy a frozen turkey has increased from $10 to $15 per bird.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The other thing is that we’re not getting enough holiday food, like stuffing and cranberry sauce. So we’re having to supplement with other kinds of food, which, you know, makes us sad,” said Telford, whose food bank fed more than 200,000 people last year, distributing 25 million pounds of food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda County Community Food Bank says it is set for Thanksgiving, with cases of canned cranberry and boxes of mashed potatoes among items stacked in its expanded warehouse. Food resourcing director Wilken Louie ordered eight truckloads of frozen five-pound chickens — which translates into more than 60,000 birds— to give away free, as well as half-turkeys available at cost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For that, Martha Hasal is grateful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s going to be an expensive Thanksgiving. Turkey is not going to cost like the way it was,” said Hasal as she loaded up on cauliflower and onions on behalf of the Bay Area American Indian Council. “And they’re not giving out turkey. So thank God they’re giving out the chicken.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>AP reporters Terence Chea in Oakland and Ashraf Khalil in Washington contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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Refrigerators contain cartons of milk and eggs while sacks of hamburger buns and crusty baguettes sit on shelves. Oakland resident Sonia Lujan-Perez, 45, picked up chicken, celery, onions, bread and potatoes — enough to supplement a Thanksgiving meal for herself, her 3-year-old daughter and her 18-year-old son. The state of California pays her to care for daughter Melanie, who has special needs, but it’s not enough with monthly rent at $2,200 and the cost of milk, citrus, spinach and chicken so high.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That is wonderful for me because I will save a lot of money,” she said, adding that the holiday season is rough with Christmas toys for the children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many people also rely on other government aid, including the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kate Waters, a spokesperson for the USDA, which administers the SNAP program, said there were no immediate plans for an emergency boost in SNAP benefits to compensate for the rising food costs. But she said that previous moves by the Biden administration such as the permanent increase in SNAP benefits earlier this year and a fresh wave of funding for food banks should help ease the burden. In addition, Waters said the fact that schools are open and offering free lunches and, in some cases, free breakfast, should also help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bryan Nichols, vice president of sales for Transnational Foods, which delivers to more than 100 food banks associated with Feeding America, said canned foods from Asia — such as fruit cocktail, pears and mandarin oranges— have been stuck overseas because of a lack of shipping container space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11895843\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-1227684444.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11895843\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-1227684444.jpg\" alt=\"A man and a woman wearing masks, gloves and blue shirts load boxes into the trunk of a blue car.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-1227684444.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-1227684444-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-1227684444-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-1227684444-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Volunteers load free groceries into cars at a community food distribution bank in the Crenshaw neighborhood of Los Angeles, July 18, 2020, during the coronavirus pandemic. \u003ccite>(Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Issues in supply seem to be improving and prices stabilizing, but he expects costs to stay high after so many people got out of the shipping business during the pandemic. “An average container coming from Asia prior to COVID would cost about $4,000. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/calmatters-en-espanol/2021/10/cual-es-el-impacto-real-de-los-incendios-forestales-en-la-economia-de-california/\">\u003cem>Leer en español.\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not a single structure burned down \u003ca href=\"https://calfire-forestry.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=366d1a3e25ce4a11a4c0846c3a337ce9&extent=-13464888.411%2C4646560.0626%2C-13348704.128%2C4707786.1223%2C102100https://calfire-forestry.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=366d1a3e25ce4a11a4c0846c3a337ce9&extent=-13464888.411%2C4646560.0626%2C-13348704.128%2C4707786.1223%2C102100\">in the city of South Lake Tahoe\u003c/a>. And yet, the threat of the fast-approaching Caldor Fire cost surrounding El Dorado County tens of millions of dollars, if not more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In South Lake Tahoe, Domi Chavarria, co-owner of Verde Mexican Rotisserie, felt the devastation of the Caldor Fire even before the city was evacuated in August. Smoke had blanketed the city, and the tourists had mostly left.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When authorities ordered \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11886947/thousands-more-evacuated-as-caldor-fire-moves-closer-to-south-lake-tahoe\">the evacuation of South Lake Tahoe\u003c/a>, Verde was stocked with food, almost all of which went bad during the more than two weeks the restaurant ultimately remained closed. Produce wilted; proteins went bad; prepared sauces couldn’t be used.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All that stuff, none of that’s made to last weeks — it’s all made to last days,” says Chavarria. He estimates the lost inventory was worth between $10,000 and $13,000. None of it was covered by his insurance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11892015\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11892015 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/100821-Tahoe-Fire-Economy-SW-51.jpg\" alt=\"A man in a hooded sweatshirt and a baseball hat on backward stands behind a restaurant counter looking evenly at the camera.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/100821-Tahoe-Fire-Economy-SW-51.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/100821-Tahoe-Fire-Economy-SW-51-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/100821-Tahoe-Fire-Economy-SW-51-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/100821-Tahoe-Fire-Economy-SW-51-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Domi Chavarria at his restaurant, Verde Mexican Rotisserie, in South Lake Tahoe on Oct. 6, 2021. \u003ccite>(Salgu Wissmath for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Losses like Chavarria’s add up — to at least $50.3 million in lost economic activity for El Dorado County, according to an initial estimate shared with CalMatters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Knowing the true cost of wildfires could spur more ambitious action from both government and the private sector, experts say. For instance, tracking the costs systematically over several years could help policymakers figure out which fire prevention and mitigation strategies are most cost effective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But right now, California has an incomplete understanding of how much wildfires cost the state each year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The costs of business disruption, the cost of damage to uninsured homes, the cost of ecosystem damage, and the cost of secondary health impacts — such as those caused by wildfire smoke — aren’t being tracked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We don’t have a comprehensive picture of the economic harm wildfires cause each year, explains Teresa Feo, senior science officer at the California Council on Science and Technology and lead author of \u003ca href=\"https://ccst.us/reports/the-costs-of-wildfire-in-california/\">a 2020 report from the council\u003c/a> on the cost of wildfires in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There isn’t a statewide systematic tracking effort to figure out these costs,” said Feo. She said it took only about a month of digging into the question to realize: “‘Oh no, you can’t come up with a number. This is actually impossible with the existing data.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state does not track or estimate the cost of wildfires in a way that accounts for public health costs or ecological damage on a regular basis, confirmed Heather Williams, communications director for the California Natural Resources Agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those would always be a moving target since health impacts can occur years later,” Williams wrote in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But with more research being funded, this may be more feasible to help the state better understand the economic and ecological impacts so we can continue to make science-based informed policy decisions,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11892013\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11892013 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/100821-Tahoe-Fire-Economy-SW-24.jpg\" alt=\"A woman with her hair back and wearing gloves chops tomatoes in a restaurant kitchen.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/100821-Tahoe-Fire-Economy-SW-24.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/100821-Tahoe-Fire-Economy-SW-24-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/100821-Tahoe-Fire-Economy-SW-24-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/100821-Tahoe-Fire-Economy-SW-24-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/100821-Tahoe-Fire-Economy-SW-24-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/100821-Tahoe-Fire-Economy-SW-24-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Martha Garcia preps food in the kitchen at Verde Mexican Rotisserie in South Lake Tahoe on Oct. 6, 2021. Owner Domi Chavarria lost about $10,000 worth of inventory when they shut down for two weeks due to the Caldor Fire evacuation. \u003ccite>(Salgu Wissmath for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>The different costs of wildfires\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The initial analysis of the Caldor Fire’s economic impact was prepared by Tom Harris, an economist at the University of Nevada, Reno, for the Tahoe Prosperity Center, an economic development organization for the Lake Tahoe Basin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11892030\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11892030 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/100821-Tahoe-Fire-Economy-SW-00.jpg\" alt='A bright green garbage dumpster painted with the words \"Food Only\" full of raw chicken.' width=\"1000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/100821-Tahoe-Fire-Economy-SW-00.jpg 1000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/100821-Tahoe-Fire-Economy-SW-00-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/100821-Tahoe-Fire-Economy-SW-00-160x213.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Food inventory from the Verde Mexican Rotisserie restaurant had to be discarded after a two-week evacuation order due to the Caldor Fire in South Lake Tahoe. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Domi Chavarria)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The study estimates the combined losses of El Dorado and Nevada’s Douglas County at $93 million. And, says Harris, that preliminary estimate is low: It doesn’t include the losses in sectors like rental homes or recreation businesses. Nor does it include the lost economic activity caused by residents evacuating, and it doesn’t take into account the health care costs associated with wildfire smoke exposure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some costs are more immediate — the cost of Chavarria’s rotted food, for instance, and the fact that the fire took place over Labor Day weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s not a slow weekend in Tahoe,” said Chavarria. Tourism is about 63% of the Tahoe basin’s economy, \u003ca href=\"https://tahoeprosperity.org/wp-content/uploads/measuring-for-prosperity-community-and-economic-indicators-for-the-lake-tahoe-basin-2018.pdf\">according to a 2018 report from the Tahoe Prosperity Center\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between the slowdown in business due to smoke and the evacuation, Verde lost several weeks of revenue. Chavarria says that a month of sales for the restaurant is more than $100,000. Verde’s employees also went without paychecks for the two weeks the restaurant was shut down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nicole Smith, co-founder and taproom manager of South Lake Brewing Company, said her business fared better than many, partially because none of the beer went bad. But between the loss of sales in the company’s own taproom and the beer it sells to other local businesses, the brewery lost somewhere between $30,000 and $50,000 of revenue during the evacuation, estimates Smith.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to lost business, some figures are easier to pin down, like the amount Cal Fire spends on fire suppression.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the state, for example, does not systematically track deaths and health conditions linked to wildfire smoke exposure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The costs associated with smoke may be the largest costs we’re missing, says Feo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11890211\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Leadphoto-800x533.png\"]One study \u003ca href=\"https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1002601\">produced by public health department researchers and academics\u003c/a> tracked the use of Medi-Cal services during San Diego’s 2007 fall fire season. It found that during the peak fire period, emergency room visits for respiratory conditions increased by 34% and visits for asthma increased by 113%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Especially concerning was a 136% increase in ER visits for children age 4 and younger for asthma. That finding, the authors wrote, “is cause for particular concern because of the potential for long-term harm to children’s lung development.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A systematic effort to track wildfire smoke effects would be especially profound, says Feo, because it reaches so far beyond the location of the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2018, for example, smoke from the Camp Fire \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1969409/no-you-didnt-wake-up-to-the-apocalypse-wildfire-smoke-turns-bay-area-sky-orange-and-dark\">clogged San Francisco\u003c/a>, a city more than 100 miles away. If you can put figures on the impact of smoke across the whole state, “who’s impacted by the fire suddenly changes very dramatically, and therefore who benefits from the prevention and mitigation changes,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11892020\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11892020 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS51289_065_Meyers_CaldorFire_08312021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A red and white sign on a tall pole along a two-lane road, surrounded by tall fir trees, with smoke haze in the distance.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS51289_065_Meyers_CaldorFire_08312021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS51289_065_Meyers_CaldorFire_08312021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS51289_065_Meyers_CaldorFire_08312021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS51289_065_Meyers_CaldorFire_08312021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS51289_065_Meyers_CaldorFire_08312021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign for the town of Kyburz says, “Welcome to Kyburz/Happy New Year 2021,” while the Caldor Fire burns nearby on Aug. 31, 2021. The residents of Kyburz were ordered to evacuate for several days during the Caldor Fire. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Different approaches to wildfire data\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The current approach to assessing the aftermath of wildfires is a hodgepodge of research looking into different aspects that is not led by any one agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A smattering of data collection efforts includes:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The California Air Resources Board funding a study of the health impact of wildfire smoke statewide for 2017, 2018 and 2020, which will be ready in three or four years.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The board also funding a study of lost work days due to wildfire smoke, which will be ready in a couple of years.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Cal Fire also increasing funding for \u003ca href=\"https://frap.fire.ca.gov/research-monitoring/forest-health-research-program-overview-grant-solicitation/\">research into forest health\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n(the Department of Insurance tabulates \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/california-wildfires/2020/12/homeowners-insurers-fire-science/\">the damage to insured homes\u003c/a> for some major wildfires, but does not track damage from all wildfires each year).\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A variety of academic studies.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Academic research on the cost of wildfires tends to come out several years later, and different studies focus on different fires using different methodologies. That makes it difficult to compare the findings, or track the costs over time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These studies also are conducted based on the interests of the particular researcher, says Louise Comfort, a professor at the University of Pittsburgh and a faculty affiliate at UC Berkeley’s Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society Policy Lab.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That doesn’t give us a comprehensive view,” Comfort said. She credits a UC-system-wide effort \u003ca href=\"https://uckeepresearching.org/2021-uc-resilience-symposium-series/\">to study the impacts of wildfires\u003c/a> as a step in the right direction, but says the results are still not arriving in a standardized way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state may be in the best position to lead the effort on tracking the economic impact of wildfires. “The only thing that would give us a comprehensive view is if the state really said, ‘We want this kind of information,'” said Comfort. But the state agencies shouldn’t go it alone, she says: They should engage experts in the university system.\u003cbr>\n[pullquote size='large' align='right']In 2020, for example, a team of researchers studied the nationwide impact of California’s 2018 wildfire season, and estimated that its economic damage totaled $148.5 billion.[/pullquote]\u003cbr>\nWithout statewide, systematically published numbers, it’s more difficult to compare how different regions are suffering from wildfires, or to assess the cost effectiveness of different wildfire prevention strategies. And it may be more challenging to justify spending on expensive, but nonetheless cost-effective, mitigation or prevention programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s a question that comes up when talking about spending taxpayer dollars, Feo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While wildfire costs aren’t tracked, there are some academic studies that attempt to estimate those costs and produce mind-boggling figures. In 2020, for example, a team of researchers studied the nationwide impact of California’s 2018 wildfire season, and estimated that its economic damage totaled $148.5 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The study, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-020-00646-7\">published in Nature Sustainability\u003c/a>, captured direct capital costs, such as buildings burning down; health costs, including those related to air pollution exposure; and indirect losses such as the economic disruption of lost hours of work, as well as disruption to regional and national supply chains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The costs identified in that study exceed that of any disaster in the U.S. between the 9/11 terrorist attacks in 2001 and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, other than Hurricane Katrina, says Adam Rose, a research professor at the University of Southern California and an expert in energy and environmental economics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rose said that a standardized methodology for assessing the total cost of wildfires should be established and applied on a regular basis — and it needs to be one that can be implemented relatively rapidly, as opposed to several years after a fire. That would allow a whole field of researchers to help track these costs, and would make their findings comparable. In addition to helping make the political case for government-led fire-prevention efforts, those numbers might spur private sector action on fire prevention efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"science_1976952\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2021/09/Grapes-2048x1536.jpg\"]But not all experts said that measuring the costs associated with each wildfire season is important. William Siembieda, a professor emeritus at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo and senior member of a Cal Poly team that prepared several of the state’s hazard mitigation plans, says he doesn’t know how policymakers would make use of those numbers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What would be useful, Siembieda says, is for cities to model the economic impact of different levels of fire damage. What would be the cost if 5% of the city burned? What if 10% or 20% burned?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With those estimates, local officials could decide whether they’re prepared to absorb that loss, insure against the risk or pursue other strategies.\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What’s next for survivors?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>For a couple weeks now, South Lake Tahoe residents and business owners have been reopening their restaurants, shops and adventure outfits, taking stock of what happened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Lisa Schafer, co-owner of Wildwood Makers Market, returned to the city and drove to her shop for the first time, she felt waves of different emotions. There was the fear she’d been holding on to — that her hometown, her house and her business would all burn to a crisp. There was the gratitude she felt for the fact that they had all been spared.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I cried the whole drive,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her shop, which sells jewelry, wall decor, embroidery kits and other gifts, smelled smoky for her first few days back. It wasn’t a pleasant campfire smell. “It smelled like beef jerky,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label ='Related Coverage' tag='wildfires']Business didn’t return to normal immediately; tourists didn’t rush back to the area. All told, Shafer lost about 60% of sales in September. Her insurance won’t cover that loss of business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s clear, she says, that these fires are not going away. She said she wishes there were some sort of automatic aid for businesses and individuals affected by the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, Wildwood Makers Market will bounce back from loss of business, Schafer said. But if something happens in the winter that disrupts the holiday shopping season, that could be “catastrophic,” she says. “One more hit would not be good for us.”\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/calmatters-en-espanol/2021/10/cual-es-el-impacto-real-de-los-incendios-forestales-en-la-economia-de-california/\">\u003cem>Leer en español.\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not a single structure burned down \u003ca href=\"https://calfire-forestry.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=366d1a3e25ce4a11a4c0846c3a337ce9&extent=-13464888.411%2C4646560.0626%2C-13348704.128%2C4707786.1223%2C102100https://calfire-forestry.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=366d1a3e25ce4a11a4c0846c3a337ce9&extent=-13464888.411%2C4646560.0626%2C-13348704.128%2C4707786.1223%2C102100\">in the city of South Lake Tahoe\u003c/a>. And yet, the threat of the fast-approaching Caldor Fire cost surrounding El Dorado County tens of millions of dollars, if not more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In South Lake Tahoe, Domi Chavarria, co-owner of Verde Mexican Rotisserie, felt the devastation of the Caldor Fire even before the city was evacuated in August. Smoke had blanketed the city, and the tourists had mostly left.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When authorities ordered \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11886947/thousands-more-evacuated-as-caldor-fire-moves-closer-to-south-lake-tahoe\">the evacuation of South Lake Tahoe\u003c/a>, Verde was stocked with food, almost all of which went bad during the more than two weeks the restaurant ultimately remained closed. Produce wilted; proteins went bad; prepared sauces couldn’t be used.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All that stuff, none of that’s made to last weeks — it’s all made to last days,” says Chavarria. He estimates the lost inventory was worth between $10,000 and $13,000. None of it was covered by his insurance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11892015\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11892015 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/100821-Tahoe-Fire-Economy-SW-51.jpg\" alt=\"A man in a hooded sweatshirt and a baseball hat on backward stands behind a restaurant counter looking evenly at the camera.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/100821-Tahoe-Fire-Economy-SW-51.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/100821-Tahoe-Fire-Economy-SW-51-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/100821-Tahoe-Fire-Economy-SW-51-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/100821-Tahoe-Fire-Economy-SW-51-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Domi Chavarria at his restaurant, Verde Mexican Rotisserie, in South Lake Tahoe on Oct. 6, 2021. \u003ccite>(Salgu Wissmath for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Losses like Chavarria’s add up — to at least $50.3 million in lost economic activity for El Dorado County, according to an initial estimate shared with CalMatters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Knowing the true cost of wildfires could spur more ambitious action from both government and the private sector, experts say. For instance, tracking the costs systematically over several years could help policymakers figure out which fire prevention and mitigation strategies are most cost effective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But right now, California has an incomplete understanding of how much wildfires cost the state each year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The costs of business disruption, the cost of damage to uninsured homes, the cost of ecosystem damage, and the cost of secondary health impacts — such as those caused by wildfire smoke — aren’t being tracked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We don’t have a comprehensive picture of the economic harm wildfires cause each year, explains Teresa Feo, senior science officer at the California Council on Science and Technology and lead author of \u003ca href=\"https://ccst.us/reports/the-costs-of-wildfire-in-california/\">a 2020 report from the council\u003c/a> on the cost of wildfires in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There isn’t a statewide systematic tracking effort to figure out these costs,” said Feo. She said it took only about a month of digging into the question to realize: “‘Oh no, you can’t come up with a number. This is actually impossible with the existing data.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state does not track or estimate the cost of wildfires in a way that accounts for public health costs or ecological damage on a regular basis, confirmed Heather Williams, communications director for the California Natural Resources Agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those would always be a moving target since health impacts can occur years later,” Williams wrote in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But with more research being funded, this may be more feasible to help the state better understand the economic and ecological impacts so we can continue to make science-based informed policy decisions,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11892013\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11892013 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/100821-Tahoe-Fire-Economy-SW-24.jpg\" alt=\"A woman with her hair back and wearing gloves chops tomatoes in a restaurant kitchen.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/100821-Tahoe-Fire-Economy-SW-24.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/100821-Tahoe-Fire-Economy-SW-24-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/100821-Tahoe-Fire-Economy-SW-24-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/100821-Tahoe-Fire-Economy-SW-24-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/100821-Tahoe-Fire-Economy-SW-24-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/100821-Tahoe-Fire-Economy-SW-24-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Martha Garcia preps food in the kitchen at Verde Mexican Rotisserie in South Lake Tahoe on Oct. 6, 2021. Owner Domi Chavarria lost about $10,000 worth of inventory when they shut down for two weeks due to the Caldor Fire evacuation. \u003ccite>(Salgu Wissmath for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>The different costs of wildfires\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The initial analysis of the Caldor Fire’s economic impact was prepared by Tom Harris, an economist at the University of Nevada, Reno, for the Tahoe Prosperity Center, an economic development organization for the Lake Tahoe Basin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11892030\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11892030 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/100821-Tahoe-Fire-Economy-SW-00.jpg\" alt='A bright green garbage dumpster painted with the words \"Food Only\" full of raw chicken.' width=\"1000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/100821-Tahoe-Fire-Economy-SW-00.jpg 1000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/100821-Tahoe-Fire-Economy-SW-00-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/100821-Tahoe-Fire-Economy-SW-00-160x213.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Food inventory from the Verde Mexican Rotisserie restaurant had to be discarded after a two-week evacuation order due to the Caldor Fire in South Lake Tahoe. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Domi Chavarria)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The study estimates the combined losses of El Dorado and Nevada’s Douglas County at $93 million. And, says Harris, that preliminary estimate is low: It doesn’t include the losses in sectors like rental homes or recreation businesses. Nor does it include the lost economic activity caused by residents evacuating, and it doesn’t take into account the health care costs associated with wildfire smoke exposure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some costs are more immediate — the cost of Chavarria’s rotted food, for instance, and the fact that the fire took place over Labor Day weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s not a slow weekend in Tahoe,” said Chavarria. Tourism is about 63% of the Tahoe basin’s economy, \u003ca href=\"https://tahoeprosperity.org/wp-content/uploads/measuring-for-prosperity-community-and-economic-indicators-for-the-lake-tahoe-basin-2018.pdf\">according to a 2018 report from the Tahoe Prosperity Center\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between the slowdown in business due to smoke and the evacuation, Verde lost several weeks of revenue. Chavarria says that a month of sales for the restaurant is more than $100,000. Verde’s employees also went without paychecks for the two weeks the restaurant was shut down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nicole Smith, co-founder and taproom manager of South Lake Brewing Company, said her business fared better than many, partially because none of the beer went bad. But between the loss of sales in the company’s own taproom and the beer it sells to other local businesses, the brewery lost somewhere between $30,000 and $50,000 of revenue during the evacuation, estimates Smith.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to lost business, some figures are easier to pin down, like the amount Cal Fire spends on fire suppression.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the state, for example, does not systematically track deaths and health conditions linked to wildfire smoke exposure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The costs associated with smoke may be the largest costs we’re missing, says Feo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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That finding, the authors wrote, “is cause for particular concern because of the potential for long-term harm to children’s lung development.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A systematic effort to track wildfire smoke effects would be especially profound, says Feo, because it reaches so far beyond the location of the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2018, for example, smoke from the Camp Fire \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1969409/no-you-didnt-wake-up-to-the-apocalypse-wildfire-smoke-turns-bay-area-sky-orange-and-dark\">clogged San Francisco\u003c/a>, a city more than 100 miles away. If you can put figures on the impact of smoke across the whole state, “who’s impacted by the fire suddenly changes very dramatically, and therefore who benefits from the prevention and mitigation changes,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11892020\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11892020 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS51289_065_Meyers_CaldorFire_08312021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A red and white sign on a tall pole along a two-lane road, surrounded by tall fir trees, with smoke haze in the distance.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS51289_065_Meyers_CaldorFire_08312021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS51289_065_Meyers_CaldorFire_08312021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS51289_065_Meyers_CaldorFire_08312021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS51289_065_Meyers_CaldorFire_08312021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS51289_065_Meyers_CaldorFire_08312021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign for the town of Kyburz says, “Welcome to Kyburz/Happy New Year 2021,” while the Caldor Fire burns nearby on Aug. 31, 2021. The residents of Kyburz were ordered to evacuate for several days during the Caldor Fire. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Different approaches to wildfire data\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The current approach to assessing the aftermath of wildfires is a hodgepodge of research looking into different aspects that is not led by any one agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A smattering of data collection efforts includes:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The California Air Resources Board funding a study of the health impact of wildfire smoke statewide for 2017, 2018 and 2020, which will be ready in three or four years.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The board also funding a study of lost work days due to wildfire smoke, which will be ready in a couple of years.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Cal Fire also increasing funding for \u003ca href=\"https://frap.fire.ca.gov/research-monitoring/forest-health-research-program-overview-grant-solicitation/\">research into forest health\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n(the Department of Insurance tabulates \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/california-wildfires/2020/12/homeowners-insurers-fire-science/\">the damage to insured homes\u003c/a> for some major wildfires, but does not track damage from all wildfires each year).\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A variety of academic studies.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Academic research on the cost of wildfires tends to come out several years later, and different studies focus on different fires using different methodologies. That makes it difficult to compare the findings, or track the costs over time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These studies also are conducted based on the interests of the particular researcher, says Louise Comfort, a professor at the University of Pittsburgh and a faculty affiliate at UC Berkeley’s Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society Policy Lab.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That doesn’t give us a comprehensive view,” Comfort said. She credits a UC-system-wide effort \u003ca href=\"https://uckeepresearching.org/2021-uc-resilience-symposium-series/\">to study the impacts of wildfires\u003c/a> as a step in the right direction, but says the results are still not arriving in a standardized way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state may be in the best position to lead the effort on tracking the economic impact of wildfires. “The only thing that would give us a comprehensive view is if the state really said, ‘We want this kind of information,'” said Comfort. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cbr>\nWithout statewide, systematically published numbers, it’s more difficult to compare how different regions are suffering from wildfires, or to assess the cost effectiveness of different wildfire prevention strategies. And it may be more challenging to justify spending on expensive, but nonetheless cost-effective, mitigation or prevention programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s a question that comes up when talking about spending taxpayer dollars, Feo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While wildfire costs aren’t tracked, there are some academic studies that attempt to estimate those costs and produce mind-boggling figures. In 2020, for example, a team of researchers studied the nationwide impact of California’s 2018 wildfire season, and estimated that its economic damage totaled $148.5 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The study, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-020-00646-7\">published in Nature Sustainability\u003c/a>, captured direct capital costs, such as buildings burning down; health costs, including those related to air pollution exposure; and indirect losses such as the economic disruption of lost hours of work, as well as disruption to regional and national supply chains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The costs identified in that study exceed that of any disaster in the U.S. between the 9/11 terrorist attacks in 2001 and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, other than Hurricane Katrina, says Adam Rose, a research professor at the University of Southern California and an expert in energy and environmental economics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rose said that a standardized methodology for assessing the total cost of wildfires should be established and applied on a regular basis — and it needs to be one that can be implemented relatively rapidly, as opposed to several years after a fire. That would allow a whole field of researchers to help track these costs, and would make their findings comparable. In addition to helping make the political case for government-led fire-prevention efforts, those numbers might spur private sector action on fire prevention efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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