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Now, his administration has embraced it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 922-page playbook compiled by the Heritage Foundation, a conservative research group in Washington, said “the NIH monopoly on directing research should be broken” and calls for capping payments to universities and their hospitals to “help reduce federal taxpayer subsidization of leftist agendas.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Universities, now slated to face sweeping cuts in agency grants that cover these overhead costs, say the policy will destroy ongoing and future biomedical science. A federal judge temporarily halted the cuts to medical research \u003ca href=\"https://rollcall.com/2025/02/10/twenty-two-states-sue-trump-administration-over-nih-cuts/\">on Feb. 10\u003c/a> after they drew legal challenges from medical institutions and 22 states.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Project 2025 as prologue\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The rapid-fire adoption of many of Project 2025’s objectives indicates that Trump acolytes — many of its contributors were veterans of his first term, and some have joined his second administration — have for years quietly laid the groundwork to disrupt the national health system. That runs counter to Trump’s insistence on the campaign trail, after Democrats made Project 2025 a potent attack line, that he was ignorant of the document.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have no idea what Project 2025 is,” Trump said Oct. 31 at a rally in Albuquerque, New Mexico, one of many times he disclaimed any knowledge of the plan. “I’ve never read it, and I never will.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, because his administration is hewing to the Heritage Foundation-compiled playbook so closely, opposition groups and some state Democratic leaders say they’re able to act swiftly to counter Trump’s moves in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’re now preparing for Trump to act on Project 2025 recommendations for some of the nation’s largest and most important health programs, including Medicaid and Medicare, and for federal health agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There has been a lot of planning on the litigation side to challenge the executive orders and other early actions from a lot of different organizations,” said Noah Bookbinder, president of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, a watchdog group. “Project 2025 allowed for some preparation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plan, for example, calls for state flexibility to impose premiums for some beneficiaries, work requirements, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbo.gov/budget-options/60896\">lifetime caps or time limits\u003c/a> on Medicaid coverage for some enrollees in the program for low-income and disabled Americans, which could lead to a surge in the number of uninsured after the Biden administration vastly expanded the program’s coverage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These proposals don’t directly alter eligibility for Medicaid or the benefits provided, but the ultimate effect would be fewer people with health coverage,” said Larry Levitt, executive vice president for health policy at KFF, a health information nonprofit that includes KFF Health News. “When you erect barriers to people enrolling in Medicaid, like premiums or documenting work status, you end up rationing coverage by complexity and ability to pay.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"more Project 2025\" tag=\"project-2025\"]Congressional Republicans are contemplating a budget plan that could result in \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/02/12/congress/house-budget-draft-00002390\">hundreds of billions of dollars\u003c/a> being trimmed from Medicaid over 10 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Project 2025 called for expanding access to \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbpp.org/research/health/key-flaws-of-short-term-health-plans-pose-risks-to-consumers\">health plans that don’t comply\u003c/a> with the Affordable Care Act’s strongest consumer protections. That may lead to more choice and lower monthly premiums for buyers, but unwitting consumers may face potentially massive out-of-pocket costs for care the plans won’t cover.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Project 2025 called for halting Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood affiliates. The organization, an important health care provider for women across the country, gets roughly $700 million annually from Medicaid and other government programs, based on \u003ca href=\"https://www.plannedparenthood.org/uploads/filer_public/bf/a3/bfa35e39-14e5-43c3-8192-de42ed9309f1/2024-ppfa-annualreport-c3-digital.pdf\">its 2022–23 report\u003c/a>. Abortion made up about 4% of services the organization provided to patients, the report said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The administration’s steps to scrub words such as “equity” from federal documents, erase transgender identifiers, and \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1886102414194835755\">curtail international medical aid\u003c/a> — all part of the Project 2025 wish list — have already had sweeping ramifications, hobbling access to health care and eviscerating international programs that aim to prevent disease and improve maternal health outcomes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under a \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/memorandum-for-the-secretary-of-state-the-secretary-of-defense-the-secretary-of-health-and-human-services-the-administrator-of-the-united-states-for-international-development/\">memorandum issued in January\u003c/a>, for example, Trump reinstated and expanded a ban on federal funds to global organizations that provide legal information on abortions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Studies have found that the ban, known as the “global gag rule” or “Mexico City Policy,” has stripped millions of dollars away from foreign aid groups that didn’t abide by it. 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A federal judge on Feb. 11 ordered that much of the information be restored; the administration complied but \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/data-research/facts-stats/transgender-people.html\">added notices to some webpages\u003c/a> labeling them “extremely inaccurate” and claiming they don’t “reflect biological reality.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CDC also delayed the release of information and findings on bird flu in the agency’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. Federal workers have said they were told \u003ca href=\"https://healthexec.com/topics/healthcare-management/healthcare-policy/cdc-reportedly-instructed-ban-words-including-gender-and-transgender\">to retract papers\u003c/a> that contain words such as “nonbinary” or “transgender.” And some hospitals suspended gender-affirming care such as hormone therapy and puberty blockers for youths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocacy groups say the orders discriminate and pose barriers to medically necessary care, and transgender children and their families have filed a number of court challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawyers, advocates, and researchers say implementation of many of Project 2025’s health policy goals poses a threat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The playbook presents an antiscience, antidata and antimedicine agenda,” according to a \u003ca href=\"https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2824058\">piece last year\u003c/a> by Boston University researchers in JAMA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Project 2025 blueprint sets out goals to curb access to medication abortion, restructure public health agencies, and weaken protections against sex-based discrimination. It would have seniors enroll by default in Medicare Advantage plans run by commercial insurers, in essence privatizing the health program for older Americans. And it calls for eliminating coverage requirements for Affordable Care Act plans that people buy without federal subsidies, which, insurance experts say, risks leaving people underinsured.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s the agenda of the Trump administration,” said Robert Weissman, a co-president of Public Citizen, a progressive consumer rights advocacy group. “It’s to minimize access to care under the guise of strict work requirements in Medicaid, privatizing Medicare, and rolling back consumer protections and subsidies in the Affordable Care Act.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The White House didn’t respond to a message seeking comment. Conservatives have said implementation of the project’s proposals would curb waste and fraud in federal health programs and free health systems from the clutches of a radical “woke” agenda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Americans are tired of their government being used against them,” Paul Dans, a lawyer and former director of Project 2025, \u003ca href=\"https://www.heritage.org/press/project-2025-reaches-100-coalition-partners-continues-grow-preparation-next-president\">said last year\u003c/a> in a statement. “The administrative state is, at best, completely out of touch with the American people and, at worst, is weaponized against them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dans did not return messages seeking comment for this article.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Heritage Foundation has sought to separate itself and Project 2025 from Trump’s executive orders and other initiatives on health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This isn’t about our recommendations in Project 2025 — something we’ve been doing for more than 40 years. 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Former President Ronald Reagan adopted about two-thirds of the recommendations from an earlier Heritage guide, the group said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some instances, the Trump administration hasn’t just followed Project 2025’s proposals but has gone beyond them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The document called on the next president to scale back and “deradicalize” the U.S. Agency for International Development, an independent federal agency that provides foreign aid and assistance, including for many international health programs. The administration hasn’t just scaled back USAID. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Congressional Republicans are contemplating a budget plan that could result in \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/02/12/congress/house-budget-draft-00002390\">hundreds of billions of dollars\u003c/a> being trimmed from Medicaid over 10 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Project 2025 called for expanding access to \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbpp.org/research/health/key-flaws-of-short-term-health-plans-pose-risks-to-consumers\">health plans that don’t comply\u003c/a> with the Affordable Care Act’s strongest consumer protections. That may lead to more choice and lower monthly premiums for buyers, but unwitting consumers may face potentially massive out-of-pocket costs for care the plans won’t cover.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Project 2025 called for halting Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood affiliates. The organization, an important health care provider for women across the country, gets roughly $700 million annually from Medicaid and other government programs, based on \u003ca href=\"https://www.plannedparenthood.org/uploads/filer_public/bf/a3/bfa35e39-14e5-43c3-8192-de42ed9309f1/2024-ppfa-annualreport-c3-digital.pdf\">its 2022–23 report\u003c/a>. Abortion made up about 4% of services the organization provided to patients, the report said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The administration’s steps to scrub words such as “equity” from federal documents, erase transgender identifiers, and \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1886102414194835755\">curtail international medical aid\u003c/a> — all part of the Project 2025 wish list — have already had sweeping ramifications, hobbling access to health care and eviscerating international programs that aim to prevent disease and improve maternal health outcomes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under a \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/memorandum-for-the-secretary-of-state-the-secretary-of-defense-the-secretary-of-health-and-human-services-the-administrator-of-the-united-states-for-international-development/\">memorandum issued in January\u003c/a>, for example, Trump reinstated and expanded a ban on federal funds to global organizations that provide legal information on abortions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Studies have found that the ban, known as the “global gag rule” or “Mexico City Policy,” has stripped millions of dollars away from foreign aid groups that didn’t abide by it. It also had \u003ca href=\"https://ghrp.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s41256-019-0113-3\">a chilling effect\u003c/a>: In Zambia, one group removed information in brochures on contraception, and in Turkey, some providers stopped talking with patients about menstrual regulation as a form of family planning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Project 2025 called on the next president to reinstate the gag rule, saying it “should be drafted broadly to apply to all foreign assistance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump also signed an executive order rolling back transgender rights by \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/protecting-children-from-chemical-and-surgical-mutilation/\">banning federal funds\u003c/a> for transition-related care for people under age 19. \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/defending-women-from-gender-ideology-extremism-and-restoring-biological-truth-to-the-federal-government/\">An order he signed\u003c/a> also directed the federal government to recognize only two sexes, male and female, and use the term “sex” instead of “gender.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Project 2025 document calls for deleting the term “gender identity” from federal rules, regulations, and grants and for unwinding policies and procedures that its authors say are used to advance a “radical redefinition of sex.” In addition, it states that Department of Health and Human Services programs should “protect children’s minds and bodies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Radical actors inside and outside government are promoting harmful identity politics that replaces biological sex with subjective notions of ‘gender identity,’” the Project 2025 road map reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://flo.uri.sh/visualisation/21719665/embed?auto=1\" width=\"800\" height=\"1600\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Data disappears\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As a result of Trump’s order on gender identity, health researchers say, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention \u003ca href=\"https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/public-health/removal-pages-cdc-website-brings-confusion-dismay\">took down online information\u003c/a> about transgender health and removed data on LGBTQ+ health. A federal judge on Feb. 11 ordered that much of the information be restored; the administration complied but \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/data-research/facts-stats/transgender-people.html\">added notices to some webpages\u003c/a> labeling them “extremely inaccurate” and claiming they don’t “reflect biological reality.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CDC also delayed the release of information and findings on bird flu in the agency’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. Federal workers have said they were told \u003ca href=\"https://healthexec.com/topics/healthcare-management/healthcare-policy/cdc-reportedly-instructed-ban-words-including-gender-and-transgender\">to retract papers\u003c/a> that contain words such as “nonbinary” or “transgender.” And some hospitals suspended gender-affirming care such as hormone therapy and puberty blockers for youths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocacy groups say the orders discriminate and pose barriers to medically necessary care, and transgender children and their families have filed a number of court challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawyers, advocates, and researchers say implementation of many of Project 2025’s health policy goals poses a threat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The playbook presents an antiscience, antidata and antimedicine agenda,” according to a \u003ca href=\"https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2824058\">piece last year\u003c/a> by Boston University researchers in JAMA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Project 2025 blueprint sets out goals to curb access to medication abortion, restructure public health agencies, and weaken protections against sex-based discrimination. It would have seniors enroll by default in Medicare Advantage plans run by commercial insurers, in essence privatizing the health program for older Americans. And it calls for eliminating coverage requirements for Affordable Care Act plans that people buy without federal subsidies, which, insurance experts say, risks leaving people underinsured.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s the agenda of the Trump administration,” said Robert Weissman, a co-president of Public Citizen, a progressive consumer rights advocacy group. “It’s to minimize access to care under the guise of strict work requirements in Medicaid, privatizing Medicare, and rolling back consumer protections and subsidies in the Affordable Care Act.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The White House didn’t respond to a message seeking comment. Conservatives have said implementation of the project’s proposals would curb waste and fraud in federal health programs and free health systems from the clutches of a radical “woke” agenda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Americans are tired of their government being used against them,” Paul Dans, a lawyer and former director of Project 2025, \u003ca href=\"https://www.heritage.org/press/project-2025-reaches-100-coalition-partners-continues-grow-preparation-next-president\">said last year\u003c/a> in a statement. “The administrative state is, at best, completely out of touch with the American people and, at worst, is weaponized against them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dans did not return messages seeking comment for this article.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Heritage Foundation has sought to separate itself and Project 2025 from Trump’s executive orders and other initiatives on health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This isn’t about our recommendations in Project 2025 — something we’ve been doing for more than 40 years. This is about President Trump delivering on his promises to make America safer, stronger, and better than ever before, and he and his team deserve the credit,” Ellen Keenan, a spokesperson for Heritage, said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/health-brief-project-2025-department-of-life-hhs/\">Versions of the document\u003c/a> have been produced roughly every four years since the 1980s and have influenced other GOP presidents. Former President Ronald Reagan adopted about two-thirds of the recommendations from an earlier Heritage guide, the group said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some instances, the Trump administration hasn’t just followed Project 2025’s proposals but has gone beyond them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The document called on the next president to scale back and “deradicalize” the U.S. Agency for International Development, an independent federal agency that provides foreign aid and assistance, including for many international health programs. The administration hasn’t just scaled back USAID. Trump adviser Elon Musk bragged on his social media platform, X, that his “Department of Government Efficiency” fed the agency “\u003ca href=\"https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1886307316804263979?lang=en\">into the wood chipper\u003c/a>,” physically closing its offices and putting nearly all its staff on administrative leave while ending funding for its programs and disseminating misinformation about them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the administration risks waning public support if it adopts the project’s goals to upend U.S. health care and health policy. 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"content": "\u003cp>A measles outbreak in West Texas is continuing to spread. And with kindergarten vaccination rates dipping across the country, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/09/02/1198913177/measles-cases-are-up-and-childhood-vaccinations-are-down\">more communities may be at risk of outbreaks.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s not just kids who should be vaccinated. Infectious disease experts say some adults may need to get revaccinated, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Measles can spread incredibly fast — it’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/02/11/nx-s1-5292478/measles-vaccination-kids-health-disease\">one of the world’s most contagious diseases\u003c/a>, more than flu, polio, COVID-19 or just about any other infectious disease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.chop.edu/doctors/offit-paul-a\">Dr. Paul Offit,\u003c/a> director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, notes that just last week, West Texas was reporting 14 cases. This week, it’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.dshs.texas.gov/news-alerts/measles-outbreak-feb-21-2025\">up to 90 cases\u003c/a>. “It’s very hard to control measles,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The best defense against measles is vaccination. The vast majority of people getting sick in Texas are unvaccinated. And the measles vaccine is both safe and highly effective, says \u003ca href=\"https://wag.app.vanderbilt.edu/PublicPage/Faculty/Details/27990\">Dr. William Schaffner\u003c/a>, a professor of infectious diseases at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you have been vaccinated with two doses of vaccine as per routine, you have a 95-plus percent chance of being completely protected throughout your life,” Schaffner says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But public health experts say there are some adults who should consider getting revaccinated. That includes older adults who were born after 1957 and were vaccinated before 1968.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s because early versions of the measles vaccine were made from an inactivated (killed) virus, which didn’t work particularly well, Offit says. That’s why the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd/mmr/public/index.html\">recommends that anyone vaccinated before 1968\u003c/a> get at least one dose of the live attenuated vaccine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the first measles vaccines were developed in the 1960s, nearly everyone got the disease during childhood. So, people born before 1957 are assumed to have natural immunity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schaffner says if you’re not sure of your immunity or vaccination status, there’s no harm in getting a shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you were vaccinated between 1968 and 1989, you likely received just one dose of the measles vaccine instead of the two doses that are standard today. 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That includes people who are in college settings, work in health care, live or are in close contact with immunocompromised people or are traveling internationally.[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='measles']“If you’re traveling somewhere where there’s an active outbreak, and you’re not sure that you got two doses, it may not be crazy to get a second dose,” Ratner says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if you live in a community that is experiencing a measles outbreak, your local or state health department may recommend a second dose for adults.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s worthwhile to make sure you’re protected because adults over 20 are more likely to develop \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/measles/signs-symptoms/index.html#:~:text=Severe%20complications%20in%20children%20and,low%2Dbirth%2Dweight%20baby.\">complications from measles\u003c/a>, which can include pneumonia and brain swelling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And measles \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/11/18/780576486/samoa-closes-schools-and-mandates-vaccinations-amid-deadly-measles-epidemic\">can also be dangerous — if not deadly — for children.\u003c/a> As many as 1 in 20 kids with measles will get pneumonia, and 1 out of 1,000 will develop encephalitis or brain swelling — which can \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/measles/signs-symptoms/index.html#:~:text=Severe%20complications%20in%20children%20and,low%2Dbirth%2Dweight%20baby.\">lead to death or cause deafness or intellectual disabilities\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nationwide, kindergarten vaccination rates have fallen below the 95% threshold that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says is needed to prevent community outbreaks. 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"content": "\u003cp>When Colleen Henderson’s 3-year-old daughter complained of pain while using the bathroom, doctors brushed it off as a urinary tract infection or constipation, common maladies in the potty-training years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After being told her health insurance wouldn’t cover an ultrasound, Henderson charged the $6,000 procedure to her credit card. Then came the news: There was a grapefruit-sized tumor in her toddler’s bladder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was in 2009. The next five years, Henderson said, became a protracted battle against her insurer, UnitedHealthcare, over paying for the specialists who finally diagnosed and treated her daughter’s rare condition, \u003ca href=\"https://ajronline.org/doi/10.2214/AJR.07.3663#:~:text=Inflammatory%20Pseudotumor%20of%20the%20Bladder,-Inflammatory%20pseudotumor%20of&text=The%20bladder%20is%20a%20common,have%20been%20reported%20%5B15%5D.\">inflammatory pseudotumor\u003c/a>. She appealed uncovered hospital stays, surgeries, and medication to the insurer and state regulators, to no avail. The family racked up more than $1 million in medical debt, she said, because the insurer told her treatments recommended by doctors were unnecessary. The family declared bankruptcy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I had not fought tooth and nail every step of the way, my daughter would be dead,” said Henderson, of Auburn, California, whose daughter eventually recovered and is now a thriving 20-year-old junior at Oregon State University. “You pay a lot of money to have health insurance, and you hope that your health insurance has your well-being at the forefront, but that’s not happening at all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While insurance denials are \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/analysis-health-insurance-claim-denials-are-on-the-rise-to-the-detriment-of-patients\">on the rise\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2024/aug/unforeseen-health-care-bills-coverage-denials-by-insurers\">surveys\u003c/a> show few Americans \u003ca href=\"https://www.kff.org/private-insurance/issue-brief/claims-denials-and-appeals-in-aca-marketplace-plans-in-2023/\">appeal\u003c/a> them. Unlike in Henderson’s case, various analyses have found that many who escalate complaints to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kff.org/medicare/issue-brief/nearly-50-million-prior-authorization-requests-were-sent-to-medicare-advantage-insurers-in-2023/\">government regulators\u003c/a> successfully get \u003ca href=\"https://whyy.org/articles/pennsylvania-health-insurance-denials-data/\">denials overturned\u003c/a>. Consumer advocates and policymakers say that’s a clear sign insurance companies routinely deny care they shouldn’t. Now a proposal in the California Legislature seeks to penalize insurers who repeatedly make the wrong call.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the measure, \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB363\">SB 363\u003c/a>, would cover only about a third of insured Californians whose health plans are regulated by the state, experts say it could be one of the boldest attempts in the nation to rein in health insurer denials — before and after care is given. And California could become one of only a handful of states that require insurers to disclose denial rates and reasoning, statistics the industry often considers proprietary information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure also seeks to force insurers to be more judicious with denials and would fine them up to $1 million per case if more than half of appeals filed with regulators are overturned in a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2023, \u003ca href=\"https://www.dmhc.ca.gov/Portals/0/Docs/DO/2023Infographic.pdf\">state data show (PDF)\u003c/a>, about 72% of appeals made to the Department of Managed Health Care, which regulates the vast majority of health plans, resulted in an insurer’s initial denial being reversed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you have health insurance, you should have confidence that it’s going to cover your health care needs,” said Sen. Scott Wiener, the San Francisco Democrat who introduced the bill. “They can just delay, deny, obstruct, and, in many cases, avoid having to cover medically necessary care, and it’s unacceptable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for the California Association of Health Plans declined to comment, saying the group was still reviewing the bill language. Gov. Gavin Newsom’s spokesperson Elana Ross said his office generally does not comment on pending legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Concerned about spiraling consumer health costs, \u003ca href=\"https://kffhealthnews.org/news/tag/prior-authorizations/\">state lawmakers across the nation\u003c/a> have increasingly looked for ways to verify that insurers are paying claims fairly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2024, 17 states \u003ca href=\"https://app.powerbi.com/view?r=eyJrIjoiNDNlNTJjNzItNjQyNS00NjVmLTk4MjItZDYzZjBlNTQ0ZDA2IiwidCI6IjM4MmZiOGIwLTRkYzMtNDEwNy04MGJkLTM1OTViMjQzMmZhZSIsImMiOjZ9\">enacted\u003c/a> legislation dealing with prior authorization of care by private insurers, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. Connecticut, which has one of the most robust denial rate disclosure laws, publishes an \u003ca href=\"https://portal.ct.gov/cid/-/media/cid/reports/consumer-report-card/2024-consumerreportcard.pdf?rev=94d0c6b1e170408b974006006dbe6751\">annual report card (PDF)\u003c/a> detailing the number and percentage of claims each insurer has denied, as well as the share that ends up getting reversed. Oregon published similar information \u003ca href=\"https://dfr.oregon.gov/business/reg/health/Documents/mental-health-parity/20240915-mental-health-parity-report.pdf\">until recently\u003c/a>, when state disclosure requirements lapsed.[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='health-insurance']In California, there’s no way to know how often insurers deny care, which health experts say is especially troubling as mental health care is reaching \u003ca href=\"https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2802915\">crisis levels\u003c/a> among children and young adults. According to Keith Humphreys, a health policy professor at Stanford University, it’s easier to deny mental health care because a diagnosis of, say, depression can be more subjective than that of a broken limb or cancer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We think it’s unacceptable that the state has absolutely no idea how big of a problem this is,” said Lishaun Francis, senior director of behavioral health for the advocacy group Children Now, a sponsor of the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under Wiener’s proposal, private insurers regulated by the Department of Managed Health Care and the Department of Insurance would be required to submit detailed data about denials and appeals. They would also need to explain those denials and report the outcomes of the appeals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For appeals that make it to the state’s independent medical review process, known as IMR, insurers whose denials are overturned more than half the time would face staggering penalties. The first case that brings a company above the 50% threshold would trigger a fine of $50,000, with a penalty ranging from $100,000 to $400,000 for a second. Each one after that would cost $1 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If passed, the measure would cover roughly 12.8 million Californians on private insurance. It would not apply to patients on Medi-Cal, the state’s Medicaid program, or Medicare, and it would exclude self-insured plans offered by large employers, which are regulated by the U.S. Department of Labor and cover roughly 5.6 million Californians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The phrase “deny and delay” continues to reverberate across the health care industry after the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/ceo-shooting-health-insurance-frustration-denied-claims-rcna183805\">killing\u003c/a> of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. A \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/luigi-mangione-unitedhealthcare-brian-thompson-shooting-b53fde08980d160ee93fd08b1664108d\">survey\u003c/a> by NORC at the University of Chicago released shortly after the brazen attack revealed that 7 in 10 people said they believed denials for health coverage and profits by health insurance companies bore a great deal or a moderate amount of responsibility for Thompson’s death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following Thompson’s death, UnitedHealthcare said in statements that \u003ca href=\"https://www.uhc.com/news-articles/newsroom/uhg-response\">“highly inaccurate and grossly misleading information”\u003c/a> had been circulated about the way the company treats claims and that insurers, which are highly regulated, “typically have \u003ca href=\"https://www.uhc.com/news-articles/newsroom/false-statements-response\">low- to mid-single digit margins\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener called Thompson’s killing a “cold-blooded assassination” but said his bill grew out of a \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB294\">narrower proposal\u003c/a> that failed last year aimed at improving mental health coverage for children and adults under age 26. But he acknowledged the nation’s reaction to the killing underscores the long-simmering anger many Americans feel about health insurers’ practices and the urgent need for reform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Humphreys, the Stanford professor, said the U.S. health system creates strong financial incentives for insurers to deny care. And, he added, state and federal penalties are paltry enough to be written off as a cost of doing business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The more care they deny, the more money they make,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Increasingly, large employers are starting to include language in contracts with claim administrators that would penalize them for approving too many or too few claims, said Shawn Gremminger, president of the National Alliance of Healthcare Purchaser Coalitions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gremminger represents mostly large employers who fund their own insurance, are federally regulated, and would be excluded from Wiener’s bill. But even for such so-called self-funded plans, it can be nearly impossible to determine denial rates for the insurance companies hired simply to administer claims, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While it could be too late for many families, Sandra Maturino, of Rialto, said she hopes lawmakers tackle insurance denials so other Californians can avoid the saga she endured to get her niece treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She adopted the girl, now 13, after her sister died. Her niece had long struggled with self-harm and violent behavior, but when therapists recommended inpatient psychiatric care, her insurer, Anthem Blue Cross, would cover it for only 30 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For more than a year, Maturino said, her niece cycled in and out of facilities and counseling because her insurance wouldn’t cover a long-term stay. Doctors tested a laundry list of prescription drugs and doses. None of it worked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anthem declined a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, Maturino got her niece into a residential program in Utah, paid for by the adoption agency, where she was diagnosed with bipolar disorder and has been undergoing treatment for a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maturino said she didn’t have the energy to appeal to Anthem. “I wasn’t going to wait around for the insurance to kill her, or for her to hurt somebody,” Maturino said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article was produced by \u003ca href=\"https://kffhealthnews.org/about-us\">KFF Health News\u003c/a>, which publishes \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiahealthline.org/\">California Healthline\u003c/a>, an editorially independent service of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.chcf.org/\">California Health Care Foundation\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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They would also need to explain those denials and report the outcomes of the appeals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For appeals that make it to the state’s independent medical review process, known as IMR, insurers whose denials are overturned more than half the time would face staggering penalties. The first case that brings a company above the 50% threshold would trigger a fine of $50,000, with a penalty ranging from $100,000 to $400,000 for a second. Each one after that would cost $1 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If passed, the measure would cover roughly 12.8 million Californians on private insurance. It would not apply to patients on Medi-Cal, the state’s Medicaid program, or Medicare, and it would exclude self-insured plans offered by large employers, which are regulated by the U.S. Department of Labor and cover roughly 5.6 million Californians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The phrase “deny and delay” continues to reverberate across the health care industry after the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/ceo-shooting-health-insurance-frustration-denied-claims-rcna183805\">killing\u003c/a> of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. A \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/luigi-mangione-unitedhealthcare-brian-thompson-shooting-b53fde08980d160ee93fd08b1664108d\">survey\u003c/a> by NORC at the University of Chicago released shortly after the brazen attack revealed that 7 in 10 people said they believed denials for health coverage and profits by health insurance companies bore a great deal or a moderate amount of responsibility for Thompson’s death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following Thompson’s death, UnitedHealthcare said in statements that \u003ca href=\"https://www.uhc.com/news-articles/newsroom/uhg-response\">“highly inaccurate and grossly misleading information”\u003c/a> had been circulated about the way the company treats claims and that insurers, which are highly regulated, “typically have \u003ca href=\"https://www.uhc.com/news-articles/newsroom/false-statements-response\">low- to mid-single digit margins\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener called Thompson’s killing a “cold-blooded assassination” but said his bill grew out of a \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB294\">narrower proposal\u003c/a> that failed last year aimed at improving mental health coverage for children and adults under age 26. But he acknowledged the nation’s reaction to the killing underscores the long-simmering anger many Americans feel about health insurers’ practices and the urgent need for reform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Humphreys, the Stanford professor, said the U.S. health system creates strong financial incentives for insurers to deny care. And, he added, state and federal penalties are paltry enough to be written off as a cost of doing business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The more care they deny, the more money they make,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Increasingly, large employers are starting to include language in contracts with claim administrators that would penalize them for approving too many or too few claims, said Shawn Gremminger, president of the National Alliance of Healthcare Purchaser Coalitions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gremminger represents mostly large employers who fund their own insurance, are federally regulated, and would be excluded from Wiener’s bill. But even for such so-called self-funded plans, it can be nearly impossible to determine denial rates for the insurance companies hired simply to administer claims, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While it could be too late for many families, Sandra Maturino, of Rialto, said she hopes lawmakers tackle insurance denials so other Californians can avoid the saga she endured to get her niece treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She adopted the girl, now 13, after her sister died. Her niece had long struggled with self-harm and violent behavior, but when therapists recommended inpatient psychiatric care, her insurer, Anthem Blue Cross, would cover it for only 30 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For more than a year, Maturino said, her niece cycled in and out of facilities and counseling because her insurance wouldn’t cover a long-term stay. Doctors tested a laundry list of prescription drugs and doses. 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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco supervisors hope to use Mayor Daniel Lurie’s recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12024579/luries-sf-fentanyl-emergency-ordinance-sails-through-its-first-test\">expansion of executive powers\u003c/a> in a new push to combat drug dealing — one that would bring an outside expert’s approach despite a looming \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12021378/sf-mayor-daniel-lurie-freezes-most-city-hiring-on-day-1-in-office\">$840 million budget deficit\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday, Supervisors Bilal Mahmood and Matt Dorsey will propose a new framework for law enforcement to shut down outdoor drug markets. The proposal comes as Lurie has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12020848/now-sf-mayor-lurie-unveils-emergency-plans-drug-homelessness-crises\">vowed to reduce drug dealing\u003c/a> on city streets with increased police enforcement, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026575/a-new-triage-center-opened-in-san-francisco-but-questions-remain\">opening new command centers\u003c/a> in the Tenderloin and South of Market, despite concern from some addiction experts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal draws from work by David Kennedy, a criminal justice professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice at the City University of New York. The supervisors are also calling on the mayor to hire Kennedy to help devise a plan to keep drug sales off the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Once a market closes down on one block, you have to make sure it stays closed,” said Mahmood, whose district includes the Tenderloin, a neighborhood long plagued by drug dealing on sidewalks and other public spaces. “We have to develop a new solution.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The framework aims to improve interdepartmental communication started by former Mayor London Breed under the Drug Market Agency Coordination Center, which includes the city’s police department, public health department, emergency management and other agencies. Kennedy’s approach also emphasizes deterrence, including deploying more community ambassadors for nighttime patrols and expanding job training to prevent people from entering or returning to the drug trade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Dorsey, who oversees the SoMa neighborhood, first attempted to introduce Kennedy’s plan in 2023 after he joined the board, it gained little traction. However, the political landscape has shifted since, with the board now holding a moderate majority aligned with Lurie’s public safety priorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>”For the first time in recent years, all of the downtown supervisors are allies when it comes to public safety,” Dorsey said. “This is something we are closer to being able to implement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12026726\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12026726\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_SFPOLICETRIAGE_GC-20-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_SFPOLICETRIAGE_GC-20-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_SFPOLICETRIAGE_GC-20-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_SFPOLICETRIAGE_GC-20-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_SFPOLICETRIAGE_GC-20-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_SFPOLICETRIAGE_GC-20-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_SFPOLICETRIAGE_GC-20-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">James Patrick McDonald on Sixth Street in San Francisco after visiting the outdoor triage center to get a shelter space on Feb. 11, 2025. He has a broken hip. “I’ve been on the streets so long, I just want off,” he said. “I just want to cry.” \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At least three supervisors have expressed support for the resolution, which will be introduced at the full board meeting on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Lurie supports the idea, Mahmood and Dorsey may not need to get buy-in from all of their colleagues. Earlier this month, Lurie signed legislation allowing the city to more quickly hire and contract work for services related to the overdose crisis and homelessness by limiting certain requirements for board approval.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahmood said hiring Kennedy and swiftly implementing any future drug market response plans that come from the partnership “would not be possible” without the mayor’s newly expanded powers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It streamlines us to contract with professor David Kennedy and fund some of these public safety initiatives,” Mahmood said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for the mayor’s office said, like previous administrations, Lurie will not comment on proposed resolutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dorsey acknowledged the potential friction in bringing in an outside expert to assess San Francisco’s challenges and help the city find a solution that various agencies can agree on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It can be a real challenge to have someone come in and tell us what to do when we don’t have enough police to do the basics,” Dorsey said. “In my mind, we should.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11997276\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11997276\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/TenderloinD5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/TenderloinD5.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/TenderloinD5-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/TenderloinD5-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/TenderloinD5-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/TenderloinD5-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/TenderloinD5-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People sit on the sidewalk in the Tenderloin neighborhood in San Francisco on April 5, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Another potential hurdle? Kennedy could cost roughly $550,000 over two years, according to estimates Dorsey previously shared.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s 100% justified,” said Board of Supervisors President Rafael Mandelman, who supports the proposal. “This is having an impact on our local economy. Every day, this is impacting our general fund monumentally.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The supervisors are hoping to lean on Kennedy’s roughly 30 years of working with local governments and law enforcement agencies to shut down outdoor drug markets in states such as North Carolina and Tennessee. His \u003ca href=\"https://nnscommunities.org/strategies/drug-market-intervention-2/\">Drug Market Intervention strategy\u003c/a> focuses on deterrence by arresting violent drug dealers and giving nonviolent dealers a choice: quit selling and agree to participate in social services or go to jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kennedy developed the model in 2004 before fentanyl, an opioid 50 times stronger than heroin, hit U.S. cities. His approach has been \u003ca href=\"https://billypenn.com/2024/07/01/philadelphia-kensington-drug-market-shutdown/\">adapted in multiple cities\u003c/a>.[aside postID=news_12026575 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_SFPOLICETRIAGE_GC-12-KQED.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, 633 people died of accidental overdose in 2024, a drop from 2023 when the city had its highest year for overdose deaths — 810 — on record, according to data from the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. Last month, 59 people died of accidental drug overdoses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisors supporting the proposal acknowledged potential health risks from disrupting drug dealing patterns, such as \u003ca href=\"https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/full/10.2105/AJPH.2023.307291?role=tab\">increased overdose risk\u003c/a>. But Mahmood and Dorsey believe Kennedy’s model should complement public health approaches to address overdoses and addiction, from connecting users to treatment to distributing overdose-reversal medications like Narcan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahmood said he also supports ideas like former Supervisor Dean Preston’s push to introduce a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014887/sf-report-offers-zurich-style-overdose-prevention-plan\">successful method used in Zurich, Switzerland\u003c/a>, for combating drug dealing and overdoses. It calls for greater cooperation between health and police agencies and supports supervised consumption sites where people can use drugs away from the sidewalk and under medical supervision in case of an overdose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All of these things have to be considered simultaneously,” Mahmood said. “Holistically, we have to arrest dealers, and that has to be done in complement with helping people on the street struggling with addiction.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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However, the political landscape has shifted since, with the board now holding a moderate majority aligned with Lurie’s public safety priorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>”For the first time in recent years, all of the downtown supervisors are allies when it comes to public safety,” Dorsey said. “This is something we are closer to being able to implement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12026726\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12026726\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_SFPOLICETRIAGE_GC-20-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_SFPOLICETRIAGE_GC-20-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_SFPOLICETRIAGE_GC-20-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_SFPOLICETRIAGE_GC-20-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_SFPOLICETRIAGE_GC-20-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_SFPOLICETRIAGE_GC-20-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_SFPOLICETRIAGE_GC-20-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">James Patrick McDonald on Sixth Street in San Francisco after visiting the outdoor triage center to get a shelter space on Feb. 11, 2025. He has a broken hip. “I’ve been on the streets so long, I just want off,” he said. “I just want to cry.” \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At least three supervisors have expressed support for the resolution, which will be introduced at the full board meeting on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Lurie supports the idea, Mahmood and Dorsey may not need to get buy-in from all of their colleagues. Earlier this month, Lurie signed legislation allowing the city to more quickly hire and contract work for services related to the overdose crisis and homelessness by limiting certain requirements for board approval.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahmood said hiring Kennedy and swiftly implementing any future drug market response plans that come from the partnership “would not be possible” without the mayor’s newly expanded powers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It streamlines us to contract with professor David Kennedy and fund some of these public safety initiatives,” Mahmood said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for the mayor’s office said, like previous administrations, Lurie will not comment on proposed resolutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dorsey acknowledged the potential friction in bringing in an outside expert to assess San Francisco’s challenges and help the city find a solution that various agencies can agree on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It can be a real challenge to have someone come in and tell us what to do when we don’t have enough police to do the basics,” Dorsey said. “In my mind, we should.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11997276\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11997276\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/TenderloinD5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/TenderloinD5.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/TenderloinD5-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/TenderloinD5-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/TenderloinD5-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/TenderloinD5-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/TenderloinD5-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People sit on the sidewalk in the Tenderloin neighborhood in San Francisco on April 5, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Another potential hurdle? Kennedy could cost roughly $550,000 over two years, according to estimates Dorsey previously shared.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s 100% justified,” said Board of Supervisors President Rafael Mandelman, who supports the proposal. “This is having an impact on our local economy. Every day, this is impacting our general fund monumentally.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The supervisors are hoping to lean on Kennedy’s roughly 30 years of working with local governments and law enforcement agencies to shut down outdoor drug markets in states such as North Carolina and Tennessee. His \u003ca href=\"https://nnscommunities.org/strategies/drug-market-intervention-2/\">Drug Market Intervention strategy\u003c/a> focuses on deterrence by arresting violent drug dealers and giving nonviolent dealers a choice: quit selling and agree to participate in social services or go to jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kennedy developed the model in 2004 before fentanyl, an opioid 50 times stronger than heroin, hit U.S. cities. His approach has been \u003ca href=\"https://billypenn.com/2024/07/01/philadelphia-kensington-drug-market-shutdown/\">adapted in multiple cities\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, 633 people died of accidental overdose in 2024, a drop from 2023 when the city had its highest year for overdose deaths — 810 — on record, according to data from the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. Last month, 59 people died of accidental drug overdoses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisors supporting the proposal acknowledged potential health risks from disrupting drug dealing patterns, such as \u003ca href=\"https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/full/10.2105/AJPH.2023.307291?role=tab\">increased overdose risk\u003c/a>. But Mahmood and Dorsey believe Kennedy’s model should complement public health approaches to address overdoses and addiction, from connecting users to treatment to distributing overdose-reversal medications like Narcan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahmood said he also supports ideas like former Supervisor Dean Preston’s push to introduce a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014887/sf-report-offers-zurich-style-overdose-prevention-plan\">successful method used in Zurich, Switzerland\u003c/a>, for combating drug dealing and overdoses. It calls for greater cooperation between health and police agencies and supports supervised consumption sites where people can use drugs away from the sidewalk and under medical supervision in case of an overdose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All of these things have to be considered simultaneously,” Mahmood said. “Holistically, we have to arrest dealers, and that has to be done in complement with helping people on the street struggling with addiction.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>If the flu has hit your household this winter — or your workplace or your friend group — you’re not alone. The Bay Area is in the middle of a particularly pronounced wave of influenza infections, mirroring a wave across California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As anyone who’s had the flu can attest, the virus is no joke. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that this season alone, nationwide, there have been \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/fluview/surveillance\">at least 29 million illnesses, 370,000 hospitalizations, and 16,000 deaths\u003c/a> from flu so far. The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) said it has received reports of 11 children in California who have died due to flu-related complications this season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to: \u003ca href=\"#whereflushot\">Where to find a flu shot in the Bay Area\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CDC also warns that the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/fluview/surveillance\">flu is also proving deadlier in the U.S. than COVID-19 this season\u003c/a>. The week ending Jan. 25 was the first time that the percentage of deaths for influenza was higher than those for COVID-19 — and flu deaths have continued to increase throughout this season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is one piece of good news: If you didn’t get your shot in the last months of 2024, you can still get vaccinated now and increase your protection against the current wave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As long as flu is circulating in our communities, it’s not too late to get your flu vaccine,” said Dr. Erica Pan, CDPH Director and State Public Health Officer. “As a parent and a pediatrician, I ensure my family gets the flu vaccine every year because I am confident the flu vaccine is safe and can help prevent serious illness, like pneumonia and hospitalization.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Where are we right now in flu season?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/CDPH%20Document%20Library/Respiratory-Viruses/Respiratory-Virus-Report/RespiratoryVirusReportWeek6.pdf\">The current statewide test positivity rate for the flu\u003c/a> — that is, the percentage of tests taken that return a positive result — is 26.7%, placing it in CDPH’s “high” category. By contrast, the latest test positivity rate for COVID-19 is 2.6%, which is in the agency’s “low” category.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flu represents 8% of hospital visits around the country right now, said Dr. Yvonne Maldonado, a pediatric infectious disease expert at Stanford. That’s “higher than we’ve actually seen since this particular strain of flu, the H1N1 flu, showed up as a pandemic in 2009,” she said. “So it’s actually pretty historic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flu season tends to run from October to March, Maldonado said. While she and her colleagues actually thought this season had reached its peak “a couple of weeks ago,” she said, “the numbers just haven’t gone down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Flu did a little trick on us because it looked like it was peaking” a couple of weeks ago, Maldonado said. “It came down a little bit — and then it popped up even higher.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it comes to Bay Area hospital admissions, “We’re definitely getting crunched,” she said, “because the numbers are higher, more people are getting flu, and more people are being hospitalized or coming into the emergency department.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Can I still get a flu shot now?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Yes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Experts usually recommend that people seek out their flu shot in the fall, ahead of the coming winter wave of infections, and the CDC recommends that everyone 6 months and older get an annual flu vaccine “\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/flu/prevention/index.html\">ideally by the end of October\u003c/a>.” However, the CDC also said that people “should continue to get vaccinated as long as flu viruses pose a threat to their community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means that if you forgot to get your shot back in the last months of 2024 — and you haven’t been hit by a flu infection yourself this winter — it’s not too late to get the vaccine now and increase your protection against the current wave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[aside label=’Related Coverage' tag='health']\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you can and are interested, and you think you’re at risk, people should still get vaccinated,” Maldonado said. “There’s still time because it takes about two weeks or so for the antibodies to really kick in hard. And I do think that the risk is out there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What if you got your flu shot in the fall, after all? “We don’t recommend a second dose at this time,” Maldonado said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The flu vaccine reduces your risks of severe illness and hospitalization. The virus can be especially dangerous for kids, and the CDC said that a 2022 study showed that flu vaccination reduced children’s risk of severe, life-threatening influenza by 75%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite this, vaccination rates among all Americans aged 6 months and older during the 2022–23 flu season was 49.3% — a slight drop from the previous year. And this year, CDPH said their data shows “\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/CDPH%20Document%20Library/Respiratory-Viruses/Respiratory-Virus-Report/RespiratoryVirusReportWeek6.pdf\">only a small percentage of eligible Californians have received the appropriate respiratory virus vaccines\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"whereflushot\">\u003c/a>Where can I still find a flu shot?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If you have health insurance, a flu shot is covered and available without extra cost as a preventive service from your usual health care provider. It’s also available at most pharmacies (see below).\u003cbr>\nCommon places to find a flu shot appointment, walk-in site or drive-thru flu shot:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.vaccines.gov/find-vaccines/\">CDC’s Find Flu Vaccines tool\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://mydoctor.kaiserpermanente.org/ncal/cold-and-flu/prevention#/prevention\">Kaiser Permanente flu shots (Northern California)\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cvs.com/immunizations/flu\">CVS flu shots\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.walgreens.com/topic/pharmacy/seasonal-flu.jsp?ban=flu_fy21_influenzapage\">Walgreens flu shots\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.riteaid.com/pharmacy/scheduler\">Rite Aid flu shots\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.costco.com/Pharmacy/adult-immunization-program.html\">Costco Pharmacy flu shots\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.albertsons.com/pharmacy/pharmacy-services/immunizations.html\">Albertsons (Safeway) flu shots\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>Where can I get a flu shot if I don’t have health insurance?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If you want a flu shot but don’t have health insurance, you can get the vaccine free of charge from several providers and community clinics around the Bay Area. (You can also technically use these free services even if you do have insurance, but you may consider choosing to reserve these particular resources for those without coverage.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Your county’s public health department may also be offering flu shots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Places to get a free or low-cost flu shot in the Bay Area include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfcdcp.org/aitc/aitc-regular-prices-low-cost-or-free-vaccines/\">San Francisco Department of Public Health’s AITC clinic\u003c/a> (offers a pay-what-you-can option.)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://cchealth.org/immunization/clinics.php#Uninsured\">Contra Costa Public Health Immunization Clinic\u003c/a> (flu shots are $15 for adults over 19, but fees may be waived if you’re unable to pay.)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://cchealth.org/immunization/clinics.php#Uninsured\">Alameda County Immunization Clinics\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story contains reporting by KQED’s Nina Thorsen.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>More than 40 years after the national HIV/AIDS epidemic began, San Francisco still holds the reminders — in memorials, in murals, in the stories of survivors and in the voids left by the tens of thousands of deaths — of the deep loss suffered during that time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I came of age as a gay man in the late 1980s during the absolute worst period in the AIDS crisis, with gay men and others having a mass die-off,” state Sen. Scott Wiener said. “It was absolutely terrifying.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That story is not just one of loss but also eventual triumph. Medical advancements mean that people with HIV can live longer with minimal to no risk of transmitting the disease to partners. And highly effective preventative treatments like preexposure prophylaxis, better known as PrEP, help people avoid contracting HIV.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When PrEP came around, for me and for so many other people, it was a game changer that we actually had a tool to protect our health and to stay negative,” said Wiener, who was the first elected official to publicly acknowledge being on the medication. “PrEP is an absolutely essential part of any strategy to end new HIV infections.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public health experts now hope to dramatically reduce the number of HIV transmissions by the end of the decade, but a lawsuit filed by a business in Texas against parts of the Affordable Care Act could derail ambitions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12004484\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12004484\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/AIDSLifecycleGetty1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1271\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/AIDSLifecycleGetty1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/AIDSLifecycleGetty1-800x508.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/AIDSLifecycleGetty1-1020x648.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/AIDSLifecycleGetty1-160x102.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/AIDSLifecycleGetty1-1536x976.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/AIDSLifecycleGetty1-1920x1220.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A crowd cheers on cyclists at the beginning of the second annual AIDS/LifeCycle event on June 8, 2003, in San Francisco, California. More than 1,500 cyclists are taking part in a 585-mile tour from San Francisco to Los Angeles over seven days to raise money for AIDS and HIV services. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit, currently under review by the Supreme Court, questions the constitutionality of a mandate requiring that health care providers offer some preventative care, including for HIV, at no cost. In response, Bay Area legislators are pushing to enshrine the no-cost mandate for HIV prevention medication in state law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener and Assemblymember Matt Haney introduced legislation in the state Assembly on Thursday that seeks to protect the no-cost-sharing requirement for existing HIV prevention treatments — and for treatments that could become publicly available in the coming years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are so many people who have lost their lives, who have lost loved ones over a number of decades,” Haney said. “California, I think, has a responsibility — certainly San Francisco does as well, to step up and say this medication needs to be protected. It needs to be made available for all who need it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11968984 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231204-WORLD-AIDS-DAY-GETTY-JS-KQED-1020x645.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A Promising Future for PrEP\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In 1987, San Francisco reported roughly 5,000 new HIV cases per year. In recent years, that figure has fallen below 200 and is trending downward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public health experts attribute that drop in large part to the development of preventative treatments like PrEP. The medication most commonly comes in pill form and is taken daily or before sexual activity to reduce transmission risk. Postexposure prophylaxis, known as PEP, is taken in the hours after sexual activity for the same purpose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Food and Drug Administration approved PrEP in 2012. In the years since, San Francisco has seen a 67% decline in new HIV diagnoses, according to Susan Buchbinder, director of Bridge HIV, an HIV prevention research unit within the San Francisco Department of Public Health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force gave PrEP an A rating, which means that there’s really substantial evidence that it makes a dramatic difference in prevention of HIV acquisition,” Buchbinder said. “So it should be covered for everyone, free of charge. That’s not always the case, but it should be the case. And it really would make a huge difference.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An injectable version of PrEP requires a shot every two months, and a dosage that lasts six months is currently under FDA review. The proposed legislation would require healthcare providers to offer an option for oral medication and different injection cycles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12010450\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12010450\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241021-SFUSD-BREED-STATE-PRESSER-MD-09-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241021-SFUSD-BREED-STATE-PRESSER-MD-09-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241021-SFUSD-BREED-STATE-PRESSER-MD-09-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241021-SFUSD-BREED-STATE-PRESSER-MD-09-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241021-SFUSD-BREED-STATE-PRESSER-MD-09-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241021-SFUSD-BREED-STATE-PRESSER-MD-09-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241021-SFUSD-BREED-STATE-PRESSER-MD-09-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">State Sen. Scott Wiener speaks at a press event in front of the SFUSD offices in San Francisco on Oct. 21, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“What we want to do is not only ensure that insurance providers in California cover this critical preventative care that can help us eliminate HIV transmissions,” Haney said. “But also that we cover these new forms of medication that will be even more effective because they cover people for longer periods of time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Buchbinder believes the six-month version of PrEP will be enticing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know that an every-six-month injectable will appeal to some people and could really make a difference in increasing the number of people who are on PrEP because, for some people, taking a daily pill isn’t very practical,” Buchbinder said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Working Toward Zero HIV Transmissions Eradicating HIV in the United States has been a goal for many since the epidemic first broke out. In 2019, President Donald Trump set a deadline to end the disease within a decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Scientific breakthroughs have brought a once-distant dream within reach. My budget will ask Democrats and Republicans to make the needed commitment to eliminate the HIV epidemic in the United States within 10 years,” Trump said during his State of the Union address.[aside postID=forum_2010101883856 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/43/2021/06/GettyImages-72693997-1-1020x574.jpg']An initiative led by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Ending the HIV Epidemic in the U.S., set out to decrease transmissions by 75% by 2025 and 90% by 2030. However, 2023 had more than 38,000 cases nationwide, according to preliminary data. That’s up from the more than 36,000 documented cases in 2019, the year Trump made his pledge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Locally, things look more hopeful. Not only are new yearly transmissions in the low hundreds, but other data points look promising as well. Of the people who have HIV in San Francisco, 95% are estimated to be aware of their status, and more than 90% receive care within one month of diagnosis, according to federal data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So many people have not only dreamed but have worked towards this reality that we are now able to actualize,” Haney said. “Because of this medication, we can actually get to zero new transmissions a year, and there are so many people who have lost their lives, who have lost loved ones over a number of decades who have dreamed of this moment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Buchbinder acknowledged it is an aggressive target.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are really working hard on that goal here in San Francisco … We think that there need to be additional tools that would help get us towards that goal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Buchbinder did not express confidence that new cases could be all but eliminated by the turn of the decade, she was confident that keeping the medication affordable and accessible is key to continuing current trends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cost is always an issue, particularly for preventive treatments,” she said. “People often don’t have the funds to pay for PrEP, and so having government coverage of that and having insurance coverage of that is really a key part of [the] rollout of PrEP.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know that when people lose their insurance coverage, they often go off of PrEP, and that’s when they may be vulnerable to acquiring HIV.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A Promising Future for PrEP\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In 1987, San Francisco reported roughly 5,000 new HIV cases per year. In recent years, that figure has fallen below 200 and is trending downward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public health experts attribute that drop in large part to the development of preventative treatments like PrEP. The medication most commonly comes in pill form and is taken daily or before sexual activity to reduce transmission risk. Postexposure prophylaxis, known as PEP, is taken in the hours after sexual activity for the same purpose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Food and Drug Administration approved PrEP in 2012. In the years since, San Francisco has seen a 67% decline in new HIV diagnoses, according to Susan Buchbinder, director of Bridge HIV, an HIV prevention research unit within the San Francisco Department of Public Health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force gave PrEP an A rating, which means that there’s really substantial evidence that it makes a dramatic difference in prevention of HIV acquisition,” Buchbinder said. “So it should be covered for everyone, free of charge. That’s not always the case, but it should be the case. And it really would make a huge difference.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An injectable version of PrEP requires a shot every two months, and a dosage that lasts six months is currently under FDA review. The proposed legislation would require healthcare providers to offer an option for oral medication and different injection cycles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12010450\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12010450\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241021-SFUSD-BREED-STATE-PRESSER-MD-09-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241021-SFUSD-BREED-STATE-PRESSER-MD-09-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241021-SFUSD-BREED-STATE-PRESSER-MD-09-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241021-SFUSD-BREED-STATE-PRESSER-MD-09-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241021-SFUSD-BREED-STATE-PRESSER-MD-09-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241021-SFUSD-BREED-STATE-PRESSER-MD-09-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241021-SFUSD-BREED-STATE-PRESSER-MD-09-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">State Sen. Scott Wiener speaks at a press event in front of the SFUSD offices in San Francisco on Oct. 21, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“What we want to do is not only ensure that insurance providers in California cover this critical preventative care that can help us eliminate HIV transmissions,” Haney said. “But also that we cover these new forms of medication that will be even more effective because they cover people for longer periods of time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Buchbinder believes the six-month version of PrEP will be enticing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know that an every-six-month injectable will appeal to some people and could really make a difference in increasing the number of people who are on PrEP because, for some people, taking a daily pill isn’t very practical,” Buchbinder said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Working Toward Zero HIV Transmissions Eradicating HIV in the United States has been a goal for many since the epidemic first broke out. In 2019, President Donald Trump set a deadline to end the disease within a decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Scientific breakthroughs have brought a once-distant dream within reach. My budget will ask Democrats and Republicans to make the needed commitment to eliminate the HIV epidemic in the United States within 10 years,” Trump said during his State of the Union address.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>An initiative led by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Ending the HIV Epidemic in the U.S., set out to decrease transmissions by 75% by 2025 and 90% by 2030. However, 2023 had more than 38,000 cases nationwide, according to preliminary data. That’s up from the more than 36,000 documented cases in 2019, the year Trump made his pledge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Locally, things look more hopeful. Not only are new yearly transmissions in the low hundreds, but other data points look promising as well. Of the people who have HIV in San Francisco, 95% are estimated to be aware of their status, and more than 90% receive care within one month of diagnosis, according to federal data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So many people have not only dreamed but have worked towards this reality that we are now able to actualize,” Haney said. “Because of this medication, we can actually get to zero new transmissions a year, and there are so many people who have lost their lives, who have lost loved ones over a number of decades who have dreamed of this moment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Buchbinder acknowledged it is an aggressive target.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are really working hard on that goal here in San Francisco … We think that there need to be additional tools that would help get us towards that goal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Buchbinder did not express confidence that new cases could be all but eliminated by the turn of the decade, she was confident that keeping the medication affordable and accessible is key to continuing current trends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cost is always an issue, particularly for preventive treatments,” she said. “People often don’t have the funds to pay for PrEP, and so having government coverage of that and having insurance coverage of that is really a key part of [the] rollout of PrEP.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know that when people lose their insurance coverage, they often go off of PrEP, and that’s when they may be vulnerable to acquiring HIV.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>As one of the city’s remaining nursing homes prepares to close in April, nearly 250 beds are currently sitting empty in San Francisco’s largest public skilled nursing facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following a multi-year scandal that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101889843/laguna-honda-hospital-has-60-days-to-move-over-600-patients-before-it-shuts-down-its-only-placed-58-so-far\">nearly shuttered the more than 150-year-old facility\u003c/a>, Laguna Honda Hospital and Rehabilitation Center resumed admitting new patients last July after two years of internal reforms and working with federal officials to make good on past infractions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11952012/san-francisco-to-pay-2-2-million-settlement-to-victims-in-laguna-honda-patient-abuse-scandal\">beleaguered\u003c/a> nursing home \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11991292/laguna-honda-recertified-by-medicare-in-major-milestone-for-san-francisco-hospital\">is back open for new residents\u003c/a>. However, admissions are off to a slow pace as Laguna Honda remains under the microscope of state and federal regulators despite a growing need for skilled nursing care in San Francisco and across the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is a well-known fact that there is a dearth of nursing home beds in San Francisco,” said Tony Chicotel, an attorney with California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform. “It’s jarring that the facility is allowed to admit residents now and still has so many open beds when we hear from people all the time in the Bay Area that there is no nursing home space for people to go to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nursing home experts say San Francisco has a large population of low-income seniors who need round-the-clock care in their community, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/sites/default/files/2024-06/Skilled%20Nursing%20Transfer%20Ordinance%20-%202023%20-%20HC%20Presentation.pdf\">many people have to move out of the county\u003c/a> away from loved ones due to the region’s scant affordable nursing home options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The need is about to get compounded as dozens of elderly residents at St. Anne’s Home on Lake Street near the Presidio \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/2025/01/09/st-annes-home-little-sisters-poor-to-close-sf/\">will need to find new housing before the facility closes on April 8\u003c/a> due to staffing shortages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Laguna Honda is working with St. Anne’s to bring over residents who are about to lose their homes and has offered beds to past residents who were discharged during Laguna Honda’s recertification process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know this is a challenging time, and you have my commitment that the city will support you in this transition,” Mayor Daniel Lurie said at a recent Board of Supervisors meeting, addressing the closure of St. Anne’s. “We must have a broader strategy for seniors to live safely and actively engaged in their community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are currently 435 residents at Laguna Honda, compared with the hospital’s licensed bed capacity of 649. The hospital previously had a capacity for nearly 800 residents. However, federal regulation changes after the pandemic required rooms to have no more than three residents, stripping the hospital of 120 beds. Officials at Laguna Honda said they are trying to recertify the 120 beds to bring capacity back up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Laguna Honda has welcomed a total of 78 new residents out of 179 referrals since resuming admissions on July 31, 2024, according to San Francisco’s Department of Public Health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The majority of denials were due to patients deemed to have “behavioral health needs too complex” for a nursing home, including substance use or mental disorders. Others were due to being “too medically complex” and for needing lower levels of care than residential skilled nursing, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://media.api.sf.gov/documents/02032025_LHH_JCC_Exec_Report_Presentation.pdf\">report\u003c/a> shared at the Health Commission meeting on February 3.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Laguna Honda officials say they are actively welcoming new residents and that there is no waitlist for those who meet its criteria, with a goal to fill the remaining beds by December 2025.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are admitting anybody who meets the criteria to be in a skilled nursing facility, and we are ramping up admissions,” Laguna Honda CEO Diltar Sidhu told KQED. “Laguna Honda is back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11991292]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New patients at Laguna Honda must meet industry-standard nursing home criteria, including being a resident of San Francisco whose primary diagnosis is a medical condition — not psychiatric — who requires nursing facility care, physical or cognitive impairment requiring higher attention than a lower-level board and care facility, or daily rehabilitation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, after several years of intense oversight, Laguna Honda is taking caution as it moves forward. Officials must walk a fine line to remain in good standing with regulators while responding to the community’s needs in a timely manner. Bringing on new patients is also necessary to receive federal dollars for patients, especially as the city faces a nearly $800 million budget shortfall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With every bed that sits empty, that’s also reimbursement we aren’t getting, so it’s also a financial issue during a tough budget season,” said Supervisor Myrna Melgar, whose district encompasses Laguna Honda. “I’m hoping the pace of admissions is at least maintained.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Laguna Honda was already under intense scrutiny following a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11782161/newly-uncovered-cases-of-patient-abuse-at-laguna-honda-bring-incident-count-to-130\">massive abuse case\u003c/a> affecting nearly 130 patients from 2016 to 2019. Then, in 2022, after two nonfatal overdoses took place at Laguna Honda, the hospital failed to pass a series of inspections and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11958392/medi-cal-reinstates-laguna-honda-in-major-win-for-the-states-largest-public-nursing-home\">lost its standing with Medicare and Medi-Cal\u003c/a>, which covers the vast majority of patients at Laguna Honda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They have to be very careful about people who have behavioral problems,” said Teresa Palmer, a retired physician at Laguna Honda and nursing home advocate. “In a traditional nursing home with frail elders, you need to protect them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11952012]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lawsuit against the hospital \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11920121/sf-officials-outraged-over-laguna-honda-patient-deaths-following-federally-mandated-transfers\">over deaths and poorly managed discharges\u003c/a> during the recertification process is still active.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The number one issue was that we were admitting dual-diagnosed patients and running Laguna Honda like a hospital instead of a nursing home, which is the license we have,” Melgar said. “So that got us into trouble in the first place. They dinged us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The empty beds sit at Laguna Honda as Lurie has vowed to open up more treatment facilities and various types of behavioral health and emergency shelter beds. But those efforts are separate from the skilled nursing beds available at Laguna Honda specifically for “traditional” nursing home patients — such as elderly people with chronic illness, dementia and other acute medical or rehabilitation needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, these are not mutually exclusive populations in need of round-the-clock care. Seniors make up the fastest-growing portion of the homeless population, and substance use disorder exists across age groups and other demographics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People who primarily need medical skilled nursing care but also have behavioral or mental health challenges can be admitted, officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“From the perspective of maintaining the federal certification and not creating any waves that could cause more regulatory scrutiny, it would be smart to admit a more traditional nursing home resident,” Chicotel said. “But from the perspective of an institution that is set up to care for the vulnerable residents of the community, I would think they would welcome residents who have skilled nursing needs and other needs as well.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Ten days after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12025377/huge-martinez-refinery-fire-renews-neighbors-fear-frustration\">a refinery fire\u003c/a> injured six employees and prompted a shelter-in-place order for thousands of Martinez residents, Contra Costa County health officials released new details on Tuesday about toxic chemicals released during the four days it took to put the fire out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county said in \u003ca href=\"https://www.cchealth.org/Home/Components/News/News/886/415\">a statement \u003c/a>on the incident that the Martinez Refining Co., which operates the facility where the Feb. 1 fire occurred, reported that the cloud of thick black smoke that billowed over the East Bay community contained petroleum products at various stages of refinement and several other hazardous chemicals, including benzene, hydrogen sulfide, sulfur dioxide and xylene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Health officials said some of the substances that were released can cause cancer and heart and lung disease, but they also noted that weather conditions at the time of the fire may have limited local exposure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>County Health Director Dr. Ori Tzvieli said the wind blew most of the smoke away from populated areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This could have been much worse,” Tzvieli said. “We got lucky this time. But our community shouldn’t have to rely on luck.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tuesday’s disclosure marks the first time health authorities have gotten a detailed look at what was in the plume that wafted over the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12025394\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12025394\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/230921-PBF-MARTINEZ-REFINERY-MD-04_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/230921-PBF-MARTINEZ-REFINERY-MD-04_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/230921-PBF-MARTINEZ-REFINERY-MD-04_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/230921-PBF-MARTINEZ-REFINERY-MD-04_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/230921-PBF-MARTINEZ-REFINERY-MD-04_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/230921-PBF-MARTINEZ-REFINERY-MD-04_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/230921-PBF-MARTINEZ-REFINERY-MD-04_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Martinez Refinery Co., owned by PBF Energy in Martinez, California, touches residential neighborhoods on Sept. 21, 2023. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Fifteen minutes after the fire started on Feb. 1, a refinery employee told the Governor’s Office of Emergency Services that a flaring incident had released more than 500 pounds of sulfur dioxide. The report also noted that it was “unknown if any other material is releasing due to the fire other than sulfur dioxide.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sulfur dioxide has adverse health effects on humans and animals, and high-level exposure can result in heart problems and an increased risk of death, according to studies cited by the \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/resources/sulfur-dioxide-and-health#:~:text=Sulfur%20dioxide%20(SO2)%20is,sulfur%20oxides%20(SOX).\">California Air Resources Board\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The actual effects on residents, refinery workers and first responders depended on how much sulfur dioxide they were exposed to and for how long.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12024233 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/ElkhornSlough-1020x765.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A day after the fire started, Contra Costa Health hazardous materials employees who were investigating reports of a sulfur smell near the refinery reported feeling dizzy and left the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seventy-two hours after the start of the fire, the refinery company filed a report with the county, attributing the fire to an incident involving two workers who tried to restart an idle unit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While opening the equipment, hydrocarbon material \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12025273/martinez-refining-company-investigating-if-leak-during-maintenance-contributed-to-fire\">started to leak\u003c/a>,” the report said. “The two workers immediately evacuated the area, and the material subsequently caught fire.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the report lacked any new information about what substances might have burned during the fire. The report also lacked chemical safety data sheets required by the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>County health officials responded last Wednesday with a \u003ca href=\"https://www.cchealth.org/home/showpublisheddocument/31494\">letter\u003c/a> to the company requesting a list of everything inside the refinery that might have burned and giving the company until Monday to respond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The information being requested has been deemed essential for assessing health impacts that may have occurred as a result of that incident,” the letter said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12025560\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12025560\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250203_MartinezRefineryFolo_GC-7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250203_MartinezRefineryFolo_GC-7.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250203_MartinezRefineryFolo_GC-7-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250203_MartinezRefineryFolo_GC-7-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250203_MartinezRefineryFolo_GC-7-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250203_MartinezRefineryFolo_GC-7-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250203_MartinezRefineryFolo_GC-7-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Martinez Refining Company in Martinez, California, on Feb. 3, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In its response, the refinery reported that the fire released several substances produced in the refining process, including naphtha and petroleum distillates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The combustion byproducts from the fire — including benzene, hydrogen sulfide, sulfur dioxide and xylene — pose the greatest public health concern, Contra Costa Health’s statement said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It added that the department is assessing whether there may be any long-term health effects from the chemicals, including potential impacts to soil and water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The refinery is scheduled to provide a 30-day follow-up report in early March. The county said it would hire an outside firm to investigate how the incident happened and what steps can be taken to prevent it from happening again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area Air District and Contra Costa Health have each launched an investigation into the fire and have restricted access to the area where the fire burned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12025294\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1440px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12025294\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/475966196_17941090172958161_4612211217959910985_n-e1738464480621.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1440\" height=\"996\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/475966196_17941090172958161_4612211217959910985_n-e1738464480621.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/475966196_17941090172958161_4612211217959910985_n-e1738464480621-800x553.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/475966196_17941090172958161_4612211217959910985_n-e1738464480621-1020x706.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/475966196_17941090172958161_4612211217959910985_n-e1738464480621-160x111.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Contra Costa County Fire Department firefighters outside the Martinez Refining Company as smoke billows from the refinery on Saturday in Martinez. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the city of Martinez)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The refinery, which operates as the Martinez Refining Co., also has an incident investigation into the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are working urgently and thoroughly to identify the root cause(s) and take appropriate corrective actions,” an update on the company’s website reads. “Personnel continue to monitor the scene of the recent incident to assess equipment and ensure the safety of the general area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly all of the refinery’s operating units have been shut down, but MRC warned there could be more flaring over the next several weeks as workers drain operating units.[aside postID=news_11998887 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/ShellRefineryMartinez-1020x765.jpg']The Martinez refinery, which is more than a century old, was owned by Shell until 2020 when it was acquired by the current owners, New Jersey’s PBF Energy. The company describes itself as “one of the largest independent petroleum refiners and suppliers of unbranded transportation fuels, heating oil, petrochemical feedstocks, lubricants and other petroleum products in the United States.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PBF owns six refineries, including one in the Los Angeles suburb of Torrance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company describes its Martinez refinery as “one of the most complex refineries in the United States” in statements filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The refinery has had a series of incidents that have drawn widespread criticism in the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Nov. 24, 2022, the refinery released a cloud of spent catalyst that blanked the town in a powdery white substance that looked like ash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On July 11, 2023, and Oct. 6, 2023, the refinery unintentionally released petroleum coke dust — a refining byproduct that looks like soot and is made up of particulate matter that can irritate lungs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A day after the fire started, Contra Costa Health hazardous materials employees who were investigating reports of a sulfur smell near the refinery reported feeling dizzy and left the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seventy-two hours after the start of the fire, the refinery company filed a report with the county, attributing the fire to an incident involving two workers who tried to restart an idle unit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While opening the equipment, hydrocarbon material \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12025273/martinez-refining-company-investigating-if-leak-during-maintenance-contributed-to-fire\">started to leak\u003c/a>,” the report said. “The two workers immediately evacuated the area, and the material subsequently caught fire.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the report lacked any new information about what substances might have burned during the fire. The report also lacked chemical safety data sheets required by the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>County health officials responded last Wednesday with a \u003ca href=\"https://www.cchealth.org/home/showpublisheddocument/31494\">letter\u003c/a> to the company requesting a list of everything inside the refinery that might have burned and giving the company until Monday to respond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The information being requested has been deemed essential for assessing health impacts that may have occurred as a result of that incident,” the letter said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12025560\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12025560\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250203_MartinezRefineryFolo_GC-7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250203_MartinezRefineryFolo_GC-7.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250203_MartinezRefineryFolo_GC-7-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250203_MartinezRefineryFolo_GC-7-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250203_MartinezRefineryFolo_GC-7-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250203_MartinezRefineryFolo_GC-7-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250203_MartinezRefineryFolo_GC-7-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Martinez Refining Company in Martinez, California, on Feb. 3, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In its response, the refinery reported that the fire released several substances produced in the refining process, including naphtha and petroleum distillates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The combustion byproducts from the fire — including benzene, hydrogen sulfide, sulfur dioxide and xylene — pose the greatest public health concern, Contra Costa Health’s statement said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It added that the department is assessing whether there may be any long-term health effects from the chemicals, including potential impacts to soil and water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The refinery is scheduled to provide a 30-day follow-up report in early March. The county said it would hire an outside firm to investigate how the incident happened and what steps can be taken to prevent it from happening again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area Air District and Contra Costa Health have each launched an investigation into the fire and have restricted access to the area where the fire burned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12025294\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1440px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12025294\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/475966196_17941090172958161_4612211217959910985_n-e1738464480621.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1440\" height=\"996\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/475966196_17941090172958161_4612211217959910985_n-e1738464480621.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/475966196_17941090172958161_4612211217959910985_n-e1738464480621-800x553.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/475966196_17941090172958161_4612211217959910985_n-e1738464480621-1020x706.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/475966196_17941090172958161_4612211217959910985_n-e1738464480621-160x111.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Contra Costa County Fire Department firefighters outside the Martinez Refining Company as smoke billows from the refinery on Saturday in Martinez. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the city of Martinez)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The refinery, which operates as the Martinez Refining Co., also has an incident investigation into the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are working urgently and thoroughly to identify the root cause(s) and take appropriate corrective actions,” an update on the company’s website reads. “Personnel continue to monitor the scene of the recent incident to assess equipment and ensure the safety of the general area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly all of the refinery’s operating units have been shut down, but MRC warned there could be more flaring over the next several weeks as workers drain operating units.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The Martinez refinery, which is more than a century old, was owned by Shell until 2020 when it was acquired by the current owners, New Jersey’s PBF Energy. The company describes itself as “one of the largest independent petroleum refiners and suppliers of unbranded transportation fuels, heating oil, petrochemical feedstocks, lubricants and other petroleum products in the United States.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PBF owns six refineries, including one in the Los Angeles suburb of Torrance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company describes its Martinez refinery as “one of the most complex refineries in the United States” in statements filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The refinery has had a series of incidents that have drawn widespread criticism in the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Nov. 24, 2022, the refinery released a cloud of spent catalyst that blanked the town in a powdery white substance that looked like ash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On July 11, 2023, and Oct. 6, 2023, the refinery unintentionally released petroleum coke dust — a refining byproduct that looks like soot and is made up of particulate matter that can irritate lungs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Justin Singer makes edible cannabis products in Colorado under the names Ripple and Ript, and over the years, he has become increasingly concerned about the state’s lack of enforcement of the industry and what that means for the safety of the marijuana supply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Forty states allow the sale of some form of cannabis for medical or recreational use. But cannabis remains illegal under federal law. That means agencies like the Food and Drug Administration don’t regulate the growing or testing of the product.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A breaking point came when Singer released a much cheaper product to the market and increased sales by 500%, a spike he expected would certainly trigger an inspection from the state Marijuana Enforcement Division.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They never showed up,” Singer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12026211\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12026211\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1066\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-2.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-2-1536x1023.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ripple Cannabis Co. co-founder Justin Singer stands in a clean production room in his Commerce City headquarters in December 2024. \u003ccite>(Kevn J. Beaty/Denverite)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>What kind of guy wants an inspection from the state?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The kind of guy who wants an honest playing field,” Singer said. “Professional sports would not be fun if there were no referees and one team was allowed to cheat, while one team tried to follow the rules. It would be very not fun to watch, to participate in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So he had people buy 15 different marijuana products from dispensary shelves and tested them at a lab. The testing data, \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1n4evjMmJ1u1SKZEvepcscIvmgeusFg_w/view?usp=drive_link\">which he shared with NPR\u003c/a>, shows four products would have failed state limits for yeasts and mold, one by more than six times the state limit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Singer looked for things Colorado doesn’t require testing for, like coliform bacteria, which signals unsanitary conditions in the grow house or in storage. Four of the 15 products had high levels of coliform. Chemical components of pesticides were found in four of the products — inhaling certain pesticides through marijuana smoking poses a risk of harmful toxicants entering the lungs and bloodstream. Singer says it reminds him of the bad old days, before weed was legal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I consider Colorado weed today to be on par with New York street weed in 2008. In fact, I think the cartels probably cared more about their consumers than a lot of people here,” said Singer. “I’ve got the data to back it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12026213\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12026213\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1066\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-3.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-3-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-3-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-3-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-3-1536x1023.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A machine doles out gummies for packaging in the Ripple Cannabis Co.’s Commerce City production facility. \u003ccite>(Kevn J. Beaty/Denverite)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>A national patchwork of rules and testing standards\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Every state that has \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/cannabis/about/state-medical-cannabis-laws.html\">legal marijuana has its own regulations\u003c/a>. In Massachusetts and Alabama, for instance, state marijuana authorities require testing for coliform. Colorado does not. Even if states test for the same microbes, they often have different limits. Colorado’s standard for total yeasts and molds is 10 times lower than Michigan’s limits for recreational cannabis flower.[aside postID=news_12026195 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/npr.brightspotcdn-copy.jpg']Recalls grabbed headlines across the country last year. In Missouri, state authorities issued recalls covering more than 132,000 marijuana products due to noncompliant lab testing and tracking. In California, Mike Tyson’s branded cannabis flower products were recalled due to molds. And Maine issued its first recalls last year due to yeast and mold in pre-rolled joints and other products sold at two dozen stores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, there have been no widespread reports of people getting sick or dropping dead from using cannabis products, despite an estimated $30 billion in sales last year \u003ca href=\"https://www.cannabisbusinesstimes.com/business-issues-benchmarks/cannabis-sales-trends/news/15686835/whitney-economics-forecasts-us-regulated-cannabis-sales-to-top-314-billion-in-2024\">alone\u003c/a>. But some in the industry and health and safety experts say the long-term ramifications of smoking contaminated weed are not known, and they are urging the state to do more to protect consumers.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Colorado was the gold standard for legal cannabis\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In 2014, Colorado became the first state to legalize the sale of recreational marijuana; many states use its regulations as a model. The rules were written with a primary purpose: keep it off the black market. There’s a seed-to-sale tracking system and cameras all through the grow warehouses. Safety rules came later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the industry became well established, Colorado’s Marijuana Enforcement Division increased its staff and started to require testing of marijuana for things like heavy metals and yeasts and molds, and it set limits for the contaminants. The MED issues health and safety advisories when contaminants are found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The director of the Marijuana Enforcement Division, Dominique Mendiola, would not comment directly on data from Ripple co-founder Justin Singer, nor on whether the supply of marijuana is safe, but said there is a robust process in place for ensuring marijuana is free of contaminants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are instances where we identify those risks and act,” said Mendiola.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The MED has issued 97 health and safety notices since 2016. But the advisories at times include marijuana products that were sold and likely consumed months, or even years, before. That suggests either the product was contaminated at some point after it left the grow or in storage — or testing is not always finding dirty weed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We do see ongoing need to continue to work on that,” said Mendiola. “And ensure that we are reaching consumers effectively, that we are providing information that they ultimately need to determine: Do they have certain products that we’ve identified as a potential threat to health and safety?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said in recent months they updated the health and safety notice page online and will soon distribute flyers to help educate consumers on safety issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mendiola acknowledged that the marijuana industry is suffering; \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/12/29/1145952385/colorados-nearly-2-billion-marijuana-industry-finally-has-had-a-bad-year\">prices for cannabis have crashed\u003c/a> after a huge infusion of investment during the pandemic lockdowns when sales were rising quickly. Now businesses are closing, limiting license revenue that funds MED enforcement. She noted that they are downsizing their offices in Lakewood to reduce costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve been, for a few years now, looking at those opportunities to save costs, cut expenses, in a way that still allows us and ensures that we’re able to carry out our regulatory obligations,” said Mendiola.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12026214\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12026214\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1066\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-4.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-4-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-4-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-4-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-4-1536x1023.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Ripple Cannabis Co.’s Commerce City production facility. \u003ccite>(Kevn J. Beaty/Denverite)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Colorado marijuana growers, meanwhile, insist unequivocally that the supply is safe and that MED is active in inspecting their operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think at this point in Colorado you’re dealing with the safest weed you can have in the United States,” said Ethan Shaw, co-founder of The Flower Collective. “At the end of the day there’s a lot of things Colorado’s learned that other states haven’t learned yet, and one of those, the big one’s, heavy metals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cannabis, Shaw said, is “an extreme bio-accumulator, so it takes up everything that’s in the soil and it stores it in the plant.” Research has identified heavy metal concentrations in smokable products like cigarettes, and cannabis, as \u003ca href=\"https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10519194/\">a major long-term health concern\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shaw, who said he was inspected a few months ago by the state, said anything outside of the regulated market in Colorado, like hemp-derived products, have little to no safety regulations and should be avoided.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That is really where you need to be worried about heavy metals, mold, mildew, filth, all of these other things,” said Shaw.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shaw also noted that the rate of recalls in Colorado has slowed, after a major increase in 2023. He said that the financial struggles of the industry in Colorado means fewer producers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://apps.npr.org/datawrapper/URIO3/3/?initialWidth=889&childId=responsive-embed-URIO3&parentTitle=Product%20safety%20regulations%20for%20legal%20weed%20vary%20widely%20%3A%20NPR&parentUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.npr.org%2F2025%2F02%2F04%2Fg-s1-46374%2Fweed-cannabis-safety-marijuana-legal-recreational-states\" width=\"800\" height=\"550\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The ones who are leftover, they’re producing [cannabis] that’s the best that you’ve been able to get in terms of consumer safety,” Shaw said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Scientists say more consumer protections are needed\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Outside experts are deeply concerned about marijuana product safety, even in the regulated market. They don’t totally blame state regulators, since there is little to no research on health impacts of different contaminants in cannabis. It’s not definitely known if any state’s testing system is looking for the right things at the right levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s hard to make judgments on if it’s right or wrong when there’s like zero data to really go into the health impacts,” said Tess Eidem, a senior research scientist at the University of Colorado, Boulder’s lab for aerobiology and disinfection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said there’s some research on molds like \u003cem>Aspergillus\u003c/em>, which can in rare cases lead to serious medical issues, \u003ca href=\"https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7258471/\">especially for immunocompromised marijuana users\u003c/a>. But there’s no data on how smoking versus vaping, for instance, affects the amount of contaminants that ends up in the lungs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What is clear, said Eidem, is that marijuana growers in Colorado and other states are allowed to use irradiation technology to treat their product when it fails testing. The process is approved in food, with required labeling. She said that a grower can hit the cannabis buds with X-ray until it passes testing. The process breaks down the chemical bonds of molds and bacteria, enough for them to die or stop multiplying, \u003ca href=\"https://www.epa.gov/radtown/food-irradiation\">according to the EPA\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The marijuana industry insists that irradiation is safe, but Eidem said there’s no research on that with cannabis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the first step there is labeling, being transparent about what has been treated,” Eidem said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Food and Drug Administration \u003ca href=\"https://www.fda.gov/food/buy-store-serve-safe-food/food-irradiation-what-you-need-know\">has endorsed irradiation as safe\u003c/a> for food products, citing 30 years of research, but labeling is required when used. That’s not the case with Colorado cannabis, where the industry successfully fought \u003ca href=\"https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb24-076\">a labeling law\u003c/a> last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because marijuana is still illegal under federal law, federal safety agencies, like the FDA, do not regulate grow operations. If they did, there would likely be rules about how the marijuana is grown — good manufacturing practices. The basic formula is that a clean facility, clean air and water, equals clean product. That’s what’s required for things like salad greens. Right now, none of that is required in marijuana in any state, not just Colorado.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we require that dog food follow this, but we don’t require that for cannabis — something that many people are using as medicine — to follow these kind of basic food safety guidelines, then I don’t know what the industry is doing,” said Eidem. “And I know that the industry already feels like it’s overregulated and in some ways it very much is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, what’s required is that products pass a final test. The process can be onerous, though, on growers, who are already suffering a prolonged downturn in sales prices. Stores and grows are closing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shaun Opie, with E4 Bioscience in Michigan, is an expert in marijuana contaminants and lab testing. He said the money sunk into a harvest means there’s tremendous pressure to get it to market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The desire to have a $250,000 harvest pass (an inspection for contaminants) is very high,” said Opie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opie said it would be a good idea for states to implement a shelf surveillance testing program, to monitor the product that actually makes it to consumers.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Buyer beware\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Thomas Mitchell reviewed cannabis products for \u003cem>Westword \u003c/em>and is now an editor for the Colorado weekly. He’s written extensively on health and safety advisories and recalls issued by the state. He said it’s a buyer beware market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People assume it’s safe because of guardrails that are in place by state enforcement,” said Mitchell. “But when you actually look at the end result, I think that’s up for debate definitely.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s a dispensary he can walk to, but he gets in his car to drive to a place that has marijuana he can trust. That’s a luxury available to someone who has deep knowledge of the industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re not gonna keel over if you buy some cheap suspect weed,” said Mitchell. “But 10 years down the road maybe you develop a lung problem that someone who was smoking cleaner weed won’t.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Justin Singer makes edible cannabis products in Colorado under the names Ripple and Ript, and over the years, he has become increasingly concerned about the state’s lack of enforcement of the industry and what that means for the safety of the marijuana supply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Forty states allow the sale of some form of cannabis for medical or recreational use. But cannabis remains illegal under federal law. That means agencies like the Food and Drug Administration don’t regulate the growing or testing of the product.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A breaking point came when Singer released a much cheaper product to the market and increased sales by 500%, a spike he expected would certainly trigger an inspection from the state Marijuana Enforcement Division.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They never showed up,” Singer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12026211\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12026211\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1066\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-2.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-2-1536x1023.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ripple Cannabis Co. co-founder Justin Singer stands in a clean production room in his Commerce City headquarters in December 2024. \u003ccite>(Kevn J. Beaty/Denverite)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>What kind of guy wants an inspection from the state?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The kind of guy who wants an honest playing field,” Singer said. “Professional sports would not be fun if there were no referees and one team was allowed to cheat, while one team tried to follow the rules. It would be very not fun to watch, to participate in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So he had people buy 15 different marijuana products from dispensary shelves and tested them at a lab. The testing data, \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1n4evjMmJ1u1SKZEvepcscIvmgeusFg_w/view?usp=drive_link\">which he shared with NPR\u003c/a>, shows four products would have failed state limits for yeasts and mold, one by more than six times the state limit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Singer looked for things Colorado doesn’t require testing for, like coliform bacteria, which signals unsanitary conditions in the grow house or in storage. Four of the 15 products had high levels of coliform. Chemical components of pesticides were found in four of the products — inhaling certain pesticides through marijuana smoking poses a risk of harmful toxicants entering the lungs and bloodstream. Singer says it reminds him of the bad old days, before weed was legal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I consider Colorado weed today to be on par with New York street weed in 2008. In fact, I think the cartels probably cared more about their consumers than a lot of people here,” said Singer. “I’ve got the data to back it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12026213\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12026213\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1066\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-3.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-3-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-3-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-3-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-3-1536x1023.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A machine doles out gummies for packaging in the Ripple Cannabis Co.’s Commerce City production facility. \u003ccite>(Kevn J. Beaty/Denverite)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>A national patchwork of rules and testing standards\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Every state that has \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/cannabis/about/state-medical-cannabis-laws.html\">legal marijuana has its own regulations\u003c/a>. In Massachusetts and Alabama, for instance, state marijuana authorities require testing for coliform. Colorado does not. Even if states test for the same microbes, they often have different limits. Colorado’s standard for total yeasts and molds is 10 times lower than Michigan’s limits for recreational cannabis flower.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Recalls grabbed headlines across the country last year. In Missouri, state authorities issued recalls covering more than 132,000 marijuana products due to noncompliant lab testing and tracking. In California, Mike Tyson’s branded cannabis flower products were recalled due to molds. And Maine issued its first recalls last year due to yeast and mold in pre-rolled joints and other products sold at two dozen stores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, there have been no widespread reports of people getting sick or dropping dead from using cannabis products, despite an estimated $30 billion in sales last year \u003ca href=\"https://www.cannabisbusinesstimes.com/business-issues-benchmarks/cannabis-sales-trends/news/15686835/whitney-economics-forecasts-us-regulated-cannabis-sales-to-top-314-billion-in-2024\">alone\u003c/a>. But some in the industry and health and safety experts say the long-term ramifications of smoking contaminated weed are not known, and they are urging the state to do more to protect consumers.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Colorado was the gold standard for legal cannabis\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In 2014, Colorado became the first state to legalize the sale of recreational marijuana; many states use its regulations as a model. The rules were written with a primary purpose: keep it off the black market. There’s a seed-to-sale tracking system and cameras all through the grow warehouses. Safety rules came later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the industry became well established, Colorado’s Marijuana Enforcement Division increased its staff and started to require testing of marijuana for things like heavy metals and yeasts and molds, and it set limits for the contaminants. The MED issues health and safety advisories when contaminants are found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The director of the Marijuana Enforcement Division, Dominique Mendiola, would not comment directly on data from Ripple co-founder Justin Singer, nor on whether the supply of marijuana is safe, but said there is a robust process in place for ensuring marijuana is free of contaminants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are instances where we identify those risks and act,” said Mendiola.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The MED has issued 97 health and safety notices since 2016. But the advisories at times include marijuana products that were sold and likely consumed months, or even years, before. That suggests either the product was contaminated at some point after it left the grow or in storage — or testing is not always finding dirty weed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We do see ongoing need to continue to work on that,” said Mendiola. “And ensure that we are reaching consumers effectively, that we are providing information that they ultimately need to determine: Do they have certain products that we’ve identified as a potential threat to health and safety?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said in recent months they updated the health and safety notice page online and will soon distribute flyers to help educate consumers on safety issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mendiola acknowledged that the marijuana industry is suffering; \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/12/29/1145952385/colorados-nearly-2-billion-marijuana-industry-finally-has-had-a-bad-year\">prices for cannabis have crashed\u003c/a> after a huge infusion of investment during the pandemic lockdowns when sales were rising quickly. Now businesses are closing, limiting license revenue that funds MED enforcement. She noted that they are downsizing their offices in Lakewood to reduce costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve been, for a few years now, looking at those opportunities to save costs, cut expenses, in a way that still allows us and ensures that we’re able to carry out our regulatory obligations,” said Mendiola.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12026214\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12026214\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1066\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-4.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-4-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-4-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-4-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-4-1536x1023.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Ripple Cannabis Co.’s Commerce City production facility. \u003ccite>(Kevn J. Beaty/Denverite)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Colorado marijuana growers, meanwhile, insist unequivocally that the supply is safe and that MED is active in inspecting their operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think at this point in Colorado you’re dealing with the safest weed you can have in the United States,” said Ethan Shaw, co-founder of The Flower Collective. “At the end of the day there’s a lot of things Colorado’s learned that other states haven’t learned yet, and one of those, the big one’s, heavy metals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cannabis, Shaw said, is “an extreme bio-accumulator, so it takes up everything that’s in the soil and it stores it in the plant.” Research has identified heavy metal concentrations in smokable products like cigarettes, and cannabis, as \u003ca href=\"https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10519194/\">a major long-term health concern\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shaw, who said he was inspected a few months ago by the state, said anything outside of the regulated market in Colorado, like hemp-derived products, have little to no safety regulations and should be avoided.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That is really where you need to be worried about heavy metals, mold, mildew, filth, all of these other things,” said Shaw.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shaw also noted that the rate of recalls in Colorado has slowed, after a major increase in 2023. He said that the financial struggles of the industry in Colorado means fewer producers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://apps.npr.org/datawrapper/URIO3/3/?initialWidth=889&childId=responsive-embed-URIO3&parentTitle=Product%20safety%20regulations%20for%20legal%20weed%20vary%20widely%20%3A%20NPR&parentUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.npr.org%2F2025%2F02%2F04%2Fg-s1-46374%2Fweed-cannabis-safety-marijuana-legal-recreational-states\" width=\"800\" height=\"550\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The ones who are leftover, they’re producing [cannabis] that’s the best that you’ve been able to get in terms of consumer safety,” Shaw said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Scientists say more consumer protections are needed\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Outside experts are deeply concerned about marijuana product safety, even in the regulated market. They don’t totally blame state regulators, since there is little to no research on health impacts of different contaminants in cannabis. It’s not definitely known if any state’s testing system is looking for the right things at the right levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s hard to make judgments on if it’s right or wrong when there’s like zero data to really go into the health impacts,” said Tess Eidem, a senior research scientist at the University of Colorado, Boulder’s lab for aerobiology and disinfection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said there’s some research on molds like \u003cem>Aspergillus\u003c/em>, which can in rare cases lead to serious medical issues, \u003ca href=\"https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7258471/\">especially for immunocompromised marijuana users\u003c/a>. But there’s no data on how smoking versus vaping, for instance, affects the amount of contaminants that ends up in the lungs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What is clear, said Eidem, is that marijuana growers in Colorado and other states are allowed to use irradiation technology to treat their product when it fails testing. The process is approved in food, with required labeling. She said that a grower can hit the cannabis buds with X-ray until it passes testing. The process breaks down the chemical bonds of molds and bacteria, enough for them to die or stop multiplying, \u003ca href=\"https://www.epa.gov/radtown/food-irradiation\">according to the EPA\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The marijuana industry insists that irradiation is safe, but Eidem said there’s no research on that with cannabis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the first step there is labeling, being transparent about what has been treated,” Eidem said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Food and Drug Administration \u003ca href=\"https://www.fda.gov/food/buy-store-serve-safe-food/food-irradiation-what-you-need-know\">has endorsed irradiation as safe\u003c/a> for food products, citing 30 years of research, but labeling is required when used. That’s not the case with Colorado cannabis, where the industry successfully fought \u003ca href=\"https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb24-076\">a labeling law\u003c/a> last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because marijuana is still illegal under federal law, federal safety agencies, like the FDA, do not regulate grow operations. If they did, there would likely be rules about how the marijuana is grown — good manufacturing practices. The basic formula is that a clean facility, clean air and water, equals clean product. That’s what’s required for things like salad greens. Right now, none of that is required in marijuana in any state, not just Colorado.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we require that dog food follow this, but we don’t require that for cannabis — something that many people are using as medicine — to follow these kind of basic food safety guidelines, then I don’t know what the industry is doing,” said Eidem. “And I know that the industry already feels like it’s overregulated and in some ways it very much is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, what’s required is that products pass a final test. The process can be onerous, though, on growers, who are already suffering a prolonged downturn in sales prices. Stores and grows are closing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shaun Opie, with E4 Bioscience in Michigan, is an expert in marijuana contaminants and lab testing. He said the money sunk into a harvest means there’s tremendous pressure to get it to market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The desire to have a $250,000 harvest pass (an inspection for contaminants) is very high,” said Opie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opie said it would be a good idea for states to implement a shelf surveillance testing program, to monitor the product that actually makes it to consumers.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Buyer beware\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Thomas Mitchell reviewed cannabis products for \u003cem>Westword \u003c/em>and is now an editor for the Colorado weekly. He’s written extensively on health and safety advisories and recalls issued by the state. 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"content": "\u003cp>The number of Americans who use marijuana \u003ca href=\"https://news.gallup.com/poll/284135/percentage-americans-smoke-marijuana.aspx\">has doubled\u003c/a> over the past decade, according to a survey by Gallup. In many parts of the U.S., weed is legal under state law — and many Americans now use it as casually as they might have a beer or glass of wine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, finding cannabis products that are safely sourced and properly regulated can be tricky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a new series, NPR is looking at what consumers should know about the safety of the weed supply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, cannabis itself is associated with \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/08/29/755423290/surgeon-general-sounds-alarm-on-risk-of-marijuana-addiction-and-harm\">health risks\u003c/a>, whether it’s contaminated or not. As cannabis products \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/05/15/723656629/highly-potent-weed-has-swept-the-market-raising-concerns-about-health-risks\">become more potent\u003c/a> and as more Americans consume greater quantities of them, researchers say there are \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2024/09/27/g-s1-25243/weed-cannabis-marijuana-legal-risks\">significant risks\u003c/a> to brain function and mental health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for consumers who do choose to partake, there’s another layer of concern: Traces of other harmful substances like pesticides, molds and heavy metals, might be lurking in a tasty-looking edible or nicely packaged vape. State regulators are trying to get their arms around the problem, but researchers say they have a ways to go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are four things to know about the safety of marijuana products and the landscape of regulation today.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>1. States disagree about which contaminants to test for\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Overall, state regulators are looking to keep cannabis products free of contaminants that can be introduced during the growing and producing process, including pesticides, mold, bacteria, solvent residues and heavy metals like arsenic, which can come from the soil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of those things have the potential to cause harm either in the short term — with an ER visit for vomiting, for example, which microorganisms could trigger — or in the long term, increasing your risk for certain cancers or neurological problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But regulation is tricky because, on the federal level, cannabis is still illegal. Not every state has legalized cannabis, and those that have may regulate it very differently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maxwell Leung, an assistant professor at Arizona State University, did a \u003ca href=\"https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/doi/10.1289/EHP11206\">study in 2022\u003c/a> about that patchwork of cannabis regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We found that there are over 600 contaminants that are regulated across some 30 states that had legalized cannabis at that time,” Leung says. “But interestingly, in each jurisdiction, there’s only anywhere between 60 to 120 contaminants that are regulated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, a pesticide that might prompt one state to pull cannabis off the shelf, another state might not even be looking for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, simply testing for more contaminants doesn’t necessarily make a state’s cannabis products safer. That’s because it’s early days when it comes to the research, so it’s hard to say which contaminants are the most hazardous to human health.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>2. The black market is still booming\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Not only are there conflicting regulations state by state, cannabis is still illegal under federal law, which means properly regulated products can’t be shipped legally from one state to the next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those restrictions have left a huge opening for underground producers and distributors, some backed by criminal gangs. NPR has found that these products are often grown and processed in unsanitary conditions, with banned pesticides and unhealthy working conditions. They also typically lack trustworthy potency guidelines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re talking about a market that lacks transparency and accountability. Whether I was getting cannabis or alcohol or my broccoli from an unregulated market, I’d be concerned about any number of issues,” says Paul Armentano, deputy director of \u003ca href=\"https://norml.org/about-norml/\">NORML\u003c/a>, the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even many storefront shops around the U.S. are selling black-market weed. This is one of the biggest challenges for consumers right now. If you want legal, regulated weed, you have to do your research and really understand how your cannabis products are sourced. That’s not always easy.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>3. It will get easier for consumers\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Activists, historians and drug policy experts NPR spoke with expect the legal cannabis landscape to get easier to navigate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you move from prohibition to legalization, it takes time to significantly reduce the size of the illegal market,” said Beau Kilmer at the RAND Drug Policy Research Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drug policy experts point out the end of alcohol prohibition in the 1930s was also messy. It took years for legal alcohol brewers and distillers to push out the illegal moonshine operators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was a black market for years for moonshine” after Prohibition ended, said Daniel Okrent, a historian whose book \u003cem>Last Call\u003c/em> is a history of alcohol bans in the U.S. “Statewide prohibition laws in some states lasted into the 1950s and 1960s. They were ignored, but they existed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Legal cannabis producers say they think over time, the safer, regulated marijuana brands will win out. That’ll make it easier for consumers to know which products to grab off the shelf.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>4. Legal weed offers some comfort\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In states and communities where it’s available, legal weed is probably more likely to be free of many contaminants like pesticides and mold because states are testing them and pulling them off the shelves. And the people growing the marijuana plants, making the products and selling them legally want to keep their customers safe and stay in business.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11982170,news_11981277,news_12002332\"]In California, there were more than 60 recalls in 2024. That includes cannabis flower buds, pre-rolled marijuana cigarettes, edibles and vape products. That’s up from just four cannabis recalls the year before in the state. 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