window.__IS_SSR__=true
window.__INITIAL_STATE__={
"attachmentsReducer": {
"audio_0": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "audio_0",
"imgSizes": {
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/themes/KQED-unified/img/audio_bgs/background0.jpg"
}
}
},
"audio_1": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "audio_1",
"imgSizes": {
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/themes/KQED-unified/img/audio_bgs/background1.jpg"
}
}
},
"audio_2": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "audio_2",
"imgSizes": {
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/themes/KQED-unified/img/audio_bgs/background2.jpg"
}
}
},
"audio_3": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "audio_3",
"imgSizes": {
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/themes/KQED-unified/img/audio_bgs/background3.jpg"
}
}
},
"audio_4": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "audio_4",
"imgSizes": {
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/themes/KQED-unified/img/audio_bgs/background4.jpg"
}
}
},
"placeholder": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "placeholder",
"imgSizes": {
"thumbnail": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-160x107.jpg",
"width": 160,
"height": 107,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"medium": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-800x533.jpg",
"width": 800,
"height": 533,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"medium_large": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-768x512.jpg",
"width": 768,
"height": 512,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"large": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-1020x680.jpg",
"width": 1020,
"height": 680,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"1536x1536": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-1536x1024.jpg",
"width": 1536,
"height": 1024,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"fd-lrg": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-1536x1024.jpg",
"width": 1536,
"height": 1024,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"fd-med": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-1020x680.jpg",
"width": 1020,
"height": 680,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"fd-sm": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-800x533.jpg",
"width": 800,
"height": 533,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"post-thumbnail": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-672x372.jpg",
"width": 672,
"height": 372,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"twentyfourteen-full-width": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-1038x576.jpg",
"width": 1038,
"height": 576,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"xxsmall": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-160x107.jpg",
"width": 160,
"height": 107,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"xsmall": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-672x372.jpg",
"width": 672,
"height": 372,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"small": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-672x372.jpg",
"width": 672,
"height": 372,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"xlarge": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-1020x680.jpg",
"width": 1020,
"height": 680,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"full-width": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-1920x1280.jpg",
"width": 1920,
"height": 1280,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"guest-author-32": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-1333x1333-1-160x160.jpg",
"width": 32,
"height": 32,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"guest-author-50": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-1333x1333-1-160x160.jpg",
"width": 50,
"height": 50,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"guest-author-64": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-1333x1333-1-160x160.jpg",
"width": 64,
"height": 64,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"guest-author-96": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-1333x1333-1-160x160.jpg",
"width": 96,
"height": 96,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"guest-author-128": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-1333x1333-1-160x160.jpg",
"width": 128,
"height": 128,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"detail": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-1333x1333-1-160x160.jpg",
"width": 160,
"height": 160,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1.jpg",
"width": 2000,
"height": 1333
}
}
},
"news_11989244": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "news_11989244",
"meta": {
"index": "attachments_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "11989244",
"found": true
},
"title": "Virus Outbreak California",
"publishDate": 1717694868,
"status": "inherit",
"parent": 11989238,
"modified": 1717694891,
"caption": "Emergency medical technician Thomas Hoang, 29, of Emergency Ambulance Service, pushes a gurney into an emergency room to drop off a COVID-19 patient in Placentia on Friday, Jan. 8, 2021.",
"credit": "Jae C. Hong/AP Photo",
"altTag": null,
"description": null,
"imgSizes": {
"medium": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/CMERWorkers01-800x533.jpg",
"width": 800,
"height": 533,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"large": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/CMERWorkers01-1020x680.jpg",
"width": 1020,
"height": 680,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"thumbnail": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/CMERWorkers01-160x107.jpg",
"width": 160,
"height": 107,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"1536x1536": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/CMERWorkers01-1536x1024.jpg",
"width": 1536,
"height": 1024,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"post-thumbnail": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/CMERWorkers01-672x372.jpg",
"width": 672,
"height": 372,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"twentyfourteen-full-width": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/CMERWorkers01-1038x576.jpg",
"width": 1038,
"height": 576,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"full-width": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/CMERWorkers01-1920x1280.jpg",
"width": 1920,
"height": 1280,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/CMERWorkers01.jpg",
"width": 2000,
"height": 1333
}
},
"isLoading": false,
"fetchFailed": false
},
"news_11952545": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "news_11952545",
"meta": {
"index": "attachments_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "11952545",
"found": true
},
"title": "RS66141_016_KQED_SheriffPressConference_06082023-KQED",
"publishDate": 1686251655,
"status": "inherit",
"parent": 0,
"modified": 1717610445,
"caption": "San Francisco sheriff's deputies listen to a news conference in San Francisco's Civic Center on June 8, 2023, where Sheriff Paul Miyamoto (not pictured) announced the activation of a six-month plan focused on areas of the Tenderloin and SoMa neighborhoods to reduce open-air drug dealing and drug use.",
"credit": "Beth LaBerge/KQED",
"altTag": "A group of half a dozen law enforcement officers stand in front of squad cars parked in an open area in front of an ornate columned building.",
"description": null,
"imgSizes": {
"medium": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66141_016_KQED_SheriffPressConference_06082023-KQED-800x533.jpg",
"width": 800,
"height": 533,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"large": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66141_016_KQED_SheriffPressConference_06082023-KQED-1020x680.jpg",
"width": 1020,
"height": 680,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"thumbnail": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66141_016_KQED_SheriffPressConference_06082023-KQED-160x107.jpg",
"width": 160,
"height": 107,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"1536x1536": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66141_016_KQED_SheriffPressConference_06082023-KQED-1536x1024.jpg",
"width": 1536,
"height": 1024,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"post-thumbnail": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66141_016_KQED_SheriffPressConference_06082023-KQED-672x372.jpg",
"width": 672,
"height": 372,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"twentyfourteen-full-width": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66141_016_KQED_SheriffPressConference_06082023-KQED-1038x576.jpg",
"width": 1038,
"height": 576,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66141_016_KQED_SheriffPressConference_06082023-KQED.jpg",
"width": 1920,
"height": 1280
}
},
"isLoading": false,
"fetchFailed": false
},
"news_11970677": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "news_11970677",
"meta": {
"index": "attachments_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "11970677",
"found": true
},
"parent": 11970666,
"imgSizes": {
"twentyfourteen-full-width": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/GettyImages-1408473939-1024x576.jpg",
"width": 1024,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 576
},
"thumbnail": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/GettyImages-1408473939-160x107.jpg",
"width": 160,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 107
},
"post-thumbnail": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/GettyImages-1408473939-672x372.jpg",
"width": 672,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 372
},
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/GettyImages-1408473939.jpg",
"width": 1024,
"height": 683
},
"large": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/GettyImages-1408473939-1020x680.jpg",
"width": 1020,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 680
},
"medium": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/GettyImages-1408473939-800x534.jpg",
"width": 800,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 534
}
},
"publishDate": 1703205510,
"modified": 1703207330,
"caption": "Thousands of chickens gather and lay eggs in an organic hen house at Sunrise Farms in Petaluma on Aug. 25, 2010.",
"description": null,
"title": "Chickens gather and lay eggs in an organic hen house at Sunrise Farms in Petaluma, Calif. on Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2010, which produces about a million eggs a day from a hen population of 1.2 million. No eggs produced in California have been recalled becaus",
"credit": "Paul Chinn/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images",
"status": "inherit",
"altTag": "A large number of chickens are packed into an indoor egg-laying facility.",
"isLoading": false,
"fetchFailed": false
},
"news_11988517": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "news_11988517",
"meta": {
"index": "attachments_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "11988517",
"found": true
},
"title": "APTOPIX California Budget Immigrants",
"publishDate": 1717195841,
"status": "inherit",
"parent": 11988511,
"modified": 1717195876,
"caption": "Marvin Estela Pineda, right, originally from El Salvador and blind from glaucoma, gets eye drops from her daughter Mayde at their home in Madera, Calif., Thursday, May 30, 2024. California Gov. Gavin Newsom is facing criticism for his proposal to eliminate an optional Medicaid benefit for some disabled immigrants.",
"credit": "Gary Kazanjian/AP Photo",
"altTag": null,
"description": null,
"imgSizes": {
"medium": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24152173453216-800x533.jpg",
"width": 800,
"height": 533,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"large": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24152173453216-1020x680.jpg",
"width": 1020,
"height": 680,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"thumbnail": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24152173453216-160x107.jpg",
"width": 160,
"height": 107,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"1536x1536": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24152173453216-1536x1024.jpg",
"width": 1536,
"height": 1024,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"2048x2048": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24152173453216-2048x1365.jpg",
"width": 2048,
"height": 1365,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"post-thumbnail": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24152173453216-672x372.jpg",
"width": 672,
"height": 372,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"twentyfourteen-full-width": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24152173453216-1038x576.jpg",
"width": 1038,
"height": 576,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"full-width": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24152173453216-1920x1280.jpg",
"width": 1920,
"height": 1280,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24152173453216-scaled.jpg",
"width": 2560,
"height": 1707
}
},
"isLoading": false,
"fetchFailed": false
},
"news_11988132": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "news_11988132",
"meta": {
"index": "attachments_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "11988132",
"found": true
},
"title": "Monkeypox-Vaccine",
"publishDate": 1717018502,
"status": "inherit",
"parent": 11988079,
"modified": 1717090895,
"caption": "A pharmacist prepares a dose of the Jynneos mpox vaccine at a pop-up vaccination clinic opened by the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health at the West Hollywood Library on August 3, 2022, in West Hollywood, California. ",
"credit": "Mario Tama/Getty Images",
"altTag": null,
"description": null,
"imgSizes": {
"medium": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/GettyImages-1412778743-800x548.jpg",
"width": 800,
"height": 548,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"large": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/GettyImages-1412778743-1020x699.jpg",
"width": 1020,
"height": 699,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"thumbnail": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/GettyImages-1412778743-160x110.jpg",
"width": 160,
"height": 110,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"1536x1536": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/GettyImages-1412778743-1536x1052.jpg",
"width": 1536,
"height": 1052,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"post-thumbnail": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/GettyImages-1412778743-672x372.jpg",
"width": 672,
"height": 372,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"twentyfourteen-full-width": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/GettyImages-1412778743-1038x576.jpg",
"width": 1038,
"height": 576,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/GettyImages-1412778743.jpg",
"width": 1920,
"height": 1315
}
},
"isLoading": false,
"fetchFailed": false
},
"news_11987710": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "news_11987710",
"meta": {
"index": "attachments_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "11987710",
"found": true
},
"title": "Illustration of a mother leaning over the railing of her baby's crib taking photos on her phone. Heart icons emanate from her phone and a mobile featuring icons of popular social media sites like TikTok, Instagram and Facebook hangs above her head. The image is from the baby's perspective in the crib.",
"publishDate": 1716581680,
"status": "inherit",
"parent": 11987709,
"modified": 1716588844,
"caption": "Illustration of a mother leaning over the railing of her baby's crib taking photos on her phone. Heart icons emanate from her phone and a mobile featuring icons of popular social media sites like TikTok, Instagram and Facebook hangs above her head. The image is from the baby's perspective in the crib.",
"credit": null,
"altTag": null,
"description": null,
"imgSizes": {
"medium": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/lk_sharenting_socialmedia_parenting_final-_slide-26351884f388702e26da3a913a124b5613e1d0ac-800x533.jpg",
"width": 800,
"height": 533,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"large": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/lk_sharenting_socialmedia_parenting_final-_slide-26351884f388702e26da3a913a124b5613e1d0ac-1020x680.jpg",
"width": 1020,
"height": 680,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"thumbnail": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/lk_sharenting_socialmedia_parenting_final-_slide-26351884f388702e26da3a913a124b5613e1d0ac-160x107.jpg",
"width": 160,
"height": 107,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"1536x1536": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/lk_sharenting_socialmedia_parenting_final-_slide-26351884f388702e26da3a913a124b5613e1d0ac-1536x1024.jpg",
"width": 1536,
"height": 1024,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"2048x2048": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/lk_sharenting_socialmedia_parenting_final-_slide-26351884f388702e26da3a913a124b5613e1d0ac-2048x1365.jpg",
"width": 2048,
"height": 1365,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"post-thumbnail": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/lk_sharenting_socialmedia_parenting_final-_slide-26351884f388702e26da3a913a124b5613e1d0ac-672x372.jpg",
"width": 672,
"height": 372,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"twentyfourteen-full-width": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/lk_sharenting_socialmedia_parenting_final-_slide-26351884f388702e26da3a913a124b5613e1d0ac-1038x576.jpg",
"width": 1038,
"height": 576,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"full-width": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/lk_sharenting_socialmedia_parenting_final-_slide-26351884f388702e26da3a913a124b5613e1d0ac-1920x1280.jpg",
"width": 1920,
"height": 1280,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/lk_sharenting_socialmedia_parenting_final-_slide-26351884f388702e26da3a913a124b5613e1d0ac-scaled.jpg",
"width": 2560,
"height": 1706
}
},
"isLoading": false,
"fetchFailed": false
},
"news_11987726": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "news_11987726",
"meta": {
"index": "attachments_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "11987726",
"found": true
},
"title": "240524-REGIONALMEDICAL-JG-4_qut",
"publishDate": 1716584526,
"status": "inherit",
"parent": 0,
"modified": 1716588534,
"caption": "Dr. Raj Gupta, director of stroke and neuroscience services at Regional Medical Center, speaks during a rally outside of the hospital on May 24. Gupta said the decision to eliminate the hospital's trauma center and other services is shameful.",
"credit": "Joseph Geha/KQED",
"altTag": null,
"description": null,
"imgSizes": {
"medium": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240524-REGIONALMEDICAL-JG-4_qut-800x533.jpg",
"width": 800,
"height": 533,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"large": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240524-REGIONALMEDICAL-JG-4_qut-1020x680.jpg",
"width": 1020,
"height": 680,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"thumbnail": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240524-REGIONALMEDICAL-JG-4_qut-160x107.jpg",
"width": 160,
"height": 107,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"1536x1536": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240524-REGIONALMEDICAL-JG-4_qut-1536x1024.jpg",
"width": 1536,
"height": 1024,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"post-thumbnail": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240524-REGIONALMEDICAL-JG-4_qut-672x372.jpg",
"width": 672,
"height": 372,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"twentyfourteen-full-width": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240524-REGIONALMEDICAL-JG-4_qut-1038x576.jpg",
"width": 1038,
"height": 576,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240524-REGIONALMEDICAL-JG-4_qut.jpg",
"width": 1920,
"height": 1280
}
},
"isLoading": false,
"fetchFailed": false
},
"news_11987609": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "news_11987609",
"meta": {
"index": "attachments_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "11987609",
"found": true
},
"title": "gettyimages-1409790606_custom-65610f6fa1e1217944594f5286066c4ddbc0fa27 copy",
"publishDate": 1716509281,
"status": "inherit",
"parent": 11987607,
"modified": 1716509303,
"caption": "A child watches others swim at the Emancipation Swimming Pool in Houston on July 19, 2022.",
"credit": "Brandon Bell/Getty Images",
"altTag": null,
"description": null,
"imgSizes": {
"medium": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/gettyimages-1409790606_custom-65610f6fa1e1217944594f5286066c4ddbc0fa27-copy-800x532.jpg",
"width": 800,
"height": 532,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"large": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/gettyimages-1409790606_custom-65610f6fa1e1217944594f5286066c4ddbc0fa27-copy-1020x679.jpg",
"width": 1020,
"height": 679,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"thumbnail": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/gettyimages-1409790606_custom-65610f6fa1e1217944594f5286066c4ddbc0fa27-copy-160x106.jpg",
"width": 160,
"height": 106,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"post-thumbnail": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/gettyimages-1409790606_custom-65610f6fa1e1217944594f5286066c4ddbc0fa27-copy-672x372.jpg",
"width": 672,
"height": 372,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"twentyfourteen-full-width": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/gettyimages-1409790606_custom-65610f6fa1e1217944594f5286066c4ddbc0fa27-copy-1038x576.jpg",
"width": 1038,
"height": 576,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/gettyimages-1409790606_custom-65610f6fa1e1217944594f5286066c4ddbc0fa27-copy.jpg",
"width": 1300,
"height": 865
}
},
"isLoading": false,
"fetchFailed": false
},
"news_11987207": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "news_11987207",
"meta": {
"index": "attachments_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "11987207",
"found": true
},
"title": "240521-SFGeneral-01-BL",
"publishDate": 1716331727,
"status": "inherit",
"parent": 0,
"modified": 1716332918,
"caption": "Aaron Cramer, a San Francisco nurse for 16 years, said the contract negotiations were ultimately about patient care.",
"credit": "Nik Altenberg/KQED",
"altTag": "A man wearing a surgical facemask and green scrubs stands outside a hospital building",
"description": null,
"imgSizes": {
"medium": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240521-SFGeneral-01-BL-800x533.jpg",
"width": 800,
"height": 533,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"large": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240521-SFGeneral-01-BL-1020x680.jpg",
"width": 1020,
"height": 680,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"thumbnail": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240521-SFGeneral-01-BL-160x107.jpg",
"width": 160,
"height": 107,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"1536x1536": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240521-SFGeneral-01-BL-1536x1024.jpg",
"width": 1536,
"height": 1024,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"post-thumbnail": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240521-SFGeneral-01-BL-672x372.jpg",
"width": 672,
"height": 372,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"twentyfourteen-full-width": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240521-SFGeneral-01-BL-1038x576.jpg",
"width": 1038,
"height": 576,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"full-width": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240521-SFGeneral-01-BL-1920x1280.jpg",
"width": 1920,
"height": 1280,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240521-SFGeneral-01-BL.jpg",
"width": 2000,
"height": 1333
}
},
"isLoading": false,
"fetchFailed": false
},
"news_11986873": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "news_11986873",
"meta": {
"index": "attachments_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "11986873",
"found": true
},
"parent": 11986871,
"imgSizes": {
"twentyfourteen-full-width": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/050718-UC-San-Francisco-Parnassus-AP-CM-01-copy-1038x576.jpg",
"width": 1038,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 576
},
"thumbnail": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/050718-UC-San-Francisco-Parnassus-AP-CM-01-copy-160x107.jpg",
"width": 160,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 107
},
"post-thumbnail": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/050718-UC-San-Francisco-Parnassus-AP-CM-01-copy-672x372.jpg",
"width": 672,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 372
},
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/050718-UC-San-Francisco-Parnassus-AP-CM-01-copy.jpg",
"width": 2000,
"height": 1333
},
"large": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/050718-UC-San-Francisco-Parnassus-AP-CM-01-copy-1020x680.jpg",
"width": 1020,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 680
},
"1536x1536": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/050718-UC-San-Francisco-Parnassus-AP-CM-01-copy-1536x1024.jpg",
"width": 1536,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 1024
},
"full-width": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/050718-UC-San-Francisco-Parnassus-AP-CM-01-copy-1920x1280.jpg",
"width": 1920,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 1280
},
"medium": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/050718-UC-San-Francisco-Parnassus-AP-CM-01-copy-800x533.jpg",
"width": 800,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 533
}
},
"publishDate": 1716080250,
"modified": 1716080300,
"caption": "Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to postpone a minimum wage increase for California health care workers that is scheduled to take effect in June. Some employers have already begun raising pay. Here, striking workers march outside of the University of California San Francisco Parnassus campus on May 7, 2018.",
"description": null,
"title": "050718-UC-San-Francisco-Parnassus-AP-CM-01 copy",
"credit": "Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP Photo",
"status": "inherit",
"altTag": null,
"isLoading": false,
"fetchFailed": false
},
"news_11986482": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "news_11986482",
"meta": {
"index": "attachments_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "11986482",
"found": true
},
"parent": 0,
"imgSizes": {
"twentyfourteen-full-width": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/FEBMAY2024-LONGCOVID-ET-PU-13-KQED-1038x576.jpg",
"width": 1038,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 576
},
"thumbnail": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/FEBMAY2024-LONGCOVID-ET-PU-13-KQED-160x107.jpg",
"width": 160,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 107
},
"post-thumbnail": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/FEBMAY2024-LONGCOVID-ET-PU-13-KQED-672x372.jpg",
"width": 672,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 372
},
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/FEBMAY2024-LONGCOVID-ET-PU-13-KQED.jpg",
"width": 2000,
"height": 1333
},
"large": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/FEBMAY2024-LONGCOVID-ET-PU-13-KQED-1020x680.jpg",
"width": 1020,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 680
},
"1536x1536": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/FEBMAY2024-LONGCOVID-ET-PU-13-KQED-1536x1024.jpg",
"width": 1536,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 1024
},
"full-width": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/FEBMAY2024-LONGCOVID-ET-PU-13-KQED-1920x1280.jpg",
"width": 1920,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 1280
},
"medium": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/FEBMAY2024-LONGCOVID-ET-PU-13-KQED-800x533.jpg",
"width": 800,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 533
}
},
"publishDate": 1715818507,
"modified": 1715978534,
"caption": "Osbaldo Varilla-Aguilar, 46, rides the bus back home in San Francisco on Feb. 26, 2024. ",
"description": null,
"title": "FEBMAY2024-LONGCOVID-ET-PU-13-KQED",
"credit": "Pablo Unzueta for El Tecolote/CatchLight Local",
"status": "inherit",
"altTag": "A middle-aged Latino man with a hat sits on a bus.",
"isLoading": false,
"fetchFailed": false
},
"news_11986529": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "news_11986529",
"meta": {
"index": "attachments_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "11986529",
"found": true
},
"parent": 11986508,
"imgSizes": {
"twentyfourteen-full-width": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/023_KQED_OBICBuprenorphineClinic_03292023_qut-1038x576.jpg",
"width": 1038,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 576
},
"thumbnail": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/023_KQED_OBICBuprenorphineClinic_03292023_qut-160x107.jpg",
"width": 160,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 107
},
"post-thumbnail": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/023_KQED_OBICBuprenorphineClinic_03292023_qut-672x372.jpg",
"width": 672,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 372
},
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/023_KQED_OBICBuprenorphineClinic_03292023_qut.jpg",
"width": 1920,
"height": 1280
},
"large": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/023_KQED_OBICBuprenorphineClinic_03292023_qut-1020x680.jpg",
"width": 1020,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 680
},
"1536x1536": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/023_KQED_OBICBuprenorphineClinic_03292023_qut-1536x1024.jpg",
"width": 1536,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 1024
},
"medium": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/023_KQED_OBICBuprenorphineClinic_03292023_qut-800x533.jpg",
"width": 800,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 533
}
},
"publishDate": 1715882613,
"modified": 1715882636,
"caption": "Buprenorphine and Naloxone tablets at the Community Behavior Health Services pharmacy in San Francisco on March 29, 2023.",
"description": null,
"title": "023_KQED_OBICBuprenorphineClinic_03292023_qut",
"credit": "Beth LaBerge/KQED",
"status": "inherit",
"altTag": null,
"isLoading": false,
"fetchFailed": false
}
},
"audioPlayerReducer": {
"postId": "stream_live",
"isPaused": true,
"isPlaying": false,
"pfsActive": false,
"pledgeModalIsOpen": true,
"playerDrawerIsOpen": false,
"liveAudioPlayStartedAt": 0,
"liveAudioPlayContext": ""
},
"authorsReducer": {
"byline_news_11989238": {
"type": "authors",
"id": "byline_news_11989238",
"meta": {
"override": true
},
"slug": "byline_news_11989238",
"name": "Ryan Sabalow, CalMatters",
"isLoading": false
},
"byline_news_11988511": {
"type": "authors",
"id": "byline_news_11988511",
"meta": {
"override": true
},
"slug": "byline_news_11988511",
"name": "Adam Beam, The Associated Press",
"isLoading": false
},
"byline_news_11987709": {
"type": "authors",
"id": "byline_news_11987709",
"meta": {
"override": true
},
"slug": "byline_news_11987709",
"name": "\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/people/348740829/andrew-limbong\">Andrew Limbong\u003c/a>",
"isLoading": false
},
"byline_news_11987607": {
"type": "authors",
"id": "byline_news_11987607",
"meta": {
"override": true
},
"slug": "byline_news_11987607",
"name": "Joe Hernandez, NPR",
"isLoading": false
},
"byline_news_11986871": {
"type": "authors",
"id": "byline_news_11986871",
"meta": {
"override": true
},
"slug": "byline_news_11986871",
"name": "\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/author/anaibarra/\">Ana B. Ibarra\u003c/a>",
"isLoading": false
},
"byline_news_11986724": {
"type": "authors",
"id": "byline_news_11986724",
"meta": {
"override": true
},
"slug": "byline_news_11986724",
"name": "\u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/en/author/pablo-unzueta/\">Pablo Unzueta\u003c/a>",
"isLoading": false
},
"carlysevern": {
"type": "authors",
"id": "3243",
"meta": {
"index": "authors_1716337520",
"id": "3243",
"found": true
},
"name": "Carly Severn",
"firstName": "Carly",
"lastName": "Severn",
"slug": "carlysevern",
"email": "csevern@kqed.org",
"display_author_email": false,
"staff_mastheads": [
"news"
],
"title": "Senior Editor, Audience News ",
"bio": "Carly is KQED's Senior Editor of Audience News on the Digital News team, and has reported for the California Report Magazine, Bay Curious and KQED Arts. She's formerly the host of \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/category/the-cooler/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Cooler\u003c/a> podcast.",
"avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/2d8d6765f186e64c798cf7f0c8088a41?s=600&d=blank&r=g",
"twitter": "teacupinthebay",
"facebook": null,
"instagram": null,
"linkedin": null,
"sites": [
{
"site": "",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
},
{
"site": "arts",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
},
{
"site": "news",
"roles": [
"administrator"
]
},
{
"site": "pop",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
},
{
"site": "futureofyou",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
},
{
"site": "about",
"roles": [
"administrator"
]
},
{
"site": "mindshift",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
},
{
"site": "bayareabites",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
},
{
"site": "stateofhealth",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
},
{
"site": "science",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
},
{
"site": "food",
"roles": [
"contributor"
]
},
{
"site": "forum",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
},
{
"site": "perspectives",
"roles": [
"administrator"
]
},
{
"site": "liveblog",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
}
],
"headData": {
"title": "Carly Severn | KQED",
"description": "Senior Editor, Audience News ",
"ogImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/2d8d6765f186e64c798cf7f0c8088a41?s=600&d=blank&r=g",
"twImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/2d8d6765f186e64c798cf7f0c8088a41?s=600&d=blank&r=g"
},
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/author/carlysevern"
},
"kevinstark": {
"type": "authors",
"id": "11608",
"meta": {
"index": "authors_1716337520",
"id": "11608",
"found": true
},
"name": "Kevin Stark",
"firstName": "Kevin",
"lastName": "Stark",
"slug": "kevinstark",
"email": "kstark@kqed.org",
"display_author_email": true,
"staff_mastheads": [
"science"
],
"title": "Senior Editor",
"bio": "Kevin is a senior editor for KQED Science, managing the station's health and climate desks. His journalism career began in the Pacific Northwest, and he later became a lead reporter for the San Francisco Public Press. His work has appeared in Pacific Standard magazine, the Energy News Network, the Center for Investigative Reporting's Reveal and WBEZ in Chicago. Kevin joined KQED in 2019, and has covered issues related to energy, wildfire, climate change and the environment.",
"avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/1f646bf546a63d638e04ff23b52b0e79?s=600&d=blank&r=g",
"twitter": "starkkev",
"facebook": null,
"instagram": null,
"linkedin": null,
"sites": [
{
"site": "",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
},
{
"site": "news",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
},
{
"site": "science",
"roles": [
"administrator"
]
}
],
"headData": {
"title": "Kevin Stark | KQED",
"description": "Senior Editor",
"ogImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/1f646bf546a63d638e04ff23b52b0e79?s=600&d=blank&r=g",
"twImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/1f646bf546a63d638e04ff23b52b0e79?s=600&d=blank&r=g"
},
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/author/kevinstark"
},
"sjohnson": {
"type": "authors",
"id": "11840",
"meta": {
"index": "authors_1716337520",
"id": "11840",
"found": true
},
"name": "Sydney Johnson",
"firstName": "Sydney",
"lastName": "Johnson",
"slug": "sjohnson",
"email": "sjohnson@kqed.org",
"display_author_email": false,
"staff_mastheads": [
"news"
],
"title": "KQED Reporter",
"bio": "Sydney Johnson is a general assignment reporter at KQED. She previously reported on public health and city government at the San Francisco Examiner, and before that, she covered statewide education policy for EdSource. Her reporting has won multiple local, state and national awards. Sydney is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley and lives in San Francisco.",
"avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/97855f2719b72ad6190b7c535fe642c8?s=600&d=blank&r=g",
"twitter": "sydneyfjohnson",
"facebook": null,
"instagram": null,
"linkedin": null,
"sites": [
{
"site": "news",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
}
],
"headData": {
"title": "Sydney Johnson | KQED",
"description": "KQED Reporter",
"ogImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/97855f2719b72ad6190b7c535fe642c8?s=600&d=blank&r=g",
"twImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/97855f2719b72ad6190b7c535fe642c8?s=600&d=blank&r=g"
},
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/author/sjohnson"
},
"naltenberg": {
"type": "authors",
"id": "11896",
"meta": {
"index": "authors_1716337520",
"id": "11896",
"found": true
},
"name": "Nik Altenberg",
"firstName": "Nik",
"lastName": "Altenberg",
"slug": "naltenberg",
"email": "naltenberg@kqed.org",
"display_author_email": false,
"staff_mastheads": [],
"title": "KQED Contributor",
"bio": "Nik Altenberg is an on-call reporter for KQED and a copy editor and fact checker for Santa Cruz Local. Nik’s reporting interests include policing, public health, environment, immigration, housing and the places where these issues intersect.",
"avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/e391b3a18ce4a53a7ca3f3065c74418b?s=600&d=blank&r=g",
"twitter": null,
"facebook": null,
"instagram": "https://www.instagram.com/nikaltenberg/",
"linkedin": null,
"sites": [
{
"site": "news",
"roles": []
}
],
"headData": {
"title": "Nik Altenberg | KQED",
"description": "KQED Contributor",
"ogImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/e391b3a18ce4a53a7ca3f3065c74418b?s=600&d=blank&r=g",
"twImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/e391b3a18ce4a53a7ca3f3065c74418b?s=600&d=blank&r=g"
},
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/author/naltenberg"
},
"jgeha": {
"type": "authors",
"id": "11906",
"meta": {
"index": "authors_1716337520",
"id": "11906",
"found": true
},
"name": "Joseph Geha",
"firstName": "Joseph",
"lastName": "Geha",
"slug": "jgeha",
"email": "jgeha@kqed.org",
"display_author_email": false,
"staff_mastheads": [
"news",
"science"
],
"title": "KQED Contributor",
"bio": null,
"avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/ea84d2b6dd93d6369d453edf19dd583f117cd1759d2d9c9c92f9de77017354fe?s=600&d=blank&r=g",
"twitter": null,
"bluesky": null,
"facebook": null,
"instagram": null,
"linkedin": null,
"sites": [
{
"site": "news",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
},
{
"site": "liveblog",
"roles": [
"author"
]
}
],
"headData": {
"title": "Joseph Geha | KQED",
"description": "KQED Contributor",
"ogImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/ea84d2b6dd93d6369d453edf19dd583f117cd1759d2d9c9c92f9de77017354fe?s=600&d=blank&r=g",
"twImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/ea84d2b6dd93d6369d453edf19dd583f117cd1759d2d9c9c92f9de77017354fe?s=600&d=blank&r=g"
},
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/author/jgeha"
},
"kdebenedetti": {
"type": "authors",
"id": "11913",
"meta": {
"index": "authors_1716337520",
"id": "11913",
"found": true
},
"name": "Katie DeBenedetti",
"firstName": "Katie",
"lastName": "DeBenedetti",
"slug": "kdebenedetti",
"email": "kdebenedetti@kqed.org",
"display_author_email": false,
"staff_mastheads": [
"news",
"science"
],
"title": "KQED Contributor",
"bio": "Katie DeBenedetti is a digital reporter covering daily news for the Express Desk. Prior to joining KQED as a culture reporting intern in January 2024, she covered education and city government for the Napa Valley Register.",
"avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/6e31073cb8f7e4214ab03f42771d0f45?s=600&d=blank&r=g",
"twitter": null,
"facebook": null,
"instagram": null,
"linkedin": null,
"sites": [
{
"site": "news",
"roles": [
"author"
]
},
{
"site": "science",
"roles": [
"author"
]
},
{
"site": "liveblog",
"roles": [
"author"
]
}
],
"headData": {
"title": "Katie DeBenedetti | KQED",
"description": "KQED Contributor",
"ogImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/6e31073cb8f7e4214ab03f42771d0f45?s=600&d=blank&r=g",
"twImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/6e31073cb8f7e4214ab03f42771d0f45?s=600&d=blank&r=g"
},
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/author/kdebenedetti"
}
},
"pagesReducer": {
"news_tag_health": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_18543",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "18543",
"score": 6.8845096
},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Health",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Health Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 466,
"slug": "health",
"isLoading": false,
"title": "Health",
"pageMeta": {
"site": "news",
"WpPageTemplate": "page-topic-editorial",
"currentPage": 33
},
"blocks": [
{
"blockName": "kqed/post-list",
"attrs": {
"layout": "cardArticle2",
"query": "posts/news?tag=health",
"seeMore": false,
"paginated": true,
"page": 33
}
},
{
"blockName": "kqed/ad"
}
]
}
},
"pfsSessionReducer": {},
"postsReducer": {
"stream_live": {
"type": "live",
"id": "stream_live",
"audioUrl": "https://streams.kqed.org/kqedradio",
"title": "Live Stream",
"excerpt": "Live Stream information currently unavailable.",
"link": "/radio",
"featImg": "",
"label": {
"name": "KQED Live",
"link": "/"
}
},
"stream_kqedNewscast": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "stream_kqedNewscast",
"audioUrl": "https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/RDnews/newscast.mp3?_=1",
"title": "KQED Newscast",
"featImg": "",
"label": {
"name": "88.5 FM",
"link": "/"
}
},
"news_11989238": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "news_11989238",
"meta": {
"index": "posts_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "11989238",
"score": null,
"sort": [
1717700430000
]
},
"guestAuthors": [],
"slug": "california-democrats-divided-over-increasing-penalties-for-assaulting-er-workers",
"title": "California Democrats Divided Over Increasing Penalties for Assaulting ER Workers",
"publishDate": 1717700430,
"format": "standard",
"headTitle": "California Democrats Divided Over Increasing Penalties for Assaulting ER Workers | KQED",
"labelTerm": {},
"content": "\u003cp>Before becoming a member of the California Assembly, \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/legislators/freddie-rodriguez-69\">Freddie Rodriguez\u003c/a> spent 30 years as an emergency medical technician in the San Gabriel Valley. He’s wheeled untold numbers of patients on gurneys into hospital emergency departments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And he’s seen all too often what happens when one of them tries to hurt caregivers. In fact, it recently happened to his daughter, Desirae, a respiratory technician. He told the Senate Public Safety Committee on Tuesday that she was recently assaulted on the job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This violence is unacceptable,” Rodriguez testified. “But for many of the health care heroes, they view workplace violence as just part of the job.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The issue prompted Rodriguez to introduce \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202320240ab977\">Assembly Bill 977\u003c/a>, which would increase penalties to a year in jail for those convicted of assaulting California’s hospital emergency room doctors, nurses and other workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the bill has an uncertain future due to resistance from progressive Democrats who, for the past decade, have sought to shrink the number of inmates in the state’s crowded jails and prisons. Indeed, former Gov. Jerry Brown, who faced a U.S. Supreme Court order to shrink the state’s prison population, vetoed an identical bill from Rodriguez \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/15-16/bill/asm/ab_0151-0200/ab_172_vt_20151010.html\">in 2015\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those tensions were displayed when the bill narrowly passed the Senate Public Safety Committee earlier this week.[aside postID=news_11987204 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240521-SFGeneral-01-BL-1020x680.jpg']The safety committee’s liberal Democratic senators from the San Francisco Bay Area, \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/legislators/scott-wiener-100936\">Scott Wiener\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/legislators/nancy-skinner-34364\">Nancy Skinner\u003c/a>, opposed the legislation. They sided with the \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/organizations/-2775\">California Public Defenders Association\u003c/a> and prison reform advocates who argue that increasing criminal penalties doesn’t deter crime and who say laws on the books already prohibit assault.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If there were evidence that an additional six months in county jail … would enhance the safety of these workers or serve as a deterrent, I would sign this bill,” Brown wrote. “I doubt that it would do either.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At this week’s hearing, the bill’s opponents also argued that many of the attacks in emergency departments are from patients having mental health crises.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We realize now that because of the lack of mental-health resources …ERs are where people who are having a crisis of mental health are brought,” Skinner said. “And punishments like this are not deterrents for people who can use no judgment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Skinner, however, didn’t vote on the bill, which counts the same as voting “no.” When Rodriguez’s bill passed the Assembly earlier this year, 12 members — most of them progressive Democrats who’ve been leery of increasing criminal penalties — didn’t vote. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2024/05/california-shoplifting-bill-democrats-vote/\">As CalMatters has reported, \u003c/a>lawmakers regularly avoid voting on controversial bills to avoid angering colleagues or eliminating a record of their opposition on sensitive matters. There is no distinction for legislators who abstain or are absent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11989246\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11989246\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/CMERWorkers02.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/CMERWorkers02.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/CMERWorkers02-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/CMERWorkers02-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/CMERWorkers02-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/CMERWorkers02-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/CMERWorkers02-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Assemblymember Freddie Rodriguez addresses other lawmakers during a floor session at the state Capitol in Sacramento on April 4, 2024. \u003ccite>(Fred Greaves/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Wiener cast the lone “no” vote in the five-member committee. The influential \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/organizations/-19\">California Medical Association\u003c/a>, representing the state’s physicians, supported the bill. The opposition from Skinner and Wiener represented a significant break from the association’s positions on legislation. Skinner has historically sided with the doctors’ group 80% of the time; Wiener 86%, according to an analysis from \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/\">CalMatters Digital Democracy database\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Murrieta Republican Sen. \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/legislators/kelly-seyarto-165446\">Kelly Seyarto\u003c/a>, who has historically aligned with the California Medical Association only 45% of the time, was firmly on the doctors’ side this time around.\u003cbr>\nHe’s a former battalion chief with the Los Angeles County Fire Department, who has seen his share of violent medical calls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He told his committee colleagues that the legislation is “long overdue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know personally a nurse that was disabled [after] she was attacked and thrown to the ground,” Seyarto said. “She had a head injury, and she could never go back to work. She could never go back to work. And the person that did that, there was nothing mentally wrong with them. He was just mad.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
"blocks": [],
"excerpt": "A bill that would increase penalties for those who assault hospital emergency department workers is facing the same pushback that other recent tough-on-crime legislation has from progressive Democrats leery of growing incarceration rates.",
"status": "publish",
"parent": 0,
"modified": 1717699337,
"stats": {
"hasAudio": false,
"hasVideo": false,
"hasChartOrMap": false,
"iframeSrcs": [],
"hasGoogleForm": false,
"hasGallery": false,
"hasHearkenModule": false,
"hasPolis": false,
"paragraphCount": 16,
"wordCount": 736
},
"headData": {
"title": "California Democrats Divided Over Increasing Penalties for Assaulting ER Workers | KQED",
"description": "A bill that would increase penalties for those who assault hospital emergency department workers is facing the same pushback that other recent tough-on-crime legislation has from progressive Democrats leery of growing incarceration rates.",
"ogTitle": "",
"ogDescription": "",
"ogImgId": "",
"twTitle": "",
"twDescription": "",
"twImgId": "",
"schema": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "NewsArticle",
"headline": "California Democrats Divided Over Increasing Penalties for Assaulting ER Workers",
"datePublished": "2024-06-06T12:00:30-07:00",
"dateModified": "2024-06-06T11:42:17-07:00",
"image": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"isAccessibleForFree": "True",
"publisher": {
"@type": "NewsMediaOrganization",
"@id": "https://www.kqed.org/#organization",
"name": "KQED",
"logo": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"url": "https://www.kqed.org",
"sameAs": [
"https://www.facebook.com/KQED",
"https://twitter.com/KQED",
"https://www.instagram.com/kqed/",
"https://www.tiktok.com/@kqedofficial",
"https://www.linkedin.com/company/kqed",
"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeC0IOo7i1P_61zVUWbJ4nw"
]
}
}
},
"source": "CalMatters",
"sourceUrl": "https://calmatters.org/",
"sticky": false,
"nprByline": "Ryan Sabalow, CalMatters",
"excludeFromSiteSearch": "Include",
"showOnAuthorArchivePages": "No",
"articleAge": "0",
"path": "/news/11989238/california-democrats-divided-over-increasing-penalties-for-assaulting-er-workers",
"audioTrackLength": null,
"parsedContent": [
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Before becoming a member of the California Assembly, \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/legislators/freddie-rodriguez-69\">Freddie Rodriguez\u003c/a> spent 30 years as an emergency medical technician in the San Gabriel Valley. He’s wheeled untold numbers of patients on gurneys into hospital emergency departments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And he’s seen all too often what happens when one of them tries to hurt caregivers. In fact, it recently happened to his daughter, Desirae, a respiratory technician. He told the Senate Public Safety Committee on Tuesday that she was recently assaulted on the job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This violence is unacceptable,” Rodriguez testified. “But for many of the health care heroes, they view workplace violence as just part of the job.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The issue prompted Rodriguez to introduce \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202320240ab977\">Assembly Bill 977\u003c/a>, which would increase penalties to a year in jail for those convicted of assaulting California’s hospital emergency room doctors, nurses and other workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "fullwidth"
},
"numeric": [
"fullwidth"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the bill has an uncertain future due to resistance from progressive Democrats who, for the past decade, have sought to shrink the number of inmates in the state’s crowded jails and prisons. Indeed, former Gov. Jerry Brown, who faced a U.S. Supreme Court order to shrink the state’s prison population, vetoed an identical bill from Rodriguez \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/15-16/bill/asm/ab_0151-0200/ab_172_vt_20151010.html\">in 2015\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those tensions were displayed when the bill narrowly passed the Senate Public Safety Committee earlier this week.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "aside",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"postid": "news_11987204",
"hero": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240521-SFGeneral-01-BL-1020x680.jpg",
"label": ""
},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The safety committee’s liberal Democratic senators from the San Francisco Bay Area, \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/legislators/scott-wiener-100936\">Scott Wiener\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/legislators/nancy-skinner-34364\">Nancy Skinner\u003c/a>, opposed the legislation. They sided with the \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/organizations/-2775\">California Public Defenders Association\u003c/a> and prison reform advocates who argue that increasing criminal penalties doesn’t deter crime and who say laws on the books already prohibit assault.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If there were evidence that an additional six months in county jail … would enhance the safety of these workers or serve as a deterrent, I would sign this bill,” Brown wrote. “I doubt that it would do either.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At this week’s hearing, the bill’s opponents also argued that many of the attacks in emergency departments are from patients having mental health crises.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We realize now that because of the lack of mental-health resources …ERs are where people who are having a crisis of mental health are brought,” Skinner said. “And punishments like this are not deterrents for people who can use no judgment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Skinner, however, didn’t vote on the bill, which counts the same as voting “no.” When Rodriguez’s bill passed the Assembly earlier this year, 12 members — most of them progressive Democrats who’ve been leery of increasing criminal penalties — didn’t vote. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2024/05/california-shoplifting-bill-democrats-vote/\">As CalMatters has reported, \u003c/a>lawmakers regularly avoid voting on controversial bills to avoid angering colleagues or eliminating a record of their opposition on sensitive matters. There is no distinction for legislators who abstain or are absent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11989246\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11989246\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/CMERWorkers02.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/CMERWorkers02.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/CMERWorkers02-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/CMERWorkers02-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/CMERWorkers02-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/CMERWorkers02-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/CMERWorkers02-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Assemblymember Freddie Rodriguez addresses other lawmakers during a floor session at the state Capitol in Sacramento on April 4, 2024. \u003ccite>(Fred Greaves/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Wiener cast the lone “no” vote in the five-member committee. The influential \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/organizations/-19\">California Medical Association\u003c/a>, representing the state’s physicians, supported the bill. The opposition from Skinner and Wiener represented a significant break from the association’s positions on legislation. Skinner has historically sided with the doctors’ group 80% of the time; Wiener 86%, according to an analysis from \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/\">CalMatters Digital Democracy database\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Murrieta Republican Sen. \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/legislators/kelly-seyarto-165446\">Kelly Seyarto\u003c/a>, who has historically aligned with the California Medical Association only 45% of the time, was firmly on the doctors’ side this time around.\u003cbr>\nHe’s a former battalion chief with the Los Angeles County Fire Department, who has seen his share of violent medical calls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He told his committee colleagues that the legislation is “long overdue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know personally a nurse that was disabled [after] she was attacked and thrown to the ground,” Seyarto said. “She had a head injury, and she could never go back to work. She could never go back to work. And the person that did that, there was nothing mentally wrong with them. He was just mad.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
}
],
"link": "/news/11989238/california-democrats-divided-over-increasing-penalties-for-assaulting-er-workers",
"authors": [
"byline_news_11989238"
],
"categories": [
"news_457",
"news_8"
],
"tags": [
"news_18538",
"news_20251",
"news_18543",
"news_24939"
],
"affiliates": [
"news_18481"
],
"featImg": "news_11989244",
"label": "source_news_11989238"
},
"news_11989112": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "news_11989112",
"meta": {
"index": "posts_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "11989112",
"score": null,
"sort": [
1717611726000
]
},
"guestAuthors": [],
"slug": "can-san-francisco-arrest-its-way-out-of-tenderloins-drug-crisis",
"title": "Can San Francisco Arrest Its Way Out of Tenderloin’s Drug Crisis?",
"publishDate": 1717611726,
"format": "standard",
"headTitle": "Can San Francisco Arrest Its Way Out of Tenderloin’s Drug Crisis? | KQED",
"labelTerm": {
"site": "news"
},
"content": "\u003cp>One year into San Francisco’s push to dismantle open-air drug markets, authorities are touting thousands of arrests by the law enforcement campaign; last week alone, police announced they had arrested 10 people in a single-day operation in the Tenderloin, as well as the arrests days earlier of two brothers suspected of trafficking drugs in the area and carrying 6 kilograms of fentanyl, among other substances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, with people dying of overdoses near a record pace and neighbors’ complaints of a pervasive drug trade, some policy experts have questioned whether San Francisco is taking the right approach to the crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor London Breed launched the Drug Market Agency Coordination Center, a centralized hub for local, state and federal law enforcement agencies to disrupt drug dealing and public drug use in the Tenderloin and South of Market neighborhoods, in May 2023. Last week, on its first anniversary, Breed’s office released a \u003ca href=\"https://www.sanfranciscopolice.org/drug-market-agency-coordination-center\">public data dashboard\u003c/a> showing that in the first year of the crackdown, law enforcement officials made more than 3,000 arrests and seized nearly 200 kilos of narcotics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of those arrests, 1,008 people were suspected of dealing drugs, 1,284 were suspected of using drugs, and 858 people had outstanding warrants. The top two drugs seized by weight were fentanyl, at more than 89 kilos, and methamphetamine, at 48 kilos. In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/news/san-francisco-dmacc-marks-one-year-milestone-200-kilos-narcotics-seized-and-3000-arrests\">statement announcing the first-year data\u003c/a>, city officials called those “significant results.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The partnerships we put in place are getting fentanyl out of our neighborhoods, and with new technology being deployed and more officers joining our ranks, our efforts will only grow stronger over the coming year,” Breed said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some residents and policy experts, however, said the coordination center has had little effect on the neighborhoods’ struggle to curtail drug dealing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Randy Shaw, co-founder of the Tenderloin Housing Clinic, said that while arrests and seizures have been centralized around United Nations Plaza, the area’s drug market is still pervasive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At a place like 7th and Market, which I’ve written about a lot and which has gotten a lot of attention on social media, there’s still 50 drug dealers and drug users out there every night,” Shaw said. “Why is that still happening?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the two and a half years since Breed declared a state of emergency in the Tenderloin related to the fentanyl crisis, San Francisco has recorded its highest number of overdose deaths in one year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11972898/2023-was-san-franciscos-deadliest-year-for-drug-overdoses-new-data-confirms\">totaling 810 in 2023\u003c/a>. This year, the city is on track to \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/sites/default/files/2024-05/2024%2005_OCME%20Overdose%20Report.pdf\">surpass 770 overdose deaths\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the city’s efforts, the crisis on the streets of the Tenderloin remains, Shaw said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We created an emergency coordination center, and a year later, the activities that exist there remain higher than any other neighborhood would tolerate and would be allowed to continue,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11982333\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11982333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240405-District5BOSRedistricting-006-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"Two men sitting on the sidewalk while another man on the left wearing a neon yellow and orange jacket stands near parked cars on the street.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240405-District5BOSRedistricting-006-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240405-District5BOSRedistricting-006-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240405-District5BOSRedistricting-006-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240405-District5BOSRedistricting-006-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240405-District5BOSRedistricting-006-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People sit on the sidewalk in the Tenderloin neighborhood, a part of the 5th Supervisorial District, in San Francisco on April 5, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Keith Humphreys, a drug policy expert and professor of psychology at Stanford University, said he believes this is because San Francisco’s efforts are too focused on arresting drug dealers and users, which isn’t necessarily aligned with residents’ goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can arrest individual dealers forever, but your goal, I think, is to suppress the open-air market, and that is not done by individual arrests,” Humphreys told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Humphreys, data shows that closing drug markets takes collaboration not only among law enforcement agencies but with social service providers and prosecutors as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The coordination center works with city agencies, including the Department of Public Health and the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing, to connect people with treatment and shelter options, city officials said in a statement. However, in contrast to the arrests dashboard, no data was available on the number of people who used those resources, and the mayor’s office did not respond to a request for the information at the time of publication.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=science_1993048,news_11987962,news_11982329,news_11972898 label='related coverage']Another point that could work against the city’s efforts is the discrepancy between the numbers of arrests and convictions in the data, Humphreys said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you don’t have [convictions], the arrests are counterproductive because if they don’t result in convictions, it teaches people being arrested is no big deal,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of May 25, the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office said it had been presented with 394 felony narcotics cases this year and filed 344 of them. Officers with the Drug Market Agency Coordination Center have made 1,159 narcotics arrests since January, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sanfranciscopolice.org/drug-market-agency-coordination-center\">according to SFPD data\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As officials tout the number of arrests and the amount of drugs confiscated, Humphreys said the city should track other metrics instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What I would like to see on their dashboard is, ‘How many sidewalks can you walk down without seeing a dealer or users?’ You can assess that very easily,” Humphreys said. “I think if they looked at that, my suspicion would be that while the arrests went up, that number stayed the same. When you gather that data, you think, ‘We need to think of a different strategy.’”\u003c/p>\n\n",
"blocks": [],
"excerpt": "Authorities are touting over 3,000 arrests in the first year of a law enforcement campaign against open-air drug markets, but some policy experts have questioned whether that’s the right approach.",
"status": "publish",
"parent": 0,
"modified": 1726004366,
"stats": {
"hasAudio": false,
"hasVideo": false,
"hasChartOrMap": false,
"iframeSrcs": [],
"hasGoogleForm": false,
"hasGallery": false,
"hasHearkenModule": false,
"hasPolis": false,
"paragraphCount": 22,
"wordCount": 909
},
"headData": {
"title": "Can San Francisco Arrest Its Way Out of Tenderloin’s Drug Crisis? | KQED",
"description": "Authorities are touting over 3,000 arrests in the first year of a law enforcement campaign against open-air drug markets, but some policy experts have questioned whether that’s the right approach.",
"ogTitle": "",
"ogDescription": "",
"ogImgId": "",
"twTitle": "",
"twDescription": "",
"twImgId": "",
"schema": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "NewsArticle",
"headline": "Can San Francisco Arrest Its Way Out of Tenderloin’s Drug Crisis?",
"datePublished": "2024-06-05T11:22:06-07:00",
"dateModified": "2024-09-10T14:39:26-07:00",
"image": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"isAccessibleForFree": "True",
"publisher": {
"@type": "NewsMediaOrganization",
"@id": "https://www.kqed.org/#organization",
"name": "KQED",
"logo": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"url": "https://www.kqed.org",
"sameAs": [
"https://www.facebook.com/KQED",
"https://twitter.com/KQED",
"https://www.instagram.com/kqed/",
"https://www.tiktok.com/@kqedofficial",
"https://www.linkedin.com/company/kqed",
"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeC0IOo7i1P_61zVUWbJ4nw"
]
}
}
},
"sticky": false,
"nprStoryId": "kqed-11989112",
"excludeFromSiteSearch": "Include",
"showOnAuthorArchivePages": "No",
"articleAge": "0",
"path": "/news/11989112/can-san-francisco-arrest-its-way-out-of-tenderloins-drug-crisis",
"audioTrackLength": null,
"parsedContent": [
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>One year into San Francisco’s push to dismantle open-air drug markets, authorities are touting thousands of arrests by the law enforcement campaign; last week alone, police announced they had arrested 10 people in a single-day operation in the Tenderloin, as well as the arrests days earlier of two brothers suspected of trafficking drugs in the area and carrying 6 kilograms of fentanyl, among other substances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, with people dying of overdoses near a record pace and neighbors’ complaints of a pervasive drug trade, some policy experts have questioned whether San Francisco is taking the right approach to the crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor London Breed launched the Drug Market Agency Coordination Center, a centralized hub for local, state and federal law enforcement agencies to disrupt drug dealing and public drug use in the Tenderloin and South of Market neighborhoods, in May 2023. Last week, on its first anniversary, Breed’s office released a \u003ca href=\"https://www.sanfranciscopolice.org/drug-market-agency-coordination-center\">public data dashboard\u003c/a> showing that in the first year of the crackdown, law enforcement officials made more than 3,000 arrests and seized nearly 200 kilos of narcotics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of those arrests, 1,008 people were suspected of dealing drugs, 1,284 were suspected of using drugs, and 858 people had outstanding warrants. The top two drugs seized by weight were fentanyl, at more than 89 kilos, and methamphetamine, at 48 kilos. In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/news/san-francisco-dmacc-marks-one-year-milestone-200-kilos-narcotics-seized-and-3000-arrests\">statement announcing the first-year data\u003c/a>, city officials called those “significant results.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The partnerships we put in place are getting fentanyl out of our neighborhoods, and with new technology being deployed and more officers joining our ranks, our efforts will only grow stronger over the coming year,” Breed said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "fullwidth"
},
"numeric": [
"fullwidth"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some residents and policy experts, however, said the coordination center has had little effect on the neighborhoods’ struggle to curtail drug dealing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Randy Shaw, co-founder of the Tenderloin Housing Clinic, said that while arrests and seizures have been centralized around United Nations Plaza, the area’s drug market is still pervasive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At a place like 7th and Market, which I’ve written about a lot and which has gotten a lot of attention on social media, there’s still 50 drug dealers and drug users out there every night,” Shaw said. “Why is that still happening?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the two and a half years since Breed declared a state of emergency in the Tenderloin related to the fentanyl crisis, San Francisco has recorded its highest number of overdose deaths in one year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11972898/2023-was-san-franciscos-deadliest-year-for-drug-overdoses-new-data-confirms\">totaling 810 in 2023\u003c/a>. This year, the city is on track to \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/sites/default/files/2024-05/2024%2005_OCME%20Overdose%20Report.pdf\">surpass 770 overdose deaths\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the city’s efforts, the crisis on the streets of the Tenderloin remains, Shaw said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We created an emergency coordination center, and a year later, the activities that exist there remain higher than any other neighborhood would tolerate and would be allowed to continue,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11982333\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11982333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240405-District5BOSRedistricting-006-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"Two men sitting on the sidewalk while another man on the left wearing a neon yellow and orange jacket stands near parked cars on the street.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240405-District5BOSRedistricting-006-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240405-District5BOSRedistricting-006-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240405-District5BOSRedistricting-006-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240405-District5BOSRedistricting-006-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240405-District5BOSRedistricting-006-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People sit on the sidewalk in the Tenderloin neighborhood, a part of the 5th Supervisorial District, in San Francisco on April 5, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Keith Humphreys, a drug policy expert and professor of psychology at Stanford University, said he believes this is because San Francisco’s efforts are too focused on arresting drug dealers and users, which isn’t necessarily aligned with residents’ goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can arrest individual dealers forever, but your goal, I think, is to suppress the open-air market, and that is not done by individual arrests,” Humphreys told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Humphreys, data shows that closing drug markets takes collaboration not only among law enforcement agencies but with social service providers and prosecutors as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The coordination center works with city agencies, including the Department of Public Health and the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing, to connect people with treatment and shelter options, city officials said in a statement. However, in contrast to the arrests dashboard, no data was available on the number of people who used those resources, and the mayor’s office did not respond to a request for the information at the time of publication.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "aside",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"postid": "science_1993048,news_11987962,news_11982329,news_11972898",
"label": "related coverage "
},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Another point that could work against the city’s efforts is the discrepancy between the numbers of arrests and convictions in the data, Humphreys said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you don’t have [convictions], the arrests are counterproductive because if they don’t result in convictions, it teaches people being arrested is no big deal,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of May 25, the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office said it had been presented with 394 felony narcotics cases this year and filed 344 of them. Officers with the Drug Market Agency Coordination Center have made 1,159 narcotics arrests since January, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sanfranciscopolice.org/drug-market-agency-coordination-center\">according to SFPD data\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As officials tout the number of arrests and the amount of drugs confiscated, Humphreys said the city should track other metrics instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What I would like to see on their dashboard is, ‘How many sidewalks can you walk down without seeing a dealer or users?’ You can assess that very easily,” Humphreys said. “I think if they looked at that, my suspicion would be that while the arrests went up, that number stayed the same. When you gather that data, you think, ‘We need to think of a different strategy.’”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
}
],
"link": "/news/11989112/can-san-francisco-arrest-its-way-out-of-tenderloins-drug-crisis",
"authors": [
"11913"
],
"categories": [
"news_457",
"news_6188",
"news_8"
],
"tags": [
"news_30249",
"news_2587",
"news_27626",
"news_23051",
"news_33045",
"news_18543",
"news_6931",
"news_24982",
"news_33046",
"news_29747",
"news_38",
"news_6544",
"news_3181"
],
"featImg": "news_11952545",
"label": "news"
},
"news_11988972": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "news_11988972",
"meta": {
"index": "posts_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "11988972",
"score": null,
"sort": [
1717536040000
]
},
"guestAuthors": [],
"slug": "bay-area-researchers-tracking-bird-flu-in-wastewater-see-no-evidence-of-spread-in-sf",
"title": "Bay Area Researchers Tracking Bird Flu in Wastewater See No Evidence of Spread in SF",
"publishDate": 1717536040,
"format": "standard",
"headTitle": "Bay Area Researchers Tracking Bird Flu in Wastewater See No Evidence of Spread in SF | KQED",
"labelTerm": {
"site": "news"
},
"content": "\u003cp>To learn more about the spread of bird flu, Bay Area disease detectives are once again turning to an unlikely source of information: sewage. And so far, at least, the news is promising.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After California food safety regulators detected avian influenza in two chickens at a San Francisco live-bird market at the beginning of last month, scientists at Stanford University tested samples daily from wastewater collected at treatment plants across the country as part of a national project called WastewaterSCAN.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, they tested frozen samples dating back several months and found evidence of bird flu from early May, around when the two chickens were identified in the live market, but they have not detected it in any daily tests in recent weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This seems to have been a confined event associated with perhaps these birds being in the market there,” said Alexandria Boehm, a professor and Stanford environmental engineer who also directs the wastewater research team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials in San Francisco had discovered the two infected chickens during routine surveillance using a PCR test, which can’t discern between live or dead virus. The chickens were asymptomatic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They monitored the market employees who had contact with the chickens for several weeks, and no symptoms were reported. They believe the public was not exposed, and the market has since been sanitized and reopened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s health department would not disclose the location of the market to KQED.[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"bird-flu\"]The WastewaterSCAN project has \u003ca href=\"https://data.wastewaterscan.org/tracker/?charts=CjIQACABSABaBk4gR2VuZXIKMjAyNC0wNC0yMnIKMjAyNC0wNi0wM4oBBjAzYWYzM8ABAQ%3D%3D&selectedChartId=03af33\">found evidence of bird flu at more than a dozen locations\u003c/a>, including two states — Minnesota and Iowa — that officials have yet to list as having infected herds. Last week, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced the third human case of bird flu was reported in a farmworker in Michigan who experienced respiratory symptoms after exposure to an infected herd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No human cases have been reported in San Francisco or elsewhere in California\u003cem>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A more precise wastewater measurement\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The work by Boehm’s team represents the first time researchers have tested for H5N1 in wastewater.\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nIt builds on a pandemic-era playbook for monitoring wastewater for COVID-19, which has since expanded to other diseases, even the use of illicit substances and drugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the CDC has \u003ca href=\"https://www.statnews.com/2024/05/13/cdc-wastewater-surveillance-dashboard-bird-flu-outbreak-monitor/\">tracked influenza A viruses\u003c/a> in sewage — using them as a barometer for the spread of bird flu because flu viruses that sicken humans circulate at low levels during summer months, that testing is not H5N1-specific.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boehm’s team, working with San Francisco and California health officials, developed a precise marker for H5N1 bird flu last month as dairy cow outbreaks spread across the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Once we had the detection in the live bird market, that was an opportunity to look at wastewater for H5N1,” said Dr. George Han, director of the San Francisco Department of Public Health’s communicable disease prevention and control program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although researchers found fragments of bird flu material in the frozen bank of sewage from San Francisco, subsequent monitoring detected no further evidence in the city “nor elsewhere in California, for that matter,” Han said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s potentially good news for the state, which boasts the largest dairy industry in the country with more than 1.5 million dairy cows. Federal officials had observed several jumps in influenza A viruses in California, which they thought could indicate that bird flu was circulating across its ranches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s health department does not believe that any of the wastewater hits for bird flu are related to human infection, Han said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that’s really important and the take home message,” he said. “No one really thinks at this point that the detections are due to human cases of H5N1.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>San Francisco’s unique sewer system\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>San Francisco is one of only about \u003ca href=\"https://www.epa.gov/npdes/where-combined-sewer-overflow-outfalls-are-located\">700 American communities\u003c/a> with a combined sewer system, with stormwater and sewage flowing through the same pipes.\u003cbr>\nThat’s an issue for the city during bad storms when the system regularly overflows — the city is fending off \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1993067/amid-long-and-costly-legal-battles-sf-urged-to-update-wastewater-system-fix-sewage-discharges\">a lawsuit from federal and state environmental officials\u003c/a> for discharging billions of gallons of untreated sewage into the San Francisco Bay each year because of it. However, it is a benefit for this disease research work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s health department has a working hypothesis: Migratory birds with avian flu may have passed through San Francisco, and their waste ended up in its combined sewer shed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If there is any kind of bird feces in the street and somebody washes it off the street or the sidewalk, that material ends up in the sanitary sewer,” Boehm said. “We’re able to use that wastewater to understand circulation of both human disease, but also, in some cases, animal disease.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That, Boehm said, could help scientists “better understand the extent and duration of the H5N1 outbreak this spring in the United States.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
"blocks": [],
"excerpt": "After the state detected bird flu in two chickens at a live market in San Francisco, further analysis by Stanford researchers suggests the disease has not spread.",
"status": "publish",
"parent": 0,
"modified": 1717541417,
"stats": {
"hasAudio": false,
"hasVideo": false,
"hasChartOrMap": false,
"iframeSrcs": [],
"hasGoogleForm": false,
"hasGallery": false,
"hasHearkenModule": false,
"hasPolis": false,
"paragraphCount": 22,
"wordCount": 849
},
"headData": {
"title": "Bay Area Researchers Tracking Bird Flu in Wastewater See No Evidence of Spread in SF | KQED",
"description": "After the state detected bird flu in two chickens at a live market in San Francisco, further analysis by Stanford researchers suggests the disease has not spread.",
"ogTitle": "",
"ogDescription": "",
"ogImgId": "",
"twTitle": "",
"twDescription": "",
"twImgId": "",
"schema": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "NewsArticle",
"headline": "Bay Area Researchers Tracking Bird Flu in Wastewater See No Evidence of Spread in SF",
"datePublished": "2024-06-04T14:20:40-07:00",
"dateModified": "2024-06-04T15:50:17-07:00",
"image": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"isAccessibleForFree": "True",
"publisher": {
"@type": "NewsMediaOrganization",
"@id": "https://www.kqed.org/#organization",
"name": "KQED",
"logo": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"url": "https://www.kqed.org",
"sameAs": [
"https://www.facebook.com/KQED",
"https://twitter.com/KQED",
"https://www.instagram.com/kqed/",
"https://www.tiktok.com/@kqedofficial",
"https://www.linkedin.com/company/kqed",
"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeC0IOo7i1P_61zVUWbJ4nw"
]
}
}
},
"sticky": false,
"nprStoryId": "kqed-11988972",
"excludeFromSiteSearch": "Include",
"articleAge": "0",
"path": "/news/11988972/bay-area-researchers-tracking-bird-flu-in-wastewater-see-no-evidence-of-spread-in-sf",
"audioTrackLength": null,
"parsedContent": [
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>To learn more about the spread of bird flu, Bay Area disease detectives are once again turning to an unlikely source of information: sewage. And so far, at least, the news is promising.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After California food safety regulators detected avian influenza in two chickens at a San Francisco live-bird market at the beginning of last month, scientists at Stanford University tested samples daily from wastewater collected at treatment plants across the country as part of a national project called WastewaterSCAN.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, they tested frozen samples dating back several months and found evidence of bird flu from early May, around when the two chickens were identified in the live market, but they have not detected it in any daily tests in recent weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This seems to have been a confined event associated with perhaps these birds being in the market there,” said Alexandria Boehm, a professor and Stanford environmental engineer who also directs the wastewater research team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials in San Francisco had discovered the two infected chickens during routine surveillance using a PCR test, which can’t discern between live or dead virus. The chickens were asymptomatic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "fullwidth"
},
"numeric": [
"fullwidth"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They monitored the market employees who had contact with the chickens for several weeks, and no symptoms were reported. They believe the public was not exposed, and the market has since been sanitized and reopened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s health department would not disclose the location of the market to KQED.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "aside",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "related coverage ",
"tag": "bird-flu"
},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The WastewaterSCAN project has \u003ca href=\"https://data.wastewaterscan.org/tracker/?charts=CjIQACABSABaBk4gR2VuZXIKMjAyNC0wNC0yMnIKMjAyNC0wNi0wM4oBBjAzYWYzM8ABAQ%3D%3D&selectedChartId=03af33\">found evidence of bird flu at more than a dozen locations\u003c/a>, including two states — Minnesota and Iowa — that officials have yet to list as having infected herds. Last week, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced the third human case of bird flu was reported in a farmworker in Michigan who experienced respiratory symptoms after exposure to an infected herd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No human cases have been reported in San Francisco or elsewhere in California\u003cem>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A more precise wastewater measurement\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The work by Boehm’s team represents the first time researchers have tested for H5N1 in wastewater.\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nIt builds on a pandemic-era playbook for monitoring wastewater for COVID-19, which has since expanded to other diseases, even the use of illicit substances and drugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the CDC has \u003ca href=\"https://www.statnews.com/2024/05/13/cdc-wastewater-surveillance-dashboard-bird-flu-outbreak-monitor/\">tracked influenza A viruses\u003c/a> in sewage — using them as a barometer for the spread of bird flu because flu viruses that sicken humans circulate at low levels during summer months, that testing is not H5N1-specific.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boehm’s team, working with San Francisco and California health officials, developed a precise marker for H5N1 bird flu last month as dairy cow outbreaks spread across the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Once we had the detection in the live bird market, that was an opportunity to look at wastewater for H5N1,” said Dr. George Han, director of the San Francisco Department of Public Health’s communicable disease prevention and control program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although researchers found fragments of bird flu material in the frozen bank of sewage from San Francisco, subsequent monitoring detected no further evidence in the city “nor elsewhere in California, for that matter,” Han said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s potentially good news for the state, which boasts the largest dairy industry in the country with more than 1.5 million dairy cows. Federal officials had observed several jumps in influenza A viruses in California, which they thought could indicate that bird flu was circulating across its ranches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s health department does not believe that any of the wastewater hits for bird flu are related to human infection, Han said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that’s really important and the take home message,” he said. “No one really thinks at this point that the detections are due to human cases of H5N1.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>San Francisco’s unique sewer system\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>San Francisco is one of only about \u003ca href=\"https://www.epa.gov/npdes/where-combined-sewer-overflow-outfalls-are-located\">700 American communities\u003c/a> with a combined sewer system, with stormwater and sewage flowing through the same pipes.\u003cbr>\nThat’s an issue for the city during bad storms when the system regularly overflows — the city is fending off \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1993067/amid-long-and-costly-legal-battles-sf-urged-to-update-wastewater-system-fix-sewage-discharges\">a lawsuit from federal and state environmental officials\u003c/a> for discharging billions of gallons of untreated sewage into the San Francisco Bay each year because of it. However, it is a benefit for this disease research work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s health department has a working hypothesis: Migratory birds with avian flu may have passed through San Francisco, and their waste ended up in its combined sewer shed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If there is any kind of bird feces in the street and somebody washes it off the street or the sidewalk, that material ends up in the sanitary sewer,” Boehm said. “We’re able to use that wastewater to understand circulation of both human disease, but also, in some cases, animal disease.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That, Boehm said, could help scientists “better understand the extent and duration of the H5N1 outbreak this spring in the United States.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
}
],
"link": "/news/11988972/bay-area-researchers-tracking-bird-flu-in-wastewater-see-no-evidence-of-spread-in-sf",
"authors": [
"11608"
],
"categories": [
"news_457",
"news_8",
"news_356"
],
"tags": [
"news_33648",
"news_18543",
"news_19960"
],
"featImg": "news_11970677",
"label": "news"
},
"news_11988511": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "news_11988511",
"meta": {
"index": "posts_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "11988511",
"score": null,
"sort": [
1717201461000
]
},
"guestAuthors": [],
"slug": "newsom-faces-backlash-for-plan-to-cut-in-home-care-for-undocumented-disabled-adults",
"title": "Newsom Faces Backlash for Plan to Cut In-Home Care for Undocumented Disabled Adults",
"publishDate": 1717201461,
"format": "standard",
"headTitle": "Newsom Faces Backlash for Plan to Cut In-Home Care for Undocumented Disabled Adults | KQED",
"labelTerm": {
"site": "news"
},
"content": "\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom vowed he would not fix the state’s budget deficit by removing health insurance from low-income adults living in the country without legal permission, calling the state’s policy “something I believe in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Newsom would eliminate an important health benefit for some low-income immigrants with disabilities, angering his allies who are now accusing the second-term governor of breaking his word.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California was one of the first states to give free health insurance to all low-income adults \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-medicaid-expansion-undocumented-immigrants-34d8deb2186e9195b253f499e81a3d77\">regardless of their immigration status\u003c/a>. The multibillion-dollar project, completed in January, made more than 1 million people eligible for California’s Medicaid program, including many people who had never before had health insurance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, just five months later and with California facing an estimated \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-budget-deficit-gov-gavin-newsom-8f502d57d00d551c0b6b6331367f7a25#:~:text=Officially%2C%20Newsom%20said%20the%20state's,Legislature%20agreed%20to%20in%20March.\">$45 billion deficit\u003c/a>, Newsom wants the state to stop paying for caregivers to come to the homes of some disabled people — who are living in the country without legal permission — to help them with cooking, cleaning and other tasks so they can stay out of nursing homes. Everyone else would keep that benefit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Newsom administration said this would save about $94 million and impact fewer than 3,000 people out of the more than 15 million enrolled in the state’s Medicaid program, known as Medi-Cal. However, eliminating the benefit would also prevent thousands more from becoming eligible in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newom’s proposal “is a betrayal,” said David Kane, an attorney with the Western Center on Law and Poverty. Ronald Coleman Baeza, managing policy director for California Pan-Ethnic Health Network, called it “indefensible” and compared the proposal to a notorious ballot proposition from the 1990s that sought to bar immigrants from accessing government assistance programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988527\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11988527 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24152173581917-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24152173581917-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24152173581917-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24152173581917-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24152173581917-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24152173581917-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24152173581917-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24152173581917-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marvin Estela Pineda poses for a photo at her home in Madera, Madera County, on Thursday, May 30, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gary Kazanjian/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I think it could move us back in the sense of treating undocumented as different,” said state Sen. Maria Elena Durazo, a Democrat from Los Angeles who has pushed for the Medicaid expansion for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s proposal for immigrants would impact a benefit known as in-home supportive services, which are becoming more expensive for the state to provide. The average hourly wage for caregivers has gone up 6% since 2014. And starting this year, with some emergency federal funding provided during the pandemic expiring, there have been cost increases of about $200 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once people qualify for the program, they get to hire their own caregiver. It’s often a relative, meaning the program often acts as financial assistance for families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marvin Estela Pineda, a 42-year-old woman originally from El Salvador who now lives in California’s Central Valley, lost her eyesight at 30 because of glaucoma. She started getting in-home supportive services earlier this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her daughter, Mayde Pineda, said the government has been paying her $16.50 per hour for a total of 84 hours a month to care for her mother, which includes things like cooking, cleaning and laundry. Mayde Pineda, 22, said the money helped stabilize the family financially while she finished college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988531\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11988531 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24152173841689-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24152173841689-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24152173841689-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24152173841689-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24152173841689-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24152173841689-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24152173841689-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24152173841689-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marvin Estela Pineda, holding a mirror, gets makeup applied by her daughter Mayde at their home in Madera, on Thursday, May 30, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gary Kazanjian/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Without (this program), I won’t be able to care for her without significant hardships,” Mayde Pineda said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Department of Social Services, which administers the program, said it would work “to mitigate any negative impact to currently assisted individuals,” including helping them find other government-funded programs that could provide similar services. One option would be Medi-Cal’s community-based adult services program, which pays for things like personal care, food and professional nursing services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked for comment on his proposal, the governor’s office pointed to remarks Newsom made earlier this month when he announced his budget plan that included an array of painful cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t find any joy in this — but we’ve got to do it, we have to be responsible. We have to be accountable. We have to balance the budget,” Newsom said.[aside postID=news_11979626 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/SAUL-PEDROZA-26-KQED-1020x680.jpg']Newsom for much of his tenure has basked in the praises of progressives as he used a string of \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/immigration-california-gavin-newsom-5aa5ab19800a5e91c209ff1268ac40bc\">historic surpluses\u003c/a> to expand government services. However, back-to-back multibillion-dollar deficits are forcing Newsom to make some hard choices that have put him on a collision course with some of his most vocal supporters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Navigating these conflicts will be critical for Newsom, who has been building his national profile ahead of a potential presidential campaign. So far, Newsom has been moving quickly to address them. When the state’s largest teachers union ran ads \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-budget-deficit-schools-newsom-teachers-union-e8de3476bfdec82f916b54223d9bf061\">criticizing him\u003c/a> for his proposed cuts to education, Newsom struck a deal with them that resolved much of their concerns. That deal still must be approved by the state Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other negotiations will be more difficult. Newsom’s health care proposal for immigrants is just one of many proposed cuts across the state’s wide array of social services programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state Legislature, which is controlled by Democrats, plans to pass its version of the budget by June 15. This plan would restore nearly all of those cuts, including the health care cuts for some immigrants. It does this by increasing a temporary tax hike on businesses while also slashing about $1 billion from the state’s prison budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have ensured that the budget is not balanced on our most vulnerable populations,” said Assemblymember Corey Jackson, a Democrat from Moreno Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom and legislative leaders will negotiate over the next few weeks on a final spending plan, with the goal of passing a budget around the start of the new fiscal year on July 1. While the Legislature votes on the budget, Newsom has a lot of influence. He decides whether to sign the budget into law. California lawmakers have rarely ever overturned a governor’s veto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
"blocks": [],
"excerpt": "Gov. Gavin Newsom faces criticism for proposing to cut a Medicaid benefit that provides in-home caregivers for some disabled immigrants. Advocates feel betrayed, but Newsom argues the budget requires difficult decisions.",
"status": "publish",
"parent": 0,
"modified": 1738186211,
"stats": {
"hasAudio": false,
"hasVideo": false,
"hasChartOrMap": false,
"iframeSrcs": [],
"hasGoogleForm": false,
"hasGallery": false,
"hasHearkenModule": false,
"hasPolis": false,
"paragraphCount": 22,
"wordCount": 1055
},
"headData": {
"title": "Newsom Faces Backlash for Plan to Cut In-Home Care for Undocumented Disabled Adults | KQED",
"description": "Gov. Gavin Newsom faces criticism for proposing to cut a Medicaid benefit that provides in-home caregivers for some disabled immigrants. Advocates feel betrayed, but Newsom argues the budget requires difficult decisions.",
"ogTitle": "",
"ogDescription": "",
"ogImgId": "",
"twTitle": "",
"twDescription": "",
"twImgId": "",
"schema": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "NewsArticle",
"headline": "Newsom Faces Backlash for Plan to Cut In-Home Care for Undocumented Disabled Adults",
"datePublished": "2024-05-31T17:24:21-07:00",
"dateModified": "2025-01-29T13:30:11-08:00",
"image": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"isAccessibleForFree": "True",
"publisher": {
"@type": "NewsMediaOrganization",
"@id": "https://www.kqed.org/#organization",
"name": "KQED",
"logo": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"url": "https://www.kqed.org",
"sameAs": [
"https://www.facebook.com/KQED",
"https://twitter.com/KQED",
"https://www.instagram.com/kqed/",
"https://www.tiktok.com/@kqedofficial",
"https://www.linkedin.com/company/kqed",
"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeC0IOo7i1P_61zVUWbJ4nw"
]
}
}
},
"sticky": false,
"nprByline": "Adam Beam, The Associated Press",
"nprStoryId": "kqed-11988511",
"excludeFromSiteSearch": "Include",
"showOnAuthorArchivePages": "No",
"articleAge": "0",
"path": "/news/11988511/newsom-faces-backlash-for-plan-to-cut-in-home-care-for-undocumented-disabled-adults",
"audioTrackLength": null,
"parsedContent": [
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom vowed he would not fix the state’s budget deficit by removing health insurance from low-income adults living in the country without legal permission, calling the state’s policy “something I believe in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Newsom would eliminate an important health benefit for some low-income immigrants with disabilities, angering his allies who are now accusing the second-term governor of breaking his word.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California was one of the first states to give free health insurance to all low-income adults \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-medicaid-expansion-undocumented-immigrants-34d8deb2186e9195b253f499e81a3d77\">regardless of their immigration status\u003c/a>. The multibillion-dollar project, completed in January, made more than 1 million people eligible for California’s Medicaid program, including many people who had never before had health insurance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, just five months later and with California facing an estimated \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-budget-deficit-gov-gavin-newsom-8f502d57d00d551c0b6b6331367f7a25#:~:text=Officially%2C%20Newsom%20said%20the%20state's,Legislature%20agreed%20to%20in%20March.\">$45 billion deficit\u003c/a>, Newsom wants the state to stop paying for caregivers to come to the homes of some disabled people — who are living in the country without legal permission — to help them with cooking, cleaning and other tasks so they can stay out of nursing homes. Everyone else would keep that benefit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "fullwidth"
},
"numeric": [
"fullwidth"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Newsom administration said this would save about $94 million and impact fewer than 3,000 people out of the more than 15 million enrolled in the state’s Medicaid program, known as Medi-Cal. However, eliminating the benefit would also prevent thousands more from becoming eligible in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newom’s proposal “is a betrayal,” said David Kane, an attorney with the Western Center on Law and Poverty. Ronald Coleman Baeza, managing policy director for California Pan-Ethnic Health Network, called it “indefensible” and compared the proposal to a notorious ballot proposition from the 1990s that sought to bar immigrants from accessing government assistance programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988527\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11988527 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24152173581917-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24152173581917-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24152173581917-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24152173581917-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24152173581917-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24152173581917-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24152173581917-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24152173581917-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marvin Estela Pineda poses for a photo at her home in Madera, Madera County, on Thursday, May 30, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gary Kazanjian/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I think it could move us back in the sense of treating undocumented as different,” said state Sen. Maria Elena Durazo, a Democrat from Los Angeles who has pushed for the Medicaid expansion for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s proposal for immigrants would impact a benefit known as in-home supportive services, which are becoming more expensive for the state to provide. The average hourly wage for caregivers has gone up 6% since 2014. And starting this year, with some emergency federal funding provided during the pandemic expiring, there have been cost increases of about $200 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once people qualify for the program, they get to hire their own caregiver. It’s often a relative, meaning the program often acts as financial assistance for families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marvin Estela Pineda, a 42-year-old woman originally from El Salvador who now lives in California’s Central Valley, lost her eyesight at 30 because of glaucoma. She started getting in-home supportive services earlier this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her daughter, Mayde Pineda, said the government has been paying her $16.50 per hour for a total of 84 hours a month to care for her mother, which includes things like cooking, cleaning and laundry. Mayde Pineda, 22, said the money helped stabilize the family financially while she finished college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988531\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11988531 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24152173841689-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24152173841689-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24152173841689-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24152173841689-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24152173841689-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24152173841689-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24152173841689-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24152173841689-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marvin Estela Pineda, holding a mirror, gets makeup applied by her daughter Mayde at their home in Madera, on Thursday, May 30, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gary Kazanjian/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Without (this program), I won’t be able to care for her without significant hardships,” Mayde Pineda said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Department of Social Services, which administers the program, said it would work “to mitigate any negative impact to currently assisted individuals,” including helping them find other government-funded programs that could provide similar services. One option would be Medi-Cal’s community-based adult services program, which pays for things like personal care, food and professional nursing services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked for comment on his proposal, the governor’s office pointed to remarks Newsom made earlier this month when he announced his budget plan that included an array of painful cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t find any joy in this — but we’ve got to do it, we have to be responsible. We have to be accountable. We have to balance the budget,” Newsom said.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "aside",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"postid": "news_11979626",
"hero": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/SAUL-PEDROZA-26-KQED-1020x680.jpg",
"label": ""
},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Newsom for much of his tenure has basked in the praises of progressives as he used a string of \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/immigration-california-gavin-newsom-5aa5ab19800a5e91c209ff1268ac40bc\">historic surpluses\u003c/a> to expand government services. However, back-to-back multibillion-dollar deficits are forcing Newsom to make some hard choices that have put him on a collision course with some of his most vocal supporters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Navigating these conflicts will be critical for Newsom, who has been building his national profile ahead of a potential presidential campaign. So far, Newsom has been moving quickly to address them. When the state’s largest teachers union ran ads \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-budget-deficit-schools-newsom-teachers-union-e8de3476bfdec82f916b54223d9bf061\">criticizing him\u003c/a> for his proposed cuts to education, Newsom struck a deal with them that resolved much of their concerns. That deal still must be approved by the state Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other negotiations will be more difficult. Newsom’s health care proposal for immigrants is just one of many proposed cuts across the state’s wide array of social services programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state Legislature, which is controlled by Democrats, plans to pass its version of the budget by June 15. This plan would restore nearly all of those cuts, including the health care cuts for some immigrants. It does this by increasing a temporary tax hike on businesses while also slashing about $1 billion from the state’s prison budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have ensured that the budget is not balanced on our most vulnerable populations,” said Assemblymember Corey Jackson, a Democrat from Moreno Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom and legislative leaders will negotiate over the next few weeks on a final spending plan, with the goal of passing a budget around the start of the new fiscal year on July 1. While the Legislature votes on the budget, Newsom has a lot of influence. He decides whether to sign the budget into law. California lawmakers have rarely ever overturned a governor’s veto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
}
],
"link": "/news/11988511/newsom-faces-backlash-for-plan-to-cut-in-home-care-for-undocumented-disabled-adults",
"authors": [
"byline_news_11988511"
],
"categories": [
"news_1169",
"news_8"
],
"tags": [
"news_21845",
"news_25262",
"news_16",
"news_18543",
"news_20202",
"news_19960"
],
"featImg": "news_11988517",
"label": "news"
},
"news_11988079": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "news_11988079",
"meta": {
"index": "posts_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "11988079",
"score": null,
"sort": [
1717080606000
]
},
"guestAuthors": [],
"slug": "2024-mpox-vaccine-formerly-monkeypox-symptoms-rash",
"title": "Get Your Free 2024 Mpox Vaccine, Say San Francisco Health Officials",
"publishDate": 1717080606,
"format": "standard",
"headTitle": "Get Your Free 2024 Mpox Vaccine, Say San Francisco Health Officials | KQED",
"labelTerm": {
"site": "news"
},
"content": "\u003cp>Back in the summer and fall of 2022, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11919070/monkeypox-in-the-bay-area-from-symptoms-to-how-to-find-a-vaccine-heres-what-we-know\">an outbreak of the mpox virus\u003c/a>— \u003cu>\u003c/u>\u003ca href=\"https://www.who.int/news/item/28-11-2022-who-recommends-new-name-for-monkeypox-disease\">formerly known as monkeypox\u003c/a> — hit the United States, particularly affecting gay and bisexual men, as well as trans and nonbinary people who have sex with men.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11939819/when-mpox-hit-community-clinics-stepped-in-why-hasnt-the-government-paid-them-back-yet\">a mass vaccination effort led by organizers from the LGBTQ+ community\u003c/a> and public health officials, the rate of mpox infections dropped sharply to very low numbers in California. But with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/pride\">San Francisco’s giant 2024 Pride celebrations\u003c/a> a month away, the city’s health officials are once again reminding local communities to seek out the free mpox vaccine if they haven’t already — even though there hasn’t been another outbreak here so far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keep reading to learn what we know about mpox in the Bay Area in 2024, the precautions local public health officials recommend ahead of Pride month, and where you can find an mpox vaccine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#findmonkeypoxvaccine\">Where can I find a free mpox vaccine?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#whatismpox\">What is mpox and how does it spread?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#monkeypoxsymptomsrash\">What are the symptoms of mpox? What does the rash look like?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>Do I need to worry about mpox again in the Bay Area in 2024?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The good news: There is no current mpox outbreak in the Bay Area or California, confirmed Dr. Julia Janssen, deputy director of the HIV/STI Prevention and Control Branch at the San Francisco Department of Public Health (SFDPH) — and case counts remain low. In 2024, San Francisco has only seen nine total mpox cases so far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Janssen said that SFPDH is, therefore, basing its vaccine reminder on:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The possible seasonality of mpox\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Based on previous surges of infections during the summer and fall months, city health officials recognize “that this may be a seasonal pattern,” Janssen said — and they’re making their recommendations accordingly. (After the “large surge of cases” during the initial 2022 outbreak, San Francisco saw a second, smaller surge of 87 cases the following year from July through December 2023.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while “we don’t know enough about mpox yet to know if we’ll see that again,” Janssen said, “because we’ve seen it in the past, we want to be ready, and we want to be prepared.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Summer travel and mpox cases elsewhere\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s also San Francisco’s Pride celebrations right around the corner in June — when many folks gather and arrive in the region from other parts of the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the summer months, with more travel, more events, more interactions, and more gatherings, there’s more opportunities for mpox to spread,” Janssen said. And while nationally, mpox cases have “remained quite low over the past several months,” Janssen said, “we are watching other areas of the country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Globally, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are also monitoring\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/73/wr/mm7319a3.htm?s_cid=mm7319a3_w\"> a recent outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo\u003c/a> of a strain of mpox — called “clade I” — that causes more severe illness and higher fatality rates than the “clade II” type that’s been circulating in the U.S. According to the CDC’s most recent available figures, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/poxvirus/mpox/outbreak/2023-drc.html#:~:text=Since%20January%201%2C%202023%2C%20DRC,and%20more%20than%20900%20deaths.\">this clade I outbreak has resulted in more than 19,000 suspected cases and over 900 deaths\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Thus far, there have been no known clade I cases of mpox in the United States,” Janssen said. “We would provide any updates if that were to change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Making the mpox vaccine routine\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFPDH and other health agencies want people to consider the mpox vaccine “as a part of comprehensive sexual health care,” Janssen said— rather than an emergency response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to encourage people to think about it as they’re thinking about STI testing, treatment and evaluation … as a part of their comprehensive sexual health,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Who is most at risk from mpox?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>SFDPH said that previous mpox outbreaks have predominantly affected communities of gay and bisexual men, and men who have sex with men (MSM), as well as trans and nonbinary people who have sex with men.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City health officials also especially recommend the mpox vaccine for all people living with HIV, and “anyone taking or eligible to take HIV PrEP.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In San Francisco, over 99% of our cases since July 1, 2023, have been among cis men with male partners,” Janssen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A reminder: The mpox vaccine is available to anybody in the Bay Area, with no eligibility requirements to meet. (In the early days of the 2022 outbreak, public health officials \u003cem>were\u003c/em> originally only offering vaccines to people who’d been exposed to mpox or were categorized as being in a specific group more at risk from mpox, but rest assured that those criteria are no longer in effect.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mpox vaccine was also originally only available for people aged 18 and older, but in 2022 the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued an emergency-use authorization that allows providers to also give the vaccine to young people aged under 18 who are “determined to be at high risk” of infection.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"findmonkeypoxvaccine\">\u003c/a>Do I need to get the mpox vaccine?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The mpox vaccine currently available in the U.S. (brand name: Jynneos) is a two-dose series, with roughly a month between doses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Maximal immunity is achieved two weeks after receipt of the second dose of the vaccine,” Janssen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So …\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>If you’ve already had both doses of the mpox vaccine:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You’re all up to date — and you don’t need to get another mpox vaccine in 2024. There’s no recommendation at this time to get an mpox booster, confirmed Janssen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>If you \u003cem>haven’t \u003c/em>already had the mpox vaccine\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Go ahead and get your first dose as soon as possible, then get your second dose around 28 days later. A good reason to move quickly to get your first dose right now: You’ll then be able to get your second dose just ahead of Pride, and your immunity will quickly start building to that maximal level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if you forget or get overwhelmed by events, don’t stress too much about timing: Just go get your mpox vaccine when you can. “Any vaccine is better than no vaccine,” Janssen said, “so we’re encouraging people to get vaccinated as soon as possible to get protection.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>If you got \u003cem>only your first dose\u003c/em> of the mpox vaccine or more than 28 days ago:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Go get your second dose as soon as possible, Janssen said — and don’t worry if you got your first dose as long ago as 2022, back in the original outbreak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can get the second dose at any time,” Janssen confirmed.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Where can I find the mpox vaccine?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Your mpox vaccine will be 100% free, and you don’t need health insurance to receive one. As with the COVID-19 vaccine, receiving an mpox vaccine won’t make you \u003ca href=\"https://documentedny.com/2021/04/04/public-charge-rule-explained/\">a public charge\u003c/a> or affect any future immigration processes you may enter into, and you won’t be asked about your immigration status to receive the mpox vaccine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you have a regular health care provider, SFDPH recommends you ask them first about getting the mpox vaccine. Your vaccine will be free, but you may be charged a regular copay for seeing your provider.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you don’t have a regular health care provider or insurance, you can find the mpox vaccine free at clinics around the Bay Area. You can opt to schedule an appointment or choose a walk-in clinic, depending on what works best for you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>If you live in or near San Francisco:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>See \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/information/mpox-vaccine\">a full list of mpox vaccine sites near you in San Francisco\u003c/a>. Cohen confirms that you don’t have to be a city resident to get vaccinated for mpox in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mpox vaccination sites elsewhere in the Bay Area and California:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Find an mpox vaccine clinic near you using \u003ca href=\"https://npin.cdc.gov/DynWidgets/index.html?chost=www.cdc.gov&cpath=/lgbthealth/summer/index.html&csearch=&chash=&ctitle=Get%20Healthy%20and%20Ready%20for%20Summer%20%7C%20LGBT%20Health%20%7C%20CDC&wn=DynWidgets&wf=/DynWidgets/&wid=DynWidgets1&mMode=widget&mPage=&mChannel=&componentName=MpoxLocator#/\">the CDC’s Vaccine Locator\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Find an mpox vaccine clinic near you using \u003ca href=\"https://myturn.ca.gov/\">the state’s myturn.ca.gov site\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Can I get my mpox vaccine at a pharmacy?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some pharmacies offer mpox vaccination appointments online, along with other vaccines like COVID and flu. But if you choose this route, you’ll be asked for insurance details — and it’s important to verify with your insurer first that they’ll cover you receiving the mpox vaccine at a pharmacy like CVS or Walgreens, as the out-of-pocket costs you’ll be quoted may be steep.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you get your health care through a health system like Kaiser Permanente, it’s unlikely you’ll be able to get your mpox vaccine covered by insurance at a pharmacy — the way you can’t get your COVID or flu shot covered by Kaiser at a pharmacy either — and may have to seek it directly from a Kaiser provider.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re able to make an appointment online at a pharmacy for your mpox vaccine, you should consider calling that location ahead of time to verify that they do indeed have supply in stock. A CVS spokesperson told KQED by email that in San Francisco, CVS pharmacies have “limited supply of the monkeypox vaccine in our pharmacies, but a pharmacist can order the vaccine if requested by a patient.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How effective is the mpox vaccine?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Very. “While we know that no vaccine is 100% effective, we do know that less than 1% of persons who have been fully vaccinated have been diagnosed with mpox,” Janssen said, citing \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/73/wr/mm7320a3.htm?s_cid=mm7320a3_w\">a recent study from the CDC on the mpox vaccine’s efficacy.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another reason to get an mpox vaccine: It’s been shown to help reduce symptoms — which can be very painful — if you \u003cem>do\u003c/em> still get infected. It also “reduces illness severity and the risk of hospitalization and death,” Janssen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"whatismpox\">\u003c/a>What is mpox, and how does it spread?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/information/monkeypox\">Mpox is a disease that is caused when a person is infected with the mpox virus.\u003c/a> As the name might suggest, the virus is related to the smallpox virus but is generally less severe and “much less contagious” than smallpox, according to CDPH.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/information/mpox\">Mpox spreads through “prolonged skin-to-skin contact,”\u003c/a> SFDPH said, which can include sex, kissing and sharing bedding or clothing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>See how mpox cases are tracked around the country:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/Mpox-Data.aspx\">Mpox case data for California\u003c/a> via the California Department of Public Health (CDPH)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/information/monkeypox-cases\">Mpox case data for San Francisco\u003c/a> via SFDPH\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/poxvirus/monkeypox/response/2022/us-map.html\">Mpox case data for the United States\u003c/a> via the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"monkeypoxsymptomsrash\">\u003c/a>What are the symptoms of mpox?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Mpox symptoms often start as flu-like conditions, SFPDH said, but the virus also appears as a rash or sores or spots that can resemble pimples or blisters on the skin anywhere on the body, especially around your genitals. These spots often start as “red, flat spots and then become bumps,” SFDPH said, before the bumps become filled with pus and turn into scabs when they break.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/poxvirus/mpox/symptoms/index.html\">If you’re unsure about recognizing an mpox rash, the CDC has a photo guide.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/poxvirus/mpox/symptoms/index.html\">Mpox can have a long incubation period\u003c/a> — that is, the time between when you’re exposed to mpox and when you start to develop symptoms — that can range from three to 17 days, according to the CDC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you suspect you might have mpox symptoms — even if they’re subtle — see your health care provider right away or \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/get-mpox-vaccines-testing-and-medicine\">consult one of SFPDH’s clinics for mpox testing\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/information/mpox\">See more on what to do if you suspect you have mpox.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Is mpox the same as monkeypox?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Yes. In 2022, the World Health Organization \u003ca href=\"https://www.ems1.com/infectious-diseases/articles/monkeypox-gets-new-name-after-racist-and-stigmatizing-language-health-officials-say-i1djjhzOPR7VCJrC/#:~:text=%E2%80%9CWhen%20the%20outbreak%20of%20monkeypox,monkeypox%20worldwide%20as%20of%20Nov.\">announced it would adopt the new, preferred term “mpox” as a synonym for monkeypox\u003c/a> in light of the “racist and stigmatizing language online, in other settings and in some communities” that the agency said it had observed during the outbreak earlier that year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You may have also seen the virus referred to as MPX, which was the name originally adopted by SFDPH.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
"blocks": [],
"excerpt": "A month from Pride, officials are urging people at higher risk for mpox — formerly monkeypox — to find a free vaccine if they haven't already. Here’s how mpox spreads, the symptoms to look for, and what to do if you have already received an mpox vaccine.",
"status": "publish",
"parent": 0,
"modified": 1726011886,
"stats": {
"hasAudio": false,
"hasVideo": false,
"hasChartOrMap": false,
"iframeSrcs": [],
"hasGoogleForm": false,
"hasGallery": false,
"hasHearkenModule": false,
"hasPolis": false,
"paragraphCount": 57,
"wordCount": 2103
},
"headData": {
"title": "Get Your Free 2024 Mpox Vaccine, Say San Francisco Health Officials | KQED",
"description": "A month from Pride, officials are urging people at higher risk for mpox — formerly monkeypox — to find a free vaccine if they haven't already. Here’s how mpox spreads, the symptoms to look for, and what to do if you have already received an mpox vaccine.",
"ogTitle": "",
"ogDescription": "",
"ogImgId": "",
"twTitle": "",
"twDescription": "",
"twImgId": "",
"schema": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "NewsArticle",
"headline": "Get Your Free 2024 Mpox Vaccine, Say San Francisco Health Officials",
"datePublished": "2024-05-30T07:50:06-07:00",
"dateModified": "2024-09-10T16:44:46-07:00",
"image": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"isAccessibleForFree": "True",
"publisher": {
"@type": "NewsMediaOrganization",
"@id": "https://www.kqed.org/#organization",
"name": "KQED",
"logo": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"url": "https://www.kqed.org",
"sameAs": [
"https://www.facebook.com/KQED",
"https://twitter.com/KQED",
"https://www.instagram.com/kqed/",
"https://www.tiktok.com/@kqedofficial",
"https://www.linkedin.com/company/kqed",
"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeC0IOo7i1P_61zVUWbJ4nw"
]
}
}
},
"sticky": false,
"nprStoryId": "kqed-11988079",
"excludeFromSiteSearch": "Include",
"articleAge": "0",
"path": "/news/11988079/2024-mpox-vaccine-formerly-monkeypox-symptoms-rash",
"audioTrackLength": null,
"parsedContent": [
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Back in the summer and fall of 2022, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11919070/monkeypox-in-the-bay-area-from-symptoms-to-how-to-find-a-vaccine-heres-what-we-know\">an outbreak of the mpox virus\u003c/a>— \u003cu>\u003c/u>\u003ca href=\"https://www.who.int/news/item/28-11-2022-who-recommends-new-name-for-monkeypox-disease\">formerly known as monkeypox\u003c/a> — hit the United States, particularly affecting gay and bisexual men, as well as trans and nonbinary people who have sex with men.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11939819/when-mpox-hit-community-clinics-stepped-in-why-hasnt-the-government-paid-them-back-yet\">a mass vaccination effort led by organizers from the LGBTQ+ community\u003c/a> and public health officials, the rate of mpox infections dropped sharply to very low numbers in California. But with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/pride\">San Francisco’s giant 2024 Pride celebrations\u003c/a> a month away, the city’s health officials are once again reminding local communities to seek out the free mpox vaccine if they haven’t already — even though there hasn’t been another outbreak here so far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keep reading to learn what we know about mpox in the Bay Area in 2024, the precautions local public health officials recommend ahead of Pride month, and where you can find an mpox vaccine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#findmonkeypoxvaccine\">Where can I find a free mpox vaccine?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#whatismpox\">What is mpox and how does it spread?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#monkeypoxsymptomsrash\">What are the symptoms of mpox? What does the rash look like?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>Do I need to worry about mpox again in the Bay Area in 2024?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The good news: There is no current mpox outbreak in the Bay Area or California, confirmed Dr. Julia Janssen, deputy director of the HIV/STI Prevention and Control Branch at the San Francisco Department of Public Health (SFDPH) — and case counts remain low. In 2024, San Francisco has only seen nine total mpox cases so far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Janssen said that SFPDH is, therefore, basing its vaccine reminder on:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The possible seasonality of mpox\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Based on previous surges of infections during the summer and fall months, city health officials recognize “that this may be a seasonal pattern,” Janssen said — and they’re making their recommendations accordingly. (After the “large surge of cases” during the initial 2022 outbreak, San Francisco saw a second, smaller surge of 87 cases the following year from July through December 2023.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while “we don’t know enough about mpox yet to know if we’ll see that again,” Janssen said, “because we’ve seen it in the past, we want to be ready, and we want to be prepared.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Summer travel and mpox cases elsewhere\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s also San Francisco’s Pride celebrations right around the corner in June — when many folks gather and arrive in the region from other parts of the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the summer months, with more travel, more events, more interactions, and more gatherings, there’s more opportunities for mpox to spread,” Janssen said. And while nationally, mpox cases have “remained quite low over the past several months,” Janssen said, “we are watching other areas of the country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Globally, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are also monitoring\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/73/wr/mm7319a3.htm?s_cid=mm7319a3_w\"> a recent outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo\u003c/a> of a strain of mpox — called “clade I” — that causes more severe illness and higher fatality rates than the “clade II” type that’s been circulating in the U.S. According to the CDC’s most recent available figures, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/poxvirus/mpox/outbreak/2023-drc.html#:~:text=Since%20January%201%2C%202023%2C%20DRC,and%20more%20than%20900%20deaths.\">this clade I outbreak has resulted in more than 19,000 suspected cases and over 900 deaths\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Thus far, there have been no known clade I cases of mpox in the United States,” Janssen said. “We would provide any updates if that were to change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Making the mpox vaccine routine\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFPDH and other health agencies want people to consider the mpox vaccine “as a part of comprehensive sexual health care,” Janssen said— rather than an emergency response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to encourage people to think about it as they’re thinking about STI testing, treatment and evaluation … as a part of their comprehensive sexual health,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "fullwidth"
},
"numeric": [
"fullwidth"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Who is most at risk from mpox?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>SFDPH said that previous mpox outbreaks have predominantly affected communities of gay and bisexual men, and men who have sex with men (MSM), as well as trans and nonbinary people who have sex with men.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City health officials also especially recommend the mpox vaccine for all people living with HIV, and “anyone taking or eligible to take HIV PrEP.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In San Francisco, over 99% of our cases since July 1, 2023, have been among cis men with male partners,” Janssen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A reminder: The mpox vaccine is available to anybody in the Bay Area, with no eligibility requirements to meet. (In the early days of the 2022 outbreak, public health officials \u003cem>were\u003c/em> originally only offering vaccines to people who’d been exposed to mpox or were categorized as being in a specific group more at risk from mpox, but rest assured that those criteria are no longer in effect.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mpox vaccine was also originally only available for people aged 18 and older, but in 2022 the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued an emergency-use authorization that allows providers to also give the vaccine to young people aged under 18 who are “determined to be at high risk” of infection.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"findmonkeypoxvaccine\">\u003c/a>Do I need to get the mpox vaccine?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The mpox vaccine currently available in the U.S. (brand name: Jynneos) is a two-dose series, with roughly a month between doses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Maximal immunity is achieved two weeks after receipt of the second dose of the vaccine,” Janssen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So …\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>If you’ve already had both doses of the mpox vaccine:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You’re all up to date — and you don’t need to get another mpox vaccine in 2024. There’s no recommendation at this time to get an mpox booster, confirmed Janssen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>If you \u003cem>haven’t \u003c/em>already had the mpox vaccine\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Go ahead and get your first dose as soon as possible, then get your second dose around 28 days later. A good reason to move quickly to get your first dose right now: You’ll then be able to get your second dose just ahead of Pride, and your immunity will quickly start building to that maximal level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if you forget or get overwhelmed by events, don’t stress too much about timing: Just go get your mpox vaccine when you can. “Any vaccine is better than no vaccine,” Janssen said, “so we’re encouraging people to get vaccinated as soon as possible to get protection.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>If you got \u003cem>only your first dose\u003c/em> of the mpox vaccine or more than 28 days ago:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Go get your second dose as soon as possible, Janssen said — and don’t worry if you got your first dose as long ago as 2022, back in the original outbreak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can get the second dose at any time,” Janssen confirmed.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Where can I find the mpox vaccine?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Your mpox vaccine will be 100% free, and you don’t need health insurance to receive one. As with the COVID-19 vaccine, receiving an mpox vaccine won’t make you \u003ca href=\"https://documentedny.com/2021/04/04/public-charge-rule-explained/\">a public charge\u003c/a> or affect any future immigration processes you may enter into, and you won’t be asked about your immigration status to receive the mpox vaccine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you have a regular health care provider, SFDPH recommends you ask them first about getting the mpox vaccine. Your vaccine will be free, but you may be charged a regular copay for seeing your provider.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you don’t have a regular health care provider or insurance, you can find the mpox vaccine free at clinics around the Bay Area. You can opt to schedule an appointment or choose a walk-in clinic, depending on what works best for you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>If you live in or near San Francisco:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>See \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/information/mpox-vaccine\">a full list of mpox vaccine sites near you in San Francisco\u003c/a>. Cohen confirms that you don’t have to be a city resident to get vaccinated for mpox in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mpox vaccination sites elsewhere in the Bay Area and California:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Find an mpox vaccine clinic near you using \u003ca href=\"https://npin.cdc.gov/DynWidgets/index.html?chost=www.cdc.gov&cpath=/lgbthealth/summer/index.html&csearch=&chash=&ctitle=Get%20Healthy%20and%20Ready%20for%20Summer%20%7C%20LGBT%20Health%20%7C%20CDC&wn=DynWidgets&wf=/DynWidgets/&wid=DynWidgets1&mMode=widget&mPage=&mChannel=&componentName=MpoxLocator#/\">the CDC’s Vaccine Locator\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Find an mpox vaccine clinic near you using \u003ca href=\"https://myturn.ca.gov/\">the state’s myturn.ca.gov site\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Can I get my mpox vaccine at a pharmacy?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some pharmacies offer mpox vaccination appointments online, along with other vaccines like COVID and flu. But if you choose this route, you’ll be asked for insurance details — and it’s important to verify with your insurer first that they’ll cover you receiving the mpox vaccine at a pharmacy like CVS or Walgreens, as the out-of-pocket costs you’ll be quoted may be steep.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you get your health care through a health system like Kaiser Permanente, it’s unlikely you’ll be able to get your mpox vaccine covered by insurance at a pharmacy — the way you can’t get your COVID or flu shot covered by Kaiser at a pharmacy either — and may have to seek it directly from a Kaiser provider.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re able to make an appointment online at a pharmacy for your mpox vaccine, you should consider calling that location ahead of time to verify that they do indeed have supply in stock. A CVS spokesperson told KQED by email that in San Francisco, CVS pharmacies have “limited supply of the monkeypox vaccine in our pharmacies, but a pharmacist can order the vaccine if requested by a patient.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How effective is the mpox vaccine?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Very. “While we know that no vaccine is 100% effective, we do know that less than 1% of persons who have been fully vaccinated have been diagnosed with mpox,” Janssen said, citing \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/73/wr/mm7320a3.htm?s_cid=mm7320a3_w\">a recent study from the CDC on the mpox vaccine’s efficacy.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another reason to get an mpox vaccine: It’s been shown to help reduce symptoms — which can be very painful — if you \u003cem>do\u003c/em> still get infected. It also “reduces illness severity and the risk of hospitalization and death,” Janssen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"whatismpox\">\u003c/a>What is mpox, and how does it spread?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/information/monkeypox\">Mpox is a disease that is caused when a person is infected with the mpox virus.\u003c/a> As the name might suggest, the virus is related to the smallpox virus but is generally less severe and “much less contagious” than smallpox, according to CDPH.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/information/mpox\">Mpox spreads through “prolonged skin-to-skin contact,”\u003c/a> SFDPH said, which can include sex, kissing and sharing bedding or clothing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>See how mpox cases are tracked around the country:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/Mpox-Data.aspx\">Mpox case data for California\u003c/a> via the California Department of Public Health (CDPH)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/information/monkeypox-cases\">Mpox case data for San Francisco\u003c/a> via SFDPH\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/poxvirus/monkeypox/response/2022/us-map.html\">Mpox case data for the United States\u003c/a> via the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"monkeypoxsymptomsrash\">\u003c/a>What are the symptoms of mpox?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Mpox symptoms often start as flu-like conditions, SFPDH said, but the virus also appears as a rash or sores or spots that can resemble pimples or blisters on the skin anywhere on the body, especially around your genitals. These spots often start as “red, flat spots and then become bumps,” SFDPH said, before the bumps become filled with pus and turn into scabs when they break.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/poxvirus/mpox/symptoms/index.html\">If you’re unsure about recognizing an mpox rash, the CDC has a photo guide.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/poxvirus/mpox/symptoms/index.html\">Mpox can have a long incubation period\u003c/a> — that is, the time between when you’re exposed to mpox and when you start to develop symptoms — that can range from three to 17 days, according to the CDC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you suspect you might have mpox symptoms — even if they’re subtle — see your health care provider right away or \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/get-mpox-vaccines-testing-and-medicine\">consult one of SFPDH’s clinics for mpox testing\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/information/mpox\">See more on what to do if you suspect you have mpox.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Is mpox the same as monkeypox?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Yes. In 2022, the World Health Organization \u003ca href=\"https://www.ems1.com/infectious-diseases/articles/monkeypox-gets-new-name-after-racist-and-stigmatizing-language-health-officials-say-i1djjhzOPR7VCJrC/#:~:text=%E2%80%9CWhen%20the%20outbreak%20of%20monkeypox,monkeypox%20worldwide%20as%20of%20Nov.\">announced it would adopt the new, preferred term “mpox” as a synonym for monkeypox\u003c/a> in light of the “racist and stigmatizing language online, in other settings and in some communities” that the agency said it had observed during the outbreak earlier that year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You may have also seen the virus referred to as MPX, which was the name originally adopted by SFDPH.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "floatright"
},
"numeric": [
"floatright"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
}
],
"link": "/news/11988079/2024-mpox-vaccine-formerly-monkeypox-symptoms-rash",
"authors": [
"3243"
],
"categories": [
"news_34168",
"news_457",
"news_8"
],
"tags": [
"news_32707",
"news_18538",
"news_18543",
"news_31325",
"news_32353",
"news_19960",
"news_38",
"news_981"
],
"featImg": "news_11988132",
"label": "news"
},
"news_11987709": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "news_11987709",
"meta": {
"index": "posts_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "11987709",
"score": null,
"sort": [
1716836407000
]
},
"guestAuthors": [],
"slug": "what-to-consider-before-posting-cute-photos-of-your-kids-on-social-media",
"title": "The Hidden Dangers of Sharing Adorable Photos of Your Child Online",
"publishDate": 1716836407,
"format": "standard",
"headTitle": "The Hidden Dangers of Sharing Adorable Photos of Your Child Online | KQED",
"labelTerm": {
"term": 253,
"site": "news"
},
"content": "\u003cp>Many parents share photos and videos of children on social media: birth announcements, making (an adorable) mess at the dinner table, and milestones like a first step.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there are potential dangers to constantly posting about your child online, says \u003ca href=\"https://hls.harvard.edu/faculty/leah-a-plunkett/\">Leah Plunkett\u003c/a>, a faculty member at Harvard Law School who specializes in children, family law and technology. In Plunkett’s 2019 book \u003ca href=\"https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262539630/sharenthood/\">\u003cem>Sharenthood: Why We Should Think Before We Talk About Our Kids Online\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, she explains how adults can put children’s privacy and personal data at risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This phenomenon is called “sharenting,” says Plunkett. Legal scholars in her field use the term — a portmanteau of “sharing” and “parenting” — to describe “all the ways that parents, aunts, uncles, teachers, coaches and other trusted adults in a kiddo’s life transmit children’s private information digitally.” It can make kids vulnerable to identity theft and harassment. And as they grow older, it may undercut their ability to tell their own story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plunkett talks to Life Kit about the different harms of oversharing, how to post information about your kid safely, and how to talk to loved ones about your limits. This interview has been edited for length and clarity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Parents share a surprising amount of data about their kids online. A birthday photo, for example, can reveal a kid’s name, age and date of birth. What are some of the privacy concerns around that? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is a thriving black market for personally identifiable information. Kids’ Social Security numbers, when combined with date of birth, name and address, are often good targets for identity theft. Most minors don’t have credit attached to their Social Security numbers, so [someone may be able to use them to] open fraudulent lines of credit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Creditors don’t verify the age of applicants, so a bad actor \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://dos.ny.gov/what-you-should-know-about-child-identity-theft\">\u003cstrong>could potentially open a credit card without anyone noticing\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cstrong> until the kid becomes an adult and wants a card of their own. What are some other security risks?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are tragic cases of stalking, bullying and harassment. They are rare, but they do happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>So someone could use social media to figure out where your kid lives, goes to school and their patterns and routines. They could also learn about their likes and dislikes and insidiously use them.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other people don’t need to have information about the ins and outs of your child’s emotional and personal life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2024/05/16/sol-cotti-x-npr---sharenting_spot_sq-74ba89c1984245f8b913c0129f8f1c39b7fc86cb.jpg?s=1200&c=75&f=jpeg\">\u003cfigcaption>\u003ccite> (Sol Cotti for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>You write in your book that children’s data is a form of currency. And there’s the adage that if a product is free, \u003c/strong>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>you\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003cstrong> are the product. What should adults think about when giving a company their child’s data? Or when reading the fine print on a social media platform?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parents should be aware that they’re not going to know at the moment where a piece of information, photo or video, might go. When we click “I accept,” those agreements give companies and third parties a lot of latitude about what they can do with your data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After my book came out, \u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em> ran a big investigative piece about how social media photos of toddlers and young children had been surreptitiously \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/10/11/technology/flickr-facial-recognition.html\">used to train facial recognition software\u003c/a>. That’s one of many examples.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, at some point down the road, maybe somebody makes a decision about your child based on the stuff you’ve put out about them — how your child is doing at school, how they’re moving through the world. Maybe that is an individual human decision-maker. Maybe that is an algorithmically driven data analysis product.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>And when you mean decision-makers, that could be a university recruiter or a hiring manager. And that may affect your child’s ability to tell their own story. \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To themselves or others in the future. If the world is figuring out significant things about who they are online and making projections about who they’re going to be, it can undercut their ability to figure that out for themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Reading your book, it’s clear you’re not like a Luddite. You have kids, but you haven’t sworn off social media. How do you avoid oversharing the digital realm?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since I started researching this topic, I adjusted my compass to be very minimalist. I pretty much never post my kids on social media. If I do, you don’t see their faces or anything that would identify them. I don’t use full names. I don’t celebrate their birthday on social media. I don’t show the kids standing in front of where they go to school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I follow a “holiday card-or-less” rule of thumb when sharing on social media: updates you’d be comfortable with anyone, from your great aunt to your boss, seeing. Information that’s not going to embarrass anybody and isn’t particularly private.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Personally, my wife and I are pretty tight about the pictures we share of our child. How do we prevent other people, like family and friends, from taking photos of them at, say, a baptism or a birthday party and posting it online? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For something like a baptism or another rite of passage, it’s probably impossible to get everyone to not celebrate their joy and pride by taking out a phone. But it is OK to make a gentle request. You might say: \u003cem>Thank you so much for being in this moment with us. To be in the moment, we would request that you refrain from pictures or videos\u003c/em>. [aside postID=news_11985949 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24134775174210-1020x680.jpg']Some people will listen, some people won’t. Then, make the call about whether or not it matters enough to you to follow up privately with the people who you see taking pictures and videos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How do you model digital consent with your kids?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The conversation starts with very young kids. Explain what you’re doing, why you’re doing it, and where the image or video is going. You might say something like, “Hey, we’re having a really great meal. We’re using a recipe your grandfather sent us. I’m going to take a picture for him. Everybody smile for Grandpa.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You could also ask your kid at a pretty young age, “Are you OK with taking a photo? Anyone not feeling up for it?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What questions should parents ask themselves before they hit post?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Are you posting a picture of your child in any state of undress? If you are, please don’t post it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Are you sharing your child’s location, full name or date of birth? If you are, think about whether that level of detail is necessary for your post.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If your parents shared a similar post about you at this age, how would you have felt about it? If the answer is that it would have bothered you, take another minute to think about what you need from this post.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What advice do you have for parents who often share photos and videos of their children and their lives on social media? Is it too late for them? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I had the same reaction when I started researching all of this, and I’m here to tell you, take a deep breath. Don’t panic. If you want to change, go back over your social media posts and take down what you’re not so sure about. Then, make your settings private.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Please don’t be hard on yourselves. Since the dawn of time, parents have been making the best choices they can at any given moment, and then later being like, maybe I’ll do that differently going forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
"blocks": [],
"excerpt": "Oversharing can make children vulnerable to identity theft, harassment and predators. To protect their privacy, share a 'holiday card-or-less' amount of data online, says expert Leah Plunkett.",
"status": "publish",
"parent": 0,
"modified": 1726004372,
"stats": {
"hasAudio": false,
"hasVideo": false,
"hasChartOrMap": false,
"iframeSrcs": [],
"hasGoogleForm": false,
"hasGallery": false,
"hasHearkenModule": false,
"hasPolis": false,
"paragraphCount": 33,
"wordCount": 1355
},
"headData": {
"title": "The Hidden Dangers of Sharing Adorable Photos of Your Child Online | KQED",
"description": "Oversharing can make children vulnerable to identity theft, harassment and predators. To protect their privacy, share a 'holiday card-or-less' amount of data online, says expert Leah Plunkett.",
"ogTitle": "",
"ogDescription": "",
"ogImgId": "",
"twTitle": "",
"twDescription": "",
"twImgId": "",
"schema": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "NewsArticle",
"headline": "The Hidden Dangers of Sharing Adorable Photos of Your Child Online",
"datePublished": "2024-05-27T12:00:07-07:00",
"dateModified": "2024-09-10T14:39:32-07:00",
"image": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"isAccessibleForFree": "True",
"publisher": {
"@type": "NewsMediaOrganization",
"@id": "https://www.kqed.org/#organization",
"name": "KQED",
"logo": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"url": "https://www.kqed.org",
"sameAs": [
"https://www.facebook.com/KQED",
"https://twitter.com/KQED",
"https://www.instagram.com/kqed/",
"https://www.tiktok.com/@kqedofficial",
"https://www.linkedin.com/company/kqed",
"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeC0IOo7i1P_61zVUWbJ4nw"
]
}
}
},
"sticky": false,
"nprByline": "\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/people/348740829/andrew-limbong\">Andrew Limbong\u003c/a>",
"nprStoryId": "1251819597",
"nprHtmlLink": "https://www.npr.org/2024/05/20/1251819597/why-you-should-think-twice-before-posting-that-cute-photo-of-your-kid-online",
"nprRetrievedStory": "1",
"nprPubDate": "2024-05-20T09:10:32-04:00",
"nprStoryDate": "2024-05-20T09:10:32-04:00",
"nprLastModifiedDate": "2024-05-20T10:32:29-04:00",
"excludeFromSiteSearch": "Include",
"showOnAuthorArchivePages": "No",
"articleAge": "0",
"path": "/news/11987709/what-to-consider-before-posting-cute-photos-of-your-kids-on-social-media",
"audioTrackLength": null,
"parsedContent": [
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Many parents share photos and videos of children on social media: birth announcements, making (an adorable) mess at the dinner table, and milestones like a first step.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there are potential dangers to constantly posting about your child online, says \u003ca href=\"https://hls.harvard.edu/faculty/leah-a-plunkett/\">Leah Plunkett\u003c/a>, a faculty member at Harvard Law School who specializes in children, family law and technology. In Plunkett’s 2019 book \u003ca href=\"https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262539630/sharenthood/\">\u003cem>Sharenthood: Why We Should Think Before We Talk About Our Kids Online\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, she explains how adults can put children’s privacy and personal data at risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This phenomenon is called “sharenting,” says Plunkett. Legal scholars in her field use the term — a portmanteau of “sharing” and “parenting” — to describe “all the ways that parents, aunts, uncles, teachers, coaches and other trusted adults in a kiddo’s life transmit children’s private information digitally.” It can make kids vulnerable to identity theft and harassment. And as they grow older, it may undercut their ability to tell their own story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plunkett talks to Life Kit about the different harms of oversharing, how to post information about your kid safely, and how to talk to loved ones about your limits. This interview has been edited for length and clarity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "fullwidth"
},
"numeric": [
"fullwidth"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Parents share a surprising amount of data about their kids online. A birthday photo, for example, can reveal a kid’s name, age and date of birth. What are some of the privacy concerns around that? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is a thriving black market for personally identifiable information. Kids’ Social Security numbers, when combined with date of birth, name and address, are often good targets for identity theft. Most minors don’t have credit attached to their Social Security numbers, so [someone may be able to use them to] open fraudulent lines of credit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Creditors don’t verify the age of applicants, so a bad actor \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://dos.ny.gov/what-you-should-know-about-child-identity-theft\">\u003cstrong>could potentially open a credit card without anyone noticing\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cstrong> until the kid becomes an adult and wants a card of their own. What are some other security risks?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are tragic cases of stalking, bullying and harassment. They are rare, but they do happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>So someone could use social media to figure out where your kid lives, goes to school and their patterns and routines. They could also learn about their likes and dislikes and insidiously use them.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other people don’t need to have information about the ins and outs of your child’s emotional and personal life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2024/05/16/sol-cotti-x-npr---sharenting_spot_sq-74ba89c1984245f8b913c0129f8f1c39b7fc86cb.jpg?s=1200&c=75&f=jpeg\">\u003cfigcaption>\u003ccite> (Sol Cotti for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>You write in your book that children’s data is a form of currency. And there’s the adage that if a product is free, \u003c/strong>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>you\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003cstrong> are the product. What should adults think about when giving a company their child’s data? Or when reading the fine print on a social media platform?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parents should be aware that they’re not going to know at the moment where a piece of information, photo or video, might go. When we click “I accept,” those agreements give companies and third parties a lot of latitude about what they can do with your data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After my book came out, \u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em> ran a big investigative piece about how social media photos of toddlers and young children had been surreptitiously \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/10/11/technology/flickr-facial-recognition.html\">used to train facial recognition software\u003c/a>. That’s one of many examples.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, at some point down the road, maybe somebody makes a decision about your child based on the stuff you’ve put out about them — how your child is doing at school, how they’re moving through the world. Maybe that is an individual human decision-maker. Maybe that is an algorithmically driven data analysis product.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>And when you mean decision-makers, that could be a university recruiter or a hiring manager. And that may affect your child’s ability to tell their own story. \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To themselves or others in the future. If the world is figuring out significant things about who they are online and making projections about who they’re going to be, it can undercut their ability to figure that out for themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Reading your book, it’s clear you’re not like a Luddite. You have kids, but you haven’t sworn off social media. How do you avoid oversharing the digital realm?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since I started researching this topic, I adjusted my compass to be very minimalist. I pretty much never post my kids on social media. If I do, you don’t see their faces or anything that would identify them. I don’t use full names. I don’t celebrate their birthday on social media. I don’t show the kids standing in front of where they go to school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I follow a “holiday card-or-less” rule of thumb when sharing on social media: updates you’d be comfortable with anyone, from your great aunt to your boss, seeing. Information that’s not going to embarrass anybody and isn’t particularly private.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Personally, my wife and I are pretty tight about the pictures we share of our child. How do we prevent other people, like family and friends, from taking photos of them at, say, a baptism or a birthday party and posting it online? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For something like a baptism or another rite of passage, it’s probably impossible to get everyone to not celebrate their joy and pride by taking out a phone. But it is OK to make a gentle request. You might say: \u003cem>Thank you so much for being in this moment with us. To be in the moment, we would request that you refrain from pictures or videos\u003c/em>. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "aside",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"postid": "news_11985949",
"hero": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24134775174210-1020x680.jpg",
"label": ""
},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Some people will listen, some people won’t. Then, make the call about whether or not it matters enough to you to follow up privately with the people who you see taking pictures and videos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How do you model digital consent with your kids?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The conversation starts with very young kids. Explain what you’re doing, why you’re doing it, and where the image or video is going. You might say something like, “Hey, we’re having a really great meal. We’re using a recipe your grandfather sent us. I’m going to take a picture for him. Everybody smile for Grandpa.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You could also ask your kid at a pretty young age, “Are you OK with taking a photo? Anyone not feeling up for it?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What questions should parents ask themselves before they hit post?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Are you posting a picture of your child in any state of undress? If you are, please don’t post it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Are you sharing your child’s location, full name or date of birth? If you are, think about whether that level of detail is necessary for your post.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If your parents shared a similar post about you at this age, how would you have felt about it? If the answer is that it would have bothered you, take another minute to think about what you need from this post.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What advice do you have for parents who often share photos and videos of their children and their lives on social media? Is it too late for them? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I had the same reaction when I started researching all of this, and I’m here to tell you, take a deep breath. Don’t panic. If you want to change, go back over your social media posts and take down what you’re not so sure about. Then, make your settings private.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Please don’t be hard on yourselves. Since the dawn of time, parents have been making the best choices they can at any given moment, and then later being like, maybe I’ll do that differently going forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "floatright"
},
"numeric": [
"floatright"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
}
],
"link": "/news/11987709/what-to-consider-before-posting-cute-photos-of-your-kids-on-social-media",
"authors": [
"byline_news_11987709"
],
"categories": [
"news_457",
"news_8",
"news_248"
],
"tags": [
"news_2043",
"news_27626",
"news_18543",
"news_1432",
"news_2125",
"news_1089",
"news_22685",
"news_1631"
],
"affiliates": [
"news_253"
],
"featImg": "news_11987710",
"label": "news_253"
},
"news_11987665": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "news_11987665",
"meta": {
"index": "posts_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "11987665",
"score": null,
"sort": [
1716576798000
]
},
"guestAuthors": [],
"slug": "advocates-urge-state-to-intervene-in-closure-of-san-jose-trauma-center",
"title": "Advocates Urge State to Intervene in Closure of San Jose Trauma Center",
"publishDate": 1716576798,
"format": "standard",
"headTitle": "Advocates Urge State to Intervene in Closure of San Jose Trauma Center | KQED",
"labelTerm": {
"site": "news"
},
"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 3:10 p.m. Friday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A group of South Bay leaders, healthcare workers and patient advocates is calling on California Attorney General Rob Bonta to intervene in the planned closure of the only trauma center on the east side of Santa Clara County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plans by Regional Medical Center of San Jose to shutter its trauma center, eliminate its serious heart attack treatment services and downgrade its stroke services are discriminatory and will harm the health outcomes of some of the most marginalized people in the community, according to the coalition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a letter sent to Bonta this week, Darcie Green, head of health nonprofit Latinas Contra Cancer, and Maria Noel Fernandez, the head of labor and equity group Working Partnerships USA, said the cuts will “inevitably” lead to an increase in deaths “predominantly affecting the working poor and communities of color.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The proposed downgrade in services will require these patients with the most critical health care needs to be transported further distances, resulting in significant delays in the provision of life-saving care,” the letter reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hospital, owned by for-profit Hospital Corporation of America, or HCA, announced its intentions in a short statement in February, citing a “decline in utilization” over the last several years of its Level II Trauma Center services and its ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) program, which handles severe heart attacks, though it didn’t provide specific numbers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It did not elaborate on the decision to downgrade its stroke services from the “comprehensive” level, which can care for all types of stroke patients and has 24/7 availability for complex neurosurgery, to “primary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cuts are scheduled to take effect on Aug. 12. They would come roughly four years after Regional Medical Center closed its labor and delivery unit as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the letter to Bonta, Green and Fernandez said HCA has a track record of making decisions prioritizing profits over people, resulting in discriminatory impacts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If HCA healthcare is allowed to continue to increase their profits on the backs of our loved ones with the most critical health needs and proceed with these closures, we will all be less healthy and we will all be less safe,” Green said Friday during a rally outside the hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara County Supervisor Cindy Chavez and San Jose Councilmember Peter Ortiz also gathered at the rally, along with Dr. Raj Gupta, the director of stroke and neuroscience services at Regional Medical Center, to highlight these concerns and ask Bonta to step in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If in fact what they’re doing is not against the law, then the next thing we should be thinking about is how to make it against the law to literally put lives on the line or lives at risk,” Chavez said of HCA’s actions. “Frankly, they have been doing it in our community for so long that I have very little trust that HCA will do the right thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11987728\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11987728 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240524-REGIONALMEDICAL-JG-6_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240524-REGIONALMEDICAL-JG-6_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240524-REGIONALMEDICAL-JG-6_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240524-REGIONALMEDICAL-JG-6_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240524-REGIONALMEDICAL-JG-6_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240524-REGIONALMEDICAL-JG-6_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Santa Clara County Supervisor Cindy Chavez speaks during a rally outside of Regional Medical Center in East San José on May 24. Chavez and others called on Attorney General Rob Bonta to halt service cuts planned by the hospital’s ownership. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Chavez called attention to the disparities in healthcare and hospital service between East San Jose and the west side of the city. HCA is planning a major expansion and remodel of its Good Samaritan Hospital near the Cambrian Park neighborhood, while cutting critical services at Regional Medical Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, HCA spokesperson Jack Finn said Regional Medical Center is “disappointed by the actions” of Chavez and Ortiz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fact is, we are responding to the patient care needs of our community so we can continue to care for our community’s health for the long term,” Finn said. He added that Regional has invested $186 million over a decade in emergency services, and intends to invest $10 million this year to grow its emergency department capacity from 43 beds to 63.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a brief interview, Finn said the medical staff at the hospital is “not going to be distracted by outside noise” as they go about their work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"more health coverage\" tag=\"health\"]Meanwhile, Dr. Gupta, part of the medical staff at HCA, said it’s “irresponsible and shameful” to cut services at Regional Medical Center, and the decision will add pressure to the rest of the healthcare system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Valley Medical Center will feel the heat. Good Samaritan will feel the heat. All other hospitals. “We are opposing it because we do believe in the first rule in medicine, do no harm,” Gupta said at the rally. “And this action will harm our patients, our community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because Regional Medical Center was previously a nonprofit hospital before being purchased by HCA in 2002, local officials say Bonta has the authority to stop discriminatory service cuts. They cited similar actions by North Carolina’s attorney general, who sued HCA last year for “not providing the quality, consistent emergency and cancer care” it committed to offering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A county report last month said that the Regional Medical Center is the primary destination for one in four stroke patients transported by ambulance in the region, and it serves 65% of stroke patients in the county with no insurance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Its trauma center sees an average of 2,450 patients annually, about a quarter of all trauma cases in the county. If the closure were to proceed, such patients would have to be transported to Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, run by the county, or Stanford Hospital, which would have a “negative cascading effect” on the county healthcare system, officials said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\n",
"blocks": [],
"excerpt": "Planned cuts by Regional Medical Center will lead to more deaths among lower-income people of color, group says to California attorney general.",
"status": "publish",
"parent": 0,
"modified": 1738186218,
"stats": {
"hasAudio": false,
"hasVideo": false,
"hasChartOrMap": false,
"iframeSrcs": [],
"hasGoogleForm": false,
"hasGallery": false,
"hasHearkenModule": false,
"hasPolis": false,
"paragraphCount": 23,
"wordCount": 988
},
"headData": {
"title": "Advocates Urge State to Intervene in Closure of San Jose Trauma Center | KQED",
"description": "Planned cuts by Regional Medical Center will lead to more deaths among lower-income people of color, group says to California attorney general.",
"ogTitle": "",
"ogDescription": "",
"ogImgId": "",
"twTitle": "",
"twDescription": "",
"twImgId": "",
"schema": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "NewsArticle",
"headline": "Advocates Urge State to Intervene in Closure of San Jose Trauma Center",
"datePublished": "2024-05-24T11:53:18-07:00",
"dateModified": "2025-01-29T13:30:18-08:00",
"image": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"isAccessibleForFree": "True",
"publisher": {
"@type": "NewsMediaOrganization",
"@id": "https://www.kqed.org/#organization",
"name": "KQED",
"logo": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"url": "https://www.kqed.org",
"sameAs": [
"https://www.facebook.com/KQED",
"https://twitter.com/KQED",
"https://www.instagram.com/kqed/",
"https://www.tiktok.com/@kqedofficial",
"https://www.linkedin.com/company/kqed",
"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeC0IOo7i1P_61zVUWbJ4nw"
]
}
}
},
"sticky": false,
"nprStoryId": "kqed-11987665",
"excludeFromSiteSearch": "Include",
"articleAge": "0",
"path": "/news/11987665/advocates-urge-state-to-intervene-in-closure-of-san-jose-trauma-center",
"audioTrackLength": null,
"parsedContent": [
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 3:10 p.m. Friday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A group of South Bay leaders, healthcare workers and patient advocates is calling on California Attorney General Rob Bonta to intervene in the planned closure of the only trauma center on the east side of Santa Clara County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plans by Regional Medical Center of San Jose to shutter its trauma center, eliminate its serious heart attack treatment services and downgrade its stroke services are discriminatory and will harm the health outcomes of some of the most marginalized people in the community, according to the coalition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a letter sent to Bonta this week, Darcie Green, head of health nonprofit Latinas Contra Cancer, and Maria Noel Fernandez, the head of labor and equity group Working Partnerships USA, said the cuts will “inevitably” lead to an increase in deaths “predominantly affecting the working poor and communities of color.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The proposed downgrade in services will require these patients with the most critical health care needs to be transported further distances, resulting in significant delays in the provision of life-saving care,” the letter reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "fullwidth"
},
"numeric": [
"fullwidth"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hospital, owned by for-profit Hospital Corporation of America, or HCA, announced its intentions in a short statement in February, citing a “decline in utilization” over the last several years of its Level II Trauma Center services and its ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) program, which handles severe heart attacks, though it didn’t provide specific numbers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It did not elaborate on the decision to downgrade its stroke services from the “comprehensive” level, which can care for all types of stroke patients and has 24/7 availability for complex neurosurgery, to “primary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cuts are scheduled to take effect on Aug. 12. They would come roughly four years after Regional Medical Center closed its labor and delivery unit as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the letter to Bonta, Green and Fernandez said HCA has a track record of making decisions prioritizing profits over people, resulting in discriminatory impacts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If HCA healthcare is allowed to continue to increase their profits on the backs of our loved ones with the most critical health needs and proceed with these closures, we will all be less healthy and we will all be less safe,” Green said Friday during a rally outside the hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara County Supervisor Cindy Chavez and San Jose Councilmember Peter Ortiz also gathered at the rally, along with Dr. Raj Gupta, the director of stroke and neuroscience services at Regional Medical Center, to highlight these concerns and ask Bonta to step in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If in fact what they’re doing is not against the law, then the next thing we should be thinking about is how to make it against the law to literally put lives on the line or lives at risk,” Chavez said of HCA’s actions. “Frankly, they have been doing it in our community for so long that I have very little trust that HCA will do the right thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11987728\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11987728 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240524-REGIONALMEDICAL-JG-6_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240524-REGIONALMEDICAL-JG-6_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240524-REGIONALMEDICAL-JG-6_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240524-REGIONALMEDICAL-JG-6_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240524-REGIONALMEDICAL-JG-6_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240524-REGIONALMEDICAL-JG-6_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Santa Clara County Supervisor Cindy Chavez speaks during a rally outside of Regional Medical Center in East San José on May 24. Chavez and others called on Attorney General Rob Bonta to halt service cuts planned by the hospital’s ownership. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Chavez called attention to the disparities in healthcare and hospital service between East San Jose and the west side of the city. HCA is planning a major expansion and remodel of its Good Samaritan Hospital near the Cambrian Park neighborhood, while cutting critical services at Regional Medical Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, HCA spokesperson Jack Finn said Regional Medical Center is “disappointed by the actions” of Chavez and Ortiz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fact is, we are responding to the patient care needs of our community so we can continue to care for our community’s health for the long term,” Finn said. He added that Regional has invested $186 million over a decade in emergency services, and intends to invest $10 million this year to grow its emergency department capacity from 43 beds to 63.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a brief interview, Finn said the medical staff at the hospital is “not going to be distracted by outside noise” as they go about their work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "aside",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "more health coverage ",
"tag": "health"
},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Meanwhile, Dr. Gupta, part of the medical staff at HCA, said it’s “irresponsible and shameful” to cut services at Regional Medical Center, and the decision will add pressure to the rest of the healthcare system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Valley Medical Center will feel the heat. Good Samaritan will feel the heat. All other hospitals. “We are opposing it because we do believe in the first rule in medicine, do no harm,” Gupta said at the rally. “And this action will harm our patients, our community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because Regional Medical Center was previously a nonprofit hospital before being purchased by HCA in 2002, local officials say Bonta has the authority to stop discriminatory service cuts. They cited similar actions by North Carolina’s attorney general, who sued HCA last year for “not providing the quality, consistent emergency and cancer care” it committed to offering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A county report last month said that the Regional Medical Center is the primary destination for one in four stroke patients transported by ambulance in the region, and it serves 65% of stroke patients in the county with no insurance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Its trauma center sees an average of 2,450 patients annually, about a quarter of all trauma cases in the county. If the closure were to proceed, such patients would have to be transported to Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, run by the county, or Stanford Hospital, which would have a “negative cascading effect” on the county healthcare system, officials said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
}
],
"link": "/news/11987665/advocates-urge-state-to-intervene-in-closure-of-san-jose-trauma-center",
"authors": [
"11906"
],
"categories": [
"news_457",
"news_8"
],
"tags": [
"news_18543",
"news_18659",
"news_3674",
"news_18541",
"news_21285"
],
"featImg": "news_11987726",
"label": "news"
},
"news_11987607": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "news_11987607",
"meta": {
"index": "posts_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "11987607",
"score": null,
"sort": [
1716573616000
]
},
"guestAuthors": [],
"slug": "after-years-in-decline-us-drowning-deaths-are-rising-again",
"title": "After Declining for Years, US Drowning Deaths Are on the Rise Again",
"publishDate": 1716573616,
"format": "standard",
"headTitle": "After Declining for Years, US Drowning Deaths Are on the Rise Again | KQED",
"labelTerm": {
"term": 253,
"site": "news"
},
"content": "\u003cp>Drowning deaths in the U.S. were on the decline for decades, but a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has found that fatalities have been increasing since 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While it’s not exactly clear what’s causing the spike, public health experts believe the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic could be at least partly to blame.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adam Katchmarchi, CEO of the National Drowning Prevention Alliance (NDPA), said there were signs recently that fatal drownings were increasing, but the national figures were stark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Shocking, to say the least, that we have seen these dramatic increases,” Katchmarchi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/73/wr/mm7320e1.htm?s_cid=mm7320e1_w#T1_down\">CDC report\u003c/a>, there were around 4,000 accidental drowning deaths in the U.S. in 2019. That jumped to more than 4,500 fatalities annually in 2020, 2021 and 2022 — roughly a 10% increase.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>During the pandemic, public pools closed and lifeguards went home\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The reasons for the increase in drowning deaths aren’t known for certain, but public health officials say the lockdowns and closures related to the pandemic affected how people interacted with the water recreationally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CDC Division of Injury Prevention health scientist Tessa Clemens, the lead author of the report, said in a follow-up email to NPR that the causes behind the increase in fatalities were “likely complex.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“However, we know that many public pools closed during the COVID-19 pandemic, which limited the availability of swimming lessons,” Clemens said. “Once pools reopened, many facilities faced shortages of trained swimming instructors and lifeguards, which further reduced availability of swimming lessons and safe swimming areas.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bill Ramos, an associate professor at the Indiana University School of Public Health, agreed that changes to daily life over the past several years likely impacted swimming safety and said that swimming education had been growing before the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Basically, the faucet was turned off,” Ramos said. “Lifeguards were not being trained. Children were not being taught swim lessons.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drowning prevention experts recommend that everyone learn to swim, yet the CDC report found that an estimated 40 million American adults don’t know how. Nearly 55% have never taken a swimming lesson, which can be expensive and difficult for some people to access.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramos said he hopes the country’s first national \u003ca href=\"https://www.watersafetyusa.org/uploads/7/0/6/0/70608285/usnwsap_v7.pdf\">water safety plan (PDF)\u003c/a>, which was released last year, will help reduce the number of drownings nationwide.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Young kids and older adults face the most risk\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For children between the ages of 1 and 4, drowning is the leading cause of death, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/vitalsigns/drowning/index.html\">according to the CDC\u003c/a>. That age group saw a 28% increase in drowning fatalities between 2019 and 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adults 65 and older experienced the second-highest rate of drowning, the report found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were also racial and ethnic disparities in drowning deaths. American Indian and Alaska Native people had the highest rate of drowning fatalities among race and ethnic groups, followed by Black people, who saw a 28% spike in deaths between 2019 and 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hopefully, this is a wake-up call to the country on a number of fronts,” Katchmarchi said. “I think most people don’t recognize sometimes the complexity of the drowning problem in the United States, but also that it is 100% preventable and it doesn’t have to be this way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How to stay safe\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As the summer season approaches, drowning prevention advocates say there’s plenty you can do to reduce the risk of drowning for yourself and your loved ones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For backyard pools, Ramos said groups should designate one non-distracted person whose sole focus is keeping an eye on the swimmers. They can wear a tag around their neck, and if they have to get up, they can give that tag to another person to ensure that someone is always paying attention to the pool.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not sure why we haven’t done this, but in lifeguarding, we say the lifeguard’s job is patron surveillance. That’s their No. 1 job,” Ramos said. “We need to maybe be less afraid to say that to parents and caregivers as well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=forum_2010101893972 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/43/2023/08/GettyImages-1370872099-1-1020x516.jpg']Katchmarchi says other critical \u003ca href=\"https://ndpa.org/layers/\">safety measures\u003c/a> include recommendations that everyone learns how to swim and that those taking care of others know how to give CPR with rescue breaths in case of an emergency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pools should be equipped with fences and alarms, and swimmers should use life jackets in certain situations, including open water, the NDPA suggests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A drowning can occur in less than a minute, and prevention advocates say it may not look like what people expect from TV or the movies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s certainly not the event that we describe usually where a person is screaming and yelling and waving. That person is still what we consider a distressed swimmer,” Ramos said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They haven’t really become an active drowning victim yet because once you reach that point, it’s a very silent act. And it’s not very long after that before they’re in real trouble.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
"blocks": [],
"excerpt": "According to the CDC report, there were around 4,000 accidental drowning deaths in the US in 2019. That jumped to more than 4,500 fatalities annually in 2020, 2021 and 2022.",
"status": "publish",
"parent": 0,
"modified": 1716573427,
"stats": {
"hasAudio": false,
"hasVideo": false,
"hasChartOrMap": false,
"iframeSrcs": [],
"hasGoogleForm": false,
"hasGallery": false,
"hasHearkenModule": false,
"hasPolis": false,
"paragraphCount": 26,
"wordCount": 892
},
"headData": {
"title": "After Declining for Years, US Drowning Deaths Are on the Rise Again | KQED",
"description": "According to the CDC report, there were around 4,000 accidental drowning deaths in the US in 2019. That jumped to more than 4,500 fatalities annually in 2020, 2021 and 2022.",
"ogTitle": "",
"ogDescription": "",
"ogImgId": "",
"twTitle": "",
"twDescription": "",
"twImgId": "",
"schema": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "NewsArticle",
"headline": "After Declining for Years, US Drowning Deaths Are on the Rise Again",
"datePublished": "2024-05-24T11:00:16-07:00",
"dateModified": "2024-05-24T10:57:07-07:00",
"image": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"isAccessibleForFree": "True",
"publisher": {
"@type": "NewsMediaOrganization",
"@id": "https://www.kqed.org/#organization",
"name": "KQED",
"logo": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"url": "https://www.kqed.org",
"sameAs": [
"https://www.facebook.com/KQED",
"https://twitter.com/KQED",
"https://www.instagram.com/kqed/",
"https://www.tiktok.com/@kqedofficial",
"https://www.linkedin.com/company/kqed",
"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeC0IOo7i1P_61zVUWbJ4nw"
]
}
}
},
"sticky": false,
"nprByline": "Joe Hernandez, NPR",
"excludeFromSiteSearch": "Include",
"showOnAuthorArchivePages": "No",
"articleAge": "0",
"path": "/news/11987607/after-years-in-decline-us-drowning-deaths-are-rising-again",
"audioTrackLength": null,
"parsedContent": [
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Drowning deaths in the U.S. were on the decline for decades, but a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has found that fatalities have been increasing since 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While it’s not exactly clear what’s causing the spike, public health experts believe the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic could be at least partly to blame.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adam Katchmarchi, CEO of the National Drowning Prevention Alliance (NDPA), said there were signs recently that fatal drownings were increasing, but the national figures were stark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "fullwidth"
},
"numeric": [
"fullwidth"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Shocking, to say the least, that we have seen these dramatic increases,” Katchmarchi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/73/wr/mm7320e1.htm?s_cid=mm7320e1_w#T1_down\">CDC report\u003c/a>, there were around 4,000 accidental drowning deaths in the U.S. in 2019. That jumped to more than 4,500 fatalities annually in 2020, 2021 and 2022 — roughly a 10% increase.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>During the pandemic, public pools closed and lifeguards went home\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The reasons for the increase in drowning deaths aren’t known for certain, but public health officials say the lockdowns and closures related to the pandemic affected how people interacted with the water recreationally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CDC Division of Injury Prevention health scientist Tessa Clemens, the lead author of the report, said in a follow-up email to NPR that the causes behind the increase in fatalities were “likely complex.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“However, we know that many public pools closed during the COVID-19 pandemic, which limited the availability of swimming lessons,” Clemens said. “Once pools reopened, many facilities faced shortages of trained swimming instructors and lifeguards, which further reduced availability of swimming lessons and safe swimming areas.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bill Ramos, an associate professor at the Indiana University School of Public Health, agreed that changes to daily life over the past several years likely impacted swimming safety and said that swimming education had been growing before the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Basically, the faucet was turned off,” Ramos said. “Lifeguards were not being trained. Children were not being taught swim lessons.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drowning prevention experts recommend that everyone learn to swim, yet the CDC report found that an estimated 40 million American adults don’t know how. Nearly 55% have never taken a swimming lesson, which can be expensive and difficult for some people to access.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramos said he hopes the country’s first national \u003ca href=\"https://www.watersafetyusa.org/uploads/7/0/6/0/70608285/usnwsap_v7.pdf\">water safety plan (PDF)\u003c/a>, which was released last year, will help reduce the number of drownings nationwide.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Young kids and older adults face the most risk\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For children between the ages of 1 and 4, drowning is the leading cause of death, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/vitalsigns/drowning/index.html\">according to the CDC\u003c/a>. That age group saw a 28% increase in drowning fatalities between 2019 and 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adults 65 and older experienced the second-highest rate of drowning, the report found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were also racial and ethnic disparities in drowning deaths. American Indian and Alaska Native people had the highest rate of drowning fatalities among race and ethnic groups, followed by Black people, who saw a 28% spike in deaths between 2019 and 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hopefully, this is a wake-up call to the country on a number of fronts,” Katchmarchi said. “I think most people don’t recognize sometimes the complexity of the drowning problem in the United States, but also that it is 100% preventable and it doesn’t have to be this way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How to stay safe\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As the summer season approaches, drowning prevention advocates say there’s plenty you can do to reduce the risk of drowning for yourself and your loved ones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For backyard pools, Ramos said groups should designate one non-distracted person whose sole focus is keeping an eye on the swimmers. They can wear a tag around their neck, and if they have to get up, they can give that tag to another person to ensure that someone is always paying attention to the pool.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not sure why we haven’t done this, but in lifeguarding, we say the lifeguard’s job is patron surveillance. That’s their No. 1 job,” Ramos said. “We need to maybe be less afraid to say that to parents and caregivers as well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "aside",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"postid": "forum_2010101893972",
"hero": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/43/2023/08/GettyImages-1370872099-1-1020x516.jpg",
"label": ""
},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Katchmarchi says other critical \u003ca href=\"https://ndpa.org/layers/\">safety measures\u003c/a> include recommendations that everyone learns how to swim and that those taking care of others know how to give CPR with rescue breaths in case of an emergency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pools should be equipped with fences and alarms, and swimmers should use life jackets in certain situations, including open water, the NDPA suggests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A drowning can occur in less than a minute, and prevention advocates say it may not look like what people expect from TV or the movies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s certainly not the event that we describe usually where a person is screaming and yelling and waving. That person is still what we consider a distressed swimmer,” Ramos said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They haven’t really become an active drowning victim yet because once you reach that point, it’s a very silent act. And it’s not very long after that before they’re in real trouble.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
}
],
"link": "/news/11987607/after-years-in-decline-us-drowning-deaths-are-rising-again",
"authors": [
"byline_news_11987607"
],
"categories": [
"news_457",
"news_8"
],
"tags": [
"news_18543",
"news_18383"
],
"affiliates": [
"news_253"
],
"featImg": "news_11987609",
"label": "news_253"
},
"news_11987204": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "news_11987204",
"meta": {
"index": "posts_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "11987204",
"score": null,
"sort": [
1716332262000
]
},
"guestAuthors": [],
"slug": "sf-nurses-reach-tentative-contract-deal-with-city-averting-potential-strike",
"title": "SF Nurses Reach Tentative Contract Deal With City, Averting Potential Strike",
"publishDate": 1716332262,
"format": "standard",
"headTitle": "SF Nurses Reach Tentative Contract Deal With City, Averting Potential Strike | KQED",
"labelTerm": {
"site": "news"
},
"content": "\u003cp>Nurses at San Francisco public hospitals and clinics reached a tentative contract agreement with the city, likely averting a potential strike over staffing levels and working conditions, the health care workers’ union announced Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deal would add 47 full-time-equivalent positions to San Francisco General Hospital and other clinics, keeping wages ahead of inflation.[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"health-care-workers\"]The potential contract, agreed to on Monday night, is a “huge win” and likely to be approved by union membership, said Aaron Cramer, a registered nurse who works in the cardiac catheterization lab at San Francisco General Hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, the more than 2,000 nurses represented by SEIU Local 1021 at San Francisco General, Laguna Honda Hospital and Rehabilitation Center, and a number of community clinics voted 99.5% in favor of authorizing a strike if a deal wasn’t in place by the time the current contract expires June 30.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That vote “showed the city that we were united about what we wanted, which was safe staffing for patient care. And they heard us loud and clear,” Cramer told KQED. “They finally showed up to the bargaining table prepared to actually negotiate for what we thought was a fair deal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The additional staff for “critical service areas that chronically run understaffed” will improve conditions for patients and medical workers, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This entire contract was about patient care,” Cramer said, noting that understaffing affects the time it takes nurses to complete every aspect of a patient’s care. “Especially when they’re chronically sick, patients need things now, and we want to provide it for them now. But when we’re understaffed, it’s like trying to care for someone with an arm tied behind your back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Department of Public Health, which operates the city hospitals and clinics, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A union vote to approve the contract is expected in the next two weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
"blocks": [],
"excerpt": "Understaffing is among the top union concerns addressed in the potential new contract with the city.",
"status": "publish",
"parent": 0,
"modified": 1738186225,
"stats": {
"hasAudio": false,
"hasVideo": false,
"hasChartOrMap": false,
"iframeSrcs": [],
"hasGoogleForm": false,
"hasGallery": false,
"hasHearkenModule": false,
"hasPolis": false,
"paragraphCount": 10,
"wordCount": 350
},
"headData": {
"title": "SF Nurses Reach Tentative Contract Deal With City, Averting Potential Strike | KQED",
"description": "Understaffing is among the top union concerns addressed in the potential new contract with the city.",
"ogTitle": "",
"ogDescription": "",
"ogImgId": "",
"twTitle": "",
"twDescription": "",
"twImgId": "",
"schema": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "NewsArticle",
"headline": "SF Nurses Reach Tentative Contract Deal With City, Averting Potential Strike",
"datePublished": "2024-05-21T15:57:42-07:00",
"dateModified": "2025-01-29T13:30:25-08:00",
"image": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"isAccessibleForFree": "True",
"publisher": {
"@type": "NewsMediaOrganization",
"@id": "https://www.kqed.org/#organization",
"name": "KQED",
"logo": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"url": "https://www.kqed.org",
"sameAs": [
"https://www.facebook.com/KQED",
"https://twitter.com/KQED",
"https://www.instagram.com/kqed/",
"https://www.tiktok.com/@kqedofficial",
"https://www.linkedin.com/company/kqed",
"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeC0IOo7i1P_61zVUWbJ4nw"
]
}
}
},
"sticky": false,
"nprStoryId": "kqed-11987204",
"excludeFromSiteSearch": "Include",
"articleAge": "0",
"path": "/news/11987204/sf-nurses-reach-tentative-contract-deal-with-city-averting-potential-strike",
"audioTrackLength": null,
"parsedContent": [
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Nurses at San Francisco public hospitals and clinics reached a tentative contract agreement with the city, likely averting a potential strike over staffing levels and working conditions, the health care workers’ union announced Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deal would add 47 full-time-equivalent positions to San Francisco General Hospital and other clinics, keeping wages ahead of inflation.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "aside",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "related coverage ",
"tag": "health-care-workers"
},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The potential contract, agreed to on Monday night, is a “huge win” and likely to be approved by union membership, said Aaron Cramer, a registered nurse who works in the cardiac catheterization lab at San Francisco General Hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, the more than 2,000 nurses represented by SEIU Local 1021 at San Francisco General, Laguna Honda Hospital and Rehabilitation Center, and a number of community clinics voted 99.5% in favor of authorizing a strike if a deal wasn’t in place by the time the current contract expires June 30.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That vote “showed the city that we were united about what we wanted, which was safe staffing for patient care. And they heard us loud and clear,” Cramer told KQED. “They finally showed up to the bargaining table prepared to actually negotiate for what we thought was a fair deal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The additional staff for “critical service areas that chronically run understaffed” will improve conditions for patients and medical workers, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "fullwidth"
},
"numeric": [
"fullwidth"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This entire contract was about patient care,” Cramer said, noting that understaffing affects the time it takes nurses to complete every aspect of a patient’s care. “Especially when they’re chronically sick, patients need things now, and we want to provide it for them now. But when we’re understaffed, it’s like trying to care for someone with an arm tied behind your back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Department of Public Health, which operates the city hospitals and clinics, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A union vote to approve the contract is expected in the next two weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
}
],
"link": "/news/11987204/sf-nurses-reach-tentative-contract-deal-with-city-averting-potential-strike",
"authors": [
"11896"
],
"categories": [
"news_457",
"news_8"
],
"tags": [
"news_18538",
"news_18543",
"news_24939",
"news_21789",
"news_26203",
"news_20220"
],
"featImg": "news_11987207",
"label": "news"
},
"news_11986871": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "news_11986871",
"meta": {
"index": "posts_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "11986871",
"score": null,
"sort": [
1716123621000
]
},
"guestAuthors": [],
"slug": "california-promised-health-care-workers-a-higher-minimum-wage-but-will-newsom-delay-it",
"title": "California Promised Health Care Workers a Higher Minimum Wage — but Will Newsom Delay It?",
"publishDate": 1716123621,
"format": "standard",
"headTitle": "California Promised Health Care Workers a Higher Minimum Wage — but Will Newsom Delay It? | KQED",
"labelTerm": {
"term": 18481,
"site": "news"
},
"content": "\u003cp>Gov. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/tag/gavin-newsom/\">Gavin Newsom\u003c/a> is cutting it close. He signed a law last fall that phases in a $25 \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/2023/12/minimum-wage-2024/\">minimum wage\u003c/a> for California’s lowest-paid health care workers beginning June 1. Then, he said he wanted to delay it because of its potential to exacerbate the severe \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/tag/budget/\">state budget\u003c/a> shortfall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But two weeks before the deadline for employers to start paying more to their employees, many health workers are still waiting to hear whether they will in fact see a raise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some health workers remain hopeful. Others have already been notified by their employers of their upcoming raise or have already started to see increased pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Newsom presented his latest budget proposal last week, the governor said negotiations around potential changes to the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2023/10/california-minimum-wage-health-care-law/\">health worker minimum wage\u003c/a> law, \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB525\">Senate Bill 525\u003c/a>, are still taking place. He promised a deal between his administration, the Legislature and proponents of the law would be hashed out in the upcoming weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This budget will not be signed without that deal that we committed to being addressed,” Newsom said. He usually signs a budget for the next fiscal year in late June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile the union that advocated for the health care pay increase has launched an advertising campaign that aims to hold Newsom to the law he signed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One ad by Service Employees International Union-United Healthcare Workers West on the \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/seiu_uhw/status/1786116278509527235?s=43\">social media site X \u003c/a>shows a dialysis worker named Alice and it reads, “The dialysis care Alice provides is lifesaving. Yet, with caregivers at her facility starting out at only $18/hr, it’s no wonder there’s a short staffing crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A $25/hr minimum wage for healthcare workers will help ensure patients get the care they need.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nathan Selzer, communications director for SEIU-UHW, said his union posted the messages because, “Our workers were concerned and remain concerned. What we saw in conversations earlier this year was folks really focusing only on money and only on dollars and cents, and not on what those dollars and cents are used for.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SEIU-UHW is an affiliate of SEIU California, which sponsored the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We made a decision that we’ve got to make sure we’re reminding people why this was made into law to begin with,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Selzer said he is not directly involved in conversations with the governor’s office and legislators, but that confusion among many workers rings true. “We’ve heard June 1, we’ve heard July 1. It remains to be seen what actually happens here,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Deadline to postpone minimum wage hike\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>What exactly is holding up the negotiations is unclear. Lawmakers and Newsom would have to pass and sign legislation that would push back the start date within two weeks to delay it effectively.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom said he wanted to postpone the wage increase when he released his initial budget proposal in January. He asked the Legislature for an annual “trigger” that would tie the minimum wage increases to the state’s budget outlook. His administration projects the state is facing a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2024/05/california-budget-deficit-newsom-may-proposal/\">$27.6 billion deficit\u003c/a> in 2024–25.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state has estimated the minimum wage increase could cost the state around $4 billion a year. That’s because the state would have to pay for the wage increases for its own employees at state health facilities and because the state may be forced to increase what it reimburses facilities for services provided to patients on Medi-Cal, its insurance program for low-income people, as a way to partially cover the pay raises.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The UC Berkeley Labor Center estimates the cost to the state to be much lower. Total health spending in California would increase by about $2.7 billion because of the law, but the state would be responsible only for a fraction of that, according to the Labor Center’s analysis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Laurel Lucia, director of the Health Care Program at the Labor Center, said that there is no requirement in the law that directs the state to raise \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/tag/medi-cal/\">Medi-Cal payments\u003c/a> to hospitals and clinics as a way to make up for the costs of higher wages, but the law could play a role in Medi-Cal rate negotiations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When the rates were set for 2024, there was recognition in \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhcs.ca.gov/services/Documents/DirectedPymts/CA-CY-2024-Rate-Certification-Report.pdf\">the (rates) report (PDF)\u003c/a> that there might need to be changes to those rates due to” the minimum wage increase, Lucia said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>California hospitals, dialysis clinics raising pay\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Absent any confirmed changes to the law, some employers and associations representing health employers say they are moving forward with the raises as scheduled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As far as we know, the minimum wage for health care workers will be going up as of June 1. We have no information that would indicate otherwise,” Jan Emerson-Shea, a spokesperson for the California Hospitals Association, said in an email this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11986075,news_11984163,news_11984819\"]The California Kidney Care Alliance, a trade association representing dialysis providers and clinics, said members are following the wage requirements as laid out by the law. “In fact, many providers have already increased wages well ahead of the requirements of the bill,” Jaycob Bytel, a spokesperson for the alliance, said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://hcai.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/SB-525-Fact-Sheet-HCAI-Hospital-Lists-04_23_24.pdf\">Depending on where they work (PDF)\u003c/a>, employees are scheduled to receive from $18 to $23 an hour starting next month. That’s compared to the current statewide minimum wage of $16.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The wage hike will phase in over the years until workers reach $25 an hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some health systems have already notified employees of the upcoming pay boost, including the University of California Health system. In \u003ca href=\"https://ucnet.universityofcalifornia.edu/employee-news/uc-increases-minimum-wage-for-designated-health-care-employees/\">a post on its website\u003c/a>, UC Health said it would be moving forward with their scheduled wage hike of $23 an hour “meeting the most ambitious timeline” of June 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, some hospitals have already raised wages because of competition in the labor market. As an independent hospital that serves a high rate of lower-income Medi-Cal patients, the wage law requires Kaweah Health Medical Center in Visalia to raise wages starting at $18 an hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are already seeing competitive changes in the market that have forced us to implement pay increases now, so we have not waited for June 1st,” Gary Herbst, chief executive of Kaweah Health, said in an email. “We are exceeding the state required $18 to remain competitive, and to continue recruiting and retaining great employees.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Herbst said he rolled out increases beginning in February, and “will continue to evaluate it as time goes on.” He expects the law to cost his hospital about $30 million a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
"blocks": [],
"excerpt": "A higher minimum wage for health care workers that Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law is set to take effect in two weeks, but he is racing to delay it because of its potential impact on the state budget deficit.",
"status": "publish",
"parent": 0,
"modified": 1738186231,
"stats": {
"hasAudio": false,
"hasVideo": false,
"hasChartOrMap": false,
"iframeSrcs": [],
"hasGoogleForm": false,
"hasGallery": false,
"hasHearkenModule": false,
"hasPolis": false,
"paragraphCount": 29,
"wordCount": 1156
},
"headData": {
"title": "California Promised Health Care Workers a Higher Minimum Wage — but Will Newsom Delay It? | KQED",
"description": "A higher minimum wage for health care workers that Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law is set to take effect in two weeks, but he is racing to delay it because of its potential impact on the state budget deficit.",
"ogTitle": "",
"ogDescription": "",
"ogImgId": "",
"twTitle": "",
"twDescription": "",
"twImgId": "",
"schema": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "NewsArticle",
"headline": "California Promised Health Care Workers a Higher Minimum Wage — but Will Newsom Delay It?",
"datePublished": "2024-05-19T06:00:21-07:00",
"dateModified": "2025-01-29T13:30:31-08:00",
"image": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"isAccessibleForFree": "True",
"publisher": {
"@type": "NewsMediaOrganization",
"@id": "https://www.kqed.org/#organization",
"name": "KQED",
"logo": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"url": "https://www.kqed.org",
"sameAs": [
"https://www.facebook.com/KQED",
"https://twitter.com/KQED",
"https://www.instagram.com/kqed/",
"https://www.tiktok.com/@kqedofficial",
"https://www.linkedin.com/company/kqed",
"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeC0IOo7i1P_61zVUWbJ4nw"
]
}
}
},
"sticky": false,
"nprByline": "\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/author/anaibarra/\">Ana B. Ibarra\u003c/a>",
"nprStoryId": "kqed-11986871",
"excludeFromSiteSearch": "Include",
"showOnAuthorArchivePages": "No",
"articleAge": "0",
"path": "/news/11986871/california-promised-health-care-workers-a-higher-minimum-wage-but-will-newsom-delay-it",
"audioTrackLength": null,
"parsedContent": [
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Gov. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/tag/gavin-newsom/\">Gavin Newsom\u003c/a> is cutting it close. He signed a law last fall that phases in a $25 \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/2023/12/minimum-wage-2024/\">minimum wage\u003c/a> for California’s lowest-paid health care workers beginning June 1. Then, he said he wanted to delay it because of its potential to exacerbate the severe \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/tag/budget/\">state budget\u003c/a> shortfall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But two weeks before the deadline for employers to start paying more to their employees, many health workers are still waiting to hear whether they will in fact see a raise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some health workers remain hopeful. Others have already been notified by their employers of their upcoming raise or have already started to see increased pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Newsom presented his latest budget proposal last week, the governor said negotiations around potential changes to the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2023/10/california-minimum-wage-health-care-law/\">health worker minimum wage\u003c/a> law, \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB525\">Senate Bill 525\u003c/a>, are still taking place. He promised a deal between his administration, the Legislature and proponents of the law would be hashed out in the upcoming weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This budget will not be signed without that deal that we committed to being addressed,” Newsom said. He usually signs a budget for the next fiscal year in late June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile the union that advocated for the health care pay increase has launched an advertising campaign that aims to hold Newsom to the law he signed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One ad by Service Employees International Union-United Healthcare Workers West on the \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/seiu_uhw/status/1786116278509527235?s=43\">social media site X \u003c/a>shows a dialysis worker named Alice and it reads, “The dialysis care Alice provides is lifesaving. Yet, with caregivers at her facility starting out at only $18/hr, it’s no wonder there’s a short staffing crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "fullwidth"
},
"numeric": [
"fullwidth"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A $25/hr minimum wage for healthcare workers will help ensure patients get the care they need.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nathan Selzer, communications director for SEIU-UHW, said his union posted the messages because, “Our workers were concerned and remain concerned. What we saw in conversations earlier this year was folks really focusing only on money and only on dollars and cents, and not on what those dollars and cents are used for.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SEIU-UHW is an affiliate of SEIU California, which sponsored the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We made a decision that we’ve got to make sure we’re reminding people why this was made into law to begin with,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Selzer said he is not directly involved in conversations with the governor’s office and legislators, but that confusion among many workers rings true. “We’ve heard June 1, we’ve heard July 1. It remains to be seen what actually happens here,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Deadline to postpone minimum wage hike\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>What exactly is holding up the negotiations is unclear. Lawmakers and Newsom would have to pass and sign legislation that would push back the start date within two weeks to delay it effectively.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom said he wanted to postpone the wage increase when he released his initial budget proposal in January. He asked the Legislature for an annual “trigger” that would tie the minimum wage increases to the state’s budget outlook. His administration projects the state is facing a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2024/05/california-budget-deficit-newsom-may-proposal/\">$27.6 billion deficit\u003c/a> in 2024–25.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state has estimated the minimum wage increase could cost the state around $4 billion a year. That’s because the state would have to pay for the wage increases for its own employees at state health facilities and because the state may be forced to increase what it reimburses facilities for services provided to patients on Medi-Cal, its insurance program for low-income people, as a way to partially cover the pay raises.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The UC Berkeley Labor Center estimates the cost to the state to be much lower. Total health spending in California would increase by about $2.7 billion because of the law, but the state would be responsible only for a fraction of that, according to the Labor Center’s analysis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Laurel Lucia, director of the Health Care Program at the Labor Center, said that there is no requirement in the law that directs the state to raise \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/tag/medi-cal/\">Medi-Cal payments\u003c/a> to hospitals and clinics as a way to make up for the costs of higher wages, but the law could play a role in Medi-Cal rate negotiations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When the rates were set for 2024, there was recognition in \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhcs.ca.gov/services/Documents/DirectedPymts/CA-CY-2024-Rate-Certification-Report.pdf\">the (rates) report (PDF)\u003c/a> that there might need to be changes to those rates due to” the minimum wage increase, Lucia said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>California hospitals, dialysis clinics raising pay\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Absent any confirmed changes to the law, some employers and associations representing health employers say they are moving forward with the raises as scheduled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As far as we know, the minimum wage for health care workers will be going up as of June 1. We have no information that would indicate otherwise,” Jan Emerson-Shea, a spokesperson for the California Hospitals Association, said in an email this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "aside",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "Related Stories ",
"postid": "news_11986075,news_11984163,news_11984819"
},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The California Kidney Care Alliance, a trade association representing dialysis providers and clinics, said members are following the wage requirements as laid out by the law. “In fact, many providers have already increased wages well ahead of the requirements of the bill,” Jaycob Bytel, a spokesperson for the alliance, said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://hcai.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/SB-525-Fact-Sheet-HCAI-Hospital-Lists-04_23_24.pdf\">Depending on where they work (PDF)\u003c/a>, employees are scheduled to receive from $18 to $23 an hour starting next month. That’s compared to the current statewide minimum wage of $16.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The wage hike will phase in over the years until workers reach $25 an hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some health systems have already notified employees of the upcoming pay boost, including the University of California Health system. In \u003ca href=\"https://ucnet.universityofcalifornia.edu/employee-news/uc-increases-minimum-wage-for-designated-health-care-employees/\">a post on its website\u003c/a>, UC Health said it would be moving forward with their scheduled wage hike of $23 an hour “meeting the most ambitious timeline” of June 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, some hospitals have already raised wages because of competition in the labor market. As an independent hospital that serves a high rate of lower-income Medi-Cal patients, the wage law requires Kaweah Health Medical Center in Visalia to raise wages starting at $18 an hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are already seeing competitive changes in the market that have forced us to implement pay increases now, so we have not waited for June 1st,” Gary Herbst, chief executive of Kaweah Health, said in an email. “We are exceeding the state required $18 to remain competitive, and to continue recruiting and retaining great employees.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Herbst said he rolled out increases beginning in February, and “will continue to evaluate it as time goes on.” He expects the law to cost his hospital about $30 million a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "floatright"
},
"numeric": [
"floatright"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
}
],
"link": "/news/11986871/california-promised-health-care-workers-a-higher-minimum-wage-but-will-newsom-delay-it",
"authors": [
"byline_news_11986871"
],
"categories": [
"news_457",
"news_8"
],
"tags": [
"news_27626",
"news_16",
"news_18543",
"news_24939"
],
"affiliates": [
"news_18481"
],
"featImg": "news_11986873",
"label": "news_18481"
},
"news_11986724": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "news_11986724",
"meta": {
"index": "posts_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "11986724",
"score": null,
"sort": [
1716037239000
]
},
"parent": 0,
"labelTerm": {
"site": "news",
"term": 28184
},
"blocks": [],
"publishDate": 1716037239,
"format": "standard",
"title": "After Months-Long Coma, This Latino Immigrant Worker Is Still Fighting Mysterious Long COVID Symptoms",
"headTitle": "After Months-Long Coma, This Latino Immigrant Worker Is Still Fighting Mysterious Long COVID Symptoms | KQED",
"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was produced by \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/en/\">\u003cem>El Tecolote\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>, a bilingual publication that documents and amplifies the voices of San Francisco’s Latinx communities.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Osbaldo Varilla-Aguilar rarely worried about his health. As a construction worker, he had enough gigs to earn more than $500 a week under the table, allowing him to rent a studio for $600 a month with two other Latinx construction workers in San Francisco’s Mission District. Despite working nearly full-time, he was barely able to make ends meet. So, when the pandemic hit, Varilla-Aguilar continued working. He got critically sick in December 2020. To this day, Varilla-Aguilar still wonders whether he got COVID-19 on the job or at the grocery store.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Either way, it landed him in a coma — for more than three months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was such a difficult time,” said his sister, Araceli Aguilar-Perez. “To see him like that, it affected me a lot,” Aguilar-Perez said the doctors recommended disconnecting Varilla-Aguilar from the ventilator after two months. The family refused. Hoping for a miracle, Aguilar-Perez talked to her unconscious brother through a hospital monitor via Zoom calls every week. Then, in March 2021, Varilla-Aguilar woke up. “When I opened my eyes, it felt like a few days [had passed],” Varilla-Aguilar said. “But they told me it had been three months … It was a shock.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11986483\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11986483\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/FEBMAY2024-LONGCOVID-ET-PU-16-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A middle-aged Latino man puts on an oxygen mask at home.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/FEBMAY2024-LONGCOVID-ET-PU-16-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/FEBMAY2024-LONGCOVID-ET-PU-16-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/FEBMAY2024-LONGCOVID-ET-PU-16-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/FEBMAY2024-LONGCOVID-ET-PU-16-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/FEBMAY2024-LONGCOVID-ET-PU-16-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/FEBMAY2024-LONGCOVID-ET-PU-16-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Osbaldo Varilla-Aguilar, 46, puts on the oxygen ventilator he uses every night in San Francisco on Feb. 26, 2024. \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta for El Tecolote/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Today, more than three years after he was discharged from the hospital, Varilla-Aguilar still depends on the oxygen respirator next to his bed. He has since moved out from his shared Mission District studio and lives in Sunnydale in a shared home with other Latinx workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He and his housemates are among the community that COVID-19 hit the hardest in San Francisco: immigrants, especially those working unprotected essential jobs. As the devastating impact of \u003ca href=\"https://ldi.upenn.edu/our-work/research-updates/a-health-equity-voice-from-san-franciscos-latino-covid-pandemic/\">COVID-19 in Latinx communities\u003c/a> in the Mission District and Bayview is increasingly documented, the lingering, and sometimes extreme, symptoms of infection are much less understood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weeks after being discharged from the hospital, Varilla-Aguilar noticed his vision was going blurry while waiting at a bus stop. Within four hours, his left eye went permanently blind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11986484\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11986484\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/FEBMAY2024-LONGCOVID-ET-PU-33-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A middle-aged Latinx couple, a woman seated and a man standing with his right arm around her as they both look at the camera in their home kitchen with a refrigerator behind them.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1322\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/FEBMAY2024-LONGCOVID-ET-PU-33-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/FEBMAY2024-LONGCOVID-ET-PU-33-KQED-800x529.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/FEBMAY2024-LONGCOVID-ET-PU-33-KQED-1020x674.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/FEBMAY2024-LONGCOVID-ET-PU-33-KQED-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/FEBMAY2024-LONGCOVID-ET-PU-33-KQED-1536x1015.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/FEBMAY2024-LONGCOVID-ET-PU-33-KQED-1920x1269.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Siblings Araceli Aguilar-Perez (left) and Osbaldo Varilla-Aguilar inside Aguilar-Perez’s home in San Francisco on April 25, 2024. \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta for El Tecolote/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“[COVID] can cause many things, one of them being thrombosis,” said Dr. Hector Bonilla, a clinical infectious disease expert and associate professor at Stanford University. According to\u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10123679/\"> medical research\u003c/a>, critically ill COVID-19 patients like Varilla-Aguilar are especially at risk for severe health outcomes like thrombosis or blood clots. “It can happen any place [in the body],” Bonilla said. “Maybe this can explain what happened in the eye.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Combined with his deteriorated eyesight, Varilla-Aguilar also endures fatigue, brain fog and depression, which are among the more common symptoms cited by people who experience long COVID. He said he also never fully recovered the strength he lost during his monthslong coma despite a year in physical therapy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t have the strength that I used to, and I run out of breath when I try,” Varilla-Aguilar said. “So it’s hard finding steady work.” Despite his physical weaknesses, he continues to take on physically demanding jobs like landscaping and, on occasion, roofing gigs. “I have no choice. I need to pay the rent. If I don’t do it, who else is going to help me?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the 46-year-old, doctors have not been able to determine why COVID-19 took an extreme toll on his health. Instead, doctors have prescribed him several prescription pills to help reduce some of his ongoing symptoms. Still, he believes this hasn’t been enough and that the cost of medication is expensive. His experience is one faced by millions of long COVID patients across the country as researchers continue to look for the underlying causes of the mysterious symptoms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11986481\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11986481\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/FEBMAY2024-LONGCOVID-ET-PU-8-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A middle-aged Latino man gestures during a presentation as he talks into a microphone.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1330\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/FEBMAY2024-LONGCOVID-ET-PU-8-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/FEBMAY2024-LONGCOVID-ET-PU-8-KQED-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/FEBMAY2024-LONGCOVID-ET-PU-8-KQED-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/FEBMAY2024-LONGCOVID-ET-PU-8-KQED-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/FEBMAY2024-LONGCOVID-ET-PU-8-KQED-1536x1021.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/FEBMAY2024-LONGCOVID-ET-PU-8-KQED-1920x1277.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Osbaldo Varilla-Aguilar, 46, shares his experience with mysterious symptoms during a ‘Somos Remedios’ event inside the Latino Task Force building in the Mission District in San Francisco on Jan. 13, 2024. \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta for El Tecolote/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11986486\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11986486\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/FEBMAY2024-LONGCOVID-ET-PU-DYPTICH-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2500\" height=\"821\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/FEBMAY2024-LONGCOVID-ET-PU-DYPTICH-KQED.jpg 2500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/FEBMAY2024-LONGCOVID-ET-PU-DYPTICH-KQED-800x263.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/FEBMAY2024-LONGCOVID-ET-PU-DYPTICH-KQED-1020x335.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/FEBMAY2024-LONGCOVID-ET-PU-DYPTICH-KQED-160x53.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/FEBMAY2024-LONGCOVID-ET-PU-DYPTICH-KQED-1536x504.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/FEBMAY2024-LONGCOVID-ET-PU-DYPTICH-KQED-2048x673.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/FEBMAY2024-LONGCOVID-ET-PU-DYPTICH-KQED-1920x631.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: (From left) Rosario Ortegón, Martin Rodríguez, and Osbaldo Varilla-Aguilar bag fresh produce during a ‘Somos Remedios’ event at the Latino Task Force building in the Mission District in San Francisco on Jan. 13, 2024. Right: Herbs and remedies on display at a ‘Somos Remedios’ event. \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta for El Tecolote/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Amid medical uncertainty, Varilla-Aguilar, like other sufferers of long COVID, has turned elsewhere for solutions. Previously skeptical of alternative medicine, Varilla-Aguilar agreed to his sister’s “baño de pies” after months of coping with numbness in his feet. The foot bath was infused with herbs like Santa Maria, rue, rose buds and eucalyptus, which his sister blended into a bucket of hot water. The effort was meant to reduce stress and inflammation. After a few treatments, he said he was shocked to have gained back sensations in his feet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, Varilla-Aguilar has used and advocated for natural remedies rooted in Indigenous practice, including the consumption of teas, herbs, and whole foods. He is also a member of “Somos Remedios,” a Mission-based grassroots research group that documents Latinx solutions to treating long COVID.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though Varilla-Aguilar now prioritizes his health, he admits that he will never be the same again. “Every day, there is an effort to live, to work, and to have enough money to eat,” Varilla-Aguilar said. “I found [strength] within myself, [when] there was nowhere else to find it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11986485\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11986485\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/FEBMAY2024-LONGCOVID-ET-PU-34-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A middle-aged Latino man outside of his house, photographed from inside the house, with a car parked on the street outside his house.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1322\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/FEBMAY2024-LONGCOVID-ET-PU-34-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/FEBMAY2024-LONGCOVID-ET-PU-34-KQED-800x529.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/FEBMAY2024-LONGCOVID-ET-PU-34-KQED-1020x674.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/FEBMAY2024-LONGCOVID-ET-PU-34-KQED-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/FEBMAY2024-LONGCOVID-ET-PU-34-KQED-1536x1015.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/FEBMAY2024-LONGCOVID-ET-PU-34-KQED-1920x1269.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Osbaldo Varilla-Aguilar, 46, steps outside of his sister’s home in San Francisco on April 25, 2024. \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta for El Tecolote/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/en/long-covid-latino-immigrant-worker/\">\u003cem>El Tecolote’s original version of the story can be found here.\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
"stats": {
"hasVideo": false,
"hasChartOrMap": false,
"hasAudio": false,
"hasPolis": false,
"wordCount": 1058,
"hasGoogleForm": false,
"hasGallery": false,
"hasHearkenModule": false,
"iframeSrcs": [],
"paragraphCount": 17
},
"modified": 1716012580,
"excerpt": "Construction worker Osbaldo Varilla-Aguilar is still fighting mysterious symptoms after emerging from a 3-month coma and going blind in his left eye. His experience is just one example of the devastating impact that COVID continues to have on Latinx communities in San Francisco.",
"headData": {
"twImgId": "",
"twTitle": "",
"ogTitle": "",
"ogImgId": "",
"twDescription": "",
"description": "Construction worker Osbaldo Varilla-Aguilar is still fighting mysterious symptoms after emerging from a 3-month coma and going blind in his left eye. His experience is just one example of the devastating impact that COVID continues to have on Latinx communities in San Francisco.",
"title": "After Months-Long Coma, This Latino Immigrant Worker Is Still Fighting Mysterious Long COVID Symptoms | KQED",
"ogDescription": "",
"schema": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "NewsArticle",
"headline": "After Months-Long Coma, This Latino Immigrant Worker Is Still Fighting Mysterious Long COVID Symptoms",
"datePublished": "2024-05-18T06:00:39-07:00",
"dateModified": "2024-05-17T23:09:40-07:00",
"image": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"isAccessibleForFree": "True",
"publisher": {
"@type": "NewsMediaOrganization",
"@id": "https://www.kqed.org/#organization",
"name": "KQED",
"logo": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"url": "https://www.kqed.org",
"sameAs": [
"https://www.facebook.com/KQED",
"https://twitter.com/KQED",
"https://www.instagram.com/kqed/",
"https://www.tiktok.com/@kqedofficial",
"https://www.linkedin.com/company/kqed",
"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeC0IOo7i1P_61zVUWbJ4nw"
]
}
}
},
"guestAuthors": [],
"slug": "after-months-long-coma-this-latino-immigrant-worker-is-still-fighting-mysterious-symptoms",
"status": "publish",
"nprByline": "\u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/en/author/pablo-unzueta/\">Pablo Unzueta\u003c/a>",
"excludeFromSiteSearch": "Include",
"sticky": false,
"showOnAuthorArchivePages": "No",
"articleAge": "0",
"path": "/news/11986724/after-months-long-coma-this-latino-immigrant-worker-is-still-fighting-mysterious-symptoms",
"audioTrackLength": null,
"parsedContent": [
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was produced by \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/en/\">\u003cem>El Tecolote\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>, a bilingual publication that documents and amplifies the voices of San Francisco’s Latinx communities.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Osbaldo Varilla-Aguilar rarely worried about his health. As a construction worker, he had enough gigs to earn more than $500 a week under the table, allowing him to rent a studio for $600 a month with two other Latinx construction workers in San Francisco’s Mission District. Despite working nearly full-time, he was barely able to make ends meet. So, when the pandemic hit, Varilla-Aguilar continued working. He got critically sick in December 2020. To this day, Varilla-Aguilar still wonders whether he got COVID-19 on the job or at the grocery store.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Either way, it landed him in a coma — for more than three months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was such a difficult time,” said his sister, Araceli Aguilar-Perez. “To see him like that, it affected me a lot,” Aguilar-Perez said the doctors recommended disconnecting Varilla-Aguilar from the ventilator after two months. The family refused. Hoping for a miracle, Aguilar-Perez talked to her unconscious brother through a hospital monitor via Zoom calls every week. Then, in March 2021, Varilla-Aguilar woke up. “When I opened my eyes, it felt like a few days [had passed],” Varilla-Aguilar said. “But they told me it had been three months … It was a shock.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11986483\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11986483\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/FEBMAY2024-LONGCOVID-ET-PU-16-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A middle-aged Latino man puts on an oxygen mask at home.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/FEBMAY2024-LONGCOVID-ET-PU-16-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/FEBMAY2024-LONGCOVID-ET-PU-16-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/FEBMAY2024-LONGCOVID-ET-PU-16-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/FEBMAY2024-LONGCOVID-ET-PU-16-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/FEBMAY2024-LONGCOVID-ET-PU-16-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/FEBMAY2024-LONGCOVID-ET-PU-16-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Osbaldo Varilla-Aguilar, 46, puts on the oxygen ventilator he uses every night in San Francisco on Feb. 26, 2024. \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta for El Tecolote/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Today, more than three years after he was discharged from the hospital, Varilla-Aguilar still depends on the oxygen respirator next to his bed. He has since moved out from his shared Mission District studio and lives in Sunnydale in a shared home with other Latinx workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He and his housemates are among the community that COVID-19 hit the hardest in San Francisco: immigrants, especially those working unprotected essential jobs. As the devastating impact of \u003ca href=\"https://ldi.upenn.edu/our-work/research-updates/a-health-equity-voice-from-san-franciscos-latino-covid-pandemic/\">COVID-19 in Latinx communities\u003c/a> in the Mission District and Bayview is increasingly documented, the lingering, and sometimes extreme, symptoms of infection are much less understood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weeks after being discharged from the hospital, Varilla-Aguilar noticed his vision was going blurry while waiting at a bus stop. Within four hours, his left eye went permanently blind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11986484\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11986484\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/FEBMAY2024-LONGCOVID-ET-PU-33-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A middle-aged Latinx couple, a woman seated and a man standing with his right arm around her as they both look at the camera in their home kitchen with a refrigerator behind them.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1322\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/FEBMAY2024-LONGCOVID-ET-PU-33-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/FEBMAY2024-LONGCOVID-ET-PU-33-KQED-800x529.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/FEBMAY2024-LONGCOVID-ET-PU-33-KQED-1020x674.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/FEBMAY2024-LONGCOVID-ET-PU-33-KQED-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/FEBMAY2024-LONGCOVID-ET-PU-33-KQED-1536x1015.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/FEBMAY2024-LONGCOVID-ET-PU-33-KQED-1920x1269.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Siblings Araceli Aguilar-Perez (left) and Osbaldo Varilla-Aguilar inside Aguilar-Perez’s home in San Francisco on April 25, 2024. \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta for El Tecolote/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“[COVID] can cause many things, one of them being thrombosis,” said Dr. Hector Bonilla, a clinical infectious disease expert and associate professor at Stanford University. According to\u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10123679/\"> medical research\u003c/a>, critically ill COVID-19 patients like Varilla-Aguilar are especially at risk for severe health outcomes like thrombosis or blood clots. “It can happen any place [in the body],” Bonilla said. “Maybe this can explain what happened in the eye.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Combined with his deteriorated eyesight, Varilla-Aguilar also endures fatigue, brain fog and depression, which are among the more common symptoms cited by people who experience long COVID. He said he also never fully recovered the strength he lost during his monthslong coma despite a year in physical therapy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "fullwidth"
},
"numeric": [
"fullwidth"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t have the strength that I used to, and I run out of breath when I try,” Varilla-Aguilar said. “So it’s hard finding steady work.” Despite his physical weaknesses, he continues to take on physically demanding jobs like landscaping and, on occasion, roofing gigs. “I have no choice. I need to pay the rent. If I don’t do it, who else is going to help me?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the 46-year-old, doctors have not been able to determine why COVID-19 took an extreme toll on his health. Instead, doctors have prescribed him several prescription pills to help reduce some of his ongoing symptoms. Still, he believes this hasn’t been enough and that the cost of medication is expensive. His experience is one faced by millions of long COVID patients across the country as researchers continue to look for the underlying causes of the mysterious symptoms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11986481\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11986481\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/FEBMAY2024-LONGCOVID-ET-PU-8-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A middle-aged Latino man gestures during a presentation as he talks into a microphone.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1330\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/FEBMAY2024-LONGCOVID-ET-PU-8-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/FEBMAY2024-LONGCOVID-ET-PU-8-KQED-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/FEBMAY2024-LONGCOVID-ET-PU-8-KQED-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/FEBMAY2024-LONGCOVID-ET-PU-8-KQED-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/FEBMAY2024-LONGCOVID-ET-PU-8-KQED-1536x1021.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/FEBMAY2024-LONGCOVID-ET-PU-8-KQED-1920x1277.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Osbaldo Varilla-Aguilar, 46, shares his experience with mysterious symptoms during a ‘Somos Remedios’ event inside the Latino Task Force building in the Mission District in San Francisco on Jan. 13, 2024. \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta for El Tecolote/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11986486\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11986486\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/FEBMAY2024-LONGCOVID-ET-PU-DYPTICH-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2500\" height=\"821\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/FEBMAY2024-LONGCOVID-ET-PU-DYPTICH-KQED.jpg 2500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/FEBMAY2024-LONGCOVID-ET-PU-DYPTICH-KQED-800x263.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/FEBMAY2024-LONGCOVID-ET-PU-DYPTICH-KQED-1020x335.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/FEBMAY2024-LONGCOVID-ET-PU-DYPTICH-KQED-160x53.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/FEBMAY2024-LONGCOVID-ET-PU-DYPTICH-KQED-1536x504.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/FEBMAY2024-LONGCOVID-ET-PU-DYPTICH-KQED-2048x673.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/FEBMAY2024-LONGCOVID-ET-PU-DYPTICH-KQED-1920x631.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: (From left) Rosario Ortegón, Martin Rodríguez, and Osbaldo Varilla-Aguilar bag fresh produce during a ‘Somos Remedios’ event at the Latino Task Force building in the Mission District in San Francisco on Jan. 13, 2024. Right: Herbs and remedies on display at a ‘Somos Remedios’ event. \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta for El Tecolote/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Amid medical uncertainty, Varilla-Aguilar, like other sufferers of long COVID, has turned elsewhere for solutions. Previously skeptical of alternative medicine, Varilla-Aguilar agreed to his sister’s “baño de pies” after months of coping with numbness in his feet. The foot bath was infused with herbs like Santa Maria, rue, rose buds and eucalyptus, which his sister blended into a bucket of hot water. The effort was meant to reduce stress and inflammation. After a few treatments, he said he was shocked to have gained back sensations in his feet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, Varilla-Aguilar has used and advocated for natural remedies rooted in Indigenous practice, including the consumption of teas, herbs, and whole foods. He is also a member of “Somos Remedios,” a Mission-based grassroots research group that documents Latinx solutions to treating long COVID.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though Varilla-Aguilar now prioritizes his health, he admits that he will never be the same again. “Every day, there is an effort to live, to work, and to have enough money to eat,” Varilla-Aguilar said. “I found [strength] within myself, [when] there was nowhere else to find it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11986485\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11986485\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/FEBMAY2024-LONGCOVID-ET-PU-34-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A middle-aged Latino man outside of his house, photographed from inside the house, with a car parked on the street outside his house.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1322\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/FEBMAY2024-LONGCOVID-ET-PU-34-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/FEBMAY2024-LONGCOVID-ET-PU-34-KQED-800x529.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/FEBMAY2024-LONGCOVID-ET-PU-34-KQED-1020x674.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/FEBMAY2024-LONGCOVID-ET-PU-34-KQED-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/FEBMAY2024-LONGCOVID-ET-PU-34-KQED-1536x1015.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/FEBMAY2024-LONGCOVID-ET-PU-34-KQED-1920x1269.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Osbaldo Varilla-Aguilar, 46, steps outside of his sister’s home in San Francisco on April 25, 2024. \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta for El Tecolote/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/en/long-covid-latino-immigrant-worker/\">\u003cem>El Tecolote’s original version of the story can be found here.\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
}
],
"link": "/news/11986724/after-months-long-coma-this-latino-immigrant-worker-is-still-fighting-mysterious-symptoms",
"authors": [
"byline_news_11986724"
],
"categories": [
"news_457",
"news_1169",
"news_6188",
"news_8",
"news_356"
],
"tags": [
"news_27989",
"news_18543",
"news_20202",
"news_30415",
"news_2672"
],
"affiliates": [
"news_28184"
],
"featImg": "news_11986482",
"label": "news_28184"
},
"news_11986508": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "news_11986508",
"meta": {
"index": "posts_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "11986508",
"score": null,
"sort": [
1715888053000
]
},
"guestAuthors": [],
"slug": "few-pharmacies-carry-this-key-opioid-addiction-treatment-san-francisco-wants-to-change-that",
"title": "Few Pharmacies Carry This Key Opioid-Addiction Treatment. San Francisco Wants To Change That",
"publishDate": 1715888053,
"format": "standard",
"headTitle": "Few Pharmacies Carry This Key Opioid-Addiction Treatment. San Francisco Wants To Change That | KQED",
"labelTerm": {
"site": "news"
},
"content": "\u003cp>Less than half of all San Francisco pharmacies carry one of the most powerful medications used to treat opioid addiction, according to San Francisco’s Department of Public Health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lack of availability of buprenorphine, a medication that can curb cravings and withdrawal symptoms associated with opioid addiction, comes as San Francisco recently experienced its \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11972898/2023-was-san-franciscos-deadliest-year-for-drug-overdoses-new-data-confirms#:~:text=2023%20Was%20San%20Francisco's%20Deadliest,KQED\">worst year for overdoses on record in 2023\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And despite efforts to make medication-assisted treatments like buprenorphine more available, access is still so scarce that some people seeking these medications \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11945418/san-francisco-has-doubled-participants-of-this-opioid-treatment-heres-why\">have had to turn to street-level dealers for it\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is critical that people in recovery have easy access to effective and life-saving medications such as buprenorphine and methadone if they are going to be successful entering and staying in treatment,” says Dr. Grant Colfax, Director of the San Francisco Department of Public Health, in a press statement. “With treatment and support, recovery from opioid use disorder is possible for every individual.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco is not an outlier when it comes to the availability of buprenorphine or other medications that help reduce opioid cravings, like methadone. Just 47% of retail pharmacies across California carried buprenorphine, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10220511/\">2023 study\u003c/a> published in JAMA Network Open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, where more than 3,000 people have died of overdose since 2020, only 44% of pharmacies carried buprenorphine and were able to fill a two-week prescription within the same day, according to a DPH survey of 84 responding pharmacies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Food and Drug Administration has \u003ca href=\"https://www.fda.gov/drugs/information-drug-class/information-about-medication-assisted-treatment-mat\">approved\u003c/a> three medications to treat opioid use disorder: buprenorphine, methadone and naltrexone. All three have been found to reduce opioid cravings and withdrawal and are widely considered to be powerful tools for recovery when combined with counseling and other social support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11986534\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11986534\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/021_KQED_OBICBuprenorphineClinic_03292023_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/021_KQED_OBICBuprenorphineClinic_03292023_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/021_KQED_OBICBuprenorphineClinic_03292023_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/021_KQED_OBICBuprenorphineClinic_03292023_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/021_KQED_OBICBuprenorphineClinic_03292023_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/021_KQED_OBICBuprenorphineClinic_03292023_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Buprenorphine and Naloxone tablets sit on a counter at the Community Behavior Health Services pharmacy in San Francisco on March 29, 2023, while signs in the background say, ‘You are Loved’ and ‘Recovery, Wellness, Family.’ \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>However, experts say that significant barriers to taking the medication exist. For example, people who take methadone, which has been used to treat opioid addiction since the 1970s, historically have had to meet strict prescriber regulations compared to most medications. This includes having to visit clinics daily in person to access their prescriptions under supervision and take frequent drug tests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those rules are slowly starting to shift.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, the federal government agreed to expand access to methadone by removing a requirement for practitioners to complete additional training and obtain a special waiver before prescribing the medication.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The regulations change also allows for take-home medications rather than showing up daily when appropriate, as well as the option to prescribe larger doses as the potency of opioids in the illicit drug market has changed. For instance, fentanyl, which was involved in the majority of overdose deaths in San Francisco in 2023, is 50 times stronger than heroin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the state level, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1992298/a-bay-area-lawmaker-pushes-to-expand-access-to-methadone\">Assemblymember Matt Haney\u003c/a>, who represents San Francisco, has proposed a bill that aims to align California law with federal regulations to reduce barriers to treatment for opioid use disorder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite those efforts and having more people available to prescribe buprenorphine, utilization of the medication has not dramatically changed, according to one \u003ca href=\"https://www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1056/NEJMc2312906\">2024 study\u003c/a>. That’s led lawmakers and health experts to seek other ways to expand access.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, a handful of city leaders announced they want to \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24663736-file_7040\">require pharmacies to stock the medication\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If San Francisco will be successful in incentivizing long-term recovery from addiction, we need to make sure that buprenorphine is available at pharmacies,” Supervisor Matt Dorsey told KQED. “I don’t know what the excuse is for not carrying it, but we need to end that excuse and make sure it’s a requirement to carry.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisors Rafael Mandelman, Hillary Ronen and Dean Preston are co-sponsoring the legislation, which SFDPH believes is the first of its kind in the country. The new law would update the city’s health code so that any pharmacy that carries controlled substances must stock buprenorphine for at least two new prescriptions.[aside postID=news_11986128 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240514-OVERDOSE-DEATH-RALLY-SJ-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg']“When my office worked with DPH to create the city’s first \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/reports/october-2022/overdose-prevention-plan-2022\">Overdose Prevention Plan\u003c/a>, expanding access to buprenorphine and other medications was identified as a key area of need,” Supervisor Dean Preston told KQED, referring to the city’s 2022 blueprint to combat overdoses. “I am proud to co-sponsor this sensible and important legislation to ensure that buprenorphine is available in every neighborhood for anyone who needs it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, Dorsey proposed legislation that would \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/2023/06/27/sf-pharmacies-carry-drug-overdose-reversal-meds/\">require all pharmacies to carry Naloxone\u003c/a>, a nasal spray that can reverse an opioid overdose. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-approves-first-over-counter-naloxone-nasal-spray\">FDA approved over-the-counter Naloxone\u003c/a> in 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Experts say making buprenorphine available as soon as someone decides they want to change their drug use patterns is essential to helping people move into and through recovery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People who used medication-assisted treatments such as methadone or buprenorphine were 80% less likely to die of an opioid overdose compared to people in treatment without the medications, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/add.14991\">2020 study\u003c/a> in the medical journal \u003cem>Addiction\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco is already building out new pathways to access buprenorphine, such as home delivery programs for people living in the city’s permanent supportive housing and expanding hours for the public behavioral health pharmacy. But leaders on both sides of the political aisle say there’s still plenty of work to do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In today’s fentanyl era, anyone who makes the brave choice to seek recovery from opioid use disorder is really in a race against the clock on overpowering cravings and debilitating withdrawal symptoms,” Dorsey told KQED. “If that medication is not readily available to offer relief, we know life-threatening drugs are available on the streets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
"blocks": [],
"excerpt": "San Francisco is not an outlier when it comes to the availability of buprenorphine or other medications that help reduce opioid cravings.",
"status": "publish",
"parent": 0,
"modified": 1738095884,
"stats": {
"hasAudio": false,
"hasVideo": false,
"hasChartOrMap": false,
"iframeSrcs": [],
"hasGoogleForm": false,
"hasGallery": false,
"hasHearkenModule": false,
"hasPolis": false,
"paragraphCount": 23,
"wordCount": 1018
},
"headData": {
"title": "Few Pharmacies Carry This Key Opioid-Addiction Treatment. San Francisco Wants To Change That | KQED",
"description": "San Francisco is not an outlier when it comes to the availability of buprenorphine or other medications that help reduce opioid cravings.",
"ogTitle": "",
"ogDescription": "",
"ogImgId": "",
"twTitle": "",
"twDescription": "",
"twImgId": "",
"schema": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "NewsArticle",
"headline": "Few Pharmacies Carry This Key Opioid-Addiction Treatment. San Francisco Wants To Change That",
"datePublished": "2024-05-16T12:34:13-07:00",
"dateModified": "2025-01-28T12:24:44-08:00",
"image": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"isAccessibleForFree": "True",
"publisher": {
"@type": "NewsMediaOrganization",
"@id": "https://www.kqed.org/#organization",
"name": "KQED",
"logo": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"url": "https://www.kqed.org",
"sameAs": [
"https://www.facebook.com/KQED",
"https://twitter.com/KQED",
"https://www.instagram.com/kqed/",
"https://www.tiktok.com/@kqedofficial",
"https://www.linkedin.com/company/kqed",
"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeC0IOo7i1P_61zVUWbJ4nw"
]
}
}
},
"sticky": false,
"nprStoryId": "kqed-11986508",
"excludeFromSiteSearch": "Include",
"articleAge": "0",
"path": "/news/11986508/few-pharmacies-carry-this-key-opioid-addiction-treatment-san-francisco-wants-to-change-that",
"audioTrackLength": null,
"parsedContent": [
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Less than half of all San Francisco pharmacies carry one of the most powerful medications used to treat opioid addiction, according to San Francisco’s Department of Public Health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lack of availability of buprenorphine, a medication that can curb cravings and withdrawal symptoms associated with opioid addiction, comes as San Francisco recently experienced its \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11972898/2023-was-san-franciscos-deadliest-year-for-drug-overdoses-new-data-confirms#:~:text=2023%20Was%20San%20Francisco's%20Deadliest,KQED\">worst year for overdoses on record in 2023\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And despite efforts to make medication-assisted treatments like buprenorphine more available, access is still so scarce that some people seeking these medications \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11945418/san-francisco-has-doubled-participants-of-this-opioid-treatment-heres-why\">have had to turn to street-level dealers for it\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is critical that people in recovery have easy access to effective and life-saving medications such as buprenorphine and methadone if they are going to be successful entering and staying in treatment,” says Dr. Grant Colfax, Director of the San Francisco Department of Public Health, in a press statement. “With treatment and support, recovery from opioid use disorder is possible for every individual.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "fullwidth"
},
"numeric": [
"fullwidth"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco is not an outlier when it comes to the availability of buprenorphine or other medications that help reduce opioid cravings, like methadone. Just 47% of retail pharmacies across California carried buprenorphine, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10220511/\">2023 study\u003c/a> published in JAMA Network Open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, where more than 3,000 people have died of overdose since 2020, only 44% of pharmacies carried buprenorphine and were able to fill a two-week prescription within the same day, according to a DPH survey of 84 responding pharmacies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Food and Drug Administration has \u003ca href=\"https://www.fda.gov/drugs/information-drug-class/information-about-medication-assisted-treatment-mat\">approved\u003c/a> three medications to treat opioid use disorder: buprenorphine, methadone and naltrexone. All three have been found to reduce opioid cravings and withdrawal and are widely considered to be powerful tools for recovery when combined with counseling and other social support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11986534\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11986534\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/021_KQED_OBICBuprenorphineClinic_03292023_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/021_KQED_OBICBuprenorphineClinic_03292023_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/021_KQED_OBICBuprenorphineClinic_03292023_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/021_KQED_OBICBuprenorphineClinic_03292023_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/021_KQED_OBICBuprenorphineClinic_03292023_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/021_KQED_OBICBuprenorphineClinic_03292023_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Buprenorphine and Naloxone tablets sit on a counter at the Community Behavior Health Services pharmacy in San Francisco on March 29, 2023, while signs in the background say, ‘You are Loved’ and ‘Recovery, Wellness, Family.’ \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>However, experts say that significant barriers to taking the medication exist. For example, people who take methadone, which has been used to treat opioid addiction since the 1970s, historically have had to meet strict prescriber regulations compared to most medications. This includes having to visit clinics daily in person to access their prescriptions under supervision and take frequent drug tests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those rules are slowly starting to shift.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, the federal government agreed to expand access to methadone by removing a requirement for practitioners to complete additional training and obtain a special waiver before prescribing the medication.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The regulations change also allows for take-home medications rather than showing up daily when appropriate, as well as the option to prescribe larger doses as the potency of opioids in the illicit drug market has changed. For instance, fentanyl, which was involved in the majority of overdose deaths in San Francisco in 2023, is 50 times stronger than heroin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the state level, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1992298/a-bay-area-lawmaker-pushes-to-expand-access-to-methadone\">Assemblymember Matt Haney\u003c/a>, who represents San Francisco, has proposed a bill that aims to align California law with federal regulations to reduce barriers to treatment for opioid use disorder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite those efforts and having more people available to prescribe buprenorphine, utilization of the medication has not dramatically changed, according to one \u003ca href=\"https://www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1056/NEJMc2312906\">2024 study\u003c/a>. That’s led lawmakers and health experts to seek other ways to expand access.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, a handful of city leaders announced they want to \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24663736-file_7040\">require pharmacies to stock the medication\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If San Francisco will be successful in incentivizing long-term recovery from addiction, we need to make sure that buprenorphine is available at pharmacies,” Supervisor Matt Dorsey told KQED. “I don’t know what the excuse is for not carrying it, but we need to end that excuse and make sure it’s a requirement to carry.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisors Rafael Mandelman, Hillary Ronen and Dean Preston are co-sponsoring the legislation, which SFDPH believes is the first of its kind in the country. The new law would update the city’s health code so that any pharmacy that carries controlled substances must stock buprenorphine for at least two new prescriptions.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "aside",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"postid": "news_11986128",
"hero": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240514-OVERDOSE-DEATH-RALLY-SJ-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg",
"label": ""
},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“When my office worked with DPH to create the city’s first \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/reports/october-2022/overdose-prevention-plan-2022\">Overdose Prevention Plan\u003c/a>, expanding access to buprenorphine and other medications was identified as a key area of need,” Supervisor Dean Preston told KQED, referring to the city’s 2022 blueprint to combat overdoses. “I am proud to co-sponsor this sensible and important legislation to ensure that buprenorphine is available in every neighborhood for anyone who needs it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, Dorsey proposed legislation that would \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/2023/06/27/sf-pharmacies-carry-drug-overdose-reversal-meds/\">require all pharmacies to carry Naloxone\u003c/a>, a nasal spray that can reverse an opioid overdose. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-approves-first-over-counter-naloxone-nasal-spray\">FDA approved over-the-counter Naloxone\u003c/a> in 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Experts say making buprenorphine available as soon as someone decides they want to change their drug use patterns is essential to helping people move into and through recovery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People who used medication-assisted treatments such as methadone or buprenorphine were 80% less likely to die of an opioid overdose compared to people in treatment without the medications, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/add.14991\">2020 study\u003c/a> in the medical journal \u003cem>Addiction\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco is already building out new pathways to access buprenorphine, such as home delivery programs for people living in the city’s permanent supportive housing and expanding hours for the public behavioral health pharmacy. But leaders on both sides of the political aisle say there’s still plenty of work to do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In today’s fentanyl era, anyone who makes the brave choice to seek recovery from opioid use disorder is really in a race against the clock on overpowering cravings and debilitating withdrawal symptoms,” Dorsey told KQED. “If that medication is not readily available to offer relief, we know life-threatening drugs are available on the streets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
}
],
"link": "/news/11986508/few-pharmacies-carry-this-key-opioid-addiction-treatment-san-francisco-wants-to-change-that",
"authors": [
"11840"
],
"categories": [
"news_457",
"news_8"
],
"tags": [
"news_27626",
"news_18543",
"news_22774",
"news_19960",
"news_38"
],
"featImg": "news_11986529",
"label": "news"
}
},
"podcastsReducer": {
"isFetching": false,
"fetchFailed": false,
"hasFetched": false,
"podcasts": {}
},
"radioProgramsReducer": {
"isFetching": false,
"fetchFailed": false,
"hasFetched": false,
"radioPrograms": {}
},
"programsReducer": {
"all-things-considered": {
"id": "all-things-considered",
"title": "All Things Considered",
"info": "Every weekday, \u003cem>All Things Considered\u003c/em> hosts Robert Siegel, Audie Cornish, Ari Shapiro, and Kelly McEvers present the program's trademark mix of news, interviews, commentaries, reviews, and offbeat features. Michel Martin hosts on the weekends.",
"airtime": "MON-FRI 1pm-2pm, 4:30pm-6:30pm\u003cbr />SAT-SUN 5pm-6pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/All-Things-Considered-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.npr.org/programs/all-things-considered/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/all-things-considered"
},
"american-suburb-podcast": {
"id": "american-suburb-podcast",
"title": "American Suburb: The Podcast",
"tagline": "The flip side of gentrification, told through one town",
"info": "Gentrification is changing cities across America, forcing people from neighborhoods they have long called home. Call them the displaced. Now those priced out of the Bay Area are looking for a better life in an unlikely place. American Suburb follows this migration to one California town along the Delta, 45 miles from San Francisco. But is this once sleepy suburb ready for them?",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/American-Suburb-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/news/series/american-suburb-podcast",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 19
},
"link": "/news/series/american-suburb-podcast/",
"subscribe": {
"npr": "https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/RBrW",
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?mt=2&id=1287748328",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/American-Suburb-p1086805/",
"rss": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/american-suburb-podcast/feed/podcast",
"google": "https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vS1FJTkMzMDExODgxNjA5"
}
},
"baycurious": {
"id": "baycurious",
"title": "Bay Curious",
"tagline": "Exploring the Bay Area, one question at a time",
"info": "KQED’s new podcast, Bay Curious, gets to the bottom of the mysteries — both profound and peculiar — that give the Bay Area its unique identity. And we’ll do it with your help! You ask the questions. You decide what Bay Curious investigates. And you join us on the journey to find the answers.",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Bay-Curious-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED Bay Curious",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/news/series/baycurious",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 3
},
"link": "/podcasts/baycurious",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bay-curious/id1172473406",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/500557090/bay-curious",
"rss": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/category/bay-curious-podcast/feed/podcast",
"amazon": "https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/9a90d476-aa04-455d-9a4c-0871ed6216d4/bay-curious",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/bay-curious",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/6O76IdmhixfijmhTZLIJ8k"
}
},
"bbc-world-service": {
"id": "bbc-world-service",
"title": "BBC World Service",
"info": "The day's top stories from BBC News compiled twice daily in the week, once at weekends.",
"airtime": "MON-FRI 9pm-10pm, TUE-FRI 1am-2am",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/BBC-World-Service-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/live:bbc_world_service",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "BBC World Service"
},
"link": "/radio/program/bbc-world-service",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/global-news-podcast/id135067274?mt=2",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/BBC-World-Service-p455581/",
"rss": "https://podcasts.files.bbci.co.uk/p02nq0gn.rss"
}
},
"californiareport": {
"id": "californiareport",
"title": "The California Report",
"tagline": "California, day by day",
"info": "KQED’s statewide radio news program providing daily coverage of issues, trends and public policy decisions.",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/The-California-Report-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED The California Report",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/californiareport",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 8
},
"link": "/californiareport",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/kqeds-the-california-report/id79681292",
"amazon": "https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/26099305-72af-4542-9dde-ac1807fe36d5/kqed-s-the-california-report",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/432285393/the-california-report",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqedfm-kqeds-the-california-report-podcast-8838",
"rss": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/tcram/feed/podcast"
}
},
"californiareportmagazine": {
"id": "californiareportmagazine",
"title": "The California Report Magazine",
"tagline": "Your state, your stories",
"info": "Every week, The California Report Magazine takes you on a road trip for the ears: to visit the places and meet the people who make California unique. The in-depth storytelling podcast from the California Report.",
"airtime": "FRI 4:30pm-5pm, 6:30pm-7pm, 11pm-11:30pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/The-California-Report-Magazine-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED The California Report Magazine",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/californiareportmagazine",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 10
},
"link": "/californiareportmagazine",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-california-report-magazine/id1314750545",
"google": "https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vS1FJTkM3NjkwNjk1OTAz",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/564733126/the-california-report-magazine",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/the-california-report-magazine",
"rss": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/tcrmag/feed/podcast"
}
},
"city-arts": {
"id": "city-arts",
"title": "City Arts & Lectures",
"info": "A one-hour radio program to hear celebrated writers, artists and thinkers address contemporary ideas and values, often discussing the creative process. Please note: tapes or transcripts are not available",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/05/cityartsandlecture-300x300.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.cityarts.net/",
"airtime": "SUN 1pm-2pm, TUE 10pm, WED 1am",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "City Arts & Lectures"
},
"link": "https://www.cityarts.net",
"subscribe": {
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/City-Arts-and-Lectures-p692/",
"rss": "https://www.cityarts.net/feed/"
}
},
"closealltabs": {
"id": "closealltabs",
"title": "Close All Tabs",
"tagline": "Your irreverent guide to the trends redefining our world",
"info": "Close All Tabs breaks down how digital culture shapes our world through thoughtful insights and irreverent humor.",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/CAT_2_Tile-scaled.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED Close All Tabs",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/podcasts/closealltabs",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 1
},
"link": "/podcasts/closealltabs",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/close-all-tabs/id214663465",
"rss": "https://feeds.megaphone.fm/KQINC6993880386",
"amazon": "https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/92d9d4ac-67a3-4eed-b10a-fb45d45b1ef2/close-all-tabs",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/6LAJFHnGK1pYXYzv6SIol6?si=deb0cae19813417c"
}
},
"code-switch-life-kit": {
"id": "code-switch-life-kit",
"title": "Code Switch / Life Kit",
"info": "\u003cem>Code Switch\u003c/em>, which listeners will hear in the first part of the hour, has fearless and much-needed conversations about race. Hosted by journalists of color, the show tackles the subject of race head-on, exploring how it impacts every part of society — from politics and pop culture to history, sports and more.\u003cbr />\u003cbr />\u003cem>Life Kit\u003c/em>, which will be in the second part of the hour, guides you through spaces and feelings no one prepares you for — from finances to mental health, from workplace microaggressions to imposter syndrome, from relationships to parenting. The show features experts with real world experience and shares their knowledge. Because everyone needs a little help being human.\u003cbr />\u003cbr />\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510312/codeswitch\">\u003cem>Code Switch\u003c/em> offical site and podcast\u003c/a>\u003cbr />\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/lifekit\">\u003cem>Life Kit\u003c/em> offical site and podcast\u003c/a>\u003cbr />",
"airtime": "SUN 9pm-10pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Code-Switch-Life-Kit-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"meta": {
"site": "radio",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/code-switch-life-kit",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/1112190608?mt=2&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory",
"google": "https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnByLm9yZy9yc3MvcG9kY2FzdC5waHA_aWQ9NTEwMzEy",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/3bExJ9JQpkwNhoHvaIIuyV",
"rss": "https://feeds.npr.org/510312/podcast.xml"
}
},
"commonwealth-club": {
"id": "commonwealth-club",
"title": "Commonwealth Club of California Podcast",
"info": "The Commonwealth Club of California is the nation's oldest and largest public affairs forum. As a non-partisan forum, The Club brings to the public airwaves diverse viewpoints on important topics. The Club's weekly radio broadcast - the oldest in the U.S., dating back to 1924 - is carried across the nation on public radio stations and is now podcasting. Our website archive features audio of our recent programs, as well as selected speeches from our long and distinguished history. This podcast feed is usually updated twice a week and is always un-edited.",
"airtime": "THU 10pm, FRI 1am",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Commonwealth-Club-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.commonwealthclub.org/podcasts",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "Commonwealth Club of California"
},
"link": "/radio/program/commonwealth-club",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/commonwealth-club-of-california-podcast/id976334034?mt=2",
"google": "https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cDovL3d3dy5jb21tb253ZWFsdGhjbHViLm9yZy9hdWRpby9wb2RjYXN0L3dlZWtseS54bWw",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/Commonwealth-Club-of-California-p1060/"
}
},
"forum": {
"id": "forum",
"title": "Forum",
"tagline": "The conversation starts here",
"info": "KQED’s live call-in program discussing local, state, national and international issues, as well as in-depth interviews.",
"airtime": "MON-FRI 9am-11am, 10pm-11pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Forum-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED Forum with Mina Kim and Alexis Madrigal",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/forum",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 9
},
"link": "/forum",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/kqeds-forum/id73329719",
"google": "https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vS1FJTkM5NTU3MzgxNjMz",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/432307980/forum",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqedfm-kqeds-forum-podcast",
"rss": "https://feeds.megaphone.fm/KQINC9557381633"
}
},
"freakonomics-radio": {
"id": "freakonomics-radio",
"title": "Freakonomics Radio",
"info": "Freakonomics Radio is a one-hour award-winning podcast and public-radio project hosted by Stephen Dubner, with co-author Steve Levitt as a regular guest. It is produced in partnership with WNYC.",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/freakonomicsRadio.png",
"officialWebsiteLink": "http://freakonomics.com/",
"airtime": "SUN 1am-2am, SAT 3pm-4pm",
"meta": {
"site": "radio",
"source": "WNYC"
},
"link": "/radio/program/freakonomics-radio",
"subscribe": {
"npr": "https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/4s8b",
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/freakonomics-radio/id354668519",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/podcasts/WNYC-Podcasts/Freakonomics-Radio-p272293/",
"rss": "https://feeds.feedburner.com/freakonomicsradio"
}
},
"fresh-air": {
"id": "fresh-air",
"title": "Fresh Air",
"info": "Hosted by Terry Gross, \u003cem>Fresh Air from WHYY\u003c/em> is the Peabody Award-winning weekday magazine of contemporary arts and issues. One of public radio's most popular programs, Fresh Air features intimate conversations with today's biggest luminaries.",
"airtime": "MON-FRI 7pm-8pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Fresh-Air-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.npr.org/programs/fresh-air/",
"meta": {
"site": "radio",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/fresh-air",
"subscribe": {
"npr": "https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/4s8b",
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?s=143441&mt=2&id=214089682&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/Fresh-Air-p17/",
"rss": "https://feeds.npr.org/381444908/podcast.xml"
}
},
"here-and-now": {
"id": "here-and-now",
"title": "Here & Now",
"info": "A live production of NPR and WBUR Boston, in collaboration with stations across the country, Here & Now reflects the fluid world of news as it's happening in the middle of the day, with timely, in-depth news, interviews and conversation. Hosted by Robin Young, Jeremy Hobson and Tonya Mosley.",
"airtime": "MON-THU 11am-12pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Here-And-Now-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "http://www.wbur.org/hereandnow",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/here-and-now",
"subsdcribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?mt=2&id=426698661",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/Here--Now-p211/",
"rss": "https://feeds.npr.org/510051/podcast.xml"
}
},
"hidden-brain": {
"id": "hidden-brain",
"title": "Hidden Brain",
"info": "Shankar Vedantam uses science and storytelling to reveal the unconscious patterns that drive human behavior, shape our choices and direct our relationships.",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/05/hiddenbrain.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.npr.org/series/423302056/hidden-brain",
"airtime": "SUN 7pm-8pm",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "NPR"
},
"link": "/radio/program/hidden-brain",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/hidden-brain/id1028908750?mt=2",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/podcasts/Science-Podcasts/Hidden-Brain-p787503/",
"rss": "https://feeds.npr.org/510308/podcast.xml"
}
},
"how-i-built-this": {
"id": "how-i-built-this",
"title": "How I Built This with Guy Raz",
"info": "Guy Raz dives into the stories behind some of the world's best known companies. How I Built This weaves a narrative journey about innovators, entrepreneurs and idealists—and the movements they built.",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/howIBuiltThis.png",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510313/how-i-built-this",
"airtime": "SUN 7:30pm-8pm",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/how-i-built-this",
"subscribe": {
"npr": "https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/3zxy",
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/how-i-built-this-with-guy-raz/id1150510297?mt=2",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/podcasts/Arts--Culture-Podcasts/How-I-Built-This-p910896/",
"rss": "https://feeds.npr.org/510313/podcast.xml"
}
},
"hyphenacion": {
"id": "hyphenacion",
"title": "Hyphenación",
"tagline": "Where conversation and cultura meet",
"info": "What kind of no sabo word is Hyphenación? For us, it’s about living within a hyphenation. Like being a third-gen Mexican-American from the Texas border now living that Bay Area Chicano life. Like Xorje! Each week we bring together a couple of hyphenated Latinos to talk all about personal life choices: family, careers, relationships, belonging … everything is on the table. ",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Hyphenacion_FinalAssets_PodcastTile.png",
"imageAlt": "KQED Hyphenación",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/podcasts/hyphenacion",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 15
},
"link": "/podcasts/hyphenacion",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hyphenaci%C3%B3n/id1191591838",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/2p3Fifq96nw9BPcmFdIq0o?si=39209f7b25774f38",
"youtube": "https://www.youtube.com/c/kqedarts",
"amazon": "https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/6c3dd23c-93fb-4aab-97ba-1725fa6315f1/hyphenaci%C3%B3n",
"rss": "https://feeds.megaphone.fm/KQINC2275451163"
}
},
"jerrybrown": {
"id": "jerrybrown",
"title": "The Political Mind of Jerry Brown",
"tagline": "Lessons from a lifetime in politics",
"info": "The Political Mind of Jerry Brown brings listeners the wisdom of the former Governor, Mayor, and presidential candidate. Scott Shafer interviewed Brown for more than 40 hours, covering the former governor's life and half-century in the political game – and Brown has some lessons he'd like to share. ",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/The-Political-Mind-of-Jerry-Brown-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED The Political Mind of Jerry Brown",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/podcasts/jerrybrown",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 18
},
"link": "/podcasts/jerrybrown",
"subscribe": {
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/790253322/the-political-mind-of-jerry-brown",
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/id1492194549",
"rss": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/jerrybrown/feed/podcast/",
"tuneIn": "http://tun.in/pjGcK",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/the-political-mind-of-jerry-brown",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/54C1dmuyFyKMFttY6X2j6r?si=K8SgRCoISNK6ZbjpXrX5-w",
"amazon": "https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/44420f75-3b0e-4301-ab3b-16da6b09e543/the-political-mind-of-jerry-brown"
}
},
"latino-usa": {
"id": "latino-usa",
"title": "Latino USA",
"airtime": "MON 1am-2am, SUN 6pm-7pm",
"info": "Latino USA, the radio journal of news and culture, is the only national, English-language radio program produced from a Latino perspective.",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/04/latinoUsa.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "http://latinousa.org/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/latino-usa",
"subscribe": {
"npr": "https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/xtTd",
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?s=143441&mt=2&id=79681317&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/Latino-USA-p621/",
"rss": "https://feeds.npr.org/510016/podcast.xml"
}
},
"marketplace": {
"id": "marketplace",
"title": "Marketplace",
"info": "Our flagship program, helmed by Kai Ryssdal, examines what the day in money delivered, through stories, conversations, newsworthy numbers and more. Updated Monday through Friday at about 3:30 p.m. PT.",
"airtime": "MON-FRI 4pm-4:30pm, MON-WED 6:30pm-7pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Marketplace-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.marketplace.org/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "American Public Media"
},
"link": "/radio/program/marketplace",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?s=143441&mt=2&id=201853034&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/APM-Marketplace-p88/",
"rss": "https://feeds.publicradio.org/public_feeds/marketplace-pm/rss/rss"
}
},
"masters-of-scale": {
"id": "masters-of-scale",
"title": "Masters of Scale",
"info": "Masters of Scale is an original podcast in which LinkedIn co-founder and Greylock Partner Reid Hoffman sets out to describe and prove theories that explain how great entrepreneurs take their companies from zero to a gazillion in ingenious fashion.",
"airtime": "Every other Wednesday June 12 through October 16 at 8pm (repeats Thursdays at 2am)",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Masters-of-Scale-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://mastersofscale.com/",
"meta": {
"site": "radio",
"source": "WaitWhat"
},
"link": "/radio/program/masters-of-scale",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "http://mastersofscale.app.link/",
"rss": "https://rss.art19.com/masters-of-scale"
}
},
"mindshift": {
"id": "mindshift",
"title": "MindShift",
"tagline": "A podcast about the future of learning and how we raise our kids",
"info": "The MindShift podcast explores the innovations in education that are shaping how kids learn. Hosts Ki Sung and Katrina Schwartz introduce listeners to educators, researchers, parents and students who are developing effective ways to improve how kids learn. We cover topics like how fed-up administrators are developing surprising tactics to deal with classroom disruptions; how listening to podcasts are helping kids develop reading skills; the consequences of overparenting; and why interdisciplinary learning can engage students on all ends of the traditional achievement spectrum. This podcast is part of the MindShift education site, a division of KQED News. KQED is an NPR/PBS member station based in San Francisco. You can also visit the MindShift website for episodes and supplemental blog posts or tweet us \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/MindShiftKQED\">@MindShiftKQED\u003c/a> or visit us at \u003ca href=\"/mindshift\">MindShift.KQED.org\u003c/a>",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Mindshift-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED MindShift: How We Will Learn",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/mindshift/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 12
},
"link": "/podcasts/mindshift",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mindshift-podcast/id1078765985",
"google": "https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vS1FJTkM1NzY0NjAwNDI5",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/464615685/mind-shift-podcast",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/stories-teachers-share",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/0MxSpNYZKNprFLCl7eEtyx"
}
},
"morning-edition": {
"id": "morning-edition",
"title": "Morning Edition",
"info": "\u003cem>Morning Edition\u003c/em> takes listeners around the country and the world with multi-faceted stories and commentaries every weekday. Hosts Steve Inskeep, David Greene and Rachel Martin bring you the latest breaking news and features to prepare you for the day.",
"airtime": "MON-FRI 3am-9am",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Morning-Edition-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.npr.org/programs/morning-edition/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/morning-edition"
},
"onourwatch": {
"id": "onourwatch",
"title": "On Our Watch",
"tagline": "Deeply-reported investigative journalism",
"info": "For decades, the process for how police police themselves has been inconsistent – if not opaque. In some states, like California, these proceedings were completely hidden. After a new police transparency law unsealed scores of internal affairs files, our reporters set out to examine these cases and the shadow world of police discipline. On Our Watch brings listeners into the rooms where officers are questioned and witnesses are interrogated to find out who this system is really protecting. Is it the officers, or the public they've sworn to serve?",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/On-Our-Watch-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "On Our Watch from NPR and KQED",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/podcasts/onourwatch",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 11
},
"link": "/podcasts/onourwatch",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1567098962",
"google": "https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5ucHIub3JnLzUxMDM2MC9wb2RjYXN0LnhtbD9zYz1nb29nbGVwb2RjYXN0cw",
"npr": "https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/onourwatch",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/0OLWoyizopu6tY1XiuX70x",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/On-Our-Watch-p1436229/",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/show/on-our-watch",
"rss": "https://feeds.npr.org/510360/podcast.xml"
}
},
"on-the-media": {
"id": "on-the-media",
"title": "On The Media",
"info": "Our weekly podcast explores how the media 'sausage' is made, casts an incisive eye on fluctuations in the marketplace of ideas, and examines threats to the freedom of information and expression in America and abroad. For one hour a week, the show tries to lift the veil from the process of \"making media,\" especially news media, because it's through that lens that we see the world and the world sees us",
"airtime": "SUN 2pm-3pm, MON 12am-1am",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/04/onTheMedia.png",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.wnycstudios.org/shows/otm",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "wnyc"
},
"link": "/radio/program/on-the-media",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/on-the-media/id73330715?mt=2",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/On-the-Media-p69/",
"rss": "http://feeds.wnyc.org/onthemedia"
}
},
"pbs-newshour": {
"id": "pbs-newshour",
"title": "PBS NewsHour",
"info": "Analysis, background reports and updates from the PBS NewsHour putting today's news in context.",
"airtime": "MON-FRI 3pm-4pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/PBS-News-Hour-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.pbs.org/newshour/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "pbs"
},
"link": "/radio/program/pbs-newshour",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/pbs-newshour-full-show/id394432287?mt=2",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/PBS-NewsHour---Full-Show-p425698/",
"rss": "https://www.pbs.org/newshour/feeds/rss/podcasts/show"
}
},
"perspectives": {
"id": "perspectives",
"title": "Perspectives",
"tagline": "KQED's series of daily listener commentaries since 1991",
"info": "KQED's series of daily listener commentaries since 1991.",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Perspectives_Tile_Final.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED Perspectives",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/perspectives/",
"meta": {
"site": "radio",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 14
},
"link": "/perspectives",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id73801135",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/432309616/perspectives",
"rss": "https://ww2.kqed.org/perspectives/category/perspectives/feed/",
"google": "https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly93dzIua3FlZC5vcmcvcGVyc3BlY3RpdmVzL2NhdGVnb3J5L3BlcnNwZWN0aXZlcy9mZWVkLw"
}
},
"planet-money": {
"id": "planet-money",
"title": "Planet Money",
"info": "The economy explained. Imagine you could call up a friend and say, Meet me at the bar and tell me what's going on with the economy. Now imagine that's actually a fun evening.",
"airtime": "SUN 3pm-4pm",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/04/planetmoney.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.npr.org/sections/money/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/planet-money",
"subscribe": {
"npr": "https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/M4f5",
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/planet-money/id290783428?mt=2",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/podcasts/Business--Economics-Podcasts/Planet-Money-p164680/",
"rss": "https://feeds.npr.org/510289/podcast.xml"
}
},
"politicalbreakdown": {
"id": "politicalbreakdown",
"title": "Political Breakdown",
"tagline": "Politics from a personal perspective",
"info": "Political Breakdown is a new series that explores the political intersection of California and the nation. Each week hosts Scott Shafer and Marisa Lagos are joined with a new special guest to unpack politics -- with personality — and offer an insider’s glimpse at how politics happens.",
"airtime": "THU 6:30pm-7pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Political-Breakdown-2024-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED Political Breakdown",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/podcasts/politicalbreakdown",
"meta": {
"site": "radio",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 5
},
"link": "/podcasts/politicalbreakdown",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/political-breakdown/id1327641087",
"amazon": "https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/e0c2d153-ad36-4c8d-901d-f1da6a724824/political-breakdown",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/572155894/political-breakdown",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/political-breakdown",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/07RVyIjIdk2WDuVehvBMoN",
"rss": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/political-breakdown/feed/podcast"
}
},
"possible": {
"id": "possible",
"title": "Possible",
"info": "Possible is hosted by entrepreneur Reid Hoffman and writer Aria Finger. Together in Possible, Hoffman and Finger lead enlightening discussions about building a brighter collective future. The show features interviews with visionary guests like Trevor Noah, Sam Altman and Janette Sadik-Khan. Possible paints an optimistic portrait of the world we can create through science, policy, business, art and our shared humanity. It asks: What if everything goes right for once? How can we get there? Each episode also includes a short fiction story generated by advanced AI GPT-4, serving as a thought-provoking springboard to speculate how humanity could leverage technology for good.",
"airtime": "SUN 2pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Possible-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.possible.fm/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "Possible"
},
"link": "/radio/program/possible",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/possible/id1677184070",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/730YpdUSNlMyPQwNnyjp4k"
}
},
"pri-the-world": {
"id": "pri-the-world",
"title": "PRI's The World: Latest Edition",
"info": "Each weekday, host Marco Werman and his team of producers bring you the world's most interesting stories in an hour of radio that reminds us just how small our planet really is.",
"airtime": "MON-FRI 2pm-3pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/The-World-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.pri.org/programs/the-world",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "PRI"
},
"link": "/radio/program/pri-the-world",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/pris-the-world-latest-edition/id278196007?mt=2",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/podcasts/News--Politics-Podcasts/PRIs-The-World-p24/",
"rss": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/pri/theworld"
}
},
"radiolab": {
"id": "radiolab",
"title": "Radiolab",
"info": "A two-time Peabody Award-winner, Radiolab is an investigation told through sounds and stories, and centered around one big idea. In the Radiolab world, information sounds like music and science and culture collide. Hosted by Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich, the show is designed for listeners who demand skepticism, but appreciate wonder. WNYC Studios is the producer of other leading podcasts including Freakonomics Radio, Death, Sex & Money, On the Media and many more.",
"airtime": "SUN 12am-1am, SAT 2pm-3pm",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/04/radiolab1400.png",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.wnycstudios.org/shows/radiolab/",
"meta": {
"site": "science",
"source": "WNYC"
},
"link": "/radio/program/radiolab",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/radiolab/id152249110?mt=2",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/RadioLab-p68032/",
"rss": "https://feeds.wnyc.org/radiolab"
}
},
"reveal": {
"id": "reveal",
"title": "Reveal",
"info": "Created by The Center for Investigative Reporting and PRX, Reveal is public radios first one-hour weekly radio show and podcast dedicated to investigative reporting. Credible, fact based and without a partisan agenda, Reveal combines the power and artistry of driveway moment storytelling with data-rich reporting on critically important issues. The result is stories that inform and inspire, arming our listeners with information to right injustices, hold the powerful accountable and improve lives.Reveal is hosted by Al Letson and showcases the award-winning work of CIR and newsrooms large and small across the nation. In a radio and podcast market crowded with choices, Reveal focuses on important and often surprising stories that illuminate the world for our listeners.",
"airtime": "SAT 4pm-5pm",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/04/reveal300px.png",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.revealnews.org/episodes/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/reveal",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/reveal/id886009669",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/Reveal-p679597/",
"rss": "http://feeds.revealradio.org/revealpodcast"
}
},
"rightnowish": {
"id": "rightnowish",
"title": "Rightnowish",
"tagline": "Art is where you find it",
"info": "Rightnowish digs into life in the Bay Area right now… ish. Journalist Pendarvis Harshaw takes us to galleries painted on the sides of liquor stores in West Oakland. We'll dance in warehouses in the Bayview, make smoothies with kids in South Berkeley, and listen to classical music in a 1984 Cutlass Supreme in Richmond. Every week, Pen talks to movers and shakers about how the Bay Area shapes what they create, and how they shape the place we call home.",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Rightnowish-Podcast-Tile-500x500-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED Rightnowish with Pendarvis Harshaw",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/podcasts/rightnowish",
"meta": {
"site": "arts",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 16
},
"link": "/podcasts/rightnowish",
"subscribe": {
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/721590300/rightnowish",
"rss": "https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/programs/rightnowish/feed/podcast",
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rightnowish/id1482187648",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/rightnowish",
"google": "https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vS1FJTkMxMjU5MTY3NDc4",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/7kEJuafTzTVan7B78ttz1I"
}
},
"science-friday": {
"id": "science-friday",
"title": "Science Friday",
"info": "Science Friday is a weekly science talk show, broadcast live over public radio stations nationwide. Each week, the show focuses on science topics that are in the news and tries to bring an educated, balanced discussion to bear on the scientific issues at hand. Panels of expert guests join host Ira Flatow, a veteran science journalist, to discuss science and to take questions from listeners during the call-in portion of the program.",
"airtime": "FRI 11am-1pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Science-Friday-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.wnycstudios.org/shows/science-friday",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/science-friday",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?s=143441&mt=2&id=73329284&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/Science-Friday-p394/",
"rss": "http://feeds.wnyc.org/science-friday"
}
},
"snap-judgment": {
"id": "snap-judgment",
"title": "Snap Judgment",
"tagline": "Real stories with killer beats",
"info": "The Snap Judgment radio show and podcast mixes real stories with killer beats to produce cinematic, dramatic radio. Snap's musical brand of storytelling dares listeners to see the world through the eyes of another. This is storytelling... with a BEAT!! Snap first aired on public radio stations nationwide in July 2010. Today, Snap Judgment airs on over 450 public radio stations and is brought to the airwaves by KQED & PRX.",
"airtime": "SAT 1pm-2pm, 9pm-10pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Snap-Judgment-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED Snap Judgment",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://snapjudgment.org",
"meta": {
"site": "arts",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 4
},
"link": "https://snapjudgment.org",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/snap-judgment/id283657561",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/449018144/snap-judgment",
"stitcher": "https://www.pandora.com/podcast/snap-judgment/PC:241?source=stitcher-sunset",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/3Cct7ZWmxHNAtLgBTqjC5v",
"rss": "https://snap.feed.snapjudgment.org/"
}
},
"soldout": {
"id": "soldout",
"title": "SOLD OUT: Rethinking Housing in America",
"tagline": "A new future for housing",
"info": "Sold Out: Rethinking Housing in America",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Sold-Out-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED Sold Out: Rethinking Housing in America",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/podcasts/soldout",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 13
},
"link": "/podcasts/soldout",
"subscribe": {
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/911586047/s-o-l-d-o-u-t-a-new-future-for-housing",
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/introducing-sold-out-rethinking-housing-in-america/id1531354937",
"rss": "https://feeds.megaphone.fm/soldout",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/38dTBSk2ISFoPiyYNoKn1X",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/sold-out-rethinking-housing-in-america",
"tunein": "https://tunein.com/radio/SOLD-OUT-Rethinking-Housing-in-America-p1365871/"
}
},
"spooked": {
"id": "spooked",
"title": "Spooked",
"tagline": "True-life supernatural stories",
"info": "",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Spooked-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED Spooked",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://spookedpodcast.org/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 7
},
"link": "https://spookedpodcast.org/",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/spooked/id1279361017",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/549547848/snap-judgment-presents-spooked",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/76571Rfl3m7PLJQZKQIGCT",
"rss": "https://feeds.simplecast.com/TBotaapn"
}
},
"tech-nation": {
"id": "tech-nation",
"title": "Tech Nation Radio Podcast",
"info": "Tech Nation is a weekly public radio program, hosted by Dr. Moira Gunn. Founded in 1993, it has grown from a simple interview show to a multi-faceted production, featuring conversations with noted technology and science leaders, and a weekly science and technology-related commentary.",
"airtime": "FRI 10pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Tech-Nation-Radio-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "http://technation.podomatic.com/",
"meta": {
"site": "science",
"source": "Tech Nation Media"
},
"link": "/radio/program/tech-nation",
"subscribe": {
"rss": "https://technation.podomatic.com/rss2.xml"
}
},
"ted-radio-hour": {
"id": "ted-radio-hour",
"title": "TED Radio Hour",
"info": "The TED Radio Hour is a journey through fascinating ideas, astonishing inventions, fresh approaches to old problems, and new ways to think and create.",
"airtime": "SUN 3pm-4pm, SAT 10pm-11pm",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/04/tedRadioHour.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.npr.org/programs/ted-radio-hour/?showDate=2018-06-22",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/ted-radio-hour",
"subscribe": {
"npr": "https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/8vsS",
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?s=143441&mt=2&id=523121474&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/TED-Radio-Hour-p418021/",
"rss": "https://feeds.npr.org/510298/podcast.xml"
}
},
"thebay": {
"id": "thebay",
"title": "The Bay",
"tagline": "Local news to keep you rooted",
"info": "Host Devin Katayama walks you through the biggest story of the day with reporters and newsmakers.",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/The-Bay-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED The Bay",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/podcasts/thebay",
"meta": {
"site": "radio",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 2
},
"link": "/podcasts/thebay",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-bay/id1350043452",
"amazon": "https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/d800ea4c-7a2c-42f2-b861-edaf78a5db0b/the-bay",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/586725995/the-bay",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/the-bay",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/4BIKBKIujizLHlIlBNaAqQ",
"rss": "https://feeds.megaphone.fm/KQINC8259786327"
}
},
"thelatest": {
"id": "thelatest",
"title": "The Latest",
"tagline": "Trusted local news in real time",
"info": "",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/The-Latest-2025-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED The Latest",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/thelatest",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 6
},
"link": "/thelatest",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-latest-from-kqed/id1197721799",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/1257949365/the-latest-from-k-q-e-d",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/5KIIXMgM9GTi5AepwOYvIZ?si=bd3053fec7244dba",
"rss": "https://feeds.megaphone.fm/KQINC9137121918"
}
},
"theleap": {
"id": "theleap",
"title": "The Leap",
"tagline": "What if you closed your eyes, and jumped?",
"info": "Stories about people making dramatic, risky changes, told by award-winning public radio reporter Judy Campbell.",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/The-Leap-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED The Leap",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/podcasts/theleap",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 17
},
"link": "/podcasts/theleap",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-leap/id1046668171",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/447248267/the-leap",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/the-leap",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/3sSlVHHzU0ytLwuGs1SD1U",
"rss": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/programs/the-leap/feed/podcast"
}
},
"the-moth-radio-hour": {
"id": "the-moth-radio-hour",
"title": "The Moth Radio Hour",
"info": "Since its launch in 1997, The Moth has presented thousands of true stories, told live and without notes, to standing-room-only crowds worldwide. Moth storytellers stand alone, under a spotlight, with only a microphone and a roomful of strangers. The storyteller and the audience embark on a high-wire act of shared experience which is both terrifying and exhilarating. Since 2008, The Moth podcast has featured many of our favorite stories told live on Moth stages around the country. For information on all of our programs and live events, visit themoth.org.",
"airtime": "SAT 8pm-9pm and SUN 11am-12pm",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/04/theMoth.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://themoth.org/",
"meta": {
"site": "arts",
"source": "prx"
},
"link": "/radio/program/the-moth-radio-hour",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-moth-podcast/id275699983?mt=2",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/The-Moth-p273888/",
"rss": "http://feeds.themoth.org/themothpodcast"
}
},
"the-new-yorker-radio-hour": {
"id": "the-new-yorker-radio-hour",
"title": "The New Yorker Radio Hour",
"info": "The New Yorker Radio Hour is a weekly program presented by the magazine's editor, David Remnick, and produced by WNYC Studios and The New Yorker. Each episode features a diverse mix of interviews, profiles, storytelling, and an occasional burst of humor inspired by the magazine, and shaped by its writers, artists, and editors. This isn't a radio version of a magazine, but something all its own, reflecting the rich possibilities of audio storytelling and conversation. Theme music for the show was composed and performed by Merrill Garbus of tUnE-YArDs.",
"airtime": "SAT 10am-11am",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/The-New-Yorker-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.wnycstudios.org/shows/tnyradiohour",
"meta": {
"site": "arts",
"source": "WNYC"
},
"link": "/radio/program/the-new-yorker-radio-hour",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/id1050430296",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/podcasts/WNYC-Podcasts/New-Yorker-Radio-Hour-p803804/",
"rss": "https://feeds.feedburner.com/newyorkerradiohour"
}
},
"the-sam-sanders-show": {
"id": "the-sam-sanders-show",
"title": "The Sam Sanders Show",
"info": "One of public radio's most dynamic voices, Sam Sanders helped launch The NPR Politics Podcast and hosted NPR's hit show It's Been A Minute. Now, the award-winning host returns with something brand new, The Sam Sanders Show. Every week, Sam Sanders and friends dig into the culture that shapes our lives: what's driving the biggest trends, how artists really think, and even the memes you can't stop scrolling past. Sam is beloved for his way of unpacking the world and bringing you up close to fresh currents and engaging conversations. The Sam Sanders Show is smart, funny and always a good time.",
"airtime": "FRI 12-1pm AND SAT 11am-12pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/The-Sam-Sanders-Show-Podcast-Tile-400x400-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.kcrw.com/shows/the-sam-sanders-show/latest",
"meta": {
"site": "arts",
"source": "KCRW"
},
"link": "https://www.kcrw.com/shows/the-sam-sanders-show/latest",
"subscribe": {
"rss": "https://feed.cdnstream1.com/zjb/feed/download/ac/28/59/ac28594c-e1d0-4231-8728-61865cdc80e8.xml"
}
},
"the-splendid-table": {
"id": "the-splendid-table",
"title": "The Splendid Table",
"info": "\u003cem>The Splendid Table\u003c/em> hosts our nation's conversations about cooking, sustainability and food culture.",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/The-Splendid-Table-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.splendidtable.org/",
"airtime": "SUN 10-11 pm",
"meta": {
"site": "radio",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/the-splendid-table"
},
"this-american-life": {
"id": "this-american-life",
"title": "This American Life",
"info": "This American Life is a weekly public radio show, heard by 2.2 million people on more than 500 stations. Another 2.5 million people download the weekly podcast. It is hosted by Ira Glass, produced in collaboration with Chicago Public Media, delivered to stations by PRX The Public Radio Exchange, and has won all of the major broadcasting awards.",
"airtime": "SAT 12pm-1pm, 7pm-8pm",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/04/thisAmericanLife.png",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.thisamericanlife.org/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "wbez"
},
"link": "/radio/program/this-american-life",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?s=143441&mt=2&id=201671138&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory",
"rss": "https://www.thisamericanlife.org/podcast/rss.xml"
}
},
"tinydeskradio": {
"id": "tinydeskradio",
"title": "Tiny Desk Radio",
"info": "We're bringing the best of Tiny Desk to the airwaves, only on public radio.",
"airtime": "SUN 8pm and SAT 9pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/300x300-For-Member-Station-Logo-Tiny-Desk-Radio-@2x.png",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.npr.org/series/g-s1-52030/tiny-desk-radio",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/tinydeskradio",
"subscribe": {
"rss": "https://feeds.npr.org/g-s1-52030/rss.xml"
}
},
"wait-wait-dont-tell-me": {
"id": "wait-wait-dont-tell-me",
"title": "Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!",
"info": "Peter Sagal and Bill Kurtis host the weekly NPR News quiz show alongside some of the best and brightest news and entertainment personalities.",
"airtime": "SUN 10am-11am, SAT 11am-12pm, SAT 6pm-7pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Wait-Wait-Podcast-Tile-300x300-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.npr.org/programs/wait-wait-dont-tell-me/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/wait-wait-dont-tell-me",
"subscribe": {
"npr": "https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/Xogv",
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?s=143441&mt=2&id=121493804&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/Wait-Wait-Dont-Tell-Me-p46/",
"rss": "https://feeds.npr.org/344098539/podcast.xml"
}
},
"weekend-edition-saturday": {
"id": "weekend-edition-saturday",
"title": "Weekend Edition Saturday",
"info": "Weekend Edition Saturday wraps up the week's news and offers a mix of analysis and features on a wide range of topics, including arts, sports, entertainment, and human interest stories. The two-hour program is hosted by NPR's Peabody Award-winning Scott Simon.",
"airtime": "SAT 5am-10am",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Weekend-Edition-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.npr.org/programs/weekend-edition-saturday/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/weekend-edition-saturday"
},
"weekend-edition-sunday": {
"id": "weekend-edition-sunday",
"title": "Weekend Edition Sunday",
"info": "Weekend Edition Sunday features interviews with newsmakers, artists, scientists, politicians, musicians, writers, theologians and historians. The program has covered news events from Nelson Mandela's 1990 release from a South African prison to the capture of Saddam Hussein.",
"airtime": "SUN 5am-10am",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Weekend-Edition-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.npr.org/programs/weekend-edition-sunday/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/weekend-edition-sunday"
}
},
"racesReducer": {},
"racesGenElectionReducer": {},
"racesGenElection2026Reducer": {},
"radioSchedulesReducer": {},
"listsReducer": {
"posts/news?tag=health": {
"isFetching": false,
"latestQuery": {
"from": 384,
"size": 12
},
"vitalsOnly": false,
"totalRequested": 12,
"isLoading": false,
"isLoadingMore": true,
"total": {
"value": 1609,
"relation": "eq"
},
"items": [
"news_11989238",
"news_11989112",
"news_11988972",
"news_11988511",
"news_11988079",
"news_11987709",
"news_11987665",
"news_11987607",
"news_11987204",
"news_11986871",
"news_11986724",
"news_11986508"
],
"complete": true
}
},
"recallGuideReducer": {
"intros": {},
"policy": {},
"candidates": {}
},
"savedArticleReducer": {
"articles": [],
"status": {}
},
"newslettersReducer": {
"isFetching": false,
"fetchFailed": false,
"hasFetched": false,
"newsletters": {},
"isSubscribing": false,
"isUnsubscribing": false,
"subscribedNewsletters": {}
},
"termsReducer": {
"about": {
"name": "About",
"type": "terms",
"id": "about",
"slug": "about",
"link": "/about",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"arts": {
"name": "Arts & Culture",
"grouping": [
"arts",
"pop",
"trulyca"
],
"description": "KQED Arts provides daily in-depth coverage of the Bay Area's music, art, film, performing arts, literature and arts news, as well as cultural commentary and criticism.",
"type": "terms",
"id": "arts",
"slug": "arts",
"link": "/arts",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"artschool": {
"name": "Art School",
"parent": "arts",
"type": "terms",
"id": "artschool",
"slug": "artschool",
"link": "/artschool",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"bayareabites": {
"name": "KQED food",
"grouping": [
"food",
"bayareabites",
"checkplease"
],
"parent": "food",
"type": "terms",
"id": "bayareabites",
"slug": "bayareabites",
"link": "/food",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"bayareahiphop": {
"name": "Bay Area Hiphop",
"type": "terms",
"id": "bayareahiphop",
"slug": "bayareahiphop",
"link": "/bayareahiphop",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"campaign21": {
"name": "Campaign 21",
"type": "terms",
"id": "campaign21",
"slug": "campaign21",
"link": "/campaign21",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"careers": {
"name": "Careers",
"type": "terms",
"id": "careers",
"slug": "careers",
"link": "/careers",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"checkplease": {
"name": "KQED food",
"grouping": [
"food",
"bayareabites",
"checkplease"
],
"parent": "food",
"type": "terms",
"id": "checkplease",
"slug": "checkplease",
"link": "/food",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"education": {
"name": "Education",
"grouping": [
"education"
],
"type": "terms",
"id": "education",
"slug": "education",
"link": "/education",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"elections": {
"name": "Elections",
"type": "terms",
"id": "elections",
"slug": "elections",
"link": "/elections",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"events": {
"name": "Events",
"type": "terms",
"id": "events",
"slug": "events",
"link": "/events",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"event": {
"name": "Event",
"alias": "events",
"type": "terms",
"id": "event",
"slug": "event",
"link": "/event",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"filmschoolshorts": {
"name": "Film School Shorts",
"type": "terms",
"id": "filmschoolshorts",
"slug": "filmschoolshorts",
"link": "/filmschoolshorts",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"food": {
"name": "KQED food",
"grouping": [
"food",
"bayareabites",
"checkplease"
],
"type": "terms",
"id": "food",
"slug": "food",
"link": "/food",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"forum": {
"name": "Forum",
"relatedContentQuery": "posts/forum?",
"parent": "news",
"type": "terms",
"id": "forum",
"slug": "forum",
"link": "/forum",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"futureofyou": {
"name": "Future of You",
"grouping": [
"science",
"futureofyou"
],
"parent": "science",
"type": "terms",
"id": "futureofyou",
"slug": "futureofyou",
"link": "/futureofyou",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"jpepinheart": {
"name": "KQED food",
"relatedContentQuery": "posts/food,bayareabites,checkplease",
"parent": "food",
"type": "terms",
"id": "jpepinheart",
"slug": "jpepinheart",
"link": "/food",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"liveblog": {
"name": "Live Blog",
"type": "terms",
"id": "liveblog",
"slug": "liveblog",
"link": "/liveblog",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"livetv": {
"name": "Live TV",
"parent": "tv",
"type": "terms",
"id": "livetv",
"slug": "livetv",
"link": "/livetv",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"lowdown": {
"name": "The Lowdown",
"relatedContentQuery": "posts/lowdown?",
"parent": "news",
"type": "terms",
"id": "lowdown",
"slug": "lowdown",
"link": "/lowdown",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"mindshift": {
"name": "Mindshift",
"parent": "news",
"description": "MindShift explores the future of education by highlighting the innovative – and sometimes counterintuitive – ways educators and parents are helping all children succeed.",
"type": "terms",
"id": "mindshift",
"slug": "mindshift",
"link": "/mindshift",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"news": {
"name": "News",
"grouping": [
"news",
"forum"
],
"type": "terms",
"id": "news",
"slug": "news",
"link": "/news",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"newsletters": {
"name": "newsletters",
"type": "terms",
"id": "newsletters",
"slug": "newsletters",
"link": "/newsletters",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"perspectives": {
"name": "Perspectives",
"parent": "radio",
"type": "terms",
"id": "perspectives",
"slug": "perspectives",
"link": "/perspectives",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"podcasts": {
"name": "Podcasts",
"type": "terms",
"id": "podcasts",
"slug": "podcasts",
"link": "/podcasts",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"pop": {
"name": "Pop",
"parent": "arts",
"type": "terms",
"id": "pop",
"slug": "pop",
"link": "/pop",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"pressroom": {
"name": "Pressroom",
"type": "terms",
"id": "pressroom",
"slug": "pressroom",
"link": "/pressroom",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"quest": {
"name": "Quest",
"parent": "science",
"type": "terms",
"id": "quest",
"slug": "quest",
"link": "/quest",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"radio": {
"name": "Radio",
"grouping": [
"forum",
"perspectives"
],
"description": "Listen to KQED Public Radio – home of Forum and The California Report – on 88.5 FM in San Francisco, 89.3 FM in Sacramento, 88.3 FM in Santa Rosa and 88.1 FM in Martinez.",
"type": "terms",
"id": "radio",
"slug": "radio",
"link": "/radio",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"root": {
"name": "KQED",
"image": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"imageWidth": 1200,
"imageHeight": 630,
"headData": {
"title": "KQED | News, Radio, Podcasts, TV | Public Media for Northern California",
"description": "KQED provides public radio, television, and independent reporting on issues that matter to the Bay Area. We’re the NPR and PBS member station for Northern California."
},
"type": "terms",
"id": "root",
"slug": "root",
"link": "/root",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"science": {
"name": "Science",
"grouping": [
"science",
"futureofyou"
],
"description": "KQED Science brings you award-winning science and environment coverage from the Bay Area and beyond.",
"type": "terms",
"id": "science",
"slug": "science",
"link": "/science",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"stateofhealth": {
"name": "State of Health",
"parent": "science",
"type": "terms",
"id": "stateofhealth",
"slug": "stateofhealth",
"link": "/stateofhealth",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"support": {
"name": "Support",
"type": "terms",
"id": "support",
"slug": "support",
"link": "/support",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"thedolist": {
"name": "The Do List",
"parent": "arts",
"type": "terms",
"id": "thedolist",
"slug": "thedolist",
"link": "/thedolist",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"trulyca": {
"name": "Truly CA",
"grouping": [
"arts",
"pop",
"trulyca"
],
"parent": "arts",
"type": "terms",
"id": "trulyca",
"slug": "trulyca",
"link": "/trulyca",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"tv": {
"name": "TV",
"type": "terms",
"id": "tv",
"slug": "tv",
"link": "/tv",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"voterguide": {
"name": "Voter Guide",
"parent": "elections",
"alias": "elections",
"type": "terms",
"id": "voterguide",
"slug": "voterguide",
"link": "/voterguide",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"guiaelectoral": {
"name": "Guia Electoral",
"parent": "elections",
"alias": "elections",
"type": "terms",
"id": "guiaelectoral",
"slug": "guiaelectoral",
"link": "/guiaelectoral",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"news_tag_health": {
"isLoading": true
},
"news_18543": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_18543",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "18543",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Health",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Health Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 466,
"slug": "health",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/health"
},
"source_news_11989238": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "source_news_11989238",
"meta": {
"override": true
},
"name": "CalMatters",
"link": "https://calmatters.org/",
"isLoading": false
},
"news_457": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_457",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "457",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Health",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "category",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Health Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 16998,
"slug": "health",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/category/health"
},
"news_8": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_8",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "8",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "News",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "category",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "News Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 8,
"slug": "news",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/category/news"
},
"news_18538": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_18538",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "18538",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "California",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "California Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 31,
"slug": "california",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/california"
},
"news_20251": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_20251",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "20251",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "California Democrats",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "California Democrats Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 20268,
"slug": "california-democrats",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/california-democrats"
},
"news_24939": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_24939",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "24939",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "health care workers",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "health care workers Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 24956,
"slug": "health-care-workers",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/health-care-workers"
},
"news_18481": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_18481",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "18481",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "CALmatters",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "affiliate",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "CALmatters Archives | KQED Arts",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 18515,
"slug": "calmatters",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/affiliate/calmatters"
},
"news_33738": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_33738",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "33738",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "California",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "interest",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "California Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 33755,
"slug": "california",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/interest/california"
},
"news_33747": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_33747",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "33747",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Health",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "interest",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Health Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 33764,
"slug": "health",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/interest/health"
},
"news_33733": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_33733",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "33733",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "News",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "interest",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "News Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 33750,
"slug": "news",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/interest/news"
},
"news_6188": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_6188",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "6188",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Law and Justice",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "category",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Law and Justice Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 6212,
"slug": "law-and-justice",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/category/law-and-justice"
},
"news_30249": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_30249",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "30249",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "drug overdoses",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "drug overdoses Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 30266,
"slug": "drug-overdoses",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/drug-overdoses"
},
"news_2587": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_2587",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "2587",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "drugs",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "drugs Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 2603,
"slug": "drugs",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/drugs"
},
"news_27626": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_27626",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "27626",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "featured-news",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "featured-news Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 27643,
"slug": "featured-news",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/featured-news"
},
"news_23051": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_23051",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "23051",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "fentanyl",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "fentanyl Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 23068,
"slug": "fentanyl",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/fentanyl"
},
"news_33045": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_33045",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "33045",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "fentanyl crisis",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "fentanyl crisis Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 33062,
"slug": "fentanyl-crisis",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/fentanyl-crisis"
},
"news_6931": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_6931",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "6931",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "London Breed",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "London Breed Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 6955,
"slug": "london-breed",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/london-breed"
},
"news_24982": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_24982",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "24982",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "methamphetamine",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "methamphetamine Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 24999,
"slug": "methamphetamine",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/methamphetamine"
},
"news_33046": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_33046",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "33046",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "overdose crisis",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "overdose crisis Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 33063,
"slug": "overdose-crisis",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/overdose-crisis"
},
"news_29747": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_29747",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "29747",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "overdose deaths",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "overdose deaths Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 29764,
"slug": "overdose-deaths",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/overdose-deaths"
},
"news_38": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_38",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "38",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "San Francisco",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "San Francisco Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 58,
"slug": "san-francisco",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/san-francisco"
},
"news_6544": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_6544",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "6544",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "SOMA",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "SOMA Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 6568,
"slug": "soma",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/soma"
},
"news_3181": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_3181",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "3181",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Tenderloin",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Tenderloin Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 3199,
"slug": "tenderloin",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/tenderloin"
},
"news_33745": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_33745",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "33745",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Criminal Justice",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "interest",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Criminal Justice Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 33762,
"slug": "criminal-justice",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/interest/criminal-justice"
},
"news_33729": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_33729",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "33729",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "San Francisco",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "interest",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "San Francisco Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 33746,
"slug": "san-francisco",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/interest/san-francisco"
},
"news_356": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_356",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "356",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Science",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "category",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Science Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 364,
"slug": "science",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/category/science"
},
"news_33648": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_33648",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "33648",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "bird flu",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "bird flu Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 33665,
"slug": "bird-flu",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/bird-flu"
},
"news_19960": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_19960",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "19960",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "public health",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "public health Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 19977,
"slug": "public-health",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/public-health"
},
"news_1169": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_1169",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "1169",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Immigration",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "category",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Immigration Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 1180,
"slug": "immigration",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/category/immigration"
},
"news_21845": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_21845",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "21845",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "disability",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "disability Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 21862,
"slug": "disability",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/disability"
},
"news_25262": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_25262",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "25262",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "disability rights",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "disability rights Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 25279,
"slug": "disability-rights",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/disability-rights"
},
"news_16": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_16",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "16",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Gavin Newsom",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Gavin Newsom Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 16,
"slug": "gavin-newsom",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/gavin-newsom"
},
"news_20202": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_20202",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "20202",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "immigration",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "immigration Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 20219,
"slug": "immigration",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/immigration"
},
"news_33748": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_33748",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "33748",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Immigration",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "interest",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Immigration Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 33765,
"slug": "immigration",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/interest/immigration"
},
"news_34168": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_34168",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "34168",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"name": "Guides and Explainers",
"slug": "guides-and-explainers",
"taxonomy": "category",
"description": null,
"featImg": null,
"headData": {
"title": "Guides and Explainers Archives | KQED News",
"description": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogDescription": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"twDescription": null,
"twImgId": null
},
"ttid": 34185,
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/category/guides-and-explainers"
},
"news_32707": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_32707",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "32707",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "audience-news",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "audience-news Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 32724,
"slug": "audience-news",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/audience-news"
},
"news_31325": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_31325",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "31325",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"name": "Mpox vaccine",
"slug": "mpox-vaccine",
"taxonomy": "tag",
"description": null,
"featImg": null,
"headData": {
"title": "Mpox vaccine | KQED News",
"description": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogDescription": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"twDescription": null,
"twImgId": null
},
"ttid": 31342,
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/mpox-vaccine"
},
"news_32353": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_32353",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "32353",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "mpox",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "mpox Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 32370,
"slug": "mpox",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/mpox"
},
"news_981": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_981",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "981",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"name": "Vaccines",
"slug": "vaccines",
"taxonomy": "tag",
"description": null,
"featImg": null,
"headData": {
"title": "Vaccines | KQED News",
"description": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogDescription": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"twDescription": null,
"twImgId": null
},
"ttid": 991,
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/vaccines"
},
"news_248": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_248",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "248",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Technology",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "category",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Technology Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 256,
"slug": "technology",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/category/technology"
},
"news_2043": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_2043",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "2043",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "children",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "children Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 2058,
"slug": "children",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/children"
},
"news_1432": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_1432",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "1432",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "identity theft",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "identity theft Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 1444,
"slug": "identity-theft",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/identity-theft"
},
"news_2125": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_2125",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "2125",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "online privacy",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "online privacy Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 2140,
"slug": "online-privacy",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/online-privacy"
},
"news_1089": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_1089",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "1089",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "social media",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "social media Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 1100,
"slug": "social-media",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/social-media"
},
"news_22685": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_22685",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "22685",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Social Security",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Social Security Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 22702,
"slug": "social-security",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/social-security"
},
"news_1631": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_1631",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "1631",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"name": "Technology",
"slug": "technology",
"taxonomy": "tag",
"description": null,
"featImg": null,
"headData": {
"title": "Technology | KQED News",
"description": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogDescription": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"twDescription": null,
"twImgId": null
},
"ttid": 1643,
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/technology"
},
"news_253": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_253",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "253",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "NPR",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "affiliate",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": "KQED is the NPR station for the Bay Area, providing award-winning news, programming, and community engagement.",
"title": "NPR Archives - Get the Latest News and Reports from California | KQED",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 7083,
"slug": "npr",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/affiliate/npr"
},
"news_33732": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_33732",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "33732",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Technology",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "interest",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Technology Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 33749,
"slug": "technology",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/interest/technology"
},
"news_18659": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_18659",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "18659",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "hospitals",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "hospitals Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 18676,
"slug": "hospitals",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/hospitals"
},
"news_3674": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_3674",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "3674",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Rob Bonta",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Rob Bonta Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 3692,
"slug": "rob-bonta",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/rob-bonta"
},
"news_18541": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_18541",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "18541",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "San Jose",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "San Jose Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 91,
"slug": "san-jose",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/san-jose"
},
"news_21285": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_21285",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "21285",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "South Bay",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "South Bay Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 21302,
"slug": "south-bay",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/south-bay"
},
"news_33731": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_33731",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "33731",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "South Bay",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "interest",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "South Bay Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 33748,
"slug": "south-bay",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/interest/south-bay"
},
"news_18383": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_18383",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "18383",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "swimming",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "swimming Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 18417,
"slug": "swimming",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/swimming"
},
"news_21789": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_21789",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "21789",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "nurses",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "nurses Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 21806,
"slug": "nurses",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/nurses"
},
"news_26203": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_26203",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "26203",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "San Francisco Department of Public Health",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "San Francisco Department of Public Health Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 26220,
"slug": "san-francisco-department-of-public-health",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/san-francisco-department-of-public-health"
},
"news_20220": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_20220",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "20220",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "San Francisco General Hospital",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "San Francisco General Hospital Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 20237,
"slug": "san-francisco-general-hospital",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/san-francisco-general-hospital"
},
"news_27989": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_27989",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "27989",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "covid",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "covid Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 28006,
"slug": "covid",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/covid"
},
"news_30415": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_30415",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "30415",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "long covid",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "long covid Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 30432,
"slug": "long-covid",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/long-covid"
},
"news_2672": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_2672",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "2672",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Photography",
"description": "Witness the Bay Area through captivating images and compelling narratives. Explore the latest visually-driven storytelling by KQED and immerse yourself in the heart of our community.",
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": "Witness the Bay Area through captivating images and compelling narratives. Explore the latest visually-driven storytelling by KQED and immerse yourself in the heart of our community.",
"title": "Photography Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 2689,
"slug": "photography",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/photography"
},
"news_28184": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_28184",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "28184",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "El Tecolote",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "affiliate",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "El Tecolote Archives | KQED Arts",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 28201,
"slug": "el-tecolote",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/affiliate/el-tecolote"
},
"news_33737": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_33737",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "33737",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Science",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "interest",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Science Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 33754,
"slug": "science",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/interest/science"
},
"news_22774": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_22774",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "22774",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "opioids",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "opioids Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 22791,
"slug": "opioids",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/opioids"
}
},
"userPermissionsReducer": {
"wpLoggedIn": false
},
"eventsReducer": {},
"fssReducer": {},
"tvDailyScheduleReducer": {},
"tvWeeklyScheduleReducer": {},
"tvPrimetimeScheduleReducer": {},
"tvMonthlyScheduleReducer": {},
"userAccountReducer": {
"user": {
"email": null,
"emailStatus": "EMAIL_UNVALIDATED",
"loggedStatus": "LOGGED_OUT",
"loggingChecked": false,
"articles": [],
"firstName": null,
"lastName": null,
"phoneNumber": null,
"fetchingMembership": false,
"membershipError": false,
"memberships": [
{
"id": null,
"startDate": null,
"firstName": null,
"lastName": null,
"familyNumber": null,
"memberNumber": null,
"memberSince": null,
"expirationDate": null,
"pfsEligible": false,
"isSustaining": false,
"membershipLevel": "Prospect",
"membershipStatus": "Non Member",
"lastGiftDate": null,
"renewalDate": null,
"lastDonationAmount": null
}
]
},
"authModal": {
"isOpen": false,
"view": "LANDING_VIEW"
},
"error": null
},
"youthMediaReducer": {},
"checkPleaseReducer": {
"filterData": {
"region": {
"key": "Restaurant Region",
"filters": [
"Any Region"
]
},
"cuisine": {
"key": "Restaurant Cuisine",
"filters": [
"Any Cuisine"
]
}
},
"restaurantDataById": {},
"restaurantIdsSorted": [],
"error": null
},
"userAgentReducer": {
"userAgent": "Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com)",
"isBot": true
}
}
