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"content": "\u003cp>Bay Area students are beginning to head back to school for the start of the fall semester, with some seeing the inside of a classroom for the first time in 18 months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a big moment, but the timing couldn’t be worse.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Dr. Sunitha Kaiser, UCSF pediatrician\"]‘We know now that the benefits of being in school for children far outweigh the risks.’[/pullquote]COVID-19 cases are spiking across the region, fueled by the highly transmissible delta variant. California is now averaging \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/projects/california-coronavirus-cases-tracking-outbreak/\">more than 10,000\u003c/a> new cases a day, about a \u003ca href=\"https://covid19.ca.gov/state-dashboard/\">10-fold increase\u003c/a> from a month ago. In several Bay Area counties, hundreds of people are testing positive daily.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that has a lot of parents, teachers and school officials worried.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Rough Start\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Just three days after classes resumed in Brentwood, on the eastern edge of Contra Costa County, \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/08/02/brentwood-district-schools-reporting-covid-19-cases-days-after-they-reopen/\">dozens of students and staff\u003c/a> had to quarantine. The Brentwood school district’s \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/10OvTLUaGCBgwRr7_nusso70lUSwRHskZU0-P_el5MWk/edit\">dashboard\u003c/a> Monday showed 17 students and two staff members from eight of its 11 schools had contracted the virus. School leaders say the outbreak originated in the surrounding community, not inside classrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“School districts merely represent the communities they live in,” said Brentwood Union School District Superintendent Dana Eaton. “We expect to have a similar percentage of students and staff members in our school that are COVID-positive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Cases Vary Dramatically for Kids\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Most young kids who catch the virus are asymptomatic. Some battle symptoms like those of the common cold — maybe a runny nose and cough. For older kids, COVID-19 can feel more like the flu. And although it’s rarely very serious for children, there are exceptions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]Across the country, at least 44,000 kids, from newborns to 17-year-olds, have been hospitalized over the past year, and \u003ca href=\"https://data.cdc.gov/NCHS/Deaths-by-Sex-Ages-0-18-years/xa4b-4pzv\">416\u003c/a> have died since the beginning of the pandemic last March, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can’t predict who’s going to get a bad case,” said Dr. Ann Petru, an infection control officer at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland. She stresses that vaccinations are the best protection against serious disease for those eligible to receive a shot, and also the best way to protect children under 12 who can’t yet get one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The current surge is especially stressful for people with vulnerable family members. Susana Villanueva Torres \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11877103/an-oakland-moms-death-from-covid-how-two-women-are-trying-to-fill-her-shoes\">lost her sister to COVID-19\u003c/a> last October. Now she’s caring for her sister’s 11-year-old son, David, in addition to her own teenage son.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recently she received additional painful news: Her husband was diagnosed with Hodgkin lymphoma, a cancer that weakens the immune system. She worries her boys may catch COVID at their Oakland schools and bring the virus home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“’You guys need to be aware, you need to wear your mask at all times. You know we need to take care of dad [and] tio [uncle],’” Torres says she frequently tells her son and nephew.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torres is scared. But she knows her boys are counting on seeing their friends and teachers, and she says in-person school also helps distract David from dwelling on the loss of his mother.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>How Bad Is Delta?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The delta variant is much more contagious than the original strain of the virus. It \u003ca href=\"https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#variant-proportions\">appears\u003c/a> to be spreading two to three times faster, and early \u003ca href=\"https://virological.org/t/viral-infection-and-transmission-in-a-large-well-traced-outbreak-caused-by-the-delta-sars-cov-2-variant/724\">research\u003c/a> from China shows that people who catch it have, on average, about 1,000 times more copies of the virus in their respiratory tracts than those who contracted the original bug.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The reason the delta variant could potentially be more virulent or more deadly, more disease-causing, is that it reaches much higher levels of virus in the body,” Dr. Celine Gounder, an epidemiologist at NYU’s medical school, said recently on \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/06/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-celine-gounder.html?showTranscript=1\">The Ezra Klein Show\u003c/a>. “It’s replicating so quickly. There’s so much of the virus in the nose, in the throat, in the lungs. And so this may be why the delta variant could be causing more severe disease.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nationwide, more than 93,824 children tested positive for the virus in the last week of July alone, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://services.aap.org/en/pages/2019-novel-coronavirus-covid-19-infections/children-and-covid-19-state-level-data-report/\">report\u003c/a> from the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Children’s Hospital Association. That’s about 15% of the total number of new cases across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are definitely seeing a big surge,” said Petru from Children’s Hospital Oakland. “We have around 10% of our kids testing positive now, which is compared to 1 to 2% at the end of May and early June. We also have a significant jump in the number of patients who are hospitalized with COVID.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\": tag=\"delta-variant\"]Petru says there are currently a handful of teenagers connected to ventilators in her hospital’s intensive care unit, fighting for their lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re very, very sick,” said Petru. “And it doesn’t have to be that way. They’re old enough that they could have gotten the vaccines.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Petru fears her hospital will be overwhelmed in the near future because the emergency department is already backlogged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To make matters worse, the delta variant is spiking just as common respiratory viruses like the rhinovirus and enterovirus are also starting to take hold in California. Common bugs that cause runny noses and colds are only likely to get worse as summer turns to fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Benefits of School Still Outweigh Risks\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>However, public health officials and school leaders are not considering closing schools. They learned a lot of hard lessons during the pandemic. Isolation is not good for any of us, especially children — a fact underscored by the spike in \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6945a3.htm\">emergency room visits among kids\u003c/a> for mental health issues over the last 18 months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know now that the benefits of being in school for children far outweigh the risks,” said Dr. Sunitha Kaiser, a UCSF pediatric hospitalist and professor. Most students have a stronger academic experience in person — \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-04-04/how-covid-distance-learning-hurt-california-english-learners\">many fell behind during distance learning\u003c/a> last year. And at school, many also have access to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11808968/coronavirus-is-impacting-the-bay-areas-mental-health-where-can-you-find-help\">mental health support\u003c/a> to help them recover from pandemic-related trauma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Kaiser recommends a multilayered approach to keep everyone safe inside schools. 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"content": "\u003cp>California is the first state in the nation to require all of its roughly 2.2 million health care and long-term care workers to be fully vaccinated against the coronavirus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new order, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/OPA/Pages/NR21-242.aspx\">issued Thursday\u003c/a> by the California Department of Public Health, mandates all that all health care workers must be fully vaccinated by the end of Sept. 30 — allowing only for religious or rare medical exemptions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The order tightens Gov. Gavin Newsom’s move last week to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2021/07/california-vaccine-requirements-workers/\">require health care workers and state employees\u003c/a> to be vaccinated or submit to weekly testing. Now, there is no longer a choice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The change comes as California is seeing the fastest increase in new virus cases since the start of the pandemic, averaging 18.3 new cases per 100,000 people a day. Most of the state’s new infections are caused by the delta variant, a more contagious version of the coronavirus that the state says “may cause more severe illness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than \u003ca href=\"https://covid19.ca.gov/state-dashboard/#todays-update\">5,500 Californians are currently hospitalized\u003c/a> for COVID-19, with about one-fifth of them needing intensive care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Increasing numbers of health care workers are among the new positive cases, despite vaccinations being prioritized for this group when vaccines initially became available,” said Dr. Tomás J. Aragón, California’s public health officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The order represents a new hard line in public health leaders’ quest to convince the hesitant to receive the vaccine. Several states are focusing on health care workers, since they are around vulnerable patients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/CAPublicHealth/status/1423398894046781453\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As we continue to see an increase in cases and hospitalizations due to the delta variant of COVID-19, it’s important that we protect the vulnerable patients in these settings,” Aragón said in a statement. “Today’s action will also ensure that health care workers themselves are protected. Vaccines are how we end this pandemic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But other states with similar requirements have carved out exceptions, like \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/business-health-oregon-coronavirus-pandemic-4ec0b8814283fe717b3363ea53b35b34\">in Oregon\u003c/a>, where health care workers can instead get regular COVID-19 testing. \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/business-health-coronavirus-pandemic-maryland-28432aaf58e45223980958a48ffbf1cc\">In Maryland\u003c/a>, the vaccine mandate only applies to certain state employees, such as those who work in health care facilities under the state health department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, vaccine mandates are politically perilous for Newsom, who is facing a recall election next month fueled in part by anger over his handling of the pandemic. Newsom has angered many parents by continuing to require masks indoors at all public schools, although he has not required all teachers and staff to be vaccinated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some California local governments are going beyond the new rule. In June, San Francisco became the first major U.S. city to announce it would \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/health/article/S-F-will-require-all-city-workers-to-be-16269840.php\">require all 36,000 of its city employees\u003c/a> to be fully inoculated against the virus — or risk losing their jobs— once the vaccines receive full approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in Los Angeles County, some 110,000 government workers have until Oct. 1 to be vaccinated under a new order issued by Board of Supervisors Chair Hilda L. Solis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She noted that about 4 million of the county’s roughly 10 million residents remain unvaccinated. The Los Angeles order doesn’t specify penalties for employees who refuse to be vaccinated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, a letter to the approximately 5,000 staffers of Los Angeles County Superior Court — the nation’s largest trial court system — ordered them to be fully vaccinated or be fired. The letter says workers must show proof of vaccination no more than 45 days after the federal Food and Drug Administration gives its final approval to one of the vaccines available in the U.S., the Los Angeles Times \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-08-05/l-a-county-court-will-fire-employees-who-dont-get-coronavirus-vaccine-after-full-fda-approval\">reported\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both of those mandates provide exceptions for people for medical or religious reasons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"delta-variant\"]California’s new vaccine mandate is broad and applies to workers in most health care facilities, including hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, psychiatric hospitals, adult day health care centers, dialysis centers, hospice facilities and clinics and doctor’s offices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca title=\"second public health order\" href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/COVID-19/Order-of-the-State-Public-Health-Officer-Requirements-for-Visitors-in-Acute-Health-Care-and-Long-Term-Care-Settings.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"4\">second public health order\u003c/a> directs facilities to verify that visitors are fully vaccinated or have tested negative for COVID-19 in the last 72 hours before indoor visits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state said it would give its updated guidance for long-term care facilities “in the near future.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carmela Coyle, president and CEO of the California Hospital Association, called the vaccine mandate “an important step in the long battle we face against COVID-19 and the multiple variants that have emerged.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are once again on a dangerous precipice that demands both our fortitude and our goodwill to protect loved ones and neighbors,” Coyle said. “California’s health care workers are being called upon — as they have through every step of this pandemic — to lead the charge in the battle between vaccine and variant.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 63% of Californians 12 and older have been fully vaccinated. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated Aug. 4, 2021 at 9:50 a.m. PT\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the highly contagious delta variant surging ferociously, Americans are once again grappling with pandemic anxiety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The surge has prompted a flurry of new mask and vaccine mandates and other steps to try to get the virus back under control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While delta can sometimes infect vaccinated people, infections, hospitalizations and deaths are rising fastest in parts of the country with the most unvaccinated people. Hotspots, however, are popping up everywhere from Massachusetts to California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While we desperately want to be done with this pandemic, COVID-19 is clearly not done with us, and so our battle must last a little longer,” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said a recent White House COVID-19 briefing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if you’re already vaccinated, how worried should you be? What new precautions are called for? Here’s what to know about the fast-spreading variant and how to stay safe and protect others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#anchor1\">\u003cb>\u003cstrong>How much more contagious is the delta variant?\u003c/strong>\u003c/b>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#anchor2\">\u003cb>If I’m vaccinated, can I get sick with delta?\u003c/b>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#anchor3\">\u003cb>What about long COVID-19?\u003c/b>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#anchor4\">\u003cb>Should I go back to wearing a mask in public?\u003c/b>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#anchor5\">\u003cb>Do I need a booster shot?\u003c/b>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#anchor6\">\u003cb>What about kids?\u003c/b>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#anchor7\">\u003cb>Is it safe to fly?\u003c/b>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#anchor8\">\u003cb>How about going to weddings and other large gatherings?\u003c/b>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#anchor9\">\u003cb>Does delta cause different COVID-19 symptoms\u003c/b>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#anchor10\">\u003cb>Do I need to wipe down everything again?\u003c/b>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp> \u003cbr>\n\u003ca id=\"anchor1\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>How much more contagious is the delta variant, really?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Very. As \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/05/07/994710459/is-the-variant-from-india-the-most-contagious-coronavirus-mutant-on-the-planet\">NPR has reported\u003c/a>, delta appears to be around twice as transmissible as the original SARS-CoV-2 strains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/07/08/1013794996/why-the-delta-variant-is-so-contagious-a-new-study-sheds-light\">recent preprint study from China\u003c/a> found that people who are infected with delta have — on average — about 1,000 times more copies of the virus in their respiratory tracts than those infected with the original strain, and are infectious earlier in the course of their illness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No matter how you look at it, delta seems to spread faster, explains \u003ca href=\"https://www.uwmedicine.org/bios/helen-chu\">Helen Chu\u003c/a>, associate professor of medicine at the University of Washington.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can look at it through modeling, you can look at it through population-level data, and you can look at it simply by putting the virus into the cell and looking at how quickly it infects the next cell,” she says. “In all of those measures, it has looked like it’s more transmissible.”\u003cbr>\n\u003ca id=\"anchor2\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>If I’m vaccinated, can I get sick with delta?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cbr>\nYes, but don’t panic. While the vaccines are somewhat less protective against delta, they are still highly effective at preventing people from getting severely ill and dying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"delta-variant\"]During a recent White House briefing, Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, noted that the data from the UK showed the vaccines are 88% effective at preventing people from developing symptoms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vaccinated people are eight times less likely to get sick and 25 times less likely to end up in the hospital compared to unvaccinated people, Fauci said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For context, the CDC \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/covid-19/health-departments/breakthrough-cases.html\">has documented\u003c/a> a total of 6,587 cases of fully vaccinated people who were hospitalized or died from COVID-19, among the more than 163 million people who have been fully vaccinated in this country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That is a rate of 0.01% or less, Fauci said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The bottom line of what we are saying is: Get vaccinated,” Fauci says. “The COVID vaccines give strong protection against the delta variant, and it protects you, your family, and your community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though the CDC only tracks breakthrough infections that lead to hospitalization and death, some states are keeping track of every case. According to an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kff.org/policy-watch/covid-19-vaccine-breakthrough-cases-data-from-the-states/\">analysis by the Kaiser Family Foundation\u003c/a> — among states that track the data — the rate of breakthrough cases among fully vaccinated people ranged from 0.01% in Connecticut to 0.29% in Alaska.\u003cbr>\n\u003ca id=\"anchor3\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What about long COVID-19?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>While the risk of getting sick if you’re vaccinated is very low, if you do get a symptomatic case, it’s still possible to end up with long-haul COVID-19 symptoms, according to virologist \u003ca href=\"https://angelarasmussen.org/about\">Angela Rasmussen\u003c/a>, who works with the Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization at the University of Saskatchewan in Canada. She notes the data is still quite limited, though.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even if you don’t end up in the hospital, there’s certainly a possibility that you could end up with long COVID,” she says. “So, the safest thing to do is to avoid being infected altogether.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/07/28/1021888033/breakthrough-infections-may-cause-long-covid-symptoms-small-study-suggests\">a recent study\u003c/a> from Israel suggested that even people who experience “mild” breakthrough infections may be at risk for symptoms that linger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The study found that about one in five people — 19% — who got infected even though they were vaccinated experienced symptoms found in long COVID patients that lasted at least six weeks, including headaches, body aches, fatigue and loss of taste and smell. The study, however, was very small, including only seven patients out of about 1,500 who experienced lingering health problems.\u003cbr>\n\u003ca id=\"anchor4\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Should I go back to wearing a mask in public?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Yes, and many experts advise you up your mask game to wear the best-fitting mask you can.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In late July, CDC \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/07/27/1021206558/cdc-expected-to-change-mask-guidance-for-vaccinated-people-including-in-schools\">issued new guidelines\u003c/a> that even fully vaccinated people should start masking up again indoors when they are places where the virus is circulating widely. (Check \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/1021795290\">this map with data from the CDC\u003c/a> to see if you need to mask up where you live.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CDC’s new recommendation was based on an investigation of an outbreak that occurred in Provincetown, Massachusetts, around the July 4 holiday. Researchers discovered that fully vaccinated people who caught the virus could carry as much virus as unvaccinated people, which means they could spread the virus to other people. The findings are consistent with outbreak investigations, the CDC’s Walensky said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CDC also updated its guidance to recommend everyone in schools wear masks, regardless of whether they are vaccinated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I understand this is all frustrating news, and I share this frustration,” Walensky said. “We continue to learn each day from emerging science and use this evidence to update our recommendations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before CDC changed its guidance, many health experts were already calling for vaccinated people to resume masking indoors. Many said they’d never stopped masking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://cph.osu.edu/people/wmiller\">Bill Miller\u003c/a>, a physician and epidemiologist at The Ohio State University says he wears a mask in public places, even though he’s fully vaccinated. “I know that I am extremely unlikely to get seriously ill. But I also know that if I am exposed, I may become infected and pass it on to others,” he says.\u003cbr>\n\u003ca id=\"anchor5\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Do I need a booster shot?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>At this point, no. So far, the federal government doesn’t recommend booster shots to enhance immunity, though it is actively studying the question.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The CDC and the FDA are working very hard to get as much data as they possibly can to adequately address that question,” Dr. Fauci told NPR’s \u003cem>Here & Now\u003c/em> recently. Federal health officials and vaccine makers continue to follow participants enrolled in the initial clinical trials to see how well immunity holds up with current vaccinations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, experts say it’s encouraging. “The level of antibodies seem to be holding up pretty well, so we have to watch and see what happens over the course of the coming months,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.nih.gov/about-nih/who-we-are/nih-director/biographical-sketch-francis-s-collins-md-phd\">Francis Collins\u003c/a>, National Institutes of Health director, told NPR in an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, as immunity wanes, a booster could be recommended for certain groups, including elderly people. There’s also research underway to test a \u003ca href=\"https://www.bcm.edu/news/baylor-launches-clinical-trial-for-covid-19-vaccine-booster\">mix-and-match approach to booster shots\u003c/a>. Researchers are giving study participants who were originally vaccinated with any of the three authorized vaccines a booster shot of the Moderna vaccine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>White House COVID-19 response coordinator Jeff Zients said that the administration is ready for the possibility of boosters “if and when the science shows they are needed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, some other countries have either already started or announced plans to start giving very vulnerable or older people boosters soon.\u003cbr>\n\u003ca id=\"anchor6\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What about kids? Can kids get infected and spread delta?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Yes. Although children tend to have milder cases of coronavirus, they are certainly susceptible to infection. Children remain the least protected age group, since the vaccine is not authorized for children under the age of 12.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s possible that children who get infected with the delta variant might have more symptoms than they would if they were infected with an earlier version of the virus. With a more transmissible variant, “when someone gets sick, they tend to have more virus, and they tend to have more symptoms,” Chu, from the University of Washington, explains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That being said, typically “children are not that symptomatic from COVID,” she says. Her best guess? She thinks delta “probably will not lead to significant numbers of children getting hospitalized.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there’s still a reason to keep your kids masked up in public, and that’s the risk they could spread it to more vulnerable people, says Rasmussen, from the University of Saskatchewan. “Even if it doesn’t impact them, it could impact other vulnerable people in their household, such as people who may not have had a robust response to the vaccine, people who are immunocompromised.”\u003cbr>\n\u003ca id=\"anchor7\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Is it safe to fly, especially with my unvaccinated kids? Any other travel precautions to be aware of?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Infectious disease experts say to use extra caution when traveling. “We are now dealing with a different virus, and we are living in this highly contagious virus’ playground,” Dr. Ravina Kullar, infectious diseases specialist and epidemiologist, at UCLA, told NPR via email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Airplanes themselves are generally deemed low risk, given that the air filtration is typically excellent and passengers wear masks. But getting to, and waiting around in, the airport could be risky, especially for unvaccinated kids. With that in mind, Kullar says she would hold off on flying with young kids “until delta plateaus” and plan a road trip instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other experts said short flights may be OK. But if you do fly, make sure you and your kids \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/02/03/962197192/5-hacks-to-make-your-face-mask-more-protective\">wear well-fitted masks,\u003c/a> ideally N95s or KN95s, or double mask. And keep masks on the entire time you’re in the airport and plane.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether you plan to fly or drive, take a look at the level of coronavirus spread in the area you’re traveling to, advises Dr. Helen Boucher, an infectious disease physician at Tufts Medical Center. She suggests canceling plans to travel to places with high or “substantial” spread, according to the CDC designation. (Check \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/1021795290\">NPR’s map here\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo, infectious disease specialist at the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine, agrees strongly: “One should be very wary of taking a child too young to be vaccinated from a low-incidence state to a high-incidence state like Florida,” she told NPR. “Glad I don’t have to make those hard choices for my family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you fly, there’s “no need to quarantine after flying unless a person has symptoms,” Dr. Tina Tan, an infectious disease specialist at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, told NPR via email. But do avoid busy, crowded vacation spots, she warns. Other agree: Beach parties, bars and crowded concerts, even outdoor ones, could pose a risk during the delta surge.\u003cbr>\n\u003ca id=\"anchor8\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Should I turn down invitations to weddings and other large gatherings?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Many public health experts say it’s safe to attend certain gatherings if you’re vaccinated, but keep the variant in mind, especially if you’re somewhere with rising cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OSU’s Bill Miller says he encourages mask wearing for an indoor wedding or event “because you’re bringing people together from different social networks, creating a great opportunity for an outbreak.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One case study serves as a reminder that the risk is not zero: Six vaccinated people got COVID-19 after attending a wedding near Houston, held in a large, outdoor tent. All of the infected people got symptoms, one was hospitalized, and another person — who had received India’s Covaxin vaccine — died, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.06.28.21258780v1.full#T1\">a preprint study\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As scary as that sounds, “there could be rare events like these where people are in an enclosed tent and very close to each other. But the vast majority, the vast, vast majority of viral transmission is happening indoors,” says Chu.\u003cbr>\n\u003ca id=\"anchor9\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Does delta cause different COVID-19 symptoms?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Maybe. Some doctors and public health departments have reported that people infected with delta have different symptoms from the original, classic signs of COVID-19: cough, loss of taste or smell, and fever. Now, some of the more common symptoms appear to be \u003ca href=\"https://covid.joinzoe.com/post/new-top-5-covid-symptoms\">runny nose, sore throat and headache\u003c/a>, according to the ZOE COVID Study, an ongoing app-based research project based in the UK.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Chu warns that it’s hard to know what’s behind that apparent change, “because the population that it’s infecting is not the same population that was infected in the prior waves.” The people getting sick now tend to be much younger, she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since COVID-19 might present differently in younger people, any changes in symptoms could have less to do with the new variant and more to do with the people who are contracting it. “I don’t know that you can disentangle that,” Chu says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is already a disease that produces a pretty broad range of different clinical presentations in people,” adds Rasmussen. She’d like to see better data before concluding the symptoms are, in fact, different.\u003cbr>\n\u003ca id=\"anchor10\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Do I need those bleach wipes again?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>No extra surface cleaning is necessary. Even though it’s more transmissible, delta still transmits the same way the original SARS-CoV-2 virus does. “This type of virus, which is an RNA virus that is enveloped, tends to transmit [through] respiratory transmission,” Chu says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s backed by “some extremely detailed contact tracing” done in the recent preprint study from China, says Rasmussen. The researchers “determined that these cases were transmitted primarily through what they called indirect contact, which is most likely inhalation of infectious aerosols [while] breathing shared air, or through direct physical contact,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means the virus is most likely to be transmitted to someone indoors who is breathing in a nearby infected person’s droplets or aerosols. With delta, the difference is that the infected person will make many more copies of the virus, faster, which makes it easier to spread.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in a way, “that’s good news,” Rasmussen says. “It means that the mitigation measures that we have put in place previously will still work against the delta variant — it’s not being transmitted by some other route.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2021 NPR. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if you’re already vaccinated, how worried should you be? What new precautions are called for? Here’s what to know about the fast-spreading variant and how to stay safe and protect others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#anchor1\">\u003cb>\u003cstrong>How much more contagious is the delta variant?\u003c/strong>\u003c/b>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#anchor2\">\u003cb>If I’m vaccinated, can I get sick with delta?\u003c/b>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#anchor3\">\u003cb>What about long COVID-19?\u003c/b>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#anchor4\">\u003cb>Should I go back to wearing a mask in public?\u003c/b>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#anchor5\">\u003cb>Do I need a booster shot?\u003c/b>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#anchor6\">\u003cb>What about kids?\u003c/b>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#anchor7\">\u003cb>Is it safe to fly?\u003c/b>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#anchor8\">\u003cb>How about going to weddings and other large gatherings?\u003c/b>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#anchor9\">\u003cb>Does delta cause different COVID-19 symptoms\u003c/b>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#anchor10\">\u003cb>Do I need to wipe down everything again?\u003c/b>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp> \u003cbr>\n\u003ca id=\"anchor1\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>How much more contagious is the delta variant, really?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Very. As \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/05/07/994710459/is-the-variant-from-india-the-most-contagious-coronavirus-mutant-on-the-planet\">NPR has reported\u003c/a>, delta appears to be around twice as transmissible as the original SARS-CoV-2 strains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/07/08/1013794996/why-the-delta-variant-is-so-contagious-a-new-study-sheds-light\">recent preprint study from China\u003c/a> found that people who are infected with delta have — on average — about 1,000 times more copies of the virus in their respiratory tracts than those infected with the original strain, and are infectious earlier in the course of their illness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No matter how you look at it, delta seems to spread faster, explains \u003ca href=\"https://www.uwmedicine.org/bios/helen-chu\">Helen Chu\u003c/a>, associate professor of medicine at the University of Washington.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can look at it through modeling, you can look at it through population-level data, and you can look at it simply by putting the virus into the cell and looking at how quickly it infects the next cell,” she says. “In all of those measures, it has looked like it’s more transmissible.”\u003cbr>\n\u003ca id=\"anchor2\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>If I’m vaccinated, can I get sick with delta?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cbr>\nYes, but don’t panic. While the vaccines are somewhat less protective against delta, they are still highly effective at preventing people from getting severely ill and dying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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According to an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kff.org/policy-watch/covid-19-vaccine-breakthrough-cases-data-from-the-states/\">analysis by the Kaiser Family Foundation\u003c/a> — among states that track the data — the rate of breakthrough cases among fully vaccinated people ranged from 0.01% in Connecticut to 0.29% in Alaska.\u003cbr>\n\u003ca id=\"anchor3\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What about long COVID-19?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>While the risk of getting sick if you’re vaccinated is very low, if you do get a symptomatic case, it’s still possible to end up with long-haul COVID-19 symptoms, according to virologist \u003ca href=\"https://angelarasmussen.org/about\">Angela Rasmussen\u003c/a>, who works with the Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization at the University of Saskatchewan in Canada. She notes the data is still quite limited, though.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even if you don’t end up in the hospital, there’s certainly a possibility that you could end up with long COVID,” she says. “So, the safest thing to do is to avoid being infected altogether.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/07/28/1021888033/breakthrough-infections-may-cause-long-covid-symptoms-small-study-suggests\">a recent study\u003c/a> from Israel suggested that even people who experience “mild” breakthrough infections may be at risk for symptoms that linger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The study found that about one in five people — 19% — who got infected even though they were vaccinated experienced symptoms found in long COVID patients that lasted at least six weeks, including headaches, body aches, fatigue and loss of taste and smell. The study, however, was very small, including only seven patients out of about 1,500 who experienced lingering health problems.\u003cbr>\n\u003ca id=\"anchor4\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Should I go back to wearing a mask in public?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Yes, and many experts advise you up your mask game to wear the best-fitting mask you can.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In late July, CDC \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/07/27/1021206558/cdc-expected-to-change-mask-guidance-for-vaccinated-people-including-in-schools\">issued new guidelines\u003c/a> that even fully vaccinated people should start masking up again indoors when they are places where the virus is circulating widely. (Check \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/1021795290\">this map with data from the CDC\u003c/a> to see if you need to mask up where you live.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CDC’s new recommendation was based on an investigation of an outbreak that occurred in Provincetown, Massachusetts, around the July 4 holiday. Researchers discovered that fully vaccinated people who caught the virus could carry as much virus as unvaccinated people, which means they could spread the virus to other people. The findings are consistent with outbreak investigations, the CDC’s Walensky said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CDC also updated its guidance to recommend everyone in schools wear masks, regardless of whether they are vaccinated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I understand this is all frustrating news, and I share this frustration,” Walensky said. “We continue to learn each day from emerging science and use this evidence to update our recommendations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before CDC changed its guidance, many health experts were already calling for vaccinated people to resume masking indoors. Many said they’d never stopped masking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://cph.osu.edu/people/wmiller\">Bill Miller\u003c/a>, a physician and epidemiologist at The Ohio State University says he wears a mask in public places, even though he’s fully vaccinated. “I know that I am extremely unlikely to get seriously ill. But I also know that if I am exposed, I may become infected and pass it on to others,” he says.\u003cbr>\n\u003ca id=\"anchor5\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Do I need a booster shot?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>At this point, no. So far, the federal government doesn’t recommend booster shots to enhance immunity, though it is actively studying the question.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The CDC and the FDA are working very hard to get as much data as they possibly can to adequately address that question,” Dr. Fauci told NPR’s \u003cem>Here & Now\u003c/em> recently. Federal health officials and vaccine makers continue to follow participants enrolled in the initial clinical trials to see how well immunity holds up with current vaccinations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, experts say it’s encouraging. “The level of antibodies seem to be holding up pretty well, so we have to watch and see what happens over the course of the coming months,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.nih.gov/about-nih/who-we-are/nih-director/biographical-sketch-francis-s-collins-md-phd\">Francis Collins\u003c/a>, National Institutes of Health director, told NPR in an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, as immunity wanes, a booster could be recommended for certain groups, including elderly people. There’s also research underway to test a \u003ca href=\"https://www.bcm.edu/news/baylor-launches-clinical-trial-for-covid-19-vaccine-booster\">mix-and-match approach to booster shots\u003c/a>. Researchers are giving study participants who were originally vaccinated with any of the three authorized vaccines a booster shot of the Moderna vaccine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>White House COVID-19 response coordinator Jeff Zients said that the administration is ready for the possibility of boosters “if and when the science shows they are needed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, some other countries have either already started or announced plans to start giving very vulnerable or older people boosters soon.\u003cbr>\n\u003ca id=\"anchor6\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What about kids? Can kids get infected and spread delta?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Yes. Although children tend to have milder cases of coronavirus, they are certainly susceptible to infection. Children remain the least protected age group, since the vaccine is not authorized for children under the age of 12.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s possible that children who get infected with the delta variant might have more symptoms than they would if they were infected with an earlier version of the virus. With a more transmissible variant, “when someone gets sick, they tend to have more virus, and they tend to have more symptoms,” Chu, from the University of Washington, explains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That being said, typically “children are not that symptomatic from COVID,” she says. Her best guess? She thinks delta “probably will not lead to significant numbers of children getting hospitalized.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there’s still a reason to keep your kids masked up in public, and that’s the risk they could spread it to more vulnerable people, says Rasmussen, from the University of Saskatchewan. “Even if it doesn’t impact them, it could impact other vulnerable people in their household, such as people who may not have had a robust response to the vaccine, people who are immunocompromised.”\u003cbr>\n\u003ca id=\"anchor7\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Is it safe to fly, especially with my unvaccinated kids? Any other travel precautions to be aware of?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Infectious disease experts say to use extra caution when traveling. “We are now dealing with a different virus, and we are living in this highly contagious virus’ playground,” Dr. Ravina Kullar, infectious diseases specialist and epidemiologist, at UCLA, told NPR via email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Airplanes themselves are generally deemed low risk, given that the air filtration is typically excellent and passengers wear masks. But getting to, and waiting around in, the airport could be risky, especially for unvaccinated kids. With that in mind, Kullar says she would hold off on flying with young kids “until delta plateaus” and plan a road trip instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other experts said short flights may be OK. But if you do fly, make sure you and your kids \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/02/03/962197192/5-hacks-to-make-your-face-mask-more-protective\">wear well-fitted masks,\u003c/a> ideally N95s or KN95s, or double mask. And keep masks on the entire time you’re in the airport and plane.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether you plan to fly or drive, take a look at the level of coronavirus spread in the area you’re traveling to, advises Dr. Helen Boucher, an infectious disease physician at Tufts Medical Center. She suggests canceling plans to travel to places with high or “substantial” spread, according to the CDC designation. (Check \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/1021795290\">NPR’s map here\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo, infectious disease specialist at the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine, agrees strongly: “One should be very wary of taking a child too young to be vaccinated from a low-incidence state to a high-incidence state like Florida,” she told NPR. “Glad I don’t have to make those hard choices for my family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you fly, there’s “no need to quarantine after flying unless a person has symptoms,” Dr. Tina Tan, an infectious disease specialist at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, told NPR via email. But do avoid busy, crowded vacation spots, she warns. Other agree: Beach parties, bars and crowded concerts, even outdoor ones, could pose a risk during the delta surge.\u003cbr>\n\u003ca id=\"anchor8\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Should I turn down invitations to weddings and other large gatherings?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Many public health experts say it’s safe to attend certain gatherings if you’re vaccinated, but keep the variant in mind, especially if you’re somewhere with rising cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OSU’s Bill Miller says he encourages mask wearing for an indoor wedding or event “because you’re bringing people together from different social networks, creating a great opportunity for an outbreak.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One case study serves as a reminder that the risk is not zero: Six vaccinated people got COVID-19 after attending a wedding near Houston, held in a large, outdoor tent. All of the infected people got symptoms, one was hospitalized, and another person — who had received India’s Covaxin vaccine — died, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.06.28.21258780v1.full#T1\">a preprint study\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As scary as that sounds, “there could be rare events like these where people are in an enclosed tent and very close to each other. But the vast majority, the vast, vast majority of viral transmission is happening indoors,” says Chu.\u003cbr>\n\u003ca id=\"anchor9\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Does delta cause different COVID-19 symptoms?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Maybe. Some doctors and public health departments have reported that people infected with delta have different symptoms from the original, classic signs of COVID-19: cough, loss of taste or smell, and fever. Now, some of the more common symptoms appear to be \u003ca href=\"https://covid.joinzoe.com/post/new-top-5-covid-symptoms\">runny nose, sore throat and headache\u003c/a>, according to the ZOE COVID Study, an ongoing app-based research project based in the UK.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Chu warns that it’s hard to know what’s behind that apparent change, “because the population that it’s infecting is not the same population that was infected in the prior waves.” The people getting sick now tend to be much younger, she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since COVID-19 might present differently in younger people, any changes in symptoms could have less to do with the new variant and more to do with the people who are contracting it. “I don’t know that you can disentangle that,” Chu says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is already a disease that produces a pretty broad range of different clinical presentations in people,” adds Rasmussen. She’d like to see better data before concluding the symptoms are, in fact, different.\u003cbr>\n\u003ca id=\"anchor10\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Do I need those bleach wipes again?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>No extra surface cleaning is necessary. Even though it’s more transmissible, delta still transmits the same way the original SARS-CoV-2 virus does. “This type of virus, which is an RNA virus that is enveloped, tends to transmit [through] respiratory transmission,” Chu says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s backed by “some extremely detailed contact tracing” done in the recent preprint study from China, says Rasmussen. The researchers “determined that these cases were transmitted primarily through what they called indirect contact, which is most likely inhalation of infectious aerosols [while] breathing shared air, or through direct physical contact,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means the virus is most likely to be transmitted to someone indoors who is breathing in a nearby infected person’s droplets or aerosols. With delta, the difference is that the infected person will make many more copies of the virus, faster, which makes it easier to spread.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Gary McCoy once lived on the streets of San Francisco, where he experienced substance use disorder and witnessed drug overdose deaths firsthand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Years later, he rose to the upper echelons of San Francisco’s City Hall. On Sunday, McCoy began a round-the-clock hunger strike on its steps, urging the city to take action to prevent opioid-related overdose deaths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, McCoy ended his strike at 60 hours after receiving support from the majority of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. McCoy said officials will introduce a resolution urging the mayor to declare a state of emergency and authorize the use of safe consumption services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/rgarymccoy/status/1422642909858328581\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McCoy’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/local/heatherknight/article/He-was-high-homeless-and-in-and-out-of-jail-in-16143241.php\">journey from homelessness to San Francisco’s gold-painted rotunda\u003c/a> made him popular within San Francisco political circles: He’s been a congressional aide to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and has worked for both state Sen. Scott Wiener and Mayor London Breed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco saw \u003ca href=\"https://www.capradio.org/articles/2021/04/29/fact-check-did-san-francisco-have-twice-as-many-drug-overdose-deaths-as-covid-deaths-in-2020/\">nearly 700 fatal opioid overdoses last year\u003c/a>, nearly twice the number of people who died from COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11874651/fentanyl-is-killing-more-people-in-the-pandemic-in-santa-clara-county-victims-are-getting-younger\">analysis by KQED and Documenting COVID-19\u003c/a>, the latter a project started at Columbia University’s Brown Institute for Media Innovation, found that the number of fentanyl overdoses rose sharply from 2019 to 2020 in three Bay Area counties: 170% in Santa Clara County, 68% in San Francisco and 29% in Alameda County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McCoy, 43, believes he narrowly escaped that fate. He feels the city isn’t doing enough to address the crisis and wants the mayor to implement\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/09/07/645609248/whats-the-evidence-that-supervised-drug-injection-sites-save-lives\"> safe consumption sites\u003c/a> where people can use drugs with safety monitoring by staffers to prevent death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The matter is legally thorny, and efforts at the state level to implement them has been met with setbacks; Wiener’s effort to pass SB 57, to allow some safe consumption sites, \u003ca href=\"https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2021/07/06/supervised-drug-sites-state-sen-scott-wiener-proposal-delayed-next-year/\">won’t be heard next among state lawmakers until 2022\u003c/a>. Breed’s office said they want to create safe consumption sites but there are legal concerns. Meanwhile, a special city team that will provide resources to overdose survivors begins its work Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McCoy is director of policy and public affairs with HealthRIGHT 360, a health services provider.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This interview has been edited for length and clarity. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>KQED’s Sara Hossaini: So tell us about what you’re doing out in front of City Hall.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gary McCoy: I set up my chair and have a couple of books with me and a couple of jugs of water. And I am committed to sitting out here day and night and not eating solid foods, drinking water and herbal teas for as long as it takes until we can get a commitment from our city leaders to declare a state of emergency for the overdose crisis and authorize, fund and implement safe consumption services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>That’s a big commitment. And you’re no stranger to this place, right?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No, I’m no stranger to the building. I’ve worked in this building under three different supervisors in different capacities over the last decade or so and then across the street with the San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department for several years. And so I’m very familiar with the area. I used to live right over here, except this time I won’t have as ready access to a restroom and, you know, indoor living.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why is this issue so important to you?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I was born and raised in Norfolk, Virginia. It was very, very conservative. For me being gay, I don’t know that I was in the closet, but I certainly wasn’t shouting from the rooftops that I was gay when I was younger. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I moved here when I was in my very early 20s, and within a matter of months I was on the streets. I had once again picked up my substance use disorder. This time it was meth. Before I moved here in my teens, it was heroin. And my life got pretty dark, pretty quick.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11883467\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11883467\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50528_009_SanFrancisco_OverdoseHungerStrike_08012021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50528_009_SanFrancisco_OverdoseHungerStrike_08012021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50528_009_SanFrancisco_OverdoseHungerStrike_08012021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50528_009_SanFrancisco_OverdoseHungerStrike_08012021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50528_009_SanFrancisco_OverdoseHungerStrike_08012021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50528_009_SanFrancisco_OverdoseHungerStrike_08012021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gary McCoy reads a book outside City Hall in San Francisco on August 1, 2021, during a hunger strike calling for San Francisco to put funds toward the overdose crisis and implement safe consumption services. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And I don’t know how I’m here today, but I vowed that because I’m here today, I will certainly do everything I can to try to at least help other people have the same opportunities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I have a great life today. I have a husband that is very supportive of me, and we have a dog and we live in a market-rate-rent apartment and I’m working full time. And I’ve worked for some incredible people up until now. And while I’ve been abstinent from drugs and alcohol for a little over a decade now, I wouldn’t have had that opportunity … if it weren’t for harm reduction [practices and policies] that got me there. I was a tough case for sure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>So when you were homeless, do you remember people dying of overdoses?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were people around me that died of overdoses when I was using, but it was very few and far between. But with fentanyl now, people just don’t know what they’re using, and it’s unsafe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think in 2017 we had something like 222 overdose deaths that year, and now we’re well over 700 and counting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I know the city has had to sort of struggle with the onset of the pandemic. And, you know, it’s hard to prioritize things. I know that they’ve done a lot of work in prioritizing this issue. But again, it’s time to open a safe consumption site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why do you consider safe consumption sites to be the answer?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I don’t think they’re the end-all, be-all. But they’re a much-needed approach to connect to the harder-to-reach population who use drugs. And if you can start building that reputation and trust with somebody that’s coming in to use in a supervised setting, then you sort of open up the dialogue to maybe gently nudge them to be seen by a clinician and take care of health issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11881276\" label=\"More on overdose deaths\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How is it for you to be so open about all of this? What’s it like to choose this moment to share all of this?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think the more folks that can see that change is possible, I think the better. And so I’ve always been more than happy to put everything out there that I’ve experienced. And I’ve had no problems with it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>It strikes me that you’re putting your body at risk again, but for a totally different reason.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’ve been thinking a lot about this for the last couple of days, and my husband is — how do I put this? My husband has no issue reminding me that what I’m doing can be dangerous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was a lot of PTSD around me being on the streets and the things that I experienced, and I have been housed for over a decade now. And so I imagine there’s going to be some things that come up while I’m out here. 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He feels the city isn’t doing enough to address the crisis and wants the mayor to implement\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/09/07/645609248/whats-the-evidence-that-supervised-drug-injection-sites-save-lives\"> safe consumption sites\u003c/a> where people can use drugs with safety monitoring by staffers to prevent death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The matter is legally thorny, and efforts at the state level to implement them has been met with setbacks; Wiener’s effort to pass SB 57, to allow some safe consumption sites, \u003ca href=\"https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2021/07/06/supervised-drug-sites-state-sen-scott-wiener-proposal-delayed-next-year/\">won’t be heard next among state lawmakers until 2022\u003c/a>. Breed’s office said they want to create safe consumption sites but there are legal concerns. 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And you’re no stranger to this place, right?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No, I’m no stranger to the building. I’ve worked in this building under three different supervisors in different capacities over the last decade or so and then across the street with the San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department for several years. And so I’m very familiar with the area. I used to live right over here, except this time I won’t have as ready access to a restroom and, you know, indoor living.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why is this issue so important to you?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I was born and raised in Norfolk, Virginia. It was very, very conservative. For me being gay, I don’t know that I was in the closet, but I certainly wasn’t shouting from the rooftops that I was gay when I was younger. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I moved here when I was in my very early 20s, and within a matter of months I was on the streets. I had once again picked up my substance use disorder. 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I have a husband that is very supportive of me, and we have a dog and we live in a market-rate-rent apartment and I’m working full time. And I’ve worked for some incredible people up until now. And while I’ve been abstinent from drugs and alcohol for a little over a decade now, I wouldn’t have had that opportunity … if it weren’t for harm reduction [practices and policies] that got me there. I was a tough case for sure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>So when you were homeless, do you remember people dying of overdoses?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were people around me that died of overdoses when I was using, but it was very few and far between. But with fentanyl now, people just don’t know what they’re using, and it’s unsafe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think in 2017 we had something like 222 overdose deaths that year, and now we’re well over 700 and counting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I know the city has had to sort of struggle with the onset of the pandemic. And, you know, it’s hard to prioritize things. I know that they’ve done a lot of work in prioritizing this issue. But again, it’s time to open a safe consumption site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why do you consider safe consumption sites to be the answer?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I don’t think they’re the end-all, be-all. But they’re a much-needed approach to connect to the harder-to-reach population who use drugs. And if you can start building that reputation and trust with somebody that’s coming in to use in a supervised setting, then you sort of open up the dialogue to maybe gently nudge them to be seen by a clinician and take care of health issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>If you are uninsured or you’ve been on unemployment benefits this year, new financial help — passed by Congress this year — means you might be eligible for free health insurance. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A special enrollment period put in place by the Biden administration \u003ca href=\"https://www.healthcare.gov/coronavirus/\">ends on Aug. 15\u003c/a>, so consumers will need to act fast to sign up for one of these plans on the Affordable Care Act marketplaces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The health plans without monthly premiums come in several different flavors, some of which have been around for a while, and some of which are new. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is Medicaid, which is the state-federal public plan for low-income people. And, on \u003ca href=\"https://www.healthcare.gov/\">HealthCare.gov\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.healthcare.gov/marketplace-in-your-state/\">the state marketplaces\u003c/a> there are free “\u003ca href=\"https://www.healthcare.gov/choose-a-plan/plans-categories/\">bronze plans\u003c/a>” — the lowest tier of plans — that might be available with zero-dollar premiums depending on your income. Both of those have been \u003ca href=\"https://www.kff.org/policy-watch/millions-of-uninsured-americans-are-eligible-for-free-aca-health-insurance/\">options for years\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, there’s also a new free plan option open to a new category of people. The American Rescue Plan included \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/04/22/989448586/health-insurance-for-10-or-less-a-month-you-may-qualify-for-new-discounts\">a lot of changes\u003c/a> to help make it easier and more affordable to enroll, including new and more generous subsidies for premiums, cost-sharing support for low-income people and more. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One major change: If you’ve \u003ca href=\"https://www.healthcare.gov/more-savings/\">received unemployment benefits\u003c/a> at any point this year, you might qualify for a comprehensive silver plan through the end of 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Put it all together? There are zero-cost premium plans available to 13.3 million Americans — nearly half of the 29 million or so uninsured. Yet puzzlingly few have enrolled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are millions of people who are passing up free health insurance,” says \u003ca href=\"https://www.kff.org/person/cynthia-cox/\">Cynthia Cox\u003c/a>, director of the Program on the ACA at the nonprofit Kaiser Family Foundation, who authored a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kff.org/health-reform/issue-brief/how-the-american-rescue-plan-act-affects-subsidies-for-marketplace-shoppers-and-people-who-are-uninsured/\">recent brief\u003c/a> on the topic. “That free health insurance — most of the time — actually comes with very low deductibles, too. So a lot of times, people could have all — or the vast majority — of their health care costs paid for.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the uninsured, 5 million are eligible not for free plans, but are for subsidized ones, and an additional 10.7 million people are not eligible for either, because they live in a state that has \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/07/01/1011502538/12-holdout-states-havent-expanded-medicaid-leaving-2-million-people-in-limbo\">not expanded Medicaid\u003c/a>, are undocumented immigrants or have access to an affordable plan through their employer or the ACA, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kff.org/health-reform/issue-brief/how-the-american-rescue-plan-act-affects-subsidies-for-marketplace-shoppers-and-people-who-are-uninsured/\">according to KFF’s analysis\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why would millions of people pass up the chance at free health coverage? \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I still hear constantly that people have no idea that this was an option,” says Jeremy Smith, a health insurance navigator at the nonprofit \u003ca href=\"https://acanavigator.com/wv/home\">First Choice Services\u003c/a> in West Virginia. \u003ca href=\"https://www.healthcare.gov/glossary/navigator/\">Navigators\u003c/a> give free advice to people who want to enroll in ACA plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Screen-Shot-2021-08-03-at-3.42.12-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1612\" height=\"1084\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11883600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Screen-Shot-2021-08-03-at-3.42.12-PM.png 1612w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Screen-Shot-2021-08-03-at-3.42.12-PM-800x538.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Screen-Shot-2021-08-03-at-3.42.12-PM-1020x686.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Screen-Shot-2021-08-03-at-3.42.12-PM-160x108.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Screen-Shot-2021-08-03-at-3.42.12-PM-1536x1033.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1612px) 100vw, 1612px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bad experiences trying to sign up in the past, or plans with high out-of-pocket costs and deductibles might have turned people off, Smith says. Even though many plans are available that have zero-dollar premiums, some may still have other \u003ca href=\"https://www.healthcare.gov/choose-a-plan/your-total-costs/\">out-of-pocket costs\u003c/a> to be aware of.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He finds most of the people he’s enrolling are still paying something every month, but it really varies. “For one family, it might make sense to take the zero-dollar plan that’s got a little bit higher deductible,” he says. “The next [family] can dig in, and they may be willing to pay $100 a month if it means their deductible’s lower and their co-pays are lower.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, he thinks a lot of people are missing out. “Even though everybody’s trying to do all they can to say there’s these new options, a lot of people just think they don’t qualify, therefore they don’t look into it,” Smith says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inertia is also a powerful force, says Louise Norris, who co-owns an insurance brokerage in Colorado. Or maybe people are concerned about documentation or having to make \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/11/01/775391311/open-enrollment-is-here-6-tips-for-choosing-a-health-insurance-plan\">complicated choices\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Louise Norris, owner of a Colorado-based insurance brokerage\"]‘There are so many little reasons that somebody might be hesitating, and when you put them all together, you end up with at least a few million people who are leaving these benefits on the table.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are so many little reasons that somebody might be hesitating, and when you put them all together, you end up with at least a few million people who are leaving these benefits on the table,” Norris says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some new people have been signing up on HealthCare.gov and the state marketplaces. The Biden-Harris administration’s last report showed \u003ca href=\"https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2021/07/14/health-care-sign-ups-surpass-2-million-during-2021-special-enrollment-period-ahead-of-aug-15-deadline.html\">2 million new people\u003c/a> enrolled in health plans, although it’s not clear how many of them enrolled in one of these free plan options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even with these affordable options, years of \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/09/20/552094974/bemoaning-budget-cuts-health-care-navigators-say-feds-dont-get-it\">slashed budgets for outreach\u003c/a> under the Trump administration had an impact on how many people are aware of the insurance marketplace at all, says Katie Roders Turner, a navigator with the Family Healthcare Foundation in central Florida.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Over the last four years, there was this vacuum of information — and misinformation in addition to that,” she says. “I think it’s a knowledge gap, and I think that a marketing response is really going to make a big difference.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Biden administration has been putting some effort into marketing the plans and trying to get the word out about the fact that enrollment is now open and there are new discounts available. It’s running digital and TV ads and publishing community toolkits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Kaiser Family Foundation’s Cox says that outreach is needed, not just to tell people the plans are there and they’re more affordable now, but also to explain the value of having health insurance, even if it’s not a top-tier plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One-hundred percent of the time, if you can get a free bronze plan, you are better off than being uninsured,” she says. Some consumers are put off by high deductibles — the amount you would have to pay for any health care you use before your insurance plan picks up the tab. But even a high deductible plan is better than no coverage, she says. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you get hit by a bus or have COVID and need a hospitalization, that’s the difference between being $7,000 in debt versus being $50,000 in debt,” she says. “It can mean the difference between keeping your car or not, or keeping your house or not,” she adds. “That’s a big difference.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of Sunday, one of the people who has a free plan is Deborah Kagan. She just moved from New York state — where she was on Medicaid after being laid off during the pandemic — to Florida, where she’s not eligible for Medicaid. She was extremely stressed about the move and losing coverage, especially because she has Type 1 diabetes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Deborah Kagan\"]‘Without my medication, I’m dead. And during COVID, I also found out that I had breast cancer and I had a brain tumor, and it was just one thing after the other.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Without my medication, I’m dead,” she says. “And during COVID, I also found out that I had breast cancer and I had a brain tumor, and it was just one thing after the other.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because she’s been on unemployment benefits, a navigator with the Family Healthcare Foundation walked her through enrolling in a free silver plan that will cover most of her health costs through the rest of the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The navigators “knew everything — all the updates — and guided me through every step of the way and were just beyond helpful,” she says. Having a free plan lined up, she says, is “a huge relief and it will help me focus on finding a job quickly.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Uninsured+Or+Unemployed%3F+You+Might+Be+Missing+Out+On+Free+Health+Insurance&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a new eviction moratorium that would last until Oct. 3, as the Biden administration sought to quell intensifying criticism from progressives that it was allowing vulnerable renters to lose their homes during a pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ban announced Tuesday could help keep millions in their homes as the coronavirus’ delta variant has spread and states have been slow to release federal rental aid. It would temporarily halt evictions in counties with “substantial and high levels” of virus transmissions and would cover areas where 90% of the U.S. population lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The announcement was a reversal for the Biden administration, which allowed an earlier moratorium to lapse over the weekend after saying a Supreme Court ruling prevented an extension. That ripped open a dramatic split between the White House and progressive Democrats who insisted the administration do more to prevent some 3.6 million Americans from losing their homes during the COVID-19 crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, tenants in California were still protected by the state’s own eviction moratorium, which has been extended until Sept. 30.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11879795\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/GettyImages-1211479742-1020x676.jpg\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking at the White House on Tuesday, Biden said he pushed the CDC to again consider its options. But he still seemed hesitant as to whether the new moratorium could withstand lawsuits about its constitutionality, saying he has sought the opinions of experts as to whether the Supreme Court would approve the measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The bulk of the constitutional scholarship says that it’s not likely to pass constitutional muster,” Biden said. “But there are several key scholars who think that it may and it’s worth the effort.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The president added that the moratorium — even if it gets challenged in court — “will probably give some additional time” for states and city to release billions of dollars in federal relief to renters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Politically, the extension could help heal a rift with liberal Democratic lawmakers who were calling on the president to take executive action to keep renters in their homes. The administration had spent the past several days scrambling to reassure Democrats and the country that it could find a way to limit the damage from potential evictions through the use of federal aid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But pressure mounted as key lawmakers said it was not enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Top Democratic leaders joined Rep. Cori Bush, D-Missouri, who has been camped outside the U.S. Capitol for several days. The freshman congresswoman once lived in her car as a young mother and pointed to that experience to urge the White House to prevent widespread evictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">On Friday night, I came to the Capitol with my chair. 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She provided data so that lawmakers could see how their districts and states are performing with distributing the relief, according to a person on the call.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The treasury secretary tried to encourage Democrats to work together, even as lawmakers said Biden should act on his own to extend the eviction moratorium, according to someone on the private call who insisted on anonymity to discuss its contents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11864513\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/pexels-karolina-grabowska-4386433-1020x638.jpg\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yellen said on the call, according to this person, that she agrees “we need to bring every resource to bear” and that she appreciated the Democrats’ efforts and wants “to leave no stone unturned.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CDC put the initial eviction ban in place as part of the COVID-19 response when jobs shifted and many workers lost income. 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Advocates said being able to feed students without having to check whether they qualified for free lunches allowed districts to serve more families at a time when many faced hunger and hardship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Waiving the eligibility requirements allowed the Oakland Unified School District, for example, to distribute as many as 18,000 \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2020/grab-and-go-and-drive-up-allow-families-to-pick-up-food-at-closed-california-schools/626088\">grab-and-go meals\u003c/a> a day during the pandemic, said OUSD spokesman John Sasaki.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That just goes to show the need that was there,” Sasaki said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Previously, as part of the National School Lunch Program \u003ca href=\"https://www.fns.usda.gov/cn/applying-free-and-reduced-price-school-meals\">application process\u003c/a>, families had to disclose their household income, how many people lived in the household, their children’s immigration status or if their children were homeless or runaways. 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That’s because the number of families in the district that make so little that they qualify for the federal free and reduced-price lunch program remains a \u003ca href=\"https://www.cde.ca.gov/fg/aa/lc/index.asp\">key factor\u003c/a> in the state’s \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2016/local-control-funding-formula-guide-lcff/89272\">Local Control Funding Formula\u003c/a>. The formula gives additional state funds to districts based on the number of low-income students, English learners, foster children and homeless youth they serve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tony Wold, West Contra Costa Unified School District associate superintendent of business services, said the district was concerned that fewer families would fill out the household income eligibility forms because they didn’t have to in order to receive free meals. That could have potentially led to a reduction in supplemental funds for the cash-strapped district. 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