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While there’s been lots of talk about those drugs given to patients with severe illness who are hospitalized – maybe most famously, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/10/03/919831018/how-president-trump-is-treating-covid-19\">President Trump\u003c/a> – these treatments aren’t currently recommended for milder cases that are best managed at home.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Make an isolation and care plan early, and ask for help \u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Doctors and health care teams that include nurses and care navigators can also be a good resource for figuring out and lining up the sort of logistical help you’ll need to isolate yourself. You won’t want to run out of your routine medications, so ask your health team about how to get them via mail order or from pharmacies that deliver.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also important: How will you and your quarantining housemates get and keep groceries, toilet paper and other goods in the house? Most cities now have grocery delivery services you can access online; typically health care systems also have social workers that can connect you with other food services if you need them. Make a list of your needs and ask friends for help. If you’re isolated and sick, pets will still need to be walked, snow shoveled and bills paid.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Rest and rehydrate but try to avoid lingering in bed\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>It can feel frustrating if you’ve got a positive coronavirus test with mild symptoms such as a runny nose or sore throat for which there’s no definitive treatment. But that just means you should stick to the well-worn advice for healing from any viral infection: Get extra rest, drink plenty of fluids and take an over-the-counter fever-reducing medicine such as acetaminophen if you need it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fluids may also be hard to gulp down when you’re feeling bad, but dehydration can land people in the hospital on its own. That’s especially true for children and older folks, so try to sip plenty of water, juice, soup or electrolyte drinks throughout the day. Non-caffeinated tea with \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/02/08/802750225/for-kids-coughs-swap-the-over-the-counter-syrups-for-honey\">honey might soothe your sore throat\u003c/a>, but avoid drinks with lots of sugar or caffeine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rest is also important to recovery, but be wary of the urge to stay in bed. “You don’t want to overwork yourself but avoid strict bed rest – we don’t want patients to be totally sedentary because we know that patients who move around seem to do better,” says Alvarez, who has recovered from a case of COVID-19 himself. 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And be sure to include some socializing — virtual socializing, that is. Also put a bit of simple exercise on the calendar if you’re \u003ca href=\"https://newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/covid-19-exercise-when-ill-whats-okay-and-whats-not/\">feeling up to it\u003c/a> — 30 minutes of light physical activity several times a week will help lift your mood. Maybe take a video exercise class or, if you’re asymptomatic or have mild symptoms, climbing stairs will get your heart rate up in a good way. And if you’re unwell and stairs are too much, try taking a room-to-room stroll within your home. Every little bit counts.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>If your symptoms linger longer than 10 days, keep isolating\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Unfortunately, you can’t schedule how long symptoms might last when it comes to the coronavirus. Doctors have been studying the nitty-gritty of statistics and numbers for months, and although the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/duration-isolation.html\">CDC recommends\u003c/a> isolating at least 10 days from when mild or moderate symptoms started (or 10 days from a positive test if you never had symptoms), there’s no definite number of days to isolate if you’ve still got symptoms after that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CDC says you can stop isolating if you’ve been free of fever without fever-reducing medicines for 24 hours and your symptoms are “improving.” But if you’re fever-free and still feeling bad with symptoms such as cough, headache or body aches, it’s best to keep staying away from people longer – at least until symptoms have continued to improve significantly for a few days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For otherwise healthy people who test positive for the coronavirus, there’s no need to retest before stopping isolation with or without symptoms. But it \u003cem>is\u003c/em> important to go right back to your mask-wearing, hand-washing and social-distancing routines after that isolation period. And be sure to follow up with your primary care providers – they can help counsel you about your health needs after COVID-19 and about becoming a part of clinical trials that can help researchers learn more about the virus and its treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Tell your cautionary tale\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>If you’re out of the woods after a positive coronavirus test, you might consider passing along your experience to friends and family — especially any words of cautious wisdom if you traced your own case back to a pandemic-fatigued moment of weakness, such as going to a gathering or forgoing your mask. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re in this situation and live with other people, it takes a bit of planning to follow that advice. It’s important to stay in separate rooms (including during meals and sleep), and everyone else in the house should wear a mask in common areas. Also, be sure to step up the sanitizing of shared surfaces and avoid sharing things such as cups and towels.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Members of your household and your close contacts need to quarantine, too\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>If you’ve tested positive for the virus, everyone you live with has been exposed, so they, too, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/if-you-are-sick/quarantine.html#:~:text=Stay%20home%20for%2014%20days,from%20COVID%2D19.\">will need to quarantine\u003c/a> as well as anyone you had close contact with in the two days leading up to your positive test being collected or the start of symptoms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what’s close contact? The CDC says 15 \u003cem>cumulative\u003c/em> minutes of exposure to the sick person and within 6 feet of them — even with masks on. It’s fair to assume anyone who has been gathering with you, especially indoors, was exposed, so plan to reach out to close contacts and ask them to quarantine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/12/02/941355347/cdc-shortens-its-covid-19-quarantine-recommendations\">new recommendations\u003c/a> for how many days they need to quarantine. The CDC still maintains a full 14 days of quarantine after being exposed is the best method to keep from spreading COVID-19, but it now offers alternatives if that’s not possible. Exposed people can quarantine 10 days from the exposure if there’s no testing and symptoms don’t develop, or as few as seven days if there are no symptoms \u003cem>and\u003c/em> they get a negative test.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the shorter quarantine schedule is followed, exposed people should keep watching closely for symptoms for a full 14 days since an infection can \u003ca href=\"https://www.who.int/news-room/q-a-detail/coronavirus-disease-covid-19\">take that long to develop\u003c/a>. But keep in mind, these are general recommendations and may differ from state to state depending on the number of cases, so be sure to look up local guidance.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Assess your symptom severity and know when to seek emergency care\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>If your symptoms are the common nasal congestion, dry cough, body aches, loss of taste or smell or headache, it’s suitable to stay home and treat yourself with rest and plenty of liquids. But be alert to changing symptoms, says \u003ca href=\"https://doctors.umiamihealth.org/provider/Roger+Argelio+Alvarez/525365\">Roger Alvarez\u003c/a>, a pulmonologist and professor of clinical medicine at the University of Miami’s Miller School of Medicine. He says that although mild to moderate COVID-19 cases can be managed at home, symptoms that start out mild can wax, wane and evolve into severe symptoms that need treatment at a hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Red flag symptoms that suggest you need to call 911 no matter how many days you’ve been sick include (but aren’t limited to): trouble breathing, chest pain, blue lips, confusion, being unable to tolerate food or drink, weakness or feeling like you can’t stay awake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Consider getting a basic oxygen monitor — \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/05/01/848400469/coronavirus-faqs-whats-a-pulse-oximeter-is-it-a-good-idea-to-buy-one\">a pulse oximeter\u003c/a> — for your finger at home, watching for a drop in your oxygen levels down to 94% or below. When levels drop below this, it’s time to call your doctor immediately. If you don’t have a primary care provider, go to an urgent care or emergency room — or, if you feel like you can’t breathe, call 911. Similarly, a high fever (above 103 F) that doesn’t get lower with fever-reducing medicines is another reason to call, or visit, a doctor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But don’t get too caught up in the numbers: If you get a feeling that “something’s not right,” don’t delay medical care.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Reach out to your doctor, but know there’s no magic pill\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>If you’ve just tested positive and started isolating, it’s a good time to reach out to your primary care doctor or other health care provider (if you haven’t already) and get advice tailored to your symptoms and medical history. This is especially important for patients with any chronic illnesses such as lung disease or diabetes, but also for healthy people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The good news? Doctors are easier to reach than ever with the popularity of \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/03/16/816344287/during-coronavirus-outbreak-virtual-doctor-visits-are-encouraged\">telephone and video visits\u003c/a>, so no need to leave your home to talk to them. The bad news is that the coronavirus is a virus, just like the flu, which means \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/patientsafety/features/be-antibiotics-aware.html#:~:text=Antibiotics%20do%20not%20work%20on,infections%20get%20better%20without%20antibiotics.\">an antibiotic won’t stop the illness or the symptoms\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.uwhealth.org/findadoctor/profile/matthew-c-anderson-md/10003\">Dr. Matthew Anderson\u003c/a>, senior medical director of primary care at the University of Wisconsin, tells NPR that he sometimes gives oral steroids to patients with chronic lung disease who get COVID-19 and are wheezing. But he says steroids or other drugs you may have heard about — including one of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/11/10/933444237/fda-oks-eli-lilly-covid-19-drug-but-supplies-will-be-limited\">monoclonal antibody cocktails\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/latest-updates-trump-covid-19-results/2020/10/03/919883050/trump-is-taking-remdesivir-heres-how-it-works-to-control-the-coronavirus\">remdesivir\u003c/a> — “aren’t the standard of care” for mild or moderate COVID-19, and might do more harm than good in those cases. While there’s been lots of talk about those drugs given to patients with severe illness who are hospitalized – maybe most famously, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/10/03/919831018/how-president-trump-is-treating-covid-19\">President Trump\u003c/a> – these treatments aren’t currently recommended for milder cases that are best managed at home.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Make an isolation and care plan early, and ask for help \u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Doctors and health care teams that include nurses and care navigators can also be a good resource for figuring out and lining up the sort of logistical help you’ll need to isolate yourself. You won’t want to run out of your routine medications, so ask your health team about how to get them via mail order or from pharmacies that deliver.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also important: How will you and your quarantining housemates get and keep groceries, toilet paper and other goods in the house? Most cities now have grocery delivery services you can access online; typically health care systems also have social workers that can connect you with other food services if you need them. Make a list of your needs and ask friends for help. If you’re isolated and sick, pets will still need to be walked, snow shoveled and bills paid.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Rest and rehydrate but try to avoid lingering in bed\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>It can feel frustrating if you’ve got a positive coronavirus test with mild symptoms such as a runny nose or sore throat for which there’s no definitive treatment. But that just means you should stick to the well-worn advice for healing from any viral infection: Get extra rest, drink plenty of fluids and take an over-the-counter fever-reducing medicine such as acetaminophen if you need it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fluids may also be hard to gulp down when you’re feeling bad, but dehydration can land people in the hospital on its own. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11850234/creciente-covid-19-podria-afectar-mas-a-hogares-para-adultos-mayores-con-residentes-afroamericanos-y-latinos\">\u003cem>Leer en espa\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">ñol\u003c/span>\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the coronavirus surges again, it is especially dangerous for people in nursing homes caring for more Black and Latino residents, according to a new analysis from the California Health Care Foundation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Researchers found that skilled nursing facilities with a greater share of Black and Latino residents had higher rates of COVID-19 cases and deaths — and that disparity is growing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We asked [our] advisory group, how do you explain this disparity?” said Dr. Bruce Spurlock, executive director of \u003ca href=\"https://calhospitalcompare.org/about/\">Cal Hospital Compare\u003c/a>, and a study co-author. “And nobody really knows. And that’s kind of the part that we really need to figure out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>A Shift Over Time\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Skilled nursing facilities have borne much of the weight of the pandemic. More than one quarter of reported COVID-related deaths in California have happened in nursing homes, even though their residents make up less than half a percent of the state’s population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11849674\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS42756_RS42754_alt_1003-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11849674\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS42756_RS42754_alt_1003-qut-800x581.jpg\" alt=\"Costell Akrie holds a small baby in his room.\" width=\"800\" height=\"581\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS42756_RS42754_alt_1003-qut-800x581.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS42756_RS42754_alt_1003-qut-1020x741.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS42756_RS42754_alt_1003-qut-160x116.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS42756_RS42754_alt_1003-qut-1536x1115.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS42756_RS42754_alt_1003-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Costell Akrie died after contracting coronavirus in corporate-owned Gateway Care and Rehabilitation Center in Alameda County. A new study has found that staffing levels worsened outbreaks in facilities like his. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of John Burris Law Offices)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Beyond demographics, the new study analyzed state and federal data about ownership status, size, type of patient, staffing levels and geography to identify factors associated with the hardest-hit nursing homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And those factors changed as the pandemic wore on. Back in May, “you could tell that the larger the facility, the for-profit facilities, were doing worse than the smaller and nonprofit facilities,” Spurlock said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By late summer, he said, facilities struggling to control the virus were in counties with high COVID-19 rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Age, gender, race and ethnicity were a much bigger predictor of who was doing worse in the August time frame,” Spurlock said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nursing home residents over 85, and men, have been more vulnerable to the virus throughout California. And while Latinos account for about \u003ca href=\"https://covid19.ca.gov/state-dashboard/\">60% of California’s positive coronavirus tests\u003c/a>, they represent less than 40% of the state’s population. But across the state, COVID-positive tests for Blacks have been a disproportionately small part of the total.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Nursing Homes With More Latino Residents Have More COVID-19 Cases\" aria-label=\"Interactive line chart\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-3Mtcb\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/3Mtcb/8/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"width: 0; min-width: 100% !important; border: none;\" height=\"400\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003cbr>\n[datawrapper]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Nursing Homes With More Black Residents Have More COVID-19 Cases\" aria-label=\"Interactive line chart\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-HxpFR\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/HxpFR/3/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"width: 0; min-width: 100% !important; border: none;\" height=\"400\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003cbr>\n[datawrapper]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Lower Risk in Bay Area Nursing Homes\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All together, the research suggests a story of how the coronavirus has moved through skilled nursing facilities statewide. 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About a third of Marin County nursing homes are nonprofit, for example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Percent of Investor-owned and Non-profit Nursing Homes \" aria-label=\"chart\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-5Bj0h\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/5Bj0h/3/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"width: 0; min-width: 100% !important; border: none;\" height=\"400\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003cbr>\n[datawrapper]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The report is great. My response to it is ‘duh,’ ” said Scott Akrie, whose father Costell tested positive for coronavirus while at Gateway and died within weeks. Akrie, who is suing Gateway, points out that the facility has been repeatedly cited by state regulators and sued, so far with little consequence. “Just because these people are elderly, they are not forgotten souls that can be taken for granted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>County by county, as the coronavirus surges, health officers are now are modifying orders related to long-term care homes. In Santa Clara County, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/covid19/Pages/mandatory-directives-long-care-facilities.aspx\">the latest guidelines\u003c/a> keep visitors to care home residents outside as much as possible, and require visitors present a negative test within 72 hours of a socially distanced visit indoors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Alameda County, where the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports the case rate per capita has risen 24% in the last week, seven nursing homes report COVID-19 outbreaks as of Dec. 2. Nine facilities currently report outbreaks in Santa Clara County, where the case rate has risen more than 50% in the last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003cbr>\n\u003cb>Some Recommendations Easier Than Others\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Researchers make several recommendations to stanch the spread of the virus in nursing homes. Some are tactical; actions that could be taken immediately, like asking the Department of Public Health to enforce testing and training requirements week after week. Some are more complex: The authors suggest that the Department of Health Care Services should demand more financial transparency from all related entities controlling nursing homes, which would require amending law and regulation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11849594,news_11813696,science_1968093\" label=\"More Coronavirus Coverage\"]The California Department of Public Health says it has used predictive analysis to identify facilities that seem to be headed for trouble, and follows up with facilities in outbreak to address urgent needs. In a statement, CDPH says it has prioritized mitigation and infection control, as well as the investigation of complaints and incidents that nursing homes themselves report, over routine inspections and enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nursing homes with higher levels of staffing have fared better throughout the pandemic, but staffing levels remain “a very controversial area,” according to Spurlock. Federal and state rules set minimum hour requirements for nurses, assistants and other staffers at skilled nursing facilities. In the Bay Area, patient advocates allege that understaffing has contributed to outbreaks, especially in Alameda County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, the California Association of Health Facilities calls staffing a “critical” problem for the nursing homes it represents, pointing out that when a worker tests positive and must quarantine, other workers must often work double shifts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s incredibly difficult to find staff right now and require them to work in a dangerous environment,” said California Association of Health Facilities spokeswoman Deborah Pacyna.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Researchers recommend that regulators require facilities to meet the staffing standards they’re supposed to. They also suggest designating family members as “essential workers” as the pandemic continues. Doing that would permit relatives into facilities, which could boost care and minimize isolation and anxiety in a time of crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" citation=\"Scott Akrie\"]“Just because these people are elderly, they are not forgotten souls that can be taken for granted.”[/pullquote]The authors also put forward a more involved proposal to restructure the state’s low-income health subsidy, to boost nursing home salaries and staffing even further than it does now. Such a move would prompt debate and require litigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Any suggestion that staff levels should be increased needs to be coupled with additional state reimbursement for wages,” said Pacyna.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With staffing, we know the changes to make” that would help, said Spurlock. “With health equity, we still are unsure about what actions that we need to take to reduce the disparity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the researchers’ health equity-related recommendations is that vaccines should be directed toward skilled nursing facilities most at-risk, which right now means facilities with higher numbers of Black and Latino residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of now, federal and state guidelines prioritize vaccines for health care workers on the front lines most at risk of contracting COVID-19. California counties are still developing their specific plans for distributing vaccines that are sure to be in short supply. 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Gavin Newsom’s new order, which calls for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11849487/newsom-to-impose-sweeping-new-stay-at-home-order-as-covid-19-rates-soar\">regional shutdowns of some businesses and other activities\u003c/a> once ICU hospital bed capacity drops to 15%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fauci said he consulted with California health authorities ahead of the announcement, and called it “a prudent and correct decision.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The reason is that you are all on a brink, literally on the threshold of getting the almost unimaginable situation of getting the health care system overrun. You just can’t let that happen. That is unimaginable and unacceptable,” Fauci said. “I spoke to some of his health people and I said I would back them in that decision. 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So the speed does not compromise anything,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What about the safety and the efficacy? Fauci said he knows some people are skeptical that the Trump administration may be trying to prove something, or that the vaccine manufacturers are just trying to make money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Dr. Anthony Fauci']‘We’ve got to be able to communicate that to the American public, that even though there’s a lot of skepticism, the [vaccine] process is independent and transparent, period’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s neither of the two, and here’s why,” he said. “Because the determination of safety and efficacy is made by an independent data and safety monitoring board that has allegiance, not to the president, not to the administration and not to the company. 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The Food and Drug Administration is expected to authorize the first vaccines in the coming weeks, and federal officials have said states will begin receiving doses 24 hours after they’re approved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state is drawing guidance for its overall distribution plan from the National Academy of Sciences, which recommends prioritizing people according to three main criteria: those who are at high risk of getting the virus; those most likely to suffer complications or to die if they become sick; those whose illness could have a negative impact on society.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This third principle — societal impact — is what puts health care workers in the top tier: If a doctor or paramedic is out sick for three or four weeks, their absence impacts the well-being of the community in a much more profound way than, say, a sick video game designer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The details of these distribution plans are left to individual states to decide and implement, and California officials have emphasized that fairness and equity are top goals. They’ve established an advisory group comprised of 70 community organizations and medical associations to provide input.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We must work together to ensure that vulnerable Californians, those most at risk, have equitable access to the vaccine,” said Dr. Erica Pan, acting state public health officer. “All of our preparations for the vaccine are guided by the need for safety, equity and transparency in the process.” [ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Which Health Care Workers Get Priority?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The state is applying the same principles to deciding which health care workers should be prioritized over others — chance of getting it, chance of a bad outcome, societal impact of getting it — and adding three additional criteria to the consideration: the type of health care facility, the location of the facility and the characteristics of the people who work there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, California’s draft plan puts acute care hospitals and congregate care facilities, like nursing homes and assisted living, at the top of its list since those workers are most at risk of contracting the disease. 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"content": "\u003cp class=\"p2\">On the rare occasion she leaves her room, Diane Evans uses a walker to gingerly navigate San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood. Most days, the 74-year-old wears a multicolored head wrap, extra large T-shirt and plaid pajama pants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p2\">Deprived of classes and shared meals at the senior center she calls home, she is alone most of the time, beset by numerous health problems and severe clinical depression.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p2\">She is, in fact, a prime candidate during this pandemic to be crushed by loneliness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote]‘You get to be 85 years old, you know you got a foot on the banana peel.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p2\">Yet, she is making it through OK.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p3\">“If adverse situations beat you down, there wouldn’t be an African American in this country,” said Evans, who is Black. “You do what you have to do to survive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p2\">Recent research reveals older populations are less consumed by pandemic depression than those who are younger. 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Grinning, she reached for a purple cellphone and said, “I learned how to text!’ She now Zooms regularly with her daughter in Chicago. When she’s not chatting online, she streams the radio or Hulu Live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p2\">She keeps solvent by buying very little, subsisting on about $1,000 a month from Social Security. The room she lives in is federally subsidized. Medicare covers doctor bills, and Meals on Wheels delivers food. Her biggest expense is laundry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p2\">On gloomy days inside her room, she reminds herself, “This too shall pass.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p2\">She’s eager for the virus to retreat enough for her to join protests for racial equality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p2\">“I want to be alive at the end of this,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Connection Is Key\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp class=\"p2\">Evans’ story is not uncommon. At the Curry Senior Center, where she lives, older adults who connect virtually with friends and family are doing well, says Angela Di Martino, the facility’s wellness program manager.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Technology, though, is not a panacea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p2\">“Video calls cannot replace personal contact,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p2\">Di Martino is among the experts who fear virtual interaction won’t offer a meaningful substitute for live conversation in the long run. Zoom fatigue is a real thing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p2\">Unsurprisingly, those seniors who are still engaging with people in person are faring the best. UCSF geriatrician Louise Aronson says she’s been hearing from older people who actually feel less isolated now than prior to the pandemic, because they live in multigenerational households, with family members who no longer rush off to work or school. Some are finding new purpose by helping their grandkids with distance learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>1 in 4 Lonely\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp class=\"p2\">To be sure, not all seniors\u003cb> \u003c/b>are riding out the storm smoothly. About 1 in 4 older adults say they’re anxious or depressed, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation \u003ca href=\"https://www.kff.org/medicare/issue-brief/one-in-four-older-adults-report-anxiety-or-depression-amid-the-covid-19-pandemic/#:~:text=Amid%20the%20ongoing%20coronavirus%20pandemic,older%20adults%20who%20reported%20anxiety\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">poll\u003c/span>\u003c/a>, a rate that has more than doubled during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p2\">The isolation is especially acute in nursing homes that prohibit visitors. Aronson says she’s seen patients who are refusing to eat, or who cry alone in their rooms for long stretches. \u003cspan class=\"s2\">One \u003ca href=\"https://www.jamda.com/article/S1525-8610(20)30738-6/fulltext?rss=yes\">\u003cspan class=\"s3\">recent study\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/span> of 111 residents in a Chicago-area nursing home found the group had shed an average of about four-and-a-half pounds from December through April. The researchers attribute the changes to fewer social interactions, a halt to family visits, and shifts in schedule, driven by the pandemic\u003cspan class=\"s2\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p2\">“Because they haven’t touched another human being or been touched by another human being since March,” said Aronson, “there is isolation. There is depression. There is battle fatigue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p2\">Aronson points to a former patient of hers, Shirley Drexler, who died at an assisted living facility in San Francisco two months into the coronavirus outbreak. Though 102 years old, prior to the pandemic she was highly social, bright-eyed and steady on her feet. She used to dash from table to table to share lewd jokes during group meals, Aronson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p2\">“But after a few weeks, when it became clear that the coronavirus wasn’t going to go away, she basically took to bed and died. Because at 102, she wasn’t going to live long enough to see the end of it. And so she figured that was it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p2\">“We’ve heard many other stories like that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p2\">A growing body of \u003ca href=\"https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1745691614568352\">\u003cspan class=\"s4\">literature\u003c/span>\u003c/a> shows persistent loneliness has a number of consequences, such as depression, physical pain, increased disabilities and even death. Some \u003ca href=\"https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/1188033\">\u003cspan class=\"s4\">research\u003c/span>\u003c/a> has shown a link between loneliness and the development of dementia, heart disease and stroke. 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A lot of them as an African American.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p2\">She suffers from congestive heart failure and high blood pressure, both of which are risk factors for COVID-19. But Addison is not living in fear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p3\">“You get to be 85 years old, you know you got a foot on the banana peel,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p2\">On a hot summer night in August, after collapsing on her bed from fatigue, she tried not to panic. Within days she tested positive for COVID-19 and landed in the hospital with pneumonia. The hardest part, she says, was the no-visitor policy. After two dire weeks, her physician sent her home, and she credits her recovery to the kindness of the nurses and doctors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p3\">She’s still moving slowly and spends most days alone in the room she rents near Union Square. But she says she’s not lonely, as her devices keep her connected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p2\">“I learn so much because of technology,” she said. “All I have to do is turn on my iPhone or my iPad or my computer. And there is a new subject for me to learn.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p2\">She often showcases her new skills over FaceTime with her six great-grandchildren on the East Coast. In the evenings, her sweetheart visits. They make dinner in her instant pot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p2\">On difficult days she pulls on her gloves, tightens her mask and strolls the city, chatting with folks on the street. She looks forward to a lot more social interaction when the pandemic ends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p2\">“I’m a professional volunteer!” proclaimed Addison. Until that’s safe, she’s taking it one day at a time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p2\">“The good news overall is that older adults are adapting. They’re resilient,” Kotwal said. “They’re finding ways to continue to cope despite these really prolonged restrictions. On the other hand, I think there is that subgroup that has had persistent loneliness that hasn’t been able to adopt new technologies or has had trouble coping.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p2\">Kotwal says it’s critical that doctors and social service agencies track older adults who may not have access to or feel comfortable navigating technology. He and his UCSF colleagues plan to check back with their original study cohort in a few months. He worries colder weather and a very different holiday season may lead to increased loneliness, and he suggests calling seniors more often this fall and winter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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UCSF geriatrician Louise Aronson says she’s been hearing from older people who actually feel less isolated now than prior to the pandemic, because they live in multigenerational households, with family members who no longer rush off to work or school. Some are finding new purpose by helping their grandkids with distance learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>1 in 4 Lonely\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp class=\"p2\">To be sure, not all seniors\u003cb> \u003c/b>are riding out the storm smoothly. 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The researchers attribute the changes to fewer social interactions, a halt to family visits, and shifts in schedule, driven by the pandemic\u003cspan class=\"s2\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p2\">“Because they haven’t touched another human being or been touched by another human being since March,” said Aronson, “there is isolation. There is depression. There is battle fatigue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p2\">Aronson points to a former patient of hers, Shirley Drexler, who died at an assisted living facility in San Francisco two months into the coronavirus outbreak. Though 102 years old, prior to the pandemic she was highly social, bright-eyed and steady on her feet. She used to dash from table to table to share lewd jokes during group meals, Aronson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p2\">“But after a few weeks, when it became clear that the coronavirus wasn’t going to go away, she basically took to bed and died. Because at 102, she wasn’t going to live long enough to see the end of it. And so she figured that was it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p2\">“We’ve heard many other stories like that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p2\">A growing body of \u003ca href=\"https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1745691614568352\">\u003cspan class=\"s4\">literature\u003c/span>\u003c/a> shows persistent loneliness has a number of consequences, such as depression, physical pain, increased disabilities and even death. Some \u003ca href=\"https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/1188033\">\u003cspan class=\"s4\">research\u003c/span>\u003c/a> has shown a link between loneliness and the development of dementia, heart disease and stroke. 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A lot of them as an African American.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p2\">She suffers from congestive heart failure and high blood pressure, both of which are risk factors for COVID-19. But Addison is not living in fear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p3\">“You get to be 85 years old, you know you got a foot on the banana peel,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p2\">On a hot summer night in August, after collapsing on her bed from fatigue, she tried not to panic. Within days she tested positive for COVID-19 and landed in the hospital with pneumonia. The hardest part, she says, was the no-visitor policy. After two dire weeks, her physician sent her home, and she credits her recovery to the kindness of the nurses and doctors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p3\">She’s still moving slowly and spends most days alone in the room she rents near Union Square. But she says she’s not lonely, as her devices keep her connected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p2\">“I learn so much because of technology,” she said. “All I have to do is turn on my iPhone or my iPad or my computer. And there is a new subject for me to learn.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p2\">She often showcases her new skills over FaceTime with her six great-grandchildren on the East Coast. In the evenings, her sweetheart visits. They make dinner in her instant pot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p2\">On difficult days she pulls on her gloves, tightens her mask and strolls the city, chatting with folks on the street. She looks forward to a lot more social interaction when the pandemic ends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p2\">“I’m a professional volunteer!” proclaimed Addison. Until that’s safe, she’s taking it one day at a time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p2\">“The good news overall is that older adults are adapting. They’re resilient,” Kotwal said. “They’re finding ways to continue to cope despite these really prolonged restrictions. On the other hand, I think there is that subgroup that has had persistent loneliness that hasn’t been able to adopt new technologies or has had trouble coping.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p2\">Kotwal says it’s critical that doctors and social service agencies track older adults who may not have access to or feel comfortable navigating technology. He and his UCSF colleagues plan to check back with their original study cohort in a few months. He worries colder weather and a very different holiday season may lead to increased loneliness, and he suggests calling seniors more often this fall and winter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Californians defeated Proposition 23, with 64% of voters saying no to the measure that would have required dialysis clinics to have a doctor on-site at all times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The loss is not surprising after the opposition, led by the two largest dialysis companies in the country — DaVita and Fresenius — invested more than $104 million into defeating the measure, while proponents, the Service Employees International Union – United Healthcare Workers West (SEIU-UHW), put up roughly $9 million in support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Proposition 23 was never about anything other than UHW’s political motivations. It wasn’t about improving patient care. It wasn’t about helping patients,” said Kathy Fairbanks, spokesperson for the No on 23 campaign. “It was on the ballot for the wrong reasons and voters saw that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the last five years, UHW has been trying to unionize workers at dialysis clinics in California, without success. The union has long turned to the ballot box to seek leverage in its labor disputes. It sponsored a similar initiative in 2018, Proposition 8, aimed at limiting profits at dialysis clinics. When that was voted down, the union went to work almost immediately on Proposition 23, according to spokesman Steve Trossman, with the intention of writing an initiative that would be easier for voters to understand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But dialysis companies waged a fierce opposition campaign, blanketing the state with ads featuring dialysis patients who were either angry, saying that they were being put in the middle of a labor dispute, or scared, arguing that the cost of complying with the measure would bankrupt and close their clinics, leaving them without the three-times-per-week treatments they need to stay alive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the proposition had passed, those mass closures would have been unlikely, as DaVita and Fresenius operate 75% of California’s 600 dialysis clinics and together earned $2 billion in profits last year. However, there is little scientific evidence that the measure would have improved patient health. \u003ca href=\"https://jasn.asnjournals.org/content/29/12/2777\">Research\u003c/a> from a decade-long experiment in the Medicare program found that dialysis patients who saw their doctors four or more times per month had the same health outcomes and mortality rates as patients who saw their doctors once or twice a month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A long list of doctors’ associations and patient groups also opposed the measure. Some argued it was not only unnecessary, but dangerous. The measure did not specify that the doctor on-site needed to be a kidney specialist – any kind of doctor would have been allowed – and that raised \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11842376/kidney-failure-disproportionately-affects-people-of-color-will-proposition-23-improve-care\">concerns among patients\u003c/a> on both sides that a doctor without specialized training in kidney failure and dialysis care could do more harm than good.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union insists that its efforts were aimed at improving patient health and getting the dialysis industry to reinvest more of its ample profits into improving care. It vowed to continue pursuing these goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are in this for the long haul until the dialysis industry does the right thing,” said Carmen Cartagena, a dialysis patient with the Yes on 23 campaign. “We intend to continue seeking to hold the dialysis industry accountable through all means, including in the state Legislature and through ballot initiatives. We won’t stop until it is truly reformed and puts patients before profits.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Californians defeated Proposition 23, with 64% of voters saying no to the measure that would have required dialysis clinics to have a doctor on-site at all times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The loss is not surprising after the opposition, led by the two largest dialysis companies in the country — DaVita and Fresenius — invested more than $104 million into defeating the measure, while proponents, the Service Employees International Union – United Healthcare Workers West (SEIU-UHW), put up roughly $9 million in support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Proposition 23 was never about anything other than UHW’s political motivations. It wasn’t about improving patient care. It wasn’t about helping patients,” said Kathy Fairbanks, spokesperson for the No on 23 campaign. “It was on the ballot for the wrong reasons and voters saw that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the last five years, UHW has been trying to unionize workers at dialysis clinics in California, without success. The union has long turned to the ballot box to seek leverage in its labor disputes. It sponsored a similar initiative in 2018, Proposition 8, aimed at limiting profits at dialysis clinics. When that was voted down, the union went to work almost immediately on Proposition 23, according to spokesman Steve Trossman, with the intention of writing an initiative that would be easier for voters to understand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But dialysis companies waged a fierce opposition campaign, blanketing the state with ads featuring dialysis patients who were either angry, saying that they were being put in the middle of a labor dispute, or scared, arguing that the cost of complying with the measure would bankrupt and close their clinics, leaving them without the three-times-per-week treatments they need to stay alive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Feeling overwhelmed? Maybe the parent of a preschooler in your family just called to say they need extra help with child care, and a sick neighbor wants to know if you can pick up some groceries for her. Meanwhile, your best friend keeps calling, wanting to vent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In less stressful times, perhaps, you’d have jumped to help out and lend an ear. But after months of social isolation, juggling work demands, and caring for loved ones, the balance has started to tip. Suddenly your own need for emotional support is outweighing your capacity for kindness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s understandable, and OK. If you’re feeling numb or overburdened these days in response to another’s pain or request for help, that doesn’t make you unkind. What you’re feeling could instead be what we mental health professionals call \u003ca href=\"https://www.naadac.org/assets/2416/sharon_foley_ac15_militarycultureho2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">“compassion fatigue.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anxiety, sadness and low self-worth can also be \u003ca href=\"https://www.stress.org/military/for-practitionersleaders/compassion-fatigue\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">symptoms\u003c/a> of this sort of emotional exhaustion, the American Institute of Stress notes in guidance to therapists. Often we associate this \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7356120/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">stress condition\u003c/a> with counselors and other health care workers, but the \u003ca href=\"https://www.apa.org/topics/covid-19/compassion-fatigue\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">American Psychological Association \u003c/a>warns that anyone who continually cares for others or who witnesses trauma is also at risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1300/J189v01n03_03\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Research\u003c/a> shows compassion fatigue \u003ca href=\"https://academic.oup.com/swr/article-abstract/42/1/33/4788592\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">can be successfully treated\u003c/a> — with stress-reduction techniques, such as meditation, as well as with therapy. The key is learning how to recognize the symptoms so that you can get help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the two of us — a psychologist and a social worker — feel like we have “nothing left to give,” supporting our own grieving friends or caring for a sick relative can feel like running a marathon with sore muscles. But showing compassion — and avoiding emotional burnout — doesn’t have to be painful for therapists or anyone else. As Stanford psychologist \u003ca href=\"https://profiles.stanford.edu/jamil-zaki\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jamil Zaki\u003c/a> notes in his book “The War for Kindness,” “empathy is a skill we can all strengthen through effort.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are some exercises we use to keep ourselves fresh that might help you replenish your empathy stores, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11842749\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11842749\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/compassionfatigue-4_wide-4e60a6ef51b0d151984731b1047e1fbc53613f8f-800x449.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"449\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/compassionfatigue-4_wide-4e60a6ef51b0d151984731b1047e1fbc53613f8f-800x449.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/compassionfatigue-4_wide-4e60a6ef51b0d151984731b1047e1fbc53613f8f-1020x573.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/compassionfatigue-4_wide-4e60a6ef51b0d151984731b1047e1fbc53613f8f-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/compassionfatigue-4_wide-4e60a6ef51b0d151984731b1047e1fbc53613f8f-1536x863.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/compassionfatigue-4_wide-4e60a6ef51b0d151984731b1047e1fbc53613f8f-2048x1150.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/compassionfatigue-4_wide-4e60a6ef51b0d151984731b1047e1fbc53613f8f-1920x1078.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Social workers know ‘compassion fatigue’ is a risk of the job, and have learned ways stay healthy and empathetic. \u003ccite>(Hanna Barczyk for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Shift your perspective \u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>How we perceive someone’s suffering can impact our own well-being. In one \u003ca href=\"https://isiarticles.com/bundles/Article/pre/pdf/122495.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">study,\u003c/a> researchers found that individuals who \u003cem>feel\u003c/em> someone’s pain may be more likely to experience distress than those who \u003cem>think\u003c/em> about how the person is feeling. Apparently, when we not only imagine ourselves in the suffering person’s shoes but actually feel as they do, the body’s stress response gets triggered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The solution is to get a little \u003ca href=\"https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-04047-3__;!!Iwwt!EWBKXuCBnuHkH0U3iRdvvlC4SPHk_dUiVdSlpXvkqjBClQnW26QRpzBWPd2zvA%24\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">psychological distance\u003c/a> between your thoughts and feelings by trying a technique called, \u003ca href=\"https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnsys.2014.00175/full__;!!Iwwt!EWBKXuCBnuHkH0U3iRdvvlC4SPHk_dUiVdSlpXvkqjBClQnW26QRpzA_3Lh0eA%24\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">“cognitive reappraisal,”\u003c/a> which is reframing how you see a stressful situation. \u003ca href=\"https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29384468/__;!!Iwwt!EWBKXuCBnuHkH0U3iRdvvlC4SPHk_dUiVdSlpXvkqjBClQnW26QRpzA7dBWNMQ%24\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Research \u003c/a>suggests it can help you diffuse negative emotions, which can make a real difference physically.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For instance, if your dear friend’s heartache feels like your own, pause and ask yourself: “What are some of the different feelings they might be experiencing right now?” If their sorrow overtakes you, take a few deep breaths, or reach out to them to ask, “What do you need right now?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both tactics can help you recognize your friend’s point of view, researchers who study empathy say, while \u003ca href=\"https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0272735811001115__;!!Iwwt!EWBKXuCBnuHkH0U3iRdvvlC4SPHk_dUiVdSlpXvkqjBClQnW26QRpzCDNAIJzg%24\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tamping down your own stress response\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11842750\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11842750\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/compassionfatigue-5_wide-de08d7de04954d5b6a4b515b57b3231abe74ab95-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/compassionfatigue-5_wide-de08d7de04954d5b6a4b515b57b3231abe74ab95-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/compassionfatigue-5_wide-de08d7de04954d5b6a4b515b57b3231abe74ab95-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/compassionfatigue-5_wide-de08d7de04954d5b6a4b515b57b3231abe74ab95-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/compassionfatigue-5_wide-de08d7de04954d5b6a4b515b57b3231abe74ab95-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/compassionfatigue-5_wide-de08d7de04954d5b6a4b515b57b3231abe74ab95-2048x1152.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/compassionfatigue-5_wide-de08d7de04954d5b6a4b515b57b3231abe74ab95-1920x1080.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Your acts of kindness don’t have to be huge for others to feel nurtured. \u003ccite>(Hanna Barczyk for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Show up in small ways\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>When someone’s suffering is immense, it’s easy to feel you have to show up in grand ways. When you hear a friend has cancer, for instance, you may feel you need to jump in to set up a meal train, and send daily text messages and flowers. When a coworker loses their home to wildfire or flood, your first impulse may be to organize a fundraiser or a clothing drive. But if you’re also struggling to keep your own life and household afloat, these well-meant gestures may be too much for you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The good news: Your acts of kindness don’t have to be huge for others to feel nurtured. In a \u003ca href=\"https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0265407517724600\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2017 study\u003c/a>, 495 men and women answered a series of questions about what makes them feel loved. Results showed that the participants saw human connection as more meaningful expressions of care than receiving lavish gifts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Start by deciding how much time you can spare, and identify kind acts that sync with your schedule. If you’re working full time and helping your children with remote learning, 30 minutes may be your max, and that’s OK. Decide on a few gestures, such as sending a handwritten card or a gift certificate for groceries. Or send a text message that says, “I’m sorry you’re going through this. I’m thinking of you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11842751\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11842751\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/compassionfatigue-3_wide-a3f684354ad1ca5b18411fec4f723731a1bad219-800x449.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"449\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/compassionfatigue-3_wide-a3f684354ad1ca5b18411fec4f723731a1bad219-800x449.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/compassionfatigue-3_wide-a3f684354ad1ca5b18411fec4f723731a1bad219-1020x573.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/compassionfatigue-3_wide-a3f684354ad1ca5b18411fec4f723731a1bad219-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/compassionfatigue-3_wide-a3f684354ad1ca5b18411fec4f723731a1bad219-1536x863.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/compassionfatigue-3_wide-a3f684354ad1ca5b18411fec4f723731a1bad219-2048x1150.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/compassionfatigue-3_wide-a3f684354ad1ca5b18411fec4f723731a1bad219-1920x1078.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">When we feel compassion fatigue, it’s because our desire and ability to help are incompatible. \u003ccite>(Hanna Barczyk for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Practice self-compassion\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>When we feel compassion fatigue, it’s because our desire and ability to help are incompatible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If a friend’s been in an accident or is seriously ill, for example, you may wish you could drive them to every medical appointment, even though devoting that much time may not be realistic for you. That can set up a negative loop if the guilt and shame of not being able to meet your own standards keeps you from doing anything at all – which only amplifies your feelings of self-loathing. The result: Nobody is helped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Learn instead to \u003ca href=\"https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15298868.2011.649546\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">start with self-compassion\u003c/a>, which psychologist \u003ca href=\"https://self-compassion.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kristin Neff\u003c/a> defines as “personal acceptance, regardless if we succeed or fail.” That can help \u003ca href=\"https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17439760.2013.831465\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">break this cycle of self-blame\u003c/a> and help deploy your empathy for others. With self-compassion guiding us, we may say: “At this moment, I accept that I’m exhausted. It’s OK to take care of myself,” or “I accept that I can’t do everything, but I’ll help in small ways.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If self-directed kindness is challenging, \u003ca href=\"https://self-compassion.org/exercise-1-treat-friend/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Neff\u003c/a> recommends imagining a friend who’s in a dilemma similar to the one you’re facing. What advice might you give? You’d probably be kind and understanding, which can serve as a reminder to treat yourself that way, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11842752\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11842752\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/compassionfatigue-2_wide-a6b459a95d9fe0fc8946c233cff11a661eb557dd-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/compassionfatigue-2_wide-a6b459a95d9fe0fc8946c233cff11a661eb557dd-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/compassionfatigue-2_wide-a6b459a95d9fe0fc8946c233cff11a661eb557dd-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/compassionfatigue-2_wide-a6b459a95d9fe0fc8946c233cff11a661eb557dd-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/compassionfatigue-2_wide-a6b459a95d9fe0fc8946c233cff11a661eb557dd-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/compassionfatigue-2_wide-a6b459a95d9fe0fc8946c233cff11a661eb557dd-2048x1152.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/compassionfatigue-2_wide-a6b459a95d9fe0fc8946c233cff11a661eb557dd-1920x1080.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In times of grief, people benefit from the support of a community, research suggests. \u003ccite>(Hanna Barczyk for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Enlist the help of others\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Showing up for others doesn’t mean you have to manage someone’s difficulty all by yourself. In times of grief, people \u003ca href=\"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29754514/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">benefit from the support of a community\u003c/a>, research suggests. In a \u003ca href=\"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29754514/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">study\u003c/a> of 678 bereaved individuals, researchers found that having the support of friends, family and community helpers made a more significant difference than having just one professional’s help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, if a lonely neighbor needs company, see if someone in their \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/05/17/857531803/the-pros-and-cons-of-social-bubbles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">social bubble\u003c/a> can pay them a visit that day, or have a tech-savvy friend set up a video chat. Other friends who bake can leave cookies on their doorstep, and those who enjoy writing can pen heartfelt notes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An online support group is another resource you might help your neighbor tap. Directories like \u003ca href=\"https://www.supportgroupscentral.com/index.cfm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Support Groups Central\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.psychologytoday.com/us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Psychology Today\u003c/a> provide a list of groups for people coping with depression, anxiety or grief. It can help to connect, even virtually, with a community of people who share the same struggles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During this year of collective suffering, we need each other more than ever. Expressing empathy in small ways, while also extending kindness toward ourselves, can once again \u003ca href=\"https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00223980.2018.1495170?scroll=top&needAccess=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">make helping other people feel like a joy\u003c/a>, instead of a burden. And \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/05/05/719780061/from-gloom-to-gratitude-8-skills-to-cultivate-joy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">cultivating joy in your life\u003c/a> can make any burden \u003cem>you’re\u003c/em> carrying feel lighter, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Juli Fraga is a psychologist and writer in San Francisco. You can find her on Twitter \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/dr_fraga\">\u003cem>@dr_fraga\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>. Kelsey Crowe teaches social work at California State University and is the author of \u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://www.empathybootcamp.com/pages/the-book\">“There Is No Good Card For This: What To Say And Do When Life Is Scary, Awful And Unfair To People You Love.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2020 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=Helping+Hands+Need+A+Break%2C+Too%3A+How+To+Lend+Support+Without+Burning+Out&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Feeling overwhelmed? Maybe the parent of a preschooler in your family just called to say they need extra help with child care, and a sick neighbor wants to know if you can pick up some groceries for her. Meanwhile, your best friend keeps calling, wanting to vent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In less stressful times, perhaps, you’d have jumped to help out and lend an ear. But after months of social isolation, juggling work demands, and caring for loved ones, the balance has started to tip. Suddenly your own need for emotional support is outweighing your capacity for kindness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s understandable, and OK. If you’re feeling numb or overburdened these days in response to another’s pain or request for help, that doesn’t make you unkind. What you’re feeling could instead be what we mental health professionals call \u003ca href=\"https://www.naadac.org/assets/2416/sharon_foley_ac15_militarycultureho2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">“compassion fatigue.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anxiety, sadness and low self-worth can also be \u003ca href=\"https://www.stress.org/military/for-practitionersleaders/compassion-fatigue\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">symptoms\u003c/a> of this sort of emotional exhaustion, the American Institute of Stress notes in guidance to therapists. Often we associate this \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7356120/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">stress condition\u003c/a> with counselors and other health care workers, but the \u003ca href=\"https://www.apa.org/topics/covid-19/compassion-fatigue\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">American Psychological Association \u003c/a>warns that anyone who continually cares for others or who witnesses trauma is also at risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1300/J189v01n03_03\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Research\u003c/a> shows compassion fatigue \u003ca href=\"https://academic.oup.com/swr/article-abstract/42/1/33/4788592\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">can be successfully treated\u003c/a> — with stress-reduction techniques, such as meditation, as well as with therapy. The key is learning how to recognize the symptoms so that you can get help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the two of us — a psychologist and a social worker — feel like we have “nothing left to give,” supporting our own grieving friends or caring for a sick relative can feel like running a marathon with sore muscles. But showing compassion — and avoiding emotional burnout — doesn’t have to be painful for therapists or anyone else. As Stanford psychologist \u003ca href=\"https://profiles.stanford.edu/jamil-zaki\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jamil Zaki\u003c/a> notes in his book “The War for Kindness,” “empathy is a skill we can all strengthen through effort.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are some exercises we use to keep ourselves fresh that might help you replenish your empathy stores, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11842749\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11842749\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/compassionfatigue-4_wide-4e60a6ef51b0d151984731b1047e1fbc53613f8f-800x449.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"449\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/compassionfatigue-4_wide-4e60a6ef51b0d151984731b1047e1fbc53613f8f-800x449.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/compassionfatigue-4_wide-4e60a6ef51b0d151984731b1047e1fbc53613f8f-1020x573.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/compassionfatigue-4_wide-4e60a6ef51b0d151984731b1047e1fbc53613f8f-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/compassionfatigue-4_wide-4e60a6ef51b0d151984731b1047e1fbc53613f8f-1536x863.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/compassionfatigue-4_wide-4e60a6ef51b0d151984731b1047e1fbc53613f8f-2048x1150.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/compassionfatigue-4_wide-4e60a6ef51b0d151984731b1047e1fbc53613f8f-1920x1078.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Social workers know ‘compassion fatigue’ is a risk of the job, and have learned ways stay healthy and empathetic. \u003ccite>(Hanna Barczyk for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Shift your perspective \u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>How we perceive someone’s suffering can impact our own well-being. In one \u003ca href=\"https://isiarticles.com/bundles/Article/pre/pdf/122495.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">study,\u003c/a> researchers found that individuals who \u003cem>feel\u003c/em> someone’s pain may be more likely to experience distress than those who \u003cem>think\u003c/em> about how the person is feeling. Apparently, when we not only imagine ourselves in the suffering person’s shoes but actually feel as they do, the body’s stress response gets triggered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The solution is to get a little \u003ca href=\"https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-04047-3__;!!Iwwt!EWBKXuCBnuHkH0U3iRdvvlC4SPHk_dUiVdSlpXvkqjBClQnW26QRpzBWPd2zvA%24\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">psychological distance\u003c/a> between your thoughts and feelings by trying a technique called, \u003ca href=\"https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnsys.2014.00175/full__;!!Iwwt!EWBKXuCBnuHkH0U3iRdvvlC4SPHk_dUiVdSlpXvkqjBClQnW26QRpzA_3Lh0eA%24\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">“cognitive reappraisal,”\u003c/a> which is reframing how you see a stressful situation. \u003ca href=\"https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29384468/__;!!Iwwt!EWBKXuCBnuHkH0U3iRdvvlC4SPHk_dUiVdSlpXvkqjBClQnW26QRpzA7dBWNMQ%24\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Research \u003c/a>suggests it can help you diffuse negative emotions, which can make a real difference physically.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For instance, if your dear friend’s heartache feels like your own, pause and ask yourself: “What are some of the different feelings they might be experiencing right now?” If their sorrow overtakes you, take a few deep breaths, or reach out to them to ask, “What do you need right now?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both tactics can help you recognize your friend’s point of view, researchers who study empathy say, while \u003ca href=\"https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0272735811001115__;!!Iwwt!EWBKXuCBnuHkH0U3iRdvvlC4SPHk_dUiVdSlpXvkqjBClQnW26QRpzCDNAIJzg%24\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tamping down your own stress response\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11842750\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11842750\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/compassionfatigue-5_wide-de08d7de04954d5b6a4b515b57b3231abe74ab95-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/compassionfatigue-5_wide-de08d7de04954d5b6a4b515b57b3231abe74ab95-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/compassionfatigue-5_wide-de08d7de04954d5b6a4b515b57b3231abe74ab95-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/compassionfatigue-5_wide-de08d7de04954d5b6a4b515b57b3231abe74ab95-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/compassionfatigue-5_wide-de08d7de04954d5b6a4b515b57b3231abe74ab95-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/compassionfatigue-5_wide-de08d7de04954d5b6a4b515b57b3231abe74ab95-2048x1152.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/compassionfatigue-5_wide-de08d7de04954d5b6a4b515b57b3231abe74ab95-1920x1080.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Your acts of kindness don’t have to be huge for others to feel nurtured. \u003ccite>(Hanna Barczyk for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Show up in small ways\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>When someone’s suffering is immense, it’s easy to feel you have to show up in grand ways. When you hear a friend has cancer, for instance, you may feel you need to jump in to set up a meal train, and send daily text messages and flowers. When a coworker loses their home to wildfire or flood, your first impulse may be to organize a fundraiser or a clothing drive. But if you’re also struggling to keep your own life and household afloat, these well-meant gestures may be too much for you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The good news: Your acts of kindness don’t have to be huge for others to feel nurtured. In a \u003ca href=\"https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0265407517724600\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2017 study\u003c/a>, 495 men and women answered a series of questions about what makes them feel loved. Results showed that the participants saw human connection as more meaningful expressions of care than receiving lavish gifts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Start by deciding how much time you can spare, and identify kind acts that sync with your schedule. If you’re working full time and helping your children with remote learning, 30 minutes may be your max, and that’s OK. Decide on a few gestures, such as sending a handwritten card or a gift certificate for groceries. Or send a text message that says, “I’m sorry you’re going through this. I’m thinking of you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11842751\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11842751\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/compassionfatigue-3_wide-a3f684354ad1ca5b18411fec4f723731a1bad219-800x449.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"449\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/compassionfatigue-3_wide-a3f684354ad1ca5b18411fec4f723731a1bad219-800x449.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/compassionfatigue-3_wide-a3f684354ad1ca5b18411fec4f723731a1bad219-1020x573.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/compassionfatigue-3_wide-a3f684354ad1ca5b18411fec4f723731a1bad219-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/compassionfatigue-3_wide-a3f684354ad1ca5b18411fec4f723731a1bad219-1536x863.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/compassionfatigue-3_wide-a3f684354ad1ca5b18411fec4f723731a1bad219-2048x1150.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/compassionfatigue-3_wide-a3f684354ad1ca5b18411fec4f723731a1bad219-1920x1078.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">When we feel compassion fatigue, it’s because our desire and ability to help are incompatible. \u003ccite>(Hanna Barczyk for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Practice self-compassion\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>When we feel compassion fatigue, it’s because our desire and ability to help are incompatible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If a friend’s been in an accident or is seriously ill, for example, you may wish you could drive them to every medical appointment, even though devoting that much time may not be realistic for you. That can set up a negative loop if the guilt and shame of not being able to meet your own standards keeps you from doing anything at all – which only amplifies your feelings of self-loathing. The result: Nobody is helped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Learn instead to \u003ca href=\"https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15298868.2011.649546\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">start with self-compassion\u003c/a>, which psychologist \u003ca href=\"https://self-compassion.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kristin Neff\u003c/a> defines as “personal acceptance, regardless if we succeed or fail.” That can help \u003ca href=\"https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17439760.2013.831465\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">break this cycle of self-blame\u003c/a> and help deploy your empathy for others. With self-compassion guiding us, we may say: “At this moment, I accept that I’m exhausted. It’s OK to take care of myself,” or “I accept that I can’t do everything, but I’ll help in small ways.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If self-directed kindness is challenging, \u003ca href=\"https://self-compassion.org/exercise-1-treat-friend/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Neff\u003c/a> recommends imagining a friend who’s in a dilemma similar to the one you’re facing. What advice might you give? 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Other friends who bake can leave cookies on their doorstep, and those who enjoy writing can pen heartfelt notes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An online support group is another resource you might help your neighbor tap. Directories like \u003ca href=\"https://www.supportgroupscentral.com/index.cfm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Support Groups Central\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.psychologytoday.com/us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Psychology Today\u003c/a> provide a list of groups for people coping with depression, anxiety or grief. It can help to connect, even virtually, with a community of people who share the same struggles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During this year of collective suffering, we need each other more than ever. 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"content": "\u003cp>Looking back now, DeWayne Cox says his path to kidney failure started in childhood. He lives in Los Angeles now, but he grew up on the South Side of Chicago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the projects mostly, so I fought off gangs. I also had two parents that were both heroin addicts,” he says. “So there was lots of stress and a poor diet.” He was diagnosed with high blood pressure when he was 16, which he managed well with medications, but they made him tired and he had to pee all the time. That really became a problem in his 40s when he got a job with Barack Obama’s presidential campaign in 2008.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because I was out in the field and I always had to go to the bathroom,” he says. “And most of the volunteers were young kids. It meant I had to keep up with all the college students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So for three months, he stopped taking his medications. Even now, he says he would do it again, but it was a turning point in his health. In 2009, his doctor told him he had kidney failure and he would have to start dialysis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I, like most people, didn’t even know what my kidneys were, where they were or what they did,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But now, after going to dialysis for three-hour treatments three times a week for the last 10 years to have his blood cleaned, Cox is well versed in the science and policy of kidney disease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He has taken a special interest in \u003ca href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_23,_Dialysis_Clinic_Requirements_Initiative_(2020)\">Proposition 23\u003c/a>, the California ballot measure that would require all dialysis clinics in the state to have a doctor on site at all times patients are receiving treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Disproportionate Impact\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The measure has gotten attention from several minority health groups, including the California NAACP and the National Hispanic Medical Association, because of the disproportionate impact kidney disease has on communities of color — 57 percent of dialysis patients in California are African American or Latino, according to Medicare data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In particular, African Americans like Cox are \u003ca href=\"https://www.niddk.nih.gov/health-information/health-statistics/kidney-disease\">almost four times more likely\u003c/a> to end up with kidney failure than whites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Magellan Handford, dialysis nurse\"]‘I grew up in South Central L.A., and when I was growing up, there was a liquor store on every corner. Now, there’s a dialysis clinic on every corner.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Various \u003ca href=\"https://jasn.asnjournals.org/content/27/9/2576\">socioeconomic\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://kidney360.asnjournals.org/content/1/1/58\">genetic\u003c/a> factors make African Americans more likely to develop high blood pressure or diabetes, the main conditions that cause kidney disease. And African Americans are less likely to have \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5418094/\">access to regular health care\u003c/a> to prevent these conditions from advancing to kidney failure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But policies around care are drastically different once kidney failure sets in. In 1972, President Richard Nixon signed a law creating a special benefit under Medicare, requiring the government to cover the cost of all treatment for end-stage renal disease, regardless of age or income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Essentially, we have universal health care in this country — for one organ in the body,” is how comedian John Oliver described it in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yw_nqzVfxFQ&list=ULBgyqAD5Z6_A&index=203\">2017 episode\u003c/a> of Last Week Tonight. “It’s like your kidneys, and only your kidneys, are Canadian.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘A Dialysis Clinic on Every Corner’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In the beginning, the program paid for dialysis for about 10,000 patients. Now, there are \u003ca href=\"https://www.niddk.nih.gov/health-information/health-statistics/kidney-disease\">468,000 dialysis patients\u003c/a> in the U.S., and a massive industry has emerged to care for them. Nearly \u003ca href=\"https://healthcareappraisers.com/2020-outlook-dialysis-clinics-and-esrd/\">three quarters\u003c/a> of dialysis clinics in the U.S. are owned by two companies: \u003ca href=\"https://pressreleases.davita.com/2020-02-10-DaVita-Inc-4th-Quarter-2019-Results\">DaVita, Inc.\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.freseniusmedicalcare.com/fileadmin/data/com/pdf/About_us/Company_Profile/FME_Factsheet_2019_EN.pdf\">Fresenius Medical Care\u003c/a>. Together, they earned $2 billion in profits last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a business built on the backs of people of color, says Magellan Handford, who has worked as a dialysis nurse for both companies over the last 20 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I grew up in South Central L.A., and when I was growing up, there was a liquor store on every corner,” he says. “Now, there’s a dialysis clinic on every corner in L.A.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11842100 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/dialysis-1020x574.jpg']The companies don’t invest enough of their profits into care, Handford says, resulting in mice and roaches in clinics, “patients dripping blood all over the place,” and nurses and technicians that are so stretched and rushed, they are forced to take shortcuts and can’t follow proper infection control protocols.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The industry is built on numbers,” he says. “We need to get patients in and we need to get patients out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is why Handford has been trying to help unionize staff at California dialysis clinics, so they can have more say in clinic operations like this. But for the last four years, they haven’t succeeded. So they turned to the ballot box. SEIU-UHW, the health care workers union, put Proposition 23 on the ballot, it says, to force improvements in patient care the companies aren’t willing to make.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Doing propositions is the only voice that we have as workers,” Handford says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Do More Doctors Mean Better Care?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>But it’s not clear the specific policies outlined in Proposition 23 can fix Handford’s complaints. There’s little evidence in medical literature that having doctors in clinics at all times will \u003ca href=\"https://jasn.asnjournals.org/content/29/12/2777\">improve patient health at all\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Medicare tested this. In 2004, it reformed payment policies to incentivize doctors to visit their dialysis patients more often. Instead of one or two times a month, it pushed them to go four or more times a month. Then they studied which patients did better.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Guess what? Doesn’t matter. It doesn’t affect outcomes,” says Jay Wish, a nephrologist at Indiana University. “So after a 13 year or so experiment in trying to bribe physicians to see the patients more often, they realize it doesn’t matter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Various studies found no difference in \u003ca href=\"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16183416/\">health outcomes\u003c/a> or improvements in the \u003ca href=\"https://jasn.asnjournals.org/content/29/12/2777\">quality of care\u003c/a>. In fact, one study showed patients who were seen less often by their doctors had \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4500158/\">better survival rates\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Jay Wish, Indiana University\"]‘A doctor that knows nothing about dialysis — that’s dangerous. That’s even more dangerous than having nobody there.’[/pullquote]\u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3877739/\">An international study\u003c/a> suggests countries like Germany or France have better mortality rates than the U.S. because doctors have a greater presence in dialysis clinics. But Wish says there are too many differences between the health systems and patient populations to draw any meaningful conclusions from the association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We dialyze a lot sicker patients than they do,” he says. “In France, you get dialyzed for eight hours, not four … and they serve you wine and cheese during the dialysis. So it really isn’t only about there being a doctor there. There’s just so many other variables that it’s inappropriate to make these comparisons.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wish says there could even be negative consequences of Proposition 23 because it doesn’t specify that the doctor has to be a kidney specialist. It can be any licensed physician.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A doctor that knows nothing about dialysis — that’s dangerous. That’s even more dangerous than having nobody there,” Wish says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is why patient DeWayne Cox is against Proposition 23. He’s had his own experiences in the hospital, being cared for by general doctors who didn’t understand the complexities of his condition, prescribed the wrong medication, and made other mistakes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he’s scared that Proposition 23 sounds good on the surface and that voters won’t understand the nuances. He accuses the union backing the measure of not truly being interested in patients, but rather, of using the ballot box to gain leverage in its own labor disputes and advance its own agenda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I see these propositions that are put before the voters, who have no idea what we go through and what’s necessary to keep us alive, it makes me angry,” he says. “They’re playing politics. 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"content": "\u003cp>When a fire \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2020/09/16/three-alarm-fire-burning-in-oakland/\">tore through a large commercial building\u003c/a> in the heart of Oakland’s Chinatown last month, Oakland Fire Department Captain Christopher Foley was one of the first on the scene, leading the battalion that quashed the flames within just a few hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That intense but brief firefight was a marked contrast to his experience the previous week on a strike team battling the massive \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2020/8/18/scu-lightning-complex/\">SCU Lighting Complex\u003c/a>, a blaze that burned for well over a month, devouring nearly 400,000 acres on the southeastern edges of the Bay Area before it was fully contained on Oct. 1 — one of the largest wildfires in California history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fires in the urban areas, everybody is moving very, very quickly, whereas the wildland fires are more of a methodical [process],” said Foley, who’s based at Station 4 on International Boulevard. “You might be working four days ahead of the fire.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"James Bowron, OFD battalion chief\"]‘These are the times where borders and boundaries drop and it’s all hands on deck and everyone has got to do their part to help bring these emergencies under control.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And when you’re working a wildfire, you don’t get any breaks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a different pace because you are working literally for 24 hours straight,” he said. “You are on your feet, working a tool, working a saw, putting in hose line for 24 hours. Whereas, the fire [in Chinatown], which is the biggest fire the city has seen in this calendar year, the fire is over in two hours.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, Foley has helped battle wildfires as part of California’s mutual aid system, a sprawling network of first responders from scores of local fire departments across the state, called on to assist Cal Fire and federal crews when extra hands are needed — which is almost always, these days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First \u003ca href=\"https://www.caloes.ca.gov/FireRescueSite/Documents/CalOES%20-%20History%20and%20Organization%20-%2020141201ua.pdf\">conceived in the 1950s\u003c/a>, California’s Fire and Rescue Mutual Aid System is one of the oldest and most robust of its kind. And as fires here continue to grow bigger and more ferocious, the state is relying on it more than ever before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"2020-wildfires\"]In recent years, Foley, 51, has gotten used to being deployed for weeks at a time, fighting some of the state’s biggest and most destructive blazes, often having to hit the road with his Oakland engine crew within an hour of getting the call.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That experience includes the 2018 \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/camp-fire\">Camp Fire\u003c/a>, which incinerated most of the northern California town of Paradise, killing 85 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Having to do two-plus weeks of search and recovery efforts after two days of fighting fire is something I hope I never have to do again,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But despite the physical and emotional toll of the work, Foley, who has two young children, said he looks forward to heading into the wild.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I love going out there. It’s just a whole different world — the challenge, it’s just a totally different playing field,” he said. “And then also it’s just an interesting opportunity to go help communities in need that you didn’t even know were on the map.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s fire season started alarmingly early this year, thanks to intensely dry conditions and a barrage of lightning strikes in mid-August that ignited hundreds of blazes across the state. By the first week of October, flames had charred a record 4 million acres — more than double the area that burned all of last year — with about two months still left to go in the season. That unprecedented early onslaught of huge, simultaneous blazes, coupled with COVID-19 restrictions that have sidelined many inmate firefighter crews and other first responders, are stretching the state’s emergency resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Definitely the drawdown of resources was extraordinarily apparent,” Foley said of his recent stint on the SCU Complex. “You know, a fire of that size by itself would probably have 3,000 people or more, and there were less than 2,000. So, with resources being spread so thin, it was very complicated because we just don’t have the ability to move as quickly as you might under different circumstances.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For mutual aid assistance, the Oakland Fire Department deploys up to five of its engines, with 25 firefighters and command staff at any one time. This season, Foley said, the department has consistently “maxed out” its resources, with crews currently deployed to four fires around the state, including the \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2020/9/27/glass-fire/\">Glass Fire\u003c/a> in North Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/AlamedaCoFire/status/1311329622018068480\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a minimum staffing level [in Oakland] that we maintain regardless of the circumstances, regardless of what’s going on around us,” he said. But that often requires firefighters at home to work extra shifts to fill in the gaps, he said, and gives those returning from wildland assignments less time to recuperate. “As the seasons get longer and longer, you definitely do start to feel it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In late summer, at the peak of the fire siege, more than 800 engines and over 3,000 personnel, mostly from city and county fire departments, were helping battle blazes across the state, said Brian Ferguson, a spokesman for the California Office of Emergency Services, which oversees the mutual aid system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The mutual aid system is a really critical part of our ability to respond to wildfires,” he said. “It’s basically surge capacity for the state’s firefighting ability, particularly when we have great need, like this year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to help from local departments, California has also become accustomed to requesting firefighting support from out of state, and even internationally, Ferguson said, noting that at one point in September, more than 18,000 firefighters — including those from local jurisdictions, National Guard troops and crews from Canada and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11839556/in-a-first-100-mexican-firefighters-arrive-in-california-to-help-battle-wildfires\">Mexico\u003c/a> — were battling blazes across the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s no doubt that current conditions are stretching the state’s firefighting system “to its limits,” he said. “There’s fears of what the impacts are on our system as a whole.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That comes as little surprise to James Bowron, an OFD battalion chief from Station 17 in East Oakland, who in 2016, was the incident commander for the deadly \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11747823/ghost-ship-trial-defense-accuses-fire-officials-of-shielding-city-from-civil-liability\">Ghost Ship fire\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We did the math the other day. I think out of [the last] 42 days, I was deployed for 36 of them,” said Bowron, 43, who recently returned from two weeks on a strike team fighting the El Dorado Fire in San Bernardino National Forest. Shortly before that, he had worked the SCU Complex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think everybody is pretty tired. I mean, back-to-back big fires; [the] season has been pretty relentless,” he said. “It’s really starting to tax the mutual aid system to the point that I haven’t seen before.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bowron had his first exposure to wildland firefighting more than 30 years ago, as part of a youth program in his hometown of Kenwood in rural Sonoma County, a region plagued by wildfires in recent years. At 18, just out of high school, he started working seasonally for Cal Fire before eventually finding longer-term jobs in city departments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Christopher Foley, OFD captain\"]‘It’s a different pace because you are working literally for 24 hours straight. You are on your feet, working a tool, working a saw, putting in hose line for 24 hours.’[/pullquote]Bowron acknowledges that he’s hired to serve the city of Oakland, but feels duty bound to fight fires wherever help is needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The way I look at it is that, you know, even though each of us, we represent the city we work for, when the state gets to a level like this, I mean, really, we do represent a state fire department,” he said. “These are the times where borders and boundaries drop and it’s all hands on deck and everyone has got to do their part to help bring these emergencies under control.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that comes with some serious sacrifices. Bowron has three young daughters who he often doesn’t even get a chance to say goodbye to when having to deploy at a moment’s notice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s very taxing on the family,” said Bowron, whose wife, a nurse at a Vallejo hospital, is also steeped in emergency work. “I have been very upfront with our daughters about what I do and the importance of sacrifice for the community … And they’re aware of that. But, you know, still, it’s not easy to have dad be gone for long stretches of time. I mean, there are definitely times where I get on the phone and they ask me when I’m coming home. And, you know, I’ve got to be like, ‘I’m coming home when the fire’s done.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even as California’s wildfires intensify year over year, claiming additional ground and threatening more communities, Bowron remains optimistic that the state will be able to meet the challenge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our state mutual aid system is probably the best. I mean, it’s really good,” he said. “It’s probably a blessing and a curse that just by the sheer amount of times we get to do it, we get pretty good at it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bowron pauses for moment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Is it sustainable? It kind of has to be. We don’t really have a lot of other choices.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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