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"content": "\u003cp>After months under California's most restrictive COVID-19 guidelines, San Francisco \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11862817/san-francisco-santa-clara-napa-counties-move-to-less-restrictive-reopening-tier\">entered the so-called red tier\u003c/a> this week, meaning some businesses and services can reopen to the public for the first time since 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A county's ranking in the tier system, called California's \"\u003ca href=\"https://covid19.ca.gov/safer-economy/\">Blueprint for a Safer Economy\u003c/a>,\" is determined based on the seven-day average of its overall COVID-19 cases, and the positivity rate. Counties under the red tier are allowed to reopen some nonessential businesses — like bookstores, museums and fitness centers — with limited capacity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the announcement, aquariums and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13893481/de-young-and-sfmoma-reopen-this-weekend-hopefully-for-good\">museums have been slowly opening\u003c/a> their doors. The Asian Art Museum reopened on Thursday, and de Young Museum and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art plan to reopen this weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11863543\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11863543\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47550_001_SanFrancisco_Pier39Reopening_03042021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47550_001_SanFrancisco_Pier39Reopening_03042021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47550_001_SanFrancisco_Pier39Reopening_03042021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47550_001_SanFrancisco_Pier39Reopening_03042021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47550_001_SanFrancisco_Pier39Reopening_03042021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47550_001_SanFrancisco_Pier39Reopening_03042021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A 'Welcome Back' sign at Pier 39 in San Francisco on March 4, 2021, outlining new safety measures due to COVID-19. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Here are some of the other businesses that can reopen under red tier restrictions:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Clothing and shoe stores, with 50% capacity\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Dance studios, with 10% capacity\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Hair salons and barbershops can open indoors, with modifications\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Libraries, with 50% capacity\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Movie theaters, with 25% capacity or 100 people, whichever is fewer\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Restaurants can open indoor dining with 25% capacity or 100 people, whichever is fewer\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://covid19.ca.gov/safer-economy/\">Check out the full list of what's open, and what's not, here.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just days after moving from the more restrictive purple tier to the red tier, residents are already taking advantage of reopened businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11863568\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47567_025_SanFrancisco_EmbarcaderoReopening_03032021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11863568\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47567_025_SanFrancisco_EmbarcaderoReopening_03032021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47567_025_SanFrancisco_EmbarcaderoReopening_03032021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47567_025_SanFrancisco_EmbarcaderoReopening_03032021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, 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Counties under the red tier are allowed to reopen some nonessential businesses — like bookstores, museums and fitness centers — with limited capacity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the announcement, aquariums and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13893481/de-young-and-sfmoma-reopen-this-weekend-hopefully-for-good\">museums have been slowly opening\u003c/a> their doors. The Asian Art Museum reopened on Thursday, and de Young Museum and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art plan to reopen this weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11863543\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11863543\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47550_001_SanFrancisco_Pier39Reopening_03042021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47550_001_SanFrancisco_Pier39Reopening_03042021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47550_001_SanFrancisco_Pier39Reopening_03042021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47550_001_SanFrancisco_Pier39Reopening_03042021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47550_001_SanFrancisco_Pier39Reopening_03042021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47550_001_SanFrancisco_Pier39Reopening_03042021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A 'Welcome Back' sign at Pier 39 in San Francisco on March 4, 2021, outlining new safety measures due to COVID-19. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Here are some of the other businesses that can reopen under red tier restrictions:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Clothing and shoe stores, with 50% capacity\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Dance studios, with 10% capacity\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Hair salons and barbershops can open indoors, with modifications\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Libraries, with 50% capacity\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Movie theaters, with 25% capacity or 100 people, whichever is fewer\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Restaurants can open indoor dining with 25% capacity or 100 people, whichever is fewer\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://covid19.ca.gov/safer-economy/\">Check out the full list of what's open, and what's not, here.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just days after moving from the more restrictive purple tier to the red tier, residents are already taking advantage of reopened businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11863568\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47567_025_SanFrancisco_EmbarcaderoReopening_03032021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11863568\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47567_025_SanFrancisco_EmbarcaderoReopening_03032021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47567_025_SanFrancisco_EmbarcaderoReopening_03032021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47567_025_SanFrancisco_EmbarcaderoReopening_03032021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47567_025_SanFrancisco_EmbarcaderoReopening_03032021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47567_025_SanFrancisco_EmbarcaderoReopening_03032021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Diners eat inside of a tent at La Mar Cebicheria Peruana restaurant in San Francisco on March 3, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11863544\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47552_003_SanFrancisco_Pier39Reopening_03042021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11863544\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47552_003_SanFrancisco_Pier39Reopening_03042021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47552_003_SanFrancisco_Pier39Reopening_03042021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47552_003_SanFrancisco_Pier39Reopening_03042021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47552_003_SanFrancisco_Pier39Reopening_03042021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47552_003_SanFrancisco_Pier39Reopening_03042021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jorge Arreola sanitizes a table at Pier Market after the restaurant reopened for indoor dining on March 4, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11863538\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11863538\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47544_022_SanFrancisco_AquariumoftheBay_03042021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47544_022_SanFrancisco_AquariumoftheBay_03042021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47544_022_SanFrancisco_AquariumoftheBay_03042021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47544_022_SanFrancisco_AquariumoftheBay_03042021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47544_022_SanFrancisco_AquariumoftheBay_03042021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47544_022_SanFrancisco_AquariumoftheBay_03042021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Espinosa family at the Aquarium of the Bay at Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco on March 4, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11863563\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47543_018_SanFrancisco_AquariumoftheBay_03042021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"sea otter swimming\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11863563\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47543_018_SanFrancisco_AquariumoftheBay_03042021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47543_018_SanFrancisco_AquariumoftheBay_03042021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47543_018_SanFrancisco_AquariumoftheBay_03042021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47543_018_SanFrancisco_AquariumoftheBay_03042021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47543_018_SanFrancisco_AquariumoftheBay_03042021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sea otter swims at the Aquarium of the Bay in San Francisco on March 4, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11863536\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47539_014_SanFrancisco_AquariumoftheBay_03042021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11863536\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47539_014_SanFrancisco_AquariumoftheBay_03042021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47539_014_SanFrancisco_AquariumoftheBay_03042021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47539_014_SanFrancisco_AquariumoftheBay_03042021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47539_014_SanFrancisco_AquariumoftheBay_03042021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47539_014_SanFrancisco_AquariumoftheBay_03042021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Helen Yool at the Aquarium of the Bay in San Francisco on March 4, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11863533\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11863533\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47531_029_SanFrancisco_SkyStarWheel_03042021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47531_029_SanFrancisco_SkyStarWheel_03042021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47531_029_SanFrancisco_SkyStarWheel_03042021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47531_029_SanFrancisco_SkyStarWheel_03042021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47531_029_SanFrancisco_SkyStarWheel_03042021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47531_029_SanFrancisco_SkyStarWheel_03042021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ariel Mestayer-Orallo takes a passenger's temperature at SkyStar Observation Wheel in Golden Gate Park on March 4, 2021, on the first day of reopening as San Francisco enters the red tier. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11863532\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11863532\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47527_019_SanFrancisco_SkyStarWheel_03042021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47527_019_SanFrancisco_SkyStarWheel_03042021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47527_019_SanFrancisco_SkyStarWheel_03042021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47527_019_SanFrancisco_SkyStarWheel_03042021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47527_019_SanFrancisco_SkyStarWheel_03042021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47527_019_SanFrancisco_SkyStarWheel_03042021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A passenger rides in a gondola on the SkyStar Observation Wheel in Golden Gate Park on March 4, 2021, on the first day of reopening as San Francisco enters the red tier. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11863577\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47526_016_SanFrancisco_SkyStarWheel_03042021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11863577\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47526_016_SanFrancisco_SkyStarWheel_03042021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47526_016_SanFrancisco_SkyStarWheel_03042021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47526_016_SanFrancisco_SkyStarWheel_03042021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47526_016_SanFrancisco_SkyStarWheel_03042021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47526_016_SanFrancisco_SkyStarWheel_03042021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11860883/trusted-leaders-are-fighting-covid-19-vaccine-fears-in-black-and-latino-communities\">\u003cem>Read in English\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]L[/dropcap]uz María Abonce llegó a San José hace más de 15 años. A lo largo del tiempo, ha asistido a graduaciones, quinceañeras y talleres, formando nuevas amistades por todo el este de la ciudad. Ahora, durante la pandemia, puede ver de nuevo a muchas de estas amistades, cuando ella toca sus puertas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Salimos a tocar las puertas con muchas ganas, tocamos, a veces nos abren, a veces no nos abren, pero allí estamos ofreciendo nuestros servicios los cuales son las pruebas de COVID-19”, dijo Abonce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ella es una promotora, una trabajadora de salud comunitaria que trabaja con META (Mujeres Emprendedoras Tomando Acción) y \u003ca href=\"https://www.somosmayfair.org/\">SOMOS Mayfair\u003c/a>, dos organizaciones sin fines de lucro que colaboran con el departamento de salud pública del condado de Santa Clara.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Las promotoras son líderes confiables en la comunidad”, afirmó Analilia García, gerente de equidad racial y de salud del condado de Santa Clara. “Ellos tienen la confianza y las conexiones que nosotros como condado no tenemos”, dijo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Janet Franco Orona, residente de San José\"]‘Cuando la comunidad une todos sus esfuerzos, siempre vamos a abrir la puerta a uno de los nuestros.’[/pullquote]Los latinos representan el \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/covid19/Pages/dashboard-demographics-of-cases-and-deaths-es.aspx\">51% de los casos de coronavirus\u003c/a> en el condado de Santa Clara, pese a que tan sólo forman el 25.8% de la población de esa región. Algunos de los códigos postales que \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/covid19/Pages/dashboard-cases-by-zip-code-and-city.aspx\">reportan los índices de infecciones más altos\u003c/a> en el condado se encuentran en el este de San José y Gilroy, zonas mayormente latinas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Según \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/covid19/Pages/dashboard-vaccine-CAIR2.aspx?mc_cid=fe1c613fca&mc_eid=555c140dcd\">datos del condado\u003c/a> publicados el 19 de febrero, 249 mil 442 residentes del condado de Santa Clara han recibido al menos una dosis de la vacuna. Alrededor del 20% de este grupo son latinos, una cifra por debajo del porcentaje de latinos que han sido contagiados o han muerto a causa de complicaciones relacionadas al COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Las \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/covid19/Pages/press-release-2-11-2021-SCC-launches-drop-in-vaccine-clinic-expand-in-areas-hardest-hit.aspx\">autoridades de salud han expandido\u003c/a> los centros de pruebas y sitios de vacunaciones en estas áreas, cerca de lugares del vecindario muy conocidos como La Placita Tropicana y la Plaza de la herencia mexicana en el este de San José y el centro para adultos mayores en Gilroy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pero el condado reconoce que la apertura de un nuevo plantel no siempre resulta en que más residentes de ese vecindario se puedan vacunar o hacer la prueba de COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Para algunos, puede ser una brecha digital. Para otros, puede ser una cuestión de tiempo por los horarios del trabajo o quizás no se sientan cómodos al ir al sitio”, explicó García.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El programa de las promotoras cierra esa brecha, algo que métodos más tradicionales de salud pública no pueden hacer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11863110\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11863110\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47059_027_SanJose_COVIDTesting_02032021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47059_027_SanJose_COVIDTesting_02032021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47059_027_SanJose_COVIDTesting_02032021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47059_027_SanJose_COVIDTesting_02032021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47059_027_SanJose_COVIDTesting_02032021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47059_027_SanJose_COVIDTesting_02032021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">La trabajadora de salud pública del condado de Santa Clara, Rocío Ramos, prepara un hisopo nasal para Antonio Orona para una prueba de COVID-19 autoadministrada en su casa en San José el 3 de febrero de 2021. El condado espera que a través de estos intercambios puerta por puerta, se formen relaciones personales que pueden limitar el impacto de la desinformación sobre el virus y la vacuna. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>García señala que las promotoras forman conexiones profundas con las familias que conocen, algo que en cambio no siempre ocurre en el portal electrónico para agendar una prueba de coronavirus. A menudo, las promotoras logran convencer a familias enteras que se hagan la prueba. Una de esas familias era la de Janet Franco Orona, residente del este de San José. Ella vive con su marido, suegra e hijo de 1 año.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aunque ya se ha hecho la prueba antes, Franco Orona se siente un poco nerviosa de llevar a su suegra, quien es una persona de la tercera edad, a uno de los centros de pruebas públicos. “¿Habrá mucha gente contagiada? ¿Nos van a cobrar? Todo esto nos preocupa cuando estamos planeado salir de la casa”, dijo ella.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pero la promotora que tocó su puerta resultó ser una vieja amiga y ex vecina de su suegra.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cuando la comunidad une todos sus esfuerzos, siempre vamos a abrir la puerta a uno de los nuestros”, dijo Franco Orona.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Junto con Abonce, otras ocho promotoras van puerta por puerta en el este de San José. A cada residente se les ofrece la oportunidad de hacerse la prueba de COVID-19 sin que se tengan que salir de sus hogares. Las promotoras llevan consigo equipos de pruebas y son los habitantes que usan los hisopos para recolectar las muestras.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mientras que los residentes se hacen la prueba, ella les responde cualquier pregunta que tengan. Muchos quieren saber sobre las nuevas cepas del virus o qué puede hacer el condado si\u003cbr>\nes que ellos dan positivo. Pero cada vez recibe más preguntas sobre la vacuna contra COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hemos escuchado muchísimas cosas que a veces decimos, ‘wow, ¡cómo inventan!'”, ella explicó. “Nos dicen, ‘yo no me voy a vacunar, porque la sacaron bien rápido’, ‘porque me dijeron que sólo le están poniendo pura agua’, otros dicen que le están poniendo un chip a la vacuna”, dijo Abonce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11863114\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11863114\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47056_024_SanJose_COVIDTesting_02032021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47056_024_SanJose_COVIDTesting_02032021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47056_024_SanJose_COVIDTesting_02032021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47056_024_SanJose_COVIDTesting_02032021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47056_024_SanJose_COVIDTesting_02032021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47056_024_SanJose_COVIDTesting_02032021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Después de hacerse la prueba de COVID-19, los residentes pueden hacer preguntas a las promotoras sobre el virus o los recursos que ofrece el condado para quienes dan positivo. Sin embargo, las promotoras ahora escuchan a menudo los temores y desinformación de los residentes sobre la vacuna contra el coronavirus. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>“Me voy a vacunar pero no confío en la vacuna”: En donde la historia choca con los miedos\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Incluso antes de que la Administración de medicamentos y alimentos (o FDA por sus siglas en inglés) aprobara una vacuna contra coronavirus para usos de emergencia, activistas en favor de la equidad en la salud pública \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11849892/california-may-consider-historical-injustice-in-deciding-how-to-allocate-coronavirus-vaccine\">aconsejaban a las autoridades estatales\u003c/a> que se modificara la estrategia para distribuir las vacunas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Según estos grupos, cualquier plan de distribución \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11849892/california-may-consider-historical-injustice-in-deciding-how-to-allocate-coronavirus-vaccine\">debería tomar en cuenta el impacto inmediato\u003c/a> que ha tenido la pandemia en las comunidades de color California y también las lecciones aprendidas de los esfuerzos para realizar pruebas dentro de estas poblaciones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>En California, \u003ca href=\"https://covid19.ca.gov/es/vaccines/\">ya se han otorgado\u003c/a> 9 millones de vacunas y tan sólo 2.9% de quienes han sido vacunados se consideran afroamericanos pese a que este grupo conforma el 6.2% de las muertes por coronavirus en el estado. Los latinos representan el 46.2% de las \u003ca href=\"https://covid19.ca.gov/es/state-dashboard/\">muertes relacionadas al COVID-19\u003c/a> en California pero sólo han recibido el 16% de las inmunizaciones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11856006\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Vaccination-Prep-1020x680.jpg\"]Cambios repentinos en el \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11856006/cuando-y-donde-puede-vacunarse-contra-covid-19-en-el-area-de-la-bahia-aqui-tiene-las-respuestas\">plan de vacunación del estado\u003c/a> han provocado confusión entre los californianos y un bajo suministro de dosis ha limitado el impacto que pudiesen tener los centros de vacunación masiva, lo que podría complicar aún más el proceso para conectar las vacunas con las poblaciones que más las necesitan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maurice Foster y Paula Petty, una pareja de Oakland, tienen miedo de enfermarse y han hecho todo lo posible para evitar contraer COVID-19. Pero cuentan que perdieron la poca confianza que tenían en las autoridades federales y estatales para que estas provean una vacuna segura cuando vieron la manera en que California ha distribuido las dosis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Me voy a vacunar pero no confío en la vacuna”, dijo Foster. “Yo no confío en el gobierno. He visto que el Presidente y la primera dama se han vacunado pero aún así. Me voy a vacunar porque no quiero morir, no porque confío en la vacuna,” agregó.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Él cree que el proceso para desarrollar la vacuna no fue transparente y le preocupa que el gobierno de Donald Trump influyó la investigación por razones políticas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No pienso que los afroamericanos son más vulnerables a COVID-19”, él afirmó. “Pienso que el gobierno tiene más prejuicio en contra los afroamericanos”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11863123\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1971px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11863123\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/152258286_756817738286257_6296328330243481974_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1971\" height=\"1314\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/152258286_756817738286257_6296328330243481974_n.jpg 1971w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/152258286_756817738286257_6296328330243481974_n-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/152258286_756817738286257_6296328330243481974_n-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/152258286_756817738286257_6296328330243481974_n-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/152258286_756817738286257_6296328330243481974_n-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/152258286_756817738286257_6296328330243481974_n-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1971px) 100vw, 1971px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paula Petty, izquierda, y Maurice Foster, residentes de Oakland, han hecho todo lo posible para evitar contraer COVID-19. Consideran que tomar la vacuna es un riesgo necesario pero peligroso. \u003ccite>(Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>En San Francisco, Dara Montejo Chel es una estudiante del último año de preparatoria quien ha aprendido sobre los múltiples casos de negligencia médica en las comunidades de color, en especial los casos de esterilizaciones poco éticos que han reportado mujeres afroamericanas y latinas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cuando Dawn Wooten, una enfermera de un albergue de migrantes detenidos en Georgia, \u003ca href=\"https://www.univision.com/noticias/inmigracion/denuncian-irregularidades-en-carcel-de-ice-en-georgia-entre-ellas-histerectomias-a-indocumentadas\">presentó una queja\u003c/a> el septiembre pasado, el cual afirma que médicos del plantel estaban realizando histerectomías en las mujeres migrantes sin tener su consentimiento fundamentado, Montejo Chel sintió una corriente de ansiedad por todo su cuerpo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ella sabe que la vacuna contra COVID-19 no es una herramienta para esterilizar a la población y cree en la ciencia de la inmunidad. Pero esta historia prevalece en su mente. “Cuando hablamos de investigaciones médicas, nosotros las minorías siempre somos quienes corren más riesgo”, ella dijo. “Por mucho tiempo, el campo médico no ha demostrado que se preocupe por nosotros”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Dra. Alicia Fernández, UCSF\"]‘Reconozco que hay muchas razones para que la gente no confíe en sus doctores en este tipo de situación. Resurge la historia de los casos de abusos en Puerto Rico, como en la República Dominicana y otros lugares.’[/pullquote]La doctora \u003ca href=\"https://profiles.ucsf.edu/alicia.fernandez\">Alicia Fernández\u003c/a>, profesora de medicina en la Universidad de California en San Francisco (UCSF), ha escuchado algo similar cuando plática con sus pacientes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fernández investiga cómo expandir el acceso que tienen las comunidades inmigrantes y latinas a cuidados primarios y forma parte de la iniciativa ‘\u003ca href=\"https://unitedinhealth.org/\">Unidos en Salud\u003c/a>‘ que ha desarrollado varios centros de pruebas de COVID-19 en el distrito de la Misión en San Francisco y el distrito de Fruitvale en Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los miedos por la vacuna, afirma Fernández, se encuentran en todos los sectores demográficos pero factores como el acceso a información médica de calidad y las experiencias de vida pueden crear distinciones entre estos sentimientos. Ella ha identificado unas cuantas categorías que le ayudan responder a estas ansiedades de una manera más efectiva.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“La primera categoría es la desinformación”, dijo ella. La desinformación incluye las creencias que la vacuna tiene efectos secundarios peligrosos (como la infertilidad y una mutación) o que fue desarrollada de una manera muy repentina.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La segunda categoría incluye lo que Fernández describe como creencias alternativas de la salud: ideas que están profundamente arraigadas sobre la medicina profesional o que complican que un individuo busque ser inoculado. Creencias alternativas sobre el bienestar algunas a veces pueden tener raíz en tradiciones familiares o la necesidad de recibir atención médica cuando no se puede ir al hospital a causa de falta de cobertura médica o fluidez del idioma en inglés.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Una de estas creencias podría ser nunca vacunarse, nunca poner algo dentro de su cuerpo”, explicó ella.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Y luego hay todo lo demás, pero Fernández señaló que detrás de todas estas experiencias, existe una gran preocupación sobre la salud y la experiencia de recibir atención médica.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Lo que trato de hacer es poner en orden todo lo que la gente está sintiendo. Reconozco que hay muchas razones para que la gente no confíe en sus doctores en este tipo de situación”, dijo ella. “Resurge la historia de los casos de abusos en Puerto Rico, como en la República Dominicana y otros lugares”, agregó.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label ='Cobertura Relacionada' tag='kqed-en-espanol']A lo largo del siglo 20, el Consejo de eugenesia de Puerto Rico \u003ca href=\"https://www.lanoticia.com/estados-unidos-tiene-una-larga-historia-de-esterilizaciones-forzadas/\">impulsó y monitoreó cientos de miles de esterilizaciones\u003c/a> de mujeres en la isla como un método para controlar el crecimiento de la población. Muchas de estas mujeres no recibieron suficiente información por parte de su doctor sobre el procedimiento y tenían la impresión de que la cirugía podría ser revertida fácilmente.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Las pláticas en persona entre un paciente y su doctor son cruciales, sostiene Fernández, porque es en ese momento que un médico puede escuchar e intentar comprender todo lo que siente su paciente.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Si el doctor se siente cómodo haciéndolo, es importante compartir un poco de nuestras historias de porque decidimos tomar la vacuna”, dijo ella.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Poder hablar de su propia experiencia con la vacuna ha resultado ser una estrategia bastante efectiva para el doctor Adrian James, jefe de medicina de la clínica \u003ca href=\"https://westoaklandhealth.org/\">West Oakland Health Council\u003c/a> (o WOHC por sus siglas en inglés), quien ha tenido que resolver las preocupaciones no sólo de sus pacientes sino también de su personal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>WOHC atiende a casi 8 mil pacientes al año, muchos de ellos son residentes afroamericanos del este de la Bahía. El pasado diciembre, WOHC anunció una colaboración con el sistema de salud estatal Covered California para enfrentar los miedos de la vacuna en las comunidades afroamericanas en el estado.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hago claro que este es un problema comunitario”, dijo James. “Esto es de todos. Esto no es el experimento Tuskegee, cuando sólo se trataba de hombres afroamericanos. Esta es una situación que involucra a toda la comunidad. Le estamos pidiendo a todos que se vacunen”, afirmó.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Dr. Adrian James, jefe de médicina, West Oakland Health Council\"]‘Como pueblo, sí tenemos razón para tener dudas. Pero ahora no es el tiempo para eso. Hay mucha gente que se está muriendo.’[/pullquote]James se refiere al estudio de 1932 por el Servicio de salud pública de Estados Unidos y el Instituto de Tuskegee sobre la salud de un grupo de hombres afroamericanos que trabajaban como aparceros en Alabama. Se les informó a estos hombres que recibirían atención médica gratuita. Sin embargo, nunca se les dijo que en verdad eran parte de un estudio para observar los efectos de la sífilis cuando esta enfermedad no es tratada.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cuando los detalles de este experimento salieron a la luz 40 años después, cientos de participantes murieron sin saber que tenían la enfermedad y nunca recibieron tratamiento. Ahora, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/02/16/967011614/in-tuskegee-painful-history-shadows-efforts-to-vaccinate-african-americans\">líderes de la comunidad afroamericana en Alabama\u003c/a> laboran para recuperar la confianza de residentes que conectan el experimento de Tuskegee con la vacuna de COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Como pueblo, sí tenemos razón para tener dudas”, dijo James. “Pero ahora no es el tiempo para eso. Hay mucha gente que se está muriendo”.\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘Yo quiero ser una de ellos que se está vacunando’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Durante los últimos nueve meses, el grupo de trabajo Latino Task Force, una colaboración compuesta de decenas de organizaciones sin fines de lucro, el Departamento de salud pública de San Francisco y el programa Unidos en Salud de UCSF, ha ofrecido sitios de pruebas de COVID-19 cada semana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>En estos centros, Jon Jacobo, jefe de salud del grupo de trabajo, ha podido hablar con cientos de residentes latinos e inmigrantes mientras esperan hacer la prueba del coronavirus o ser vacunados contra la influenza. Ha notado que los sentimientos acerca de vacunarse, tanto para la influenza como para COVID-19, pueden diferir según la generación y la experiencia de inmigración.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cuando tuvimos el taller para recibir la vacuna contra la influenza el septiembre pasado, las personas que venían a vacunarse más eran por gran parte quienes sólo hablan español”, dijo él.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Según Jacobo, los inmigrantes que acababan de llegar al país eran los que estaban más entusiasmados.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“En nuestros países, quizás no tienes acceso a cuidado de salud gratuito. Y ahora que estás en Estados Unidos y esto se ofrece, podría ser una muy buena idea aprovechar de esta oportunidad”, explicó Jacobo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Jon Jacobo, jefe de salud, Latino Task Force\"]‘No creo que ninguno de nosotros quiera volver a ignorar las desigualdades y las dolorosas y flagrantes realidades que viven los desposeídos de la ciudad.’[/pullquote]Por otro lado, es entre los hijos y nietos de inmigrantes y los residentes más jóvenes en donde él ha notado que existen más dudas acerca de la vacuna.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Para quienes nacieron y fueron criados aquí, hay mucha más desinformación en las redes sociales”, dijo Jacobo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sin embargo, él señala que a pesar de todo, estos sentimientos negativos son mucho menos comunes de lo esperado. El mes pasado, Latino Task Force logró sondear a más de 6 mil personas en su sitios de pruebas ubicado en la esquina de las calles Misión y 24. Jacobo calcula que más del 80% de quienes respondieron a la encuesta tienen una opinión muy favorable de la vacuna.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Él espera que su equipo pueda publicar todos los datos de la encuesta en los próximos meses, pero según Jacobo, los resultados iniciales indican que los encuestados confían mucho menos en las autoridades locales y estatales que en los doctores e iniciativas comunitarias como Latino Task Force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Creo que la ciudad debe de aprender que está bien no siempre tener todas las respuestas a cada momento”, explicó él. “A veces no siempre tenemos que tener una respuesta lista. Tenemos que sentirnos cómodos con decir, ‘Estamos trabajando en eso y llegaremos a ese punto’ “.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pero factores como la confusión sobre dónde y cómo se puede vacunar uno y una falta de acceso a estos lugares puede provocar desconfianza para la vacuna en lugares en donde esto no existía antes, agregó Jacobo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El primer centro comunitario de vacunación en San Francisco abrió sus puertas el pasado \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/coronavirusliveupdates/news/11858171/san-francisco-opens-mission-district-vaccine-site\">2 de febrero\u003c/a>, en el distrito de la Misión, gracias en parte a los esfuerzos de de Latino Task Force, que hizo claro la necesidad de proveer vacunas en el corazón de la Misión, a una cuadra de la estación del BART de la calle 24, donde se ofrecen pruebas cada semana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Esfuerzos comunitarios, como Latino Task Force, necesitan a proveedores de salud y autoridades de salud pública tanto como estos necesitan a la comunidad para proveer confianza y credibilidad a los esfuerzos de vacunación, dijo Jacobo. Esta colaboración es efectiva cuando miembros de la comunidad lideran e influyen las iniciativas mientras que los otros dos colaboradores escuchan siguen y financian de una manera activa este trabajo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Como una médico académica, en verdad me ha ayudado mucho trabajar más de cerca con organizaciones de la comunidad”, dijo Fernández de UCSF. Ella piensa que este modelo diseñado para contener la pandemia y ampliar el acceso a la vacuna puede ser replicado para combatir otras crisis que afectan de manera desproporcionada a poblaciones afroamericanas y latinas, como la diabetes y la obesidad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Vamos a necesitar mucho más cambio estructural, que conlleva cambiar los factores determinantes de la salud y eso va a requerir que todos nosotros trabajemos juntos”, dijo ella.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>En cuanto al futuro de la coalición, estos esfuerzos no deben terminar después de que termine la pandemia, dijo Jacobo. “Sé que a partir de ahora, vamos a estar trabajando con la ciudad en esta nueva normalidad”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Agregó, “No creo que ninguno de nosotros quiera volver a ignorar las desigualdades y las dolorosas y flagrantes realidades que viven los desposeídos de la ciudad”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11863135\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2023px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11863135\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/151211137_785673258823087_7892150034492824497_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2023\" height=\"1349\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/151211137_785673258823087_7892150034492824497_n.jpg 2023w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/151211137_785673258823087_7892150034492824497_n-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/151211137_785673258823087_7892150034492824497_n-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/151211137_785673258823087_7892150034492824497_n-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/151211137_785673258823087_7892150034492824497_n-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/151211137_785673258823087_7892150034492824497_n-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2023px) 100vw, 2023px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Esteban Torres, un estudiante de primer año en City College of San Francisco, ayuda cada semana como voluntario en el centro de alimentos en ‘Mission Food Hub’, donde ha escuchado a los adultos mayores de su comunidad lo emocionados que están de recibir la vacuna. Pero no fue hasta que vio a los miembros de Latino Task Force vacunarse que se sintió completamente preparado para vacunarse (cuando esto sea una opción para él). \u003ccite>(Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>En enero, Jacobo, junto con otros miembros de Latino Task Force que laboran en los esfuerzos para proveer pruebas, recibió su vacuna. Algunos voluntarios lograron presenciar el momento de primera mano. Uno de ellos era Esteban Torres, un estudiante de primer año de la universidad comunitaria City College of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ya por varias semanas, Torres se había sentido inseguro de recibir la vacuna durante algunas semanas. Pero cuando vio a sus amigos y parientes más cercanos tomar la vacuna, sintió un gran alivio. Y también una gran responsabilidad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cuando vi eso, supe en ese instante que quería ser parte de eso. Quería ser una de esas personas tomando la vacuna, haciendo lo necesario para mi familia y lo más que pueda para mi comunidad”, dijo él.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED ha preparado información sobre cómo y dónde puede vacunarse contra el coronavirus en el Área de la Bahía y está respondiendo las preguntas que tenga sobre el proceso. Revise nuestra guía, disponible en \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11856006/cuando-y-donde-puede-vacunarse-contra-covid-19-en-el-area-de-la-bahia-aqui-tiene-las-respuestas\">español\u003c/a> e \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11855623/where-can-i-get-a-covid-19-vaccine-in-the-bay-area-your-questions-answered\">inglés\u003c/a> aquí.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Los latinos representan el \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/covid19/Pages/dashboard-demographics-of-cases-and-deaths-es.aspx\">51% de los casos de coronavirus\u003c/a> en el condado de Santa Clara, pese a que tan sólo forman el 25.8% de la población de esa región. Algunos de los códigos postales que \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/covid19/Pages/dashboard-cases-by-zip-code-and-city.aspx\">reportan los índices de infecciones más altos\u003c/a> en el condado se encuentran en el este de San José y Gilroy, zonas mayormente latinas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Según \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/covid19/Pages/dashboard-vaccine-CAIR2.aspx?mc_cid=fe1c613fca&mc_eid=555c140dcd\">datos del condado\u003c/a> publicados el 19 de febrero, 249 mil 442 residentes del condado de Santa Clara han recibido al menos una dosis de la vacuna. Alrededor del 20% de este grupo son latinos, una cifra por debajo del porcentaje de latinos que han sido contagiados o han muerto a causa de complicaciones relacionadas al COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Las \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/covid19/Pages/press-release-2-11-2021-SCC-launches-drop-in-vaccine-clinic-expand-in-areas-hardest-hit.aspx\">autoridades de salud han expandido\u003c/a> los centros de pruebas y sitios de vacunaciones en estas áreas, cerca de lugares del vecindario muy conocidos como La Placita Tropicana y la Plaza de la herencia mexicana en el este de San José y el centro para adultos mayores en Gilroy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pero el condado reconoce que la apertura de un nuevo plantel no siempre resulta en que más residentes de ese vecindario se puedan vacunar o hacer la prueba de COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Para algunos, puede ser una brecha digital. Para otros, puede ser una cuestión de tiempo por los horarios del trabajo o quizás no se sientan cómodos al ir al sitio”, explicó García.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El programa de las promotoras cierra esa brecha, algo que métodos más tradicionales de salud pública no pueden hacer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11863110\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11863110\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47059_027_SanJose_COVIDTesting_02032021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47059_027_SanJose_COVIDTesting_02032021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47059_027_SanJose_COVIDTesting_02032021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47059_027_SanJose_COVIDTesting_02032021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47059_027_SanJose_COVIDTesting_02032021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47059_027_SanJose_COVIDTesting_02032021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">La trabajadora de salud pública del condado de Santa Clara, Rocío Ramos, prepara un hisopo nasal para Antonio Orona para una prueba de COVID-19 autoadministrada en su casa en San José el 3 de febrero de 2021. El condado espera que a través de estos intercambios puerta por puerta, se formen relaciones personales que pueden limitar el impacto de la desinformación sobre el virus y la vacuna. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>García señala que las promotoras forman conexiones profundas con las familias que conocen, algo que en cambio no siempre ocurre en el portal electrónico para agendar una prueba de coronavirus. A menudo, las promotoras logran convencer a familias enteras que se hagan la prueba. Una de esas familias era la de Janet Franco Orona, residente del este de San José. Ella vive con su marido, suegra e hijo de 1 año.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aunque ya se ha hecho la prueba antes, Franco Orona se siente un poco nerviosa de llevar a su suegra, quien es una persona de la tercera edad, a uno de los centros de pruebas públicos. “¿Habrá mucha gente contagiada? ¿Nos van a cobrar? Todo esto nos preocupa cuando estamos planeado salir de la casa”, dijo ella.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pero la promotora que tocó su puerta resultó ser una vieja amiga y ex vecina de su suegra.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cuando la comunidad une todos sus esfuerzos, siempre vamos a abrir la puerta a uno de los nuestros”, dijo Franco Orona.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Junto con Abonce, otras ocho promotoras van puerta por puerta en el este de San José. A cada residente se les ofrece la oportunidad de hacerse la prueba de COVID-19 sin que se tengan que salir de sus hogares. Las promotoras llevan consigo equipos de pruebas y son los habitantes que usan los hisopos para recolectar las muestras.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mientras que los residentes se hacen la prueba, ella les responde cualquier pregunta que tengan. Muchos quieren saber sobre las nuevas cepas del virus o qué puede hacer el condado si\u003cbr>\nes que ellos dan positivo. Pero cada vez recibe más preguntas sobre la vacuna contra COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hemos escuchado muchísimas cosas que a veces decimos, ‘wow, ¡cómo inventan!'”, ella explicó. “Nos dicen, ‘yo no me voy a vacunar, porque la sacaron bien rápido’, ‘porque me dijeron que sólo le están poniendo pura agua’, otros dicen que le están poniendo un chip a la vacuna”, dijo Abonce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11863114\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11863114\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47056_024_SanJose_COVIDTesting_02032021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47056_024_SanJose_COVIDTesting_02032021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47056_024_SanJose_COVIDTesting_02032021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47056_024_SanJose_COVIDTesting_02032021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47056_024_SanJose_COVIDTesting_02032021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47056_024_SanJose_COVIDTesting_02032021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Después de hacerse la prueba de COVID-19, los residentes pueden hacer preguntas a las promotoras sobre el virus o los recursos que ofrece el condado para quienes dan positivo. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Cambios repentinos en el \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11856006/cuando-y-donde-puede-vacunarse-contra-covid-19-en-el-area-de-la-bahia-aqui-tiene-las-respuestas\">plan de vacunación del estado\u003c/a> han provocado confusión entre los californianos y un bajo suministro de dosis ha limitado el impacto que pudiesen tener los centros de vacunación masiva, lo que podría complicar aún más el proceso para conectar las vacunas con las poblaciones que más las necesitan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maurice Foster y Paula Petty, una pareja de Oakland, tienen miedo de enfermarse y han hecho todo lo posible para evitar contraer COVID-19. Pero cuentan que perdieron la poca confianza que tenían en las autoridades federales y estatales para que estas provean una vacuna segura cuando vieron la manera en que California ha distribuido las dosis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Me voy a vacunar pero no confío en la vacuna”, dijo Foster. “Yo no confío en el gobierno. He visto que el Presidente y la primera dama se han vacunado pero aún así. Me voy a vacunar porque no quiero morir, no porque confío en la vacuna,” agregó.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Él cree que el proceso para desarrollar la vacuna no fue transparente y le preocupa que el gobierno de Donald Trump influyó la investigación por razones políticas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No pienso que los afroamericanos son más vulnerables a COVID-19”, él afirmó. “Pienso que el gobierno tiene más prejuicio en contra los afroamericanos”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11863123\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1971px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11863123\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/152258286_756817738286257_6296328330243481974_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1971\" height=\"1314\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/152258286_756817738286257_6296328330243481974_n.jpg 1971w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/152258286_756817738286257_6296328330243481974_n-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/152258286_756817738286257_6296328330243481974_n-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/152258286_756817738286257_6296328330243481974_n-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/152258286_756817738286257_6296328330243481974_n-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/152258286_756817738286257_6296328330243481974_n-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1971px) 100vw, 1971px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paula Petty, izquierda, y Maurice Foster, residentes de Oakland, han hecho todo lo posible para evitar contraer COVID-19. Consideran que tomar la vacuna es un riesgo necesario pero peligroso. \u003ccite>(Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>En San Francisco, Dara Montejo Chel es una estudiante del último año de preparatoria quien ha aprendido sobre los múltiples casos de negligencia médica en las comunidades de color, en especial los casos de esterilizaciones poco éticos que han reportado mujeres afroamericanas y latinas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cuando Dawn Wooten, una enfermera de un albergue de migrantes detenidos en Georgia, \u003ca href=\"https://www.univision.com/noticias/inmigracion/denuncian-irregularidades-en-carcel-de-ice-en-georgia-entre-ellas-histerectomias-a-indocumentadas\">presentó una queja\u003c/a> el septiembre pasado, el cual afirma que médicos del plantel estaban realizando histerectomías en las mujeres migrantes sin tener su consentimiento fundamentado, Montejo Chel sintió una corriente de ansiedad por todo su cuerpo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ella sabe que la vacuna contra COVID-19 no es una herramienta para esterilizar a la población y cree en la ciencia de la inmunidad. Pero esta historia prevalece en su mente. “Cuando hablamos de investigaciones médicas, nosotros las minorías siempre somos quienes corren más riesgo”, ella dijo. “Por mucho tiempo, el campo médico no ha demostrado que se preocupe por nosotros”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Por otro lado, es entre los hijos y nietos de inmigrantes y los residentes más jóvenes en donde él ha notado que existen más dudas acerca de la vacuna.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Para quienes nacieron y fueron criados aquí, hay mucha más desinformación en las redes sociales”, dijo Jacobo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sin embargo, él señala que a pesar de todo, estos sentimientos negativos son mucho menos comunes de lo esperado. El mes pasado, Latino Task Force logró sondear a más de 6 mil personas en su sitios de pruebas ubicado en la esquina de las calles Misión y 24. 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Tenemos que sentirnos cómodos con decir, ‘Estamos trabajando en eso y llegaremos a ese punto’ “.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pero factores como la confusión sobre dónde y cómo se puede vacunar uno y una falta de acceso a estos lugares puede provocar desconfianza para la vacuna en lugares en donde esto no existía antes, agregó Jacobo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El primer centro comunitario de vacunación en San Francisco abrió sus puertas el pasado \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/coronavirusliveupdates/news/11858171/san-francisco-opens-mission-district-vaccine-site\">2 de febrero\u003c/a>, en el distrito de la Misión, gracias en parte a los esfuerzos de de Latino Task Force, que hizo claro la necesidad de proveer vacunas en el corazón de la Misión, a una cuadra de la estación del BART de la calle 24, donde se ofrecen pruebas cada semana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Esfuerzos comunitarios, como Latino Task Force, necesitan a proveedores de salud y autoridades de salud pública tanto como estos necesitan a la comunidad para proveer confianza y credibilidad a los esfuerzos de vacunación, dijo Jacobo. Esta colaboración es efectiva cuando miembros de la comunidad lideran e influyen las iniciativas mientras que los otros dos colaboradores escuchan siguen y financian de una manera activa este trabajo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Como una médico académica, en verdad me ha ayudado mucho trabajar más de cerca con organizaciones de la comunidad”, dijo Fernández de UCSF. Ella piensa que este modelo diseñado para contener la pandemia y ampliar el acceso a la vacuna puede ser replicado para combatir otras crisis que afectan de manera desproporcionada a poblaciones afroamericanas y latinas, como la diabetes y la obesidad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Vamos a necesitar mucho más cambio estructural, que conlleva cambiar los factores determinantes de la salud y eso va a requerir que todos nosotros trabajemos juntos”, dijo ella.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>En cuanto al futuro de la coalición, estos esfuerzos no deben terminar después de que termine la pandemia, dijo Jacobo. “Sé que a partir de ahora, vamos a estar trabajando con la ciudad en esta nueva normalidad”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Agregó, “No creo que ninguno de nosotros quiera volver a ignorar las desigualdades y las dolorosas y flagrantes realidades que viven los desposeídos de la ciudad”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11863135\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2023px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11863135\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/151211137_785673258823087_7892150034492824497_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2023\" height=\"1349\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/151211137_785673258823087_7892150034492824497_n.jpg 2023w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/151211137_785673258823087_7892150034492824497_n-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/151211137_785673258823087_7892150034492824497_n-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/151211137_785673258823087_7892150034492824497_n-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/151211137_785673258823087_7892150034492824497_n-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/151211137_785673258823087_7892150034492824497_n-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2023px) 100vw, 2023px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Esteban Torres, un estudiante de primer año en City College of San Francisco, ayuda cada semana como voluntario en el centro de alimentos en ‘Mission Food Hub’, donde ha escuchado a los adultos mayores de su comunidad lo emocionados que están de recibir la vacuna. Pero no fue hasta que vio a los miembros de Latino Task Force vacunarse que se sintió completamente preparado para vacunarse (cuando esto sea una opción para él). \u003ccite>(Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>En enero, Jacobo, junto con otros miembros de Latino Task Force que laboran en los esfuerzos para proveer pruebas, recibió su vacuna. Algunos voluntarios lograron presenciar el momento de primera mano. Uno de ellos era Esteban Torres, un estudiante de primer año de la universidad comunitaria City College of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ya por varias semanas, Torres se había sentido inseguro de recibir la vacuna durante algunas semanas. Pero cuando vio a sus amigos y parientes más cercanos tomar la vacuna, sintió un gran alivio. Y también una gran responsabilidad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cuando vi eso, supe en ese instante que quería ser parte de eso. 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"content": "\u003cp>The consequences are deepening for San Francisco-based concierge health care provider One Medical following an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11861872/sf-based-one-medical-let-well-connected-patients-skip-covid-19-vaccine-line\">NPR investigation\u003c/a> that found the company administered COVID-19 vaccinations to those with connections to leadership, as well as ineligible patients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis is launching its own investigation into the company’s practices, NPR has learned. The probe has plunged the publicly traded company, whose business model depends on patients paying a $199 annual fee for VIP health care services, into damage control mode.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Despite being warned that the company’s lax oversight of vaccine eligibility rules was allowing ineligible patients to jump the line, One Medical has reportedly failed to properly implement an effective protocol to verify eligibility and instructed staff not to police eligibility,” wrote subcommittee Chairman James Clyburn, D-South Carolina, in a letter sent to One Medical late Monday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clyburn cited multiple news reports, including NPR’s investigation, to denounce One Medical’s “irresponsible practices,” adding that “prioritizing the vaccination of Americans who are at higher risk from the coronavirus is critical to saving lives and controlling the pandemic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The letter demands documents and information on One Medical’s COVID-19 vaccination practices within two weeks, with a deadline of March 15. Among other topics, it seeks demographic breakdowns of COVID-19 vaccines administered to date and communications related to vaccination appointments arranged for those close to the company’s executives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Rep. James Clyburn, chairman of the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis\"]‘[One Medical] may be exploiting the federally funded vaccine rollout to increase membership rates and generate fees, regardless of whether prospective fee-paying members are actually eligible for vaccination.’[/pullquote]One Medical responded to news of the probe overnight: “We remain dedicated to lending our time and resources to providing equitable and accessible care for the communities we serve, and are confident that we will be able to clear up these misunderstandings.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the congressional investigation begins, numerous local public health departments have halted cooperation with One Medical based on investigations that found vaccination line-skipping. Additional anecdotal reports of ineligible vaccinations were also submitted to NPR from various cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After reviewing internal communications, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/02/24/970176532/high-end-medical-provider-let-ineligible-people-skip-covid-19-vaccine-line\">NPR found multiple instances\u003c/a> across multiple states in which medical staffers working for One Medical sounded the alarm about improper procedures and lax oversight over eligibility requirements. “We are not policing,” a top One Medical staffer told doctors and other medical providers after they raised concerns. One Medical claims that it does not knowingly permit ineligible patients to be vaccinated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regulators have moved quickly. NPR contacted every jurisdiction in which One Medical has a location. At least eight local departments of health that were working with One Medical on COVID-19 vaccinations have suspended allocation of doses to the company or said they had no plans to provide any in the future. Santa Clara County, for example, said it had no plans to work with One Medical again on COVID-19 vaccination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Department of Public Health for San Francisco County, where One Medical is based, not only halted additional dosages of the vaccine to One Medical, but in a remarkable move demanded 1,620 doses back from the company. San Mateo County found that One Medical vaccinated 70 individuals who were not eligible for the vaccine, and it suspended work with the company, said Preston Merchant, a spokesperson for the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11861872 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/IMG_2269-1020x783.png']Jurisdictions like Washington state and numerous Bay Area counties have stopped ongoing cooperation with One Medical on COVID-19 vaccine administration. Marin County spokesperson Laine Hendricks said the county has halted vaccine allocations to One Medical after reviewing data on the company’s vaccinations. “We have indefinitely suspended any further first dose allocations,” Hendricks said. “We have also removed One Medical from our website.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spokesperson Michael Workman said San Diego County stopped providing the vaccine to the company after “numerous complaints about charging for a membership to have access to vaccine appointments. We reported this to the state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One Medical has said that some of these objections from local departments of health are misunderstandings and that it was working to address any other concerns that have been raised. In some cases, the company claimed, they were not aware they had been cut off by counties until the press reported it. “We’re deeply disappointed, as many of the media reports about One Medical’s standing with departments of health are not reflective of our direct communication with our contacts at many of those departments,” said a company spokesperson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One Medical claimed that the COVID-19 vaccinations of ineligible patients in San Mateo were done “in order to avoid spoilage” and that they were “not aware of any unresolved issues with the San Diego Department of Health prior to their statement to the media.” In San Francisco County, where the Department of Public Health said it had reason to believe that One Medical vaccinated ineligible patients, One Medical contradicted the county and said the county had only requested COVID-19 vaccinations back because One Medical’s “vaccine clinics were not in geographies that the DPH is currently considering the highest priority.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One Medical also said it was not aware of any instances where “senior leadership … personally intervened to arrange for friends, family or business partners to receive vaccinations outside of eligibility requirements.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Separately, there are also indications that One Medical is seeking a commercial benefit by collecting data from nonmembers it is vaccinating. In Washington, D.C., \u003ca href=\"https://www.popville.com/2021/02/dc-register-vaccine-one-medical/\">neighborhood blog PoPville\u003c/a> first gave voice to concerns that those who signed up for a vaccination site run by DC Health in conjunction with One Medical were pitched on a free trial membership with the concierge health care provider.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is very little clarity on the actual website. Instead, they make it appear as though you need a [One Medical] account or else your appointment will be canceled,” said Adam Peck, a D.C. resident who tried to navigate the system last week. “Needless to say, it’s resulted in a lot of confusion, and more than a few people who are signing up for [an account with] OM thinking that’s the only [way] to confirm their appointments.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/chaykak/status/1365309553089347585?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is one of the areas of the congressional probe. Chairman Clyburn wrote that he is concerned that One Medical “may be exploiting the federally funded vaccine rollout to increase membership rates and generate fees, regardless of whether prospective fee-paying members are actually eligible for vaccination.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A One Medical spokesperson said that patients are asked to register on the company platform as a means to create a unique patient chart, akin to filling out paperwork in a doctor’s office. “We are not asking people to pay for a One Medical membership or asking them to register for a One Medical account to then convert them to annual dues-paying members. The primary focus is on a seamless care experience and NOT on converting people to annual paid members,” the spokesperson said. “That said, we do treat each of our vaccination patients just like any other patient who is new to One Medical by sharing information about our practice and about the benefits of our membership model so they can take full advantage if they’d like to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Coronavirus Coverage' tag='coronavirus']One Medical has declined to acknowledge there is or was a problem with its COVID-19 vaccination procedures. Some of the rank and file are demoralized by this response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is uniform agreement that what everyone has seen with their own eyes or read from colleagues … is in direct contrast with what OM leadership is saying now,” a One Medical staffer told NPR. “People found it demoralizing and frustrating that they are not owning the mistakes and instead … making excuses, and finger pointing (ranging from putting blame on DPHs to our patients).”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview with NPR last week, One Medical Chief Medical Officer Andrew Diamond made a number of claims, then backtracked when presented with facts. 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But there we are, offering what we have, COVID-19 tests and information,” she said in Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abonce is a promotora, a community outreach health worker with META, Mujeres Emprendedoras Tomando Acción (Entrepreneurial Women Taking Action) and SOMOS Mayfair, two nonprofit organizations that have partnered with Santa Clara County’s public health department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Promotoras are trusted leaders in the community,” said Analilia García, racial and health equity senior manager for Santa Clara County. “They have the trust and the relationships we as a county do not.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Janet Franco Orona, San Jose resident\"]‘When community comes together, they will open their doors to one of their own.’[/pullquote]Latinos \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/covid19/Pages/dashboard-demographics-of-cases-and-deaths.aspx\">account for 51% of COVID-19 cases\u003c/a> in Santa Clara County, despite only making up 25.8% of the county’s population. ZIP codes with predominantly Latino residents in East San Jose and Gilroy have \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/covid19/Pages/dashboard-cases-by-zip-code-and-city.aspx\">reported some of the county’s highest infection rates\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of Feb. 19, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/covid19/Pages/dashboard-vaccine-CAIR2.aspx?mc_cid=fe1c613fca&mc_eid=555c140dcd\">according to county data\u003c/a>, 249,442 residents of Santa Clara County have now received at least one dose of the coronavirus vaccine. Just over 20% of those people are Latinos, a number that falls below the proportion of Latinos who have either been infected or died to COVID-19-related complications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Health officials have expanded testing centers and pop-up vaccination sites \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/covid19/Pages/press-release-2-11-2021-SCC-launches-drop-in-vaccine-clinic-expand-in-areas-hardest-hit.aspx\">in highly impacted areas\u003c/a>, close to well-known neighborhood spots like La Placita Tropicana shopping center and in the Mexican Heritage Plaza in East San Jose, and the Gilroy Senior Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the county acknowledges that opening up a pop-up in a hard-hit area does not necessarily result in more of its residents getting tested or vaccinated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For some people, it can be a digital divide. For others, it can be a matter of time because of work schedules or not feeling comfortable going to a location,” García explained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The promotora program closes the gap that more traditional public health can’t reach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11860906\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11860906 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47058_026_SanJose_COVIDTesting_02032021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47058_026_SanJose_COVIDTesting_02032021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47058_026_SanJose_COVIDTesting_02032021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47058_026_SanJose_COVIDTesting_02032021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47058_026_SanJose_COVIDTesting_02032021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47058_026_SanJose_COVIDTesting_02032021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Santa Clara County public health worker Rocío Ramos prepares a nose swab for Antonio Orona for a self-administered COVID-19 test at his home in San Jose on Feb. 3, 2021. The county hopes the personal relationships built during door-to-door testing can become a source of reliable information about COVID-19 and thus limit the impact of disinformation about the virus and the vaccine. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>García points out that promotoras form personal relationships with the families they meet, something that doesn’t really happen on the county’s online testing portal. Quite frequently, promotoras end up testing entire families at once. One of those families was that of Janet Franco Orona, resident of East San Jose. She lives with her husband, mother-in-law and 1-year-old baby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While she’s gotten tested before, she’s felt a bit hesitant to take her mother-in-law, a senior, to public testing spots. “Will there be a lot of people who are already infected? Will they charge? All these things worry us when we plan on leaving the house.” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the promotora who knocked at Franco Orona’s door turned out to be an old friend and former neighbor of her mother-in-law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When community comes together, they will open their doors to one of their own,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along with Abonce, eight bilingual promotoras go knocking door-to-door across East San Jose, offering residents in some of the worst-affected areas in the city the chance to get tested for COVID-19 at their doorstep through a self-swab test.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Abonce waits as residents get tested, she answers any questions they may have. Many want to know about the new strains of the virus or what help the county can provide if they test positive. But now she’s getting more questions about the COVID-19 vaccine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We hear so many things that we really wonder where these ideas come from,” she explained. “Folks tell us things like, ‘I’m not going to get vaccinated because it was released so quickly,’ ‘they told me that the vaccine is just water,’ or ‘the vaccine has a chip in it.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abonce worries that these beliefs may seriously reduce the number of people who get vaccinated in the communities that need immunity the most, places where her friends and loved ones live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Relying on the relationships and trust she’s built over the years, Abonce has managed to convince many neighbors to let go of these anxieties. But there are still those who refuse the vaccine, regardless of what they hear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We say that these are simply myths, that when pandemics or sicknesses spread, myths also tend to spread. Sometimes people make up these myths to create fear,” she said. “So we try to resolve those fears but sometimes we just can’t.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In these cases, “The best we can do is give them the information we have,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11860907\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11860907\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47056_024_SanJose_COVIDTesting_02032021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47056_024_SanJose_COVIDTesting_02032021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47056_024_SanJose_COVIDTesting_02032021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47056_024_SanJose_COVIDTesting_02032021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47056_024_SanJose_COVIDTesting_02032021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47056_024_SanJose_COVIDTesting_02032021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">After getting their COVID-19 test, residents can ask promotoras questions about the virus or resources the county offers for those who test positive. However, promotoras are now hearing more fears and disinformation from residents about the coronavirus vaccine. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>‘I Would Take It but I Do Not Trust It’: History and Vaccine Anxiety\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Days before a COVID-19 vaccine received emergency authorization from the FDA, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11849892/california-may-consider-historical-injustice-in-deciding-how-to-allocate-coronavirus-vaccine\">advocates advised state authorities\u003c/a> that a vaccine distribution plan should take into account both the immediate impact the pandemic has had on Black and Latino communities in California and the lessons learned from coronavirus testing outreach in those populations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While state authorities \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11849892/california-may-consider-historical-injustice-in-deciding-how-to-allocate-coronavirus-vaccine\">acknowledged the need to include equity\u003c/a> in distribution plans, the latest vaccination data suggests that vaccines are reaching Black and Latino residents at rates lower than the impact the pandemic has had on those communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Out of the 6.7 million vaccine doses the state \u003ca href=\"https://covid19.ca.gov/vaccines/#California-vaccines-dashboard\">has administered so far\u003c/a>, 2.9% of those who’ve received at least one shot identify as Black, while this group accounts for 6.2% of the state’s total \u003ca href=\"https://covid19.ca.gov/state-dashboard/\">COVID-19-related deaths\u003c/a>. Latinos represent 46.2% of COVID-19 related deaths in California, but have received just 16% of vaccinations so far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11855623\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/GettyImages-1230603226-1020x605.jpg\"]\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11855623/where-can-i-get-a-covid-19-vaccine-in-the-bay-area-your-questions-answered\">Sudden changes in California’s vaccination plan\u003c/a> have resulted in confusion among residents statewide, and low dosage supply has limited the impact of massive vaccination centers, and may make it even harder for the vaccines to reach hard-hit populations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maurice Foster and Paula Petty, a married couple living in Oakland, fear getting sick and have done all they can to avoid exposing themselves to COVID-19. They said California’s vaccine rollout process has eroded the little trust they have in state and federal authorities to provide a safe vaccine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would take it but I do not trust it,” Foster said. “I do not trust the government. I’ve seen the president and the first lady take it but still. I will take it because I don’t want to die, not because I trust it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He believes the vaccine research process was not transparent, and is concerned it may have been rushed by the Trump administration for political motives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think Black people are more vulnerable to COVID-19,” he added. “I think the government is more prejudiced towards Black people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11860909\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1973px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11860909\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/152258286_756817738286257_6296328330243481974_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1973\" height=\"1482\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/152258286_756817738286257_6296328330243481974_n.jpg 1973w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/152258286_756817738286257_6296328330243481974_n-800x601.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/152258286_756817738286257_6296328330243481974_n-1020x766.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/152258286_756817738286257_6296328330243481974_n-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/152258286_756817738286257_6296328330243481974_n-1536x1154.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/152258286_756817738286257_6296328330243481974_n-1920x1442.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/152258286_756817738286257_6296328330243481974_n-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/152258286_756817738286257_6296328330243481974_n-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/152258286_756817738286257_6296328330243481974_n-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1973px) 100vw, 1973px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paula Petty, left, and Maurice Foster, Oakland residents, have done all they can to avoid getting COVID-19. They consider taking the vaccine a necessary but dangerous risk. \u003ccite>(Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, high school senior Dara Montejo Chel has learned about incidents of medical malpractice in communities of color, especially cases of unethical sterilizations among Black and Latina women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Dawn Wooten, a nurse at a migrant detention center in Georgia, \u003ca href=\"https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-54160638\">filed a whistleblower complaint\u003c/a> last September claiming that hysterectomies were being performed on detained migrant women without their fully informed consent, Montejo Chel felt her anxiety shoot up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She knows the COVID-19 vaccine is not a sterilization tool and strongly believes in the science of immunity – but she said the history she’s learning weighs heavy on her mind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When it comes to medical research, we people of color are usually the ones put at greater risk,” she said. “For a long time, medicine has not shown it cares about us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Dr. Alicia Fernández, UCSF\"]‘I acknowledge that there are many reasons patients have to not trust doctors with these sorts of issues. The history of health care abuses both in Puerto Rico, in the Dominican Republic and other places comes up.’[/pullquote]\u003ca href=\"https://profiles.ucsf.edu/alicia.fernandez\">Dr. Alicia Fernández\u003c/a>, professor of medicine at UCSF, has heard similar hesitations from her patients. Her research looks at expanding access to primary health care in immigrant and Latino communities, and she’s part of the \u003ca href=\"https://unitedinhealth.org/\">Unidos en Salud initiative\u003c/a> that’s brought COVID-19 testing into San Francisco’s Mission District and the Fruitvale District in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vaccine hesitancy, she points out, while present across different demographics, differs based on access to adequate medical information and lived experiences. She’s identified a couple broad categories so she can address these anxieties more effectively.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The first bucket is misinformation,” she said. Misinformation includes believing that the vaccine has dangerous side effects (like infertility or mutations), or that it was developed too quickly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The second bucket consists of what Fernández refers to as alternate health beliefs: deeply held ideas about professional medicine or different types of care that make it difficult for an individual to go out and seek immunization. Alternative understandings of wellness can sometimes come from family traditions or a desire to provide care when hospitals are inaccessible due to lack of coverage or language.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These beliefs may include never getting a vaccination, never putting anything into their body,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then there’s everything else, but Fernández explained that an overarching feeling of worry relating to health and receiving care explains many of these experiences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What I try to do is sort out what people are feeling. I acknowledge that there are many reasons patients have to not trust doctors with these sorts of issues,” she said. “The history of health care abuses both in Puerto Rico, in the Dominican Republic and other places comes up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label ='Related Coverage' tag='vaccines']Throughout the mid-20th century, the Eugenics Board of Puerto Rico \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/blog/unwanted-sterilization-and-eugenics-programs-in-the-united-states/\">encouraged and oversaw hundreds of thousands of sterilizations\u003c/a> of women on the island as a population-control mechanism. Many of these women were not properly informed by physicians about the procedure and believed that the operation was easily reversible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One-to-one conversations between doctor and patient are critical, Fernández explains, because that is when physicians can meet their patients where they are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the doctor is comfortable with it, it’s important to share a little bit of our own stories of why we came to take the vaccine,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Talking about his own vaccine experience has been effective for Dr. Adrian James, chief medical officer at the \u003ca href=\"https://westoaklandhealth.org/\">West Oakland Health Council\u003c/a>, who has cleared up vaccine worries not just with his patients but also with his staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>WOHC sees almost 8,000 patients every year, many of them Black East Bay residents. Last December, WOHC announced a partnership with Covered California to tackle vaccine hesitancy among Black communities in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I let folks know that this is a community problem,” James said. “This is everyone. This is not the Tuskegee experiment, only dealing with African American men. This is a community issue, we’re asking everyone to get the vaccine.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Dr. Adrian James, chief medical officer, West Oakland Health Council\"]‘We as a people do have a reason to be hesitant. But this is not the time. There are too many people dying.’[/pullquote]James makes reference to a 1932 study conducted by the U.S. Public Health Service and the Tuskegee Institute on Black men working as sharecroppers in Alabama. These men were informed that they were signing up to receive free medical care – they weren’t told they would be part of a study looking at the effects of untreated syphilis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When details of the experiment were leaked to the press 40 years later, hundreds of participants had died never knowing they had the disease or ever received treatment. Now, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/02/16/967011614/in-tuskegee-painful-history-shadows-efforts-to-vaccinate-african-americans\">Black community leaders and health workers in Alabama\u003c/a> are organizing to regain the trust of residents who immediately think of the Tuskegee experiment when they hear about the COVID-19 vaccine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We as a people do have a reason to be hesitant,” James said. “But this is not the time. There are too many people dying.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘I Want to Be One of Those People Taking the Vaccine’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>For the past nine months, the Latino Task Force, a coalition made up of dozens of community-based organizations, has partnered with the San Francisco Department of Public Health and UCSF’s Unidos en Salud to provide weekly pop-up COVID-19 testing sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During that time, Jon Jacobo, health chair of the task force, has been able to talk to the hundreds of Latino and immigrant residents while they wait in line to get tested for coronavirus or get their flu shot. He’s noticed that feelings about getting vaccinated, whether that is for the flu or COVID-19, can differ based on generation and immigration experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we had the pop-up for flu shots back in September, the folks that would be coming in to get vaccinated were predominantly monolingual Spanish speakers,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Jacobo, recently arrived immigrants in line were very enthusiastic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In our home countries, maybe you don’t have access to free quality health care. And so now that you’re in the U.S., and this is available, it could be very advantageous,” Jacobo explained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Jon Jacobo, health chair, Latino Task Force\"]‘I don’t think that any of us want to go back to ignoring the inequities and the painful, glaring realities lived by the have-nots in the city.’[/pullquote]On the other hand, it’s been among second-generation immigrants and younger residents where he’s noticed a cooler reception towards the COVID-19 vaccine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For folks who were born here and grew up here, a lot of misinformation is present on social media,” said Jacobo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, he points out that overall, these feelings are a lot less common than expected. While the results have not been released yet, the Latino Task Force managed to poll over 6,000 people at its testing site on the corner of Mission and 24th streets last month. Jacobo estimates that over 80% of those surveyed had a very favorable opinion of the vaccine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He hopes his team can publish all the data from the survey in the coming months, but according to Jacobo, the initial findings signal that those surveyed trust local and state governments a lot less than physicians and community initiatives like the Latino Task Force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the city needs to learn that it’s OK to not have all the answers at the moment,” he said. “Sometimes we just don’t have an answer at the moment. And we need to be comfortable with saying, ‘We are working on it and we will get it.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Confusion about where vaccinations are offered and lack of accessibility to these places can end up sowing distrust for the vaccine when there wasn’t distrust before, he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first neighborhood vaccination site in San Francisco opened up in the Mission District \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/coronavirusliveupdates/news/11858171/san-francisco-opens-mission-district-vaccine-site\">on Feb. 2\u003c/a>, thanks in part to the advocacy of the Latino Task Force, who sought to bring a vaccination center into the heart of the Mission and a block away from the 24th Street BART station, where COVID-19 tests are offered every week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Community organizers need care providers and public health authorities as much as the latter needs the former to provide trust and credibility to vaccination efforts, Jacobo said. This coalition is effective when community members lead and shape the outreach while the other two partners actively follow and fund this work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As an academic physician, it’s really helped me to work more closely with community-based organizations,” said Dr. Fernández of UCSF. She thinks that the model built to combat the pandemic and provide access to the vaccine can be replicated to confront other health crises that disproportionately affect communities of color, like diabetes or obesity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re going to need a lot of structural change, a lot of changing the social determinants of health, and that’s going to require all of us to work together,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for the coalition, that shouldn’t fall apart after the pandemic ends, Jacobo said. “I know that from here on out, we are going to be working in this city towards a new normal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added, “I don’t think that any of us want to go back to ignoring the inequities and the painful, glaring realities lived by the have-nots in the city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11861163\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11861163\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/151211137_785673258823087_7892150034492824497_n-e1613784176552.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Esteban Torres, a first-year student at City College of San Francisco, volunteers each week at the Mission Food Hub, where he’s heard from older community members how excited they are to get the vaccine. But it wasn’t until he saw task force members get vaccinated that he felt fully ready himself (when that’s an option for him). \u003ccite>(Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Back in January, Jacobo, along with a few other members of the Latino Task Force involved in testing efforts, were vaccinated. Some volunteers got to see the moment firsthand. Among those present was Esteban Torres, a freshman at City College of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torres had felt unsure about taking the vaccine for a few weeks. But when he saw some of his friends and older relatives take the chance, he felt a flood of relief. But also a sense of responsibility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I saw that, I told myself I want to be part of that. I want to be one of those people taking the vaccine, doing it for everyone in my family and doing the most I can for anyone in my community,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED has brought together information on how and where to get vaccinated for COVID-19 in the Bay Area and is answering questions you may have about the process. Check out our guide, available in \u003ca class=\"c-link\" href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11855623/where-can-i-get-a-covid-19-vaccine-in-the-bay-area-your-questions-answered\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11855623/where-can-i-get-a-covid-19-vaccine-in-the-bay-area-your-questions-answered\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">English\u003c/a> and \u003ca class=\"c-link\" href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11856006/cuando-y-donde-puede-vacunarse-contra-covid-19-en-el-area-de-la-bahia-aqui-tiene-las-respuestas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11856006/cuando-y-donde-puede-vacunarse-contra-covid-19-en-el-area-de-la-bahia-aqui-tiene-las-respuestas\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">Spanish\u003c/a> here.\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We hear so many things that we really wonder where these ideas come from,” she explained. “Folks tell us things like, ‘I’m not going to get vaccinated because it was released so quickly,’ ‘they told me that the vaccine is just water,’ or ‘the vaccine has a chip in it.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abonce worries that these beliefs may seriously reduce the number of people who get vaccinated in the communities that need immunity the most, places where her friends and loved ones live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Relying on the relationships and trust she’s built over the years, Abonce has managed to convince many neighbors to let go of these anxieties. But there are still those who refuse the vaccine, regardless of what they hear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We say that these are simply myths, that when pandemics or sicknesses spread, myths also tend to spread. Sometimes people make up these myths to create fear,” she said. “So we try to resolve those fears but sometimes we just can’t.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In these cases, “The best we can do is give them the information we have,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11860907\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11860907\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47056_024_SanJose_COVIDTesting_02032021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47056_024_SanJose_COVIDTesting_02032021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47056_024_SanJose_COVIDTesting_02032021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47056_024_SanJose_COVIDTesting_02032021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47056_024_SanJose_COVIDTesting_02032021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47056_024_SanJose_COVIDTesting_02032021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">After getting their COVID-19 test, residents can ask promotoras questions about the virus or resources the county offers for those who test positive. However, promotoras are now hearing more fears and disinformation from residents about the coronavirus vaccine. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>‘I Would Take It but I Do Not Trust It’: History and Vaccine Anxiety\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Days before a COVID-19 vaccine received emergency authorization from the FDA, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11849892/california-may-consider-historical-injustice-in-deciding-how-to-allocate-coronavirus-vaccine\">advocates advised state authorities\u003c/a> that a vaccine distribution plan should take into account both the immediate impact the pandemic has had on Black and Latino communities in California and the lessons learned from coronavirus testing outreach in those populations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While state authorities \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11849892/california-may-consider-historical-injustice-in-deciding-how-to-allocate-coronavirus-vaccine\">acknowledged the need to include equity\u003c/a> in distribution plans, the latest vaccination data suggests that vaccines are reaching Black and Latino residents at rates lower than the impact the pandemic has had on those communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Out of the 6.7 million vaccine doses the state \u003ca href=\"https://covid19.ca.gov/vaccines/#California-vaccines-dashboard\">has administered so far\u003c/a>, 2.9% of those who’ve received at least one shot identify as Black, while this group accounts for 6.2% of the state’s total \u003ca href=\"https://covid19.ca.gov/state-dashboard/\">COVID-19-related deaths\u003c/a>. Latinos represent 46.2% of COVID-19 related deaths in California, but have received just 16% of vaccinations so far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11855623/where-can-i-get-a-covid-19-vaccine-in-the-bay-area-your-questions-answered\">Sudden changes in California’s vaccination plan\u003c/a> have resulted in confusion among residents statewide, and low dosage supply has limited the impact of massive vaccination centers, and may make it even harder for the vaccines to reach hard-hit populations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maurice Foster and Paula Petty, a married couple living in Oakland, fear getting sick and have done all they can to avoid exposing themselves to COVID-19. They said California’s vaccine rollout process has eroded the little trust they have in state and federal authorities to provide a safe vaccine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would take it but I do not trust it,” Foster said. “I do not trust the government. I’ve seen the president and the first lady take it but still. I will take it because I don’t want to die, not because I trust it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He believes the vaccine research process was not transparent, and is concerned it may have been rushed by the Trump administration for political motives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think Black people are more vulnerable to COVID-19,” he added. “I think the government is more prejudiced towards Black people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11860909\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1973px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11860909\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/152258286_756817738286257_6296328330243481974_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1973\" height=\"1482\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/152258286_756817738286257_6296328330243481974_n.jpg 1973w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/152258286_756817738286257_6296328330243481974_n-800x601.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/152258286_756817738286257_6296328330243481974_n-1020x766.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/152258286_756817738286257_6296328330243481974_n-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/152258286_756817738286257_6296328330243481974_n-1536x1154.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/152258286_756817738286257_6296328330243481974_n-1920x1442.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/152258286_756817738286257_6296328330243481974_n-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/152258286_756817738286257_6296328330243481974_n-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/152258286_756817738286257_6296328330243481974_n-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1973px) 100vw, 1973px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paula Petty, left, and Maurice Foster, Oakland residents, have done all they can to avoid getting COVID-19. They consider taking the vaccine a necessary but dangerous risk. \u003ccite>(Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, high school senior Dara Montejo Chel has learned about incidents of medical malpractice in communities of color, especially cases of unethical sterilizations among Black and Latina women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Dawn Wooten, a nurse at a migrant detention center in Georgia, \u003ca href=\"https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-54160638\">filed a whistleblower complaint\u003c/a> last September claiming that hysterectomies were being performed on detained migrant women without their fully informed consent, Montejo Chel felt her anxiety shoot up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She knows the COVID-19 vaccine is not a sterilization tool and strongly believes in the science of immunity – but she said the history she’s learning weighs heavy on her mind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When it comes to medical research, we people of color are usually the ones put at greater risk,” she said. “For a long time, medicine has not shown it cares about us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://profiles.ucsf.edu/alicia.fernandez\">Dr. Alicia Fernández\u003c/a>, professor of medicine at UCSF, has heard similar hesitations from her patients. Her research looks at expanding access to primary health care in immigrant and Latino communities, and she’s part of the \u003ca href=\"https://unitedinhealth.org/\">Unidos en Salud initiative\u003c/a> that’s brought COVID-19 testing into San Francisco’s Mission District and the Fruitvale District in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vaccine hesitancy, she points out, while present across different demographics, differs based on access to adequate medical information and lived experiences. She’s identified a couple broad categories so she can address these anxieties more effectively.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The first bucket is misinformation,” she said. Misinformation includes believing that the vaccine has dangerous side effects (like infertility or mutations), or that it was developed too quickly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The second bucket consists of what Fernández refers to as alternate health beliefs: deeply held ideas about professional medicine or different types of care that make it difficult for an individual to go out and seek immunization. Alternative understandings of wellness can sometimes come from family traditions or a desire to provide care when hospitals are inaccessible due to lack of coverage or language.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These beliefs may include never getting a vaccination, never putting anything into their body,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then there’s everything else, but Fernández explained that an overarching feeling of worry relating to health and receiving care explains many of these experiences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What I try to do is sort out what people are feeling. I acknowledge that there are many reasons patients have to not trust doctors with these sorts of issues,” she said. “The history of health care abuses both in Puerto Rico, in the Dominican Republic and other places comes up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Throughout the mid-20th century, the Eugenics Board of Puerto Rico \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/blog/unwanted-sterilization-and-eugenics-programs-in-the-united-states/\">encouraged and oversaw hundreds of thousands of sterilizations\u003c/a> of women on the island as a population-control mechanism. Many of these women were not properly informed by physicians about the procedure and believed that the operation was easily reversible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One-to-one conversations between doctor and patient are critical, Fernández explains, because that is when physicians can meet their patients where they are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the doctor is comfortable with it, it’s important to share a little bit of our own stories of why we came to take the vaccine,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Talking about his own vaccine experience has been effective for Dr. Adrian James, chief medical officer at the \u003ca href=\"https://westoaklandhealth.org/\">West Oakland Health Council\u003c/a>, who has cleared up vaccine worries not just with his patients but also with his staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>WOHC sees almost 8,000 patients every year, many of them Black East Bay residents. Last December, WOHC announced a partnership with Covered California to tackle vaccine hesitancy among Black communities in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I let folks know that this is a community problem,” James said. “This is everyone. This is not the Tuskegee experiment, only dealing with African American men. This is a community issue, we’re asking everyone to get the vaccine.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>James makes reference to a 1932 study conducted by the U.S. Public Health Service and the Tuskegee Institute on Black men working as sharecroppers in Alabama. These men were informed that they were signing up to receive free medical care – they weren’t told they would be part of a study looking at the effects of untreated syphilis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When details of the experiment were leaked to the press 40 years later, hundreds of participants had died never knowing they had the disease or ever received treatment. Now, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/02/16/967011614/in-tuskegee-painful-history-shadows-efforts-to-vaccinate-african-americans\">Black community leaders and health workers in Alabama\u003c/a> are organizing to regain the trust of residents who immediately think of the Tuskegee experiment when they hear about the COVID-19 vaccine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We as a people do have a reason to be hesitant,” James said. “But this is not the time. There are too many people dying.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘I Want to Be One of Those People Taking the Vaccine’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>For the past nine months, the Latino Task Force, a coalition made up of dozens of community-based organizations, has partnered with the San Francisco Department of Public Health and UCSF’s Unidos en Salud to provide weekly pop-up COVID-19 testing sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During that time, Jon Jacobo, health chair of the task force, has been able to talk to the hundreds of Latino and immigrant residents while they wait in line to get tested for coronavirus or get their flu shot. He’s noticed that feelings about getting vaccinated, whether that is for the flu or COVID-19, can differ based on generation and immigration experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we had the pop-up for flu shots back in September, the folks that would be coming in to get vaccinated were predominantly monolingual Spanish speakers,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Jacobo, recently arrived immigrants in line were very enthusiastic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In our home countries, maybe you don’t have access to free quality health care. And so now that you’re in the U.S., and this is available, it could be very advantageous,” Jacobo explained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>On the other hand, it’s been among second-generation immigrants and younger residents where he’s noticed a cooler reception towards the COVID-19 vaccine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For folks who were born here and grew up here, a lot of misinformation is present on social media,” said Jacobo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, he points out that overall, these feelings are a lot less common than expected. While the results have not been released yet, the Latino Task Force managed to poll over 6,000 people at its testing site on the corner of Mission and 24th streets last month. Jacobo estimates that over 80% of those surveyed had a very favorable opinion of the vaccine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He hopes his team can publish all the data from the survey in the coming months, but according to Jacobo, the initial findings signal that those surveyed trust local and state governments a lot less than physicians and community initiatives like the Latino Task Force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the city needs to learn that it’s OK to not have all the answers at the moment,” he said. “Sometimes we just don’t have an answer at the moment. And we need to be comfortable with saying, ‘We are working on it and we will get it.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Confusion about where vaccinations are offered and lack of accessibility to these places can end up sowing distrust for the vaccine when there wasn’t distrust before, he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first neighborhood vaccination site in San Francisco opened up in the Mission District \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/coronavirusliveupdates/news/11858171/san-francisco-opens-mission-district-vaccine-site\">on Feb. 2\u003c/a>, thanks in part to the advocacy of the Latino Task Force, who sought to bring a vaccination center into the heart of the Mission and a block away from the 24th Street BART station, where COVID-19 tests are offered every week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Community organizers need care providers and public health authorities as much as the latter needs the former to provide trust and credibility to vaccination efforts, Jacobo said. This coalition is effective when community members lead and shape the outreach while the other two partners actively follow and fund this work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As an academic physician, it’s really helped me to work more closely with community-based organizations,” said Dr. Fernández of UCSF. She thinks that the model built to combat the pandemic and provide access to the vaccine can be replicated to confront other health crises that disproportionately affect communities of color, like diabetes or obesity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re going to need a lot of structural change, a lot of changing the social determinants of health, and that’s going to require all of us to work together,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for the coalition, that shouldn’t fall apart after the pandemic ends, Jacobo said. “I know that from here on out, we are going to be working in this city towards a new normal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added, “I don’t think that any of us want to go back to ignoring the inequities and the painful, glaring realities lived by the have-nots in the city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11861163\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11861163\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/151211137_785673258823087_7892150034492824497_n-e1613784176552.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Esteban Torres, a first-year student at City College of San Francisco, volunteers each week at the Mission Food Hub, where he’s heard from older community members how excited they are to get the vaccine. But it wasn’t until he saw task force members get vaccinated that he felt fully ready himself (when that’s an option for him). \u003ccite>(Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Back in January, Jacobo, along with a few other members of the Latino Task Force involved in testing efforts, were vaccinated. Some volunteers got to see the moment firsthand. Among those present was Esteban Torres, a freshman at City College of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torres had felt unsure about taking the vaccine for a few weeks. But when he saw some of his friends and older relatives take the chance, he felt a flood of relief. But also a sense of responsibility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I saw that, I told myself I want to be part of that. I want to be one of those people taking the vaccine, doing it for everyone in my family and doing the most I can for anyone in my community,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED has brought together information on how and where to get vaccinated for COVID-19 in the Bay Area and is answering questions you may have about the process. Check out our guide, available in \u003ca class=\"c-link\" href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11855623/where-can-i-get-a-covid-19-vaccine-in-the-bay-area-your-questions-answered\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11855623/where-can-i-get-a-covid-19-vaccine-in-the-bay-area-your-questions-answered\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">English\u003c/a> and \u003ca class=\"c-link\" href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11856006/cuando-y-donde-puede-vacunarse-contra-covid-19-en-el-area-de-la-bahia-aqui-tiene-las-respuestas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11856006/cuando-y-donde-puede-vacunarse-contra-covid-19-en-el-area-de-la-bahia-aqui-tiene-las-respuestas\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">Spanish\u003c/a> here.\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Jessica Weiss, a 24-year-old Wall Street analyst, was scrolling through Twitter on a break while working from home in New York this summer when she saw the smiling image of a former Lowell High School classmate, Raymond Lang. She was shocked as she read through the growing series of posts accusing him of rape and other sexual abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time, Lang, 25, was facing felony rape and other criminal charges in Alameda County related to one of those allegations, the violent assault of a woman he’d met via an online dating app in 2018. He’d later accept a plea deal that dismissed all but the less serious charge of assault with a deadly weapon — with the sentence deferred over a five-year probation term.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Jessica Weiss, 2014 Lowell High School graduate\"]‘I think a lot of me wanting to speak out about this comes from just guilt of being silent back then.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Efforts to reach Lang for comment were not successful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weiss didn’t know it at the time, but those posts would help trigger a new reckoning in the #MeToo movement focused in part on San Francisco’s prestigious Lowell High School. The effort empowered current and former students to call for systemic change while curating and promoting allegations on social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates and survivors nationwide had spontaneously created accounts over the summer to share hundreds of stories of abuse experienced while they were in high school. Many of the people behind these grassroots efforts say the COVID-19 pandemic left them with more time and space to reflect on trauma they had experienced as teenagers. And remote learning added a sense of security, separating students from alleged abusers.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Painful Memories From High School\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Weiss, who graduated from Lowell in 2014, said seeing her former classmate publicly accused pushed her and others in her Lowell alumni community to reckon with painful memories from high school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said a different Lowell alum, Hiromi Fujita, sexually harassed her in high school, and she’d heard other allegations about him from several friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think a lot of me wanting to speak out about this comes from just guilt of being silent back then,” Weiss said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She eventually connected with three other women who anonymously posted allegations on June 7 that Fujita had abused or assaulted them in high school and college, prompting another woman to come forward with a similar story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11859411\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11859411\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Jessica-Weiss.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1254\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Jessica-Weiss.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Jessica-Weiss-800x523.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Jessica-Weiss-1020x666.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Jessica-Weiss-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Jessica-Weiss-1536x1003.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jessica Weiss, who graduated from Lowell High School in 2014, says a social media post last summer about a former classmate brought back painful memories. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Jessica Weiss)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A total of nine former Lowell students told KQED that he was abusive or inappropriate to young women when he was in high school and college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two former students said they saw Fujita assault a female classmate on school grounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Fujita, who graduated in 2013, was popular with administrators and students. He was on the football team, involved in student government and close to the dean and principal, according to several former students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school district declined to comment on specific allegations against Fujita, and Lowell Principal Dacotah Swett said the school couldn’t locate records of any reported incidents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked about the allegations, Ray Cordoba, the dean of Lowell while Fujita was a student, said, “Any reports of assault are reported and dealt with accordingly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11859413\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11859413\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/EZ8poNBVcAE-KnI-800x738.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"738\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/EZ8poNBVcAE-KnI-800x738.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/EZ8poNBVcAE-KnI-1020x941.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/EZ8poNBVcAE-KnI-160x148.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/EZ8poNBVcAE-KnI-1122x1037.jpeg 1122w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/EZ8poNBVcAE-KnI.jpeg 1124w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hiromi Fujita posted a series of tweets in early June from a now deactivated account acknowledging the allegations made against him. \u003ccite>(Via Twitter)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Fujita did not respond to multiple requests for comment, but he appears to have tweeted an apparent response the day the posts about him went up: “Sexual assault is not okay. The fact is that I was and have been part of the problem, especially by not speaking out for my bad actions sooner. I have sought counseling and therapy for a lot of my issues, such as control and anger.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One woman, who graduated from Lowell in 2014, spoke on the condition of anonymity over fears that she or her family may be physically harmed in retaliation. She said Fujita sexually assaulted her in his car when she was a junior, and she felt waves of anxiety for years just seeing cars that looked like his.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sharing her experience on social media made her feel less alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I almost felt relieved. Maybe there was no real reason to be scared,” she said. “Hopefully we can head towards a future where we don’t have to call someone out because it’s normal now to not rape and assault people. And I hate that it has to come to this. But I think these changes need to happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>More Students Speak Out\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Several alumni who spoke with KQED said the elite reputation of Lowell contributed to an environment where students did not trust administrators to take their allegations seriously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are a top-tier public school in the state of California. We exist in progressive, liberal San Francisco. That definitely led to a culture where students who experience these issues weren’t comfortable coming forward,” Weiss said. “We were a school that was very concerned with reputation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hours after the allegations against Fujita were posted, more alumni began posting about their experiences at Lowell. Shavonne Hines-Foster, a senior at Lowell, said that soon opened the floodgates for current San Francisco students to speak out on Twitter and Instagram.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That served as a catalyst for everything else,” she said. “Students came forward about their experiences with racism, sexual assault, harassment and mental health at Lowell.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11859782\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11859782\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Shavonne-Hines-Foster-1.jpg\" alt=\"Shavonne Hines-Foster poses for a photo at Lowell High School in San Francisco on Jan. 29, 2021.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Shavonne-Hines-Foster-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Shavonne-Hines-Foster-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Shavonne-Hines-Foster-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Shavonne-Hines-Foster-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Shavonne-Hines-Foster-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shavonne Hines-Foster poses for a photo at Lowell High School in San Francisco on Jan. 29, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At least four current San Francisco students, 12 alumni, two teachers and a former dean have been accused online of sexual misconduct since the summer. Hines-Foster used her Instagram account to share and amplify students’ stories, and her role as a San Francisco Unified School District student delegate to bring these posts to the district’s attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lowell Principal Swett said she reached out to students who posted online when possible, and also offered students who had faced allegations counseling services and support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As an educator who deeply cares for all students, I am very saddened that these things take place to begin with,” Swett said. “There are limits to what I can reveal to people because of privacy acts and things like that. My main concern is to make sure that our students are getting the resources they need to heal and be supported and making sure that students aren’t ever put in these positions in the first place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Swett said the allegations made online were mostly made anonymously or by people who had not experienced the abuse firsthand and were difficult to substantiate. She said no current students at Lowell had been punished for allegations made on social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hines-Foster said the pandemic made it easier for people to share their stories without needing to worry about confronting classmates or their friends in person. Some students said they turned to social media because they didn’t feel taken seriously when they reported harassment or other abuse to administrators.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Administrators Grapple With Allegations\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“What I hear in young people going to social media to tell their stories is that the system has failed them, that they don’t see it as a system that’s going to support them,” said Emma Mayerson, executive director of Oakland-based Alliance for Girls. “They’re saying, ‘You are not helping me, so I’m going to get my voice heard one way or another.’ And social media is a way to do that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reported incidents of sexual violence in K-12 schools around the country increased by about 55% from the 2015-2016 to 2017-2018 school years, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/docs/sexual-violence.pdf?utm_content=&utm_medium=email&utm_name=&utm_source=govdelivery&utm_term=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">survey data\u003c/a> released in October by the U.S Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights. That same data shows California has the ninth highest rates of reported incidents of rape or attempted rape in schools nationwide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The increase in reported allegations may reflect under-reporting in 2015-16, an increased sensitivity to this issue in 2017-18, or an actual increase in incidents of sexual violence from 2015-16 to 2017-18,” the report says, noting that while overall rates of alleged sexual assault are low, “the seriousness of this violence merits attention.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Terence Abad, executive director of the Lowell Alumni Association, says he received nearly 60 emails over a matter of days this summer from alumni and others asking the school to respond to the online allegations. District officials declined an interview request, but SFUSD spokesperson Laura Dudnick issued a statement that said, “SFUSD wants all students to feel like their concerns are taken seriously. The Office of Equity monitored the online activity all summer, and beyond, and made efforts to reach out to every student who had posted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"A 2014 Lowell graduate who spoke under the condition of anonymity and said she was sexually assaulted while in high school\"]‘Hopefully we can head towards a future where we don’t have to call someone out because it’s normal now to not rape and assault people. And I hate that it has to come to this. But I think these changes need to happen.’[/pullquote]Dudnick also wrote that the district can only investigate when the incident occurs in connection to the school, or significantly disrupts school programs or activities. She said some of the allegations posted online this summer referenced incidents off campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Complications of Social Media Campaigns\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Creating and maintaining unofficial platforms for posting accusations has also proven complicated for the young people taking on this issue themselves. There has been trolling and threats of retaliation. Others collecting stories of abuse struggled to vet the influx of allegations sent their way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Instagram account, @dearSFUSD, was set up in June for students to share their experiences anonymously until posts were taken down over concerns about false allegations and defamation lawsuits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sadly, some people have seen the posts of survivors speaking out as an opportunity to use the court of public opinion for their own personal agenda,” a June 19 statement from the account said, which also encouraged people to believe what survivors are posting. “Their experiences ARE valid.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Posting allegations online can spread awareness about abuse and inspire solidarity, but there are also drawbacks to bypassing official systems, said Deborah Tuerkheimer, a law professor at Northwestern University who has \u003ca href=\"https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3366126\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">studied\u003c/a> the impact of using social media to report abuse in the wake of the #MeToo movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Informal reporting doesn’t provide process for the people accused,” she said. “That can be overstated as a worry and weaponized by people who want accusers to remain silent. At the same time, process has value. When these allegations are brought only in informal channels and only in the court of public opinion, I think something important is lost.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Pushing for Structural Change\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Justine Orgel, a senior at Lowell, said her focus is less about targeting perpetrators and more about showing support for victims. She said she was sexually assaulted by a student a few years ago, and that’s part of the reason she felt motivated to speak out on behalf of her peers. After she saw allegations posted online about a current student she knew, she felt obligated to push for action from the school district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She began drafting emails to high school and college administrators. She researched Title IX and the district’s policy around harassment and assault. In these emails, she defined sexual harassment, referenced board policies and Title IX, and argued that allowing people with “predatory habits” to “roam campus unscathed is a safety risk.” She called on schools to keep a record of the allegations and consider consequences for perpetrators, like suspension or barring them from sports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11859418\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11859418\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS46522_012_SanFrancisco_LowellHS_Justine_01092021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS46522_012_SanFrancisco_LowellHS_Justine_01092021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS46522_012_SanFrancisco_LowellHS_Justine_01092021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS46522_012_SanFrancisco_LowellHS_Justine_01092021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS46522_012_SanFrancisco_LowellHS_Justine_01092021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS46522_012_SanFrancisco_LowellHS_Justine_01092021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Justine Orgel poses for a portrait at Lowell High School in San Francisco on Jan. 9, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But many of those allegations, Orgel acknowledged, were outside the school district’s ability to address. Some concerned alleged off-campus assaults, and most emails to the district about these incidents were sent by people without firsthand knowledge of the alleged incidents, according to Dudnick.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It sucks to say this, but there’s very little the school districts can do,” Orgel said. “But I want structural change. I want people to find peace, and I want them to have faith that their communities believe them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Orgel posted the email template on her Instagram page so that other students could email it to administrators as well. Then she went to sleep, waking up a few hours later to a barrage of messages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My Instagram was just super flooded,” Orgel said. She’d received hundreds of messages of thanks. “I’m the type of person where I hate not getting something done, especially when someone is counting on me. I just felt like such a sense of urgency.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the summer, Lowell Principal Swett sent an email to students that outlined steps the school had taken to educate and prevent sexual harassment on campus, such as awareness campaigns, training for teachers and programs to educate students about healthy relationships.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wish that I had as much power as kids think I have,” Swett said. “I am very sorry that anyone has ever been hurt. It’s not fair, and we do our best to try to mitigate all of that. I have spent a tremendous amount of my time simply responding to people’s bad behavior.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Finding Support Online\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Even if the school district is unable to do anything about it, some students say sharing their stories and finding support online has helped them in other ways. Xufei Zhao, who graduated from Galileo Academy of Science and Technology in San Francisco last spring, said a few years ago she was sexually assaulted by a family member, a student at Lowell High School. She had no idea what to do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When it happened, a lot was going on in my mind. I was like, what do I do? Am I supposed to talk to him first? Am I supposed to tell my parents? Am I supposed to file a report? Am I supposed to … hide it from everybody until I die?” she said, remembering the shame she felt at the time. She bought a lock for her bedroom door so she could hide when the relative came over for family gatherings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11859421\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11859421\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/144581126_177955346994097_8481618358854499444_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/144581126_177955346994097_8481618358854499444_n.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/144581126_177955346994097_8481618358854499444_n-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/144581126_177955346994097_8481618358854499444_n-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/144581126_177955346994097_8481618358854499444_n-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/144581126_177955346994097_8481618358854499444_n-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Xufei Zhao, a recent graduate of the Galileo Academy of Science and Technology high school in San Francisco, says it felt like a weight had been lifted after she posted about her experience of assault online. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Xufei Zhao)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>KQED is unable to verify the allegations and is not naming the alleged perpetrator. He did not respond to requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Zhao posted about her experience online, she opened up to her parents about the alleged abuse, and was put in touch with a hotline for sexual assault survivors. San Francisco police reached out to her on Instagram, and she considered filing a police report. But she says she decided against it because she already felt drained, and was skeptical filing a report would lead to a conviction.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>When Teachers Are Accused\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>But the school district did complete at least two investigations against Lowell teachers after allegations were posted on social media, according to disciplinary documents provided to KQED in response to a public records request.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Physical education teacher Thomas Geren was accused last summer of demonstrating patterns of inappropriate behavior, including unwelcome touching, staring and catcalling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school found that Geren had used terms of endearment to describe students, pointed out a student’s hickies and “touched a student’s shoulders in what was an unwelcome gesture,” according to a counselling memo. Principal Swett directed Geren to refrain from physical contact with students and familiarize himself with district policies and employee codes of conduct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Geren and his attorney did not comment on the allegations or the discipline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a separate case, a student posted allegations of harassment against social studies teacher Adam Michels on Instagram in June. She wrote that she had reported his behavior during the school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11858202,news_11859065,news_13891866\" label=\"More on San Francisco’s Lowell High School\"]“I received radio silence the moment my classes were switched, with no idea if this man even knew what he did was wrong,” the student, who declined to be interviewed, wrote in the post. “Please listen to me. A class and subject that I was so eagerly looking forward to taking has been tainted and ruined for me. I don’t want that for anybody else.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others had also reported Michels to administrators before the post went up, according to a memorandum written by school officials in December 2019. An unnamed colleague had complained that Michels made her uncomfortable and affected her ability to work in the same classroom as him. An unspecified number of students also complained about the teacher’s behavior that fall, which they alleged ranged from sarcasm to intimidation, condescending remarks and use of sexual innuendo, according to the memo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michels “appeared responsive” according to the December 2019 memo, which says he received a verbal reprimand. But less than a year later, he would again face discipline for similar behavior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an Aug. 11, 2020 interview with administrators, Michels admitted to following several of his current students on social media, according to a follow-up disciplinary memo. He also tried to contact a student who’d posted about him via social media through another student, despite being directed not to do so. He’d used a picture of a student in his class without permission, unnecessarily touched students, teased them and made unwelcome comments about a student’s appearance, according to the memo. This time, Michels received a written reprimand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over two phone interviews and a series of emails, Michels denied ever harassing or inappropriately touching students. He said he had used students’ photos in presentations for years without any complaints until the last school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he now has a good working relationship with the colleague who complained, which he said stemmed from a dispute over music. He also said the school should have told the student who turned to Instagram over the summer the outcome of her original complaint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She felt like she wasn’t heard by me or the administration, that it had just been swept under the rug, and it’s not true,” Michels said. “I almost feel as though the whole post could have been avoided if there had been some process where she felt some completion or resolution.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Emma Mayerson, executive director of Oakland-based Alliance for Girls\"]‘What I hear in young people going to social media to tell their stories is that the system has failed them, that they don’t see it as a system that’s going to support them.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Principal Swett said the school was able to inform the student her concerns had been addressed after Michels’ inappropriate behavior had continued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After seeing the Instagram post, an alum who graduated in 2015 wrote in a testimony for the district’s investigation that Michels also harassed her in class and online. She included embedded screenshots in the testimony, which she shared with KQED, that show Michels complimenting her appearance and expressing doubt about her intellect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said he told her she did not fit the stereotype of Asian girls at Lowell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Throughout … my studies, I felt a constant pressure to defy norms imposed on Asian women and prove the worthiness of my accomplishments,” the student wrote in the testimony. She asked not to be named over concerns being identified could put her career at risk or lead to retaliation by the teacher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michels said he could not remember making the comments, which he said may be taken out of context, and that referencing a stereotype does not mean he believes it to be true. He said he would usually only message a student online if they were teaching assistants or if they had already graduated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After he was interviewed for this story, Michels sent over a dozen emails describing the reprimand as unfair to him and criticizing so-called cancel culture and what he called “a culture of heightened sensitivity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11801840,news_11754307,news_11643771\" label=\"More on the #MeToo movement\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview, Principal Swett said it was very clear to her that Michels had violated professional conduct standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m a little concerned that your article might spread the falsehood that I sexually harass students in class. I do not,” Michels wrote in one email in November. “Even presenting the story as if it is an open question is completely unfair. I don’t meet with students outside of class. I compliment students and I tease them sometimes, but it is in front of 35 other students, and I have never sexually harassed anyone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three Lowell students and alumni told KQED that while they enjoyed his class and thought Michels did not intend to cause harm, they could also understand how some would find his sense of humor inappropriate. One said they never saw Michels inappropriately touch anyone. Another student described him as a “very professional” teacher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The alum who testified against Michels said she was disappointed in the outcome.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The outcome that happened was absolutely disheartening,” she said. “It’s just so hard. These systems protect perpetrators more than they ever will victims. I’m emotionally exhausted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Julie Chang and Teresa Cotsirilos contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article was produced as a project for the \u003ca href=\"https://centerforhealthjournalism.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism\u003c/a> Impact Fund.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said a different Lowell alum, Hiromi Fujita, sexually harassed her in high school, and she’d heard other allegations about him from several friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think a lot of me wanting to speak out about this comes from just guilt of being silent back then,” Weiss said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She eventually connected with three other women who anonymously posted allegations on June 7 that Fujita had abused or assaulted them in high school and college, prompting another woman to come forward with a similar story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11859411\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11859411\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Jessica-Weiss.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1254\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Jessica-Weiss.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Jessica-Weiss-800x523.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Jessica-Weiss-1020x666.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Jessica-Weiss-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Jessica-Weiss-1536x1003.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jessica Weiss, who graduated from Lowell High School in 2014, says a social media post last summer about a former classmate brought back painful memories. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Jessica Weiss)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A total of nine former Lowell students told KQED that he was abusive or inappropriate to young women when he was in high school and college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two former students said they saw Fujita assault a female classmate on school grounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Fujita, who graduated in 2013, was popular with administrators and students. He was on the football team, involved in student government and close to the dean and principal, according to several former students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school district declined to comment on specific allegations against Fujita, and Lowell Principal Dacotah Swett said the school couldn’t locate records of any reported incidents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked about the allegations, Ray Cordoba, the dean of Lowell while Fujita was a student, said, “Any reports of assault are reported and dealt with accordingly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11859413\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11859413\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/EZ8poNBVcAE-KnI-800x738.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"738\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/EZ8poNBVcAE-KnI-800x738.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/EZ8poNBVcAE-KnI-1020x941.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/EZ8poNBVcAE-KnI-160x148.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/EZ8poNBVcAE-KnI-1122x1037.jpeg 1122w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/EZ8poNBVcAE-KnI.jpeg 1124w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hiromi Fujita posted a series of tweets in early June from a now deactivated account acknowledging the allegations made against him. \u003ccite>(Via Twitter)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Fujita did not respond to multiple requests for comment, but he appears to have tweeted an apparent response the day the posts about him went up: “Sexual assault is not okay. The fact is that I was and have been part of the problem, especially by not speaking out for my bad actions sooner. I have sought counseling and therapy for a lot of my issues, such as control and anger.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One woman, who graduated from Lowell in 2014, spoke on the condition of anonymity over fears that she or her family may be physically harmed in retaliation. She said Fujita sexually assaulted her in his car when she was a junior, and she felt waves of anxiety for years just seeing cars that looked like his.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sharing her experience on social media made her feel less alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I almost felt relieved. Maybe there was no real reason to be scared,” she said. “Hopefully we can head towards a future where we don’t have to call someone out because it’s normal now to not rape and assault people. And I hate that it has to come to this. But I think these changes need to happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>More Students Speak Out\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Several alumni who spoke with KQED said the elite reputation of Lowell contributed to an environment where students did not trust administrators to take their allegations seriously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are a top-tier public school in the state of California. We exist in progressive, liberal San Francisco. That definitely led to a culture where students who experience these issues weren’t comfortable coming forward,” Weiss said. “We were a school that was very concerned with reputation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hours after the allegations against Fujita were posted, more alumni began posting about their experiences at Lowell. Shavonne Hines-Foster, a senior at Lowell, said that soon opened the floodgates for current San Francisco students to speak out on Twitter and Instagram.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That served as a catalyst for everything else,” she said. “Students came forward about their experiences with racism, sexual assault, harassment and mental health at Lowell.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11859782\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11859782\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Shavonne-Hines-Foster-1.jpg\" alt=\"Shavonne Hines-Foster poses for a photo at Lowell High School in San Francisco on Jan. 29, 2021.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Shavonne-Hines-Foster-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Shavonne-Hines-Foster-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Shavonne-Hines-Foster-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Shavonne-Hines-Foster-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Shavonne-Hines-Foster-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shavonne Hines-Foster poses for a photo at Lowell High School in San Francisco on Jan. 29, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At least four current San Francisco students, 12 alumni, two teachers and a former dean have been accused online of sexual misconduct since the summer. Hines-Foster used her Instagram account to share and amplify students’ stories, and her role as a San Francisco Unified School District student delegate to bring these posts to the district’s attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lowell Principal Swett said she reached out to students who posted online when possible, and also offered students who had faced allegations counseling services and support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As an educator who deeply cares for all students, I am very saddened that these things take place to begin with,” Swett said. “There are limits to what I can reveal to people because of privacy acts and things like that. My main concern is to make sure that our students are getting the resources they need to heal and be supported and making sure that students aren’t ever put in these positions in the first place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Swett said the allegations made online were mostly made anonymously or by people who had not experienced the abuse firsthand and were difficult to substantiate. She said no current students at Lowell had been punished for allegations made on social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hines-Foster said the pandemic made it easier for people to share their stories without needing to worry about confronting classmates or their friends in person. Some students said they turned to social media because they didn’t feel taken seriously when they reported harassment or other abuse to administrators.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Administrators Grapple With Allegations\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“What I hear in young people going to social media to tell their stories is that the system has failed them, that they don’t see it as a system that’s going to support them,” said Emma Mayerson, executive director of Oakland-based Alliance for Girls. “They’re saying, ‘You are not helping me, so I’m going to get my voice heard one way or another.’ And social media is a way to do that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reported incidents of sexual violence in K-12 schools around the country increased by about 55% from the 2015-2016 to 2017-2018 school years, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/docs/sexual-violence.pdf?utm_content=&utm_medium=email&utm_name=&utm_source=govdelivery&utm_term=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">survey data\u003c/a> released in October by the U.S Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights. That same data shows California has the ninth highest rates of reported incidents of rape or attempted rape in schools nationwide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The increase in reported allegations may reflect under-reporting in 2015-16, an increased sensitivity to this issue in 2017-18, or an actual increase in incidents of sexual violence from 2015-16 to 2017-18,” the report says, noting that while overall rates of alleged sexual assault are low, “the seriousness of this violence merits attention.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Terence Abad, executive director of the Lowell Alumni Association, says he received nearly 60 emails over a matter of days this summer from alumni and others asking the school to respond to the online allegations. District officials declined an interview request, but SFUSD spokesperson Laura Dudnick issued a statement that said, “SFUSD wants all students to feel like their concerns are taken seriously. The Office of Equity monitored the online activity all summer, and beyond, and made efforts to reach out to every student who had posted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Others collecting stories of abuse struggled to vet the influx of allegations sent their way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Instagram account, @dearSFUSD, was set up in June for students to share their experiences anonymously until posts were taken down over concerns about false allegations and defamation lawsuits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sadly, some people have seen the posts of survivors speaking out as an opportunity to use the court of public opinion for their own personal agenda,” a June 19 statement from the account said, which also encouraged people to believe what survivors are posting. “Their experiences ARE valid.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Posting allegations online can spread awareness about abuse and inspire solidarity, but there are also drawbacks to bypassing official systems, said Deborah Tuerkheimer, a law professor at Northwestern University who has \u003ca href=\"https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3366126\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">studied\u003c/a> the impact of using social media to report abuse in the wake of the #MeToo movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Informal reporting doesn’t provide process for the people accused,” she said. “That can be overstated as a worry and weaponized by people who want accusers to remain silent. At the same time, process has value. When these allegations are brought only in informal channels and only in the court of public opinion, I think something important is lost.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Pushing for Structural Change\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Justine Orgel, a senior at Lowell, said her focus is less about targeting perpetrators and more about showing support for victims. She said she was sexually assaulted by a student a few years ago, and that’s part of the reason she felt motivated to speak out on behalf of her peers. After she saw allegations posted online about a current student she knew, she felt obligated to push for action from the school district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She began drafting emails to high school and college administrators. She researched Title IX and the district’s policy around harassment and assault. In these emails, she defined sexual harassment, referenced board policies and Title IX, and argued that allowing people with “predatory habits” to “roam campus unscathed is a safety risk.” She called on schools to keep a record of the allegations and consider consequences for perpetrators, like suspension or barring them from sports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11859418\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11859418\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS46522_012_SanFrancisco_LowellHS_Justine_01092021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS46522_012_SanFrancisco_LowellHS_Justine_01092021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS46522_012_SanFrancisco_LowellHS_Justine_01092021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS46522_012_SanFrancisco_LowellHS_Justine_01092021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS46522_012_SanFrancisco_LowellHS_Justine_01092021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS46522_012_SanFrancisco_LowellHS_Justine_01092021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Justine Orgel poses for a portrait at Lowell High School in San Francisco on Jan. 9, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But many of those allegations, Orgel acknowledged, were outside the school district’s ability to address. Some concerned alleged off-campus assaults, and most emails to the district about these incidents were sent by people without firsthand knowledge of the alleged incidents, according to Dudnick.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It sucks to say this, but there’s very little the school districts can do,” Orgel said. “But I want structural change. I want people to find peace, and I want them to have faith that their communities believe them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Orgel posted the email template on her Instagram page so that other students could email it to administrators as well. Then she went to sleep, waking up a few hours later to a barrage of messages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My Instagram was just super flooded,” Orgel said. She’d received hundreds of messages of thanks. “I’m the type of person where I hate not getting something done, especially when someone is counting on me. I just felt like such a sense of urgency.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the summer, Lowell Principal Swett sent an email to students that outlined steps the school had taken to educate and prevent sexual harassment on campus, such as awareness campaigns, training for teachers and programs to educate students about healthy relationships.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wish that I had as much power as kids think I have,” Swett said. “I am very sorry that anyone has ever been hurt. It’s not fair, and we do our best to try to mitigate all of that. I have spent a tremendous amount of my time simply responding to people’s bad behavior.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Finding Support Online\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Even if the school district is unable to do anything about it, some students say sharing their stories and finding support online has helped them in other ways. Xufei Zhao, who graduated from Galileo Academy of Science and Technology in San Francisco last spring, said a few years ago she was sexually assaulted by a family member, a student at Lowell High School. She had no idea what to do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When it happened, a lot was going on in my mind. I was like, what do I do? Am I supposed to talk to him first? Am I supposed to tell my parents? Am I supposed to file a report? Am I supposed to … hide it from everybody until I die?” she said, remembering the shame she felt at the time. 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He did not respond to requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Zhao posted about her experience online, she opened up to her parents about the alleged abuse, and was put in touch with a hotline for sexual assault survivors. San Francisco police reached out to her on Instagram, and she considered filing a police report. But she says she decided against it because she already felt drained, and was skeptical filing a report would lead to a conviction.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>When Teachers Are Accused\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>But the school district did complete at least two investigations against Lowell teachers after allegations were posted on social media, according to disciplinary documents provided to KQED in response to a public records request.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Physical education teacher Thomas Geren was accused last summer of demonstrating patterns of inappropriate behavior, including unwelcome touching, staring and catcalling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school found that Geren had used terms of endearment to describe students, pointed out a student’s hickies and “touched a student’s shoulders in what was an unwelcome gesture,” according to a counselling memo. 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[aside postID=\"news_11858202\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Black Student Union organized the rally and press conference in an effort to hold the administration accountable for the most recent events, which they said was one moment in a long history of systemic racism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11859101\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11859101\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/005_SanFrancisco_LowellHSRally_02052021-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Lowell Black Student Union co-president Shavonne Hines-Foster speaks during a rally held at Lowell High School on Feb. 5, 2021, to address recent racist incidents at the school.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/005_SanFrancisco_LowellHSRally_02052021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/005_SanFrancisco_LowellHSRally_02052021-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/005_SanFrancisco_LowellHSRally_02052021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/005_SanFrancisco_LowellHSRally_02052021-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/005_SanFrancisco_LowellHSRally_02052021.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lowell Black Student Union co-president Shavonne Hines-Foster speaks during a rally held at Lowell High School on Feb. 5, 2021, to address recent racist incidents at the school. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We are here today to not only denounce the attacks made on our Black and Jewish communities two weeks ago, but also to denounce Lowell High School’s long-standing history of upholding the effects of systemic racism,” said student body Secretary Viviana Ojeda. “The Lowell administration efforts have been largely performative, to say the least.” [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Kathya Correa Almanza, student\"]‘When these walls opened in the 1800s they were only open for white students. Now, those same doors exist except they call it an admissions policy.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the racist and pornographic messages bombarded the virtual classroom in late January, Lowell administrators initially wrote an email to parents and students saying that the lesson had been hacked – but in a later statement changed course, saying it was “highly likely” the posts were made by a student.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2016, Tsia Blacksher, then BSU co-president, led a walkout in protest of similar racist attacks. “These countless stories of racism we have heard from students and alumni have dated decades back. And it’s about time we demand change now,” said student speaker Agnes Liang.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11859102\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11859102\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/010_SanFrancisco_LowellHSRally_02052021-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Student delegate Kathya Correa Almanza speaks during a rally at Lowell High School on Feb. 5, 2021, against recent racist incidents at the school.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/010_SanFrancisco_LowellHSRally_02052021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/010_SanFrancisco_LowellHSRally_02052021-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/010_SanFrancisco_LowellHSRally_02052021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/010_SanFrancisco_LowellHSRally_02052021-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/010_SanFrancisco_LowellHSRally_02052021.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Student delegate Kathya Correa Almanza speaks during a rally at Lowell High School on Feb. 5, 2021 against recent racist incidents at the school. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>CJ Lu Sing, a fellow Lowell student in the Multicultural Club said that despite BSU’s efforts and demands in 2016, “there has been minimal progress fulfilled with promises made.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BSU members also voiced support for a plan to eliminate the current admissions process, which is based on grades and test scores — in favor of a lottery system. The school board will vote Tuesday on the proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“History is not a thing of the past. It’s something that lives among us,” said student Kathya Correa Almanza, “Waiting for someone with courage to call it out. When these walls opened in the 1800s they were only open for white students. 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"content": "\u003cp>By suing its own school board and school district, San Francisco has transformed a painful and emotional argument over how to bring students back into classrooms into a legal battle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, stakeholders — from parents to teachers to elected officials — are citing differing sets of statistics and experiences in support of their positions, with the issue of equity emerging as a fault line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, the city filed a petition for a court order directing San Francisco Unified School District to prepare to bring students back into classrooms \"now that it is possible to do so safely,\" City Attorney Dennis Herrera's office said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're asking the court to order the school board and the school district to put in place a plan, a viable plan, to reopen safely,\" Herrera said at a joint news conference with Mayor London Breed. \"If that plan is followed, schools will reopen.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suit was blasted by SFUSD's superintendent, its school board president and the president of the teachers union, who said the lawsuit has been filed at the wrong time and for the wrong reason.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFUSD President Vincent Matthews said the central complaint of the lawsuit, that the district doesn't have a legally required plan to reopen schools, is false. [pullquote size=\"large\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Tia Ghose, San Francisco parent\"]'The schools needed to be reopened yesterday.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We absolutely have a comprehensive plan,\" he said at a press conference after the court action was announced. \"And this plan has specific steps around health and safety guidelines, and what our processes would be and what in-person learning would look like for our ... student populations to return as soon as we can.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matthews said the city is working with the health department to approve school sites for \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/services/health-wellness/covid-19-coronavirus-resources-families-students/faqs/inperson-hybrid-learning-plans-faqs/reopening-school-buildings\">reopening\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neither the district nor the city can unilaterally reopen schools, even with health department approval. The teachers union must also agree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Susan Solomon, president of \u003ca href=\"https://uesf.org/\">United Educators of San Francisco\u003c/a>, the district and the union had been \"getting closer to an agreement\" on reopening, she said Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s unfortunate there is the distraction of this lawsuit,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Breed, who has been sharply critical of SFUSD for not bringing back students after nearly a year of educating them through distance learning, said the city had no choice but to act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Families right now aren't able to plan for their futures, they can't decide whether to accept a job offer because they don't know when they're going to be able to once again have their kids returned to the classroom,\" she said at the press conference Wednesday. \"This is paralyzing our city and our residents, and I know that this is a drastic step, but I feel we are out of options at this point.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>What's the Holdup?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Proponents of physically returning students and teachers to schools say there is little justification for further delay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the press conference, Herrera ticked off reasons for SFUSD to invite its 54,000 students out from behind their home computers and back into schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He cited assessments by city and state health departments and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that schools can safely reopen, and he held up in-person learning currently taking place at 113 private and parochial schools in the city as something that should be possible for public schools as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Almost 16,000 students have returned to in-person school, and less than five cases of in-school transmission have been reported,\" Herrera said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Data showing a widening achievement gap in the student population was also driving the city's decision to act, he stated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Black, Latino and other students of color in San Francisco, as well as those from low- income families, have lost significant academic ground compared with wealthier and white students during the pandemic,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFUSD's\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/about/news/current-news/sf-board-education-approves-resolution-safe-return-person-learning\"> Return to School Safely\u003c/a> plan originally envisioned a phased timeline for kids to come back, with the first wave of campuses reopening Jan. 25. But the plan was put on hold because, the district said, the union had made “significant new requests” that went beyond the safety protocols set by the city's Department of Public Health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101881772/bay-area-parents-students-eager-to-know-when-schools-will-reopen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">appearance\u003c/a> on KQED's \"Forum\" radio program last week, Solomon, from the teachers union, defended that position, citing issues of equity.\u003cbr>\n[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Pecolia Manigo, Oakland parent\"]'It's not in their families, is not in their neighborhood ... It's an amorphous kind of idea and a threat. It's not even seen as a potential threat ... We are hearing families testing positive every week. And so it just feels different for us.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003c/b>\"[W]e know that in San Francisco as well as in surrounding counties, the families and communities who are hardest hit by COVID — namely Black and brown communities — are seeing much higher rates [than] the rest of the neighborhoods and communities,\" Solomon said. \"And we are emphasizing a lower community spread [before returning to schools] so that we can mitigate the effects of people being together who are in multigenerational households, who are experiencing ... higher rates of COVID.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tara Ramos, a teacher-librarian at Sanchez Elementary School who has a 7-year-old daughter in a San Francisco school, says pointing to private school reopenings as a reason for public schools to follow suit is illogical.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Students from private schools are not coming from communities where [coronavirus] spread is so high,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as the pandemic has dragged on, with little sign that children will see the inside of a classroom this school year, many parents have reached the end of their tether. The group Open Schools California has united parents from San Diego to Davis in an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11857557/parents-unite-from-all-over-california-to-press-for-schools-reopening-unions-are-pushing-back\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">attempt to pressure stakeholders\u003c/a> who have the power to take action to pull the trigger on reopening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“After 11 months of school closures and a lack of political will from some state and local leaders to do what's best for school children, it is encouraging to see the City of San Francisco acknowledge the science and stand up for what's right and what we've known all along,\" said Megan Bacigalupi, an organizer with the group, in a statement responding to the lawsuit. \"That schools can be reopened safely for students and teachers.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tia Ghose, a journalist who lives in San Francisco's Castro neighborhood, says her two children have struggled with online learning. She and her husband recently pulled their third-grader out of public school and are now paying for in-person learning at a private school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The schools needed to be reopened yesterday,\" Ghose said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She's \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11848013/for-some-kids-distance-learning-is-rough-for-others-its-excruciating\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">not alone\u003c/a> among Bay Area parents in reporting their kids struggling with going to school only online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p7\">\"We see high levels of anxiety,” Saun-Toy Trotter, a psychotherapist at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital in Oakland, told KQED in November. “High levels of depression.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p7\">Her school-based clinic recorded more youth suicide attempts in the first four weeks of the pandemic than it did in the entire previous year, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But not every parent agrees that a return to in-person instruction is a no-brainer. On Forum, Solomon pointed to an SFUSD survey that found relatively more Black and brown parents reporting they don't feel safe sending their kids back into classrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That dynamic is playing out in other communities with high coronavirus transmission rates. Pecolia Manigo, a parent of three OUSD students and executive director of the Bay Area Parent Action Leadership Network, told KQED recently that many parents who are pushing for schools to reopen have not felt the effect of the pandemic the way that communities of color have.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's not in their families, is not in their neighborhood,\" said Manigo, who is Black. \"It's an amorphous kind of idea and a threat. It's not even seen as a potential threat ... We are hearing families testing positive every week. And so it just feels different for us.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rafael Moreno, a \"third-generation-deep\" Mission District native with a 5-year-old daughter attending elementary school in the neighborhood, said that schools need to bring kids back, \"but they need to open when it’s safe for our students, our teachers and our community members. And that means vaccines for teachers and the support staff who make up the school community.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Figuring out different plans for students of diverse needs, including impoverished students and those with disabilities, can be \"extremely resource-consuming,\" said Megan Caluza, a behavior analyst for SFUSD. One of the handful of educators on the district's working group on reopening, she says resumption of in-person learning requires more planning than people might realize.\u003cbr>\n[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"City Attorney Dennis Herrera\"]'Almost 16,000 students have returned to in-person school, and less than five cases of in-school transmission have been reported.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The public health guidelines for reopening, she said, \"aren't focused on equity, they're focused on broad public health understanding.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A Cacophany of Opinions\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Still, while there are health disparities surrounding COVID-19 between different racial and economic groups, unequal responses to remote learning exist as well. As Herrera alluded to Wednesday, San Francisco public schools during the pandemic have experienced a higher rate of absenteeism and learning loss among Black, Latino, Asian and low-income students compared to those who are white.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, during a Board of Supervisors' debate, outgoing Supervisor Sandra Lee Fewer became irate over the city's lack of progress in bringing students back into classrooms, calling it racist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"[F]or those of you who are currently public school parents, it is great that you have internet access. It is great that you have a home for your children, and a place for them to do online learning and distance learning,\" Fewer shouted. \"But man, you talk to some of these parents, and you talk to some of these children, and you go to those community learning hubs, it would break your heart. This is a disservice. This is racist, and this is a disservice. It is one thing to say 'Black lives matter,' it's another thing to be saying 'while they're alive.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amid this cacophony of opinions comes the lawsuit by the city. Will it succeed? Bill Koski, a professor of law and education at Stanford Law School, says courts are often hesitant to intervene on matters of school policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, he added, the city's petition may represent uncharted territory.[pullquote size=\"large\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Rafael Moreno, SF Mission District parent\"]'They need to open when it’s safe for our students, our teachers and our community members. And that means vaccines for teachers and the support staff who make up the school community.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"To my knowledge, this is a first, where a city has taken the step of filing a lawsuit against the local public schools in order to have them reopen during the pandemic,\" Koski said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Solomon, from the teachers union, was asked if she thought the city and district were close enough in negotiations to see a return to in-person learning this year, she said, \"I think we can get an agreement, yes.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it's unclear how the lawsuit will affect those talks. (\u003cem>Update Feb. 6\u003c/em>: On Friday, school unions announced a proposal that would restart in-person classes when San Francisco is categorized under the red tier of the state's COVID-19 risk-assessment system, provided vaccines are made available to all staff who work in district buildings, among other additional safety measures. 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She still remembers how it felt arriving on school grounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You could feel the tension just starting to rise and the pressure starting to rise,” Williams said. She still remembers the offensive song her classmates used to sing to her: “They used to sing something that went like this: ‘Dark Girl in the Night.’ Why would you do that to me?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said there were about 300 Black students at Lowell at the time, and they organized. Williams became a member of the Black Student Union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we dared to say we wanted a Black Student Union, they felt like we were revolting and like we were going to become the Black Panthers or we were going to engage in some type of guerrilla warfare with everyone there,” Williams said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11858196\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11858196\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Yulanda-Williams.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Yulanda-Williams.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Yulanda-Williams-160x93.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yulanda William is now a San Francisco police officer. This is her yearbook photo from her time at Lowell High School. \u003ccite>(Yulanda Williams)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But Williams said the real reason students fought for a Black Student Union was because she and her classmates wanted the support of Black mentors. The union also made several demands to administrators. They asked for more Black teachers, tutoring services and a day where they could celebrate and express Black culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she heard about current Lowell students raising similar issues after last month’s racist posts incident – over 40 years after her own experiences at Lowell – Williams said she became emotional.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I found myself crying in tears,” she said. “I could hardly get my words out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tsia Blacksher was co-president of Lowell’s Black Student Union in 2016. She led a walkout after a student put up a derogatory poster on the window of the school library during Black History Month. 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But once at Lowell, she said she felt isolated. She remembers having to read from a script and play the role of a slave girl during one of her history classes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trying to force the school to change as a student there was exhausting, she said. Now a senior at Spelman College in Atlanta, Blacksher was back home in San Francisco when she learned about the racist posts incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It kind of broke me down,” she said, adding that it felt like little had changed since she led the walkout five years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Why did I go through this stuff in high school? Why wasn’t I sleeping? Why wasn’t I eating? 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Black Student Union members like Snit Tecle, a sophomore at Lowell, will be there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And she doesn’t plan to end her advocacy there either. When she graduates, she plans to return to Lowell one day as a guidance counselor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So I can help, hopefully more people of color, especially Black students, to make sure they don’t have to endure this type of situation ever again,” Tecle said, adding, “I’m going to save the school.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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