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But volunteers are also trained to call the police when it becomes clear that a situation is escalating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“During training, we explicitly tell our volunteers we are looking for unusual or suspicious behavior,” Saito said. “To make people feel welcome, I encourage [volunteers] to introduce themselves, explain what we are doing, and ask them if they have any questions or if there is anything we can do for them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similar patrol programs have started in \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/new-oakland-chinatown-foot-patrol-forms-to-protect-asian-american-community/2481091/\">Oakland\u003c/a> and some other cities across the Bay Area. 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The class-action suit seeks reforms and compensation for at least 28 people who were injured as police used teargas, flashbang grenades, rubber bullets and batons to break up the crowd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plaintiffs include Derrick Sanderlin, a community activist and one-time police bias trainer, who was trying to de-escalate tensions between police and protesters when he was hit in the groin with a rubber bullet. Another protester lost his right eye in the melee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Liccardo and other city leaders have since proposed \u003ca href=\"https://www.sanjoseca.gov/Home/Components/News/News/1480/4959\">various police reforms\u003c/a>. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Prosecutors later discovered Mitchell was holding a pair of sunglasses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mata was ultimately found to have acted “within the justifiable use-of-force provisions,” according to the Salinas police chief. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, Mata referenced the incident, saying he still feels remorse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a traumatic incident that changed my life and it’s something that I don’t want any officer to go through,” Mata said. “My continued thoughts and prayers go out to that family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.sanjoseinside.com/news/san-jose-backs-new-sjpd-chief-despite-allegations-of-transphobia-islamophobia/\">2018 lawsuit\u003c/a>, Mata was also accused of presiding over a police briefing in which Islamophobic comments were allegedly made to harass a Lebanese American officer — an incident Mata said happened when he was not in the room. And just this week, a former SJPD officer, who is transgender, \u003ca href=\"https://abc7news.com/san-jose-police-chief-anthony-mata-transgender-women-lgtbq-rights/10421378/\">told ABC7 News\u003c/a> that Mata made unsettling comments to her in a conversation in which he refused to support her transition. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblymembers Alex Lee and Evan Low, both Democrats who represent parts of the city, issued a joint statement opposing the city’s selection of Mata. (Lee is also one of the plaintiffs in the suit against the department over its protest response.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At a time when the department needs bold leadership to move forward, San Jose has instead turned to an insider whose own record — killing an unarmed man, along with allegations of Islamophobia and transphobia — should immediately disqualify him from consideration,” the two lawmakers said in the statement. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, Mata acknowledged the gap in trust and the steep challenges he and his department face.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I stand before you today, not as a person with all the answers or with solutions, but as a person who is fully committed to working with you and finding solutions,” he said. “We cannot underestimate the importance of continuing to build strong community ties. Together we will achieve our shared vision of policing here in San Jose.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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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. 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. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>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>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>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>\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. 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>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Maritza Maldonado has witnessed firsthand the devastation the coronavirus has wrought on the community where she grew up in East San Jose: layoffs, hunger, illness and an alarming number of funerals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Especially right after the holidays, we were hearing of people dying, several people a week,” said Maldonado, 60, who runs a local nonprofit that offers health care, legal aid and other services. “These are people that we know. Our neighbors, the people we go to church with.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Maritza Maldonado, executive director of Amigos de Guadalupe Center for Justice and Empowerment\"]‘It’s not years, it’s generations of poverty. And I think for the first time in a long time, people are standing up and taking notice.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the pandemic became personal last May, when Maldonado’s sister, Miriam, died due to COVID-19 complications. Miriam was 66 and a mother of two daughters. One of them graduated from college not long after her death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unfortunately, her mom was not there to see that,” said Maldonado, her voice breaking. “And there were moments like that, that are very difficult for them and difficult for us as a family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly a year after the global pandemic was declared, Santa Clara County has reported more than 1,700 deaths due to the coronavirus, the largest toll in the Bay Area. And the predominantly working-class and immigrant neighborhoods in East San Jose have borne the brunt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A cluster of adjacent ZIP codes — 95116, 95121, 95122 and 95127 — have some of the highest rates of COVID-19 infections and deaths in Santa Clara County. That area is home to just 11% of the county’s population, but accounts for 20% of those who have died from the coronavirus, according to the most recent county \u003ca href=\"https://data.sccgov.org/COVID-19/COVID-19-deaths-by-zip-code/xqsq-hpmr/data\">figures\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11862320\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11862320\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47289_008_SanJose_MaritzaMaldonado_02162021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47289_008_SanJose_MaritzaMaldonado_02162021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47289_008_SanJose_MaritzaMaldonado_02162021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47289_008_SanJose_MaritzaMaldonado_02162021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47289_008_SanJose_MaritzaMaldonado_02162021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47289_008_SanJose_MaritzaMaldonado_02162021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A pinboard full of photos of Miriam Maldonado-Magaña and her family at the office where she taught ESL classes at Amigos de Guadalupe Center for Justice and Empowerment.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Miriam Maldonado-Magaña lived in ZIP code 95127. After retiring as a county social worker, she taught English as a second language as a volunteer and delivered food to those in need, her sister said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She was a fixture in this community,” said Maldonado. “And my sister died giving food out to families. We think that’s how she got COVID.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maldonado runs Amigos de Guadalupe Center for Justice and Empowerment in the Mayfair neighborhood, where renowned labor leader Cesar Chavez once lived. During the pandemic, the organization has been helping local residents who have lost jobs or are sick with COVID-19, providing financial assistance to cover basic expenses, back rent and burial costs. The funds come from private donations, as well as city and county aid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The help is critical for many immigrant workers who don’t qualify for unemployment insurance or other forms of government aid because they are undocumented, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Close to \u003ca href=\"https://censusreporter.org/profiles/86000US95116-95116/\">half of all residents\u003c/a> in each of the East San Jose ZIP codes hit hardest by the pandemic are foreign born, many of them from Mexico and Vietnam. The area includes Little Saigon and the Mexican Heritage Plaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11862309\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11862309\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47295_014_SanJose_MaritzaMaldonado_02162021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47295_014_SanJose_MaritzaMaldonado_02162021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47295_014_SanJose_MaritzaMaldonado_02162021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47295_014_SanJose_MaritzaMaldonado_02162021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47295_014_SanJose_MaritzaMaldonado_02162021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47295_014_SanJose_MaritzaMaldonado_02162021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maritza Maldonado, executive director of Amigos de Guadalupe Center for Justice and Empowerment, works at her desk in the Mayfair neighborhood of San Jose on Feb. 16, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Maldonado said the pandemic has exposed long-standing inequities, as Silicon Valley corporations and IT workers have prospered on the backs of the cooks, gardeners, nannies, custodians and bus drivers who live in her community and are now dying disproportionately from the virus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not years, it’s generations of poverty,” said Maldonado. “And I think for the first time in a long time, people are standing up and taking notice. But for us, it wasn’t a surprise that it hit us the hardest.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents of East San Jose often work essential jobs where they are out in public settings and can be exposed to the virus. And the Bay Area’s sky-high rents force many to live in crowded households, where it’s easier for the virus to spread once someone is infected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the county, coronavirus-related deaths have decreased, from a high of 165 per week in early January to 43 last week. But at Our Lady of Refuge church, in ZIP code 95122, Rev. Hugo Rojas said the parish has still been overwhelmed by requests for funeral services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are doing two, three and sometimes four funeral masses per week,” said Rojas, who is originally from Argentina. “We talk to families, we talk to funeral homes and obviously it’s related to the COVID-19 pandemic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11862316\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11862316 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47304_004_SanJose_ChurchFoodDistrubtion_02162021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47304_004_SanJose_ChurchFoodDistrubtion_02162021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47304_004_SanJose_ChurchFoodDistrubtion_02162021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47304_004_SanJose_ChurchFoodDistrubtion_02162021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47304_004_SanJose_ChurchFoodDistrubtion_02162021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47304_004_SanJose_ChurchFoodDistrubtion_02162021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rev. Hugo Rojas outside of Our Lady of Refuge Parish during a drive-thru food distribution event at the church on Feb. 16, 2021.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rojas said his parishioners, who may already face unpaid rent or car debt, are often left struggling to afford burial expenses that can cost thousands of dollars. And the risk of virus transmission has prevented some people from gathering to mourn their loved ones, leaving them to grieve in isolation, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11813696,news_11846531,forum_2010101882069\"]“After they bury them and they go back home, they are alone with their loss and suffering,” Rojas said. “People need attention. People need consolation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the pastor said that amid the uncertainty and pain in the community, people have also found ways to support each other. Relatives and neighbors of grieving families have organized online fundraisers or offered donations of cash to cover the expense of funeral services, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rojas’ parish also hosts a food distribution site that serves 900 families per week, about three times as many as a year ago. On a recent Tuesday afternoon, dozens of volunteers with Catholic Charities of Santa Clara directed traffic at the church’s parking lot and loaded boxes of groceries into the trunks of waiting cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A nurse at a mobile clinic from Gardner Health Services, also in the parking lot, tested people for the coronavirus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to help each other,” said Rojas, watching the large operation underway outside the church.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11862315\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11862315 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47302_002_SanJose_ChurchFoodDistrubtion_02162021-qut-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47302_002_SanJose_ChurchFoodDistrubtion_02162021-qut-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47302_002_SanJose_ChurchFoodDistrubtion_02162021-qut-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47302_002_SanJose_ChurchFoodDistrubtion_02162021-qut-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47302_002_SanJose_ChurchFoodDistrubtion_02162021-qut-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47302_002_SanJose_ChurchFoodDistrubtion_02162021-qut-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Trucks from Second Harvest of Silicon Valley drop off food at Our Lady of Refuge Parish in San Jose on Feb. 16, 2021.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>County officials said they understand the disparate impact of COVID-19 in East San Jose and other hard-hit areas, and they’ve made addressing it central to their response. But the hard truth is, there’s not yet enough vaccine for everyone who wants it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For now, county workers are trying to ensure that those who are eligible for inoculations have easy access. They are setting up more vaccination sites in the community, and partnering with trusted local organizations to go door-to-door to explain that the vaccine is safe and \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/covid19/Pages/COVID19-vaccine-information-for-public.aspx\">free of cost\u003c/a>, said Dr. Rocio Luna, deputy director of the Santa Clara County Public Health Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our county and our partners are incredibly focused on the east side of San Jose, on the areas that are disproportionately hit by COVID-19 to ensure that we get them vaccinated as soon as possible, when it’s their turn,” said Luna.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, the county opened a large vaccination site at Emmanuel Baptist Church in East San Jose, which will serve up to 500 people per day, and another at the nearby East Valley clinic. Officials are also planning to continue operating pop-up vaccination locations that don’t require appointments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11862314\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11862314 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47307_007_SanJose_ChurchFoodDistrubtion_02162021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47307_007_SanJose_ChurchFoodDistrubtion_02162021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47307_007_SanJose_ChurchFoodDistrubtion_02162021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47307_007_SanJose_ChurchFoodDistrubtion_02162021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47307_007_SanJose_ChurchFoodDistrubtion_02162021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47307_007_SanJose_ChurchFoodDistrubtion_02162021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Volunteers from Leland High School carry food boxes to a car at a drive-thru food distribution event at Our Lady of Refuge Parish in San Jose on Feb. 16, 2021.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While the county has focused on inoculating health care workers and residents 65 and older, it will expand eligibility on Sunday to people who work in food and agriculture, education and child care, and emergency services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, vaccination rates among eligible Latino and Black residents in the county lag behind other groups. Only \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/covid19/Pages/dashboard-vaccine-CAIR2.aspx\">a third\u003c/a> of Latinos and African Americans ages 65 and older have received at least one dose, compared to nearly half of white residents in the same age group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]So far, 60% of elderly Asian residents in the county have been inoculated. But public health officials warn there may be large differences within racial and ethnic groups, depending on their specific neighborhoods, income levels and other conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The need is urgent in East San Jose, said Maldonado. She called on Silicon Valley leaders to do more to support workers through the crisis, and on government officials to more fully prioritize vaccines for hard-hit areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can’t keep doing this, our people are not disposable. Our people deserve better,” she said. “We are in the heart of the pandemic here. And if that’s the case, then let’s be smart and strategic and get whatever we need to do to get this community the level of support and vaccinations that we need.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the pandemic became personal last May, when Maldonado’s sister, Miriam, died due to COVID-19 complications. Miriam was 66 and a mother of two daughters. One of them graduated from college not long after her death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unfortunately, her mom was not there to see that,” said Maldonado, her voice breaking. “And there were moments like that, that are very difficult for them and difficult for us as a family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly a year after the global pandemic was declared, Santa Clara County has reported more than 1,700 deaths due to the coronavirus, the largest toll in the Bay Area. And the predominantly working-class and immigrant neighborhoods in East San Jose have borne the brunt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A cluster of adjacent ZIP codes — 95116, 95121, 95122 and 95127 — have some of the highest rates of COVID-19 infections and deaths in Santa Clara County. That area is home to just 11% of the county’s population, but accounts for 20% of those who have died from the coronavirus, according to the most recent county \u003ca href=\"https://data.sccgov.org/COVID-19/COVID-19-deaths-by-zip-code/xqsq-hpmr/data\">figures\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11862320\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11862320\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47289_008_SanJose_MaritzaMaldonado_02162021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47289_008_SanJose_MaritzaMaldonado_02162021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47289_008_SanJose_MaritzaMaldonado_02162021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47289_008_SanJose_MaritzaMaldonado_02162021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47289_008_SanJose_MaritzaMaldonado_02162021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47289_008_SanJose_MaritzaMaldonado_02162021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A pinboard full of photos of Miriam Maldonado-Magaña and her family at the office where she taught ESL classes at Amigos de Guadalupe Center for Justice and Empowerment.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Miriam Maldonado-Magaña lived in ZIP code 95127. After retiring as a county social worker, she taught English as a second language as a volunteer and delivered food to those in need, her sister said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She was a fixture in this community,” said Maldonado. “And my sister died giving food out to families. We think that’s how she got COVID.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maldonado runs Amigos de Guadalupe Center for Justice and Empowerment in the Mayfair neighborhood, where renowned labor leader Cesar Chavez once lived. During the pandemic, the organization has been helping local residents who have lost jobs or are sick with COVID-19, providing financial assistance to cover basic expenses, back rent and burial costs. The funds come from private donations, as well as city and county aid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The help is critical for many immigrant workers who don’t qualify for unemployment insurance or other forms of government aid because they are undocumented, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Close to \u003ca href=\"https://censusreporter.org/profiles/86000US95116-95116/\">half of all residents\u003c/a> in each of the East San Jose ZIP codes hit hardest by the pandemic are foreign born, many of them from Mexico and Vietnam. The area includes Little Saigon and the Mexican Heritage Plaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11862309\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11862309\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47295_014_SanJose_MaritzaMaldonado_02162021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47295_014_SanJose_MaritzaMaldonado_02162021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47295_014_SanJose_MaritzaMaldonado_02162021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47295_014_SanJose_MaritzaMaldonado_02162021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47295_014_SanJose_MaritzaMaldonado_02162021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47295_014_SanJose_MaritzaMaldonado_02162021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maritza Maldonado, executive director of Amigos de Guadalupe Center for Justice and Empowerment, works at her desk in the Mayfair neighborhood of San Jose on Feb. 16, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Maldonado said the pandemic has exposed long-standing inequities, as Silicon Valley corporations and IT workers have prospered on the backs of the cooks, gardeners, nannies, custodians and bus drivers who live in her community and are now dying disproportionately from the virus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not years, it’s generations of poverty,” said Maldonado. “And I think for the first time in a long time, people are standing up and taking notice. But for us, it wasn’t a surprise that it hit us the hardest.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents of East San Jose often work essential jobs where they are out in public settings and can be exposed to the virus. And the Bay Area’s sky-high rents force many to live in crowded households, where it’s easier for the virus to spread once someone is infected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the county, coronavirus-related deaths have decreased, from a high of 165 per week in early January to 43 last week. But at Our Lady of Refuge church, in ZIP code 95122, Rev. Hugo Rojas said the parish has still been overwhelmed by requests for funeral services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are doing two, three and sometimes four funeral masses per week,” said Rojas, who is originally from Argentina. “We talk to families, we talk to funeral homes and obviously it’s related to the COVID-19 pandemic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11862316\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11862316 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47304_004_SanJose_ChurchFoodDistrubtion_02162021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47304_004_SanJose_ChurchFoodDistrubtion_02162021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47304_004_SanJose_ChurchFoodDistrubtion_02162021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47304_004_SanJose_ChurchFoodDistrubtion_02162021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47304_004_SanJose_ChurchFoodDistrubtion_02162021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47304_004_SanJose_ChurchFoodDistrubtion_02162021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rev. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“After they bury them and they go back home, they are alone with their loss and suffering,” Rojas said. “People need attention. People need consolation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the pastor said that amid the uncertainty and pain in the community, people have also found ways to support each other. Relatives and neighbors of grieving families have organized online fundraisers or offered donations of cash to cover the expense of funeral services, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rojas’ parish also hosts a food distribution site that serves 900 families per week, about three times as many as a year ago. On a recent Tuesday afternoon, dozens of volunteers with Catholic Charities of Santa Clara directed traffic at the church’s parking lot and loaded boxes of groceries into the trunks of waiting cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A nurse at a mobile clinic from Gardner Health Services, also in the parking lot, tested people for the coronavirus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to help each other,” said Rojas, watching the large operation underway outside the church.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11862315\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11862315 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47302_002_SanJose_ChurchFoodDistrubtion_02162021-qut-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47302_002_SanJose_ChurchFoodDistrubtion_02162021-qut-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47302_002_SanJose_ChurchFoodDistrubtion_02162021-qut-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47302_002_SanJose_ChurchFoodDistrubtion_02162021-qut-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47302_002_SanJose_ChurchFoodDistrubtion_02162021-qut-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47302_002_SanJose_ChurchFoodDistrubtion_02162021-qut-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Trucks from Second Harvest of Silicon Valley drop off food at Our Lady of Refuge Parish in San Jose on Feb. 16, 2021.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>County officials said they understand the disparate impact of COVID-19 in East San Jose and other hard-hit areas, and they’ve made addressing it central to their response. But the hard truth is, there’s not yet enough vaccine for everyone who wants it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For now, county workers are trying to ensure that those who are eligible for inoculations have easy access. They are setting up more vaccination sites in the community, and partnering with trusted local organizations to go door-to-door to explain that the vaccine is safe and \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/covid19/Pages/COVID19-vaccine-information-for-public.aspx\">free of cost\u003c/a>, said Dr. Rocio Luna, deputy director of the Santa Clara County Public Health Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our county and our partners are incredibly focused on the east side of San Jose, on the areas that are disproportionately hit by COVID-19 to ensure that we get them vaccinated as soon as possible, when it’s their turn,” said Luna.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, the county opened a large vaccination site at Emmanuel Baptist Church in East San Jose, which will serve up to 500 people per day, and another at the nearby East Valley clinic. Officials are also planning to continue operating pop-up vaccination locations that don’t require appointments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11862314\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11862314 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47307_007_SanJose_ChurchFoodDistrubtion_02162021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47307_007_SanJose_ChurchFoodDistrubtion_02162021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47307_007_SanJose_ChurchFoodDistrubtion_02162021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47307_007_SanJose_ChurchFoodDistrubtion_02162021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47307_007_SanJose_ChurchFoodDistrubtion_02162021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47307_007_SanJose_ChurchFoodDistrubtion_02162021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Volunteers from Leland High School carry food boxes to a car at a drive-thru food distribution event at Our Lady of Refuge Parish in San Jose on Feb. 16, 2021.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While the county has focused on inoculating health care workers and residents 65 and older, it will expand eligibility on Sunday to people who work in food and agriculture, education and child care, and emergency services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, vaccination rates among eligible Latino and Black residents in the county lag behind other groups. Only \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/covid19/Pages/dashboard-vaccine-CAIR2.aspx\">a third\u003c/a> of Latinos and African Americans ages 65 and older have received at least one dose, compared to nearly half of white residents in the same age group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11863146/puerta-por-puerta-como-lideres-de-la-comunidad-afroamericana-y-latina-luchan-contra-la-desconfianza-por-la-vacuna-del-coronavirus\">\u003cem>Leer en español\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]L[/dropcap]uz María Abonce arrived in San Jose more than 15 years ago. Over time, she’s been to graduations, quinceañeras, workshops and made dozens of friends throughout the eastern part of the city. Now she gets to see many of those neighbors and friends again when she knocks at their door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We go out into the streets, eager to knock on some doors. Sometimes they open the door for us, sometimes they don’t. 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. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>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>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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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>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. 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"content": "\u003cp>In 1777, five families of mixed Mexican and African heritage arrived in Alta California with the Spanish to help establish \u003ca href=\"https://artsandculture.google.com/exhibit/a-year-in-the-life-of-a-spanish-colonial-pueblo-san-jos%C3%A9%C2%A0de-guadalupe-in-1809-history-san-jose/qgJCEgJtbqBZLw?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">El Pueblo de San José de Guadalupe\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They grew the food for the presidios, the military installations in the Bay Area,” explains local historian Jan Batiste Adkins, who’s written \u003ca href=\"https://www.africanamericanhistories.com/\">three books\u003c/a> on the history of African Americans in the Bay Area. Adkins says those are the first Black families in the South Bay she’s found records for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She notes there have historically been very few African Americans who have lived on the Peninsula and in the South Bay. This explains the relative lack of awareness of their cultural and economic contributions to those areas, particularly compared to those of the much larger Black communities in San Francisco and Oakland. But that’s not to say the South Bay’s Black communities have not been influential, from “since before the beginning,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mexico abolished slavery in 1829, but it took the United States until 1865 to officially do so. And although California was admitted to the Union in 1850 as a “free state,” the experience of Black residents here was complicated. There was even a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kcet.org/shows/lost-la/los-angeles-1850s-slave-market-is-now-the-site-of-a-federal-courthouse\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">slave market\u003c/a> in Los Angeles. Some Southerners who came to California after the Gold Rush brought slaves with them, and a number of them subsequently sued to secure their freedom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11860514\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1280px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11860514\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/040-Pop-Harris-new-adj.jpeg\" alt=\"James Williams was brought to California as a slave to mine in Sacramento Valley. Once he earned enough money, Williams was able to buy his freedom and moved to Murphy Ranch in Milpitas in 1852. Later he started his own business and operated freight teams between Hollister and San Francisco.\" width=\"1280\" height=\"865\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/040-Pop-Harris-new-adj.jpeg 1280w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/040-Pop-Harris-new-adj-800x541.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/040-Pop-Harris-new-adj-1020x689.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/040-Pop-Harris-new-adj-160x108.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">James Williams was brought to California as a slave to mine for gold in the Sacramento Valley. Once he earned enough money, Williams was able to buy his freedom and moved in 1852 to Murphy Ranch in Milpitas. Later he started his own business and operated freight teams between Hollister and San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Santa Clara City Library)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Many of the families that came here came as freed men and women from the East Coast. Many of them [also] came as slaves, and found freedom here in California,” Adkins says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>First Draft of Black History\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In the mid-19th century, a number of Black newspapers, like the \u003ca href=\"https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=cl&cl=CL1&sp=PA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pacific Appeal\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83027100/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mirror of the Times \u003c/a>and the \u003ca href=\"https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=cl&cl=CL1&sp=EL&\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Elevator\u003c/a>, emerged in San Francisco. Today, they remain a treasure trove of tidbits of early Black history in the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Consider this plea for subscriptions in the very first issue of the Pacific Appeal, in April 1862:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Reader! Our first number is before you. Will you sustain us in our infant enterprise? We have engaged in an undertaking which requires pecuniary outlay, energy, perseverance and ability. We have “Set our boat before the blast, Our breast before the gun,” and while there is a breeze to swell our canvas we will continue our voyage; — while we have a hand to wield a weapon (the pen,) we will battle against oppression and injustice. Will you support us?\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>“I just fell in love with reading about the history of African Americans,” Adkins said. “Those newspapers were published in San Francisco, and those newspapers carried the stories of local pioneers, not only in San Francisco, but in the entire Bay Area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>African Americans in the South Bay built homes, \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/07/28/san-joses-historic-antioch-baptist-church-marks-a-milestone/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">churches\u003c/a> and schools. They were \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclunc.org/sites/goldchains/explore/archy-lee.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">abolitionists\u003c/a> before the Civil War, and sued for civil rights afterward. But the community was tiny, less than 100 people through much of the 19th century, according to Adkins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"tommie-smith\"]That changed with the Great Migration beginning in the early 20th century, as African Americans from southern and midwestern states seeking new economic opportunities were drawn to cities like San Jose, Palo Alto and Milpitas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After World War II, some African Americans who had first arrived elsewhere in the Bay Area for military manufacturing jobs, later moved to the South Bay and the Peninsula for other industrial work, especially at \u003ca href=\"https://milpitashistoricalsociety.org/milpitas-history/milpitas-street-names/gross-street/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ford Motor Company\u003c/a> in Milpitas. A number of large technology companies, like IBM, were also hiring, as were local \u003ca href=\"https://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2017/02/23/city-to-honor-distinguished-african-american-leaders\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">governments\u003c/a> and universities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But newly arrived African Americans quickly discovered they were shut out from living in most South Bay neighborhoods due to “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/lowdown/18486/redlining\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">redlining\u003c/a>” and other discriminatory local housing policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were some exceptions, however, although few and far between. Adkins says some companies, like IBM, built worker housing where Black employees and their families could stay. And legendary Bay Area real estate developer \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11635574/how-joseph-eichler-introduced-stylish-housing-for-the-masses\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Joseph Eichler\u003c/a> famously did not discriminate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11860517\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1259px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11860517 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/037-jordanellington_0005.jpeg\" alt=\"The Jordan family poses for a photo in 1948. John Jordan settled in North San Jose in 1909, and was a leader in of the city's Antioch Baptist Church, itself established in 1893. \" width=\"1259\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/037-jordanellington_0005.jpeg 1259w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/037-jordanellington_0005-800x610.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/037-jordanellington_0005-1020x778.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/037-jordanellington_0005-160x122.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1259px) 100vw, 1259px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Jordan family poses for a photo in 1948. John Jordan settled in North San Jose in 1909 and was a leader in the city’s Antioch Baptist Church, which was established in 1893. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Robert Ellington)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 1967, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/harry-edwards\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Harry Edwards\u003c/a>, a young San Jose State University faculty member and former student athlete, organized a demonstration on the first day of fall semester to protest the lack of student housing available to Black football players.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former KQED host Belva Davis, then with KPIX, \u003ca href=\"https://diva.sfsu.edu/collections/sfbatv/bundles/230943\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported\u003c/a>, “Protesting groups have given the administration until 11 a.m. Friday to do something about the situation, or else they say they’ll stop the coming weekend football game.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]The president of the university ultimately canceled that game, and campus activism for racial equality continued to grow throughout the late 1960s. Most famously, San Jose State sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11711644/black-power-the-1968-olympics-and-the-san-jose-state-students-who-shook-the-world\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">raised their clenched fists\u003c/a> in a Black Power salute while receiving their medals during the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City — a protest against racial discrimination back home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, though, the explosive growth of Silicon Valley and the concurrent explosion in real estate prices have driven many Black residents out of the South Bay. Roughly 55,000 African Americans now live in Santa Clara County, \u003ca href=\"https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/santaclaracountycalifornia\">less than 3%\u003c/a> of the total population, according to U.S. census figures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adkins says her research into the local history of African Americans has convinced her there are many more fascinating stories hidden in the state’s archives and family attics that must be discovered and told.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My feeling,” she says, “is if we do not write our history, if we do not document our history, who will?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>In 1777, five families of mixed Mexican and African heritage arrived in Alta California with the Spanish to help establish \u003ca href=\"https://artsandculture.google.com/exhibit/a-year-in-the-life-of-a-spanish-colonial-pueblo-san-jos%C3%A9%C2%A0de-guadalupe-in-1809-history-san-jose/qgJCEgJtbqBZLw?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">El Pueblo de San José de Guadalupe\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They grew the food for the presidios, the military installations in the Bay Area,” explains local historian Jan Batiste Adkins, who’s written \u003ca href=\"https://www.africanamericanhistories.com/\">three books\u003c/a> on the history of African Americans in the Bay Area. Adkins says those are the first Black families in the South Bay she’s found records for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She notes there have historically been very few African Americans who have lived on the Peninsula and in the South Bay. This explains the relative lack of awareness of their cultural and economic contributions to those areas, particularly compared to those of the much larger Black communities in San Francisco and Oakland. But that’s not to say the South Bay’s Black communities have not been influential, from “since before the beginning,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mexico abolished slavery in 1829, but it took the United States until 1865 to officially do so. And although California was admitted to the Union in 1850 as a “free state,” the experience of Black residents here was complicated. There was even a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kcet.org/shows/lost-la/los-angeles-1850s-slave-market-is-now-the-site-of-a-federal-courthouse\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">slave market\u003c/a> in Los Angeles. Some Southerners who came to California after the Gold Rush brought slaves with them, and a number of them subsequently sued to secure their freedom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11860514\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1280px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11860514\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/040-Pop-Harris-new-adj.jpeg\" alt=\"James Williams was brought to California as a slave to mine in Sacramento Valley. Once he earned enough money, Williams was able to buy his freedom and moved to Murphy Ranch in Milpitas in 1852. Later he started his own business and operated freight teams between Hollister and San Francisco.\" width=\"1280\" height=\"865\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/040-Pop-Harris-new-adj.jpeg 1280w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/040-Pop-Harris-new-adj-800x541.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/040-Pop-Harris-new-adj-1020x689.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/040-Pop-Harris-new-adj-160x108.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">James Williams was brought to California as a slave to mine for gold in the Sacramento Valley. Once he earned enough money, Williams was able to buy his freedom and moved in 1852 to Murphy Ranch in Milpitas. Later he started his own business and operated freight teams between Hollister and San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Santa Clara City Library)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Many of the families that came here came as freed men and women from the East Coast. Many of them [also] came as slaves, and found freedom here in California,” Adkins says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>First Draft of Black History\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In the mid-19th century, a number of Black newspapers, like the \u003ca href=\"https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=cl&cl=CL1&sp=PA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pacific Appeal\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83027100/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mirror of the Times \u003c/a>and the \u003ca href=\"https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=cl&cl=CL1&sp=EL&\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Elevator\u003c/a>, emerged in San Francisco. Today, they remain a treasure trove of tidbits of early Black history in the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Consider this plea for subscriptions in the very first issue of the Pacific Appeal, in April 1862:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Reader! Our first number is before you. Will you sustain us in our infant enterprise? We have engaged in an undertaking which requires pecuniary outlay, energy, perseverance and ability. We have “Set our boat before the blast, Our breast before the gun,” and while there is a breeze to swell our canvas we will continue our voyage; — while we have a hand to wield a weapon (the pen,) we will battle against oppression and injustice. Will you support us?\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>“I just fell in love with reading about the history of African Americans,” Adkins said. “Those newspapers were published in San Francisco, and those newspapers carried the stories of local pioneers, not only in San Francisco, but in the entire Bay Area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>African Americans in the South Bay built homes, \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/07/28/san-joses-historic-antioch-baptist-church-marks-a-milestone/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">churches\u003c/a> and schools. They were \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclunc.org/sites/goldchains/explore/archy-lee.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">abolitionists\u003c/a> before the Civil War, and sued for civil rights afterward. But the community was tiny, less than 100 people through much of the 19th century, according to Adkins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>That changed with the Great Migration beginning in the early 20th century, as African Americans from southern and midwestern states seeking new economic opportunities were drawn to cities like San Jose, Palo Alto and Milpitas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After World War II, some African Americans who had first arrived elsewhere in the Bay Area for military manufacturing jobs, later moved to the South Bay and the Peninsula for other industrial work, especially at \u003ca href=\"https://milpitashistoricalsociety.org/milpitas-history/milpitas-street-names/gross-street/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ford Motor Company\u003c/a> in Milpitas. A number of large technology companies, like IBM, were also hiring, as were local \u003ca href=\"https://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2017/02/23/city-to-honor-distinguished-african-american-leaders\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">governments\u003c/a> and universities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But newly arrived African Americans quickly discovered they were shut out from living in most South Bay neighborhoods due to “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/lowdown/18486/redlining\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">redlining\u003c/a>” and other discriminatory local housing policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were some exceptions, however, although few and far between. Adkins says some companies, like IBM, built worker housing where Black employees and their families could stay. And legendary Bay Area real estate developer \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11635574/how-joseph-eichler-introduced-stylish-housing-for-the-masses\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Joseph Eichler\u003c/a> famously did not discriminate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11860517\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1259px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11860517 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/037-jordanellington_0005.jpeg\" alt=\"The Jordan family poses for a photo in 1948. John Jordan settled in North San Jose in 1909, and was a leader in of the city's Antioch Baptist Church, itself established in 1893. \" width=\"1259\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/037-jordanellington_0005.jpeg 1259w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/037-jordanellington_0005-800x610.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/037-jordanellington_0005-1020x778.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/037-jordanellington_0005-160x122.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1259px) 100vw, 1259px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Jordan family poses for a photo in 1948. John Jordan settled in North San Jose in 1909 and was a leader in the city’s Antioch Baptist Church, which was established in 1893. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Robert Ellington)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 1967, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/harry-edwards\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Harry Edwards\u003c/a>, a young San Jose State University faculty member and former student athlete, organized a demonstration on the first day of fall semester to protest the lack of student housing available to Black football players.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former KQED host Belva Davis, then with KPIX, \u003ca href=\"https://diva.sfsu.edu/collections/sfbatv/bundles/230943\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported\u003c/a>, “Protesting groups have given the administration until 11 a.m. Friday to do something about the situation, or else they say they’ll stop the coming weekend football game.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Like many small business owners, Yuri Kim has seen a lot of highs and lows during the pandemic. She received a Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan for her San Jose plant shop, \u003ca href=\"https://www.fractalflora.com/\">Fractal Flora\u003c/a>, in May, which helped pay the rent for a few months, but she had to lay off her six part-time employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Should I even continue this business, or does it make more sense to just close it down?” Kim said she asked herself, repeatedly. “I’m so happy that I have an opportunity to still be here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fractal Flora was part of San Jose’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.moment-sj.com/\">Moment\u003c/a> program, a small-business incubator in the city’s downtown that provides subsidized rent in converted garage spaces in San Pedro Square. After two years, the shops have to move out and find their own spaces. As her involvement with Moment rolled to a close, Kim was able to open a new store just a few miles away in the Rose Garden neighborhood of San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11853186\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11853186\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_9181-800x600.jpeg\" alt=\"Kim's store is one of the few small businesses surviving during the pandemic. During the holidays, Kim noticed more people buying plants as gifts.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_9181-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_9181-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_9181-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_9181-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_9181-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_9181-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_9181-1832x1374.jpeg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_9181-1376x1032.jpeg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_9181-1044x783.jpeg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_9181-632x474.jpeg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_9181-536x402.jpeg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yuri Kim’s store is one of the few small businesses surviving during the pandemic. During the holidays, Kim noticed more people buying plants as gifts. \u003ccite>(Adhiti Bandlamudi/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>During the first few months of the pandemic, Kim was selling less than what she was last year. But as the year wore on, sales slowly started to pick up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As you spend more time home and you’re less able to go outside, you want to make your space comfortable and beautiful,” Kim said. “Even the suppliers we purchase our plants from say their business has been better now than pre-pandemic because the interest in plants has grown so much.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sudden demand for succulents and pothos plants is no surprise to Rob Shibata, the owner of\u003ca href=\"http://www.mteden.com/\"> Mt. Eden Floral Company\u003c/a>, one of the largest floral wholesalers in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The millennials have shown a lot of interest in green plants,” Shibata said. “They’re apartment dwellers. They don’t have a lot of space, but they want to have something alive and meaningful to keep them company.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11853187\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11853187\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_9186-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Fractal Flora sells a collection of house plants and fresh flowers. While the plant industry has seen an uptick in sales, the flower industry is slowly struggling by as it's reliant on large events that are restricted during the pandemic.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_9186-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_9186-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_9186-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_9186-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_9186-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_9186-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_9186-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_9186-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_9186-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_9186-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_9186-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fractal Flora sells a collection of house plants and fresh flowers. While the plant industry has seen an uptick in sales, the flower industry is slowly struggling by since it’s reliant on large events that are restricted during the pandemic. \u003ccite>(Adhiti Bandlamudi/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That said, even though Mt. Eden Floral Company has benefited some from the boom in plant sales, the 114-year-old company specializes in flowers. Shibata makes most of his money on orders for weddings, banquets and other large events that won’t be permitted for the foreseeable future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have enough business to subsist,” Shibata said. “But we’re missing that event part to make us whole.”[aside postID=\"news_11852317,arts_13885663,science_1967293\" label=\"Related Coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shibata is waiting on Valentine’s Day and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11816925/bay-area-florists-wilting-under-shelter-in-place-restrictions\">Mother’s Day\u003c/a>, two of the biggest days of the year for the flower industry, to bring a bump to sales. In the meantime, he’s hoping people continue to buy flowers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I kind of had this imaginary conversation with my dad,” Shibata said. His late father ran the company before he died in 2015. “And I heard him say, ‘Well, [the pandemic] is not like the problem we had.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shibata’s father ran the company during the 1940s and World War II. In 1942, after the attack on Pearl Harbor, more than 120,000 Japanese Americans, including Shibata’s father, were sent to concentration camps in California and beyond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He [would say], ‘When Japan bombed Pearl Harbor and the government came and we were forced to leave our business behind with one week’s notice and leave our homes behind with one week’s notice … that was a problem,’ ” Shibata said. “As terrible as it is for us, it wasn’t like … what they went through.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Given that, Shibata says he’s determined to get Mt. Eden Floral Company to its 115th year of service.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sudden demand for succulents and pothos plants is no surprise to Rob Shibata, the owner of\u003ca href=\"http://www.mteden.com/\"> Mt. Eden Floral Company\u003c/a>, one of the largest floral wholesalers in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The millennials have shown a lot of interest in green plants,” Shibata said. “They’re apartment dwellers. They don’t have a lot of space, but they want to have something alive and meaningful to keep them company.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11853187\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11853187\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_9186-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Fractal Flora sells a collection of house plants and fresh flowers. While the plant industry has seen an uptick in sales, the flower industry is slowly struggling by as it's reliant on large events that are restricted during the pandemic.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_9186-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_9186-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_9186-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_9186-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_9186-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_9186-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_9186-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_9186-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_9186-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_9186-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_9186-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fractal Flora sells a collection of house plants and fresh flowers. While the plant industry has seen an uptick in sales, the flower industry is slowly struggling by since it’s reliant on large events that are restricted during the pandemic. \u003ccite>(Adhiti Bandlamudi/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That said, even though Mt. Eden Floral Company has benefited some from the boom in plant sales, the 114-year-old company specializes in flowers. Shibata makes most of his money on orders for weddings, banquets and other large events that won’t be permitted for the foreseeable future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have enough business to subsist,” Shibata said. “But we’re missing that event part to make us whole.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shibata is waiting on Valentine’s Day and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11816925/bay-area-florists-wilting-under-shelter-in-place-restrictions\">Mother’s Day\u003c/a>, two of the biggest days of the year for the flower industry, to bring a bump to sales. In the meantime, he’s hoping people continue to buy flowers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I kind of had this imaginary conversation with my dad,” Shibata said. His late father ran the company before he died in 2015. “And I heard him say, ‘Well, [the pandemic] is not like the problem we had.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shibata’s father ran the company during the 1940s and World War II. In 1942, after the attack on Pearl Harbor, more than 120,000 Japanese Americans, including Shibata’s father, were sent to concentration camps in California and beyond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He [would say], ‘When Japan bombed Pearl Harbor and the government came and we were forced to leave our business behind with one week’s notice and leave our homes behind with one week’s notice … that was a problem,’ ” Shibata said. “As terrible as it is for us, it wasn’t like … what they went through.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Given that, Shibata says he’s determined to get Mt. Eden Floral Company to its 115th year of service.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>In September, Be’Anka Ashaolu and her sister Jeronica Macey opened \u003ca href=\"https://www.nirvanasoulcoffee.com/\">Nirvana Soul Coffee\u003c/a>, a small, colorful coffee shop in downtown San Jose centered around the concept of self-care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ashaolu says she was nervous to open a new business in the middle of a pandemic, but was pleasantly overwhelmed by the initial interest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was emotional, we got so much support. We had lines down the block,” Ashaolu said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, four months later, those lines have mostly petered out, Ashaolu says, although the cafe still draws crowds sometimes on weekends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re also getting better [at serving customers] … which is nice,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the absence of steady in-store traffic, Ashaolu and Macey have leaned heavily on their \u003ca href=\"https://www.nirvanasoulcoffee.com/coffee\">online store\u003c/a> where customers can purchase coffee beans and gift cards even while the physical cafe is closed. And her small business isn’t alone in relying on an online platform during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://nrf.com/media-center/press-releases/more-150-million-plan-shop-super-saturday\">survey\u003c/a> conducted by the National Retail Federation found 42% of shoppers intended to shop solely online due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Ashaolu built a robust online store so her customers could shop safely from home without having to check the latest restrictions from the county or city level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And I think there’s also a faction of people who understand that businesses also need to survive this,” Ashaolu said. “COVID is completely awful and there are people suffering health-wise, but businesses are suffering as well. So it’s how you reconcile those two things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Au Nguyen, the owner of San Jose clothing boutique \u003ca href=\"https://aulala.design/\">AuLaLa Design\u003c/a>, has also noticed her customers going out of their way to support her small business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People who actually shop here, they don’t need to because we’re not an essential business,” Nguyen said. “So for them to spend their money and open their wallets in these hard times — they either love our brand or they are truly, actively trying to support us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nguyen opened her shop in San Jose’s San Pedro Square in July. Her boutique is part of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.moment-sj.com/\">Moment\u003c/a> program, a small-business incubator that provides subsidized rent in retrofitted garage spaces for nascent local businesses. She has been relying on San Pedro Square’s foot traffic as people dine outdoors and go for walks on the street, which is sectioned off from cars to allow safe pedestrian traffic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Scott Knies, executive director of the San Jose Downtown Association\"]‘We had started to see the light at the end of the tunnel and now that tunnel has been shifted back on us yet again … And there are some businesses that aren’t going to make it.’[/pullquote]But the strict \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/12.3.20-Stay-at-Home-Order-ICU-Scenario.pdf\">stay-at-home restrictions\u003c/a> that Santa Clara County adopted in early December have decimated foot traffic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Foot traffic has declined dramatically. It’s almost like a ghost town on the weekdays, even on the weekends,” said Nguyen, who has relied on her online store to drive holiday sales. In any other year, Nguyen might have counted on Black Friday sales to get her through the winter. Now, she’s holding out until the lockdown is lifted and people can visit her shop in person again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I opened right after the first lockdown was lifted and a lot of people came out. They were just so confined for a while and that gave them a chance to get out and do something,” she said. “We were thriving during that time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nguyen believes her online sales will keep her shop alive until at least early next year, when she expects the lockdown to lift and AuLaLa to have a boom in business again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scott Knies, executive director of the \u003ca href=\"https://sjdowntown.com/\">San Jose Downtown Association\u003c/a>, is nervous about how businesses like Nguyen’s will survive until Jan. 4, the last day of the Bay Area’s lockdown order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s harder than you think to go into hibernation and shut a business down completely,” Knies said. “Who knows on Jan. 5 what’s going to happen [when businesses can open again]? There’s exhaustion with a lot of these small businesses and tremendous vulnerability in this economic crisis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the pandemic hit, employees from large tech companies in San Jose (think Adobe and Sage Intacct) would eat and shop in the city’s downtown. Now that these companies have moved to a remote-work model, Knies is unsure of when people will return to downtown San Jose and patronize the local businesses.[aside postID=\"news_11838638,news_11851735,news_11847591\" label=\"Related Coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had started to see the light at the end of the tunnel and now that tunnel has been shifted back on us yet again,” Knies said. “And there are some businesses that aren’t going to make it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next round of federal aid provided by the \u003ca href=\"https://rules.house.gov/sites/democrats.rules.house.gov/files/BILLS-116HR133SA-RCP-116-68.pdf\">$900 billion stimulus package\u003c/a> Congress approved in December, which includes $285 billion for additional Paycheck Protection Program loans for small businesses, is too little coming too late, Knies said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Bay Area, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.yelpeconomicaverage.com/business-closures-update-sep-2020.html\">Yelp survey\u003c/a> found that San Francisco and San Jose were among the metro areas with the highest permanent closure rates for businesses. Roughly 20 businesses per 1,000 in the state have temporarily or permanently closed their doors since March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose officials have launched a \u003ca href=\"https://www.sanjoseca.gov/Home/Components/News/News/2226/4699\">campaign\u003c/a> called #ShopLocalSJ to encourage residents to shop at small businesses during the holiday season. And in early December, Santa Clara County instituted a \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/d5/newsmedia/Pages/Supervisors_Push_for_Cap_on_Food_Delivery_Service_Fees.aspx\">cap on commissions\u003c/a> and fees charged by app-based delivery services, like Uber Eats and DoorDash. Through June 2021, those companies — which typically charge up to 30% commission — can only take 15% of the value of each order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Knies still feels that it’s not enough to keep small businesses from falling by the wayside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We would sure like to see our public support have the same sense of urgency that our businesses have,” Knies said. “What’s going on with this country that we can’t acknowledge how the heart and soul of every community in this nation is reflected in its small businesses?”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Facebook will focus $150 million to build 2,000 units of extremely low-income housing as part of the social media company’s pledge in October 2019 to spend \u003ca href=\"https://about.fb.com/news/2019/10/facebook-commits-1-billion-to-address-housing-affordability/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$1 billion\u003c/a> on affordable housing in the San Francisco Bay Area. Facebook says this new Community Housing Fund would be the largest of its kind in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facebook, Apple and Google have each invested hundreds of millions of dollars in the past year alone to finance the restoration and construction of affordable housing in the Bay Area, after pledging last year to spend billions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Google was first to pledge $1 billion in June of 2019, and while Apple was the last of the three with an announcement in November of that year, it upped the ante significantly by pledging $2.5 billion. All three tech titans employ tens of thousands of employees, and tens of thousands more through subcontractors. The latter especially struggle to afford to live anywhere in the region, let alone in San Mateo or Santa Clara counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a time when phrase “\u003ca href=\"https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/the-world-in-2018-from-the-economist-highlights-key-global-themes-to-watch-for-next-year-300558659.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tech lash\u003c/a>” was gaining currency in publications across the globe, the companies were also sensitive to growing criticism at home that the booming tech sector was responsible in large part for the housing crisis here. [ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Pledging Big Money Just the Beginning\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Step one for all the tech titans has been to sit down with stakeholders in the Bay Area affordable housing world, including other financiers, local governments, community activists and organizations like \u003ca href=\"https://destinationhomesv.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Destination: Home\u003c/a>, a public-private partnership fighting homelessness in Santa Clara County, which is contributing an additional $5 million to Facebook’s \u003ca href=\"https://about.fb.com/news/2020/12/facebook-invests-150-million-in-affordable-housing-for-the-bay-area/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Community Housing Fund\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The folks that have the expertise are the folks that have boots on the ground, right? Where is it where we can play a role? It takes partnerships,” said Juan Salazar, director of local policy and community engagement at Facebook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11850415\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 692px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11850415\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/2e456227-41a1-4352-848e-9464128aec15.png\" alt=\"The shortage of extremely low-income housing is higher than for any other income group in the San Jose metro area, with just 34 affordable and available homes for every 100 extremely low income households, according to the National Low Income Housing Coalition.\" width=\"692\" height=\"167\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/2e456227-41a1-4352-848e-9464128aec15.png 692w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/2e456227-41a1-4352-848e-9464128aec15-160x39.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/2e456227-41a1-4352-848e-9464128aec15-687x167.png 687w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 692px) 100vw, 692px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The shortage of extremely low-income housing is higher than for any other income group in the San Jose metro area, with just 34 affordable and available homes for every 100 extremely low income households, according to the National Low Income Housing Coalition. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Destination: Home)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Destination: Home CEO Jennifer Loving says that, for her, the most exciting part of Facebook’s latest housing announcement is the fact it’s focused on extremely low-income individuals and families making less than 30% of a region’s median income. For example, in the Bay Area, a family of four making under $45,000 a year or less would meet that threshold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"housing\" label=\"more coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s families who are minimum wage employed. It’s seniors on fixed income, individuals on disability. They might be paying 60, 70, 80, 90 percent of their income just on rent every single month, which puts them in a ridiculously precarious position of becoming homeless, and we’re seeing that now more than ever with the effects of COVID,” Loving said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added that any entity trying to build affordable housing faces an uphill battle given the housing market in the Bay Area. Despite the exodus of locals fleeing high rents in recent years, the Bay Area is undersupplied by 699,000 housing units and needs to build 2.2 million more by 2070, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.spur.org/sites/default/files/publications_pdfs/what_it_will_really_take_to_create_an_affordable_bay_area.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">study\u003c/a> published in March by the San Francisco Bay Area Planning and Urban Research Association (SPUR). And experts don’t anticipate the current exodus of locals fleeing COVID-19 will budge those numbers much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The market will never create solutions for individuals and families with extremely low income. So the willingness [of tech firms] to use their positional power to say that this housing has to be for the most vulnerable people, that are disproportionately families of color that are really struggling in the Bay. That is the kind of leadership that frankly we need a lot more of,” Loving said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facebook’s Community Housing Fund will be managed by the Local Initiatives Support Corporation, the largest community development organization in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The size of the investment says that this is real. For these affordable housing developers that we work with, the more that one source of money can do more for their project, the faster they can get to construction,” said Cindy Wu, executive director of \u003ca href=\"https://www.lisc.org/bay-area/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LISC Bay Area\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One-third of the funding will be dedicated to Santa Clara County through Destination: Home, but projects from Alameda, Contra Costa, San Francisco and San Mateo counties are also eligible to apply. The $150 million is expected to fund at least six projects by 2026.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even before Facebook joined its corporate colleagues in making a billion-dollar pledge, the company began to demonstrate a commitment to building local affordable housing with its \u003ca href=\"https://about.fb.com/news/2017/08/a-step-to-catalyze-affordable-housing-in-the-community/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Catalyst Housing Fund\u003c/a>, launched in 2016. Facebook has also invested in local companies, like \u003ca href=\"https://factoryos.com/press/factory_os-joins-forces-with-technology-and-finance-leaders-to-solve-the-housing-crisis/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Factory_OS\u003c/a>, which builds modular housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11850296\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1960px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11850296\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/apple_housing-initiative-update_page-street-housing_07132020_big.jpg.large_2x.jpg\" alt=\"Apple is allocating more than $400 million toward affordable housing projects and homeowner assistance programs in California this year, including this Charities Housing Development Corporation project in San Jose, financed in partnership with Housing Trust Silicon Valley.\" width=\"1960\" height=\"1308\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/apple_housing-initiative-update_page-street-housing_07132020_big.jpg.large_2x.jpg 1960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/apple_housing-initiative-update_page-street-housing_07132020_big.jpg.large_2x-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/apple_housing-initiative-update_page-street-housing_07132020_big.jpg.large_2x-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/apple_housing-initiative-update_page-street-housing_07132020_big.jpg.large_2x-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/apple_housing-initiative-update_page-street-housing_07132020_big.jpg.large_2x-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/apple_housing-initiative-update_page-street-housing_07132020_big.jpg.large_2x-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1960px) 100vw, 1960px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Apple is allocating more than $400 million toward affordable housing projects and homeowner assistance programs in California this year, including this Charities Housing Development Corporation project in San Jose, financed in partnership with Housing Trust Silicon Valley. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Apple)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Apple, Google and Cisco Spending, Too\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>So far, Apple has allocated more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2020/07/apple-allocates-more-than-400-million-to-combat-california-housing-crisis/\">$500 million\u003c/a> toward building affordable housing of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11784720/apple-pledges-2-5-billion-to-fight-housing-crisis-in-california\">$2.5 billion\u003c/a> it pledged to fight the housing crisis in 2019. Its portfolio of investments also includes homelessness prevention efforts and a partnership with the California Housing Finance Agency to provide down payment and mortgage assistance for hundreds of first-time home buyers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As communities face unprecedented challenges this year and many housing projects have been put on hold, we are proud to have been able to accelerate our work to bring more affordable housing options for people in need across California,” wrote Kristina Raspe, Apple’s vice president for Global Real Estate and Facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Google has spent $115 million of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11755545/google-pledges-1-billion-to-help-fight-bay-area-housing-crisis-it-helped-create\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$1 billion commitment\u003c/a> it made last year, including $100 million in low-cost funding for housing developers and an investment in the aforementioned Factory_OS, to help it build a second factory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Housing] is going to take things like policy reform and zoning regulations to change in order for us to really change this at scale,” said Jacquelline Fuller, who leads Google’s philanthropic arm, Google.org. “But in the meantime, we can … help contribute to affordable housing financing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Community housing activists say it’s hard to find fault with the prospect of tens of thousands of affordable housing units coming online over the next 15 years or so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if there is a complaint, it’s that the tech companies are looking to get a return in the form of rents and tax credits. Geoff Morgan, president and CEO of the nonprofit affordable housing developer \u003ca href=\"https://www.firstcommunityhousing.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">First Community Housing\u003c/a>, would like to see the tech giants offer more outright grants than low-cost loans to affordable-housing developers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Don’t get me wrong, I don’t want to bite the hand that feeds me. There’s some high-tech companies that, what they are doing is the reason why we’re able to move forward on a lot of our projects. I just think [grants] would mean we could get deeper levels of affordability for the people that need it most — and we could build more housing units,” Morgan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Leslye Corsiglia, executive director of \u003ca href=\"https://siliconvalleyathome.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Silicon Valley at Home\u003c/a>']‘Our communities are not places we want to live and where employees want to to locate if we don’t have housing for everybody.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In contrast, Morgan praises another tech giant, San Jose-based networking hardware maker Cisco Systems, both because the company was one of the first to commit substantial resources to help solve the housing crisis, and because it’s done so with direct donations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We worked with Cisco Systems to create \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10761651/a-year-after-the-jungle-san-joses-new-approach-to-homelessness\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Second Street Studios\u003c/a>. That property is the very first 100% permanent supportive housing for the chronically homeless in San Jose,” Morgan said. “Cisco really led the way and perhaps encouraged a lot of other high-tech companies by their actions to publicly donate even more funds.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not that he isn’t excited about the multifarious commitments from Apple, Facebook and Google rolling out this year. “You just can’t ignore that. That’s a phenomenal accomplishment for them to have the will to do it,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there’s also a selfish reason that corporations might be interested in making these commitments, said Leslye Corsiglia, executive director of \u003ca href=\"https://siliconvalleyathome.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Silicon Valley at Home (SV@Home).\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our communities are not places we want to live and where employees want to to locate if we don’t have housing for everybody,” Corsiglia said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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Despite the exodus of locals fleeing high rents in recent years, the Bay Area is undersupplied by 699,000 housing units and needs to build 2.2 million more by 2070, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.spur.org/sites/default/files/publications_pdfs/what_it_will_really_take_to_create_an_affordable_bay_area.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">study\u003c/a> published in March by the San Francisco Bay Area Planning and Urban Research Association (SPUR). And experts don’t anticipate the current exodus of locals fleeing COVID-19 will budge those numbers much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The market will never create solutions for individuals and families with extremely low income. So the willingness [of tech firms] to use their positional power to say that this housing has to be for the most vulnerable people, that are disproportionately families of color that are really struggling in the Bay. 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