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A few hundred miles south, Ardem Patapoutian at Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla also separately identified receptors in the skin that respond to heat and pressure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some hope the discoveries could eventually lead to pain treatments that reduce dependence on highly addictive opioids. But the breakthroughs, which happened decades ago, have not yet yielded many effective new therapies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Julius used capsaicin, the active component in chili peppers, to help pinpoint the nerve sensors that respond to heat, the Nobel Committee said. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This report contains a clarification.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nonprofit clinics and coronavirus testing centers that don't require insurance are seeing large numbers of people \u003cem>with\u003c/em> insurance seeking tests. People running these centers say that’s taking resources away from the low-income communities they’re meant to serve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And many of those insured patients are Kaiser Permanente members who already have access to testing through Kaiser, those running the free clinics say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Health experts say that more and faster testing is critical to slowing the spread of the virus and ultimately \u003ca href=\"https://www.nia.nih.gov/news/why-covid-19-testing-key-getting-back-normal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">saving lives\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's especially key as vaccines are still limited and testing remains an important tool to keep the pandemic in check, Santa Clara County's health department wrote in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/covid19/Pages/press-release-01-30-2021-COVID-19-tests-remain-most-important-tool.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">statement\u003c/a>, Saturday. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Dr. Kim Rhoads, UCSF\"]'This is the community scrambling for resources ... so it raises the question, why is it so hard to get a test at Kaiser?'[/pullquote]Kaiser says it's following state guidelines on testing. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.dmhc.ca.gov/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">California Department of Managed Health Care\u003c/a> (DMHC) and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">California Department of Public Health\u003c/a> requires that health plans provide tests within 48 hours to a health plan enrollee who has symptoms, has known or suspected exposure or is an essential worker. The DMHC says Kaiser is currently meeting these requirements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DMHC also says there is no requirement for individuals to be tested by their health plan. And if health plan enrollees are tested outside of their health plan, the health plan must reimburse the out-of-network providers for the cost of the test.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But providers tell KQED that actually getting some of those reimbursements is difficult, even as insured patients continue to flock to free clinics.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Insured People Flocking to Nonprofits\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://rootsclinic.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Roots Community Health Center\u003c/a> serves patients in Oakland who are impacted by systemic inequities and poverty. The clinic was founded with the goal to serve the uninsured and low-income residents of East Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Dr. Noha Aboelata, Roots' chief executive officer, says she's seen a lot of insured people coming through Roots, especially from Kaiser. She says roughly 25% of insured people are Kaiser members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aboelata says she's heard her Kaiser patients say that they were either denied getting a test at Kaiser or that the appointment date was too far out and they wanted to get tested right away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When that happens, they come to Roots instead. And Roots isn't alone.[aside postID=\"news_11818312\" label=\"MAP: Free COVID-19 Public Testing Sites in the Bay Area\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Kim Rhoads, an epidemiologist and biostatistician at the University of California San Francisco,\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11852147/ucsf-doctor-challenges-reports-of-high-covid-rates-in-black-community\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> hosted several pop-up COVID-19 testing sites\u003c/a> throughout Oakland last fall with the mission to test the Black community and African Americans specifically. She says of the thousand people tested at her pop-up sites, roughly 36% had Kaiser insurance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the community scrambling for resources,” Rhoads says, “So it raises the question, why is it so hard to get a test at Kaiser?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aboelata, at Roots, says the number of Kaiser patients they've seen has been pretty consistent since the start of the pandemic and, as of Saturday, they've tested about 5,500 Kaiser patients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For now, they’ve been fortunate to have enough tests to serve everyone coming through their doors, but resources are limited. She thinks \u003cem>every\u003c/em> health care provider should make testing fast and easy, and small clinics like Roots shouldn’t be picking up the slack for larger institutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Why Are Some Kaiser Members Not Going to Kaiser?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Andy Hsu, a tech worker who lives in San Francisco’s SoMa neighborhood, has Kaiser insurance but mostly goes to \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/find-out-about-your-covid-19-testing-options\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">city-run testing sites, or CityTestSF.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would definitely take a lot more tests with City,” he says. “One because, I think, going through Kaiser's app, it's just kind of a pain in general, like there's just a lot of steps involved.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And secondly, the city’s test result turnaround time is a \u003cem>lot\u003c/em> faster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I've definitely gotten test results within 24 hours\" from the city, \"whereas for Kaiser, there's been times when it would take them a little bit more than two days,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>In the Tweet below, KQED reporter Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez, who recently got insurance through Kaiser, was similarly taken aback after getting a turnaround time estimate of five days for a COVID-19 test.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/vad3r_77/status/1355216198820974594\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hsu says the city of San Francisco, which isn’t even a health care institution, is setting up testing sites that are more efficient than Kaiser’s, the health care giant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Kaiser has such a big footprint in the Bay Area, I would expect things to be a little bit more like figured out by now,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked about turnaround times for COVID-19 tests, a Kaiser representative told KQED by email that it's \"usually within two to three days... But timing may change based on demand and testing capacity, and whether the test is processed at [Kaiser] or at a private commercial lab, which may take longer to report results. We prioritize our lab testing and may use private lab services for asymptomatic, less urgent cases.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser did not respond to questions about its members using free sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An official with San Francisco's COVID Command Center says those with insurance are urged to get tested with their provider and reserve city-run testing sites for those who are symptomatic, have been exposed, don’t have insurance or can't get a test appointment elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco's COVID Command Center says through December city test sites conducted 100,000 tests for Kaiser patients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But local nonprofit community clinics have different challenges than the city-run testing sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Recovering Community Costs\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>While Roots and other testing sites can legally bill Kaiser for the tests taken by their members, Aboelata says there are challenges with getting reimbursed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser only reimburses for tests if members fill out their information correctly. When Kaiser members make a mistake writing down their insurance information, testing sites cannot be reimbursed for those tests from Kaiser.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On top of that, these clinics are typically set up to serve low-income people and those who are uninsured, so when getting a COVID-19 test, filling out insurance information is optional. That means in cases where people with insurance leave the insurance information section blank, there’s no way to recoup those costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even the CDPH admits that there are instances when collecting payment from health care plans are not feasible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an emailed statement, the CDPH says “there may be people who come in for testing who do not identify they are covered through a health plan or insurer for the provider to request reimbursement from the health plan, or scenarios where not enough information is provided or captured.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And lastly, there’s the cost of administering tests. Clinics have to pay for someone to book the visits, health care professionals to give the test as well as notify people of their test results, among other administrative tasks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser is supposed to pay for administrative costs, according to DMHC. But Aboelata says they’re unaware of any way to bill Kaiser for those costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While DMHC says there is a billing system in place, Kaiser has yet to confirm if they've established that system. And even if there were a billing system in place, all of these hurdles could be avoided if people with Kaiser insurance went to a Kaiser testing site for their tests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To me, it's not efficient or effective. And obviously, it's much more ideal if they would get tested at their own primary care,” Aboelata says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11852166\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11852166\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/Umoja-8-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Kim Rhoads is an epidemiologist and bio-statistician at UCSF. She helped start a group called Umoja with a mission to get more African Americans to get tested for the coronavirus as well as to present a more accurate picture of positivity rates in the Black population. Rhoads is pictured wearing an Umoja t-shirt at the COVID-19 pop-up testing sites hosted by Acts Full Gospel Church in East Oakland on Oct. 31, 2020.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/Umoja-8-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/Umoja-8-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/Umoja-8-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/Umoja-8-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/Umoja-8.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Kim Rhoads is an epidemiologist and biostatistician at UCSF. She helped start a group called Umoja with a mission to get more African Americans to get tested for the coronavirus as well as to present a more accurate picture of positivity rates in the Black population. Rhoads is pictured wearing an Umoja T-shirt at the COVID-19 pop-up testing sites hosted by Acts Full Gospel Church in East Oakland on Oct. 31, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Unlike Roots, Rhoads’ team at UCSF is powered by volunteers, and they managed to get funding from Kaiser after Kaiser discovered so many of their testers had their insurance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aboelata says she'd be interested in partnering with Kaiser, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Kaiser Says They Are Following Guidelines\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Kaiser told KQED they're following the direction of the CDPH and DMHC, and that they are in compliance with state orders on testing in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser serves 4.5 million people in Northern California and has 36 testing sites in the region (25 of them are in the Bay Area).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser says in Northern California it has the capacity to perform roughly 20,000 tests per day. But according to \u003ca href=\"https://testing.covid19.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/332/2021/01/20210123_TAT-dashboard.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the California Department of Public Health\u003c/a>, from January 17-23 Kaiser only tested 52,797 in Northern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This pales in comparison to the 100,559 they tested in Southern California, though it's important to note the Los Angeles area has been dealing with a major surge over the past few weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11858047\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11858047 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Screen-Shot-2021-02-01-at-2.55.50-PM-800x69.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"69\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Screen-Shot-2021-02-01-at-2.55.50-PM-800x69.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Screen-Shot-2021-02-01-at-2.55.50-PM-1020x88.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Screen-Shot-2021-02-01-at-2.55.50-PM-160x14.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Screen-Shot-2021-02-01-at-2.55.50-PM-1536x133.png 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Screen-Shot-2021-02-01-at-2.55.50-PM.png 1644w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A partial screen-capture from CDPH’s Turnaround Time Dashboard (PDF) which shows total tests counted by Kaiser Northern California and Kaiser Southern California from January 17, 2021 to January 23, 2021.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, over the weekend, Kaiser’s CEO sent out an email to members that says Kaiser is working to ramp up its vaccination efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser will “continue providing vaccines we receive at each of our medical office buildings . . . and in anticipation of more vaccine, we’re prepared to open additional locations and use mobile clinics,\" the statement reads. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Kim Rhoads, an epidemiologist and biostatistician at the University of California San Francisco,\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11852147/ucsf-doctor-challenges-reports-of-high-covid-rates-in-black-community\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> hosted several pop-up COVID-19 testing sites\u003c/a> throughout Oakland last fall with the mission to test the Black community and African Americans specifically. She says of the thousand people tested at her pop-up sites, roughly 36% had Kaiser insurance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the community scrambling for resources,” Rhoads says, “So it raises the question, why is it so hard to get a test at Kaiser?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aboelata, at Roots, says the number of Kaiser patients they've seen has been pretty consistent since the start of the pandemic and, as of Saturday, they've tested about 5,500 Kaiser patients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For now, they’ve been fortunate to have enough tests to serve everyone coming through their doors, but resources are limited. She thinks \u003cem>every\u003c/em> health care provider should make testing fast and easy, and small clinics like Roots shouldn’t be picking up the slack for larger institutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Why Are Some Kaiser Members Not Going to Kaiser?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Andy Hsu, a tech worker who lives in San Francisco’s SoMa neighborhood, has Kaiser insurance but mostly goes to \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/find-out-about-your-covid-19-testing-options\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">city-run testing sites, or CityTestSF.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would definitely take a lot more tests with City,” he says. “One because, I think, going through Kaiser's app, it's just kind of a pain in general, like there's just a lot of steps involved.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And secondly, the city’s test result turnaround time is a \u003cem>lot\u003c/em> faster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I've definitely gotten test results within 24 hours\" from the city, \"whereas for Kaiser, there's been times when it would take them a little bit more than two days,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>In the Tweet below, KQED reporter Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez, who recently got insurance through Kaiser, was similarly taken aback after getting a turnaround time estimate of five days for a COVID-19 test.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Hsu says the city of San Francisco, which isn’t even a health care institution, is setting up testing sites that are more efficient than Kaiser’s, the health care giant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Kaiser has such a big footprint in the Bay Area, I would expect things to be a little bit more like figured out by now,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked about turnaround times for COVID-19 tests, a Kaiser representative told KQED by email that it's \"usually within two to three days... But timing may change based on demand and testing capacity, and whether the test is processed at [Kaiser] or at a private commercial lab, which may take longer to report results. We prioritize our lab testing and may use private lab services for asymptomatic, less urgent cases.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser did not respond to questions about its members using free sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An official with San Francisco's COVID Command Center says those with insurance are urged to get tested with their provider and reserve city-run testing sites for those who are symptomatic, have been exposed, don’t have insurance or can't get a test appointment elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco's COVID Command Center says through December city test sites conducted 100,000 tests for Kaiser patients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But local nonprofit community clinics have different challenges than the city-run testing sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Recovering Community Costs\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>While Roots and other testing sites can legally bill Kaiser for the tests taken by their members, Aboelata says there are challenges with getting reimbursed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser only reimburses for tests if members fill out their information correctly. When Kaiser members make a mistake writing down their insurance information, testing sites cannot be reimbursed for those tests from Kaiser.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On top of that, these clinics are typically set up to serve low-income people and those who are uninsured, so when getting a COVID-19 test, filling out insurance information is optional. That means in cases where people with insurance leave the insurance information section blank, there’s no way to recoup those costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even the CDPH admits that there are instances when collecting payment from health care plans are not feasible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an emailed statement, the CDPH says “there may be people who come in for testing who do not identify they are covered through a health plan or insurer for the provider to request reimbursement from the health plan, or scenarios where not enough information is provided or captured.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And lastly, there’s the cost of administering tests. Clinics have to pay for someone to book the visits, health care professionals to give the test as well as notify people of their test results, among other administrative tasks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser is supposed to pay for administrative costs, according to DMHC. But Aboelata says they’re unaware of any way to bill Kaiser for those costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While DMHC says there is a billing system in place, Kaiser has yet to confirm if they've established that system. And even if there were a billing system in place, all of these hurdles could be avoided if people with Kaiser insurance went to a Kaiser testing site for their tests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To me, it's not efficient or effective. And obviously, it's much more ideal if they would get tested at their own primary care,” Aboelata says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11852166\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11852166\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/Umoja-8-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Kim Rhoads is an epidemiologist and bio-statistician at UCSF. She helped start a group called Umoja with a mission to get more African Americans to get tested for the coronavirus as well as to present a more accurate picture of positivity rates in the Black population. Rhoads is pictured wearing an Umoja t-shirt at the COVID-19 pop-up testing sites hosted by Acts Full Gospel Church in East Oakland on Oct. 31, 2020.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/Umoja-8-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/Umoja-8-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/Umoja-8-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/Umoja-8-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/Umoja-8.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Kim Rhoads is an epidemiologist and biostatistician at UCSF. She helped start a group called Umoja with a mission to get more African Americans to get tested for the coronavirus as well as to present a more accurate picture of positivity rates in the Black population. Rhoads is pictured wearing an Umoja T-shirt at the COVID-19 pop-up testing sites hosted by Acts Full Gospel Church in East Oakland on Oct. 31, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Unlike Roots, Rhoads’ team at UCSF is powered by volunteers, and they managed to get funding from Kaiser after Kaiser discovered so many of their testers had their insurance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aboelata says she'd be interested in partnering with Kaiser, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Kaiser Says They Are Following Guidelines\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Kaiser told KQED they're following the direction of the CDPH and DMHC, and that they are in compliance with state orders on testing in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser serves 4.5 million people in Northern California and has 36 testing sites in the region (25 of them are in the Bay Area).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser says in Northern California it has the capacity to perform roughly 20,000 tests per day. But according to \u003ca href=\"https://testing.covid19.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/332/2021/01/20210123_TAT-dashboard.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the California Department of Public Health\u003c/a>, from January 17-23 Kaiser only tested 52,797 in Northern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This pales in comparison to the 100,559 they tested in Southern California, though it's important to note the Los Angeles area has been dealing with a major surge over the past few weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11858047\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11858047 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Screen-Shot-2021-02-01-at-2.55.50-PM-800x69.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"69\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Screen-Shot-2021-02-01-at-2.55.50-PM-800x69.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Screen-Shot-2021-02-01-at-2.55.50-PM-1020x88.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Screen-Shot-2021-02-01-at-2.55.50-PM-160x14.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Screen-Shot-2021-02-01-at-2.55.50-PM-1536x133.png 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Screen-Shot-2021-02-01-at-2.55.50-PM.png 1644w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A partial screen-capture from CDPH’s Turnaround Time Dashboard (PDF) which shows total tests counted by Kaiser Northern California and Kaiser Southern California from January 17, 2021 to January 23, 2021.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, over the weekend, Kaiser’s CEO sent out an email to members that says Kaiser is working to ramp up its vaccination efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser will “continue providing vaccines we receive at each of our medical office buildings . . . and in anticipation of more vaccine, we’re prepared to open additional locations and use mobile clinics,\" the statement reads. 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"content": "\u003cp>When UCSF wanted to look into COVID-19 disparities in the Black community, they tapped \u003ca href=\"http://cancer.ucsf.edu/people/profiles/rhoads_kim\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dr. Kim Rhoads\u003c/a>. Rhoads is an epidemiologist and biostatistician at UCSF who has done extensive outreach in the Bay Area’s Black community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most current research points to higher COVID-19 infection rates among Black people in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says Black Americans are \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/covid-data/investigations-discovery/hospitalization-death-by-race-ethnicity.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">1.4 times\u003c/a> more likely to catch the virus compared to their white counterparts. (That rate was at 2.6 times more likely when KQED checked on Nov. 21.) And according to the state public health department, Black people make up approximately \u003ca href=\"https://covid19.ca.gov/state-dashboard/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">4% \u003c/a>of positive cases in California but only 6% of the total population in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But according to Rhoads, those statistics don’t tell the full story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Looking into infection rates among Black Americans in Oakland, Rhoads discovered that virus positivity may be lower than is being reported by public health departments and the media because a large portion of the Black population is being missed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A sizable number of people in the community, she said, are untested, unreached and uncounted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She discovered that trend after her team tested 1,000 people across Oakland at eight separate pop-up testing events, and only two Black participants came back positive, leading to a positivity rate of less than 1%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Starting Umoja\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To begin examining disparities in Oakland, Rhoads knew she needed to put together a diverse team of stakeholders — so she brought in community groups, public health departments, and, of course, UCSF.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The team is called \u003ca href=\"https://unitedinhealthoakland.org/en/eastoakland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Umoja Health\u003c/a>. Umoja in Swahili means “unity,” and it’s the first principle of \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwanzaa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kwanzaa\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When they started in September, Umoja aimed to get more Black and African American folks tested for the coronavirus and to use that data to present a more accurate picture of positivity rates in the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To do that, they set up eight pop-up testing sites throughout Oakland over two months in census tracts with greater than 40% African American population represented.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the pop-ups were unlike other testing sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was a live DJ playing music, volunteers wore T-shirts that said Umoja, and they handed out goody bags with resource sheets and masks. The overall mood was festive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11852160\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/Umoja-6-800x451.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"451\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/Umoja-6-800x451.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/Umoja-6-1020x575.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/Umoja-6-160x90.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/Umoja-6-1536x866.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/Umoja-6.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we’re trying to shift is the idea that if you’re going for testing, you’re not going into a clinical or medical environment where people don’t know you and maybe they don’t care,” said Rhoads on a Saturday in September at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cohccministries.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Center of Hope Community Church\u003c/a> parking lot, one of their pop-up sites where folks could walk or drive up to get swab and antibody tests for free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rhoads said their approach was to create testing sites with familiar faces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Instead of asking people to come to the clinic, we want to bring the clinic to the people. And when we bring the clinic to the people, we want it to look like the community is bringing it to the community,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They got rid of the UCSF logos, the Department of Public Health signs — making the site look more like a health fair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rhoads said Black people in San Francisco weren’t getting tested despite having testing available to them. Over the summer, she helped organize COVID-19 testing sites in the city’s neighborhoods with the largest African American population, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11822167/community-led-effort-brings-free-covid-19-testing-to-bayview-hunters-point\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Francisco’s Bayview-Hunters Point\u003c/a> and Sunnydale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said at one clinic they were only serving a fifth of their capacity and swabs were just sitting there unused, largely due to the relationship between the community and the public health department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11852156\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11852156\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/Umoja-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Phlebotomy tech Brandon Tran administers a COVID-19 swab test to Herb Sanders in his car at a COVID-19 testing pop-up site by Umoja hosted by Acts Full Gospel Church in Oakland on Oct. 31, 2020. Umoja's mission was to get more African Americans in Oakland to get tested for the coronavirus as well as to present a more accurate picture of positivity rates in the Black population.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/Umoja-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/Umoja-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/Umoja-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/Umoja-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/Umoja-1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Phlebotomy tech Brandon Tran administers a COVID-19 swab test to Herb Sanders in his car at a COVID-19 testing pop-up site by Umoja hosted by Acts Full Gospel Church in Oakland on Oct. 31, 2020. Umoja’s mission was to get more African Americans in Oakland to get tested for the coronavirus as well as to present a more accurate picture of positivity rates in the Black population. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rhoads said the same thing was happening in Alameda County where testing sites located in predominantly Black neighborhoods weren’t being used by Black people. She says roughly four out five people getting tested were non-Black, like at \u003ca href=\"https://rootsclinic.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Roots Community Health Center\u003c/a>, an East Oakland clinic that serves mostly African Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jamaica Sowell, director of programs and policy with Roots Community Health Center, said 20% of people getting tested at their clinic are Black or of African descent, but added that the percentage doesn’t include those of mixed race, which often include African Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Becoming Credible Messengers\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Organizers said an initiative where Black people and allies work together to serve the Black community is significant because it can help fight misinformation that has been spreading within the community since the start of the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daryle Allums Sr., executive director of local anti-gun-violence group \u003ca href=\"https://adamikavillage.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Adamika Village\u003c/a>, said there’s not enough COVID-19 education in East Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"covid-19, pandemic\" label=\"More coronavirus coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need credible messengers that our community can trust to give this information. If that’s from a Black doctor, if that’s from a community leader, a pastor — however that look. We need to right education,” Allums said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Umoja popped up at churches, the West Oakland BART station, an outdoor market featuring Black small-business owners called Akoma Market, and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At their first pop-up in Akoma Market, Rhoads said they had zero positives out of 75 people tested. “But with the rate of infection that was being reported, we should have had at least one or two,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Results\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, Umoja tested exactly 1,000 people (not including volunteers), over half of whom were Black. And only a total of two Black people tested positive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A positivity rate of less than 1% contrasts starkly with other reports. So how could the results be so different?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rhoads said the answer lies in their testing group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We found that we were really reaching a high percentage of folks who had never been tested before,” she said. Over half of the Black people they tested said they were first-time testers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Rhoads, that means they were capturing a larger pool of the Black American population. These are people who may be living “on the edge,” as she put it, but are generally housed. They have jobs but might not have health care or just don’t trust the health care system due to a history of systemic racism. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Dr. Kim Rhoads, UCSF epidemiologist\"]“So we’re seeing the people who are not in the system. They’re not in the congregate living setting system, and they’re not in the prison system. They’re just not in the system.”[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So we’re seeing the people who are not in the system. They’re not in the congregate living setting system, and they’re not in the prison system. They’re just not in the system,” Rhoads said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said these testers are the “regular folks” who public health officials and the media don’t always pay attention to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And misreporting the percentages as higher than they actually are can create a narrative that all Black people are disproportionately getting infected by the coronavirus. She said the mortality rate \u003cem>is\u003c/em> higher, but when public health officials and the media portray the community as a monolith, they risk feeding some ugly assumptions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rhoads said what’s missed is the fact that Black folks are being responsible — they’re wearing masks, social distancing and following public health guidelines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Rhoads is confident in her data, this is one study, and researchers need to continue probing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pivoting to Vaccines\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When talks of vaccines emerged, Rhoads knew they’d have to leverage the credibility and trust they’ve developed in the community in order to get the word out about vaccines, but in the tried-and-true Umoja way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We would be providing information and resources and opportunity to question the vaccine,” Rhoads said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To dictate to people what they should do is very not Umoja,” she said. “In fact, it’s the old way, which is the paternalistic health care system, telling people, particularly people of color in underserved communities, why the problems that they’re having are their own fault.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While that “paternalistic” approach might be comforting to folks who haven’t been historically marginalized by the health care system — especially from an esteemed institution like UCSF — that’s not the case with many Black Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Going back \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/10/25/556673640/scientists-work-to-overcome-legacy-of-tuskegee-study-henrietta-lacks\">to the Tuskegee experiment\u003c/a>, you know, Henrietta Lacks. A lot of things have been done, unfortunately, against the Black community,” said Dr. Demisha Burns, an Umoja volunteer whose day-to-day job involves \u003ca href=\"http://womenhiv.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">helping women affected by HIV/AIDS in Oakland\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11852154\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11852154\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/Umoja-3-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Joy Kirkwood, an outreach specialist at LifeLong Medical, receives a COVID-19 test at a COVID-19 testing pop-up site by Umoja hosted by Acts Full Gospel Church in Oakland on Oct. 31, 2020. Umoja's mission was to get more African Americans in Oakland to get tested for the coronavirus as well as to present a more accurate picture of positivity rates in the Black population.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/Umoja-3-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/Umoja-3-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/Umoja-3-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/Umoja-3-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/Umoja-3.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joy Kirkwood, an outreach specialist at LifeLong Medical Care, receives a COVID-19 test at a COVID-19 testing pop-up site by Umoja hosted by Acts Full Gospel Church in Oakland on Oct. 31, 2020. Umoja’s mission was to get more African Americans in Oakland to get tested for the coronavirus as well as to present a more accurate picture of positivity rates in the Black population. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Henrietta Lacks was an African American woman whose cancer cells were taken without her consent in the 1950s, and companies made money using them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So, of course, people are like, ‘I’m not going to go get tested. I’m not going to go do this. I’m not going to go get a vaccine,’ ” Burns said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Based on survey data collected at their pop-ups, Rhoads knew they had their work cut out for them. At an Umoja meeting in November, Rhoads said of the thousand participants, when asked about whether or not they’d be willing to get the COVID-19 vaccine, survey results showed people were equally split across getting the vaccine and not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And a willingness to get the vaccine among African Americans suffered a slight drop after their last pop-up, going from 43% down to 40%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Shaw, director of the \u003ca href=\"https://acphd.org/urban-male-health/\">Urban Male Health Initiative\u003c/a> with the Alameda County Public Health Department, chimed in at the meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As I talk to folks, mainly Black folks, they say I’d like other ethnicities to try it first because we don’t trust that it’s going to be good for us. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A sizable number of people in the community, she said, are untested, unreached and uncounted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She discovered that trend after her team tested 1,000 people across Oakland at eight separate pop-up testing events, and only two Black participants came back positive, leading to a positivity rate of less than 1%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Starting Umoja\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To begin examining disparities in Oakland, Rhoads knew she needed to put together a diverse team of stakeholders — so she brought in community groups, public health departments, and, of course, UCSF.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The team is called \u003ca href=\"https://unitedinhealthoakland.org/en/eastoakland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Umoja Health\u003c/a>. Umoja in Swahili means “unity,” and it’s the first principle of \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwanzaa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kwanzaa\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When they started in September, Umoja aimed to get more Black and African American folks tested for the coronavirus and to use that data to present a more accurate picture of positivity rates in the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To do that, they set up eight pop-up testing sites throughout Oakland over two months in census tracts with greater than 40% African American population represented.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the pop-ups were unlike other testing sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was a live DJ playing music, volunteers wore T-shirts that said Umoja, and they handed out goody bags with resource sheets and masks. The overall mood was festive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11852160\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/Umoja-6-800x451.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"451\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/Umoja-6-800x451.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/Umoja-6-1020x575.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/Umoja-6-160x90.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/Umoja-6-1536x866.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/Umoja-6.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we’re trying to shift is the idea that if you’re going for testing, you’re not going into a clinical or medical environment where people don’t know you and maybe they don’t care,” said Rhoads on a Saturday in September at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cohccministries.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Center of Hope Community Church\u003c/a> parking lot, one of their pop-up sites where folks could walk or drive up to get swab and antibody tests for free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rhoads said their approach was to create testing sites with familiar faces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Instead of asking people to come to the clinic, we want to bring the clinic to the people. And when we bring the clinic to the people, we want it to look like the community is bringing it to the community,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They got rid of the UCSF logos, the Department of Public Health signs — making the site look more like a health fair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rhoads said Black people in San Francisco weren’t getting tested despite having testing available to them. Over the summer, she helped organize COVID-19 testing sites in the city’s neighborhoods with the largest African American population, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11822167/community-led-effort-brings-free-covid-19-testing-to-bayview-hunters-point\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Francisco’s Bayview-Hunters Point\u003c/a> and Sunnydale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said at one clinic they were only serving a fifth of their capacity and swabs were just sitting there unused, largely due to the relationship between the community and the public health department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11852156\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11852156\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/Umoja-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Phlebotomy tech Brandon Tran administers a COVID-19 swab test to Herb Sanders in his car at a COVID-19 testing pop-up site by Umoja hosted by Acts Full Gospel Church in Oakland on Oct. 31, 2020. 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She says roughly four out five people getting tested were non-Black, like at \u003ca href=\"https://rootsclinic.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Roots Community Health Center\u003c/a>, an East Oakland clinic that serves mostly African Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jamaica Sowell, director of programs and policy with Roots Community Health Center, said 20% of people getting tested at their clinic are Black or of African descent, but added that the percentage doesn’t include those of mixed race, which often include African Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Becoming Credible Messengers\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Organizers said an initiative where Black people and allies work together to serve the Black community is significant because it can help fight misinformation that has been spreading within the community since the start of the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daryle Allums Sr., executive director of local anti-gun-violence group \u003ca href=\"https://adamikavillage.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Adamika Village\u003c/a>, said there’s not enough COVID-19 education in East Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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She said the mortality rate \u003cem>is\u003c/em> higher, but when public health officials and the media portray the community as a monolith, they risk feeding some ugly assumptions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rhoads said what’s missed is the fact that Black folks are being responsible — they’re wearing masks, social distancing and following public health guidelines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Rhoads is confident in her data, this is one study, and researchers need to continue probing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pivoting to Vaccines\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When talks of vaccines emerged, Rhoads knew they’d have to leverage the credibility and trust they’ve developed in the community in order to get the word out about vaccines, but in the tried-and-true Umoja way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We would be providing information and resources and opportunity to question the vaccine,” Rhoads said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To dictate to people what they should do is very not Umoja,” she said. “In fact, it’s the old way, which is the paternalistic health care system, telling people, particularly people of color in underserved communities, why the problems that they’re having are their own fault.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While that “paternalistic” approach might be comforting to folks who haven’t been historically marginalized by the health care system — especially from an esteemed institution like UCSF — that’s not the case with many Black Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Going back \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/10/25/556673640/scientists-work-to-overcome-legacy-of-tuskegee-study-henrietta-lacks\">to the Tuskegee experiment\u003c/a>, you know, Henrietta Lacks. A lot of things have been done, unfortunately, against the Black community,” said Dr. Demisha Burns, an Umoja volunteer whose day-to-day job involves \u003ca href=\"http://womenhiv.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">helping women affected by HIV/AIDS in Oakland\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11852154\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11852154\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/Umoja-3-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Joy Kirkwood, an outreach specialist at LifeLong Medical, receives a COVID-19 test at a COVID-19 testing pop-up site by Umoja hosted by Acts Full Gospel Church in Oakland on Oct. 31, 2020. Umoja's mission was to get more African Americans in Oakland to get tested for the coronavirus as well as to present a more accurate picture of positivity rates in the Black population.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/Umoja-3-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/Umoja-3-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/Umoja-3-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/Umoja-3-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/Umoja-3.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joy Kirkwood, an outreach specialist at LifeLong Medical Care, receives a COVID-19 test at a COVID-19 testing pop-up site by Umoja hosted by Acts Full Gospel Church in Oakland on Oct. 31, 2020. Umoja’s mission was to get more African Americans in Oakland to get tested for the coronavirus as well as to present a more accurate picture of positivity rates in the Black population. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Henrietta Lacks was an African American woman whose cancer cells were taken without her consent in the 1950s, and companies made money using them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So, of course, people are like, ‘I’m not going to go get tested. I’m not going to go do this. I’m not going to go get a vaccine,’ ” Burns said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Based on survey data collected at their pop-ups, Rhoads knew they had their work cut out for them. At an Umoja meeting in November, Rhoads said of the thousand participants, when asked about whether or not they’d be willing to get the COVID-19 vaccine, survey results showed people were equally split across getting the vaccine and not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And a willingness to get the vaccine among African Americans suffered a slight drop after their last pop-up, going from 43% down to 40%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Shaw, director of the \u003ca href=\"https://acphd.org/urban-male-health/\">Urban Male Health Initiative\u003c/a> with the Alameda County Public Health Department, chimed in at the meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As I talk to folks, mainly Black folks, they say I’d like other ethnicities to try it first because we don’t trust that it’s going to be good for us. I’ve heard that comment over and over,” Shaw said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Looking for practical solutions, Rhoads said it’s important for trusted community members to get vaccinated and speak about their experience, telling folks whether they had side effects or not, and so forth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Over the course of the pandemic, COVID-19 infections have battered high-poverty neighborhoods in California on a staggeringly different scale than more affluent areas, a trend that underscores the heightened risks for low-wage workers as the state endures a deadly late-autumn surge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A California Healthline review of local data from the state’s 12 most populous counties found that communities with relatively high poverty rates are experiencing confirmed COVID-19 infection rates two to three times as high as rates in wealthier areas. By late November, the analysis found, about 49 of every 1,000 residents in the state’s poorest urban areas — defined as communities with poverty rates higher than 30% — had tested positive for COVID-19. By comparison, about 16 of every 1,000 residents in comparatively affluent urban areas — communities with poverty rates lower than 10% — had tested positive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe title=\"COVID-19 Disproportionately Affects the Poor\" aria-label=\"Bar Chart\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-UrmsB\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/UrmsB/19/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border: none;\" width=\"800\" height=\"380\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Epidemiologists say the findings offer evidence of the outsize risk being shouldered by the millions of low-wage workers who live in those communities and do the jobs state and federal officials have deemed essential in the pandemic. These are the grocery store clerks, gas station cashiers, home health aides, warehouse packers, meat processors, hospital janitors and myriad other retail and service employees whose jobs keep the rest of us comfortable, clothed and fed. Those jobs cannot be done remotely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People are being forced to go to work, possibly not able to protect themselves adequately,” said \u003ca href=\"https://publichealth.sdsu.edu/people/christian-ramers/\">Dr. Christian Ramers\u003c/a>, an infectious disease specialist at \u003ca href=\"https://www.fhcsd.org/about-us/\">Family Health Centers of San Diego\u003c/a>. “If you are living paycheck to paycheck, it’s a very hard decision for some people, if they feel OK, to not go to work or to even quarantine if they know that they were exposed, because they need to pay rent and they need to pay the bills.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To examine income and COVID-19 infection rates, California Healthline obtained data showing the number of cases for each ZIP code in nine of the state’s 12 most populous counties: \u003ca href=\"https://covid-19.acgov.org/data.page\">Alameda\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.arcgis.com/apps/MapSeries/index.html?appid=1f82e8eb24c0403c90e774202c5dafea\">Fresno\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://phweb.kerncounty.com/Html5Viewer/index.html?viewer=COVID19Info\">Kern\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://ochca.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/2a169f85c2254dd7b43f95b095208356\">Orange\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://coronavirus-countyofriverside.hub.arcgis.com/\">Riverside\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=ad477bb955dc49e78d0a19b78bbd09dd\">Sacramento\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sandiegocounty.gov/content/dam/sdc/hhsa/programs/phs/Epidemiology/COVID-19%20Summary%20of%20Cases%20by%20Zip%20Code.pdf\">San Diego\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://data.sfgov.org/COVID-19/COVID-19-Cases-and-Deaths-Summarized-by-Geography/tpyr-dvnc\">San Francisco\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/covid19/Pages/dashboard-cases-by-zip-code-and-city.aspx\">Santa Clara\u003c/a>. For three other counties that organize the data differently — \u003ca href=\"http://publichealth.lacounty.gov/media/coronavirus/locations.htm\">Los Angeles\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.coronavirus.cchealth.org/overview\">Contra Costa\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://sbcph.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/44bb35c804c44c8281da6d82ee602dff\">San Bernardino\u003c/a> — we obtained infection rates at the neighborhood and city level. We then cross-referenced those infection figures with U.S. census data showing poverty levels by community. Federal regulations set the poverty line for the 48 contiguous states at $26,200 in annual income for a family of four.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe title=\"Disparities Are Stark in California's Largest Counties\" aria-label=\"Split Bars\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-jpb8M\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/jpb8M/9/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border: none;\" width=\"800\" height=\"560\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The analysis revealed a common pattern of COVID-19 spread, in which neighborhoods within the same city, often just miles apart, had vastly different infection rates, with higher-poverty areas hit hardest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, in the 94621 ZIP code in southern Oakland, where nearly 30% of residents live below the poverty line, there were about 54 confirmed infections per 1,000 people as of late November. Several miles north, in the 94618 ZIP code — the Rockridge and Upper Rockridge neighborhoods, where about 5% of residents live below the poverty line — there were about four confirmed infections per 1,000 people as of late November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Family Health Centers of San Diego, which operates dozens of primary care, dental and behavioral health clinics in San Diego County, more than 90% of patients qualify as low-income and nearly 30% don’t have insurance. Ramers said the recent surge in coronavirus cases has ripped through his patients’ communities at a quicker pace than in San Diego’s many affluent neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s southeast San Diego, it’s El Cajon and it’s all of the South Bay communities right by the [Mexican] border,” Ramers said. “They have the lowest socioeconomic status amongst other indicators, and that is exactly where we’re seeing the hardest-hit communities with COVID.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe title=\"A COVID Gap Between San Diego's Wealthiest and Poorest\" aria-label=\"Interactive line chart\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-IvBx9\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/IvBx9/9/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border: none;\" width=\"800\" height=\"550\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramers said he recently treated a patient who works at a sandwich shop. She developed a fever and told her boss she had possible COVID-19 symptoms. “He said, ‘No, you have to get to work,’ ” Ramers said. “I started asking about what kind of PPE [personal protective equipment] does she get? She is in a crowded kitchen making sandwiches for hundreds of people, probably, and I think she got one mask every couple of days.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her employer ultimately gave her permission to miss work, but only after Ramers confirmed the COVID-19 diagnosis and issued a formal doctor’s note saying she needed to stay home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Research indicates residents of low-income neighborhoods are curtailing outings and social gatherings as much as anyone else during the pandemic — with the key exception that, unlike many white-collar workers, they have to leave home to work. \u003ca href=\"https://www.bu.edu/sph/profile/jonathan-jay/\">Jonathan Jay\u003c/a>, assistant professor of community health sciences at Boston University, recently co-authored \u003ca href=\"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-020-00998-2\">a study\u003c/a> that used smartphone data to see whether people in low-income areas were maintaining physical distance as much as people in more affluent areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We didn’t find anything that would confirm the idea that lower-income people were unaware or unmotivated,” Jay said. “What we found was suggestive of their having the same level of awareness, the same level of motivation and simply the only evidence we found to explain the difference in physical distancing was the work-related behaviors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe title=\"COVID Disparities Apparent in Los Angeles Neighborhoods\" aria-label=\"chart\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-VG0R7\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/VG0R7/11/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border: none;\" width=\"800\" height=\"525\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://profiles.ucsf.edu/kirsten.bibbins-domingo\">Dr. Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo\u003c/a>, professor and chair of the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at UCSF, noted that low-wage workers also tend to live in densely crowded households. In other words, she said, it is often hard to isolate yourself if you are poor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If somebody has a positive test, I advise them that they should not be living with other people in their household; or, if they have to stay in the same household, that they separate to a separate room, a separate bathroom, ideally, and that people wear masks in the house,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can see that if their normal living environment is doubled up, tripled up, quadrupled up, that those strategies won’t work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bibbins-Domingo called on community and business leaders to embrace policies that ensure essential workers get paid time off if they contract COVID-19. Legislators at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/pandemic/ffcra-employee-paid-leave\">federal\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/FAQ-for-PSL.html\">state\u003c/a> level have passed laws intended to expand the ranks of employees guaranteed paid sick leave for COVID-19, but many small businesses are exempt. She said public agencies also should consider paying for hotel rooms so people who live in crowded households can quarantine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She praised California’s decision to tie COVID-19-related restrictions on activities in each county to a “\u003ca href=\"https://www.chcf.org/blog/when-inequity-gets-measured-it-gets-managed/\">health equity metric\u003c/a>,” which ensures infection rates are low in all neighborhoods, not just wealthy ones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What the failure has been is to recognize that poor communities always have higher transmission during a pandemic; that we sort of expect to happen,” she said. “Knowing that is going to happen, it’s the responsibility of policymakers to actually put protections in place, to help the communities with the least resources to address the needs in the pandemic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Phillip Reese is a data reporting specialist and an assistant professor of journalism at California State University, Sacramento. \u003c/em>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Methodology\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Data for this article came from 12 county health departments and the U.S. Census Bureau’s five-year 2014-18 American Community Survey. The Census Bureau creates geographies called ZIP Code Tabulation Areas that are based on ZIP codes but may not exactly match ZIP code boundaries. For most counties, a ZIP code is the smallest geography available for infection data released online. Infection data was obtained from county websites on Nov. 23. All counties appear to update their ZIP code data frequently but some may lag more than others. When available, the analysis used confirmed infection rates and population data provided by counties; otherwise, census data was used to calculate infection rates. The analysis excluded ZIP codes, cities and neighborhoods with fewer than 5,000 residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was produced by \u003ca href=\"http://khn.org/\">KHN\u003c/a>, which publishes \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiahealthline.org/\">California Healthline\u003c/a>, an editorially independent service of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.chcf.org/\">California Health Care Foundation\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Over the course of the pandemic, COVID-19 infections have battered high-poverty neighborhoods in California on a staggeringly different scale than more affluent areas, a trend that underscores the heightened risks for low-wage workers as the state endures a deadly late-autumn surge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A California Healthline review of local data from the state’s 12 most populous counties found that communities with relatively high poverty rates are experiencing confirmed COVID-19 infection rates two to three times as high as rates in wealthier areas. By late November, the analysis found, about 49 of every 1,000 residents in the state’s poorest urban areas — defined as communities with poverty rates higher than 30% — had tested positive for COVID-19. By comparison, about 16 of every 1,000 residents in comparatively affluent urban areas — communities with poverty rates lower than 10% — had tested positive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe title=\"COVID-19 Disproportionately Affects the Poor\" aria-label=\"Bar Chart\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-UrmsB\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/UrmsB/19/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border: none;\" width=\"800\" height=\"380\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Epidemiologists say the findings offer evidence of the outsize risk being shouldered by the millions of low-wage workers who live in those communities and do the jobs state and federal officials have deemed essential in the pandemic. These are the grocery store clerks, gas station cashiers, home health aides, warehouse packers, meat processors, hospital janitors and myriad other retail and service employees whose jobs keep the rest of us comfortable, clothed and fed. Those jobs cannot be done remotely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People are being forced to go to work, possibly not able to protect themselves adequately,” said \u003ca href=\"https://publichealth.sdsu.edu/people/christian-ramers/\">Dr. Christian Ramers\u003c/a>, an infectious disease specialist at \u003ca href=\"https://www.fhcsd.org/about-us/\">Family Health Centers of San Diego\u003c/a>. “If you are living paycheck to paycheck, it’s a very hard decision for some people, if they feel OK, to not go to work or to even quarantine if they know that they were exposed, because they need to pay rent and they need to pay the bills.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To examine income and COVID-19 infection rates, California Healthline obtained data showing the number of cases for each ZIP code in nine of the state’s 12 most populous counties: \u003ca href=\"https://covid-19.acgov.org/data.page\">Alameda\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.arcgis.com/apps/MapSeries/index.html?appid=1f82e8eb24c0403c90e774202c5dafea\">Fresno\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://phweb.kerncounty.com/Html5Viewer/index.html?viewer=COVID19Info\">Kern\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://ochca.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/2a169f85c2254dd7b43f95b095208356\">Orange\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://coronavirus-countyofriverside.hub.arcgis.com/\">Riverside\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=ad477bb955dc49e78d0a19b78bbd09dd\">Sacramento\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sandiegocounty.gov/content/dam/sdc/hhsa/programs/phs/Epidemiology/COVID-19%20Summary%20of%20Cases%20by%20Zip%20Code.pdf\">San Diego\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://data.sfgov.org/COVID-19/COVID-19-Cases-and-Deaths-Summarized-by-Geography/tpyr-dvnc\">San Francisco\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/covid19/Pages/dashboard-cases-by-zip-code-and-city.aspx\">Santa Clara\u003c/a>. For three other counties that organize the data differently — \u003ca href=\"http://publichealth.lacounty.gov/media/coronavirus/locations.htm\">Los Angeles\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.coronavirus.cchealth.org/overview\">Contra Costa\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://sbcph.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/44bb35c804c44c8281da6d82ee602dff\">San Bernardino\u003c/a> — we obtained infection rates at the neighborhood and city level. We then cross-referenced those infection figures with U.S. census data showing poverty levels by community. Federal regulations set the poverty line for the 48 contiguous states at $26,200 in annual income for a family of four.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe title=\"Disparities Are Stark in California's Largest Counties\" aria-label=\"Split Bars\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-jpb8M\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/jpb8M/9/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border: none;\" width=\"800\" height=\"560\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The analysis revealed a common pattern of COVID-19 spread, in which neighborhoods within the same city, often just miles apart, had vastly different infection rates, with higher-poverty areas hit hardest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, in the 94621 ZIP code in southern Oakland, where nearly 30% of residents live below the poverty line, there were about 54 confirmed infections per 1,000 people as of late November. Several miles north, in the 94618 ZIP code — the Rockridge and Upper Rockridge neighborhoods, where about 5% of residents live below the poverty line — there were about four confirmed infections per 1,000 people as of late November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Family Health Centers of San Diego, which operates dozens of primary care, dental and behavioral health clinics in San Diego County, more than 90% of patients qualify as low-income and nearly 30% don’t have insurance. Ramers said the recent surge in coronavirus cases has ripped through his patients’ communities at a quicker pace than in San Diego’s many affluent neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s southeast San Diego, it’s El Cajon and it’s all of the South Bay communities right by the [Mexican] border,” Ramers said. “They have the lowest socioeconomic status amongst other indicators, and that is exactly where we’re seeing the hardest-hit communities with COVID.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe title=\"A COVID Gap Between San Diego's Wealthiest and Poorest\" aria-label=\"Interactive line chart\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-IvBx9\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/IvBx9/9/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border: none;\" width=\"800\" height=\"550\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramers said he recently treated a patient who works at a sandwich shop. She developed a fever and told her boss she had possible COVID-19 symptoms. “He said, ‘No, you have to get to work,’ ” Ramers said. “I started asking about what kind of PPE [personal protective equipment] does she get? She is in a crowded kitchen making sandwiches for hundreds of people, probably, and I think she got one mask every couple of days.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her employer ultimately gave her permission to miss work, but only after Ramers confirmed the COVID-19 diagnosis and issued a formal doctor’s note saying she needed to stay home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Research indicates residents of low-income neighborhoods are curtailing outings and social gatherings as much as anyone else during the pandemic — with the key exception that, unlike many white-collar workers, they have to leave home to work. \u003ca href=\"https://www.bu.edu/sph/profile/jonathan-jay/\">Jonathan Jay\u003c/a>, assistant professor of community health sciences at Boston University, recently co-authored \u003ca href=\"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-020-00998-2\">a study\u003c/a> that used smartphone data to see whether people in low-income areas were maintaining physical distance as much as people in more affluent areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We didn’t find anything that would confirm the idea that lower-income people were unaware or unmotivated,” Jay said. “What we found was suggestive of their having the same level of awareness, the same level of motivation and simply the only evidence we found to explain the difference in physical distancing was the work-related behaviors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe title=\"COVID Disparities Apparent in Los Angeles Neighborhoods\" aria-label=\"chart\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-VG0R7\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/VG0R7/11/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border: none;\" width=\"800\" height=\"525\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://profiles.ucsf.edu/kirsten.bibbins-domingo\">Dr. Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo\u003c/a>, professor and chair of the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at UCSF, noted that low-wage workers also tend to live in densely crowded households. In other words, she said, it is often hard to isolate yourself if you are poor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If somebody has a positive test, I advise them that they should not be living with other people in their household; or, if they have to stay in the same household, that they separate to a separate room, a separate bathroom, ideally, and that people wear masks in the house,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can see that if their normal living environment is doubled up, tripled up, quadrupled up, that those strategies won’t work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bibbins-Domingo called on community and business leaders to embrace policies that ensure essential workers get paid time off if they contract COVID-19. Legislators at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/pandemic/ffcra-employee-paid-leave\">federal\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/FAQ-for-PSL.html\">state\u003c/a> level have passed laws intended to expand the ranks of employees guaranteed paid sick leave for COVID-19, but many small businesses are exempt. She said public agencies also should consider paying for hotel rooms so people who live in crowded households can quarantine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She praised California’s decision to tie COVID-19-related restrictions on activities in each county to a “\u003ca href=\"https://www.chcf.org/blog/when-inequity-gets-measured-it-gets-managed/\">health equity metric\u003c/a>,” which ensures infection rates are low in all neighborhoods, not just wealthy ones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What the failure has been is to recognize that poor communities always have higher transmission during a pandemic; that we sort of expect to happen,” she said. “Knowing that is going to happen, it’s the responsibility of policymakers to actually put protections in place, to help the communities with the least resources to address the needs in the pandemic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Phillip Reese is a data reporting specialist and an assistant professor of journalism at California State University, Sacramento. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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