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Only a handful mention Tuskegee, she says, and when they do, they’re fuzzy on the details of what happened during the 40-year study.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you ask them what was it about and why do you feel like it would impact your receiving the vaccine, they can’t even tell you,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Toler remembers, and says the history is a distraction; it’s not relevant to what’s happening now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s almost the opposite of Tuskegee,” she says. “Because they were being denied treatment. And this is like, we’re pushing people forward: Go and get this vaccine. We want everybody to be protected from COVID.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Questioning the Tuskegee Legacy\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The “Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male” was a government-sponsored, taxpayer-funded study that \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/tuskegee/timeline.htm\">began in 1932\u003c/a>. Some people believe that researchers injected the men with syphilis, but that’s not true. Rather, they recruited 399 Black men from Alabama who already had the disease, though the government doctors never told them they had it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, researchers told the men they had come to cure “bad blood,” though they never intended to cure anything. Even when a cure for syphilis – penicillin – became widely available in the 1940s, the researchers withheld it and continued the study for decades, determined to track the disease to its end point: autopsy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the time the study was exposed and shut down in 1972, \u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Search-Legacy-USPHS-Syphilis-Tuskegee/dp/0739147250\">128 of the men\u003c/a> involved had died from syphilis or related complications; 40 of their wives and 19 children had also been infected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11861833\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Tuskegee-syphilis-experiment-test-subjects.gif\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11861833 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Tuskegee-syphilis-experiment-test-subjects.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"393\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A group of Tuskegee study test subjects in 1972. \u003ccite>(National Archives)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>With a horrific history like this, many scientists assumed that Black people would never want to participate in clinical research again. Over the next three decades, various books, articles and films repeated this assumption until it became gospel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That was a false assumption,” says \u003ca href=\"https://perspectivesofchange.hms.harvard.edu/node/116\">Dr. Rueben Warren\u003c/a>, director of the National Center for Bioethics in Research and Health Care at Tuskegee University in Alabama, and former associate director of Minority Health at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, from 1988 to 1997.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several researchers began to question this assumption at a 1994 bioethics conference, where almost all the speakers seemed to accept it as a given. The doubters asked, what kind of scientific evidence is there to support the notion that Black people would refuse to participate in research because of Tuskegee?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When those researchers did a comprehensive search of the existing literature, they found nothing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was apparently a ‘fact’ known more in the gut than in the head,” wrote lead doubter \u003ca href=\"https://dental.nyu.edu/faculty/ft/rvk1.html\">Ralph Katz\u003c/a>, a dentist from New York.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11861971\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11861971 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Ralph-and-Rueben-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ralph Katz (left) and Rueben Warren, both dentists, together edited the book ‘The Search for the Legacy of the USPHS Syphilis Study at Tuskegee.’ \u003ccite>(Amos Ezra Katz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So Katz formed a research team to look for this evidence. They completed a \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1780164/\">series of studies\u003c/a> over the next 14 years, focused mainly on surveying thousands of people across seven cities, from Baltimore to San Antonio to Tuskegee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11861322,news_11860883,science_1972424\"]The conclusions were definitive: While Black people were twice as “wary” of participating in research, as compared to white people, they were equally willing to actually participate. And, there was no association between knowledge of Tuskegee and willingness to participate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The hesitancy is there, but the refusal is not. And that’s an important difference,” says Warren, who later joined Katz in editing “The Search for the Legacy of the USPHS Syphilis Study at Tuskegee,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Search-Legacy-USPHS-Syphilis-Tuskegee/dp/0739147250\">a book\u003c/a> about the research. “Hesitant, yes. But not refusal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tuskegee was not the deal breaker everyone thought it was.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These results did not go over well within academic and government research circles, Warren says, as they “indicted and contradicted” the common belief that low minority enrollment in research was the result of Tuskegee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That was the excuse that they used,” Warren says. “If I don’t want to go to the extra energy, resources to include the population, I can simply say they were not interested. They refused.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, researchers had to confront the real problem. Many of them never invited Black people to participate in their studies in the first place. When they did, they didn’t try very hard. For example, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1298944/\">two studies of cardiovascular disease\u003c/a> offered enrollment to more than 2,000 white people, compared to no more than 30 people from minority groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a tendency to use Tuskegee as a scapegoat, for us, as researchers, not doing what we need to do to ensure that people are well-educated about the benefits of participating in a clinical trial,” says \u003ca href=\"https://moffitt.org/about-moffitt/executive-leadership/b-lee-green-phd/\">B. Lee Green\u003c/a>, vice president of diversity at Moffitt Cancer Center in Florida, who worked on the early research.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There may be individuals in the community who absolutely remember Tuskegee, and we should not discount that,” he adds. But hesitancy “is more related to individuals’ lived experiences, what people live each and every day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC1159684077&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>‘It’s What Happened to Me Yesterday’\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Some of the same presumptions that were made about clinical research are resurfacing today around the coronavirus vaccine. A lot of hesitancy is being confused for refusal, Warren says. And so many of the entrenched structural barriers that are limiting access to the vaccine in Black communities are not being sufficiently addressed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tuskegee is once again being used as a scapegoat, says USC professor of social work Karen Lincoln.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you say Tuskegee, then you don’t have to acknowledge things like pharmacy deserts, things like poverty and unemployment,” she says. “You can just say, ‘That happened then. Things are different now and there’s nothing we can do about it.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says the contemporary failures of the health care system are causing more distrust than the events of the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s what happened to me yesterday,” she says. “Not what happened in the ’50s or ’60s, when Tuskegee was actually active.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11861882\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11861882\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Karen-Lincoln-copy-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">USC social work professor Karen Lincoln talks with attendees at an event hosted by the group she founded, Advocates for African American Elders. \u003ccite>(Jason Duncan/for AAAE)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The seniors she works with, through her group \u003ca href=\"https://www.aaaeonline.com/\">Advocates for African American Elders\u003c/a>, complain all the time about doctors dismissing their concerns and talking down to them, or nurses answering the hospital call buttons for their white roommates more often than for them.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Dr. Rueben Warren, Tuskegee University\"]‘The hesitancy is there, but the refusal is not. And that’s an important difference.’[/pullquote]They point to the recent Facebook Live video of \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/23/us/susan-moore-black-doctor-indiana.html\">Susan Moore\u003c/a> as a prime example of the unequal treatment Black people receive. Moore, a Black doctor from Indiana who got COVID-19, filmed herself from her hospital bed, an oxygen tube in her nose. She said she had to beg her physician to continue her course of Remdesivir, the drug that speeds up recovery from the disease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He said, ‘Ah, you don’t need it. You’re not even short of breath.’ I said ‘Yes, I am,’ ” Moore said into the camera. “I put forward and I maintain, if I was white, I wouldn’t have to go through that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moore died two weeks later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She knew what kind of treatment she should be getting and she wasn’t getting it,” said Maxine Toler, the 72-year-old from LA. “We saw it up close and personal with the president, that he got the best of everything. They cured him in a couple of days, and our people are dying like flies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Toler and her neighbors are watching the same inequity play out with the vaccine. The first mass vaccination sites set up in LA – at Dodger Stadium and Disneyland – are difficult to get to from Black neighborhoods without a car, and you practically needed a computer science degree to get an online appointment for the early doses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>White people are snatching up appointments, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/30/us/new-york-vaccine-disparities/index.html\">even at clinics intended for disadvantaged communities\u003c/a>, while people of color can’t get through. So far, Black people make up just 2.9% of Californians who have received the vaccination, even though they account for 6.2% of the state’s COVID-19 deaths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s stories like these that stoke mistrust, Lincoln says. “And the word travels fast when people have negative experiences. They share it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The key to addressing this mistrust requires a paradigm shift, says Warren of Tuskegee University. If you want Black people to trust doctors and trust the vaccine, don’t blame them for distrusting it, he says. The obligation is on health institutions to first show they are trustworthy: to listen, take responsibility, show accountability and stop making excuses. That, he adds, means providing information about the vaccine without being paternalistic and making it easier to access in Black communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Prove yourself trustworthy and trust will follow,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you ask them what was it about and why do you feel like it would impact your receiving the vaccine, they can’t even tell you,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Toler remembers, and says the history is a distraction; it’s not relevant to what’s happening now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s almost the opposite of Tuskegee,” she says. “Because they were being denied treatment. And this is like, we’re pushing people forward: Go and get this vaccine. We want everybody to be protected from COVID.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Questioning the Tuskegee Legacy\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The “Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male” was a government-sponsored, taxpayer-funded study that \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/tuskegee/timeline.htm\">began in 1932\u003c/a>. Some people believe that researchers injected the men with syphilis, but that’s not true. Rather, they recruited 399 Black men from Alabama who already had the disease, though the government doctors never told them they had it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, researchers told the men they had come to cure “bad blood,” though they never intended to cure anything. Even when a cure for syphilis – penicillin – became widely available in the 1940s, the researchers withheld it and continued the study for decades, determined to track the disease to its end point: autopsy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the time the study was exposed and shut down in 1972, \u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Search-Legacy-USPHS-Syphilis-Tuskegee/dp/0739147250\">128 of the men\u003c/a> involved had died from syphilis or related complications; 40 of their wives and 19 children had also been infected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11861833\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Tuskegee-syphilis-experiment-test-subjects.gif\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11861833 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Tuskegee-syphilis-experiment-test-subjects.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"393\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A group of Tuskegee study test subjects in 1972. \u003ccite>(National Archives)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>With a horrific history like this, many scientists assumed that Black people would never want to participate in clinical research again. Over the next three decades, various books, articles and films repeated this assumption until it became gospel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That was a false assumption,” says \u003ca href=\"https://perspectivesofchange.hms.harvard.edu/node/116\">Dr. Rueben Warren\u003c/a>, director of the National Center for Bioethics in Research and Health Care at Tuskegee University in Alabama, and former associate director of Minority Health at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, from 1988 to 1997.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several researchers began to question this assumption at a 1994 bioethics conference, where almost all the speakers seemed to accept it as a given. The doubters asked, what kind of scientific evidence is there to support the notion that Black people would refuse to participate in research because of Tuskegee?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When those researchers did a comprehensive search of the existing literature, they found nothing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was apparently a ‘fact’ known more in the gut than in the head,” wrote lead doubter \u003ca href=\"https://dental.nyu.edu/faculty/ft/rvk1.html\">Ralph Katz\u003c/a>, a dentist from New York.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11861971\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11861971 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Ralph-and-Rueben-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ralph Katz (left) and Rueben Warren, both dentists, together edited the book ‘The Search for the Legacy of the USPHS Syphilis Study at Tuskegee.’ \u003ccite>(Amos Ezra Katz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So Katz formed a research team to look for this evidence. They completed a \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1780164/\">series of studies\u003c/a> over the next 14 years, focused mainly on surveying thousands of people across seven cities, from Baltimore to San Antonio to Tuskegee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cbr>\nIn the Bay Area, eligible residents in San Francisco and Alameda County, which includes adults over 65, educators, food workers, emergency services employees and all healthcare workers listed in Phase 1A of the state’s vaccination plan, can use My Turn to make a vaccination appointment at the Oakland Coliseum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beyond the Coliseum, those wanting to get vaccinated in the Bay Area can contact their county’s health department or their medical care provider.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state government hopes that by spring, My Turn will serve as the one platform Californians can go to get vaccinated, instead of having to possibly contact multiple counties, clinics or insurance companies to schedule a vaccine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there still exists challenges to get the state, Blue Shield and the vast network of vaccination providers across the state on the same page.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Carrigan said there are currently more than 90 vaccination sites in her county of 900,000 people, and her office doesn’t have a say which ones will remain under Blue Shield.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county has been using spreadsheets to keep track of vaccinations and will continue to do so for people who already have appointments and for those who have received first doses and are awaiting a second, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We feel like in Kern County we have this system dialed in. We’re ready. We just need more supply,” she said. “So making changes without a lot of explanation, without a lot of details, is a little bit scary for us, to be frank.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post includes reporting from KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/ccabreralomeli\">Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/\">Associated Press\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\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. \u003cstrong>Check out our guide, available in both \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11855623/where-can-i-get-a-covid-19-vaccine-in-the-bay-area-your-questions-answered\">English\u003c/a> and \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\">Spanish\u003c/a>.\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\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. Check out our guide, available in \u003ca class=\"c-link\" href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11855623/where-can-i-get-a-covid-19-vaccine-in-the-bay-area-your-questions-answered\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11855623/where-can-i-get-a-covid-19-vaccine-in-the-bay-area-your-questions-answered\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">English\u003c/a> and \u003ca class=\"c-link\" href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11856006/cuando-y-donde-puede-vacunarse-contra-covid-19-en-el-area-de-la-bahia-aqui-tiene-las-respuestas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11856006/cuando-y-donde-puede-vacunarse-contra-covid-19-en-el-area-de-la-bahia-aqui-tiene-las-respuestas\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">Spanish\u003c/a> here.\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>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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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. 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That’s a huge jump from last month, when state officials were criticized for lagging efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I remind you, that’s more than double where we were a few weeks ago and more than triple where we were three to four weeks ago,” Newsom said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supersites like Levi’s Stadium now dot the state, and an increasing number of mobile units are also being dispatched to reach underserved communities, such as farm workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/CAgovernor/status/1358921091477958657\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the effectiveness of those efforts all hinges on vaccine supply, officials noted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Supply is the issue. That is the constraint,” Newsom said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To date, more than 4.9 million doses of the vaccine have been doled out in California. 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"content": "\u003cp>Olegaria Ruiz is among scores of undocumented front-line workers who feel left out of California’s new age-based COVID-19 vaccination plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Alex Sanchez, Garment Worker Center\" ]‘It might be funny to say, but maybe I needed to walk in somebody else’s shoes in order to understand what they’re going through.’[/pullquote]“More than anything, we need the government to help us get the vaccine, too,” said Ruiz, 46, who’s worked in the garment industry in Los Angeles for 27 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ruiz says she doesn’t know of any co-workers, including those over 65, who have gotten the vaccine yet. A lot of them, she says, lack internet access and don’t know how to navigate the state’s complicated sign-up system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout the pandemic, Ruiz has worked 12-hour shifts, seven days a week to sew masks, hospital gowns and surgical hair nets for doctors and nurses, she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she says she’s not always paid for all the hours she works and sometimes earns less than minimum wage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11858873\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/94B2E043-0339-4F3B-8C38-A5A3EACDEB12.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11858873 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/94B2E043-0339-4F3B-8C38-A5A3EACDEB12.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/94B2E043-0339-4F3B-8C38-A5A3EACDEB12.jpeg 600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/94B2E043-0339-4F3B-8C38-A5A3EACDEB12-160x160.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/94B2E043-0339-4F3B-8C38-A5A3EACDEB12-550x550.jpeg 550w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/94B2E043-0339-4F3B-8C38-A5A3EACDEB12-470x470.jpeg 470w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ruiz sews face masks at her station in a garment factory. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Estela Perez, a member of the Garment Workers Center.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At the same time, it’s difficult to socially distance in sweatshop factories, where upward of 50 seamstresses can often be sewing in one room. To make matters worse, Ruiz says many of her co-workers workers aren’t being provided face masks by their employers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"essential-workers\"]“There’s no social distancing, and people don’t use masks,” Ruiz said. “[Some of my co-workers] sometimes can’t afford to buy masks because we aren’t being paid what we’re supposed to — a minimum salary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ruiz worries about getting sick, but feels like she has no choice but to show up to work. As an undocumented worker, she doesn’t qualify for unemployment benefits or government stimulus payments. For now, she has to focus on keeping a roof over her family’s head.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re afraid to work, but we have to do it,” said Ruiz. “How are we going to pay rent? How are we going to pay bills? We can’t force our children to live on the street.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s hard to know how bad COVID-19 outbreaks have been in sweatshop factories because many of them operate in the shadows, and workers like Ruiz frequently move between jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t believe the ICU numbers tell the whole story as far as how many people are going to live and die because of reopening [California’s economy],” said Alex Sanchez, a field organizer with the \u003ca href=\"https://garmentworkercenter.org/\">Garment Worker Center\u003c/a>, which advocates for the estimated 45,000 garment workers in Los Angeles. “I think it’s way too soon. And I don’t believe we are going to be able to flatten the curve if we still have people out there at high risk not having access to a vaccine.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanchez, 44, contracted COVID-19 in late December, likely from his son, who works at an Amazon warehouse where there have been several outbreaks. He had no preexisting conditions, but was hospitalized in the ICU for nearly two weeks. He’s now home, recovering with the help of an oxygen machine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I’ve been sick battling Covid and pneumonia since 12/27. I was hospitalized for two weeks. Even if anything reopens, please protect yourself. I am 44 years old with no pre-existing conditions and almost died. Please be safe. 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