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"content": "\u003cp>Going to a dental office during a global pandemic is a bit like playing a video game. Patients and office staff will muster their greatest patience and don new protective gear to overcome hurdles previously unseen. Once inside the office, they will navigate an intricate maze of socially distanced people, plexiglass sneeze guards and bottles of hand sanitizer before making it to their final destination: the dental chair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dental offices postponed routine and nonurgent care following the statewide stay-at-home order issued March 19. Dental visits slowed to a trickle of emergencies: a painful tooth, for example, broken tooth, or facial swelling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As California entered Stage 2 of the state’s reopening in early May, when curbside pickup for some retail like flower shops and bookstores was permitted, the state also allowed routine dental care, such as cleanings and exams, to resume.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But like the loosening of other restrictions, the return to regular dental care varies based on permission from counties themselves. What’s resulted is a patchwork of rules and regulations, and confusion for dentists and patients alike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The state was saying one thing and then you had counties saying different things,” said dentist Dr. Natasha Lee, of the San Francisco-based private practice \u003ca href=\"http://www.betterlivingthroughdentistry.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Better Living Through Dentistry.\u003c/a> “Everyone was like, ‘Well, who do I listen to?'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The correct answer, says Lee, a former president of the California Dental Association, is whichever directive is more restrictive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the state announced in early May that dental offices could resume routine care, the soonest Lee could do so in San Francisco was on May 18, which she did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And things in her office look a lot different.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before patients even come in, staff will screen patients over the phone for symptoms of COVID-19 and ask whether they’ve traveled recently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If they check out, they will head to their scheduled appointment. When they arrive, however, they won’t open the door and enter the waiting room. They’ll knock and be met by staff outside the clinic, where they go through the same screening again, plus a temperature check.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Only then do we actually allow a patient to come into the practice,” Lee said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Office staff give patients a new surgical mask, even if they brought a mask from home. Patients will see a receptionist who is behind plexiglass sneeze guards, a setup Lee calls “an aquarium.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1965202\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1965202 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2020/05/RS43413_IMG_6993-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Office manager Cessalyn Maquinana at the front desk of the Better Living through Dentistry Office. New additions for the pandemic: plexiglass sneeze guards, separate cups for clean and used pens, and hand sanitizer.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/05/RS43413_IMG_6993-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/05/RS43413_IMG_6993-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/05/RS43413_IMG_6993-qut-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/05/RS43413_IMG_6993-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/05/RS43413_IMG_6993-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Office manager Cessalyn Maquinana at the front desk of the Better Living Through Dentistry office. New additions for the pandemic: plexiglass sneeze guards, separate cups for clean and used pens, and hand sanitizer. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Dr. Natasha Lee)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A staff member escorts patients to the treatment room, “to make sure that we’re timing patient arrival and patient departure so we don’t have anyone crossing paths in the hallway,” Lee said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the treatment room, patients wash their hands and rinse with a peroxide-based mouthwash. Finally, they’ll take their seat in the dental chair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I come into the room, they say, ‘Oh, Dr. Lee, it’s so nice to see you,'” Lee said. “And then I realize they can’t see me because I’m behind all this PPE now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New personal protective gear for dentists includes an N95 face mask, a face shield, a hair covering and a fresh gown. The gowns are disposed of after each patient is seen, even if it’s just for a brief exam.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It may be hard to hear Lee too, since she has four new HEPA air filters whirring in her office to increase air flow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of Lee’s new practices are guided by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/Guidance-for-Resuming-Deferred-and-Preventive-Dental-Care--.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">California Department of Public Health\u003c/a>. Dentists across California are taking similar measures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of that is not without a cost. In Oakland, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sharonalbrightdds.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dr. Sharon Albright\u003c/a>, who was once my dentist, says she’s spent more than $10,000 to prepare her office and outfit her staff to resume routine care next week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While she isn’t having trouble finding enough PPE, she said it has become much more expensive than it once was.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the new financial costs, Albright said dentists are uniquely prepared for this kind of challenge, based on their training and experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve been dealing with a lot of things in dentistry. There was AIDS, there’s always been hepatitis B, tuberculosis” Albright said. “We’re no stranger to microbes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Albright’s office does resume offering a full range of services, it’ll see fewer patients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So will the nonprofit \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdhc.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Children’s Dental Health Clinic\u003c/a> in Long Beach. Before the pandemic, the large clinic saw roughly 100 young patients per day, said Executive Director Dr. John Blake, and still couldn’t meet the demand. Now, Blake said they can see about half that many people in the same amount of time. He’s considering seeing patients at night to accommodate more of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other clinics are considering using teledentistry for things like evaluations before a procedure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While getting close to another person feels precarious these days, Blake believes dental care is still safe. And the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports there have been \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/dental-settings.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">no clusters of COVID-19 outbreaks\u003c/a> in dental settings or among dental health care personnel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blake said he explains it to hesitant patients like this:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The dental office, if they have the proper PPE, if they have the proper recommended protocols in place, is much safer than going to the supermarket.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The correct answer, says Lee, a former president of the California Dental Association, is whichever directive is more restrictive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the state announced in early May that dental offices could resume routine care, the soonest Lee could do so in San Francisco was on May 18, which she did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And things in her office look a lot different.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before patients even come in, staff will screen patients over the phone for symptoms of COVID-19 and ask whether they’ve traveled recently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If they check out, they will head to their scheduled appointment. When they arrive, however, they won’t open the door and enter the waiting room. They’ll knock and be met by staff outside the clinic, where they go through the same screening again, plus a temperature check.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Only then do we actually allow a patient to come into the practice,” Lee said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Office staff give patients a new surgical mask, even if they brought a mask from home. Patients will see a receptionist who is behind plexiglass sneeze guards, a setup Lee calls “an aquarium.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1965202\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1965202 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2020/05/RS43413_IMG_6993-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Office manager Cessalyn Maquinana at the front desk of the Better Living through Dentistry Office. New additions for the pandemic: plexiglass sneeze guards, separate cups for clean and used pens, and hand sanitizer.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/05/RS43413_IMG_6993-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/05/RS43413_IMG_6993-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/05/RS43413_IMG_6993-qut-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/05/RS43413_IMG_6993-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/05/RS43413_IMG_6993-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Office manager Cessalyn Maquinana at the front desk of the Better Living Through Dentistry office. New additions for the pandemic: plexiglass sneeze guards, separate cups for clean and used pens, and hand sanitizer. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Dr. Natasha Lee)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A staff member escorts patients to the treatment room, “to make sure that we’re timing patient arrival and patient departure so we don’t have anyone crossing paths in the hallway,” Lee said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the treatment room, patients wash their hands and rinse with a peroxide-based mouthwash. Finally, they’ll take their seat in the dental chair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I come into the room, they say, ‘Oh, Dr. Lee, it’s so nice to see you,'” Lee said. “And then I realize they can’t see me because I’m behind all this PPE now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New personal protective gear for dentists includes an N95 face mask, a face shield, a hair covering and a fresh gown. The gowns are disposed of after each patient is seen, even if it’s just for a brief exam.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It may be hard to hear Lee too, since she has four new HEPA air filters whirring in her office to increase air flow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of Lee’s new practices are guided by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/Guidance-for-Resuming-Deferred-and-Preventive-Dental-Care--.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">California Department of Public Health\u003c/a>. Dentists across California are taking similar measures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of that is not without a cost. In Oakland, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sharonalbrightdds.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dr. Sharon Albright\u003c/a>, who was once my dentist, says she’s spent more than $10,000 to prepare her office and outfit her staff to resume routine care next week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While she isn’t having trouble finding enough PPE, she said it has become much more expensive than it once was.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the new financial costs, Albright said dentists are uniquely prepared for this kind of challenge, based on their training and experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve been dealing with a lot of things in dentistry. 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"content": "\u003cp>A milkshake got into the nursing home; the daughter of the patient it was intended for could not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ninety-six-year-old Betty Odette, a resident at the Astoria Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in the San Fernando Valley, has a sweet tooth. Often brownies and vanilla ice cream, says her daughter Randy, who in early March came to the lobby of the facility with a shamrock shake instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote citation='Randy Odette, barred from seeing her mom in a nursing home due to the coronavirus']‘I mean, test me, go ahead and test me, and then let me in.’[/pullquote] State and county orders, and the way health care professionals interpret them, stopped her from seeing her mother; a care aide let the shake in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mean, test me, go ahead and test me, and then let me in,” Randy said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly 8,000 Californians in skilled nursing facilities have tested positive for COVID-19. According to the most recent state data, almost 20 percent of those patients have died — a far greater percentage than among the general population. That heightened risk is why the state has locked down nursing homes to most visitors, with a few exceptions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, Randy Odette has not been one of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By April, the coronavirus crept into Astoria. On May 4, the nursing home \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/CDPH%20Document%20Library/COVID-19/SNF%20DATA%20-%20May%204.xlsx\">reported\u003c/a> that 19 workers were sick. At the outbreak’s peak, on May 11, the nursing home \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/CDPH%20Document%20Library/COVID-19/SNF%20DATA%20-%20May%2011.xlsx\">reported\u003c/a> 52 residents had tested positive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Including Betty Odette.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"#callout\">Click here if you know someone in a nursing home or assisted facility … share your story!\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of early May, officials \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CHCQ/LCP/Pages/AFL-20-38.aspx\">have recommended\u003c/a> to all licensed facilities in California that they permit some exceptions to the lockdown, including support visits for end-of-life visitors, and for people experiencing cognitive impairments when medically necessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What the state offers is guidance, not a rule. The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/long-term-care-strategies.html\">recommends\u003c/a> screening everyone who enters a nursing home and restricting visitors except in “compassionate care” situations. Those, too, are only guidelines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates and family members report wide variation in how state and federal guidance is interpreted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Astoria, “They basically have to be at death’s door, you know, suffered a massive stroke or they’re gonna die that day, that night,” Randy Odette said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s a call she fears. Because she’s already received it, about a month ago. Early one weekend morning, around 3 a.m., her mother’s blood pressure plummeted. Astoria care workers called Randy, who is her mother’s guardian, to ask about end-of-life plans. So Randy asked to come in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The night shift told her to call back in the day. She did, a few times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Finally, I was a little bit persuasive and they tell me, OK, are you ready to go in today, if we got you all garbed up?” Randy remembers. “And then he goes, oh, tomorrow, tomorrow; I’ll call you and we’ll set up a time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tomorrow came; a call did not. Randy called back, and she said they told her “no.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Manny Ruiz is the home’s administrator. He said it was against doctor’s orders to permit Randy inside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is a medical decision, it is not an administrative decision,” he said. “There [are] no visitors allowed to be in the facility unless it’s a critical situation. And if that is a critical situation, it has to be defined by the attending physician.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ruiz said doctors are worried about liability for spreading COVID-19 beyond Astoria’s walls, and that Betty is not critical. “I feel for these residents, not being seen by their relatives. But we want to play safe as well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1965015\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 756px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2020/05/Resized_20191114_161656_15798583451002.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1965015 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2020/05/Resized_20191114_161656_15798583451002.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"756\" height=\"1008\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/05/Resized_20191114_161656_15798583451002.jpg 756w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/05/Resized_20191114_161656_15798583451002-160x213.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 756px) 100vw, 756px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Betty Odette, 96, has Alzheimer’s – and COVID-19. Her daughter has sought to visit her at a Sylmar nursing home, but is not allowed. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Randy Odette)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Betty’s doctor works for Kaiser Permanente. Kaiser spokesman Terry Kanakri didn’t respond to questions about liability, emphasizing that while Kaiser doesn’t own Astoria or any other nursing homes in California, “our physicians assess and treat patients being cared for in these facilities, and their health and safety are our top priorities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser says it is Ruiz’s call.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As far as the rules and policies at each site, including visitation, they are set at the discretion of the management teams at the nursing homes,” Kanakri said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They all were like passing the buck and didn’t want to take any responsibility for what I was asking,” Randy said. “That’s the way I took it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in January, Randy and her mother both made big moves: Betty, to the nursing home; 62-year-old Randy to an RV now parked 20 minutes from Astoria’s door. A retired hairdresser, she took care of her mother at home for almost a dozen years. The last two were especially hard. Randy was hoping to visit friends around the country in her RV; the national shutdown has delayed her plan indefinitely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Everything she owns is inside the vehicle, including family pictures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She was like a movie star type,” Randy said, pulling snapshots of her mother from behind the front seat. “You’ll see.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1965011\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 315px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2020/05/IMG_7903.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1965011\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2020/05/IMG_7903-1020x1360.jpg\" alt=\"Betty Odette is 96\" width=\"315\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/05/IMG_7903-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/05/IMG_7903-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/05/IMG_7903-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/05/IMG_7903-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/05/IMG_7903-1920x2560.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/05/IMG_7903.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 315px) 100vw, 315px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An undated photo of Betty Odette, a 96-year-old resident of Astoria Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in the San Fernando Valley, who has tested positive for COVID-19. \u003ccite>(KQED/Molly Peterson)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>They’re glamorous: a candid shot from 1969 of her mother in a beaded shift dress and drop earrings; an undated portrait shows off her perfectly waved red hair and lipstick to match. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, Randy Odette has not been one of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By April, the coronavirus crept into Astoria. On May 4, the nursing home \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/CDPH%20Document%20Library/COVID-19/SNF%20DATA%20-%20May%204.xlsx\">reported\u003c/a> that 19 workers were sick. At the outbreak’s peak, on May 11, the nursing home \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/CDPH%20Document%20Library/COVID-19/SNF%20DATA%20-%20May%2011.xlsx\">reported\u003c/a> 52 residents had tested positive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Including Betty Odette.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"#callout\">Click here if you know someone in a nursing home or assisted facility … share your story!\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of early May, officials \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CHCQ/LCP/Pages/AFL-20-38.aspx\">have recommended\u003c/a> to all licensed facilities in California that they permit some exceptions to the lockdown, including support visits for end-of-life visitors, and for people experiencing cognitive impairments when medically necessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What the state offers is guidance, not a rule. The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/long-term-care-strategies.html\">recommends\u003c/a> screening everyone who enters a nursing home and restricting visitors except in “compassionate care” situations. Those, too, are only guidelines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates and family members report wide variation in how state and federal guidance is interpreted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Astoria, “They basically have to be at death’s door, you know, suffered a massive stroke or they’re gonna die that day, that night,” Randy Odette said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s a call she fears. Because she’s already received it, about a month ago. Early one weekend morning, around 3 a.m., her mother’s blood pressure plummeted. Astoria care workers called Randy, who is her mother’s guardian, to ask about end-of-life plans. So Randy asked to come in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The night shift told her to call back in the day. She did, a few times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Finally, I was a little bit persuasive and they tell me, OK, are you ready to go in today, if we got you all garbed up?” Randy remembers. “And then he goes, oh, tomorrow, tomorrow; I’ll call you and we’ll set up a time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tomorrow came; a call did not. Randy called back, and she said they told her “no.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Manny Ruiz is the home’s administrator. He said it was against doctor’s orders to permit Randy inside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is a medical decision, it is not an administrative decision,” he said. “There [are] no visitors allowed to be in the facility unless it’s a critical situation. And if that is a critical situation, it has to be defined by the attending physician.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ruiz said doctors are worried about liability for spreading COVID-19 beyond Astoria’s walls, and that Betty is not critical. “I feel for these residents, not being seen by their relatives. But we want to play safe as well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1965015\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 756px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2020/05/Resized_20191114_161656_15798583451002.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1965015 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2020/05/Resized_20191114_161656_15798583451002.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"756\" height=\"1008\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/05/Resized_20191114_161656_15798583451002.jpg 756w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/05/Resized_20191114_161656_15798583451002-160x213.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 756px) 100vw, 756px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Betty Odette, 96, has Alzheimer’s – and COVID-19. Her daughter has sought to visit her at a Sylmar nursing home, but is not allowed. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Randy Odette)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Betty’s doctor works for Kaiser Permanente. Kaiser spokesman Terry Kanakri didn’t respond to questions about liability, emphasizing that while Kaiser doesn’t own Astoria or any other nursing homes in California, “our physicians assess and treat patients being cared for in these facilities, and their health and safety are our top priorities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser says it is Ruiz’s call.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As far as the rules and policies at each site, including visitation, they are set at the discretion of the management teams at the nursing homes,” Kanakri said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They all were like passing the buck and didn’t want to take any responsibility for what I was asking,” Randy said. “That’s the way I took it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in January, Randy and her mother both made big moves: Betty, to the nursing home; 62-year-old Randy to an RV now parked 20 minutes from Astoria’s door. A retired hairdresser, she took care of her mother at home for almost a dozen years. The last two were especially hard. Randy was hoping to visit friends around the country in her RV; the national shutdown has delayed her plan indefinitely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Everything she owns is inside the vehicle, including family pictures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She was like a movie star type,” Randy said, pulling snapshots of her mother from behind the front seat. “You’ll see.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1965011\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 315px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2020/05/IMG_7903.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1965011\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2020/05/IMG_7903-1020x1360.jpg\" alt=\"Betty Odette is 96\" width=\"315\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/05/IMG_7903-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/05/IMG_7903-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/05/IMG_7903-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/05/IMG_7903-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/05/IMG_7903-1920x2560.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/05/IMG_7903.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 315px) 100vw, 315px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An undated photo of Betty Odette, a 96-year-old resident of Astoria Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in the San Fernando Valley, who has tested positive for COVID-19. \u003ccite>(KQED/Molly Peterson)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>They’re glamorous: a candid shot from 1969 of her mother in a beaded shift dress and drop earrings; an undated portrait shows off her perfectly waved red hair and lipstick to match. In a recent picture, that glamour remains in a tilt of her chin, even as memory loss has hollowed her gaze, while age and disease have shrunk her body.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Randy says after a dozen years of caretaking, she knows her mother’s health as well as the facility does. Four years ago, doctors told her Betty was in the last stages of Alzheimer’s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know she’s going to pass soon. I can’t even believe she made it to 96,” she said, her voice rising and cracking. Then more quietly: “I just haven’t seen her for two-and-a-half months. I want to see her before she passes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Randy vows she would take any test, or put on any amount of personal protective gear. She’s not worried she’ll get COVID-19. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Originally posted May 5\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>County health departments in the Bay Area have issued a joint set of \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/covid19/Pages/bay-area-health-officer-indicator.aspx?mc_cid=634de84af2&mc_eid=e3e8054959\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">criteria\u003c/a> to guide them in deciding when and how much to allow the region to tiptoe out of its current forced hibernation. For those who want to access the kind of COVID-19 data that public health officials are staring at in order to divine the right conditions for loosening restrictions, we’ve curated some of the best resources for tracking the numbers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First up is the California Health and Human Services Agency’s dashboard, which is chock-full of \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://public.tableau.com/views/COVID-19PublicDashboard/Covid-19Public?:embed=y&:display_count=no&:showVizHome=no\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">California case statistics\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> and \u003ca href=\"https://public.tableau.com/views/COVID-19PublicDashboard/Covid-19Hospitals?:embed=y&:display_count=no&:showVizHome=no\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>hospital data\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>, sorted by every county in the state. We also included data dashboards for the Bay Area, the U.S. and the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>More California Data\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/P\">County Data Monitoring\u003c/a> – Metrics that the California Department of Public Health is tracking, including case rates, testing positivity and available ventilators \u003cspan style=\"color: #0000ff;\">\u003cem>NEW\u003c/em>\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11809760/how-many-california-coronavirus-cases-see-latest-numbers-by-county\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">California Coronavirus Tracker by County\u003c/a> – KQED\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/projects/california-coronavirus-cases-tracking-outbreak/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">California Coronavirus Tracking\u003c/a> – Comprehensive data on cases, deaths, hospitalizations, demographics and testing, viewable by county and city, from the Los Angeles Times\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/Immunization/ncov2019.aspx#COVID-19%20by%20the%20Numbers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">California COVID-19 by the Numbers\u003c/a> – California Department of Public Health\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch3>Bay Area Data\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The nine counties of the Bay Area have released data dashboards where you can monitor daily counts on cases, deaths, hospitalizations, demographics and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here is \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/covid19/Pages/dashboard.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Santa Clara County’s data\u003c/a>, for example. Click on the image to be taken to the dashboard. Links to the other counties are directly below.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1963598\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/covid19/Pages/dashboard.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1963598 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2013/04/SantaClara.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2013/04/SantaClara.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2013/04/SantaClara-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2013/04/SantaClara-768x511.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Screenshot of Santa Clara dashboad taking April 29, 2020\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Data Dashboards by County\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://ac-hcsa.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/1e0ac4385cbe4cc1bffe2cf7f8e7f0d9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alameda\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.coronavirus.cchealth.org/dashboard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Contra Costa\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://coronavirus.marinhhs.org/surveillance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Marin\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://legacy.livestories.com/s/v2/coronavirus-report-for-napa-county-ca/9065d62d-f5a6-445f-b2a9-b7cf30b846dd/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Napa\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://data.sfgov.org/stories/s/fjki-2fab\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Francisco\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.smchealth.org/post/san-mateo-county-covid-19-data-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Mateo\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/covid19/Pages/dashboard.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Santa Clara\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://doitgis.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapSeries/index.html?appid=055f81e9fe154da5860257e3f2489d67\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Solano\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://sonomacounty.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapSeries/index.html?appid=21a1653b79ba42039ff22bcb85fa5b19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sonoma\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch3>Projected Peaks in U.S. States and the World\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, a research center at University of Washington Medicine, \u003ca href=\"https://covid19.healthdata.org/united-states-of-america\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">models the projected curve\u003c/a> of the pandemic for each U.S. state and each nation using the latest available data. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Originally posted May 5\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>County health departments in the Bay Area have issued a joint set of \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/covid19/Pages/bay-area-health-officer-indicator.aspx?mc_cid=634de84af2&mc_eid=e3e8054959\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">criteria\u003c/a> to guide them in deciding when and how much to allow the region to tiptoe out of its current forced hibernation. For those who want to access the kind of COVID-19 data that public health officials are staring at in order to divine the right conditions for loosening restrictions, we’ve curated some of the best resources for tracking the numbers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First up is the California Health and Human Services Agency’s dashboard, which is chock-full of \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://public.tableau.com/views/COVID-19PublicDashboard/Covid-19Public?:embed=y&:display_count=no&:showVizHome=no\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">California case statistics\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> and \u003ca href=\"https://public.tableau.com/views/COVID-19PublicDashboard/Covid-19Hospitals?:embed=y&:display_count=no&:showVizHome=no\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>hospital data\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>, sorted by every county in the state. We also included data dashboards for the Bay Area, the U.S. and the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>More California Data\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/P\">County Data Monitoring\u003c/a> – Metrics that the California Department of Public Health is tracking, including case rates, testing positivity and available ventilators \u003cspan style=\"color: #0000ff;\">\u003cem>NEW\u003c/em>\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11809760/how-many-california-coronavirus-cases-see-latest-numbers-by-county\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">California Coronavirus Tracker by County\u003c/a> – KQED\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/projects/california-coronavirus-cases-tracking-outbreak/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">California Coronavirus Tracking\u003c/a> – Comprehensive data on cases, deaths, hospitalizations, demographics and testing, viewable by county and city, from the Los Angeles Times\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/Immunization/ncov2019.aspx#COVID-19%20by%20the%20Numbers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">California COVID-19 by the Numbers\u003c/a> – California Department of Public Health\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch3>Bay Area Data\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The nine counties of the Bay Area have released data dashboards where you can monitor daily counts on cases, deaths, hospitalizations, demographics and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here is \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/covid19/Pages/dashboard.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Santa Clara County’s data\u003c/a>, for example. Click on the image to be taken to the dashboard. Links to the other counties are directly below.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1963598\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/covid19/Pages/dashboard.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1963598 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2013/04/SantaClara.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2013/04/SantaClara.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2013/04/SantaClara-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2013/04/SantaClara-768x511.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Screenshot of Santa Clara dashboad taking April 29, 2020\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Data Dashboards by County\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://ac-hcsa.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/1e0ac4385cbe4cc1bffe2cf7f8e7f0d9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alameda\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.coronavirus.cchealth.org/dashboard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Contra Costa\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://coronavirus.marinhhs.org/surveillance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Marin\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://legacy.livestories.com/s/v2/coronavirus-report-for-napa-county-ca/9065d62d-f5a6-445f-b2a9-b7cf30b846dd/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Napa\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://data.sfgov.org/stories/s/fjki-2fab\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Francisco\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.smchealth.org/post/san-mateo-county-covid-19-data-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Mateo\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/covid19/Pages/dashboard.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Santa Clara\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://doitgis.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapSeries/index.html?appid=055f81e9fe154da5860257e3f2489d67\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Solano\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://sonomacounty.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapSeries/index.html?appid=21a1653b79ba42039ff22bcb85fa5b19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sonoma\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch3>Projected Peaks in U.S. States and the World\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, a research center at University of Washington Medicine, \u003ca href=\"https://covid19.healthdata.org/united-states-of-america\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">models the projected curve\u003c/a> of the pandemic for each U.S. state and each nation using the latest available data. Though of late the model has come under some \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1962318/coronavirus-model-used-by-trump-administration-to-guide-reopening-is-flawed-critics-say\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">criticism\u003c/a>. Here’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/22/upshot/coronavirus-models.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">more about different models\u003c/a> from The New York Times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://covid19.healthdata.org/united-states-of-america\" height=\"700\" width=\"100%\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>More U.S. data\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1962884/bay_area_coronavirus_data\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center Map\u003c/a> – Find data for any county in the U.S.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/03/16/816707182/map-tracking-the-spread-of-the-coronavirus-in-the-u-s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR State Tracking\u003c/a> – How quickly is the virus spreading in each state? \u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/cases-in-us.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Data\u003c/a> – \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/covid-data/forecasting-us.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">forecasts\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-us-cases.html\">New York Times Coronavirus Tracking\u003c/a> – Maps, hot spots, case growth rates\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://covidtracking.com/data\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">COVID Tracking Project\u003c/a> – Testing data state-by-state\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch3>Across the Globe: Cases, Deaths, Recoveries and More\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>If you want to find coronavirus data for cities across the globe, the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins has created a \u003ca href=\"https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">global interactive map\u003c/a> with stats for the number of COVID-19 cases and deaths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html\" width=\"100%\" height=\"700\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>WHO Data Tracks Curves by Region and Country\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The World Health Organization (WHO) keeps a \u003ca href=\"https://covid19.who.int/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Situation Dashboard\u003c/a> showing the number of cases and fatalities by country. 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"content": "\u003cp>As a sunny Memorial Day weekend approaches, many, including me, wonder what a pandemic summer looks like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I can squash the longing to go to concerts and festivals. But what about a socially distanced, mask-wearing picnic with a neighbor? Or a stroll on the beach with a friend?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The official answer is still no.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At this time, mixing of households is not permitted, so most socializing should still only occur virtually,” said Neetu Balrum, a spokesperson for the Alameda County Public Health Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contra Costa County Health Officer Dr. Chris Farnitano, agreed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Gatherings outside of your household are a big risk for the spread of this virus,” he said “We still don’t know yet when we will be able to encourage people to get together with people outside of their households.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public health officials in San Francisco, Solano and San Mateo counties provided a similar response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Stir Crazy, and Lonely\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Even though officials aren’t budging, increased movement on the streets reflects changing sentiment among residents. My Oakland neighborhood, for instance, is starting to hum with the return of vehicles, and a KQED analysis of traffic over the last five weeks found a big \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/coronavirusliveupdates/news/11819347/no-youre-not-imagining-things-traffic-is-back\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">increase in miles traveled\u003c/a> since April. Meanwhile, neighborhood parks are filled with clusters of people sprawling on picnic blankets.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“\u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/05/quarantine-fatigue-real-and-shaming-people-wont-help/611482/\">Quarantine Fatigue is Real\u003c/a>” — that’s \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the name of an Atlantic article byJulia Marcus, professor of population medicine at Harvard Medical School. She\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">argues that refraining from social contact is unsustainable and could lead to negative consequences. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m talking about those who are experiencing the profound burden of extreme physical and social distancing,” she wrote. “In addition to the economic hardship it causes, isolation can severely damage psychological well-being, especially for people who were \u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/05/pandemic-lockdown-depression-anxiety/611248/\">already depressed\u003c/a> or anxious before the crisis started.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Asking Americans to abstain from nearly all in-person social contact will not work any better than abstinence-only messaging \u003ca href=\"https://www.jahonline.org/article/S1054-139X(17)30260-4/fulltext\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">does\u003c/a> for the discouragement of sex, Marcus says. She suggests that officials offer nuanced directives to reduce risk rather than try to eliminate it.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What Americans need now is a manual on how to have a life in a pandemic,” wrote Marcus. If they don’t, she says, we will need to figure it out on our own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">California state Sen. Scott Weiner agrees with this approach.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1964710\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2020/05/Screen-Shot-2020-05-19-at-5.10.06-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"597\" height=\"141\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/05/Screen-Shot-2020-05-19-at-5.10.06-PM.png 597w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/05/Screen-Shot-2020-05-19-at-5.10.06-PM-160x38.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 597px) 100vw, 597px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003c/b>“People are going to start seeing their friends,” Wiener said. “And we have to acknowledge that that is the reality of human existence, and we can’t pretend otherwise. I think it is important in the near future for the state and for Bay Area officials to start giving more precise guidance about how you reduce risk.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u003cstrong>Shopping OK’d\u003c/strong>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Citing progress made on a series of metrics related to the pandemic, public health officials in the Bay Area this week allowed more stores to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1963889/coronavirus-some-bay-area-counties-are-about-to-open-up-more-heres-where-your-county-stands\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reopen\u003c/a>, albeit with major limitations like restricting sales to curbside pickup. The state authorized this move earlier in the month. San Francisco’s public health officer said on Tuesday it will wait until early-to-late June before considering the next phase of loosening restrictions, and a reversal of course is still possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If needed, we will dial back \u003ci>— \u003c/i>if the curve goes up or we see indication that the virus is spreading in the community at an alarming rate,” said Dr. Grant Colfax.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gov. Gavin Newsom says 70 percent of California’s economy is now open for business. But he hasn’t offered any further guidance on when and if people can socialize with friends or family outside the household. Newsom and health officials continue to stress that new cases are recorded daily, and if there’s one thing for certain, this pandemic is not over. In California on Monday, 102 people died from COVID-19, the highest number of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1962884/bay_area_coronavirus_data\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">deaths\u003c/a> in a month.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Safer Ways to Socialize\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you are determined to socialize despite public health recommendations, there are ways to reduce your risk. Marcus suggests meeting outside because the sun, heat and humidity likely assist in killing the virus. Also, you should definitely wear a mask, wash your hands frequently, and avoid sharing food or drinks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This Los Angeles Times \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2020-05-16/so-you-really-want-to-see-your-friends-heres-how-to-assess-the-risk?fbclid=IwAR3bGUHD3MM8mPnCFh0vjB77f2LBjKmyp8J2HeF8XfD2xhue2lsXiGaqh3A\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">article\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> lays out seven scenarios to help you decide which activities are safer than others. Some takeaways: Backyard barbecues with kids are out, socially distanced walks are fine, and allowing a friend to use your bathroom is a safe bet.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The question agonizing many families is when to see the grandparents. It’s especially tricky if you must fly to see older family members. Based on this \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/05/is-flying-safe-coronavirus/611335/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">account\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Atlantic\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (“We apologize for the alarming amount of passengers on this flight”), I’m leery about booking a flight to see gramma. In fact scientists say it’s a good idea to avoid indoor spaces as much as possible because limited air exchange and recycled air leads to more infections. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A recent \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">post,” \u003c/span>\u003cspan class=\"post-title__text blog-post-title-font blog-post-title-color\">\u003cspan class=\"blog-post-title-font blog-post-title-color\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.erinbromage.com/post/the-risks-know-them-avoid-them\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Risks – Know Them – Avoid Them\u003c/a>,” \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">by Erin Bromage, a University of Massachusetts Dartmouth associate professor of biology, details how droplets move indoors, leading to increased virus transmission. For example, if you’re dining inside, airflow vents will carry the virus to 75 percent of people sitting downwind of an asymptomatic carrier \u003c/span>breathing normally during a 90-minute meal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gulp. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For me, takeout is the ticket for the foreseeable future. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“The main sources for infection are home, workplace, public transport, social gatherings, and restaurants,” Bromage wrote. “This accounts for 90% of all transmission events. In contrast, outbreaks spread from shopping appear to be responsible for a small percentage of traced infections.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bromage wrote the equation that people should remember is “dose plus time.” You have to be in someone’s physical airstream for longer than five minutes to catch the virus. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>As a sunny Memorial Day weekend approaches, many, including me, wonder what a pandemic summer looks like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I can squash the longing to go to concerts and festivals. But what about a socially distanced, mask-wearing picnic with a neighbor? Or a stroll on the beach with a friend?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The official answer is still no.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At this time, mixing of households is not permitted, so most socializing should still only occur virtually,” said Neetu Balrum, a spokesperson for the Alameda County Public Health Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contra Costa County Health Officer Dr. Chris Farnitano, agreed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Gatherings outside of your household are a big risk for the spread of this virus,” he said “We still don’t know yet when we will be able to encourage people to get together with people outside of their households.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public health officials in San Francisco, Solano and San Mateo counties provided a similar response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Stir Crazy, and Lonely\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Even though officials aren’t budging, increased movement on the streets reflects changing sentiment among residents. My Oakland neighborhood, for instance, is starting to hum with the return of vehicles, and a KQED analysis of traffic over the last five weeks found a big \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/coronavirusliveupdates/news/11819347/no-youre-not-imagining-things-traffic-is-back\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">increase in miles traveled\u003c/a> since April. Meanwhile, neighborhood parks are filled with clusters of people sprawling on picnic blankets.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“\u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/05/quarantine-fatigue-real-and-shaming-people-wont-help/611482/\">Quarantine Fatigue is Real\u003c/a>” — that’s \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the name of an Atlantic article byJulia Marcus, professor of population medicine at Harvard Medical School. She\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">argues that refraining from social contact is unsustainable and could lead to negative consequences. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m talking about those who are experiencing the profound burden of extreme physical and social distancing,” she wrote. “In addition to the economic hardship it causes, isolation can severely damage psychological well-being, especially for people who were \u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/05/pandemic-lockdown-depression-anxiety/611248/\">already depressed\u003c/a> or anxious before the crisis started.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Asking Americans to abstain from nearly all in-person social contact will not work any better than abstinence-only messaging \u003ca href=\"https://www.jahonline.org/article/S1054-139X(17)30260-4/fulltext\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">does\u003c/a> for the discouragement of sex, Marcus says. She suggests that officials offer nuanced directives to reduce risk rather than try to eliminate it.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What Americans need now is a manual on how to have a life in a pandemic,” wrote Marcus. If they don’t, she says, we will need to figure it out on our own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">California state Sen. Scott Weiner agrees with this approach.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1964710\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2020/05/Screen-Shot-2020-05-19-at-5.10.06-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"597\" height=\"141\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/05/Screen-Shot-2020-05-19-at-5.10.06-PM.png 597w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/05/Screen-Shot-2020-05-19-at-5.10.06-PM-160x38.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 597px) 100vw, 597px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003c/b>“People are going to start seeing their friends,” Wiener said. “And we have to acknowledge that that is the reality of human existence, and we can’t pretend otherwise. I think it is important in the near future for the state and for Bay Area officials to start giving more precise guidance about how you reduce risk.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u003cstrong>Shopping OK’d\u003c/strong>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Citing progress made on a series of metrics related to the pandemic, public health officials in the Bay Area this week allowed more stores to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1963889/coronavirus-some-bay-area-counties-are-about-to-open-up-more-heres-where-your-county-stands\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reopen\u003c/a>, albeit with major limitations like restricting sales to curbside pickup. The state authorized this move earlier in the month. San Francisco’s public health officer said on Tuesday it will wait until early-to-late June before considering the next phase of loosening restrictions, and a reversal of course is still possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If needed, we will dial back \u003ci>— \u003c/i>if the curve goes up or we see indication that the virus is spreading in the community at an alarming rate,” said Dr. Grant Colfax.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gov. Gavin Newsom says 70 percent of California’s economy is now open for business. But he hasn’t offered any further guidance on when and if people can socialize with friends or family outside the household. Newsom and health officials continue to stress that new cases are recorded daily, and if there’s one thing for certain, this pandemic is not over. In California on Monday, 102 people died from COVID-19, the highest number of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1962884/bay_area_coronavirus_data\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">deaths\u003c/a> in a month.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Safer Ways to Socialize\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you are determined to socialize despite public health recommendations, there are ways to reduce your risk. Marcus suggests meeting outside because the sun, heat and humidity likely assist in killing the virus. Also, you should definitely wear a mask, wash your hands frequently, and avoid sharing food or drinks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This Los Angeles Times \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2020-05-16/so-you-really-want-to-see-your-friends-heres-how-to-assess-the-risk?fbclid=IwAR3bGUHD3MM8mPnCFh0vjB77f2LBjKmyp8J2HeF8XfD2xhue2lsXiGaqh3A\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">article\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> lays out seven scenarios to help you decide which activities are safer than others. Some takeaways: Backyard barbecues with kids are out, socially distanced walks are fine, and allowing a friend to use your bathroom is a safe bet.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The question agonizing many families is when to see the grandparents. It’s especially tricky if you must fly to see older family members. Based on this \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/05/is-flying-safe-coronavirus/611335/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">account\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Atlantic\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (“We apologize for the alarming amount of passengers on this flight”), I’m leery about booking a flight to see gramma. In fact scientists say it’s a good idea to avoid indoor spaces as much as possible because limited air exchange and recycled air leads to more infections. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A recent \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">post,” \u003c/span>\u003cspan class=\"post-title__text blog-post-title-font blog-post-title-color\">\u003cspan class=\"blog-post-title-font blog-post-title-color\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.erinbromage.com/post/the-risks-know-them-avoid-them\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Risks – Know Them – Avoid Them\u003c/a>,” \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">by Erin Bromage, a University of Massachusetts Dartmouth associate professor of biology, details how droplets move indoors, leading to increased virus transmission. For example, if you’re dining inside, airflow vents will carry the virus to 75 percent of people sitting downwind of an asymptomatic carrier \u003c/span>breathing normally during a 90-minute meal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gulp. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For me, takeout is the ticket for the foreseeable future. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“The main sources for infection are home, workplace, public transport, social gatherings, and restaurants,” Bromage wrote. “This accounts for 90% of all transmission events. In contrast, outbreaks spread from shopping appear to be responsible for a small percentage of traced infections.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bromage wrote the equation that people should remember is “dose plus time.” You have to be in someone’s physical airstream for longer than five minutes to catch the virus. Therefore, enjoy your next distanced walk, but wash your hands when you get back home. Don’t touch your face. And stay home if you’re sick.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Personally it’s difficult for my brain to weigh risks, especially when we are talking about something that is potentially life and death. For now, I’m choosing to err on the cautious side, while hoping officials offer more detailed directives soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Note: On Monday, May 19, after this post was written, President Trump \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/05/18/858335915/despite-fdas-caution-trump-says-he-is-taking-hydroxychloroquine-preventatively\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said\u003c/a> he’s taking hydroxychloroquine, prompting \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/18/us/politics/trump-hydroxychloroquine-covid-coronavirus.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">immediate criticism\u003c/a> from a range of medical experts who warned it posed a danger to his health and set a bad example.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even before President Trump started plugging chloroquine and \u003ca href=\"https://www.statnews.com/2020/04/06/trump-hydroxychloroquine-fact-check/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">hydroxychloroquine\u003c/a> as COVID-19 treatments, enthusiasm for the old malaria drugs was swelling in the state of Utah.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The “stunning medications” led to “responses that are equivalent to Lazarus” — the biblical figure brought back to life by Jesus — one physician said at an event at the state Capitol. The deputy director of the state health department, even as he acknowledged there was not “FDA-type of evidence” showing the drugs worked, said he was willing to put stock in case reports and “test tube evidence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Propelled by that hype, as well as mounting fears of the oncoming pandemic, the state pursued a sweeping — and eyebrow-raising — policy that would have let pharmacies dispense the unproven medications to patients with COVID-19 without a prescription. Utah, which took perhaps the most aggressive strategy with the drugs of any state, also put in an order for $800,000 worth of chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine to build a stockpile, and considered buying millions of dollars more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state did all of that without any rigorous evidence the drugs can help patients recover faster from COVID-19. Clinical trials that will answer that question are ongoing, but recent observational studies have cast doubt on an effect. And in the weeks since Utah’s efforts to promote and procure the drugs, the Food and Drug Administration has \u003ca href=\"https://www.statnews.com/2020/04/24/fda-warns-against-widespread-use-of-hydroxychloroquine-drug-touted-by-trump/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">warned\u003c/a> they should not be taken for COVID-19 outside a hospital or a clinical trial, citing “reports of serious heart rhythm problems.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Utah eventually abandoned its plans to make the drugs available without prescriptions and canceled its order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Drugs’ Rise and Fall\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The saga of the drugs’ rise and fall in Utah, pieced together from documents STAT obtained through a public records request, provides a case study of what happens when hope and excitement about therapies outpace the evidence. It underscores the pressure officials felt to demonstrate they were on top of the response, even as such efforts sowed confusion among the medical community and led them into initiatives they came to regret. And, mirroring the hydroxychloroquine debate in the Trump administration, it shows how experts scrambled to inject restraint and plead for leaders to follow evidence at a time when promises of easy remedies were more enticing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When, for example, the Utah Medical Association issued a bulletin to physicians, since rescinded, that suggested the state was recommending hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine for COVID-19 patients, the state epidemiologist wrote to others in the health department, “I disagree with this approach.” A top infectious disease specialist at the University of Utah was more blunt, sending a message with only “WTF?????”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"big-cap-wrap\">\u003cspan class=\"big-cap\">I\u003c/span>\u003c/span>n Utah, the hydroxychloroquine hype reached the public on March 20, at \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chedMU777bU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a press conference\u003c/a> at the state Capitol. A group of policymakers and health professionals reassured people that they’d begun working on ways to get patients chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine. They cast their efforts as a reason for hope, while glossing over the concerns experts were raising about the medications as COVID-19 therapies. The drugs, Stuart Adams, the president of the state Senate, said, “may help bend that curve and keep people out of hospitals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other speakers at the event carried the same message. Dan Richards, a pharmacist, suggested the drugs contributed to South Korea’s success in stemming its outbreak. Kurt Hegmann, a physician, made the comparison to Lazarus, and Marc Babitz, the deputy director of the state health department, delivered his comments about the quality of evidence. At one point, Babitz cited Trump as a reason for suggesting the drugs might work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our president came out and suggested the medications,” Babitz said. “So we’re very confident this could make a significant difference.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One reason why hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine attracted attention was because they were old. New drugs to fight COVID-19 would take months to develop, but these drugs had long been used to treat malaria, as well as lupus and rheumatoid arthritis. That meant that doctors could prescribe them off-label to people with COVID-19 immediately.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Driving much of the Utah officials’ interest in the drugs was Richards, the CEO of a local pharmacy chain, Meds in Motion. In a March 12 email to the executive director of the Utah health department, Joseph Miner, he suggested there was already demand for chloroquine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richards also suggested the state pursue a standing order, essentially a blanket prescription that would allow pharmacies to ship compounded versions of the drugs directly to patients when they tested positive for the coronavirus. He indicated doing so might help patients stay healthy enough they could avoid hospitals, at a time when a major fear of the pandemic was that it would swamp health systems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Utah needs this to have the potential for an epidemic curve like that for South Korea,” Hegmann, the physician working with Richards, wrote to health department leaders on March 17. (Experts say South Korea’s success in minimizing its outbreak stems not from these drugs, but from strategies like widespread testing, isolating people who are infected, and contact tracing.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hegmann does not appear to be an infectious disease specialist or critical care physician; his \u003ca href=\"https://healthcare.utah.edu/fad/mddetail.php?physicianID=u0206373\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">University of Utah biography\u003c/a> says he is the chief of the division of occupational and environmental health with “expertise in musculoskeletal disorders and the evaluation of commercial drivers.” But the records indicate Hegmann and Richards were part of a public-private initiative backed by some state senators to find ways to expedite the screening of Utahns for COVID-19 and refer them to treatment; Hegmann is president of a company that was helping develop an online screening tool. (The \u003ca href=\"https://www.deseret.com/utah/2020/5/5/21248656/utah-coronavirus-covid-health-department-malaria-drugs-chloroquine-hydroxychloroquine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Deseret News\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.sltrib.com/news/2020/05/13/start-team-utah-execs/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Salt Lake Tribune\u003c/a> separately obtained the records and reported on some of their contents earlier this month.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are not a state-appointed, organized task force,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.deseret.com/utah/2020/3/23/21191657/coronavirus-covid-19-hydroxychloroquine-chloroquine-malaria-treatment-utah\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Richards told the Deseret News\u003c/a> in March. “We are just a bunch of people who raised our hands and said something had to be done.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But they quickly gained sway with the state. Hegmann, Richards, and the health department’s Miner and Babitz were soon swapping drafts and suggested edits for the standing order. A draft showed that the online screening tool would refer certain people to testing and then, if positive, to treatment with compounded hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine. The drugs, the draft said, have “the potential to help stop the spread of this virus, reduce need for hospitalization, and reduce mortality rates.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group thought it was a way to speed the drugs to patients, who wouldn’t need to consult with a physician after testing positive. By getting pharmacies to compound the medications, it wouldn’t cause a shortage of the versions used by patients with lupus and rheumatoid arthritis, they argued. The health department officials did not appear to raise questions about whether a pharmacist should be involved in crafting a policy that could benefit pharmacies, the records indicate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hegmann, Richards, and a spokesman for the state health department did not respond to emails from STAT seeking comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Trump Touts the Unproven Drug\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around the same time, Trump started talking up the drugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Trump is touting chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine at [a] news conference right now,” Miner wrote to the group on March 19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That should help with community acceptance of this option,” Babitz replied. “I will say privately that I wish we had ‘trumped’ his announcement with this great plan.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump’s support for the drugs came as they were being cheered on Fox News and among his political allies. Their arguments relied on results from small and flawed studies that weren’t designed to prove whether the drugs were effective or not. The view was that this was an emergency, and people couldn’t afford to wait for the results of randomized controlled trials, the types of studies that can show whether a drug works.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What do you have to lose?” Trump said, even as federal health officials said they needed to wait on the trials results. Experts also noted that the drugs carried risks to people’s hearts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soon, Utah’s “great plan” was raising concerns with experts, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The use of an unproven therapy in this way could be a grave mistake medically,” Andrew Pavia, the chief of pediatric infectious diseases at the University of Utah, wrote on March 22 to Miner and the lieutenant governor after finding out about the standing order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He stressed that the state should wait for solid evidence before recommending the drugs, particularly to people who weren’t that sick. Hospitalized patients might be treated with hydroxychloroquine — cases where the potential benefits outweighed the risk — but patients shouldn’t take the medications at home without a physician’s oversight, Pavia said. “There is as yet no real evidence of clinical benefit for these drugs,” Pavia wrote. “Wide use of unproven therapies in outpatients and low risk patients exposes them to potential harm with little evidence of benefit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Within a few days, Gov. Gary Herbert’s office pulled the plug on the standing order, saying that there was enough capacity for people with COVID-19 to first consult with a clinician, who could decide whether or not to prescribe the medications, emails show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the state was not done with hydroxychloroquine. About a week later, a state purchasing agency — a separate agency from the health department — agreed to buy 20,000 packets of compounded chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine from Meds in Motion, Richards’ pharmacy, for $800,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align='right' citation='Scott Aberegg, University of Utah, in an email']‘This smacks as irresponsible and even reckless.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State officials’ support for the drugs led to confusion — and backlash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The clearest example: the swift reaction to \u003ca href=\"https://utahmed.org/docs/COVID/Hydroxychloroquine%20Letter%203-27-2020.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a March 27 email\u003c/a> from the Utah Medical Association to the state’s doctors, which said that Utah’s health department was “recommending that providers use a longstanding medication to treat COVID-19.” Listed were forms of chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The email included suggested dosages, and added: “The state has arranged for production of compounded medication, so we do not anticipate this will cause a shortage for patients who need it for other conditions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pavia, the infectious disease expert, fired off an email to Angela Dunn, the state epidemiologist who has been helping lead Utah’s COVID-19 response, that only said “WTF?????” Dunn quickly wrote to Babitz and Miner: “Do you know who put out these recommendations from UDOH?” In a follow up, she wrote, “As you know I disagree with this approach.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was only the beginning. “This smacks as irresponsible and even reckless,” Scott Aberegg of the University of Utah’s division of pulmonary and critical care medicine wrote to state health officials, adding there was “no credible data that support a recommendation for this drug for this indication.” He said that patients should be in monitored clinical trials if they were going to be taking the drugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, Babitz clarified. What happened, he said, was that he had supplied the association with recommended doses of the drugs should doctors want to prescribe them to treat COVID-19. It wasn’t meant to suggest that all COVID-19 patients get these drugs, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his explanation, Babitz spelled out a timeline of what had occurred leading up to the medical association’s email. The first bullet point: “President Trump announces to the world that chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine can combat COVID19.” He concluded: “If a healthcare provider, for whatever reason, decides s/he wishes to treat a COVID19 positive patient, our desire was to recommend the safest dosing of these medications.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miner emailed the head of the medical association asking for a corrected statement. “I admit there was much enthusiasm among some clinicians, pharmacists and political leaders locally and nationally about the prospects of using these medications to see if they would help blunt the severity of this pandemic,” he wrote. He added: “After further consideration we know we must have better scientific research before recommending them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The following day, the association sent out another email: “The UDOH has withdrawn its guidance on hydroxychloroquine from March 27. They are instead endorsing the launching of the clinical studies and urging patients to participate in the trial to get access to the investigative drugs in a controlled environment with gathering of data.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"big-cap-wrap\">\u003cspan class=\"big-cap\">H\u003c/span>\u003c/span>ydroxychloroquine and chloroquine’s moments in the spotlight did not last very long — at the national level, and in Utah.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The drugs \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/22/business/media/virus-fox-news-hydroxychloroquine.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">stopped getting\u003c/a> as much attention from Trump and Fox News. Observational studies found no benefits, and the FDA issued its warning about heart rhythm problems. Prescriptions tapered off — a relief to people who take them for autoimmune conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Utah, criticism quickly built once the state’s $800,000 purchase came to light. Some state \u003ca href=\"http://www.utahhousedemocrats.org/news/2020/4/21/house-democrats-concerned-with-state-purchasenbspof-unproven-drug-for-covid-19-patients\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">lawmakers questioned\u003c/a> why taxpayer dollars were being spent on unproven drugs. On April 24, Herbert, the governor, said he did not know about the initial purchase and said the health department’s talks to buy another 200,000 treatment courses from Meds in Motion had “ceased.”\u003ca href=\"https://www.sltrib.com/news/2020/04/26/robert-gehrke-not-only/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> The Salt Lake Tribune reported\u003c/a> the state far overpaid for the drugs compared to other formulations of hydroxychloroquine, and that the state was not experiencing any shortages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was never more than a questionable COVID-19 treatment, and Utahns were never at risk of running out of it,” the\u003ca href=\"https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/editorial/2020/04/29/tribune-editorial-bad/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Tribune editorial board wrote\u003c/a> on April 29. “But that didn’t stop state officials from making a purchase that far exceeded any known need in the state. … State political leaders have given money and license to shameless promoters of baseless medical claims.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That day, Herbert announced Meds in Motion refunded the state its $800,000. “A state supply of chloroquine/hydroxychloroquine is no longer prudent,” \u003ca href=\"https://governor.utah.gov/2020/04/30/governors-office-statement-on-internal-review-of-compounded-chloroquine-and-hydroxychloroquine-purchase/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the governor’s office said\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Herbert’s office cited “breakdowns in communication between state agencies,” but there were no ramifications. “All involved acted proactively, preemptively, and prudently during an emergency in an effort to save lives,” a statement said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for Richards, he said his goal had always been to contribute to the state’s response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We did it to help the state, and it didn’t work out,” Richards \u003ca href=\"https://kutv.com/news/coronavirus/man-who-refunded-utah-800k-for-malaria-drug-i-got-left-holding-the-bag\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">told KUTV\u003c/a>. “And we move on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This \u003ca href=\"https://www.statnews.com/2020/05/18/utah-hydroxychloroquine-scramble-course-correct/?utm_source=STAT+Newsletters&utm_campaign=62e8419eda-Daily_Recap&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8cab1d7961-62e8419eda-149648249\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">story\u003c/a> was originally published by \u003ca href=\"https://www.statnews.com/\">STAT\u003c/a>, an online publication of Boston Globe Media that covers health, medicine, and scientific discovery.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Note: On Monday, May 19, after this post was written, President Trump \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/05/18/858335915/despite-fdas-caution-trump-says-he-is-taking-hydroxychloroquine-preventatively\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said\u003c/a> he’s taking hydroxychloroquine, prompting \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/18/us/politics/trump-hydroxychloroquine-covid-coronavirus.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">immediate criticism\u003c/a> from a range of medical experts who warned it posed a danger to his health and set a bad example.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even before President Trump started plugging chloroquine and \u003ca href=\"https://www.statnews.com/2020/04/06/trump-hydroxychloroquine-fact-check/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">hydroxychloroquine\u003c/a> as COVID-19 treatments, enthusiasm for the old malaria drugs was swelling in the state of Utah.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The “stunning medications” led to “responses that are equivalent to Lazarus” — the biblical figure brought back to life by Jesus — one physician said at an event at the state Capitol. The deputy director of the state health department, even as he acknowledged there was not “FDA-type of evidence” showing the drugs worked, said he was willing to put stock in case reports and “test tube evidence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Propelled by that hype, as well as mounting fears of the oncoming pandemic, the state pursued a sweeping — and eyebrow-raising — policy that would have let pharmacies dispense the unproven medications to patients with COVID-19 without a prescription. Utah, which took perhaps the most aggressive strategy with the drugs of any state, also put in an order for $800,000 worth of chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine to build a stockpile, and considered buying millions of dollars more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state did all of that without any rigorous evidence the drugs can help patients recover faster from COVID-19. Clinical trials that will answer that question are ongoing, but recent observational studies have cast doubt on an effect. And in the weeks since Utah’s efforts to promote and procure the drugs, the Food and Drug Administration has \u003ca href=\"https://www.statnews.com/2020/04/24/fda-warns-against-widespread-use-of-hydroxychloroquine-drug-touted-by-trump/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">warned\u003c/a> they should not be taken for COVID-19 outside a hospital or a clinical trial, citing “reports of serious heart rhythm problems.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Utah eventually abandoned its plans to make the drugs available without prescriptions and canceled its order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Drugs’ Rise and Fall\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The saga of the drugs’ rise and fall in Utah, pieced together from documents STAT obtained through a public records request, provides a case study of what happens when hope and excitement about therapies outpace the evidence. It underscores the pressure officials felt to demonstrate they were on top of the response, even as such efforts sowed confusion among the medical community and led them into initiatives they came to regret. And, mirroring the hydroxychloroquine debate in the Trump administration, it shows how experts scrambled to inject restraint and plead for leaders to follow evidence at a time when promises of easy remedies were more enticing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When, for example, the Utah Medical Association issued a bulletin to physicians, since rescinded, that suggested the state was recommending hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine for COVID-19 patients, the state epidemiologist wrote to others in the health department, “I disagree with this approach.” A top infectious disease specialist at the University of Utah was more blunt, sending a message with only “WTF?????”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"big-cap-wrap\">\u003cspan class=\"big-cap\">I\u003c/span>\u003c/span>n Utah, the hydroxychloroquine hype reached the public on March 20, at \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chedMU777bU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a press conference\u003c/a> at the state Capitol. A group of policymakers and health professionals reassured people that they’d begun working on ways to get patients chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine. They cast their efforts as a reason for hope, while glossing over the concerns experts were raising about the medications as COVID-19 therapies. The drugs, Stuart Adams, the president of the state Senate, said, “may help bend that curve and keep people out of hospitals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other speakers at the event carried the same message. Dan Richards, a pharmacist, suggested the drugs contributed to South Korea’s success in stemming its outbreak. Kurt Hegmann, a physician, made the comparison to Lazarus, and Marc Babitz, the deputy director of the state health department, delivered his comments about the quality of evidence. At one point, Babitz cited Trump as a reason for suggesting the drugs might work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our president came out and suggested the medications,” Babitz said. “So we’re very confident this could make a significant difference.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One reason why hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine attracted attention was because they were old. New drugs to fight COVID-19 would take months to develop, but these drugs had long been used to treat malaria, as well as lupus and rheumatoid arthritis. That meant that doctors could prescribe them off-label to people with COVID-19 immediately.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Driving much of the Utah officials’ interest in the drugs was Richards, the CEO of a local pharmacy chain, Meds in Motion. In a March 12 email to the executive director of the Utah health department, Joseph Miner, he suggested there was already demand for chloroquine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richards also suggested the state pursue a standing order, essentially a blanket prescription that would allow pharmacies to ship compounded versions of the drugs directly to patients when they tested positive for the coronavirus. He indicated doing so might help patients stay healthy enough they could avoid hospitals, at a time when a major fear of the pandemic was that it would swamp health systems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Utah needs this to have the potential for an epidemic curve like that for South Korea,” Hegmann, the physician working with Richards, wrote to health department leaders on March 17. (Experts say South Korea’s success in minimizing its outbreak stems not from these drugs, but from strategies like widespread testing, isolating people who are infected, and contact tracing.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hegmann does not appear to be an infectious disease specialist or critical care physician; his \u003ca href=\"https://healthcare.utah.edu/fad/mddetail.php?physicianID=u0206373\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">University of Utah biography\u003c/a> says he is the chief of the division of occupational and environmental health with “expertise in musculoskeletal disorders and the evaluation of commercial drivers.” But the records indicate Hegmann and Richards were part of a public-private initiative backed by some state senators to find ways to expedite the screening of Utahns for COVID-19 and refer them to treatment; Hegmann is president of a company that was helping develop an online screening tool. (The \u003ca href=\"https://www.deseret.com/utah/2020/5/5/21248656/utah-coronavirus-covid-health-department-malaria-drugs-chloroquine-hydroxychloroquine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Deseret News\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.sltrib.com/news/2020/05/13/start-team-utah-execs/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Salt Lake Tribune\u003c/a> separately obtained the records and reported on some of their contents earlier this month.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are not a state-appointed, organized task force,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.deseret.com/utah/2020/3/23/21191657/coronavirus-covid-19-hydroxychloroquine-chloroquine-malaria-treatment-utah\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Richards told the Deseret News\u003c/a> in March. “We are just a bunch of people who raised our hands and said something had to be done.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But they quickly gained sway with the state. Hegmann, Richards, and the health department’s Miner and Babitz were soon swapping drafts and suggested edits for the standing order. A draft showed that the online screening tool would refer certain people to testing and then, if positive, to treatment with compounded hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine. The drugs, the draft said, have “the potential to help stop the spread of this virus, reduce need for hospitalization, and reduce mortality rates.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group thought it was a way to speed the drugs to patients, who wouldn’t need to consult with a physician after testing positive. By getting pharmacies to compound the medications, it wouldn’t cause a shortage of the versions used by patients with lupus and rheumatoid arthritis, they argued. The health department officials did not appear to raise questions about whether a pharmacist should be involved in crafting a policy that could benefit pharmacies, the records indicate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hegmann, Richards, and a spokesman for the state health department did not respond to emails from STAT seeking comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Trump Touts the Unproven Drug\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around the same time, Trump started talking up the drugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Trump is touting chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine at [a] news conference right now,” Miner wrote to the group on March 19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That should help with community acceptance of this option,” Babitz replied. “I will say privately that I wish we had ‘trumped’ his announcement with this great plan.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump’s support for the drugs came as they were being cheered on Fox News and among his political allies. Their arguments relied on results from small and flawed studies that weren’t designed to prove whether the drugs were effective or not. The view was that this was an emergency, and people couldn’t afford to wait for the results of randomized controlled trials, the types of studies that can show whether a drug works.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What do you have to lose?” Trump said, even as federal health officials said they needed to wait on the trials results. Experts also noted that the drugs carried risks to people’s hearts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soon, Utah’s “great plan” was raising concerns with experts, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The use of an unproven therapy in this way could be a grave mistake medically,” Andrew Pavia, the chief of pediatric infectious diseases at the University of Utah, wrote on March 22 to Miner and the lieutenant governor after finding out about the standing order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He stressed that the state should wait for solid evidence before recommending the drugs, particularly to people who weren’t that sick. Hospitalized patients might be treated with hydroxychloroquine — cases where the potential benefits outweighed the risk — but patients shouldn’t take the medications at home without a physician’s oversight, Pavia said. “There is as yet no real evidence of clinical benefit for these drugs,” Pavia wrote. “Wide use of unproven therapies in outpatients and low risk patients exposes them to potential harm with little evidence of benefit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Within a few days, Gov. Gary Herbert’s office pulled the plug on the standing order, saying that there was enough capacity for people with COVID-19 to first consult with a clinician, who could decide whether or not to prescribe the medications, emails show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the state was not done with hydroxychloroquine. About a week later, a state purchasing agency — a separate agency from the health department — agreed to buy 20,000 packets of compounded chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine from Meds in Motion, Richards’ pharmacy, for $800,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State officials’ support for the drugs led to confusion — and backlash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The clearest example: the swift reaction to \u003ca href=\"https://utahmed.org/docs/COVID/Hydroxychloroquine%20Letter%203-27-2020.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a March 27 email\u003c/a> from the Utah Medical Association to the state’s doctors, which said that Utah’s health department was “recommending that providers use a longstanding medication to treat COVID-19.” Listed were forms of chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The email included suggested dosages, and added: “The state has arranged for production of compounded medication, so we do not anticipate this will cause a shortage for patients who need it for other conditions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pavia, the infectious disease expert, fired off an email to Angela Dunn, the state epidemiologist who has been helping lead Utah’s COVID-19 response, that only said “WTF?????” Dunn quickly wrote to Babitz and Miner: “Do you know who put out these recommendations from UDOH?” In a follow up, she wrote, “As you know I disagree with this approach.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was only the beginning. “This smacks as irresponsible and even reckless,” Scott Aberegg of the University of Utah’s division of pulmonary and critical care medicine wrote to state health officials, adding there was “no credible data that support a recommendation for this drug for this indication.” He said that patients should be in monitored clinical trials if they were going to be taking the drugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, Babitz clarified. What happened, he said, was that he had supplied the association with recommended doses of the drugs should doctors want to prescribe them to treat COVID-19. It wasn’t meant to suggest that all COVID-19 patients get these drugs, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his explanation, Babitz spelled out a timeline of what had occurred leading up to the medical association’s email. The first bullet point: “President Trump announces to the world that chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine can combat COVID19.” He concluded: “If a healthcare provider, for whatever reason, decides s/he wishes to treat a COVID19 positive patient, our desire was to recommend the safest dosing of these medications.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miner emailed the head of the medical association asking for a corrected statement. “I admit there was much enthusiasm among some clinicians, pharmacists and political leaders locally and nationally about the prospects of using these medications to see if they would help blunt the severity of this pandemic,” he wrote. He added: “After further consideration we know we must have better scientific research before recommending them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The following day, the association sent out another email: “The UDOH has withdrawn its guidance on hydroxychloroquine from March 27. They are instead endorsing the launching of the clinical studies and urging patients to participate in the trial to get access to the investigative drugs in a controlled environment with gathering of data.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"big-cap-wrap\">\u003cspan class=\"big-cap\">H\u003c/span>\u003c/span>ydroxychloroquine and chloroquine’s moments in the spotlight did not last very long — at the national level, and in Utah.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The drugs \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/22/business/media/virus-fox-news-hydroxychloroquine.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">stopped getting\u003c/a> as much attention from Trump and Fox News. Observational studies found no benefits, and the FDA issued its warning about heart rhythm problems. Prescriptions tapered off — a relief to people who take them for autoimmune conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Utah, criticism quickly built once the state’s $800,000 purchase came to light. Some state \u003ca href=\"http://www.utahhousedemocrats.org/news/2020/4/21/house-democrats-concerned-with-state-purchasenbspof-unproven-drug-for-covid-19-patients\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">lawmakers questioned\u003c/a> why taxpayer dollars were being spent on unproven drugs. 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Las tres cuartas partes de los casos positivos eran hombres y el 95% eran latinos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cero eran de la raza blanca,” dice Jon Jacobo, presidente del Grupo de Trabajo Latino (Latino Task Force) en COVID-19, un esfuerzo dirigido por voluntarios que opera en conjunto con la Universidad de California en San Francisco (UCSF por sus siglas en inglés). “El noventa por ciento de los que dieron positivo dijeron que no podían trabajar desde casa.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Más de la mitad de los casos positivos en La Misión fueron asintomáticos, lo que significa que 1 de cada 50 personas que viven y trabajan en La Misión podrían, sin saberlo, propagar la enfermedad a compañeros de trabajo y a familiares.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/8U1ZI/2/\" height=\"420\" width=\"100%\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Sin poder quedarse en casa\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Hace dos meses, Socorro Díaz dejó de limpiar casas en Santa Rosa. Ella se ha adherido religiosamente a la orden de quedarse en casa. Pero la madre de tres hijos, de 39 años, ya no puede seguir dándose ese lujo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Honestamente no quiero trabajar,” dijo Díaz. “Tengo miedo de contraer el virus. Pero las deudas se están acumulando. Tengo que volver a trabajar.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cada vez que Díaz sale de la casa, la persigue lo que le sucedió a su familia que vive en el condado de Santa Clara, donde el virus se propagó rápidamente en el pequeño departamento en donde residen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unos días después de que su hermana llegara a casa de su trabajo en una fábrica de productos electrónicos, donde los suministros de máscaras se agotaron, los miembros de la familia comenzaron a toser.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Primero mi hermana, luego su esposo, luego mi sobrina, su esposo, su hija,” dice Díaz. “Eventualmente toda la familia.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los ocho miembros de la familia se fueron a dormir sintiendo escalofríos y dolores de cuerpo. COVID-19 golpeó más fuerte al hermano mayor de Díaz. Los médicos lo conectaron a un ventilador hace dos semanas, y esperan que esté en la unidad de cuidados intensivos durante al menos otras dos semanas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/M2jkH/2/\" height=\"275\" width=\"100%\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Enfermedades crónicas\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>En el Hospital General de San Francisco, más del 80% de los pacientes hospitalizados con coronavirus son latinos, los cuales generalmente representan solo el 30% de la población total de pacientes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Al parecer estamos viendo una situación de condiciones de vivienda densa, y desafortunadamente las personas tienen mayor riesgo debido a los trabajos que realizan, tener que salir de casa para ir a trabajar, y tener dificultades para distanciarse de los demás,” dice Vivek Jain, especialista en enfermedades infecciosas en el hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Él dice que muchos de sus pacientes latinos sufren de enfermedades crónicas como obesidad, asma, hipertensión y diabetes, las cuales son factores de riesgo para COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adriana Villatoro Ortez sufre de asma y diabetes. Durante la orden de quedarse en casa, ella no salió excepto para ir al supermercado. El mes pasado, unos días después de haber salido a comprar comida en el vecindario Outer Sunset de San Francisco, comenzó a sentirse enferma. La mujer de 62 años tuvo náuseas, dolores en el cuerpo y ardor en las costillas durante tres días antes de que finalmente fuera al hospital con fiebre alta. Las radiografías y una tomografía revelaron inflamación en sus pulmones y espalda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Me dieron una gran cantidad de medicamentos,” dijo Ortez. “Algo para regular mi presión arterial, para calmar mi estómago y algo para reducir el dolor.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ella dice que las náuseas fueron tal, que le impidieron poder tomar líquidos o comer. Al cuarto día en el hospital recibió una prueba COVID-19 que fue positiva. 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