Updated on January 28, 2021 at 8:30 pm
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A group of City Heights students are rallying behind one of their classmates who lost his father to COVID-19 last week.
Rolando Brito, 17, is a junior at Hoover High School. He’s been a member of the Cesar Chavez Service Club since middle school. The club is designed to help develop youth into successful leaders in the community. The manager of the club, Jonathan Burgos, told NBC 7 Brito shared his father’s diagnosis with him last month.
Rolando’s mother, Tomasa Trujillo, said she was the first in the family to experience COVID-19 symptoms. She tested positive for the virus on Dec. 17. She said she had flu-like symptoms and isolated away from family. Trujillo said Rolando’s father, Alejo Brito, and his brother tested positive for the virus a few days later. She said Alejo Brito, 52, had an uncontrollable cough, muscle pain and difficulty breathing. He was rushed to Sharp Memorial Hospital in Kearny Mesa.
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Nearly 1.6 million people have bought health insurance for 2021 through Covered California, state officials said Tuesday, a number that reflects the state’s high unemployment rate as millions of people have lost their jobs and their employer-sponsored health coverage during the pandemic.
Altogether, nearly 200,000 more people have bought health insurance for this year, up 14% from the year-earlier period. The deadline to purchase coverage for 2021 during open enrollment is Jan. 31.
“I anticipate we will end this year with more people than ever insured through Covered California, which is not great news for people who have lost their jobs,” Covered California Executive Director Peter Lee said. “They may have lost their jobs, but they don’t need to lose coverage.”
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) Nearly 1.6 million people have purchased health insurance through Covered California, state officials said Tuesday, a number that reflects the state's high unemployment.
As coronavirus cases surge countywide, two local teenagers are working to help two industries that have been heavily affected: health care and restaurants. Their nonprofit aims to support both by buying meals from restaurants not allowed to serve in person and donating them to people who work in crowded medical facilities.
Operation Nourish, run by sisters Bela Gowda, 14, and Mira Gowda, 17, who attend The Bishop’s School in La Jolla, starts “by working with a small business, a restaurant, and we purchase meals in bulk from them,” Mira said.
Mira, a Bishop’s junior who runs Operation Nourish’s social media accounts and works on the organization’s restaurant partnerships, said she looks for restaurants that are struggling with a lack of customers due to the pandemic.