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In early April, Monterey County and a group of community organizations held a COVID-19 vaccine clinic in a school gym in the rural city of Soledad. In a promotional video produced about the event, locals shared what brought them out to get their vaccinations. “I did it to protect my kids,” said Greenfield farm worker Rosa Chavez in Spanish. “My family encouraged me to take the COVID vaccine…and I feel more secure now,” said Soledad resident Maria Ruiz.
The video highlights a Monterey County program known as Virus Integration Distribution of Aid (VIDA), which uses rural clinics and other outreach efforts to bring COVID-19-related resources to people like Chavez and Ruiz in hard-to-reach communities. The crux of the program involves community health workers (CHWs), lay people trained to deliver important public health information to the communities where they live.
How one restaurant s experiment may help diners breathe safely
Chris Mooney, Aaron Stecklerberg and Jake Crump, The Washington Post
April 23, 2021
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1of5Guests dine outside on the deck at the Post Ranch Inn in Big Sur, California on March 1, 2021.Washington Post photo by Melina Mara.Show MoreShow Less
2of5Post Ranch Inn staff dash back and forth through a dining room equipped with a state-of-the-art air purification system designed to reduce coronavirus transmission in Big Sur, Calif., on March 1, 2021.Washington Post photo by Melina Mara.Show MoreShow Less
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4of5The Post Ranch Inn s dining room is equipped with a state-of-the-art air purification system designed to reduce coronavirus transmission using an HVAC system, HEPA filters throughout the dining space, mini HEPA devices on every table, and cross ventilation mixing fresh with circulated air.Washington Post photo by Melina Mara.Show MoreShow Less
Sierra Mar, a resort restaurant in Big Sur, Calif., has added new technology to reduce possible transmission of coronavirus and other of airborne pathogens.
When Erica Padilla-Chavez and her family opened the door of their Soledad home one day last summer, there in plain view was a giant Trump flag draped over some kind of animal cage. If they themselves were Trump supporters, perhaps they wouldnât have thought anything of it. If the owner of the cage and the flag had instead expressed their views through a lawn sign, again, maybe they would have brushed it off.
But discrimination is a strange thing. To know what it is, it has to be rooted in your lived experience of being treated unfairly because of things you cannot change about yourself, like identity or familial background. And for Padilla-Chavez, that lived experience came partly from working to increase the well-being of low-income, mostly Latino families as executive director of Pajaro Valley Student Assistance.