Bay Briefing: New coronavirus variant on rise in California, tied to Kaiser ER outbreak
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Don and Carol Franklin, ages 75 and 73, wait 30 minutes during their post-vaccination observation in Lafayette.Nina Riggio / Special to The Chronicle
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New variant raises concerns; vaccinations pick up pace
Officials on Sunday said another coronavirus variant is spreading across California, including in the Bay Area, where it has been linked to large outbreaks including one at a Kaiser Permanente emergency room that sickened dozens and led to one death.
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I’m a COVID-19 Long-Hauler, HIV Activist, and Artist. Here’s How I Navigated 2020
As Told to Terri Wilder, M.S.W.
Pato Hebert
At the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, both government and medical sources reported that recovery for people with mild symptoms would take around two weeks, and for people presenting with more severe symptoms, three to six weeks. Over the past several months, there has been a growing concern about those of us who are remaining ill past the predicted recovery period, now known as COVID-19 long-haulers.
In this article, we share the story of one such COVID-19 long-hauler, longtime HIV activist and artist Pato Hebert. An associate arts professor at Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, Hebert’s work explores the aesthetics, ethics, and poetry of interconnectedness. He also allies with social movements and community organizations to develop innovative approaches to HIV mobilization, programs, advocacy, and justice.
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One afternoon this summer, Catherine Olsson was relaxing with a friend in San Francisco’s Mission Dolores Park when she had an idea, a little spontaneous flicker from pre-pandemic life. Why not grab dinner? She called in an order for two veggie burritos at a nearby taqueria.
Olsson popped over to the restaurant and, as she waited for her order number to be called, she looked around. She counted 10 workers standing along the open prep station assembling tacos and burritos behind a plexiglass barrier. Each worker wore a mask, but some wore them hanging off their chins or noses. Also, they were standing shoulder to shoulder. What were the odds that any of those workers had the virus that causes Covid-19, she wondered? The prevalence in San Francisco, she knew, was something like one in 300 people, but a recent antibody survey in this very neighborhood suggested frontline workers were about six times as likely to be
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) UCSF and the Latino Task Force launched a new rapid COVID-19 test site and research campaign on Sunday that will provide food and financial assistance to those who qualify after testing positive for coronavirus. This site will be 5 days a week and we are scaling up the rapid test and response services, said Dr. Carina Marquez, Infectious Disease specialist at UCSF.
On Sunday, more than 600 people got tested at the rapid test site located in San Francisco s 24th street Bart station. Key part of this is that it s fast. People are only really infectious for 10 days and so we want to get to people and help support them to isolate, said Dr. Carina Marquez, Infectious Disease specialist at UCSF.
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