Hospitals and insurance companies use a variety of algorithms to calculate risk, but they don’t always yield equitable results.
Patient Safety and Ethics
“If we really cared, we would be getting the housing,” said Dr. Margot Kushel, a professor at UCSF. “Everything else follows.”
Even before the COVID-19 pandemic and a summer of wildfire smoke, children living in East and West Oakland had a hard time breathing.
In Silicon Valley, the pandemic has exacerabated long-running inequities between places such as Atherton and East Palo Alto.
In our highly connected world, abusers use technology against victims to monitor, threaten, harass, and hurt them.
In recent years, the jail has also seen the number of deaths in custody tick upward. Most of those deaths are suicides, a category of deaths some jail experts have deemed “mostly preventable.”
How did a county that ranks 11th among California counties in population end up with the second-highest COVID-19 case rate per capita in the state?
This story was produced as part of a large project by Jessica Bedolla, a participant in the 2020 National Fellowship, who is exploring, researching and reporting the impact of this worldwide pandemic in communities along the border.
Families share experiences of living through the pandemic and what help they still need.
These responses were submitted by members of an advisory board on farmworker housing that featured growers, advocates, and service providers in Monterey County, organized by The Californian reporter Kate Cimini.