Category: Politics
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Eviction of Seniors to a COVID-19 Impacted Facility
This ongoing story of the patients of Sakura Gardens ICF, formerly Keiro, is looking bad, with a looming threat that residents will be transferred to the Kei-Ai nursing home facility, which has the highest COVID-19 death rate in California. Ongoing information is published at the group fighting these transfers, Save Our Seniors. For a comprehensive…
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COVID-19 Vaccination Inequality
These are a few stories about how vaccination efforts to focus on the groups facing the most infection were undermined, and led to privileged people getting vaccinated. Los Angeles TL;DR: California and Los Angeles need to focus on getting vaccinations to working class Latino communities, which are extremely under-vaccinated. Los Angeles Times: Work-at-Homers Got Appointment…
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On High Rates of Infection in the Latino Communities
The management of this pandemic is racist as hell. I looked back over my emails and some posts, and I was going off on the issue of essential workers and crowded housing back in April of 2020. This barely ever came up in the media as an important factor in the spread of COVID-19, until…
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Memes
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How to take a “tour” of how much damage COVID-19 has done, using the LA County surveillance dashboard.
Go to the Dashboard. This article shows you how to click on the map and compare the COVID-19 stats for different communities. We’ll see the large disparities between communities in Los Angeles County.