Category: Health
Posted in“Civic” Podcast, Community, Coronavirus, Health, Housing, Neighborhoods, Social Justice

Testing in Mission Shows Virus Hits Workers, Latinos at High Levels

by Laura Wenus

A Mission District coronavirus testing initiative has shown stark disparities in who has been getting sick — 95% of those who tested positive in this initiative identified as Hispanic or Latinx. Most earned less than $50,000 a year. But evidence of this disparity had been mounting even prior to the testing, when doctors in San Francisco hospitals saw that the majority of the coronavirus patients who needed to be hospitalized were also Latino.

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Mission Coronavirus Tests Reveal Longstanding Inequities

by Laura Wenus

In late April, a coalition of medical, community and government organizations called Unidos en Salud tested nearly 3,000 people in one Mission District census tract for the new coronavirus. Sixty-two of them tested positive, slightly more than 2% of those tested. Among those testing positive, 95% identified as Hispanic or Latinx, though they made up only 44% of those tested.

Posted in“Civic” Podcast, City Hall, Coronavirus, Health, Homelessness

S.F. Targets 13 Tenderloin Blocks for Tent Relocation, Cleanup, Services

by Laura Wenus

In response to an increase in tent encampments in the city’s Tenderloin neighborhood, city officials will target 13 blocks with outreach, services, cleaning and enforcement. People living in some encampments will be asked to relocate to permitted sites, and the city will open one such site with 50 spaces on Fulton Street between Larkin and Hyde streets.

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Testing Expanded for Essential S.F. Workers

Avatar photo by Mel Baker

As part of an effort to expand testing to all San Franciscans the city is offering free coronavirus testing to all essential workers, even those without symptoms.
Dr. Grant Colfax, director of the city’s Public Health Department, said Monday that testing is now available to all public and private workers deemed essential, regardless of whether they have symptoms.

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S.F. Offers Hotel Rooms for Local Homeless, Not Newcomers, Breed Says

by Leslie Santibanez-Molina and Laura Wenus

As San Francisco officials worked to expand housing options for the homeless, city leaders warned that anyone from outside San Francisco seeking a hotel room or other shelter would be turned away to preserve resources for those who were homeless within city limits before the pandemic hit.

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