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SAN RAFAEL, Calif. – On a hot June afternoon, others gathered at the tables along the city’s main street to grab a sauvignon blanc and eat a wood-fired pizza for Dining Under the Lights, an occasion to welcome residents of Marin County. one of his favorite pastimes.
A kilometer away, Crisalia Calderón crouched in his apartment in front of a sleepless night while suffering the first symptoms of COVID-19.
The 29-year-old housekeeper and her husband, Henry, a structure worker, suffered from terrible back pain and struggled to breathe. “Every time I tried to sleep, I felt like I was drowning,” he said recently, speaking in Spanish through an interpreter.
A few days earlier, Henry had called her sobbing from a hospital emergency room after testing positive for coronavirus. The couple and their 3 youngsters share their apartment in the Canal neighborhood with Crisalia’s sister and the 4 members of their family. “I didn’t need to go home, ” he said. But what can we do? Where can he pass?
At home, Henry tried to isolate himself in the most sensible bunk in one of his children’s beds. But it’s too late. In about a week, all two-home owners tested positive for COVID-19.
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Low-income communities of color, especially Latino communities, are most affected by the coronavirus pandemic in California, where the spread of infections among under-service personnel living in overcrowded situations has highlighted a worsening of racial and economic inequalities. These disparities are pronounced in the idyllic Marín, where an outbreak of new coVID-19 instances concentrated in an overcrowded Latin American community has helped put the county on the state pandemic watch list.
Latinos, who account for 16% of the county’s population, account for 75% of coronavirus infections, up to 90% since mid-June, according to Dr. Matt Willis, Marin County public fitness officer. After registering only a handful of coronavirus cases in the first few months of the pandemic, the county now has a consistent capita rate in the Bay Area.
“This is our main workforce,” Willis said. “This is the result of occasional socializations at satisfied hours.”
The canal, named along the waterway on its northern border that was once the advertising promenade of San Rafael, is a flat and densely populated community in a bay area suburb that stands out for its wooded villages on the slopes and multimillion-dollar views. The 21.2 square miles of the canal are dotted with car shops, scruffy palm trees and rows of low-rise buildings occupied by immigrants from countries such as Mexico, Guatemala and El Salvador. An influx of young Latinos has nearly tripled the neighborhood’s population since the 1990s.
“It’s like a Hispanic town where everyone knows everyone,” said 22-year-old Jennifer Tores, a Channel local who works in a clothing store.
Canal is a remote world and is connected in detail to affluent cities like San Anselmo and Tiburon, where mansions bleach, wax Teslas and cook milk at $6.
More than a portion of the neighborhood’s families earn less than $35,000 a year, in a county where the median source of income is nearly three times. People are confined to two or 3 families in an apartment to pay Marin’s unfortunately high rents. The Calderons live from cheque to canopy of part of the rent of $2,100 per month, while they manage to send cash to their relatives in Guatemala.
Willis stated that these lifestyles “can seamlessly translate a CASE of COVID-19 into or in 10.”
The spread of incorrect information on the Latin American network is even more contagious than the virus, adding the rumor that local control sites were infecting others and claimed that beer is a cure.
Confused and remote in the quarantined house for several weeks with her entire family, Crisalia Calderón began to worry. “I was scared,” she says. “We ran out of food and no money.”
He spent hours calling county officials and local nonprofits, but no one called again. Eventually, someone in a network organization promised to deliver food to the family, but everything that happened the next day expired the meat from the floor and some potatoes.
Calderón resorted to the same casual protection that he relied on in the rural village he had left at the age of 16 to emigrate north. A Guatemalan neighbor went to Costco and brought him ibuprofen against aches and fevers, as well as diapers and PediaSure for children aged 5, 3 and 2. Someone else brought vegetables, milk and beans from a Latin American market. After 3 hours on the phone, Calderón controlled to qualify for $500 in public assistance by coronavirus for undocumented residents.
Willis said officials were working with Canal Alliance, a community group, to provide citizens with the virus, in the form of money and hotel rooms to isolate inflamed people. The county recruits bilingual touch tracers from the Latin American community.
Marin is one of California’s healthiest, richest and most productive reported counties, and one of the most segregated. The county has fiercely retained its plant appeal and wide open spaces over the years, at the expense of public transportation and affordable housing.
A 2012 report on Marin County through the American Human Development Project showed that less than a portion of the channel’s adults had a higher school diploma. He ranked the neighborhood’s approximately 12,000 citizens last among the county’s 51 census slots for welfare and network opportunities.
Despite these disparities, it’s not unexpected that other people like Calderón are falling down the ground,” said Omar Carrera, ceo of Canal Alliance.
“These other people were in survival mode before COVID-19,” Carrera said one recent afternoon, in front of a mural that decorates the group’s headquarters. People had been queuing since 7 a.m. for loose coronavirus tests that started at 1 p.m. Health officials are suffering to keep up with the application for testing, as infections are higher and employers, such as gas stations and grocery outlets, have begun asking for staff to undergo testing.
An average of 20% of the Channel’s tests are positive. Some days, the positivity rate reaches 40%, Willis said. With many other people inflamed with few or no symptoms, the virus has spread to this young community.
But the other people here have to move on to work, so life happens almost as usual on the channel. The day laborers gather at dawn in the car parks; Vendors sit around the corner under colorful umbrellas to spy on toasted corn or fruit bags.
Conspiracy theories continue to multiply; one of them circulating in Spanish on social media claims that the virus is a government conspiracy. Another claims that local control sites are reusing filthy control swabs to intentionally infect people. Rumors have fuelled a climate of concern and silence around the virus.
One resident said the neighbors had painted an “X” on the front door of a friend of her husband to warn others that she had become infected.
Crisalia Calderón and his circle of relatives have recovered and have since tested negative for COVID-19, but still, “there are neighbors who are running away from us,” he says. Wait in the afternoon to wash clothes in your building, when there is no one else.
The other day, Calderón made the decision that, despite everything, it was time to ask the landlord to come to his apartment to solve a plumbing and damaged burner problem. But he said he couldn’t come. I was at home in poor health for COVID-19.
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SAN RAFAEL, Calif. – On a hot afternoon last June, others gathered at the tables along the city’s main street to grab a sauvignon blanc and eat a wood-fired pizza for Dining Under the Lights, an occasion to welcome residents of Marin County. one of his favorite pastimes.
A kilometer away, Crisalia Calderón crouched in his apartment in front of a sleepless night while suffering the first symptoms of COVID-19.
The 29-year-old housekeeper and her husband, Henry, a structure worker, suffered from terrible back pain and struggled to breathe. “Every time I tried to sleep, I felt like I was drowning,” he said recently, speaking in Spanish through an interpreter.
A few days earlier, Henry had called her sobbing from a hospital emergency room after testing positive for coronavirus. The couple and their 3 youngsters share their apartment in the Canal neighborhood with Crisalia’s sister and the 4 members of their family. “I didn’t need to go home, ” he said. But what can we do? Where can he pass?
At home, Henry tried to isolate himself in the most sensible bunk in one of his children’s beds. But it’s too late. In about a week, all two-home owners tested positive for COVID-19.
SAN RAFAEL, Calif. – On a hot June afternoon, others gathered at the tables along the city’s main street to grab a sauvignon blanc and eat a wood-fired pizza for Dining Under the Lights, an occasion to welcome residents of Marin County. one of his favorite pastimes.
A kilometer away, Crisalia Calderón crouched in his apartment in front of a sleepless night while suffering the first symptoms of COVID-19.
The 29-year-old housekeeper and her husband, Henry, a structure worker, suffered from awful back pain and struggled to breathe. “Every time I tried to sleep, I felt like I was drowning,” he said recently, speaking in Spanish through an interpreter.
A few days earlier, Henry had called her sobbing from a hospital emergency room after testing positive for coronavirus. The couple and their 3 youngsters share their apartment in the Canal neighborhood with Crisalia’s sister and the 4 members of their family. “I didn’t need to go home, ” he said. But what can we do? Where can he pass?
At home, Henry tried to isolate himself in the most sensible bunk in one of his children’s beds. But it’s too late. In about a week, all two-home owners tested positive for COVID-19.
Low-income communities of color, especially Latino communities, are most affected by the coronavirus pandemic in California, where the spread of infections among under-service personnel living in overcrowded situations has highlighted a worsening of racial and economic inequalities. These disparities are pronounced in the idyllic Marín, where an outbreak of new instances of COVID-19 concentrated in an overcrowded Latin American community helped place the county on the state pandemic watch list.
Latinos, who account for 16% of the county’s population, account for 75% of coronavirus infections, up to 90% since mid-June, according to Dr. Matt Willis, Marin County public fitness officer. After registering only a handful of coronavirus cases in the first few months of the pandemic, the county now has a consistent capita rate in the Bay Area.
“This is our main workforce,” Willis said. “This is the result of occasional socializations at satisfied hours.”
The canal, named along the waterway on its northern border that was once the publicity promenade of San Rafael, is a flat and densely populated community in a bay area suburb that stands out for its wooded villages on the slopes and multimillion-dollar views. The 21.2 square miles of the canal are dotted with car shops, scruffy palm trees and rows of low-rise buildings occupied by immigrants from countries such as Mexico, Guatemala and El Salvador. An influx of young Latinos has nearly tripled the neighborhood’s population since the 1990s.
“It’s like a Hispanic town where everyone knows everyone,” said 22-year-old Jennifer Tores, a Channel local who works in a clothing store.
Canal is a remote world and is connected in detail to affluent cities like San Anselmo and Tiburon, where mansions bleach, wax Teslas and cook milk at $6.
More than a portion of the neighborhood’s families earn less than $35,000 a year, in a county where the median source of income is nearly three times. People are confined to two or 3 families in an apartment to pay Marin’s unfortunately high rents. The Calderons live cheque by canopy check for part of the income of $2,100 per month, while they manage to return the cash to their enjoyed in Guatemala.
Willis stated that these lifestyles “can seamlessly translate a CASE of COVID-19 into or in 10.”
The spread of incorrect information on the Latin American network is even more contagious than the virus, adding the rumor that local control sites were infecting others and claimed that beer is a cure.
Confused and remote in the quarantined house for several weeks with her entire family, Crisalia Calderón began to worry. “I was scared,” she says. “We ran out of food and no money.”
He spent hours calling county officials and local associations, but no one called again. Eventually, a member of a network organization promised to deliver food to the family, but everything that happened the next day expired the meat from the floor and some potatoes.
Calderón resorted to the same casual protection that he relied on in the rural village he had left at the age of 16 to emigrate north. A Guatemalan neighbor went to Costco and brought him ibuprofen against aches and fevers, as well as diapers and PediaSure for children aged 5, 3 and 2. Someone else brought vegetables, milk and beans from a Latin American market. After 3 hours on the phone, Calderón controlled to qualify for $500 in state aid opposed to coronaviruses for undocumented residents.
Willis said officials were working with Canal Alliance, a community group, to provide citizens with the virus, in the form of money and hotel rooms to isolate inflamed people. The county recruits bilingual touch tracers from the Latin American community.
Marin is one of California’s healthiest, richest and most productive reported counties, and one of the most segregated. The county has fiercely retained its plant appeal and wide open spaces over the years, at the expense of public transportation and affordable housing.
A 2012 report on Marin County through the American Human Development Project showed that less than a portion of the channel’s adults had a higher school diploma. He ranked the neighborhood’s approximately 12,000 citizens last among the county’s 51 census slots for welfare and network opportunities.
Given these disparities, it’s not unexpected that other people like Calderón are falling down the ground,” said Omar Carrera, CEO of Canal Alliance.
“These other people were in survival mode before COVID-19,” Carrera said one recent afternoon, in front of a mural that decorates the group’s headquarters. People had been queuing since 7 a.m. for loose coronavirus tests that started at 1 p.m. Health officials are suffering to keep up with the application for testing, as infections are higher and employers, such as gas stations and grocery outlets, have begun asking for staff to undergo testing.
An average of 20% of the Channel’s tests are positive. Some days, the positivity rate reaches 40%, Willis said. With many other people inflamed with few or no symptoms, the virus has spread to this young community.
But the other people here have to move on to work, so life happens almost as usual on the channel. The day laborers gather at dawn in the car parks; vendors sit in street corners under colorful umbrellas to spy on toasted corn or fruit bags.
Conspiracy theories continue to multiply; one circulating in Spanish on social media states that the virus is a government conspiracy. Another claims that local control sites are reusing filthy control swabs to intentionally infect people. Rumors have fuelled a climate of concern and silence around the virus.
One resident said the neighbors had painted an “X” on the front door of a friend of her husband to warn others that she had become infected.
Crisalia Calderón and his circle of relatives have recovered and have since tested negative for COVID-19, but still, “there are neighbors who are running away from us,” he says. Wait in the afternoon to wash clothes in your building, when there is no one else.
The other day, Calderón made the decision that, despite everything, it was time to ask the landlord to come to his apartment to solve a long-term plumbing problem and damaged burners. But he said he couldn’t come. I was at home in poor health for COVID-19.
Low-income communities of color, especially Latino communities, are most affected by the coronavirus pandemic in California, where the spread of infections among under-service personnel living in overcrowded situations has highlighted a worsening of racial and economic inequalities. These disparities are pronounced in the idyllic Marín, where an outbreak of new coVID-19 instances concentrated in an overcrowded Latin American community has helped put the county on the state pandemic watch list.
Latinos, who account for 16% of the county’s population, account for 75% of coronavirus infections, up to 90% since mid-June, according to Dr. Matt Willis, Marin County public fitness officer. After registering only a handful of coronavirus cases in the first few months of the pandemic, the county now has a consistent capita rate in the Bay Area.
“This is our main workforce,” Willis said. “This is the result of occasional socializations at satisfied hours.”
The canal, named along the waterway on its northern border that was once the advertising promenade of San Rafael, is a flat and densely populated community in a bay area suburb that stands out for its wooded villages on the slopes and multimillion-dollar views. The 21.2 square miles of the canal are dotted with car shops, scruffy palm trees and rows of low-rise buildings occupied by immigrants from countries such as Mexico, Guatemala and El Salvador. An influx of young Latinos has nearly tripled the neighborhood’s population since the 1990s.
“It’s like a Hispanic town where everyone knows everyone,” said 22-year-old Jennifer Tores, a Channel local who works in a clothing store.
Canal is a remote world and is connected in detail to affluent cities like San Anselmo and Tiburon, where mansions bleach, wax Teslas and cook milk at $6.
More than a portion of the neighborhood’s families earn less than $35,000 a year, in a county where the median source of income is nearly three times as much. People are confined to two or 3 families in an apartment to pay Marin’s unfortunately high rents. The Calderons live on salary and canopy from the $2,100 monthly rent, while they manage to send cash to their relatives in Guatemala.
Willis stated that these lifestyles “can seamlessly translate a CASE of COVID-19 into or in 10.”
The spread of incorrect information on the Latin American network is even more contagious than the virus, adding the rumor that local control sites were infecting others and claimed that beer is a cure.
Confused and remote in the quarantined house for several weeks with her entire family, Crisalia Calderón began to worry. “I was scared,” she says. “We ran out of food and no money.”
He spent hours calling county officials and local associations, but no one called again. Eventually, a member of a network organization promised to deliver food to the family, but everything that happened the next day expired the meat from the floor and some potatoes.
Calderón resorted to the same casual protection that he relied on in the rural village he had left at the age of 16 to emigrate north. A Guatemalan neighbor went to Costco and brought him ibuprofen for pain and fever, as well as diapers and PediaSure for children aged 5, 3 and 2. Someone else brought vegetables, milk and beans from a Latin American market. After 3 hours on the phone, Calderón controlled to qualify for $500 in public assistance by coronavirus for undocumented residents.
Willis said officials were working with Canal Alliance, a community group, to provide citizens with the virus, in the form of money and hotel rooms to isolate inflamed people. The county recruits bilingual touch tracers from the Latin American community.
Marin is one of California’s healthiest, richest and most productive reported counties, and one of the most segregated. The county has fiercely retained its plant appeal and wide open spaces over the years, at the expense of public transportation and affordable housing.
A 2012 report on Marin County through the American Human Development Project showed that less than a portion of the channel’s adults had a higher school diploma. He ranked the neighborhood’s approximately 12,000 citizens last among the county’s 51 census slots for welfare and network opportunities.
Despite these disparities, it’s not unexpected that other people like Calderón are falling down the ground,” said Omar Carrera, ceo of Canal Alliance.
“These other people were in survival mode before COVID-19,” Carrera said one recent afternoon, in front of a mural that decorates the group’s headquarters. People had been queuing since 7 a.m. for loose coronavirus tests that started at 1 p.m. Health officials are suffering to maintain speed with the application for testing, as infections have increased and employers, such as gas stations and grocery outlets, have begun asking for staff to undergo testing.
An average of 20% of the Channel’s tests are positive. Some days, the positivity rate reaches 40%, Willis said. With many other people inflamed with few or no symptoms, the virus has spread to this young community.
But the other people here have to move on to work, so life happens almost as usual on the canal. The day laborers gather at dawn in the car parks; Vendors sit around the corner under colorful umbrellas to spy on toasted corn or fruit bags.
Conspiracy theories continue to multiply; one circulating in Spanish on social media states that the virus is a government conspiracy. Another claims that local control sites are reusing filthy control swabs to intentionally infect people. Rumors have fuelled a climate of concern and silence around the virus.
One resident said the neighbors had painted an “X” on the front door of a friend of her husband to warn others that she had become infected.
Crisalia Calderón and his circle of relatives have recovered and have since tested negative for COVID-19, but “there are still neighbors fleeing us,” he said. Wait in the afternoon to wash clothes in your building, when there is no one else.
The other day, Calderón made the decision that, despite everything, it was time to ask the landlord to come to his apartment to solve a plumbing and damaged burner problem. But he said he couldn’t come. I was at home in poor health for COVID-19.
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