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• Press Coverage | February 4, 2021

  How the pandemic has affected front-line caregivers

  April Verrett, president of California’s largest long-term care union, discusses the vaccine rollout and how communities of color and nursing home workers have been hit hardest by the pandemic.

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• Press Coverage | January 11, 2021

  Vaccines were a chance to redeem failures in the U.S. coronavirus response. What went wrong?

  Two promising coronavirus vaccine candidates were speeding through trials in September when the country’s top public health agency invited states to submit plans describing how they would get the shots to millions of people. It was an opportunity, eight months after the...

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• Press Coverage | Covid-19 News | Issues | January 11, 2021

  Vaccines were a chance to redeem failures in the U.S. coronavirus response. What went wrong?

  

  Two promising coronavirus vaccine candidates were speeding through trials in September when the country’s top public health agency invited states to submit plans describing how they would get the shots to millions of people. It was an opportunity, eight months after the...

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• Press Coverage | January 8, 2021

  After fight to gain access to vaccines, local leaders say they need to fight distrust in communities of color

  LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- The COVID-19 vaccine is the light at the end of the tunnel for this pandemic. But there are many people who don't trust the vaccine. In a show of unity, local community leaders are committing to building...

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• Press Release | December 29, 2020

  SEIU Local 2015 President Statement on Governor Newsom and Vaccine Distribution

  

  Los Angeles, CA -- Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 2015 President April Verrett, released the following statement regarding the state’s partnership with CVS and Walgreens to distribute vaccines in nursing homes across the state.   “As we head into a...

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• Press Coverage | December 27, 2020

  Surrounded by death, nursing home workers battle management and fear to protect patients

  BAKERSFIELD — Their faces flickered with hope when she entered their rooms. “Did my daughter forget about me?” asked one woman, over 80 years old. “Does she know I’m here?” “Where is my son?” begged a man down the hall. Her answers...

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• Press Coverage | Covid-19 News | Issues | December 27, 2020

  Surrounded by death, nursing home workers battle management and fear to protect patients

  BAKERSFIELD —  Their faces flickered with hope when she entered their rooms. “Did my daughter forget about me?” asked one woman, over 80 years old. “Does she know I’m here?” “Where is my son?” begged a man down the hall. Her...

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• Covid-19 News | December 18, 2020

  COVID-19 Vaccine Q&A

  

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• Press Coverage | December 1, 2020

  How race impacts California nursing facilities amid COVID-19

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• Covid-19 News | December 1, 2020

  As virus again surges in California, race is a defining factor in nursing facilities, research shows

  As COVID-19 once again surges across California, skilled nursing facilities with more Black and Latino residents are being hit harder than those with fewer residents of color, according to a new study...

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• Press Coverage | November 4, 2020

  California rejects proposal 25 that seeks to eliminate the surety system

  SACRAMENTO, California. — Con el 55.4% en contra y el 44.6% a favor, la propuesta 25 fue rechazada en California en las elecciones de noviembre de 2020, de acuerdo con la Prensa Asociada. La iniciativa buscaba convertir a California en el primer estado...

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