A lifestyle focus for COVID-19 and chronic health conditions

Many hard lessons are being learned as residents of the Bay Area manage life with the ongoing pandemic. For Latinos who have recovered from the COVID virus, and for many medical professionals, there is a stronger focus on the lifestyle fundamentals of health.

In California, there have been 1,029,235 cases of COVID to date*, 60 percent of which are Latinos, reports the California Public Health Department (CPHD).

The Golden State, however, is doing better than most other U.S. states, according to the CPHD, which reports that Alameda County has dropped a case level from “substantial” to “moderate” with a 1.6 percent positivity rate as compared to the state’s rate of 3.3 percent. Even with relatively low cases, California still adds several thousand cases a day and a fair number of deaths.

Despite a difficult upbringing in California’s foster care system, and the challenges of navigating college as a first-generation student, Rosalina Burton has an optimistic outlook for her future. She’s in her senior year at the University of California, Davis, where she is completing her bachelor’s degree in human development and working on plans to continue her education—all with the goal of helping young people facing similar obstacles. Scholarship America is proud to be supporting her as part of the 2020 class of Dream Award Scholars.

La Agencia de Servicios Sociales del Condado de Alameda (ACSSA), en asociación con los Servicios de Atención Médica del Condado (HCSA) y las Agencias de Auditoría-Controladores, lanzó un programa de resiliencia económica el 24 de agosto de 2020 para abordar la Crisis de salud pública COVID-19.

El Día Anual de ir en Bicicleta al Trabajo en el Área de la Bahía se ha reinventado como "Días de ir en bicicleta a donde sea" (BTWD, por sus siglas en ingles) que anima a los ciclistas de la región a participar en una variedad de actividades para promover el ciclismo durante todo septiembre.