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Life after COVID

  • Impact and response

    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.