【《We Chinese in AmericaMedia Editor Tang Zhao, October 1, 2022Don't miss this opportunity to spend a day at the J. Paul Getty Villa Museum, a one-of-a-kind destination offering ancient Greek and Roman art, tranquil gardens, and ocean breezes. Your day will include a curator-led tour of the exhibition Nubia: Jewels of Ancient Sudan which presents highlights from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston's extensive collection of Nubian objects and features superbly crafted jewelry, metalwork, and sculpture exhibiting the wealth and splendor of Nubian society. The trip includes round-trip luxury coach transportation, light breakfast, private tour and a gourmet snack with wine for the ride home. 

$160 - Members / $175 Non-Members 
 
09 29 NUBIA
 

 Travel Day Itinerary

 
7:30 am Leave Balboa Park (Behind Hall of Champions)
8:00 am Leave Lomas Santa Fe Plaza (Outside Einstein Bagels)
10:45 am Arrive at the Getty Villa
11:00 am Exhibition Tour (Group 1)
12:30 pm Lunch on Your Own
2:00 pm Exhibition Tour (Group 2)
3:30 pm Meet at the Bus
3:45 pm Depart for San Diego
6:45 pm Arrive at Lomas Santa Fe
7:15 pm Arrive at Balboa Park 
 
 This trip is non-refundable and proof of vaccination is required. 
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【《We Chinese in AmericaMedia Editor Tang Zhao, September 30, 2022】Per  passenger using the Metropolitan Transit System (MTS) has been diagnosed with infectious pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) according to San Diego County Health and Human Services Agency (HHSA).(Photo credit: County of San Diego Communications Office)

HHSA is working with Metropolitan Transit System (MTS) officials to notify individuals who were possibly exposed. Riders using the following routes between Feb. 16, 2022, and Aug. 16, 2022 were potentially exposed and are at risk for infection:

  • Trolley Blue Line from San Ysidro to 12th and Imperial station Monday through Friday from 6 a.m. to 6:30 a.m.
  • Trolley Orange Line from 12th and Imperial to Lemon Grove Monday through Friday from 6:30 to 7 a.m.
  • Trolley Orange Line from Lemon Grove to 12th and Imperial Monday through Friday roughly between 4:45 p.m. and 5:15 p.m.
  • Trolley Blue Line from 12th and Imperial to San Ysidro Monday through Friday roughly between 5:15 p.m. and 5:45 p.m.

Potentially affected passengers are advised to consult with their medical provider or contact Public Health to arrange testing.

“Symptoms of active TB include persistent cough, fever, night sweats and unexplained weight loss,” said Wilma Wooten, M.D., M.P.H., County public health officer. “Most people who become infected after exposure to tuberculosis do not get sick right away. Some who become infected with tuberculosis will become ill at some point in the future, sometimes even years later. Blood tests and skin tests are effective to determine whether someone has been infected.”

People who are infected, and people at high risk of becoming ill quickly after an infection such as those with an immunocompromising condition, should discuss treatments with a medical provider, as antibiotics can prevent people with TB infection from becoming sick.

Individuals who would like more information on this potential exposure are asked to call the County TB Control Program at (619) 692-8621.

The number of annual TB cases in San Diego County has decreased since the early 1990s and has stabilized in recent years. There were 264 cases reported in 2019, 192 cases in 2020 and 201 cases of tuberculosis disease reported in 2021. Through the end of August, 97 cases have been reported to date in 2022.

(Source: County of San Diego Communications Office)

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【《We Chinese in AmericaMedia Editor Tang Zhao, September 28, 2022About 40,000 Americans died of Covid this summer. That toll means that Covid is continuing to kill many more people each day than vehicle crashes, gun violence, the flu or many other health threats. (IPhoto Credit : OCHD.org)

The situation is especially tragic because most of these Covid deaths could have been prevented — if only more Americans had received vaccine shots, including booster shots for older people and others with vulnerable health.

 

Covid is killing almost nobody under 50 and is hospitalizing very few people. The death and hospitalization rates also remain low among older people who are boosted. And in all of these groups, severe Covid illness is concentrated among people who have significant underlying medical problems.

The main reason so many Americans are still dying from Covid is that vaccination and booster rates are not higher. Only about half of adults have received a booster shot, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation’s most recent poll. More than 20 percent have not received any vaccine shot.

Do boosters matter?

Yes, boosters matter. The biggest benefit is a reduction in severe illness among vulnerable people, as Jennifer Nuzzo, an epidemiologist at Brown University, said. For that reason, anybody over 50 who has not yet received a booster shot in 2022 should consider getting one as soon as possible.

(One exception: If you recently had Covid, you should wait several months before getting a booster.)

The most effective way to reduce Covid deaths, however, does not involve boosters. It involves persuading more unvaccinated Americans to get their first shot. Their risks are far higher than the risks facing the unboosted. Unfortunately, public health officials acknowledge that they don’t know how to increase that number very much. About four-fifths of the unvaccinated — a group that is disproportionately Republican — say they will “definitely not” get a shot, according to Kaiser.

Covid remains so deadly largely because millions of Americans have decided they would rather accept its risks than receive a vaccine shot.

Do younger people need one?

Whether to get a booster shot is a closer call for healthy people under 50, many experts believe. Rates of severe Covid are already so low among this group that booster shots don’t seem to have a huge health benefit. Of course, the downsides of the shots also seem to be small, because research has consistently shown them to be safe.

But getting a booster shot is not wholly without downsides. Some people are fearful of needles or prefer to avoid taking unnecessary medicines. Other people were sick for a day or two after getting an earlier Covid shot and would prefer not to repeat the experience.

 

For one thing, the data suggests that a booster reduces a person’s chances of being infected with Covid, at least for a few months, and even a moderate Covid infection can keep somebody in bed for days. It can sometimes lead to longer-term symptoms, too. Perhaps most important, a younger person could infect an older person for whom Covid might be more severe.

“You’re doing it for your family and your friends,” Dr. Ashish Jha, the White House’s Covid coordinator, told The Washington Post. The Biden administration has recently changed its guidance to recommend that all eligible people 12 and above receive a booster shot with one of the updated vaccines. Jha recently said that he expected a Covid shot to become an annual ritual, like a flu shot.

 
 

What about new boosters?

Pfizer and Moderna began offering bivalent booster shots in September, designed to combat Omicron subvariants of the Covid virus. Tests in animals have suggested that the shots will do a better job preventing infections than earlier vaccine shots.

So far, the real-world evidence is unclear. The truth is we don’t know.  The situation will become clearer once the C.D.C. releases more data in coming weeks.

But most people don’t need to worry too much about these fine differences. The new boosters, like the earlier versions, are likely to be extremely effective at preventing severe illness, scientists say. For people who are more vulnerable to severe Covid, either because of age or a health condition, the best advice has not changed: Stay up-to-date on your Covid boosters.

The following is an updated interim guidance from CDC allows for millions of Americans who are at highest risk for COVID-19 to receive a Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 booster shot to help increase their protection.

CDC recommends:

·         people 65 years and older and residents in long-term care settings should receive a booster shot of Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine at least 6 months after their Pfizer-BioNTech primary series,

·         people aged 50–64 years with underlying medical conditions should receive a booster shot of Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine at least 6 months after their Pfizer-BioNTech primary series,

·         people aged 18–49 years with underlying medical conditions may receive a booster shot of Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine at least 6 months after their Pfizer-BioNTech primary series, based on their individual benefits and risks, and

·         people aged 18-64 years who are at increased risk for COVID-19 exposure and transmission because of occupational or institutional setting may receive a booster shot of Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine at least 6 months after their Pfizer-BioNTech primary series, based on their individual benefits and risks.

(Source: New York Times)

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【《We Chinese in AmericaMedia Editor Tang Zhao, September 29, 2022Wildly popular social media app TikTok is said to have a draft agreement in place with the U.S. government that would allow it to continue operating in the country while retaining Chinese ownership. (Photo Credit: New York Times)

The deal was hashed out in recent months, according to a report in the New York Times, and resolves national security concerns that have troubled lawmakers given the platform’s ownership by Beijing-based tech giant, ByteDance. However, the agreement may take months more to finalize, the NYT said, with a top DOJ official and the Treasury both having reservations on whether it’s tough enough on China.

In 2020, then President Trump issued an unusual executive order blocking the app unless ByteDance sold TikTok’s U.S. business to an American company. Microsoft came in early with an offer. Its bid was rejected in favor of Oracle, which signed on as a technology partner with a group of investors. It was all pretty messy and put on hold but not forgotten. Government officials continue to view the platform as a threat able to siphon users’ data and compromise U.S. security. The NYT says Oracle remains in the picture to help monitor the site.

“We will not comment on the specifics of confidential discussions with the US government, but we are confident that we are on a path to fully satisfy all reasonable US national security concerns,” said a TikTok spokesperson.

The agreement is said to call for all TikTok’s U.S. data to be stored on U.S. servers inaccessible to China. It allows Oracle to monitor the platform’s algorithmic recommendations for Chinese disinformation and propaganda. And it establishes a board of security experts reporting to the U.S. government to oversee TikTok’s U.S. business. ByteDance would retain ownership.

The rapid growth of TikTok, which was run briefly by former top Disney executive and current Candle Media co-CEO Kevin Mayer, has destabilized the entire social media sector, and rivals have called foul. Snap CEO Evan Spiegel said at a conference earlier this month that being owned by privately held ByteDance has enabled TikTok to funnel enormous resources into increasing its footprint. Its growth “wasn’t about innovation, it was about subsidizing large-scale user acquisition around the world,” he said.

Separately Monday, a British watchdog agency said it may fine TikTok £27 million ($28.8 million) for possible breaches of U.K. data protection law in failing to protect children’s privacy on the platform. ICO, the Information Commissioner’s Office, said it issued TikTok Inc. and TikTok Information Technologies UK Limited with a ‘notice of intent’ — a legal document that precedes a potential fine — for breaches between May 2018 and July 2020.

(Source: New York Times)

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【《We Chinese in AmericaMedia Editor Tang Zhao, September 27, 2022As most of the nine University of California undergraduate campuses start the fall quarter, the state’s college housing shortage has thrown thousands of students into crisis. About 9,400 students systemwide were denied university housing this fall because of shortages — and some campuses are back to squeezing three students into a dorm room as a stopgap measure.(Photo credit : KCRW)

The pandemic and the desire to maintain physical distancing has prompted some landlords and renters to limit the density in shared houses and apartments. The result is fewer rooms available for students, and campus dorms can’t always handle the extra demand.

UC Berkeley has long struggled with housing issues. The campus, which started classes more than a month ago, did not provide figures for how many students are still seeking housing. But before classes began, as many as 5,000 students who had applied for housing could not be accommodated, according to a spokesperson.

Late last month, an Alameda County judge ordered the university to freeze student enrollments over its impact on local neighborhoods, with housing availability being a prime issue. Meanwhile, a plan to lease 200 dorm rooms at Mills College has fallen through.

The university is trying to address the shortage by unveiling a 12-story student housing project at People’s Park that could accommodate about 1,100 students.

The housing crunch left many students at other UC campuses using quarter system for an academic year searching for permanent housing with 10 days before fall classes began. For example, as of earlier this month, more than 900 students were on the UC Santa Barbara on-campus housing waiting list.

Thousands of students at UC San Diego have struggled to find housing, according to the San Diego Union-Tribune, which reported that the shortage at that campus was triggered at least in part by on-campus housing not being at full capacity. UC San Diego is limiting dorm room occupancy to two students. In the past, some rooms have housed three students.

UC leaders say that providing affordable student housing is one of the system’s most urgent needs. UC campuses are located on some of the most expensive real estate in the nation, yet the university educates more low-income students than its public and private peers.

(Source: Los Angeles Times)

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