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How My Life Has Changed Since the Pandemic: Amelah El-Amin

February 15, 2022 Amelah El-Amin

We asked our Oakland Voices alumni community members and correspondents: How has pandemic life changed your habits and your outlook? How have you navigated public spaces and health risks now that we are in a

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Alameda County Mask Mandate Starts Tuesday, August 3, 2021

August 2, 2021 Momo Chang

Alameda County will have a mask mandate starting tomorrow (Tuesday, August 3, 2021). What this means is, regardless of if you’re vaccinated, you must wear a mask indoors at all public spaces. This mask mandate

What to Know About the New Mask Guidelines

May 14, 2021 Momo Chang

Have questions about the new CDC mask guidelines?

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Air Quality Bad – stay indoors if possible; protect your neighbors from smoke inhalation by donating to Mask Oakland

September 10, 2020 Momo Chang

Mask Oakland is donating N95 masks to homeless populations and organizations that work with unhoused populations. Our curbside neighbors are most at risk for smoke inhalation.

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Confessions of a Maskhole

August 26, 2020 Bill Joyce

I learned there’s now a term to describe people like me who are undisciplined mask wearers — maskholes. You know the type: we slop them on like an old sock.

A woman wears a handmade crown made from flowers, and a mask that matches.

Crafting a Mask to Match my Coronavirus Crown

July 22, 2020 Kat Ferreira

Oakland Voices Alumna Kat Ferreira makes her own artistic mask to match a hand-crafted crown during COVID-19.

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Hospitalizations in Alameda County Mostly Stable But Racial Disparities Among Positive COVID-19 Cases Worse Than May

June 11, 2020 Momo Chang

Latinx people make up 22.4% of Alameda County’s population, yet they represent 47% of the cases in Alameda County now.

COVID-19: Generations of Oaklanders share living life with Social Distancing and Shelter-In-Place

June 3, 2020 Ryan Barba

“People today are acting like this is the end of the world, but when you’re experiencing combat and have been doused in Agent Orange, a shelter-in-place order is a walk in the park.”