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How My Life Has Changed Since the Pandemic: 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 […]

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Alameda County Mask Mandate Starts Tuesday, August 3, 2021
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What to Know About the New Mask Guidelines

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

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

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.

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Crafting a Mask to Match my Coronavirus Crown

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

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

“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."