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		<title>These SF neighborhoods displaying most financial development since COVID</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>In most parts of San Francisco, consumer spending isn’t close to where it was before the COVID-19 pandemic, but for three neighborhoods in the city, this is no longer the case.  Citywide, San Francisco brought in 25% less sales tax revenue in the first quarter of 2023 than it did in 2019, even after accounting for &#8230;</p>
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<p>In most parts of San Francisco, consumer spending isn’t close to where it was before the COVID-19 pandemic, but for three neighborhoods in the city, this is no longer the case. </p>
<p>Citywide, San Francisco brought in 25% less sales tax revenue in the first quarter of 2023 than it did in 2019, even after accounting for inflation. Nearly all neighborhoods generated less revenue over this period, except for the Western Addition, Japantown and the Presidio, which saw 36%, 9% and 5% increases, respectively. </p>
<p>Meanwhile, downtown neighborhoods have been hit hardest, like the Financial District (-32%), South of Market (-36%) and Tenderloin (-59%). </p>
<p>Although sales tax isn’t a major source of revenue for the city, given that most earnings go to the state, it paints a picture of geographic consumer spending patterns. </p>
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<p>Ted Egan, San Francisco’s chief economist, said certain neighborhoods are seeing growth not because they’re the “hot new place” to be in San Francisco, but rather, “they seem to just specialize in areas of the economy that have recovered a lot coming out of the pandemic in terms of consumer spending.”</p>
<p>The over 30% growth in Western Addition is almost entirely due to new car sales from dealerships in the area, according to Egan. New motor vehicle dealers were the biggest source of sales tax revenue in the Western Addition in early 2023 at almost 70% of all sales, according to data from the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration. </p>
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<p>Car sales are a major contribution to sales tax, according to Egan, and with car prices — for both new and used cars — still at elevated levels, this has been a major boon to businesses in Western Addition.</p>
<p>Citywide, new car sales saw the second highest increase in revenue at 30% from the first quarter of 2019 to 2023, just behind jewelry stores at 41%. </p>
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<p>Japantown saw the second highest increase in sales tax revenue since 2019 at 9%. According to Egan, this jump is due to growth in the restaurant sector — a mix of new business openings and the recovery of customer demand. </p>
<p>Sales tax data suggests that Japantown has a higher concentration of restaurants than other neighborhoods, Egan said, allowing the neighborhood to “ride the restaurant boom.” Indeed, over half of total sales tax revenue in early 2023 came from casual and fine-dining businesses, according to the CDTFA. </p>
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<p>Additionally, the introduction of more parklets since the pandemic allowed restaurants in the area to increase their capacity, said Patti Mangan, executive director of the Fillmore Merchants Association.</p>
<p>Japantown’s positive sales tax revenue growth is a reflection of restaurant recovery citywide, which the Controller’s Office has highlighted as a bright spot in the city’s economic recovery. </p>
<p>“Restaurants were so badly beaten down in 2020 that a lot of the growth of the last two years is just the reopening,” Egan said. “But there’s also been significant growth just from early 2022 to 2023 and there wasn&#8217;t much reopening then — that’s just the recovery of people wanting to go out to restaurants.”</p>
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<p>Egan attributes the Presidio’s 5% growth to new business openings in the area.</p>
<p>While certain parts of the city are recovering faster than others as a result of current economic trends like car sales and restaurant recovery, other industries in San Francisco, like retail, are still struggling to make a comeback. </p>
<p>“(Recovery) isn’t just a downtown problem, it’s a citywide loss of population and loss of retail problem,” Egan said. “But there are definitely some bright areas.”</p>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>According to the San Mateo County District Attorney&#8217;s Office, a disabled San Francisco police officer has been accused of opening a fake daycare center in his south San Francisco apartment to obtain a COVID PPP loan. Adam Eatia, 39, pleaded not guilty to two counts on Wednesday, June 14, prosecutors said. Eatia was investigated for &#8230;</p>
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<p>According to the San Mateo County District Attorney&#8217;s Office, a disabled San Francisco police officer has been accused of opening a fake daycare center in his south San Francisco apartment to obtain a COVID PPP loan.</p>
<p>Adam Eatia, 39, pleaded not guilty to two counts on Wednesday, June 14, prosecutors said.</p>
<p>Eatia was investigated for unrelated insurance fraud, and investigators allegedly discovered that the South City address alleged to be &#8220;Adam&#8217;s Daycare&#8221; was an apartment and not a business.  Eatia allegedly did not own a child care business but used it fraudulently to obtain a $20,832 loan from the San Mateo County Small Business Administration in 2021, according to the prosecutor&#8217;s office.</p>
<p>He remains on administrative leave from the San Francisco Police Department.  He was released from prison at his own request.  If convicted, Eatia faces three years in prison for two crimes: lying to get a loan and false information to get money, according to the prosecutor&#8217;s office.</p>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Tatiana Torres hatte alles gegen sich. Sie verbrachte die meiste Zeit in der High School damit, von zu Hause aus zu lernen, nachdem sie nach einem Unfall unter anhaltenden Kopfschmerzen und Lichtempfindlichkeit litt. Sie war gerade ganztägig an die Heritage High School in Brentwood zurückgekehrt, als die Covid-19-Pandemie die Schulen schloss. Trotz dieser Herausforderungen wird &#8230;</p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400">Tatiana Torres hatte alles gegen sich.  Sie verbrachte die meiste Zeit in der High School damit, von zu Hause aus zu lernen, nachdem sie nach einem Unfall unter anhaltenden Kopfschmerzen und Lichtempfindlichkeit litt. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">Sie war gerade ganztägig an die Heritage High School in Brentwood zurückgekehrt, als die Covid-19-Pandemie die Schulen schloss.  </span><span style="font-weight: 400">Trotz dieser Herausforderungen wird sie diesen Herbst als Juniorstudentin an die UC Berkeley wechseln, um dort Politikwissenschaft zu studieren.  Sie hatte ihr Allgemeinbildungsstudium in nur einem Jahr am Los Medanos College in Pittsburg abgeschlossen</span>.</p>
<p>Dies ist der fünfte und letzte Artikel in der Reihe „Klasse 2022“.  EdSource verfolgte die Fortschritte von 12 Senioren, die während der Highschool und ihres ersten Studienjahres mit den Folgen der Schulschließungen aufgrund von Covid-19 zu kämpfen hatten.</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">Torres schloss ihr Studium im Juni 2022 an der Heritage ab und schrieb sich am Los Medanos College ein, nachdem sie an keiner der Universitäten, die sie besuchen wollte, aufgenommen werden konnte.  Sie wurde dort in ein Honours-Programm aufgenommen und blühte auf, obwohl sie viele ihrer Kurse online belegte.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">„Akademisch gesehen war es nicht allzu schwierig“, sagte Torres.  „Dieses Jahr war jedoch aufgrund der Herausforderungen im Leben viel schwieriger als ich erwartet hatte.  Es hat mich überrascht und ich hatte ein wenig zu kämpfen, aber ich konnte mich erholen.“</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">Torres ist einer von zwölf kalifornischen High-School-Absolventen des Jahrgangs 2022, die EdSource bis zum Abschluss und ihrem ersten Jahr als Erwachsener begleitet hat.  Fünf besuchten eine Universität, fünf besuchten ein kalifornisches Community College, einer nahm einen Job an und ein Student – ​​der während seines Studiums an der UCLA in seinem Auto schlafen wollte, weil er sich die Miete nicht leisten konnte – konnte nicht mehr erreicht werden.</span></p>
<p>Ein Unfall schickte Tatiana Torres für den größten Teil der High School nach Hause.  Trotzdem schaffte sie es, ihre allgemeinbildenden Einheiten an der Hochschule in einem Jahr zu absolvieren.</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">Für den Jahrgang 2022, der während der Schulschließungen aufgrund der Covid-19-Pandemie mehr als ein Jahr damit verbracht hatte, von zu Hause aus zu lernen, war der Abschluss der High School und der Besuch einer Hochschule oder der Berufseinstieg eine besondere Herausforderung. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">Die neuen Erwachsenen hatten schulische Schwierigkeiten, vor allem in Mathematik, und hatten aufgrund der langen Zeit, die sie nicht zur Schule gingen, soziale Probleme.  Einige der befragten Studenten änderten ihren langgehegten Plan, weit weg von zu Hause Colleges zu besuchen, und einer entschied sich, überhaupt nicht daran teilzunehmen.</span></p>
<h3>Die Pandemie hatte Auswirkungen auf die Studien- und Berufswahl der Studierenden</h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">Sie sind nicht allein.  Eine neu veröffentlichte landesweite Umfrage unter 1.500 Senioren des Jahrgangs 2023 von ACT Research zeigt, dass fast die Hälfte angibt, dass die Pandemie ihre Entscheidung für mindestens eine College- oder Berufswahl beeinflusst hat.  Mehr als ein Viertel der Studierenden gab an, dass die Pandemie ihre Meinung darüber geändert habe, welches College sie besuchen sollten, und einer von zehn gab an, dass die Pandemie sie dazu gebracht habe, sich zu fragen, ob sie überhaupt ein College besuchen sollten.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">Obwohl die meisten Schüler ihre Studien- oder Karriereentscheidungen aufgrund finanzieller Schwierigkeiten, schlechterer Noten und Zweifel an der Hochschule im Zusammenhang mit der Pandemie änderten, änderten andere ihren Kurs, weil die Schulschließungen ihnen Zeit zur Selbstreflexion oder zum Entdecken neuer Interessen und Prioritäten gaben. laut Forschern. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">Torres nutzte ihre Zeit zu Hause, um eine gemeinnützige Organisation zu gründen, um jüngeren Kindern zu helfen, die während der Pandemie mit psychischen Problemen zu kämpfen hatten.  Sie hat die Website erstellt </span><span style="font-weight: 400">ruhig-4-du</span><span style="font-weight: 400">  nachdem sie mit einer fünfjährigen Nachbarin gesprochen hatte, die sich verwirrt und schuldig fühlte, weil sie nicht mit ihren Freunden und Klassenkameraden zusammen sein konnte.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">Drei der anderen elf Senioren, die am Projekt „EdSource Class of 2022“ teilnahmen, gründeten Unternehmen, einige mit dem Ziel, sich nach ihrem College-Abschluss und dem Berufseinstieg mehrere Einnahmequellen zu erschließen.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">„Wir waren alle während unserer wichtigsten High-School-Jahre zu Hause.  Aus diesem Grund haben viele Schüler diese unabhängige Denkweise“, sagte Gannon Peebles, ein Absolvent der Edison High School in Fresno im Jahr 2022.  Wenn ich nicht weiß, wie man etwas macht, versuche ich es herauszufinden, bevor ich jemanden frage.“</span></p>
<h3>Es ist nicht einfach, sich im Hochschulsystem zurechtzufinden</h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">Nach mehr als einem Jahr Fernunterricht entdeckten viele der Studenten Lücken in ihrem Wissen und hatten Schwierigkeiten, mit ihrem Studium – insbesondere in Mathematik – Schritt zu halten, als sie ans College kamen.  Einige Studenten hatten Probleme, ihre Unterrichtsstunden zu planen oder sich die Lerngewohnheiten anzueignen, die sie benötigen, um die Studienleistungen am College zu meistern.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">Die Probleme von Miles Fu begannen danach </span><span style="font-weight: 400">In seinem ersten Semester am American River College in Sacramento konnte er keinen Termin mit einem Berater vereinbaren, um zu besprechen, welche Kurse er in seinem zweiten Semester belegen sollte.  Es fiel ihm schwer, Kurse auszuwählen, und er wählte sie aus, ohne vorher Dinge wie die Dauer der täglichen Unterrichtszeit zu berücksichtigen.  Donnerstags zum Beispiel hatte er Unterricht von 9 bis 18 Uhr </span><span style="font-weight: 400">Nach zwei Stunden Unterricht war er erschöpft und konnte mit der Pflichtlektüre nicht mehr Schritt halten.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">„Das ganze Jahr ist in meinem Gehirn verschwommen“, sagte Fu.  „Ich habe nicht alle meine Kurse bestanden und es gab viel Gerangel, herauszufinden, was ich als nächstes tun muss.“</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">Fu kann nicht sagen, ob die Schulschließungen während der Covid-19-Pandemie zu seinen Schwierigkeiten im College beigetragen haben.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">„Vielleicht habe ich den Schulstoff besser aufgenommen, und das hat sich vielleicht auch aufs College übertragen“, sagte er.  „Vielleicht habe ich Lerngewohnheiten früher erlernt.  Es ist möglich, dass ich besser dran gewesen wäre (wenn die Schließungen nie stattgefunden hätten).“</span></p>
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<p>Miles Fu erfuhr, dass er sich für Weidelandökologie interessierte, nachdem er eine Reihe von Exkursionen zu Weidegebieten und Naturschutzgebieten unternommen hatte.</p>
<p>Das College war dieses Jahr nicht nur schlecht für Fu.  Er entdeckte sein Interesse an der Ökologie von Weideland, nachdem er mit Menschen gesprochen hatte, die Weideland und Naturschutzgebiete bewirtschaften.  Er würde gerne ein Praktikum absolvieren, um mehr über den Beruf zu erfahren.</p>
<h3>Studienanfänger stürzten sich eifrig in das Leben auf dem Campus</h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">Trotz der Schwierigkeiten, sich an das College zu gewöhnen und den akademischen Rückstand aufzuholen, waren die neuen Erstsemester bereit, alles nachzuholen, was sie während der High School gesellschaftlich verpasst hatten.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">Peebles sagte, die Erfahrung mit der Pandemie habe ihn kontaktfreudiger gemacht, als er letzten Herbst nach New York zog, um die Columbia University zu besuchen.  Er genoss die Zeit dort so sehr, dass er nur für einen kurzen sechstägigen Besuch nach Fresno zurückkehrte, bevor er Anfang des Monats nach New York zurückkehrte, um Sommerkurse und ein begehrtes Sommerpraktikum bei Sumeru Equity Partners zu absolvieren, einer Private-Equity-Firma mit Niederlassungen im ganzen Land . </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">Selbst der dichte Rauch eines in Kanada brennenden Feuers hielt Peebles nicht davon ab, in die öffentlichen Verkehrsmittel einzusteigen und nach seiner Rückkehr alles zu genießen, was New York zu bieten hatte. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">„In dieser Stadt wird es nie langweilig“, sagte er.</span></p>
<p><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-682567" src="https://edsource.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/GannonPeeblesindorm-300x225.jpg" alt="" width="345" height="259" srcset="https://edsource.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/GannonPeeblesindorm-300x225.jpg 300w, https://edsource.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/GannonPeeblesindorm-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https://edsource.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/GannonPeeblesindorm-768x576.jpg 768w, https://edsource.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/GannonPeeblesindorm-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://edsource.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/GannonPeeblesindorm-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://edsource.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/GannonPeeblesindorm-200x150.jpg 200w, https://edsource.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/GannonPeeblesindorm-1067x800.jpg 1067w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 345px) 100vw, 345px"/></p>
<p>Gannon Peebles aus Fresno hatte Angst, neue Freunde zu treffen, als er zur Columbia University in New York ging.  Es war kein Problem.</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">Peebles, a </span><span style="font-weight: 400">Als reiner Einser-Schüler an der Edison High scheiterte er in seinem ersten Semester an der Columbia in Mathematik.  Er führt seine Probleme mit Mathematik darauf zurück, dass er während der High School nicht ein ganzes Jahr lang in Präsenzrechnungen gearbeitet hat. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">„Eigentlich ist es das Gegenteil von dem, was ich dachte“, sagte er über seine Erwartungen an das College.  „Als ich aufs College ging, dachte ich, ein akademischer Abschluss wäre machbar und das soziale Leben wäre eine Herausforderung.  Kann ich eine Freundesgruppe gründen und Spaß haben?  Rückblickend waren meine Freunde großartig und die akademischen Leistungen im ersten Semester waren herausfordernd, verliefen aber gut.“</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">Jennifer Tran, Politikwissenschaftsstudentin an der UC Berkeley, engagiert sich in der Studentenverwaltung und ist oft auf Reisen oder bei Zoom-Anrufen, um sich für Gesetzesentwürfe einzusetzen, die sie entweder als Mitglied von GENup, einer von Studenten geführten Organisation für soziale Gerechtigkeit, oder als Youth Power verfasst hat Project, eine gemeinnützige Bildungsorganisation.  Tran hilft auch bei der Gründung der National Student Board Member Association.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">Trotz des vollen Terminkalenders versteht Tran die Work-Life-Balance und hat sich die Wochenenden zum Spaß reserviert.  Sie ist kürzlich aus dem Wohnheim in ein Haus mit sechs anderen Studenten gezogen.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">„Ich mache auf jeden Fall die ganze College-Erfahrung“, sagte sie.  „Die Covid-Beschränkungen werden jetzt viel lockerer.  Ich fühle mich ein bisschen freier.“</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">Victor Contreras aus Elk Grove brach sich im November den Knöchel, als er beim Radfahren von einem Auto angefahren wurde <span style="color: #333333">in der Nähe der San Diego State University, wo er das College besucht. </span>Nachdem der Bruch verheilt war, saß er wieder im Rennteam der Universität auf dem Fahrrad und nahm einen Platz in einem Basketballteam an der Universität ein.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">Contreras sagte, die Schulschließungen aufgrund der Covid-Pandemie hätten ihn noch mehr darauf gefreut, Elk Grove zu verlassen und am College neue Leute kennenzulernen.  Mit Begeisterung stürzte er sich in das gesellschaftliche Leben auf dem Campus, obwohl er in seinem ersten Jahr mit Mathematik und anderen Fächern Schwierigkeiten hatte.  Er geht davon aus, dass er im College wahrscheinlich bessere akademische Leistungen erbracht hätte, wenn es nicht die Schulschließungen aufgrund von Covid-19 gegeben hätte.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">„Jetzt bin ich kontaktfreudiger und dadurch definitiv aktiver“, sagte Contreras.  „Ich habe das Gefühl, dass mein Sinn für Humor (positiv) beeinflusst wurde.“</span></p>
<h3>Das Beste aus Covid machen</h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">Für Payton Zarceno, der die Mt. SAC Early College Academy in West Covina besucht hatte, bevor er nach The Hill an der UCLA, dem Wohnheim der Universität, zog, war es für Payton Zarceno ein großes Anliegen, Freunde zu finden und sich auf dem Campus einzufügen.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">Zarceno beschloss, die Pandemie zu einer Gelegenheit zum Lernen zu machen.  Sie verbrachte den größten Teil ihres ersten Studienjahres damit, mit Studentenorganisationen an der Bindung von Studenten zu arbeiten. </span></p>
<p><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-693035" src="https://edsource.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/IMG-3995-1-scaled.jpg" alt="" width="345" height="247" srcset="https://edsource.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/IMG-3995-1-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://edsource.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/IMG-3995-1-300x215.jpg 300w, https://edsource.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/IMG-3995-1-1024x734.jpg 1024w, https://edsource.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/IMG-3995-1-768x551.jpg 768w, https://edsource.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/IMG-3995-1-1536x1102.jpg 1536w, https://edsource.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/IMG-3995-1-2048x1469.jpg 2048w, https://edsource.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/IMG-3995-1-1115x800.jpg 1115w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 345px) 100vw, 345px"/></p>
<p class="credit">Mit freundlicher Genehmigung von Payton Zarceno</p>
<p>Payton Zarceno besucht Anfang Juni im Rahmen ihres Praktikums beim Samahang Teaching Through Experience Program den Unidad Park in Filipinotown in Los Angeles.</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">„(Dies) ermöglichte es mir, mehr über die Probleme zu erfahren, mit denen Studierende an der UCLA konfrontiert sind und die durch die Pandemie verschärft wurden“, sagte sie.  „Das Engagement bei diesen Organisationen hat mich sozial und persönlich sehr beeinflusst, weil diese Organisationen mir so viele neue Freunde und Gesichter vorgestellt haben.“ </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">Während der pandemiebedingten Schulschließungen fand Tran ihre Nische als Verfechterin der Bildung.  Sie </span><span style="font-weight: 400">Während seines Besuchs an der Bolsa Grande High School in Garden Grove schrieb oder befürwortete er mehr als ein Dutzend Gesetzesentwürfe zur Unterstützung kalifornischer Studenten als politischer Direktor von GENup. </span><span style="font-weight: 400">Jetzt macht sie sich an der UC Berkeley einen Namen, wo sie öffentliche Politik studiert.  Tran plant, im nächsten Semester Bildung als zweites Hauptfach hinzuzufügen.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">Sie wurde vor kurzem eine von zwei Berkeley-Studenten, die diesen Sommer für ein Travers Fellowship am Commonwealth Club in San Francisco ausgewählt wurden.  Laut Angaben des Commonwealth Club ist der Commonwealth Club das älteste und größte Forum für öffentliche Angelegenheiten des Landes</span><span style="font-weight: 400">  Website der Universität</span><span style="font-weight: 400">.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">Tran sagte, die Covid-Pandemie habe sie auf den Streik an der University of California vorbereitet, der die Studenten wochenlang wieder zum Fernunterricht drängte, sowie auf die virtuelle Lobbyarbeit, die sie im Rahmen ihrer Arbeit mit GENup und dem Youth Power Project betrieben habe.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">„Es hat definitiv meine Einstellung zu Bildung verändert“, sagte sie.  „Ich denke, dass es mittlerweile ganz normal ist, dass ich den Unterricht verpasse.  Ich kann virtuell aufholen.“</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">Im Rahmen des Youth Power Project half Tran auch bei der Ausarbeitung eines Gesetzentwurfs, der US-Studenten im Rahmen des President&#8217;s Education Awards Program einen Presidential Award für bürgerschaftliches Engagement verleihen würde.  Der US-Senator Cory Booker aus New Jersey hat sich als Autor des Gesetzentwurfs verpflichtet. </span></p>
<p><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-693065" src="https://edsource.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Tran-Washington-Dc-1-1024x683-1.jpg" alt="" width="1024" height="492" srcset="https://edsource.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Tran-Washington-Dc-1-1024x683-1.jpg 1024w, https://edsource.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Tran-Washington-Dc-1-1024x683-1-300x144.jpg 300w, https://edsource.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Tran-Washington-Dc-1-1024x683-1-768x369.jpg 768w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px"/></p>
<p class="credit">Bildnachweis: Mit freundlicher Genehmigung von Jennifer Tran </p>
<p>Jennifer Tran, zweite von links, und andere Studenten der UC Berkeley besuchen den US-Abgeordneten John Garamendi, D-Calif., Mitte, in seinem Büro in Washington, DC</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">Peebles ist zuversichtlich, dass der Jahrgang 2022 die Corona-Krise hinter sich lässt und wieder auf dem richtigen Weg ist.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">„Ich denke, die Leute haben es herausgefunden,<span style="color: #333333">&#8221; er sagte.  „Ich denke, dass es mittlerweile normaler ist.  Wir haben uns akademisch alle einigermaßen ausgeglichen.“</span></span></p>
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<p>Eine Verletzung zwang die fünfköpfige Familie, während einer der regenreichsten Jahreszeiten Kaliforniens seit Jahrzehnten in einem undichten Wohnmobil aus dem Jahr 1995 mit einem defekten Sanitärsystem zu leben.</p>
<p>Ana Franquis‘ Ehemann Oscar wurde vor etwa zwei Jahren entlassen, nachdem er sich bei seiner Arbeit als Tischler eine Rückenverletzung zugezogen hatte.</p>
<p>Da Oscar das einzige Einkommen ihres Haushalts sicherte, beantragten sie ein Mietstützungsprogramm aus der Zeit der Pandemie.  Doch schließlich erhielten sie einen Räumungsbescheid.  Ihre Kinder waren 2, 10 und 12 Jahre alt – und sie hatten drei Tage Zeit, ihre Wohnung in Seaside zu verlassen.</p>
<p>Es war ein weiteres Hindernis in einem Jahr voller Tragödien.  Kurz vor der Räumung hörte Franquis aufgrund einer Krebsdiagnose auf zu arbeiten und ihr Vater starb.</p>
<p>„Wir waren verzweifelt und konnten nirgendwo hingehen“, sagte Franquis, dessen Kinder Schulen im Monterey Peninsula Unified District im nordkalifornischen Monterey County besuchen.</p>
<p>Ihre Familie ist eine von 2.220, die in diesem Schuljahr in ihrem Bezirk als Obdachlose identifiziert wurden, wobei fast 90 % in Doppelhäusern leben.</p>
<p>Monterey County weist mit 13,4 % die höchste Rate an obdachlosen Studenten unter den Landkreisen des Bundesstaates auf.</p>
<p>Der stärkste Anstieg unter den Bezirken ist an der Santa Rita Union Elementary zu verzeichnen, nur wenige Meilen von der Schule entfernt, wo Franquis‘ Kinder eingeschrieben sind.  In diesem in der Stadt Salinas gelegenen Bezirk ist die Zahl obdachloser Studenten von 2014 bis 2020 nicht über 1,53 % oder 55 Studenten gestiegen. In diesem Jahr ist sie jedoch auf 22,24 % oder 718 Studenten gestiegen.</p>
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<p>Salinas ist als landwirtschaftliches Zentrum mit üppigem Obst- und Gemüseanbau bekannt und wird von den Einwohnern seit langem als ein Ort beschrieben, an dem in einer Gegend mit hohen Lebenshaltungskosten niedrige Löhne herrschen.  Das Zusammenleben oder das Zusammenleben von Familien ist keine Seltenheit.</p>
<p>Für Franquis‘ Familie im nahegelegenen Monterey, wohin sie inzwischen gezogen ist, kam die Unterstützung zunächst in Form von Gutscheinen für die Übernachtung in einem Motel, während sie über ihre nächsten Schritte nachdachten.  Diese Gutscheine wurden mit Mitteln des Federal American Rescue Plan bezahlt, der laut landesweiten Verbindungsleuten obdachlosen Familien während der Pandemie und ihren wirtschaftlichen Folgen wichtige Unterstützung geleistet hat.</p>
<h2>Die Pandemie führt zu einem Anstieg der Obdachlosigkeit unter Studenten</h2>
<p>Vor der Pandemie nahm die Obdachlosigkeit aufgrund des Mangels an bezahlbarem Wohnraum zu.  Aber Familien wurden durch die Inflation und die explodierenden Mieten nach dem Auslaufen des staatlichen Räumungsmoratoriums an den Rand des Abgrunds gebracht, sagten Verbindungsleute.  Einige Gebiete haben auch durch Naturkatastrophen wie Waldbrände, Überschwemmungen und Erdbeben Wohnraum verloren.</p>
<p>Während die Einschreibungen in Kalifornien letztes Jahr zurückgingen, stieg die Zahl der obdachlosen Studenten um 9 %.  Zuwächse in Küstenbezirken wie Humboldt, Monterey und Ventura sowie in Binnenbezirken wie Plumas, Mariposa und San Bernardino folgen Rückgängen in den letzten drei Jahren.  Dies wurde weitgehend von Experten erwartet, die sagen, dass das Problem der Unterzählung obdachloser Schüler während des Fernunterrichts in der Pandemie-Ära besonders groß war;  Das Schulpersonal verlässt sich auf persönliche Interaktionen, um obdachlose Schüler zu identifizieren.  Angesichts der Massenrückkehr an die Universitäten liegt die Zahl der Obdachlosen landesweit auf dem Niveau vor der Pandemie.</p>
<p>Experten weisen darauf hin, dass Statistiken über obdachlose Schüler mehr darüber aussagen können, wie gut Schulen obdachlose Schüler identifizieren, als darüber, wie viele Schüler von Obdachlosigkeit betroffen sind.</p>
<p>„Ich glaube nicht, dass es so einfach ist wie: Die Zahlen steigen, die Obdachlosigkeit nimmt zu;  Die Zahlen sind gesunken, die Obdachlosigkeit ist gesunken.  Das sind nicht die Schulzahlen.  Sie sind ein Maß dafür, wer identifiziert und in die Schule eingeschrieben ist“, sagte Barbara Duffield, Geschäftsführerin von Schoolhouse Connection, einer landesweiten Interessenvertretung für Obdachlose.</p>
<p>In der Santa Rita Union Elementary spiegelt der Anstieg in hohem Maße die erneuten Bemühungen des Bezirks wider, obdachlose Schüler zu identifizieren.  In den letzten drei Jahren stellte der Bezirk zusätzliche Verbindungspersonen ein und eröffnete Ressourcenzentren, der Landkreis organisierte Identifizierungsschulungen für alle Mitarbeiter und begann, Familien anzurufen, die sich beim Ausfüllen der jährlichen Schulformulare möglicherweise nicht als obdachlos identifiziert hatten.</p>
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<p>Spielzeug, Schuhe und Schulmaterial sind oft im Family Resource Center von Greenfield Unified im südlichen Monterey County zu finden.</p>
<p></span><span class="credits">Betty Márquez Rosales/EdSource</span></p>
<p>Zuvor reichten Büroangestellte die Ausweisformulare ein und telefonische Check-ins waren nicht die Norm.  Seitdem sind die Zahlen sprunghaft angestiegen, aber man geht davon aus, dass noch immer nicht alle obdachlosen Schüler erreicht werden.</p>
<p>Die neuen Verbindungspersonen sind in Salinas aufgewachsen und haben daher ein tiefes Verständnis für die Familien, die dort leben.</p>
<p>„Sie werden wissen, dass die Martinezes mit den Lopezes zusammenleben und die Lopezes ‚Nein‘ geschrieben haben, aber.“ [the liaisons] „Ich weiß, dass sie ein Zimmer mieten, also bekommen sie einen Anruf“, sagte Summer Prather-Smith, die Obdachlosen-Verbindungsperson des Distrikts für die beiden von ihr eingestellten Mitarbeiter.</p>
<h2>Verdoppelung</h2>
<p>Verbindungsleute haben seit langem herausgefunden, dass die Mehrheit der obdachlosen Studenten in Monterey County – und im Rest des Bundesstaates – in Doppelhäusern lebt.</p>
<p>Dies kann eine Vielzahl von Situationen umfassen, sagte Jennifer Kottke, die Obdachlosen-Verbindungsperson des Los Angeles County.  Es gibt kleine Häuser mit drei Schlafzimmern, in denen in jedem Schlafzimmer eine Familie lebt oder in einem Schlafzimmer 13 Personen leben.  Manchmal leben Familien in einer Garage, einem provisorischen Unterstand an der Seite des Hauses oder in einem Wohnmobil.</p>
<p>Während Beobachter denken mögen, dass diese Studenten technisch gesehen keine Obdachlosen sind, entsprechen sie doch der bundesstaatlichen Definition von Familien, die eine stabile Unterkunft benötigen.  „Wo finden (Schüler) eine ruhige Ecke, um ihre Schulaufgaben zu erledigen?“  sagte Cathi Nye, die Obdachlosen-Verbindungsperson des Ventura County.  „Es ist nicht ausreichend.“</p>
<p>Monterey-Verbindungsleute stellten außerdem besorgniserregende neue Wohnungstrends fest.</p>
<p>Höhere Mieten drängen einige in günstigere Wohnungen, was andere in die Krise stürzt.  Einige Verbindungsleute sagten, die früher von Wanderarbeitern und Landarbeitern mit geringem Einkommen genutzten Wohnungen würden nun oft von denjenigen übernommen, die aufgrund der Inflation und der Mieterhöhungen nicht mehr in teureren Wohnungen untergebracht werden könnten.  Sie stellen fest, dass jede Veränderung in der Familiendynamik, wie Scheidung, Arbeitsplatzverlust oder Verletzung, zunehmend zur Obdachlosigkeit führt.  Einige bereiten sich auf neue Obdachlosigkeit vor, weil die Erntesaison durch die jüngsten sintflutartigen Regenfälle verzögert wird.  Arbeiterunterkünfte sind manchmal alleinstehenden Männern vorbehalten, und wenn sie sich länger als normal in einem Gebiet aufhalten, um die Ernte einzufahren, können Familien nicht einziehen.</p>
<p><img decoding="async" class="landscape" src="https://s.hdnux.com/photos/01/33/12/25/23897449/3/1200x0.jpg" alt="Hygieneartikel für Spenden im Family Resource Center in Monterey Peninsula Unified im Monterey County."/><span class="caption">Hygieneartikel für Spenden im Family Resource Center in Monterey Peninsula Unified im Monterey County.</span><span class="credits">Betty Márquez Rosales/EdSource</span></p>
<p>Ohne die vom Bund finanzierten Gutscheine ist sich Franquis nicht sicher, wo sie in den ersten Nächten nach der Räumung geschlafen hätten.  Sie standen auf der Warteliste für Obdachlosenunterkünfte und mussten fast ein Jahr lang warten.</p>
<p>„Wir haben alles verloren.  Absolut alles“, sagte Franquis auf Spanisch.  „Aber Herr Diaz war für uns wie ein Engel.“</p>
<h2>COVID-Geld schafft Lebensadern</h2>
<p>Das ist Carlos Diaz, der McKinney-Vento-Verbindungsmann des Bezirks.  Er stellt sicher, dass obdachlose Studenten die Hilfe erhalten, die sie im Rahmen des McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act des Bundes benötigen.</p>
<p>Das Gesetz schreibt vor, dass jeder öffentliche Schulbezirk, jedes Bezirksamt für Bildung und jede Charterschule einen örtlichen Verbindungsmann beauftragen muss, um sicherzustellen, dass obdachlose Jugendliche identifiziert werden und über die Bildungsdienstleistungen verfügen, die sie für einen akademischen Erfolg benötigen.  Pädagogen sagen jedoch, dass das Gesetz von 1987 nie ausreichend von der Landes- oder Bundesregierung finanziert wurde.</p>
<p>Schulen erhalten zusätzliche Mittel für obdachlose Schüler vom Staat über die lokale Kontrollfinanzierungsformel und einige Bundesmittel für die Bildung von Obdachlosen.  Doch die Finanzierung ist gering und es gibt strenge Beschränkungen hinsichtlich der Verwendung.</p>
<p>Das änderte sich im Zuge der Pandemie.  Kalifornien erhielt 800 Millionen US-Dollar aus dem American Rescue Plan, der sich speziell an obdachlose Kinder und Jugendliche richtet.</p>
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<p>Diese Fonds sind flexibler als die Obdachlosenbildungsfinanzierung von McKinney-Vento und ermöglichen es Schulbezirken und Landkreisen, beispielsweise Hotelgutscheine für Familien zu bezahlen, die nirgendwo anders hingehen können.  Die Mittel ermöglichten es den Schulbehörden auch, mehr der grundlegendsten und wichtigsten Aufgaben der Obdachlosenbildung zu übernehmen: die Identifizierung von Schülern, die Hilfe benötigen.</p>
<p>„Das sind Gelder, die wir schon sehr lange brauchen“, sagte Susanne Terry, Obdachlosen-Kontaktperson im San Diego County.</p>
<p>Die Mittel müssen jedoch bis Januar 2025 ausgegeben sein und es gibt keine Garantie dafür, dass sie wieder aufgefüllt werden.</p>
<p>Als das Geld erstmals bereitgestellt wurde, war Terry optimistisch, dass dieses neue Niveau beibehalten werden würde.  Sie ist weniger zuversichtlich, was die Geschehnisse im Rahmen dieses Kongresses angeht.  Der Gesetzgeber des Bundesstaates scheine erstmals bereit zu sein, Gelder für die Bildung von Obdachlosen bereitzustellen, aber die düsteren Finanzaussichten des Bundesstaates scheinen die Begeisterung für neue Mittel zu dämpfen, sagte sie.</p>
<p>„Wir steuern auf eine Klippe zu, an der die Dienste einfach eingestellt werden“, sagte Terry.</p>
<p>Leah Lamattina, Kontaktperson für Obdachlose im Humboldt County, macht sich Sorgen über die zukünftige Finanzierung, hofft jedoch, dass die Bewegung hin zu Gemeinschaftsschulen es den Schulen ermöglichen wird, obdachlose Schüler zu identifizieren und sie mit Diensten zu verbinden.</p>
<p>Im Moment sträuben sich die meisten Verbindungsleute davor, Personal einzustellen oder Programme zu starten, die nicht aufrechterhalten werden können, wenn diese Finanzierung aus der Zeit der Pandemie erschöpft ist.</p>
<h2>San Diego trifft auf hohe Nachfrage</h2>
<p>Aber San Diego County stellte neues Personal ein und startete ein Hotelgutscheinprogramm wie das von Monterey County.  Terry war von der Nachfrage überwältigt.</p>
<p>Bevor das Programm startete, erhielt sie monatlich Anfragen für Notunterkünfte.  Aber als sich das Programm herumsprach, erhielt der Landkreis täglich viele Anfragen.  Innerhalb eines Jahres hat das Programm seitdem die Hotelzimmer von über 600 Familien finanziert.</p>
<p>Ein solches Programm würde Familien im Greenfield Union School District von Monterey County enorm helfen, sagte Tony Amezcua, Direktor für Familien- und Gemeindeengagement.</p>
<p>Sein Team erhält monatlich Anrufe von Familien, die verzweifelt Schutz suchen.  In jüngster Zeit kamen einige Anrufe von Landarbeitern mit Migrationshintergrund aus Arizona und anderen landwirtschaftlichen Landkreisen Kaliforniens.  Die starken Regenfälle des Winters verzögerten die Erntesaison und verzögerten die Arbeiten.</p>
<p><img decoding="async" class="landscape" src="https://s.hdnux.com/photos/01/33/12/25/23897445/3/1200x0.jpg" alt="Das Family Resource Center in Greenfield.  Der Schulbezirk liegt im südlichen Monterey County."/><span class="caption"></p>
<p>Das Family Resource Center in Greenfield.  Der Schulbezirk liegt im südlichen Monterey County.</p>
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<p>Mit den wachsenden Anforderungen sind auch das Team von Amezcua und die von ihm bereitgestellten Ressourcen gewachsen.  Sie haben zusätzliche Verbindungsleute eingestellt, darunter einen, der Triqui spricht, eine indigene Sprache, die im Süden Mexikos gesprochen wird.  Sie begannen, Spenden für Babys anzubieten, damit obdachlose Familien früher identifiziert werden können, und installierten im Ressourcenzentrum eine Waschmaschine und einen Trockner, die Familien nutzen können.</p>
<p>Mit dem Geld des American Rescue Plan wollen sie außerdem Geschenkkarten für ein örtliches Schuhgeschäft erwerben, eine normalerweise verbotene Verwendung von Studentengeldern.  Aber die Studenten brauchen sie, sagte Amezcua.  An einem kürzlichen Dienstag umfassten die gespendeten Schuhe nur die Größen 1, 10, 11 und 13.</p>
<p>„Wenn Eltern sagen, dass sie mehr brauchen, sehen wir, dass wir mehr geben müssen“, sagte Amezcua.</p>
<p>Dann ist da noch die Frage des Vertrauens, das laut Verbindungsleuten von entscheidender Bedeutung ist, wenn man mit obdachlosen Familien in Kontakt tritt.</p>
<p>„Die historisch Benachteiligten haben aufgrund systemischer Unterdrückung ein Misstrauen gegenüber Systemen“, sagte Lamattina.</p>
<p>Dies war bei Franquis der Fall.  Als ihre älteste Tochter ihrer Lehrerin anvertraute, dass sie vertrieben würden, hatte sie Angst, dass ihre Kinder mitgenommen würden.  Es ist eine Angst, die laut Verbindungsleuten weit verbreitet ist.</p>
<p>Nach fast einem Jahr Obdachlosigkeit und zwei Jahren finanzieller Instabilität sicherte sich Franquis‘ Familie vor etwa zwei Monaten mithilfe eines Wohngutscheins gemäß Abschnitt 8 eine Wohnung mit zwei Schlafzimmern, ein Verfahren, von dem sie von ihrem Bezirksvermittler erfuhr.</p>
<p>Eine andere Kontaktperson meldete sie für ein Programm an, bei dem sie Zugang zu gespendeten Betten, Matratzen, Esszimmer, Essgeschirr und mehr erhielten.  Sie sind auch in Familientherapie, um ihnen zu helfen, ihre Tortur zu verarbeiten.</p>
<p>Und sie haben eine neue Einnahmequelle: Franquis‘ Ehemann wurde vom Schulbezirk als Unterhaltsbeamter eingestellt.  Sie teilen sich alle ein Fahrzeug – sie haben ihr Wohnmobil einer anderen bedürftigen Familie gespendet – und kommen immer noch wieder auf die Beine, aber Franquis blickt zuversichtlich in die Zukunft.</p>
<p>„Wir haben vom Bezirk viel mehr Hilfe erhalten als von anderen Orten“, sagte sie.  „Deshalb bin ich so dankbar;  Sie waren die einzigen, die uns schnell Unterstützung angeboten haben.“</p>
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<p data-testid="drop-cap-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" dir="null">Expect changes when you visit wine country this year.  Like the rest of us, wineries are adjusting to a post-pandemic world and are unsure to what extent things will go back in time or what temporary measures taken over the last three years could become permanent.  For us consumers, it&#8217;s a time to be adventurous but also be patient and let wineries know what&#8217;s working and what we&#8217;d like to see on our next visit.</p>
<p data-testid="drop-cap-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" dir="null">Here are a few things to expect.  Some of these predictions are contradictory and reflect the post-pandemic market uncertainty.</p>
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<p>Tasting bars are back, so to speak.</p>
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<p data-testid="drop-cap-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" dir="null">The Covid restrictions ushered in an era – or at least an interregnum – of socially distanced seated tastings, where flights were ordered off the menu and brought to our table.  It was like a restaurant with no food.  Some wineries welcomed this change as it placed more emphasis on the wine and less on visiting the winery as a drinking pleasure.  But it also meant less interaction between consumers and winery staff.  That&#8217;s why wineries are now returning to the wine tastings of yesteryear, as they believe consumers want to learn more about the wines they&#8217;re tasting through interaction at the bar.</p>
<p data-testid="drop-cap-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" dir="null">Unless, of course, they don&#8217;t.</p>
<p data-testid="drop-cap-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" dir="null">&#8220;Some people want reservations, some people want things to go back to how they were,&#8221; says George Hodson, executive director of Veritas Vineyard and Winery west of Charlottesville, Virginia, and current president of the Virginia Wineries Association.  So the reserved tastings can stay in place, and customers looking to enjoy a contemplative hour of vinous fun cast a sideways glance at the rowdy, super-spreader crowd at the bar.</p>
<p data-testid="drop-cap-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" dir="null">In an email exchange, Hodson said the wineries want visitors to expand their knowledge and appreciation of Virginia wine.  But apparently consumers have other things on their minds.</p>
<p data-testid="drop-cap-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" dir="null">&#8220;Guests have changed and want experiences instead of just wine tasting,&#8221; Hodson said.  That means food, music and entertainment.  &#8220;They consume what they buy locally instead of taking it home,&#8221; he added.  That means they&#8217;re also buying less wine and not building extensive wine collections.</p>
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<p>Fees for tastings are likely to increase.</p>
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<p data-testid="drop-cap-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" dir="null">Tasting fees are nothing new, but Covid has accelerated the trend and inflation has increased price pressure on wineries.  &#8220;Prices of all products are going up, so the tasting fee is pretty much universal,&#8221; says Hodson.  He hopes this will shrink the market for coaches, which ferry large groups from one winery to the next in an all-day drinking spree.</p>
<p data-testid="drop-cap-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" dir="null">In California, fees have skyrocketed in the Napa Valley.  An &#8220;upscale&#8221; wine tasting there averages more than $82 per person, down from $30 just six years ago, according to Esther Mobley in the San Francisco Chronicle.  Save and plan ahead.</p>
<p data-testid="drop-cap-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" dir="null">Earlier this year, Tablas Creek Winery in Paso Robles, California, announced that it had converted its tasting room to casks and would no longer be serving bottled samples.  The switch to kegs supports the winery&#8217;s ongoing efforts to reduce its carbon footprint and also improves the winery&#8217;s bottom line by saving up to 9,000 bottles per year that no longer need to be purchased, bottled and labeled, the general manager said Jason Hass.</p>
<p data-testid="drop-cap-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" dir="null">&#8220;What&#8217;s the most useless glass bottle?&#8221; Haas asked rhetorically.  &#8220;One who never leaves the winery.&#8221;</p>
<p data-testid="drop-cap-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" dir="null">Meanwhile, in Darnestown, Maryland on the East Coast, Windridge Vineyards began experimenting with casks in its tasting room late last year and now has three wines on tap.</p>
<p data-testid="drop-cap-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" dir="null">&#8220;We sell most of our wine locally and while we recycle our glass, we feel it&#8217;s best never to bottle the wine in the first place,&#8221; said winery owner Robert Butz.</p>
<p data-testid="drop-cap-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" dir="null">Butz added that Windridge would like to get visitors to enjoy seated tastings that they can enjoy at their leisure, rather than crowded with strangers at the bar.</p>
<p data-testid="drop-cap-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" dir="null">&#8220;We&#8217;re debating whether our approach is the right one, because a tasting is a great way to showcase to customers,&#8221; Butz told me.  However, &#8220;a rushed or unprofessional tasting can be worse than none at all, and at least on the wine flights, the customer can enjoy the wine tastings at their own pace.&#8221;</p>
<p data-testid="drop-cap-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" dir="null">At Black Ankle Vineyards in Mt. Airy, Maryland, a cask facility allows customers to taste an unfinished wine or component of a blend while it is still in the cask.  On my last visit, the cask featured a tasting of Sauvignon Blanc from Live Edge Vineyard, Black Ankle&#8217;s new venture in northern Montgomery County.</p>
<p data-testid="drop-cap-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" dir="null">&#8220;When we taste wine from a cask or cask, we can experiment a bit with what we let the customer taste,&#8221; says Sarah O&#8217;Herron, co-owner and winemaker at Black Ankle.  “We&#8217;ve tasted red wines that have only been in cask for six months, single varietals that we would never bottle ourselves, and pure wine wines &#8211; basically giving customers a look behind the winemaking process in a way we couldn&#8217;t do with bottled wines .” She adds.</p>
<p data-testid="drop-cap-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" dir="null">So plan ahead if you visit wine country this year.  Check out winery websites to see what experiences they offer.  Be patient and flexible with your time.  And be on the lookout for something new.</p>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Mutations showed the virus was &#8220;running like hell.&#8221; Tracking microbes through a foul-smelling network of sewers led virologist Marc Johnson to the source of unusual coronavirus mutants. After months of sampling sewage, the microbiologist from the University of Missouri School of Medicine found out exactly where the mutants came from: from a regular user of &#8230;</p>
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<p class="ins_instory_dv_caption sp_b">Mutations showed the virus was &#8220;running like hell.&#8221;</p>
<p>Tracking microbes through a foul-smelling network of sewers led virologist Marc Johnson to the source of unusual coronavirus mutants.</p>
<p>After months of sampling sewage, the microbiologist from the University of Missouri School of Medicine found out exactly where the mutants came from: from a regular user of the toilets at a certain Wisconsin company. </p>
<p>Although Johnson could not identify this individual, he was able to use genetic data to see that virus particles had been freshly made and expelled for more than a year &#8211; many times longer than a typical two-week Covid infection.</p>
<p>And during that time, the mutations showed the virus was &#8220;running like hell,&#8221; trying to evade the person&#8217;s immune system, Johnson said.  Laboratory analysis of his sewage samples revealed the battlefield in the patient&#8217;s body where the virus was rapidly evolving to claim a stronghold.</p>
<p>&#8220;You can find a lot of chronic infections &#8212; people who have probably been infected for over a year &#8212; where the virus hasn&#8217;t changed at all,&#8221; he said.  &#8220;And I don&#8217;t understand why it just goes crazy in some patients.&#8221;</p>
<p>As the scourge of Covid-19 enters its fourth year, patients like the one Johnson discovered by being traced through miles of drainpipes and drains are bringing researchers closer to answers to key questions: Where do worrying new mutants come from?  And what role do they play in Long Covid, the mysterious post-infection disease that affects more than 140 million people worldwide?</p>
<p>Scientists are studying the possibility that some of the most contagious versions of the coronavirus &#8212; Omicron and its descendants &#8212; came from chronically infected individuals whose immune systems were weakened by illness, drugs, or both.  Research published in December shows the virus can persist in the body and brain for months.  That suggests it may be hiding in human cells and tissues, similar to HIV and the chickenpox virus that causes shingles.</p>
<p><strong>Fascinating autopsies</strong></p>
<p>Traces in the blood and stool of patients with long-lasting symptoms indicate that SARS-CoV-2 could be stored in the intestines, fat or other tissues that offer protection against the body&#8217;s immune system.  Researchers from the US National Institutes of Health, who conducted painstaking autopsies on the bodies of 44 Covid victims, found viral genetic material in the bodies and brains of the patients up to 7 1/2 months after symptoms began.  In one case, virus particles isolated from the brain were grown in a laboratory dish, proving that they were fully functional and capable of replication.</p>
<p>&#8220;The predominant damage still seems to be in the lungs,&#8221; said Daniel Chertow, who led the research in the NIH&#8217;s Emerging Pathogens Division, &#8220;but oh man, we really need to better understand what kind of damage is happening with all these others.&#8221; is done sets.&#8221;</p>
<p>Most of those autopsied were elderly and ill before contracting Covid, and all died before vaccines became available.  And while no one was known to have had Covid for long, the findings, published in the journal Nature, still require follow-up.</p>
<p>&#8220;It is imperative that we try to understand in great detail what role persistence of viral RNA and other viral components might play in long-Covid,&#8221; Chertow said.</p>
<p>No one knows if the coronavirus or its remnants are still present in everyone who has had Covid, or if it&#8217;s just a group of patients, said Timothy Henrich, an associate professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco.</p>
<p>&#8220;We all hypothesize that it&#8217;s a driver of Long Covid, but we really haven&#8217;t shown that definitively,&#8221; Henrich said.  &#8220;This is still something that needs to be done.&#8221;</p>
<p>Still, Chertow&#8217;s research has already inspired the experimental use of antiviral drugs like Pfizer Inc.&#8217;s Paxlovid to see if it can eradicate viral reservoirs and relieve long-term symptoms.  Even a relatively small number of infected cells could trick the immune system into causing inflammation, blood clots, and other problems associated with long Covid, according to Amy Proal, co-founder of the PolyBio Research Foundation, a Boston-based nonprofit that facilitates research into chronic, infection-associated conditions .</p>
<p>It&#8217;s &#8220;the most logical explanation because it pretty much explains everything else,&#8221; she said.</p>
<p><strong>Scan hideouts</strong></p>
<p>Henrich, who has helped develop sophisticated imaging techniques capable of locating HIV in tissues, plans to use the same approach to find Covid&#8217;s hiding places.  Dozens of patients will undergo a series of full-body scans looking for signals of viral protein production or persistence.  These will be compared to symptoms to see how the continued presence of the coronavirus correlates to a long covid.</p>
<p>The group has started scanning patients to look for protective T cells that could indicate an aberrant immune response to SARS-CoV-2.  They examine biopsies of the participants&#8217; digestive tracts for traces of the virus, Henrich said.</p>
<p>A particular focus is on lymphoid tissues, which produce, store and transport T cells that fight infection, and antibody-producing B cells.  The coronavirus could also be hiding in long-lived nerve cells and heart muscles, where it can bring on chest pain, brain fog, fatigue and other long-standing Covid symptoms, said Diane Griffin, a virologist at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore who has been studying for more than 50 years studying the body&#8217;s response to viral infections.</p>
<p>&#8220;We have pretty good information from acute RNA virus infections that RNA persists and that it has consequences,&#8221; said Griffin, who is vice president of the US National Academy of Sciences.  &#8220;Basically, it&#8217;s difficult to get rid of viruses.&#8221;</p>
<p>Proving that prolonged viral infection causes long-term Covid will be difficult, Griffin said.  Viruses in stealth mode suppress replication so as not to damage their host cells.  Despite the extensive distribution of coronavirus RNA in the patients&#8217; bodies, Chertow&#8217;s team saw little evidence of inflammation or that the immune system had attempted to destroy infected cells outside of the airways.</p>
<p><strong>Viral Evolution</strong></p>
<p>Interestingly, when the NIH scientists analyzed the genetic makeup of virus samples collected from six patients, they found versions in the lungs that differed from those collected in other tissues.  In one patient, the viruses found in two brain regions &#8211; the thalamus and the hypothalamus &#8211; were significantly different, suggesting that certain mutations favored the pathogen&#8217;s persistence there.</p>
<p>&#8220;We know that these RNA viruses have the potential to evolve within a host,&#8221; Chertow said.  &#8220;The more they can replicate and the longer the time they have to do so and the higher the level of replication that takes place, the more opportunity these viruses have to evolve.&#8221;</p>
<p>This raises an interesting possibility: as the virus evolves to inhabit different organs and tissues, the process can produce more and more infectious and immune-evasive variants.  Nobody knows yet whether this is the case, but Johnson&#8217;s wastewater analysis at the University of Missouri gives the first indications.</p>
<p><strong>Out of control pathogens</strong></p>
<p>Since the early days of the Covid pandemic, researchers have known that Covid is capable of infecting the digestive tract, causing stomach upset and causing patients to shed traces of the virus in their faeces.  Johnson routinely scans around 100 sewer networks in the Midwest for unusual SARS-CoV-2 strains, called cryptic lineages because their source is unknown.</p>
<p>&#8220;They&#8217;re rare, but they&#8217;re out there,&#8221; he says.</p>
<p>When Johnson started work in March 2021, he had no idea where the journey was going.  Then, after more than a year ago, omicron drove US Covid cases to a record high, he began actively looking for strains with pronounced genetic changes.</p>
<p>He discovered one that came from a drain in Wisconsin that served 100,000 people.  Its genetic signature was much more different than previous versions of Omicron, but it had not been reported in any patient.  Importantly, its mutations appeared in newer versions of omicron.  It was almost as if Johnson saw where the virus was going — evolutionarily speaking — before it arrived.</p>
<p>&#8220;So we started saying, let&#8217;s find out where it&#8217;s coming from,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p><strong>Black Swan</strong></p>
<p>For four months he and his colleagues went from one shaft to the next in an unknown metropolitan area.  Then they discovered that the samples came from a building.  Then one side of the building.  Then half a dozen toilets, regularly used by about 30 people.</p>
<p>There, the investigation had come to a standstill, said Johnson.  Despite this, he was able to deduce that the cryptic lineage came from an individual who was infected nearly two years ago, as it evolved from a strain last discovered in Wisconsin in April 2021.</p>
<p>In August, the concentration of the variant was 1.5 billion copies per liter of wastewater.  For comparison, at the height of a massive Covid outbreak in a Missouri prison, a liter of sewage contained just 100 million copies of the coronavirus.</p>
<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s insane how much virus this person is shedding,&#8221; Johnson said.</p>
<p>In December, the same variant appeared in the toilet installation in Wisconsin for the 13th consecutive month.</p>
<p>&#8220;Whoever this person is, they still seem to be going to work every day and have been for a while,&#8221; Johnson said.  &#8220;It seems they don&#8217;t know they are infected.  It can&#8217;t be good for her.&#8221;</p>
<p>The line hasn&#8217;t appeared anywhere else, suggesting it&#8217;s not spreading, Johnson said.  But there&#8217;s no question that it can grow, as evidenced by long-standing high concentrations in toilet drains.</p>
<p>&#8220;The question is why?&#8221;  he said.  &#8220;We assume something like this happened with omicron and that there was some sort of black swan event that allowed the virus to get out.&#8221;</p>
<p>Johnson says studying cryptic lineages challenged his thinking about the coronavirus&#8217; ability to lodge itself in human tissues, particularly outside the respiratory system, and its potential to cause prolonged illness.</p>
<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m particularly open now to the idea that there are secondary infections that we just don&#8217;t know about,&#8221; he said.  &#8220;And maybe that helps explain some of these very weird long Covid symptoms.&#8221;</p>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Many commercial tenants went to court over a pandemic rent break. A law firm from Murray Hill can now count itself among the few winners. The New York Appellate Division ruled that affiliates of landlord ABS Partners Real Estate must credit Wolf Haldenstein, a firm specializing in corporate and antitrust law, over $2 million in &#8230;</p>
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<p>Many commercial tenants went to court over a pandemic rent break.  A law firm from Murray Hill can now count itself among the few winners.</p>
<p>The New York Appellate Division ruled that affiliates of landlord ABS Partners Real Estate must credit Wolf Haldenstein, a firm specializing in corporate and antitrust law, over $2 million in rent and legal fees after the office owner completed renovations on the two Rented floors of the chancellery had not been completed space.</p>
<p>The HVAC system roared like a &#8220;jet engine,&#8221; the landlord&#8217;s architect said, producing 90-degree temperatures in the summer and unable to circulate fresh air as Covid raged in New York.</p>
<p>The law firm, which has been based at 270 Madison Ave for nearly 100 years, agreed to temporarily move from the 9th and 10th floors to the 11th and 13th floors when it signed a 12-year lease in 2018.</p>
<p>ABS planned to upgrade the heating and air conditioning systems on the two lower floors and agreed in the lease that its tenant would rent the upper floors until an architect deemed the work substantially complete.</p>
<h4 class="ReadMoreSection_title">Continue reading</h4>
<p>The lease included four months of free rent once the company moved downstairs, and a rent loan if the renovation took too long.  Wolf Haldenstein would receive a daily credit for each day work continued after February 2020.  The rate would increase to a day and a half after April.</p>
<p>Wolf Haldenstein returned prematurely to the 9th and 10th floors in December 2019.  But the company immediately questioned whether the work was complete.</p>
<p>&#8220;We should have another construction meeting to discuss HVAC issues,&#8221; wrote Mark Rifkin, a managing partner at Wolf Haldenstein, in an email to the job&#8217;s contractor on Christmas Eve.</p>
<p>&#8220;I think some might have accepted a substantial completion before it was finished,&#8221; he continued.  &#8220;Had it been summer when we needed the air conditioning, the room would have been uninhabitable.&#8221;</p>
<p>In another email to ABS Partners, Rifkin described the floors as excessively hot and the HVAC system as excessively noisy.</p>
<p>These problems continued into 2020.  In February, as Covid began to spread through the city, ABS&#8217; construction manager confirmed in an email that &#8220;many &#8216;existing&#8217; elements&#8230;need to be identified and resolved&#8221;.</p>
<p>James Caseley, an executive at ABS, went so far as to write a memo to the landlord&#8217;s construction manager calling the HVAC system a &#8220;disaster.&#8221;</p>
<p>In the same month, the landlord began work on the 11th and 13th floors, making it impossible for Wolf Haldenstein to move to a more hospitable floor.</p>
<p>HVAC issues continued throughout the pandemic, forcing partners, employees, employees and clients to deal with a system upon returning to the office that was not circulating fresh air adequately, according to Herrick Feinstein&#8217;s Scott Mollen, the tenant&#8217;s attorney.</p>
<p>In April 2021, Wolf Haldenstein sued ABS Partners, alleging that the landlord&#8217;s architect failed to declare the work complete, meaning the firm was under no obligation to pay rent.</p>
<p>ABS responded a month later, arguing that the law firm had defaulted on rent and owed $1.2 million on its roughly $145,000-a-month lease.</p>
<p>In November of that year, a Supreme Court judge sided with Wolf Haldesstein, ruling that the work was incomplete and the firm did not have to pay rent.  The Appellate Division upheld the ruling that the landlord should pay a $1.2 million rent loan, $100,000 in moving expenses and $700,000 in attorneys&#8217; fees.</p>
<p>&#8220;Many of the unnecessary fees are due to landlord litigation tactics,&#8221; the court found.</p>
<p>Rosenberg &#038; Estis, representing ABS Real Estate, did not respond to a request for comment.</p>
<p>The firm&#8217;s late co-founder, Warren Estis, had represented ABS for most of the trial, one of his last.  Estis died in April.</p>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Many commercial tenants went to court over a pandemic rent break. A law firm from Murray Hill can now count itself among the few winners. The New York Appellate Division ruled that affiliates of landlord ABS Partners Real Estate must credit Wolf Haldenstein, a firm specializing in corporate and antitrust law, over $2 million in &#8230;</p>
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<p>Many commercial tenants went to court over a pandemic rent break.  A law firm from Murray Hill can now count itself among the few winners.</p>
<p>The New York Appellate Division ruled that affiliates of landlord ABS Partners Real Estate must credit Wolf Haldenstein, a firm specializing in corporate and antitrust law, over $2 million in rent and legal fees after the office owner completed renovations on the two Rented floors of the chancellery had not been completed space.</p>
<p>The HVAC system roared like a &#8220;jet engine,&#8221; the landlord&#8217;s architect said, producing 90-degree temperatures in the summer and unable to circulate fresh air as Covid raged in New York.</p>
<p>The law firm, which has been based at 270 Madison Ave for nearly 100 years, agreed to temporarily move from the 9th and 10th floors to the 11th and 13th floors when it signed a 12-year lease in 2018.</p>
<p>ABS planned to upgrade the heating and air conditioning systems on the two lower floors and agreed in the lease that its tenant would rent the upper floors until an architect deemed the work substantially complete.</p>
<h4 class="ReadMoreSection_title">Continue reading</h4>
<p>The lease included four months of free rent once the company moved downstairs, and a rent loan if the renovation took too long.  Wolf Haldenstein would receive a daily credit for each day work continued after February 2020.  The rate would increase to a day and a half after April.</p>
<p>Wolf Haldenstein returned prematurely to the 9th and 10th floors in December 2019.  But the company immediately questioned whether the work was complete.</p>
<p>&#8220;We should have another construction meeting to discuss HVAC issues,&#8221; wrote Mark Rifkin, a managing partner at Wolf Haldenstein, in an email to the job&#8217;s contractor on Christmas Eve.</p>
<p>&#8220;I think some might have accepted a substantial completion before it was finished,&#8221; he continued.  &#8220;Had it been summer when we needed the air conditioning, the room would have been uninhabitable.&#8221;</p>
<p>In another email to ABS Partners, Rifkin described the floors as excessively hot and the HVAC system as excessively noisy.</p>
<p>These problems continued into 2020.  In February, as Covid began to spread through the city, ABS&#8217; construction manager confirmed in an email that &#8220;many &#8216;existing&#8217; elements&#8230;need to be identified and resolved&#8221;.</p>
<p>James Caseley, an executive at ABS, went so far as to write a memo to the landlord&#8217;s construction manager calling the HVAC system a &#8220;disaster.&#8221;</p>
<p>In the same month, the landlord began work on the 11th and 13th floors, making it impossible for Wolf Haldenstein to move to a more hospitable floor.</p>
<p>HVAC issues continued throughout the pandemic, forcing partners, employees, employees and clients to deal with a system upon returning to the office that was not circulating fresh air adequately, according to Herrick Feinstein&#8217;s Scott Mollen, the tenant&#8217;s attorney.</p>
<p>In April 2021, Wolf Haldenstein sued ABS Partners, alleging that the landlord&#8217;s architect failed to declare the work complete, meaning the firm was under no obligation to pay rent.</p>
<p>ABS responded a month later, arguing that the law firm had defaulted on rent and owed $1.2 million on its roughly $145,000-a-month lease.</p>
<p>In November of that year, a Supreme Court judge sided with Wolf Haldesstein, ruling that the work was incomplete and the firm did not have to pay rent.  The Appellate Division upheld the ruling that the landlord should pay a $1.2 million rent loan, $100,000 in moving expenses and $700,000 in attorneys&#8217; fees.</p>
<p>&#8220;Many of the unnecessary fees are due to landlord litigation tactics,&#8221; the court found.</p>
<p>Rosenberg &#038; Estis, representing ABS Real Estate, did not respond to a request for comment.</p>
<p>The firm&#8217;s late co-founder, Warren Estis, had represented ABS for most of the trial, one of his last.  Estis died in April.</p>
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<p>Tracking microbes through a foul-smelling network of sewers led virologist Marc Johnson to the source of unusual coronavirus mutants.</p>
<p>After months of sampling sewage, the microbiologist from the University of Missouri School of Medicine found out exactly where the mutants came from: from a regular user of the toilets at a certain Wisconsin company.  Although Johnson could not identify this individual, he was able to use genetic data to see that virus particles were freshly made and expelled for more than a year &#8211; many times longer than a typical two-week COVID-19 infection.</p>
<p>And during that time, the mutations showed the virus was &#8220;running like hell,&#8221; trying to evade the person&#8217;s immune system, Johnson said.  Laboratory analysis of his sewage samples revealed the battlefield in the patient&#8217;s body where the virus was rapidly evolving to claim a stronghold.</p>
<p>&#8220;You can find a lot of chronic infections &#8212; people who have probably been infected for over a year &#8212; where the virus hasn&#8217;t changed at all,&#8221; he said.  &#8220;And I don&#8217;t understand why it just goes crazy in some patients.&#8221;</p>
<p>As the scourge of COVID-19 enters its fourth year, patients like the one Johnson discovered when traced down miles of drainpipes and drains are bringing researchers closer to answers to key questions: Where do worrying new mutants come from?  And what role do they play in Long COVID, the mysterious post-infection disease that is affecting more than 140 million people worldwide?</p>
<p>Scientists are studying the possibility that some of the most contagious versions of the coronavirus &#8212; Omicron and its descendants &#8212; came from chronically infected individuals whose immune systems were weakened by disease, drugs, or both.  Research published in December shows the virus can persist in the body and brain for months.  That suggests it may be hiding in human cells and tissues, similar to HIV and the chickenpox virus that causes shingles.</p>
<p>Exciting autopsies</p>
<p>Traces in the blood and stool of patients with long-lasting symptoms indicate that SARS-CoV-2 could be stored in the intestines, fat or other tissues that offer protection against the body&#8217;s immune system.  Researchers from the US National Institutes of Health, who performed painstaking autopsies on the bodies of 44 COVID-19 victims, found viral genetic material in the bodies and brains of the patients up to 7 1/2 months after symptoms began.  In one case, virus particles isolated from the brain were grown in a laboratory dish, proving that they were fully functional and capable of replication.</p>
<p>&#8220;The predominant damage still seems to be in the lungs,&#8221; said Daniel Chertow, who led the research in the NIH&#8217;s Emerging Pathogens Division, &#8220;but, oh boy, we really need to better understand what kind of damage is in all of these.&#8221; other places are prepared.&#8221;</p>
<p>Most of those autopsied were elderly and ill before contracting COVID-19, and all died before vaccines became available.  And while no one was known to have had COVID for long, the findings, published in the journal Nature, still call for follow-up.</p>
<p>&#8220;It is imperative that we try to understand in great detail what role persistence of viral RNA and other viral components might play in long COVID,&#8221; Chertow said.</p>
<p>No one knows if the coronavirus or its remnants are still present in everyone who has had COVID-19, or if it&#8217;s just a group of patients, said Timothy Henrich, an associate professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco .</p>
<p>&#8220;We all hypothesize that it&#8217;s a driver for long COVID, but we really haven&#8217;t shown that definitively,&#8221; Henrich said.  &#8220;This is still something that needs to be done.&#8221;</p>
<p>Still, Chertow&#8217;s research has already inspired the experimental use of antiviral drugs like Pfizer Inc.&#8217;s Paxlovid to see if it can eradicate viral reservoirs and relieve long-term symptoms.  According to Amy Proal, co-founder of the PolyBio Research Foundation, a Boston-based nonprofit dedicated to research into chronic, infection-associated conditions.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s &#8220;the most logical explanation because it pretty much explains everything else,&#8221; she said.</p>
<p>Scan hideouts</p>
<p>Henrich, who has helped develop sophisticated imaging techniques that can pinpoint HIV in tissues, plans to use the same approach to find COVID-19&#8217;s hiding spots.  Dozens of patients will undergo a series of full-body scans looking for signals of viral protein production or persistence.  These will be compared to symptoms to see how the continued presence of the coronavirus correlates to a long COVID.</p>
<p>The group has started scanning patients to look for protective T cells that could indicate an aberrant immune response to SARS-CoV-2.  They examine biopsies of the participants&#8217; digestive tracts for traces of the virus, Henrich said.</p>
<p>A particular focus is on lymphoid tissues, which produce, store and transport T cells that fight infection, and antibody-producing B cells.  The coronavirus could also be hiding in long-lived nerve cells and heart muscles, where it can cause chest pain, brain fog, fatigue and other long-lasting COVID symptoms, said Diane Griffin, a virologist at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, who has been studying for more than 50 years studying the body&#8217;s response to viral infections.</p>
<p>&#8220;We have pretty good information from acute RNA virus infections that RNA persists and that it has consequences,&#8221; said Griffin, who is vice president of the US National Academy of Sciences.  &#8220;Basically, it&#8217;s difficult to get rid of viruses.&#8221;</p>
<p>Proving that prolonged viral infection causes long-term COVID will be difficult, Griffin said.  Viruses in stealth mode suppress replication so as not to damage their host cells.  Despite the extensive distribution of coronavirus RNA in the patients&#8217; bodies, Chertow&#8217;s team saw little evidence of inflammation or that the immune system had attempted to destroy infected cells outside of the airways.</p>
<p>Viral Evolution</p>
<p>Interestingly, when the NIH scientists analyzed the genetic makeup of virus samples collected from six patients, they found versions in the lungs that differed from those collected in other tissues.  In one patient, the viruses found in two brain regions &#8211; the thalamus and the hypothalamus &#8211; were significantly different, suggesting that certain mutations favored the persistence of the pathogen there.</p>
<p>&#8220;We know that these RNA viruses have the potential to evolve within a host,&#8221; Chertow said.  &#8220;The more they can replicate and the longer they have time to do so and the higher the level of replication that takes place, the more opportunities these viruses have to evolve.&#8221;</p>
<p>This raises an interesting possibility: as the virus evolves to inhabit different organs and tissues, the process can produce more and more infectious and immune-evasive variants.  Nobody knows yet whether this is the case, but Johnson&#8217;s wastewater analysis at the University of Missouri gives the first indications.</p>
<p>Out of control pathogens</p>
<p>Since the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers have known that the disease can infect the digestive tract, causing stomach upset and causing patients to shed trace amounts of the virus in their feces.  Johnson routinely scans around 100 sewer networks in the Midwest for unusual SARS-CoV-2 strains, called cryptic lineages because their source is unknown.</p>
<p>&#8220;They are rare, but they exist,&#8221; he says.</p>
<p>When Johnson started work in March 2021, he had no idea where the journey was going.  Then, after more than a year ago, omicron drove US COVID-19 cases to a record high, he began actively looking for strains with pronounced genetic changes.</p>
<p>He discovered one that came from a drain in Wisconsin that served 100,000 people.  Its genetic signature was much more different than previous versions of Omicron, but it had not been reported in any patient.  Importantly, its mutations appeared in newer versions of omicron.  It was almost as if Johnson saw where the virus was going — evolutionarily speaking — before it arrived.</p>
<p>&#8220;So we started saying, let&#8217;s find out where it&#8217;s coming from,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>Black Swan</p>
<p>For four months he and his colleagues went from one shaft to the next in an unknown metropolitan area.  Then they discovered that the samples came from a building.  Then one side of the building.  Then half a dozen toilets, regularly used by about 30 people.</p>
<p>There, the investigation had come to a standstill, said Johnson.  Despite this, he was able to deduce that the cryptic lineage came from an individual who was infected nearly two years ago, as it evolved from a strain last discovered in Wisconsin in April 2021.</p>
<p>In August, the concentration of the variant was 1.5 billion copies per liter of wastewater.  For comparison, at the height of a massive COVID-19 outbreak in a Missouri prison, a liter of sewage contained just 100 million copies of the coronavirus.</p>
<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s insane how much virus this person is shedding,&#8221; Johnson said.</p>
<p>In December, the same variant appeared in the toilet installation in Wisconsin for the 13th consecutive month.</p>
<p>&#8220;Whoever this person is, they still seem to be going to work every day and have been for a while,&#8221; Johnson said.  &#8220;It seems they don&#8217;t know they are infected.  It can&#8217;t be good for her.&#8221;</p>
<p>The line hasn&#8217;t appeared anywhere else, suggesting it&#8217;s not spreading, Johnson said.  But there&#8217;s no question that it can grow, as evidenced by long-standing high concentrations in toilet drains.</p>
<p>&#8220;The question is why?&#8221;  he said.  &#8220;We assume something like this happened at omicron and that there was some sort of black swan event that allowed the virus to get out.&#8221;</p>
<p>Johnson says studying cryptic lineages has challenged his thinking about the coronavirus&#8217; ability to lodge itself in human tissues, particularly outside the respiratory system, and its potential to cause prolonged illness.</p>
<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m particularly open now to the idea that there are secondary infections that we just don&#8217;t know about,&#8221; he said.  &#8220;And maybe that helps explain some of these very oddly long COVID symptoms.&#8221;</p>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Wolf Haldenstein Adler Freeman &#038; Herz&#8217; Mark Rifkin and ABS Partners Real Estate&#8217;s James Caseley (right) with 270 Madison Avenue (Wolf Haldenstein Adler Freeman &#038; Herz, ABS Partners, Getty) Many commercial tenants went to court for a pandemic rent break. A Murray Hill law firm can now count itself among the few to have won &#8230;</p>
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<p class="wp-caption-text">Wolf Haldenstein Adler Freeman &#038; Herz&#8217; Mark Rifkin and ABS Partners Real Estate&#8217;s James Caseley (right) with 270 Madison Avenue (Wolf Haldenstein Adler Freeman &#038; Herz, ABS Partners, Getty)</p>
<p>Many commercial tenants went to court for a pandemic rent break.  A Murray Hill law firm can now count itself among the few to have won one.</p>
<p>New York&#8217;s Appellate Division ruled that affiliates of landlord ABS Partners Real Estate must credit Wolf Haldenstein, a firm specializing in stocks and antitrust law, over $2 million in rent and legal fees after the office owner failed to complete renovations on the firm&#8217;s two floors of leased space.</p>
<p>The HVAC system roared like a “jet engine,” the landlord&#8217;s architect said, produced 90-degree temperatures in the summer and failed to circulate fresh air as Covid raged in New York.</p>
<p>The law firm, which has occupied 270 Madison Ave for nearly 100 years, agreed to move temporarily from the ninth and 10th floors to the 11th and 13th when it signed a 12-year lease in 2018.</p>
<p>ABS planned to revamp the heating and air conditioning systems on the two lower floors and agreed in the lease that its tenant would rent the upper floors until an architect deemed the work substantially complete.</p>
<p>The lease included four months of free rent once the firm moved back to the lower floors and a rent credit if renovations took too long.  Wolf Haldenstein would receive a daily credit for each day that work continued after February 2020. The rate would jump to a day and a half after April.</p>
<p>Wolf Haldenstein moved back to the ninth and 10th floors in December 2019, ahead of schedule.  But the firm immediately questioned whether work had been completed.</p>
<p>“We should have another construction meeting to discuss HVAC problems,” Mark Rifkin, managing partner at Wolf Haldenstein wrote in an email to the job&#8217;s contractor on Christmas Eve.</p>
<p>&#8220;I think some may have assumed substantial completion before it was done,&#8221; he continued.  &#8220;Had this been summertime, when we need the AC, the space would be uninhabitable.&#8221;</p>
<p>In another email to ABS Partners, Rifkin described the floors as excessively hot and the HVAC system as excessively loud.</p>
<p>Those problems continued into 2020. In February, as Covid began spreading in the city, ABS&#8217; construction manager acknowledged in an email that &#8220;many &#8216;existing condition&#8217; items &#8230; need to be figured out and resolved.&#8221;</p>
<p>James Caseley, an executive at ABS, went so far as to describe the HVAC system as a &#8220;disaster&#8221; to the landlord&#8217;s construction manager in a memo.</p>
<p>The same month, the landlord started work on the 11th and 13th floors, making it impossible for Wolf Haldenstein to relocate to a more hospitable floor.</p>
<p>The HVAC issues lasted through the pandemic, forcing partners, associates, staff and clients, once they returned to the office, to deal with a system that failed to adequately circulate fresh air, according to Scott Mollen of Herrick Feinstein, attorney for the tenant.</p>
<p>In April 2021, Wolf Haldenstein sued ABS Partners, alleging that the landlord&#8217;s architect had not declared the work complete, meaning the firm had no obligation to pay rent.</p>
<p>ABS answered a month later, arguing that the law firm had defaulted on rent and owed $1.2 million on its roughly $145,000-per-month lease.</p>
<p>That November, a Supreme Court judge sided with Wolf Haldesstein, ruling the work was incomplete and the firm had no need to pay rent. The Appellate Division upheld the ruling that the landlord should pay a $1.2 million rent credit, $100,000 in moving expenses and $700 .00 in attorney&#8217;s fees.</p>
<p>&#8220;Much of the unnecessary fees were incurred as a result of landlords&#8217; litigation tactics,&#8221; the court noted.</p>
<p>Rosenberg &#038; Estis attorney Alex Estis, who represented ABS, said his legal team appreciated the Appellate Division reduced Wolf Aldenstein&#8217;s rent credit award.  A lower court had granted the firm an additional $647,869, plus interest.</p>
<p>&#8220;We are considering further options in light of the ruling,&#8221; Estis added.</p>
<p>The firm&#8217;s late co-founder Warren Estis had represented ABS for most of the suit, one of his last.  Estis died in April.</p>
<p>Contact Suzannah Cavanaugh</p>
<p>This article has been updated to include comments from Rosenberg &#038; Estis, counsel for ABS Partners Real Estate. </p>
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