As @SFUSD school board debates how and whether to let kids in classrooms here are some sobering facts from @UCSFChildrens:

"The mental health crisis is severe

A 75 percent rise in children requiring immediate hospitalization for mental health needs 1/ 2/ There's been a 130 percent increase in the number of children requiring hospitalization for eating disorders at @UCSFChildrens this year over last

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1/100 community organizations led by @CalReinvest back new bill from CA Asm @mgipson2014 to unmask the true owners of residential real estate being gobbled up by shell companies

Bill also imposes an excise tax on corporate landlords to fund homeownership
calreinvest.org/press-release/… Right now there is no way for many tenants to know who there landlord is or for potential home-buyers to know who's pricing them out

@Reveal, @vdbaranetsky I sued @USTreasury to get this vital information: revealnews.org/article/unmask…

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1/Internal @DeptVetAffairs email obtained by @reveal.

Management tells front-line nurses at the VA hospital in Durham, NC:

"Effective immediately, staff will be issued (1) surgical mask per week."

Nationally, 9 VA staff are already dead of #COVID19 and 1,281 have tested ++ 2/ @DeptVetAffairs has claimed that it has enough PPE and tests, but employees report widespread shortages of PPE, tests and have been told to come to work sick, potentially endangering both themselves and their veteran patients: revealnews.org/article/va-wor…