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Speaker 1: 00:00 With the number of COVID 19 cases on the rise, hospitals are feelingSpeaker 2: 00:05 Either unvaccinated or incompletely vaccinated. People are the ones that are coming into the hospital.Speaker 1: 00:12 I'm Christina Kim with Marine cabinet. This is KPBS midday edition.Speaker 3: 00:24 [inaudible]Speaker 1: 00:24 People living in high risk fire areas may soon have access to more affordable and extensive insurance coverage.Speaker 2: 00:31 The fair plan is a very important plan and it's not perfect. And this ruling is trying to make it a little bit better.Speaker 1: 00:39 San Diego rescue mission will oversee Oceanside's homeless shelter and what to expect from Escondido's first ever pride celebration. This weekend that's ahead on midday edition. COVID 19 infections across San Diego are surging and county officials are bolstering their efforts to vaccinate more residents in an effort to slow the spread. The local spike in cases mirrors a nationwide trend where health officials are now warning that the nation's COVID-19 situation is becoming a pandemic of the unvaccinated. Joining me with more on these developments is Dr. Williams sang a hospitalist at Kaiser Permanente, San Diego. Welcome to midday, Dr. Sang. Thank you very much. Rev me this week, San Diego county sign, 82% increase in the number of COVID 19 cases. Are you and your team at Kaiser starting to feel the impact of this spike?Speaker 2: 01:38 Uh, yes we are. We're we're seeing both the ambulatory section also in the hospital as well. So we are seeing cases, uh, steadily increased. The Delta variant is really the one that everybody is talking about. That's concerning, you know, the San Diego county has been tracking it all along. It started with 16 cases. A couple of weeks ago, then went to 25, then the 52, and now it's 103. And, uh, yesterday I think they came out with new numbers, but it's almost doubling every week. And we can see that asSpeaker 1: 02:07 We mentioned, many health officials are calling this, the pandemic of the unvaccinated are the patients that you're treating mostly in vaccinated.Speaker 2: 02:14 Yes. So I would say over 80 to 90% are un-vaccinated. And the reason is that, um, the people who are vaccinated, some of them, even if they get infected, because you have that immunity, you attack the virus. So your viral load in your body is much, much lower to a point where you're barely symptomatic. So maybe a little sore throat, a runny nose, and that's about it. And we actually pick them up on happenstance just because they are here to check out or they're there to get surgery or something. And then they do a routine testing. They pick them up that way. There are people who come into the ambulatory symptomatic, like I've got a sore throat cold. I just want to get it checked out. And then they test positive. And then they're the ones that come into the hospital and test positive there. Now those predominantly are the unvaccinated or incompletely vaccine, meaning they had one dose and in follow up for the second dose. So either unvaccinated or incompletely vaccinated, people are the ones that are coming into the hospital ending up, being admitted.Speaker 1: 03:21 So that second dose is also important that you are seeing that it's not just the unvaccinated, but those who are not completely vaccinated.Speaker 2: 03:28 Yes, definitely. Yes.Speaker 1: 03:30 San Diego county, 69% of the eligible population has been fully vaccinated, which is just shy of that 75% goal. Mark. How much of the population needs to be fully vaccinated to really see a stop in this uptick in cases?Speaker 2: 03:44 That's a great question. Um, because you know, when we talk about the percentage needed to be vaccinated before you reach that hurting me, it also depends on the virus itself. So for things like measles, you need a 90, 92% vaccination rate to get that protection because it is more infectious, meaning it's more easily transmitted for the ones that are less likely to Tremont. Obviously you can have a lower level. Now that number has been debated. Dr. Fowchee had one said that it needs 90%, a lot of people for the flu, uh, 70 to 80% right now, um, in San Diego county, we've administered over 4.1 million doses of vaccine. So we're doing much better than the state and we'll do definitely much better than the country, but again, it's really that unvaccinated or incompletely vaccinated population that we're looking at. So reach herd immunity. I would say it's probably somewhere between 80 and 90% is where we need to be to protect the people who are unvaccinated. So having the people who vaccinated protect the people who are unvaccinated, we would need to reach about 80 to 90%.Speaker 1: 04:54 So the Delta variant were increasing exponentially in previous weeks, but the latest county update actually seems to show that that Delta variant is slowing how prominent are Delta variant infections in the CA in the caseload that you and your team are working onSpeaker 2: 05:08 The Delta Varian for last Wednesday. So, um, was 122 cases. So it shot up very quickly and then it slowed down and, you know, part of the reason could be what I turned to with the vaccine firewall, right? We get as many people vaccine as possible. So even the vaccinate, it protects the unvaccinated. And if we can have a strong enough force, and I believe this is the case because San Diego we've been very aggressive as a county, uh, with the help of the health and human services of the county and all the health system working together, we've been able to, to hold it at bay better than I think. Um, other counties have beenSpeaker 1: 05:47 In your opinion, do you think the county should reinstate it's masked mandate,Speaker 2: 05:52 The mass protects the, um, others more than, uh, protects yourself. It does protect yourself if you wear the mask, but it's really, if you are carrying the virus and you wear a mask, you really limit the spread. So it is a community benefits, meaning I protect you and you protect me. Um, the mass mandate will definitely slow, uh, the virus spread around. So yes, I think it is a good idea, outdoors, a different situation, but indoors definitelySpeaker 1: 06:25 Finally, for people listening right now, what do you recommend they do to stay safe and healthy as we continue to see these numbers,Speaker 2: 06:33 I think get vaccinated. If you're even thinking about it, get vaccinated is the best way to protect you from catching COVID, spreading COVID or dying from COVID. There's great evidence that, um, uh, the vaccine itself prevents you from getting it, but also prevents you from dying from it. Um, I think before the Delta variant was, um, started taking off, we knew that, um, the cases of getting infected a breakthrough infection was like one in 10,000 and the death goes from one in 545 to one in half a million or more. So it is a great way to, to protect you, your family and our community let's help each other, protect each other, get vaccinated. And that will stop the Delta virus variant. I know people keep talking about Delta, Delta, Delta, but really the answer is vaccine vaccine vaccine. So let's get out there and take care of each other.Speaker 1: 07:35 Your Williams sang a hospitalist at Kaiser Permanente, San Diego. Thank you. Thank you.Speaker 4: 07:47 Massive wildfires continued to burn in California and of the two largest. The Dixie fire has been burning for the last week near the recently fire ravaged town of paradise. It's scorched more than 100, 3000 acres. And as of this morning is only 17% contained. The Beckworth complex fire burning for more than two weeks near Reno as destroyed more than 100,000 acres while huge fires are burning across the state in rural areas, even a small brush fire can be devastating. One unincorporated community and two Lauri county is struggling to recover after a fire burned down a lifeline for the community. Earlier this month,Speaker 5: 08:32 Aziz Hassan walks through the remains of his trailer home and the mini Mart that his family has owned for more than 50 years in Poplar on July 9th, he says a power line that ran through a tree in between his property and his neighbors sparked it caught fire on this tree. The first tree that blamed that up from on top started going down. Once they hit the floor, then CVA garage caught on fire. The CVA is the central valley empowerment Alliance. It's a community-based organization that was supposed to hold a youth vaccination event that day. According to executive director, Maria Perez, really no kids were injured, but the supplies intended for them were destroyed. We expected over 400 students to come from all over the area. And we had backpacks fields with supplies, lunch boxes. We had over a hundred thousand dollars of clothing from forever 21.Speaker 5: 09:30 While the CVA garage caught on fire, the only structural damage was on the roof. Still. She says the items inside the garage, including six quinceanera addresses, canned food and school supplies are unsalvageable. And I recognize that even at the midst of all of this, we are one of the luckier ones, others weren't so lucky. The Porterville fire department said the cause of the blaze is still under investigation. What residents know for sure is not within 30 minutes, the fire had destroyed two trailer homes and damaged another house. It also burned Adam's market. The mini Mart that was home to for immigrant owned businesses. They were the lifeline for people living in the community and surrounding areas. People come from far to shop, to cash their checks, um, to get their hair done, to transfer monies to their families, families living in Mexico, central America and Yemen. She says most residents in Poplar are undocumented and low-income now the only business left in their community is another small grocery store. Even though we are in the central valley, we provide food for the world. We find ourselves in a food desert. And when one of our two grocery stores, the oldest one in town becomes ashes. It has an impact that is beyond Poplar, sadly on Nell cruise Chavez who rented a room next door to Adam's market needs to find immediate housingSpeaker 6: 11:03 Right now. We're not sleeping there. We're sleeping in our cars.Speaker 5: 11:05 Javez says he works the night shift at a dairy farm, three minutes away. That's where he showers. He then heads to his car to sleep in the record, breaking heat, the air conditioner there I am struggling. My deep it is Ruiz says the red cross offered the displaced people $500 vouchers for hotels, but that only covered about three nights in the area. And she says the community is facing a housing crisis, making it more difficult to assess ad and the other 11 displaced people to find a place to live, right, finding housing. You know, the, the only option for many will be to move out of the community in that that's displacement, just because there's no housing available. That's why she says reached out to state Senator Melissa [inaudible] and county supervisor, Dennis Thompson for help. Senator [inaudible] says she will do what she can to connect the community with resources that can help. In the meantime, Perez Ruiz says the community will focus on rebuilding I'm Marty Bolanos.Speaker 4: 12:11 This story was part of the central news collaborative, which is supported by the central valley community foundation with technology and training support by Microsoft homeowners in high-risk wildfire areas. We'll soon be able to get more insurance coverage at a lower cost. According to a state court ruling this month, the decision expands the coverage California's so-called insurer of last resort must offer to consumers. The California fair access to insurance requirements plan or fair plan has been offering fire only policies to people who can't get traditional homeowners insurance because of wildfire risk. The ruling allows the state insurance commission to order the fair plan to include insurance coverage for things like theft and liability. Johnnie Mae is Amy Bach. She is executive director of United policy holders, a nonprofit that advocates for consumers. Amy, welcome to the program,Speaker 2: 13:10 Maureen, thanks so much for having us on.Speaker 4: 13:12 Now. California's incredibly destructive wildfires in recent years have led up to the creation of the fair plan. Tell us why it was needed.Speaker 2: 13:22 The insurance industry, uh, is like any other, uh, profit oriented industry. And, uh, they have, uh, looked at wildfire risk in California and decided almost in a sort of a herd like way, uh, that they are less interested in selling insurance to customers in wildfire prone areas of the state. So that meant that those residents suddenly had a big problem on their hands. Many of them came to our organization for help and to the California department of insurance and the bottom line, the fair plan is a very important plan and it's not perfect. And this ruling is trying to make it a little bit better.Speaker 4: 14:05 Who makes up the fair plan? Insurers are the, are these private insurance companies?Speaker 2: 14:11 Yes, primarily that their plan is run by a governing board that is consists of mostly insurance company executives. Uh, there, uh, there's a, there's a public member. Um, the governor and the insurance commissioner has some role as well, primarily though, uh, it's private insurance companies that call the shots on how that their plan runs.Speaker 4: 14:34 So the fair plan stepped in to cover fire risk for many homes, but that's all the insurance the plan would provide. What did homeowners do for the other protections? A traditional insurance policy would give them,Speaker 2: 14:47 They either went there, didn't insurance for things like, um, you know, your dishwasher, hose breaks, and there's a flood. Um, the fair plan wouldn't pay for that, you know, the, uh, somebody trips on your property sues you the fair plan wouldn't wouldn't cover that. So either people went bare for those exposures, those risk exposures, or they could buy something called a difference in conditions, policy. And there hadn't been a whole lot of options for those, uh, difference in conditions, policies up until about a year or two ago when, uh, suddenly there was a demand in the market for more of these they're gap fillers that you can call them DIC policies, gap fillers, um, the consumer demand, more people were going into the fair plan, finding out that they didn't have full coverage and then wanting to, to fill the gap and then shopping for DIC. So while a couple of years ago, there would have just been a handful of DIC options. Now there are many most insurers, uh, started selling these gap fillers so that they could hold on to customers even after they went to the fair plan.Speaker 4: 16:00 And are those gap filler policies expensive?Speaker 2: 16:03 Yes. You know, we're hearing, uh, quotes from anywhere from 3000 to as high as 20,000, depending on the size of the house and location,Speaker 4: 16:14 State insurance commissioner, Ricardo Lara ordered the fair plan association to broaden its coverage options. The fair plan refused. What did they refuse?Speaker 2: 16:25 The insurers that run the program? Uh, really, uh, don't well, they don't really like the program that much, to be honest. Um, it's an involuntary program, so they have to participate. And I think, um, you know, insurance executives are always, you know, looking at the bottom line and I think they, they felt well, uh, we don't want the fair plan to be competing, um, in the, you know, with, with private options. And, uh, they want to live at the fair plans, pay out exposure because they, some of that money comes out of their, uh, you know, out of their resources, the private insurers pet, you know, how they have a, um, proportional share in pain losses that the fair plan has to pay out on.Speaker 4: 17:13 So the court ruled that the state has the authority to order a fair, to provide expanded coverage. How quickly could that expanded coverage go into an effect?Speaker 2: 17:24 My guess it's not going to be tomorrow. Uh, my guess is, uh, that the fair plan may, uh, is likely to pursue all avenues of appeal and or reconsideration.Speaker 4: 17:37 Well, this is a victory for homeowners in high-risk fire areas, but in the larger picture, isn't the high cost of insurance. One of the factors that's meant to discourage people from living in high risk areas, considering that most of our wildfires are caused by human activity.Speaker 2: 17:55 Absolutely. Maureen, there's no question, uh, that the, uh, that the risk of wildfires has increased and yes. Um, to a certain extent, the cost of your insurance relates to your risk to a, to a large extent, you know, that said there are a lot of people that are living that are getting charged, um, a lot more than they had been being charged for their home insurance that don't live in the highest risk areas. So we're, we're pursuing solutions on a number of levels. There's no question, you know, that there should be, um, there should not be new develop new building going on in Rui, in the wild land, urban interface at the same rate that it had been happening, you know, that we now know that, um, it's just, it's just too risky for, um, for there to be large numbers of people living in areas that, that have a habit of burning. Uh, however, you know, this is all a matter of degree, right? You know, somebody who's been living in an area their whole lives, um, and, and suddenly, you know, they're, they're, they're being priced out because of the cost of insurance that doesn't sit well with people.Speaker 4: 19:06 The damage figure for last year's wildfire season in California is estimated at $10 billion in property damage. How is the fair plan going to be able to handle losses like that now or in the future?Speaker 2: 19:19 Well, they do have the full, um, financial strength of all the participating insurers. You know, it's actually, technically it's an association, the fair plan of, uh, of multiple insurance companies. So each one of them has their own financial resources, uh, and their own re-insurance, you know, so the fair plan, their financial strength, uh, has, uh, has to meet state standards. And so, you know, it's, as, as things stand now, you know, the num the fair plan can handle the number of customers that they've got. At least they should be able to, uh, if their policy count continues to grow at the same rate it's been growing, the coverage is going to continue to be expensive. Uh, and the state may need to come up with some more creative solutions to, to making sure that the fair plan has all the, the reserves and the financial capacity that it needs to meet its obligations.Speaker 4: 20:20 And I've been speaking with Amy Bach, she's executive director of United policy holders, a nonprofit that advocates for consumers. Amy, thank you very much. Thank