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In California's wine country, vulnerable residents slammed by COVID-19 and wildfires in same year [centerforhealthjournalism.org]

 

By Sarah Klearman, Center for Health Journalism, February 18, 2021

It’s been a hell of a year for just about everyone in California’s Napa Valley.

This community, like just about every other in America, continues to grapple with the COVID-19 pandemic in the form of loss of life, sickness, lockdowns and job loss. But Napa Valley is also grappling, too, with the aftershocks of two devastating wildfires, both of which dealt serious blows to the hospitality and wine industries here, the two largest employers in the county.

But it was in my reporting on those two twin crises that a discussion with a nonprofit leader stopped me in my tracks.

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