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No. 364 | BIWEEKLY ON THURS. APRIL 23, 2020 P.O. BOX 15693, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94115 WWW.NICHIBEI.ORG (415) 673-1009 OFFICE (415) 673-1063 FAX TheHome and Garden Issue PGs 6-9 April 23, 2020 REGIONAL/NATIONAL PG.3 REGIONAL/NATIONAL PG.4 SPORTS PG.10 TODAY’S JAPAN PG.13 FOOD PG.15 COVID-19 Situation POSTMASTER: Please Do Not Delay Do Not Please POSTMASTER: POPULATIONS AT RISK LITTLE TOKYO ADAPTS WRESTLER TESTS POSITIVE MASKS WITH LEVITY QUARANTINE COOKING • NICHI BEI WEEKLY • APRIL 23 - MAY 6, 2020 3 Regional/National Cal Humanities awards $420K for documentaries Coronavirus claims multiple lives at Kei-Ai South Bay nursing home California Humanities an- By TAKESHI NAKAYAMA ments — hand washing, tak- COVID-19 virus. “No patients need a ventilator in a matter of nounced in a statement that Nichi Bei Weekly ing their temperature ... The have died, though. They’re ba- hours. It’s a scary scenario.” it has awarded $420,000 to 16 Contributor patients we are concerned sically closing down the third new projects through its 2020 The coronavirus pandemic about are put in isolation. floor, locking down every- No COVID-19 Cases California Documentary Project has been “awful, horrible,” We’re keeping a close eye on thing, and all the caregivers Kei-Ai Los Angeles issued Grants. The awardees include: reported Spencer Nordfelt, the patients and communicate are being tested there. The the following statement, dated “The Stanley Hayami Vir- administrator at Kei-Ai South with their doctors.” plan is to test the entire facility April 16, on its Website: “We tual Reality Project” Bay Healthcare Center in Gar- At Kei-Ai South Bay every- and caregivers.” do NOT have any COVID-19 Project Director: Nonny de dena, Calif. “Some patients one must practice social dis- Matsumoto hasn’t been no- virus cases.” la Peña sent to the hospital tested tancing, added Nordfelt, who tified yet that any of his pa- The nursing home is “strict- Sponsor Organization: The positive … Some are OK, and has been at the facility for only tients are sick. “I am hoping ly adhering” to recommenda- Alliance for Media Arts + Culture some didn’t make it.” seven months. “It was tough that they remain negative, but tions of the CDC, following its “This virtual reality project Through April 20, the nurs- for the patients at first, but ... I think, eventually, most of guidelines on infection control brings to life the story of Japa- ing home had eight cases of now they’re handling it pretty the patients will turn positive. and safety, screening for all nese American teenager Stanley COVID-19, the administrator well ... It’s probably harder on When you have residents in a staff members and residents Hayami. Told through his let- said over the telephone, but their family members.” relatively small confined area … “ensuring all staff members ters, wartime diary, and personal he declined to disclose the to- Kei-Ai South Bay has been like the nursing home, it’s im- are using appropriate protec- artworks, the project traces his tal number of deaths through serving the Japanese Ameri- possible to do social distanc- tive equipment when interact- journey from home in the San April 20 out of respect for the can community since it was ing.” ing with and caring for resi- Gabriel Valley to life in a concen- families of the deceased. But originally established as South This disease is “very con- dents; designating separates tration camp and military ser- on April 15 he did report three Bay Keiro Nursing Home in tagious, very virulent, in the areas for healthy and sick pa- vice during World War II. The deaths. 1969. According to its Website, sense that once you get it, tients,” stated Administrator interactive exhibit will be on dis- A large majority of the pa- the nursing home has 98 resi- you get very sick — and most Tanner Mitchell. play at the Japanese American tients at Kei-Ai South Bay dents at its culturally-sensitive of the patients in the nursing Additionally, Nikkei Senior National Museum and online.” are of Japanese descent from skilled nursing facility. homes are 80-plus years old,” Gardens, located in the San “Third Act” Southern California’s South Matsumoto said. “Their immu- Fernando Valley community Project Director: Tadashi Bay, and some of the patients Some Sites Fare Better nity is not what it used to be of Arleta, has no cases of CO- Nakamura who died were of Japanese de- Two other former Keiro when they were younger, and VID-19 at its assisted-living Sponsor Organization: scent in their late 80s, Nordfelt facilities, Kei-Ai Los Angeles they’re more likely to develop facility, Executive Director LTSC Community Development said. “It’s a very challenging Healthcare Center and Sakura a severe case of the disease, Michael Motoyasu stated in Corporation time for everybody. There are Intermediate Care Facility, as and they have other morbid a telephone conversation on “‘Third Act’ is a documentary a lot of older folks with un- well as a separate entity, Nik- conditions like high blood April 17. about 83-year-old filmmaker derlying conditions ... We’ve kei Senior Gardens, seem to pressure, heart disease, diabe- “We’ve not had any known Robert (Bob) A. Nakamura, “the had no visitors at the facility be coping with the pandemic tes ... and that’s why this thing COVID-19 cases to date,” he Godfather of Asian American for one month. We can’t have better than Kei-Ai South Bay. is really frightening.” said “I feel it’s because of the film,” as he reflects on his influ- group dining, we can’t have Dr. Takeshi Matsumoto, a At Kei-Ai Los Angeles and at stringent virus-related safety ential 50-year career, the inter- group activities. The patients’ physician who has 30-plus pa- the ICF, they’re trying to test measures that we’ve been do- generational trauma and psycho- whole lives have been turned tients at Kei-Ai Los Angeles in everyone “so they’ll know who ing, where we restrict all non- logical wounds resulting from upside down.” Lincoln Heights and at Sakura to quarantine, who to watch essential visitors that come THE CENSUS IS A SIMPLE AND his family’s incarceration during To ensure the residents’ ICF in Boyle Heights, said more carefully,” he explained. into the community, including World War II, and his recent di- health and safety, the nursing over the phone that “several “The ones who have symp- families ... We couldn’t do this agnosis of Parkinson’s Disease. home is “constantly cleaning,” people” (not his patients) at toms and test positive are the if we weren’t coordinating with CONFIDENTIAL 9 QUESTION SURVEY Directed by his son Tadashi, the the administrator pointed out. the Lincoln Heights nursing ones they’re going to send to the CDC and the Department film poses a question at once “We’re following the guide- home have been transferred the hospital ... If patients get of Public Health … and the personal and universal: how can lines from the State and L.A. to the hospital for observation sick, they could rapidly dete- families have been very sup- a father and son say goodbye?” County public health depart- after testing positive for the riorate … to a point where you portive.” COMMUNITIES COUNT PARTICIPATE Activists hold car rally calling for release of ICE inmates in Yuba County Various activists participated According to organizers, and Mesa Verde detention cen- staff, as well as the general pub- the coalition include the Florin in a car rally April 14 at Yuba the jail is “at high risk of an im- ters, the statement said. lic,” the statement said JACL Sacramento Valley, and Ts- County Jail in Marysville, Calif. minent outbreak of COVID-19 The Coalition to Free Every- Groups that have endorsed uru for Solidarity – Sacramento. FAMILIES COUNT IN THE CENSUS “to demand the release of all per- due to close confinement, filthy one in Yuba County ICE Deten- sons detained there by Immigra- conditions, a lack of hygiene tion, which sponsored the rally, tion and Customs Enforcement supplies including soap, and said it “seeks the immediate PRESERVE Japanese CULTURE … due to the imminent and dire nonexistent or inadequate medi- release of all who are detained HELP EVERYONE COUNTS TODAY threat of a COVID-19 outbreak cal care.” by Immigration and Customs EMPOWER our COMMUNITY at the facility, according to Tsuru U.S. District Court Judge Enforcement … at Yuba County DOCUMENT our HISTORY for Solidarity, a group of Japa- Maxine Chesney on April 8 or- Jail, not just those covered by the US nese American social justice ad- dered the release of four people April 8 order – for the lives and NOW ACCEPTING STOCK TRANSFERS! 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