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California Power Shutoff: How PG&E's Actions Hit the Medically Vulnerable the Hardest [theguardian.com]

By Vivian Ho, The Guardian, October 11, 2019 Deanne Mediati learned of northern California’s massive power shutoff when her husband shook her awake at 3.30 in the morning on Wednesday. “Honey, the power is out,” he told her. “You’re not breathing.” Mediati, 59, has hypoxia and requires an oxygen concentrator to breathe when she sleeps. Like everything else running on electricity in 600,000 California homes and businesses this week, her oxygen concentrator stopped working when the country’s...
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