At the beginning of Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf’s State of the City address to the City Council this week, she stopped to reflect on the immense loss residents have endured this year.

More than 100 people have died in violence, she said, noting too the toll COVID-19 has taken. About 380 Oakland residents have died of COVID-19, according to the Alameda County Public Health Department.

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Keith Burbank is currently a fulltime reporter covering Alameda County and Oakland news for Bay City News. He has also worked on the Data Points project for Local News Matters, finding trends and stories about the region through data. In 2019, he was a California Fellow at the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism, producing a series about homeless deaths in Santa Clara County. He worked as a swing shift editor for the newswire for several years as well. Outside of journalism, Keith enjoys computer programming, math, economics and music.