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San Bernardino County sees 202 more coronavirus cases, but no new deaths – Press Enterprise

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By SANDRA EMERSON | [email protected] |PUBLISHED: May 26, 2020 at 12:52 p.m. | UPDATED: May 26, 2020 at 5:10 p.m.

An additional 202 residents in San Bernardino County have tested positive for the novel coronavirusbut no new deaths were reported Tuesday, May 26.

There were 4,567 positive cases, up 4.6% from Sunday, May 24, according to the county onlinedashboard tracking the virus. The number of deaths, 176, have remained unchanged since Saturday,May 23.

The county did not update the dashboard Monday, May 25, due to the Memorial Day holiday.

Corky’s Kitchen and Bakery Manager Daniel Towles prepares his Rancho Cucamonga restaurant for reopening Thursday, May 21,2020. (Photo by Will Lester, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG)

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The city of Needles also confirmed its first case over the holiday weekend, the data show. The smalldesert city on the Colorado River was the last of the county’s 24 cities to have a positive case.

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In the county of 2.1 million residents, 54,901 have been tested, and 8.3% of those tests came backpositive for COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus, according to the county. The number of testsadministered was up 7.1% from Sunday.

It takes 15.3 days for the virus to double in the community.

On Saturday, May 23, the county was given the green lightto allow retail, malls and swap meets, and restaurant diningrooms to reopen. The county was one of 47 countiesallowed to fast-track reopenings during the second of afour-phase plan to scale back Gov. Gavin Newsom’s stay-at-home order after two and a half months of closures andrestrictions.

Newsom announced on Monday, May 25, that churches,synagogues, mosques and other places of worship canresume in-person services, including funerals, if attendanceis limited to 100 people, or 25% of a building’s capacity.

On Tuesday, hair salons and barbershops were allowed toreopen but must require barbers, stylists and patrons towear face coverings.

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Gyms, nail salons, movie theaters, sports and entertainment venues, libraries, bars and wineries,hotels and motels, and public swimming facilities won’t be allowed to reopen until Stages 3 and 4.

CASES BY COMMUNITY

Here is the list of confirmed cases and deaths by city or unincorporated community. Numbers in boldindicate they are in the top 5 for most cases or deaths in San Bernardino County.

Adelanto: 59 cases, 2 deathsAngelus Oaks: 0 cases, 0 deathsApple Valley: 53 cases, 2 deathsBarstow: 17 cases, 2 deathsBig Bear City: 3 cases, 0 deathsBig Bear Lake: 6 cases, 0 deathsBloomington: 59 cases, 3 deathsBlue Jay: 0 cases, 1 deathChino: 743 cases, 7 deathsChino Hills: 100 cases, 2 deathsColton: 199 cases, 16 deathsCrestline: 13 cases, 1 deathFontana: 475 cases, 14 deathsFort Irwin: 2 cases, 0 deathsGrand Terrace: 20 cases, 1 deathHesperia: 108 cases, 1 deathHighland: 119 cases, 3 deathsJoshua Tree: 15 cases, 2 deathsLanders: 0 cases, 0 deathsLoma Linda: 68 cases, 1 deathMentone: 21 cases, 1 deathMontclair: 79 cases, 4 deathsMorongo Valley: 6 cases, 0 deathsNeedles: 1 case, 0 deathsOak Hills: 18 cases, 0 deathsOntario: 395 cases, 22 deathsPiñon Hills: 0 cases, 0 deaths

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Phelan: 18 cases, 0 deathsRancho Cucamonga: 196 cases, 8 deathsRedlands: 249 cases, 27 deathsRialto: 212 cases, 5 deathsRimforest: 1 case, 0 deathsRunning Springs: 5 cases, 0 deathsSan Bernardino: 589 cases, 7 deathsTwentynine Palms: 7 cases, 0 deathsUpland: 127 cases, 10 deathsVictorville: 183 cases, 7 deathsWrightwood: 1 case, 0 deathsYucaipa: 205 cases, 25 deathsYucca Valley: 17 cases, 1 deathUndetermined: 178 cases, 1 death

Sandra Emerson | ReporterSandra Emerson covers San Bernardino County government and politics for the Southern California News Group.

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Because San Bernardino County has flattened the COVID-19 curve and secured the resources needed to continue keeping the novel coronavirus

under control, dine-in restaurants, stores and malls can now reopen with safety measures throughout the county after a state-ordered shutdown that

lasted more than two months.

The California Department of Public Health on Saturday, May 23, approved the county’s request to reopen more businesses as part of the governor’s

accelerated phase two. The county submitted a revised request to move into the next phase on Friday, May 22, based on the new criteria announced

by the state on Monday, May 18.

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“San Bernardino County businesses and residents worked very hard and made tremendous sacrifices to make this moment possible,” said Board of

Supervisors Chairman Curt Hagman. “Your efforts to keep our community safe and healthy have paid off. We can now proceed significantly further

toward resuming our normal lives.”

“This virus is still very present throughout our county, state and nation, so we must remain vigilant by physical distancing, wearing face coverings

and washing our hands often. But our goal of minimizing illness and building the capacity to protect the vulnerable, serve the sick and track the virus

in our communities has been achieved,” Hagman said.

“We owe a debt of gratitude to our public health and healthcare professionals, who are putting in long hours on the front lines of this battle, and to

our county government team for working around the clock in support of those efforts,” he said.

As part of the accelerated Stage 2 phase of the state recovery plan, destination retail stores, including shopping malls and swap meets and dine-in

restaurants can now reopen in San Bernardino County. Businesses that plan to reopen are required to follow state guidance detailed at

https://covid19.ca.gov/industry-guidance/.

Gyms, hair and nail salons, barber shops, movie theaters, sports and entertainment venues, libraries, bars and wineries, hotels and motels and public

swimming facilities won’t be authorized to reopen until stages 3 and 4.

Places of worship were authorized by the state to reopen under new attendance limitations announced on Monday, May 25.

The governor on Monday announced new benchmarks counties had to achieve to accelerate business reopening. The announcement came shortly

after San Bernardino County sent the governor two letters seeking flexibility in charting a course for recovery. One letter was signed by the Board of

Supervisors and the mayors of the county’s 24 cities and towns, the other was a joint letter from the counties of San Bernardino, Riverside, Orange

and San Diego, which combined account for about a third of the state’s population.

“Our efforts clearly made a difference,” Hagman said. “Our goal now, besides achieving additional openings, is to keep our businesses open by

continuing to keep our curve flat by taking precautions and avoiding unnecessary risk.”

The county is helping small businesses operate safely and stay open through the COVID-Compliant Business Partnership Program. By agreeing to

enforce physical distancing, require customers and employees to wear face coverings, and practicing prudent hygiene, small businesses can receive

up to $2,500 to implement those measures. Businesses can apply through the county’s COVID-19 website, http://sbcovid19.com.

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Ontario Mills reopens after coronavirus closure; Victoria Gardens, Montclair Place to follow – San Bernardino Sun

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By DAVID DOWNEY | [email protected] and JENNIFER IYER | [email protected] | The Press-EnterprisePUBLISHED: May 26, 2020 at 12:37 p.m. | UPDATED: May 26, 2020 at 4:30 p.m.

The sprawling Ontario Mills shopping mall reopened Tuesday morning, May 26, after being shutteredmore than two months due to coronavirus pandemic-triggered restrictions.

Meanwhile, Montclair Place officials said they planned to reopen Friday, May 29.

And Victoria Gardens in Rancho Cucamonga is set to reopen Monday, June 1, said Lindsay Kahn,spokeswoman for Brookfield Properties in Chicago, which owns Victoria Gardens as well asRiverside’s Galleria at Tyler and Promenade Temecula.

A couple wearing protective face masks to protect themselves form coronavirus hold hands as they shop at Ontario Mills in Ontarioon Tuesday, May 26, 2020. The mall reopened today after months of closure due to coronavirus. (Photo by Watchara Phomicinda,The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)

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The reopening follows the state’s decision over the Memorial Day weekend to give San BernardinoCounty officials the green light to let malls open and restaurants offer dining service.

1 of 5David Franco, of San Bernardino, center, shops for cologne with wife, Tiffany, right, while being assisted by store manager Eti Mari at ElegancePerfumes located inside Ontario Mills in Ontario on Tuesday, May 26, 2020. The mall reopened today after months of closure due to coronavirus.(Photo by Watchara Phomicinda, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)

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At all three malls, shoppers will see changes such as tables being spaced farther apart in diningareas. They also will be expected to practice social distancing to minimize the chance of spreadingthe coronavirus, officials said.

“The health, safety and well-being of the community we serve will always be our highest priority, andwe have developed a thorough and detailed set of protocols highlighting the exceptional measureswe’ve implemented for shoppers, retailers and employees as we reopen,” Ontario Mills GeneralManager Marc Smith said in a statement:

Thorough and frequent cleaning will be the norm for high-traffic areas, including dining spots, restrooms, escalators,stairs, directories, trash bins and door knobs, a newsrelease stated.

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The center will offer at entrances protective masks,sanitizing wipes and temperature testing, the release said,while hand-sanitizing stations will be set up in severalplaces. Social distancing practices will be enforced and alimited number of people will be allowed in restrooms. Playareas will be closed.

Ontario Mills, which employs more than 2,900 people,closed March 19 in response to COVID-19 orders.

At Montclair Place, a deep cleaning has taken place, including the replacement of air conditioningsystem filters, officials said. Once open, some mall and restroom doors will be left open to reduce thenumber of places that people touch, and chairs and tables will be spread out in the food court.

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By JONATHAN LANSNER | [email protected] | Orange County RegisterPUBLISHED: May 26, 2020 at 2:51 p.m. | UPDATED: May 26, 2020 at 4:43 p.m.

As the Inland Empire economy reopens, the repair task is large as April’s unemployment rate tied theGreat Recession’s 14.4% peak.

My trusty spreadsheet, filled with state job figures, found local bosses had 1.39 million employees inApril. This staffing level, derived from a survey of employers, was down 160,200 in the two monthsafter “stay at home” orders iced the economy. That’s a 10% drop.

Or look at the cutback at workplaces in Riverside and San Bernardino counties these ways:

• Local employment fell at a pace equal to 111 jobs lost every hour in March and April.

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• The two-month job loss equals 36% of the 442,100 jobs created in the post-recession rebound.

• This puts employment at the lowest level since March 2016.

Riverside and San Bernardino counties’ jobless rate, taken from a different survey of households, was14.4% for April vs. 5.2% in March and 3.6% a year ago. That tied the Great Recession’s 14.4%jobless peak.

Virus-linked business shutdowns around Southern California pushed the number of inland Empireresidents who are officially jobless to 295,500 — up 212,700 in two months or a 257% jump.

The hope is that many recent layoffs are temporary furloughs that can be reversed as curbs onbusiness operations are eased. Statewide, 4 million-plus have filed for jobless benefits through lateMay as Californias jobless rate hit 15.5% for April.

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Ralph McLaughlin, chief economist at Haus Inc., said the region’s job losses “don’t come as a surpriseone bit, but our models are suggesting unemployment rate should start to bottom out this month andnext, with a rebound starting in July.”

Here’s how employment fared in some key industries impacted by coronavirus challenges in Riversideand San Bernardino counties during the past two months …

Retailing: 162,400 jobs in the month — that’s down 17,600 positions since February, a 10% drop.

Restaurants: 86,800 jobs — down 50,100 in two months, a 37% drop.

Hotels: 13,100 jobs — down 4,700 in two months, a 26% drop.

Arts, entertainment and recreation: 16,100 jobs — down 4,200 in two months, a 21% drop.

Real estate, construction, finance: 131,500 jobs — down 18,500 in two months, a 12% drop.

Transportation/warehouses: 136,700 jobs — down 5,500 in two months, a 4% drop.

Business services: 139,700 jobs — down 16,000 in two months, a 10% drop.

Government: 253,300 jobs — down 7,700 in two months, a 3% drop.

McLaughlin sees a bouncy “Flying W” recovery for the region’s economy, with sharp ups and downs.

“There’s a chance we could see another dip in the fall and winter if the virus comes back, but weremain optimistic that a treatment and/or vaccine will be available by early next year,” McLaughlinadded. “The good news is we’ve just about finished the first leg.”

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The past three days have brought notable changes to the Inland Empire, as both Riverside and San

Bernardino counties were given the green light to further reopen.

Following an announcement last week by Gov. Gavin Newsom that would ease reopening rules insome counties, dine-in restaurants and malls were cleared for business — though with some

restrictions — in both Riverside and San Bernardino.

The two counties also plan to resume in-person worship services this week after the state on Monday

released new coronavirus health guidance for religious services, saying houses of worship must limittotal attendance to 25% of a building’s capacity and stop passing around offering plates, in addition

to taking other precautions.

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Staff, visitors and congregants are discouraged from singing, holding potluck meals or shaking hands

and hugging. Religious institutions are asked to “strongly consider” outdoor services.

Other state-mandated guidelines require temperature checks for parishioners, the disinfecting ofcommon areas and the installation of hand sanitizer dispensers.

Riverside County officials petitioned the state on May 15 for special consideration of the reopening of

religious services.

“People of all faiths have been longing for the day when they can worship with each other in person

again,” Supervisor Karen Spiegel said. “An important part of getting through this together is keeping

our faith strong. By taking these safety precautions, we can choose to practice our faith in person

again and do so safely.”

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The occupancy limit for services will remain in place for the first 21 days after a county health

department has approved the resumption of religious services and cultural ceremonies in their

jurisdiction.

After 21 days, the California Department of Public Health, in consultation with county health officials,

will review and assess the effect of the imposed limits and provide further direction as part of a

phased-in restoration of activities in places of worship.

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County officials called the church plans a step forward, but also warned the coronavirus is still a

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to protect ourselves and those around us.”

Riverside County officials most recently reported the addition of 135 new coronavirus cases and 11

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Neighboring San Bernardino County had 4,567 COVID-19 cases and 176 deaths as of Tuesdayafternoon.

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By KATHLEEN RONAYNE

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California Gov. Gavin Newsom said Tuesday that barbershops and hairsalons can reopen immediately in counties that have been cleared to move faster on liftingcoronavirus restrictions.

The governor’s announcement is part of an ongoing relaxation of orders intended to help preventspread of COVID-19.

The state’s guidance says customers and workers in barbershops and salons must wear facecoverings during hair-cutting and other close-contact services.

In this May 14, 2020, file photo, California Gov. Gavin Newsom discusses his revised 2020-2021 state budget during a newsconference in Sacramento, Calif. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, Pool, File)

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Forty-seven of California’s 58 counties have been granted variances to state orders that allow them tomove faster on reopening.

Los Angeles County and San Francisco Bay Area counties are not among them.

In expanding reopening to barbershops and hair salons, Newsom cited the extent of testing capabilityand stability in the rate of positive cases.

But after a long holiday weekend that saw many people out and about, the governor urged a soberrecognition that the pandemic is not over and to continue measures such as social distancing andcovering faces.

“We still have a long way of going to get where weh need to be, which is immunity and a vaccine,” hesaid.

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The Rev. Joe O’Neill celebrates Mass inside an empty Holy Family Church in South Pasadena, on Palm Sunday, April 5. The church hasbeen livestreaming its services during stay-at-home orders. (Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times)

By MONTE MORIN, ALEX WIGGLESWORTH, MIKE FREEMAN

MAY 26, 2020 | 8:33 AM

California’s new plan to allow churches and religious institutions to reopen in the wake of the

coronavirus pandemic marks a major step forward.

But it still will alter religious services in dramatic ways, and it’s unlikely to end the push by some

churches to allow more regular operations.

Gov. Gavin Newsom has faced lawsuits from religious groups over the stay-at-home rules and has so

far been victorious in court.

On Friday night, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld Newsom’s ban on in-person church services.

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“We’re dealing here with a highly contagious and often fatal disease for which there presently is no

known cure. In the words of Justice Robert Jackson, if a “[c]ourt does not temper its doctrinaire logic

with a little practical wisdom, it will convert the constitutional Bill of Rights into a suicide pact,’” the

majority wrote.

But critics say the new rules are still too restrictive.

“An artificial 25% or 100-person limitation on a house of worship is inconsistent with the absence of

such limitations on retail establishments,” said Harmeet Dhillon, chief executive of the Center for

American Liberty. “Simply put, Gov. Newsom lacks authority to dictate to California’s faithful how they

may worship. Guidelines, suggestions, education, and support are all welcome. Secular dictates that

do not apply to other categories of our daily lives are not welcome and not constitutional.”

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• Houses of worship must limit total attendance to 25% of a building’s capacity for the first three

weeks of services and stop passing offering plates, in addition to taking other precautions.

• Congregants must be screened for fever or other symptoms of illness and are asked to use hand

sanitizer and wear face coverings.

• Houses of worship have been told to discourage the sharing of items, including prayer books,

cushions and rugs.

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• Staff, visitors and congregants are discouraged from singing, holding potluck meals and shaking

hands and hugging.

• High-traffic areas, such as chapels and libraries, must be thoroughly cleaned, and common surfaces

such as pulpits, pews, altars and donation boxes must be disinfected frequently.

The 13-page document, released by the California Department of Public Health and Cal/OSHA, does

not obligate churches, mosques, temples and other houses of worship to resume in-person activity,

officials said. In fact, state health authorities strongly recommend that places of worship “continue to

facilitate remote services and other related activities for those who are vulnerable to COVID19

including older adults and those with co-morbidities.”

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The vast majority of California churches have complied with the stay-at-home order. But there have

been some exceptions.

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More than 1,200 pastors vowed to hold in-person services on May 31, Pentecost Sunday.

On Friday, President Trump made an unexpected appearance in the White House briefing room to

declare that he was designating churches as “essential” businesses so they could immediately reopen.

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Trump previously said he would leave decisions about easing public health guidance to states but

often criticized decisions by individual governors. The president has now threatened that he will

“override” states that don’t heed his directive. It was not clear to which authority he was referring.

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What’s next?

The occupancy limit for services will remain in place for the first 21 days after a county health

department has approved the resumption of religious services and cultural ceremonies within their

jurisdiction, the guidance states.

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After 21 days, the California Department of Public Health, in consultation with county health officials,

will review and assess the effect of the imposed limits and provide further direction as part of a

phased-in restoration of activities in places of worship.

Some churches have already announced reopening proposals.

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange announced plans for public Masses to resume in phases in

Orange County starting June 14.

The first phase includes allowing small groups of healthy people to gather for limited Mass, church

officials said Friday in a news release. The second phase will allow for larger groups; the third will

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permit choirs and social gatherings. All phases will require participants to follow strict guidelines for

social distancing and disinfection, officials said.

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“The pandemic is far from over, so we will begin with small steps,” Diocese of Orange Bishop Kevin

Vann said in a statement. “Realizing that reinfection is a concern, as we saw occurred in Texas and

elsewhere, I am asking our pastors to prepare their churches to ensure that these guidelines are

followed without exception.”

In Orange County, the bishop’s advisors have been working on reopening guidelines for weeks, in

consultation with county officials and medical experts, the release said.

Those older than 65 or who have an underlying health condition will be encouraged not to return

when churches initially reopen, as will anyone who is sick or lives with someone who is sick.

Holy-water fonts will remain empty, hymnals will be removed, and people will be instructed not to

touch one another, including during greetings. Church rituals that require touching, like the sign of

peace, will be suspended.

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In most cases, churches will be required to limit their capacity to one-third of normal attendance,

officials said. More Masses will be offered than usual, and people will be encouraged to come

throughout the week to avoid crowding on Sundays. Vann extended a dispensation from the

obligation to attend Mass on Sunday to permit the shift.

The bishop also granted a temporary dispensation allowing priests to celebrate Mass outside of

church buildings, including in gyms, parish halls and outdoor spaces.

The Roman Catholic Diocese of San Diego also has begun planning to safely welcome back

parishioners.

The diocese has determined that in-person daily Masses can begin June 8, and it set June 14 as the

target date for parishes to celebrate Sunday Mass, with significant steps required to enforce social

distancing.

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The plan is still being developed, taking into account guidance from county and state health officials

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and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

But it will likely mean big changes, including shorter Masses, protective masks for parishioners, no

choir or singing and attendance at 25% to 50% of capacity, among other things, said Kevin Eckery,

vice chancellor of the diocese and a spokesperson for the diocese.

“We don’t want people to go back and think it’s just like normal,” Eckery said. “No, it’s going to be the

new normal. We are not going to do anything that endangers parishioners and families, or do

anything that spreads the virus.”

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By RONG-GONG LIN II | STAFF WRITER

MAY 27, 2020 | 8:10 AM

SAN FRANCISCO — A key architect of the nation’s first coronavirus shelter-in-place order is

criticizing California’s increasingly fast pace of lifting stay-at-home restrictions.

In particular, Dr. Sara Cody, health officer for Santa Clara County — home to Silicon Valley and

Northern California’s most populous county — said she was concerned by the decision to allow

gatherings of up to 100 people for religious, political and cultural reasons.

“This announcement to authorize county health officers to allow religious, cultural and political

gatherings of 100 people poses a very serious risk of the spread of COVID-19,” Cody told the SantaClara County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday.

Even if just one infected person showed up to such an event, the virus could easily be transmitted to

many people and overwhelm local health officials’ ability to investigate all related cases, she warned.

Cody has been credited with helping to spearhead the San Francisco Bay Area’s regional shelter-in-

place order. Issued March 16, the mandate that affected 6.6 million people in six counties initiallystunned the nation. But it quickly became a model for the rest of California and other states, with Gov.

Gavin Newsom enacting a stay-at-home order statewide on March 19 and New York state following

suit three days later.

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Santa Clara County, with a population of 1.9 million people, is not required to relax its order —

among the strictest in California — to the state standard. When local and state orders differ, the

stricter standard applies. But Cody expressed concerns that California risks a surge in cases if itreopens up too many sectors of society too quickly.

Since early May, “the state has shifted away from the stay-at-home model and has made significant

modifications with increasing frequency,” Cody said. “The pace at which the state has made these

modifications is concerning to me.”

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Cody said it’s important to wait at least 14 days — the time it can take for an infected person to show

symptoms — after easing restrictions to see what effects the relaxed policy has on increased

coronavirus illnesses. It would be even better to wait 21 days, she added.

Reopening so fast, she said, means there isn’t enough time to implement new procedures to make

reopened activities safe.

Within hours after Newsom’s announcement Tuesday allowing counties to reopen hair salons and

barbershops, some stylists already had customers in their chairs.

“Making changes too frequently leaves us blind. We can’t see the effect of what we just did,” Cody

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said. “We believe that our social and economic well-being are best served by a more phased

approach that allows activities to resume in a manner that allows people to actually be relatively safe

while engaging in the newly open activity.”

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Experts say the Bay Area’s early action dramatically slowed the spread of the highly infectiouscoronavirus in the region, which had been one of the nation’s earliest epicenters for the virus.

As of Tuesday night, the six Bay Area counties had reported a coronavirus death rate of six fatalities

per 100,000 residents; Los Angeles County has a death rate of 21 fatalities per 100,000 residents.Statewide, California has a death rate of about 10 fatalities per 100,000 residents. Across the nation,

New Jersey’s is 126 fatalities per 100,000 residents, while New York’s is 149 fatalities per 100,000

residents.

Cases statewide »

99,873confirmed

3,825deaths

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The latest rules issued by the California Department of Public Health this week say churches that

choose to reopen and in-person political protests must limit attendance to 25% of building capacity

or a maximum of 100 attendees, whichever is lower.

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New Jersey, by contrast, limits such gatherings to 25 people, and New York, 10, Cody said.

Newsom said Tuesday that he understood he would be criticized in deciding to allow religious

gatherings to resume on a restricted basis.

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“I know some people think that’s too much too fast too soon. Others think, frankly, that it didn’t go far

enough,” the governor said. “But suffice it to say, at a statewide level, we now are affording this

opportunity again with a deep realization of the fact that people will start to mix ... and that is

incumbent upon us to practice that physical distancing within these places of worship.”

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Newsom has come under political pressure to allow churches to reopen. On May 18, he said rules to

allow church congregations to meet was “a few weeks away ... if everything holds.” Later that week,

the U.S. Department of Justice sent a letter to the Newsom administration warning that the state’sstay-at-home order may discriminate against religious groups and violate their constitutional rights.

Also last week, more than 1,200 pastors vowed to hold in-person services on May 31, PentecostSunday, intending to defy Newsom’s stay-at-home order.

President Trump then made an unexpected announcement that he was designating churches“essential” businesses so they could immediately reopen. Hours after Trump’s comments, Newsom

vowed Friday to provide plans on Memorial Day that would allow in-person religious services.

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The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has said that large gatherings played a majorrole in the early widespread transmission of the virus across the nation. In particular, the CDC said

Mardi Gras celebrations in Louisiana, a biotech conference in Boston with about 175 attendees and a

funeral with more than 100 attendees in small, rural Dougherty County in Georgia played an outsized

role in the illness’ spread.

Churches have also been the site of outbreaks large and small. In Washington state’s Skagit County,

one symptomatic person attended a 2½-hour choir practice at a church attended by 60 other people;local officials later documented that 52 people fell ill, including two who died — a virus attack rate of

87%, according to the CDC. Singing can easily spread infected droplets from one person to another.

In another outbreak, pre-symptomatic tourists from Wuhan, China — the global epicenter of thepandemic — visited a church in Singapore on Jan. 19 and started showing symptoms several days

later. Three other people who attended the same church on the same day also got sick, including one

who sat in the same seat as the tourists, according to the CDC.

Newsom defended his administration’s actions in moving quicker than the pace Cody suggested. The

governor said he was guided by what his health officials were telling him was appropriate. He said the

state has the time to test the theory behind the relaxed orders and “to make adjustments if, indeed,

we need to dial it back, or loosen them more into the future.”

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But Santa Clara County and its neighbors in the Bay Area have chosen a different approach. After the

Bay Area counties of Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, San Francisco, San Mateo and Santa Clara jointly

decided to allow the resumption of all construction and businesses such as gardening and

landscaping to resume May 4, the counties waited a full two weeks before allowing the reopening of

many retail businesses for pickup service in the week of May 18.

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By contrast, most other California counties have moved more quickly to reopen businesses as soon as

Newsom has allowed it. Los Angeles County, for instance, joined most other California counties in

reopening retail businesses for pickup service on May 8, the first day it was allowed.

Cody also noted that the pandemic is disproportionately affecting communities of color and those

who are most affected by poverty and overcrowded housing.

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“We cannot protect people who are most vulnerable without ensuring that the overall community

transmission is as low as humanly possible,” Cody said.

She said if the overall rate of disease transmission remains stable in the Bay Area, officials will be able

to continue easing restrictions on a regular schedule with at least two weeks between each phase.

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“We wall want to reopen our economy, get back to our lives, get back to work,” Cody said. “But the

truth is: We are in the greatest global crisis since the Second World War. ... We want to be able to

reopen safely.”

Times staff writers Phil Willon, Eli Stokols, Matthew Ormseth and Alex Wigglesworth contributed to this

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Riverside County barbershops and hair salons got the green light from Gov. Gavin Newsom onTuesday, May 26, to reopen after being closed for weeks to prevent the spread of the novelcoronavirus.

The county is among those on an accelerated reopening fast track after meeting certain benchmarksfor COVID-19 testing and hospitalizations. The state is allowing salons and barbershops to reopen inthose counties, provided that customers and employees follow precautions such as wearing facecoverings.

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Temecula Mayor James “Stew” Stewart, seen in Old Town Temecula on Thursday, May 21, 2020, applauded the reopening of barbershops and hair salons. He owns several barber shops. (File photo by Watchara Phomicinda, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)

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“I kind of felt like this news was going to come sooner rather than later,” he said. “It’s a good thing forus and our industry, for sure.”

Stewart said he would probably open Wednesday, but he doesn’t think customers would come racingback.

“It’s going to take a while for it to sink in,” he said.

Brittania Nash of Barbara’s Beauty Salon in Moreno Valley,which has been in business for 30 years, also looks forwardto reopening.

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MAY 26, 2020 | 3:17 PM

Orange County supervisors on Tuesday declared religious services “essential” and expressed concerns

that Gov. Gavin Newsom’s plan to reopen places of worship with major restrictions is too constraining

for megachurches and other large institutions.

The unanimously approved resolution, proposed by Chairwoman Michelle Steel, makes clear the

board’s belief that “gathering together in fellowship and worship in the faith of one’s choice is an

‘essential’ service, and we support the resumption of in-person religious assemblies,” starting this

weekend.

Under the recently revealed guidelines, houses of worship must limit total attendance to 25% of a

building’s capacity or a maximum of 100 people, whichever is lower. High-traffic areas and commonly

touched surfaces must be thoroughly cleaned and regularly disinfected.

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Congregants also should be screened for fever or other symptoms of illness and are asked to use

hand sanitizer and wear face coverings. Houses of worship also are discouraged from sharing items,

and congregants and staff are asked to abstain from singing, shaking hands or hugging.

But some Orange County officials said those rules could hurt huge churches that regularly draw

thousands to services.

“It’s too restrictive with the state guidelines right now,” Supervisor Lisa Bartlett said. “I understand what

they are, they need to be followed, but at the same time, we need to push, push, push at the state

level to have some flexibility.”

She said large churches would find it particularly difficult to comply with the attendance cap.

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“There are a number of houses of worship that are very large, and 100 doesn’t even include 2% of

their congregation,” she said. “For some of the very large houses of worship — one in my district is

Saddleback Church — they would literally have to hold Mass every five minutes in order to get their

entire congregation through in a given Sunday.”

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Steel characterized Tuesday’s resolution as a statement that “Orange County supports the right of our

residents to practice their faith, and that we believe the right is essential.”

“We begin each of our meetings with an invocation because we understand the importance of joining

together in prayer,” she said. “Orange County residents have gone without communal prayer for

Easter, Passover and Ramadan, and our residents of all different faiths have missed their communal

prayers for more than two months.”

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Houses of worship in Orange County and throughout the state have for weeks been unable to hold

in-person services under California’s stay-at-home order, which was put in place to stem the spread

of the coronavirus.

However, the board’s resolution doesn’t preclude Orange County from being subject to orders from

the California Department of Public Health — including new guidelines unveiled Monday that allow

in-person religious assemblies to resume, subject to restrictions.

“Does it transcend the CDPH guidance? In my view, no,” County Counsel Leon Page said of the

resolution.

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services and other related activities for those who are vulnerable to COVID-19.”

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Dozens who addressed the board Tuesday said these restrictions are untenable and infringe on their

1st Amendment rights.

Gathering in fellowship, speakers said, is more than a spiritual experience: It has profound and

positive impacts on their physical and mental health.

Others said it makes no sense that houses of worship haven’t been considered essential businesses,

while like large retailers, including liquor stores and marijuana dispensaries, have been able to keep

their doors open.

Supervisors said they too have missed attending church in person.

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“I have lamented from this dais numerous times that I missed Easter service for the first time in my life

this year,” Supervisor Andrew Do said. “And it still causes me a lot of personal grief — so much so

that I would change the route that I run so that I can run past a church so that I can pray at an altar

outside.”

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As California and the rest of the nation lift coronavirus-related restrictions, churches have emerged as

a particularly heated battleground issue.

President Trump on Friday declared that he was designating churches as “essential” businesses so

they could reopen immediately. The U.S. Department of Justice also sent a letter to Gov. Gavin

Newsom’s administration warning that the state’s stay-at-home order may discriminate against

religious groups and violate their constitutional rights.

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However, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld Newsom’s ban on in-person church services.

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After 21 days, the state Department of Public Health will assess the effect of the latest restrictions and

provide further direction as part of a phased-in restoration of activities in places of worship.

“It is, to my mind, absolutely absurd that in the United States of America we are discussing, much less

debating, the question of whether churches are essential,” said Supervisor Don Wagner.

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“All we need to say is, ‘Governor, get out of our damn way while we pray,’” he said.

Times staff writers Monte Morin, Alex Wigglesworth, Sonali Kohli and Matthew Ormseth contributed to

this report.

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Jim Rafferty, owner of Kelly’s Korner — one of Orange County’s best-known sports bars — chats with a regular on May 16 inPlacentia. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)

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Orange County’s sheriff said Tuesday that his department has no intention of enforcing a recent

health order requiring residents and visitors to wear face coverings in public.

“We are not the mask police — nor do I intend to be the mask police,” Sheriff Don Barnes told the

county Board of Supervisors. “I think what we have seen repeatedly throughout the community is

Orange County residents acting responsibly.”

Barnes said the department’s focus has been education, noting that “Orange County residents are

adults.”

“They can take the protective measures as they see fit,” he said. “We have not dealt with these issues

through enforcement, and I will direct my staff not to direct any enforcement toward the … mask

requirement.”

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The sheriff’s declaration came in response to a question from board Chairwoman Michelle Steel, who

asked how the department planned to enforce a health order issued Friday. The requirement

mandates that Orange County residents wear cloth face coverings while in a public place, at work or

visiting a business where they are unable to stay at least six feet apart.

The mask ordinance is similar to one implemented in Los Angeles County more than a month ago,

where authorities also have said they hoping the public will comply voluntarily.

Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villaneuva and LAPD Chief Michel Moore said they had no plans to

cite anyone for not wearing a mask, but authorities would offer a few words of encouragement —

from behind their own face coverings

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Orange County health officials had previously said wearing facial coverings is an important tool in the

fight against COVID-19, but they had stopped short of mandating such efforts.

The new mask requirement came just before Orange County received state approval to more broadly

lift coronavirus-related business restrictions and resume in-restaurant dining and in-store shopping.

Orange County on Tuesday reported 110 new COVID-19 infections, bringing its cumulative total to

5,578.

That figure includes an estimated 1,995 people who have recovered from the disease — the first time

the Orange County Health Care Agency has enumerated that data point.

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However, officials said the number is “only an estimate and should be interpreted with caution.”

“While every case of the new coronavirus that causes COVID-19 is reported to HCA, there is no

practical way to find out if they’ve recovered,” officials wrote on the county’s data dashboard.

“Moreover, many people may have experienced some symptoms of COVID-19, but were not tested,

making it impossible to know the exact number of COVID-19 infections and recoveries.”

The county arrived at the estimated figure “by taking the difference between the prior 28-day

cumulative case count and current day mortality to determine the current day recovered total,”

officials said.

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As of the latest update, 269 COVID-19 patients were hospitalized countywide — 106 of them in

intensive care. Both those are single-day highs for the county.

The county’s death toll remained unchanged at 131.

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Here are the latest details for Orange County:

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Age breakdown of cases

0-17 — 210

18-24 — 535

25-34 — 1,017

35-44 — 838

45-54 — 999

55-64 — 848

65-74 — 515

75-84 — 358

85+ — 257

Unknown — 1

Age breakdown of deaths

25-34 — 2

35-44 — 4

45-54 — 11

55-64 — 16

65-74 — 24

75-84 — 38

85+ — 36

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Cases by community

Aliso Viejo — 28

Anaheim — 904

Brea — 40

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Buena Park — 160

Costa Mesa — 104

Coto de Caza — 6

Cypress — 69

Dana Point — 29

Fountain Valley — 53

Fullerton — 184

Garden Grove — 286

Huntington Beach — 329

Irvine — 180

La Habra — 97

La Palma — 18

Ladera Ranch — 13

Laguna Beach — 45

Laguna Hills — 28

Laguna Niguel — 37

Laguna Woods — 9

Lake Forest — 44

Los Alamitos — 75

Midway City — 13

Mission Viejo — 69

Newport Beach — 139

Orange — 258

Placentia — 110

Rancho Mission Viejo — 7

Rancho Santa Margarita — 21

San Clemente — 62

San Juan Capistrano — 53

Santa Ana — 1,032

Seal Beach — 18

Stanton — 68

Trabuco Canyon — 13

Tustin — 89

Villa Park — 6

Westminster — 108

Yorba Linda — 76

Other — 370

Unknown — 328

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Orange County’s sheriff said Tuesday that his department has no intention of enforcing a recent health order requiring residents and visitors to wear

face coverings in public.

“We are not the mask police — nor do I intend to be the mask police,” Sheriff Don Barnes told the county Board of Supervisors. “I think what we have

seen repeatedly throughout the community is Orange County residents acting responsibly.”

Barnes said the department’s focus has been education, noting that “Orange County residents are adults.”

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The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors unanimously voted Tuesday, May 26, to appoint aninspector general to oversee skilled nursing facilities, as nursing homes continue to suffer a huge tollfrom the coronavirus.

The action comes after Supervisors Mark Ridley-Thomas, District 2, and Board of Supervisors ChairKathryn Barger, District 5, asked the board to appoint a watchdog to oversee such facilities, whichaccount for more than half of all deaths from COVID-19 in Los Angeles County.

As of Monday, May 25, 1,085 people had died at institutional settings, most of them nursing homes —

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7,238 residents had become infected and 3,376 staff workers at the homes had been infected. Totalcounty deaths were at 2,116.

The impact on nursing homes across the county has prompted questions about how they were beingregulated, and how vulnerable residents and staff wereat the sites.

The motion also called for bringing in the county’s auditor-controller to ensure closer monitoring ofskilled nursing facilities immediately. The inspector general would be tasked with developingrecommendations on how to strengthen oversight for skilled nursing facilities, and how to improvetheir operations long-term, according to a statement.

Many skilled nursing homes get low marks for quality of care, patient satisfaction, and employee pay,the statement noted.

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“While we have been working quickly and tirelessly in some ways to expand testing and infectioncontrol our response has been stymied because many of these institutions, which are for profit, havebeen hindered by low standards, employee compensation and quality of care,” said Ridley-Thomas,who added that the problems have pre-existed the pandemic.

Barger said she has grown frustrated for what she perceived as a lack of urgency.

“Something we continue to identify but I don’t feel like there has been a sense of urgency to makesure it doesn’t spread beyond those facilities,” Barger said. “It seems to me early on we should havebeen more aggressive on that. But do this date I’m not sure we’re doing enough for testing at thesefacilities.”

Skilled nursing facilities, which serve thousands of residents who tend to be older and medicallyfragile, have become the focal point of L.A. County’s COVID-19 pandemic. Across L.A. County, 52percent of all deaths from COVID-19 have been in institutional settings, particularly in skilled nursingfacilities.

Jaime Garcia with the Hospital Association of Southern California said that skilled nursing facilitiesplay a critical role in caring for patients recently released from a hospital. His association asked theinspector general to make sure nursing homes had testing plans that were fully operational and tohelp protect those facilities from punitive actions.

“Skilled nursing facilities are a major concern. Unfortunately nursing facilities have become theepicenter of the COVID-19 epidemic. Acute care hospitals are already seeing a reduced bed capacityand further reductions may delay hospital discharges,” Garcia said.

As of May 19, the county reported it conducted inspections at 200 skilled nursing facilities and wasworking to test residents at every single nursing home in the county but that process was still ongoing.

“This was really a look back several years to see which nursing homes had problems in the past. It

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was really a proactive visit, not meant to be responding to complaints,” Ferrer said last week. “Mostlywe found that people were doing their very best and we gave some technical assistance. I don’t thinkthere were a lot of violations.”

During the supervisor’s meeting Tuesday, Ferrer said she was not opposed to an outside auditor.

“At this point it’s all hands on deck,” Ferrer said. “In no way is this a reflection that they failed or havedone something wrong. I think they’ve worked their hardest and done their best, but it hasn’t beenenough.”

Ferrer did say, however, that cooperation among facilities has been an uneven experience.

“We have received great cooperation from some and not so great with others,” Ferrer said. “We feellike we are on the right track finally. We’re seeing the numbers come down but I do think this warrantsclose monitoring.”

“It is our collective responsibility to protect and support the most vulnerable among us,” said L.A.County Department of Health Services director Dr. Christina Ghaly. “Prioritizing the health and safetyof those in our county’s skilled nursing facilities is the right thing to do and will also help protect theavailability of hospital resources for all those who need them.”

The Ridley-Thomas/Barger motion says it is “critical that L.A. County learn the lessons of this crisis;identify the internal and external factors that have contributed to inadequate conditions within skillednursing facilities; and provide oversight, accountability and resources as needed.”

Ferrer acknowledged that slowing the spread of the virus within nursing homes was hindered bymedical unknowns early on. Up until early April, the department was unaware that asymptomaticpeople could spread the virus, so face masks were not required until that point.

Compared to the last week of April, when on average 170 deaths at nursing homes were occurringper week, the rate of deaths has gone down, according to Ferrer. In the last week of May, 60 deathsoccurred at these facilities. she said.

The supervisors described the proposed inspector general as a ‘much-needed accountabilitymeasure” appointed to conduct an exhaustive review of L.A. County’s capacity to regulate skillednursing facilities, recommend structural and operational changes and outline a plan for ensuringadequate and sustainable oversight. They also plan to task the inspector general with recommendingregulatory and policy improvements at the local, state and federal levels to enhance quality of care,ensuring adequate infection control measures, and supporting healthcare workers.

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Skilled nursing facilities have also received close attentionfrom L.A. City government. Under an emergency orderissued Friday by Mayor Eric Garcetti, skilled nursingfacilities in Los Angeles will be required to providediagnostic testing for COVID-19 for their employees,residents and contractors. The state too required Fridaythat all skilled nursing facilities do baseline testing of all its

employees.

Garcetti said the facilities can request assistance with testing from the city’s Emergency OperationsCenter if they’re unable to obtain it themselves. The tests will be required to be administered at leastonce a month.

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L.A. County Supervisor Kathryn Barger, right, with Supervisor Janice Hahn, said the county was progressing in its coronavirus fight. (IrfanKhan/Los Angeles Times)

By JACLYN COSGROVE | STAFF WRITER

MAY 26, 2020 | 7:18 PM

Los Angeles County officials said Tuesday they will ask the state to allow a speedier reopening of

restaurants in the county offering in-person dining and other businesses shuttered by the coronavirus

outbreak.

After meeting in closed session, members of the Board of Supervisors said the county would submit a

“variance” application to the state on Wednesday. If approved, it would allow L.A. County to advance

further into Gov. Gavin Newsom’s plan for reopening the state.

For a variance plan to be approved, a county must prove it has met the state public health

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department’s criteria for containing COVID-19.

That includes having no more than 20 COVID-19 hospitalizations on any single day in the past 14

days, and fewer than 25 new cases per 100,000 residents in the past 14 days, or less than 8% testing

positive in the past seven days. It also means a county must have sufficient contact tracing and testing

available for at least 75% of residents.

Supervisor Kathryn Barger said in an interview that during the closed session Barbara Ferrer, the

county’s public health director, provided supervisors with new data showing that L.A. County has met

those thresholds.

At least two supervisors had initially opposed seeking a variance, Barger said, but when Ferrer

presented the new data, “that solved the problem right there.”

If approved, the county could allow some in-person dining in restaurants, Barger said. Restaurant

owners hope to be allowed to seat more patrons outside because many say they cannot survive with

overly stringent rules limiting capacity, Barger said.

Additionally, if the variance plan is approved, barbershops and hair salons would be allowed to

reopen in some capacity, as outlined by state health guidelines, but not nail salons.

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L.A. County will also align its public-health order with the state’s order. Previously, the county’s order

was more stringent than the state’s, which caused confusion among residents, Barger said.

An updated county health order will allow community pools, drive-in theaters and flea markets to

reopen because they are already allowed to operate under state rules, Barger said.

Additionally, faith-based organizations can resume services, with the number of congregants limited

to less than 25% of the building’s capacity, or a maximum of 100 people, whichever is lower.

All retail, including businesses located inside malls and at outdoor retail shopping centers, can open

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Gatherings of people not from the same household are still prohibited, except for faith-based services

and in-person protests.

If approved, the variance plan might be implemented differently within the city of L.A., as the city

could choose to implement stricter rules than the county’s health order if Mayor Eric Garcetti felt it

was unsafe for L.A. to reopen as much as other parts of the county, Barger said.

As of Tuesday, the state had approved COVID-19 variance plans for 47 counties to reopen dine-in

restaurants, outdoor museums, shopping centers, in-store retail and office-based workplaces.

Barger said the state approved Ventura County’s variance plan in about 48 hours, and expressed

hope that Gov. Gavin Newsom would be similarly supportive of L.A.'s bid.

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There is “a sense of frustration because the numbers are going down, and people are getting

frustrated because there’s no movement in letting them get back to their jobs,” Barger said. “I hope

by doing this, people will recognize the ability to move forward is based off what we have done for

the last three weeks.”

In a statement, Supervisor Sheila Kuehl urged residents to continue wearing face coverings, practice

social distancing and frequently wash their hands.

Otherwise, “we will not be able to meet our goal of reopening as fully as possible as quickly as

possible,” Kuehl said.

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More than 200 workers have tested positive across the nine meatpacking facilities in Vernon. (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times)

By KEVIN RECTOR | STAFF WRITER

MAY 26, 2020 | 5:59 PM

Alarmed by a rising number of coronavirus infections among meatpacking workers in Vernon, the Los

Angeles County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday gave local health officials and plant operators one

week to review worker safety protocols and report back.

The order, introduced by Supervisor Hilda Solis and passed by a 5-0 vote, followed reports this

weekend of coronavirus clusters in at least nine facilities in the small industrial city south of downtown

Los Angeles, including five meatpacking plants.

“I was very alarmed about what I heard, and thought, ‘What the heck is going on?’” Solis said in an

interview after the supervisors’ Tuesday meeting.

According to county health officials, the largest outbreak was at the Smithfield Foods-owned Farmer

John plant, which produces the Dodger Dog. There, 153 of 1,837 employees tested positive for

COVID-19 between March and May, county officials said.

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More than 200 workers have tested positive across the nine facilities, reflecting a broader national

trend in which industrial workers, particularly those in the food industry, have been hit hard by the

pandemic.

On Monday, the union that represents workers at the Farmer John plant called for it to be shuttered

for cleaning and a review of protocols to keep workers safe. The company has said it already has

taken measures to keep employees safe that exceed recommendations by the Centers for Disease

Control and Prevention.

In its motion Tuesday, the Board of Supervisors ordered personnel in the county’s health department

to work with city and union officials and the plant operators to outline the efforts that have been

taken already, as well as any programs to support workers, their families and the broader Southeast

Los Angeles community being impacted by the outbreaks.

They also ordered a review of city and county jurisdiction over the Vernon facilities, and to assess

whether current protocols for reducing outbreaks are appropriate.

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“I’m not coming as a bully or anything like that,” Solis said. “It’s about trying to resolve this challenge

that we have.”

In a statement, the city of Vernon said it “will continue to do everything in its power to work with all

parties involved to ensure compliance and safety.”

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Smithfield did not respond to a request for comment on the board’s motion.

Solis said she has spoken to UFCW Local 770 union officials who represent workers in the company’s

Vernon plant, and agreed with them that more information about control measures within the

facilities is needed.

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She also said more clarity is needed as to which government entities have oversight over such

measures, and other issues related to addressing the current threat.

While Vernon has its own health department, it lacks the capacity to respond to such a major crisis

and can’t provide the sort of contact tracing needed to ensure large clusters of a highly contagious

virus don’t spread more widely into the surrounding communities, Solis said.

“We’re going to do what we can to try to protect the workers and set better standards,” Solis said.

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Elaina Wilcox, owner of Color & Craft Salon, inside her empty Culver City hair salon on May 6. Many countiesgot the go-ahead to reopen salons, but not L.A. (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)

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California is moving into its third stage of reopening, a plan that’s affecting some counties muchsooner than others.

Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Tuesday that barbershops and hair salons would be allowed toreopen in many counties throughout the state. Newsom said 47 of California’s 58 counties had

already met the state’s standards and could move forward in reopening.

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Los Angeles County, which accounts for the bulk of the state’s COVID-19 cases and more than half ofits reported deaths, is one of 11 counties not yet permitted to push further in reopening. The county

confirmed 27 additional deaths on Tuesday and 1,843 new cases of COVID-19.

Tuesday afternoon, county officials said that they will align with California’s latest guidelines and allow

faith-based services, in-store shopping at low-risk retail stores, drive-in movies and other recreationalactivities to resume.

Officials said last week their mission was to more fully reopen the county by July 4 — a goal that canbe met only if the public continues to adhere to social distancing practices and other health

recommendations, L.A. County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer cautioned.

As sunshine bathed Southern California in warmth over the Memorial Day holiday weekend, crowds

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flocked to outdoor spaces. Pasadena’s Eaton Canyon was closed because of overcrowding, and atVenice Beach, visitors — many of whom were not wearing face coverings or adhering to social

distancing practices — filled the boardwalk.

Although the state has seen positive signs in recent weeks, Newsom says that doesn’t mean the virusis no longer a danger.

“That doesn’t mean this thing is behind us and that we’re out of the woods yet,” he said.

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County officials continue to expand their fight against the virus while assessing how best to continue

to reopen the economy without causing a resurgence in the outbreak.

The county Department of Public Health issued a new order Tuesday evening, officials said, settingthe stage for Los Angeles to request a variance from the state to permit faster reopening in some

areas.

Under this latest shift, faith-based organizations will be able to resume services with the number of

congregants limited to less than 25% of the building’s capacity, or a maximum of 100 people,

whichever is lower. All retail, including those in indoor and outdoor retail shopping centers, can also

open for business at 50% capacity; flea markets, swap meets and drive-in movie theaters can resume

operations; pools, hot tubs and saunas that are in a multi-unit residence or part of a homeowners

association can open.

The updated health order provides guidelines for public protests, permitting them as long as

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Physical distancing requirements, face coverings and other safety protocols must still be observed,

officials said.

At a Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors meeting Tuesday, officials debated whether to allow

individual cities to progress at different speeds. Some supervisors say such a patchwork plan is

necessary to help businesses survive; others argue that it poses problems.

“We have to express extreme caution,” Supervisor Hilda Solis said.

The board voted Tuesday to appoint an inspector general to oversee nursing homes throughout thecounty. At least 5,218 residents and 3,140 staff from these facilities have tested positive for COVID-19.

Roughly 53% of the county’s coronavirus-linked deaths have been in institutional settings, with the

majority in skilled nursing facilities.

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Supervisor Kathryn Barger criticized the Department of Health over its testing efforts at such care

facilities: “We should have been more aggressive,” she said.

Ferrer said that Health Department staff had set out to visit every long-term and intermediary care

facility in the county and that efforts to combat the virus in those areas needed to continue.

Also Tuesday, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti announced that all retail businesses in the city will be

able to allow customers inside their stores starting Wednesday, as long as they adopt the county’s

safety protocols.

“We’ve earned the right way to do it,” Garcetti said at a media briefing. “It’s time to make sure we

don’t punish our local stores and we begin to fortify again our main streets.”

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Houses of worship also will be allowed to reopen, he said, but must follow the state’s guideline of

limiting services to 25% of their normal capacity, or 100 people, whichever is smaller.

Restaurants will still not be allowed to open for dine-in services, and salons will still be closed, he said.

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Citing concerns about grieving families uncertain about whether the coronavirus played a role in aloved one’s death, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday, May 26, approved aplan for more COVID-19 testing by the coroner’s office.

Supervisor Hilda Solis recommended ramping up testing and suggested the possibility of a website orphone line where families could seek guidance on whether a recently deceased person could betested.

“My office has heard from families who have been left wondering if their loved ones passed away from

Cars line up to enter Dodger Stadium for Covid-19 testing Tuesday, May 26, 2020. The new COVID-19 testing site at Dodger StadiumTuesday will accommodate three times more people than any other testing site in Los Angeles County. (Photo by David Crane, LosAngeles Daily News/SCNG)

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COVID-19. Without any options for testing, many families are left without answers,” Solis said in astatement issued after the board’s vote. “In these cases, family members may not know if they havebeen exposed to the coronavirus.”

Solis said more testing might help uncover important clues about the spread of the virus and help withcontact tracing.

“In this pandemic, many people who fell ill stayed home and died at home to avoid local hospitalsoverwhelmed with COVID-19 patients,” Solis said.

The motion directs the medical examiner-coroner to work with county attorneys and health departmentauthorities to develop criteria for who could be tested and protocols for those tests. Solis envisionsmaking tests available in cases even when the coroner would not otherwise be asked to takejurisdiction.

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The number of deaths in the U.S. this year is in excess of historical trends even after consideringdeaths from the coronavirus, leading some experts to speculate that COVID-19 fatalities are beingundercounted.

The first COVID-19 death to be confirmed was on Feb. 28 in Washington state. However, postmortemresults later revealed that a 57-year-old San Jose woman, who had appeared to die of a massiveheart attack, died of the virus on Feb. 6.

“Counting only confirmed or probable COVID-19-associated deaths … likely underestimates thenumber of deaths attributable to the pandemic,” according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control andPrevention.

However, in its own April report of excess deaths, the federal health agency warned that the increasecould also be due to a spike in deaths related to suicides, drug overdoses or heart disease, forexample.

A cause of death can sometimes be difficult to determine when someone dies at home or shortly afterarriving at an emergency room. The proximate cause may be subject to interpretation when otherfactors, such as heart disease or pneumonia, play a role.

COVID-19 itself can present many different symptoms.While the most common seem to be respiratory problems,there are also reports of younger people dying of strokesand heart attacks without respiratory symptoms, who testedpositive for the virus.

The CDC recommends that unless an autopsy is beingdone, a nasal swab — like those for living patients — beused to test for COVID-19. Fewer precautions are actually

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necessary for health care workers conducting the test,given that the virus typically spreads through coughing orsneezing. However, the CDC still advises that health careworkers use gloves, gowns and masks for protection whenconducting postmortem tests.

Autopsies of suspected COVID-19 cases can be moredangerous and should be performed in a negative pressure

isolation room using higher-grade personal protective equipment to comply with the CDC guidelines.

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By DAVID ROSENFELD | [email protected] | The Daily BreezePUBLISHED: May 26, 2020 at 3:01 p.m. | UPDATED: May 27, 2020 at 7:56 a.m.

Christian Nakada, a curb-side waiter for Din Tai Fung restaurant, hands an order to Bryan Tsunoda at the Del Amo Fashion Center inTorrance on Tuesday, May 26, 2020. (Photo by Axel Koester, Contributing Photographer)

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Faced with mounting public pressure, growing unemployment and health effects still not fullymeasured amid two months of stay-at-home orders, some Los Angeles County supervisors want toallow certain cities or regions to reopen businesses, schools, churches and other public settings fasterthan the county as a whole.

The issue drew divisions among the five-member board Tuesday before the item was tabled intoclosed session, to receive legal advice. A few hours later, supervisors emerged saying they wouldapply for a county variance to advance further into Stage 2 and Stage 3 of the state’s reopeningguidelines, which would allow restaurant dining. The amended motion stripped out language thatwould have asked for city-by-city exceptions. A vote count was not provided.

Later on Tuesday, the county updated its health officer order to allow in-store retail shopping andchurch services with certain restrictions as laid out by Governor Gavin Newsom a day earlier. Fleamarkets, swap meets, drive-in movies and pools in apartment buildings could also reopen startingWednesday.

Newsom added barbers and hair stylists to his the executive order on Tuesday but those businesseswere not included in the amended order from L.A. County.

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“Regional data shows we have flattened the curve, indicating our readiness to move forward inphased recovery,” Board of Supervisors Chair Kathryn Barger said in a statement. “This will put LosAngeles County on a level playing field with surrounding counties, which have already been grantedvariances.”

The county Tuesday reported 27 deaths and 1,842 new cases, the most yet recorded in one daythough officials cautioned into reading too much into a single day total as it can often be the result of abacklog in reporting data.

Barger, who co-sponsored the motion along with Supervisor Janice Hahn, said it was time for someparts of the county to transition faster from Safer at Home to what she called Safer at Work and Saferin Our Communities. The board chair cited growing unemployment, now up to 20.3% in L.A. County.Roughly 1.2 million people have applied for jobless benefits, with about 750,000 people out of work in

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the restaurant and retail industries, Barger said.

The economic effects of the pandemic have been disproportionately felt by those earning less than$50,000 per year, Barger said, citing a study by the Los Angeles Economic Development Councilshowing 75% of job losses were among lower earners. The county has also received a significantincrease in people seeking mental health treatment, Barger said.

“If we don’t begin to listen to our constituency and what’sgoing on in this county, we are going to have more jobs lostbecause many businesses are not going to be able toreopen,” Barger said.

The shift in urgency from Barger marked a noticeablecontrast from her usual demeanor in support of public health orders during most of the daily briefingsthat have taken place since the pandemic began.

The motion proposed by Barger and Hahn would allow certain cities and regions to enact separateguidelines less restrictive than the county’s order. So far, the state has only allowed variances forcounties as a whole. But Barger said she disagreed with the reading of the governor’s order on May 4.The county, Barger said, would soon meet the benchmarks set by the state for reopening.

“This virus has impacted parts of our county differently,” Barger said. “Many of our cities and regionswho have not been severely impacted by the virus are calling for variances.”

Many have already matched the public health standard for reopening, she said.

“Our hospitalizations have been decreasing for a month straight,” she added. “Testing capacity ishigher than most urban areas. It is because of this and their commitment to safe reopening of oureconomies, that we are asking for this.”

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In Westlake Village, which borders Ventura County, some store owners said the situation was unfairand many shops won’t last much longer if they were forced to remain closed. Ventura County shopsopened for in-store browsing May 20 under a state variance as shops just across the street in L.A.County were still restricted to curbside pickup.

Similar situations existed on the borders of San Bernardino, Riverside and Orange counties, all ofwhich have been approved to move further into stage 2 guidelines for lower-risk workplaces, whichmeant that retail stores could already open for in-store purchases.

With just six confirmed cases and no deaths, Westlake Village has one of the lowest rates of infectionin the county. Councilman Ned Davis said it was time to allow the city to set its open date to reopen.

“The city meets all the necessary metrics to qualify for the variance,” Davis told the board. “Westrongly support this motion.”

Torrance Mayor Pat Furey also urged the board to support reopening retail shops, saying that localjurisdictions should be entrusted to make that decision.

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“We all believe we are different and distinct and for those reasons we believe we are best to open upour cities as much as possible,” Furey said.

In El Segundo, where 32 cases have been confirmed, two of them active, Mayor Drew Boyles said itwas time to relax more restrictions.

“While L.A. County is under stage 2, there are less affected parts of the county,” Boyles said. “Weshould be allowed to forge ahead in less-restrictive aspects of stage 3.”

Hahn, who represents the South Bay, said her office has received reopening plans from businessgroups, cities and school districts. The board’s action, she cautioned, would only allow cities topetition the governor but did not guarantee the requests would be granted.

“It’s only so long that we can keep saying you can’t do that; that’s not how it works,” Hahn said. “Thismight make sense or it might not.”

The state has already shown its unwillingness to grant variances to individual cities. Pasadena, forinstance, was recently told it could not apply for a separate variance.

Long Beach, too, has expressed interest in applying for a variance. Mayor Robert Garcia said Fridayhe was in favor of the city going it alone because it runs its own health department.

In citing her opposition, Supervisor Sheila Kuehl said shedidn’t believe it was possible for cities to apply for their ownvariance and that she sided with public health officials.

“They’ve told us time and again we can’t apply on behalf ofindividual cities,” Kuehl said. “We cannot fracture thecounty in that way. It creates an ungovernable patchworkquilt if we allow individual cities to apply.”

Supervisor Hilda Solis said she was most concerned withsome areas in her district, such as Bell Gardens, Bell,Cudahy, El Monte and East L.A., that are seeing increasesin recent cases.

“Our community is suffering and many low-income andnonessential workers have been pulverized,” Solis said.

Los Angeles County supervisor Katherine Barger at the LA County Board of Supervisors meeting Tuesday, March 10, 2020. (Photoby David Crane, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)

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But many were also watching closely the disparate healthoutcomes among minority communities, she said.

“We have to express extreme caution,” Solis said before declaring she was a no vote.

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By TONY SAAVEDRA | [email protected] | Orange County RegisterPUBLISHED: May 26, 2020 at 4:33 p.m. | UPDATED: May 26, 2020 at 4:34 p.m.

California state prisons will slowly resume accepting inmates from certain counties, including LosAngeles and San Bernardino, over the next month, but will continue to employ practices to combat thespread of the coronavirus.

Up to 200 inmates will be transferred through June 19 from L.A., San Bernardino, San Diego andFresno counties, but inmates from Orange and Riverside counties will stay put for now, according tothe California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. The transfers will be only to North Kernand Wasco state prisons.

Dana Simas, a spokeswoman for the corrections department, said the three chosen counties have the

Prison-2-Employment is a collaboration between the Building Industry Association’s Baldy View chapter and several San BernardinoCounty agencies. Felons and former inmates will have a chance to land entry-level jobs with one of some 30 local construction firms.(AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

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most inmates awaiting transfer. Los Angeles County has 631 inmates, San Diego County has 235,Fresno County has 211 and San Bernardino County has 184. Orange County has 85 inmates awaitingtransfer and Riverside County, 62.

The process allows for limited physical contact and more social distancing, Simas said. All arrivinginmates will be offered coronavirus testing to determine where they are placed. Those who refusetesting will be quarantined for two weeks.

The process — the rate of intake, and from which counties — will continuously be monitored andevaluated as the prison system moves toward resuming normal operations.

As of Sunday, 669 prisoners and 88 employees and guards statewide were infected with COVID-19.All of the nine prisoner deaths have been at Chino prison, a hot spot for the virus, with 457 prisonersinfected.

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California’s prison system released up to 3,500 nonviolent inmates since April to make room to fightoff the coronavirus.

Meanwhile, the Board of Parole Hearings has announced it will continue video conference hearingsfor another 30 days.

Gov. Gavin Newsom ceased in-person parole hearings for 60 days on March 24, and granted theparole secretary the authority to extend the prohibition by 30 days to protect the health and welfare ofincarcerated people, board officers, legal counsel and victims’ representatives. This extension willexpire on June 22. All affected parole hearing participants are being notified.

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To the editor: After many years dealing with the homelessness problem in Los Angeles, I question if

anyone knows how much money we have unsuccessfully spent trying to get people off the streets.

Who is in charge of saying enough is enough and switching to a more effective strategy? (“California

leased 15,000 hotel rooms to help homeless people. Half now sit empty,” May 19)

We must realize that the money we are spending leasing hotel rooms (and for how long?) will not be

available to support our schools, pay for healthcare coverage, maintain our dilapidated streets or

keep hard-working families from becoming homeless.

A better option would be to create large campsites in the county offering all the necessary amenities

for homeless people to be safe. These campsites would have good sanitary facilities, lunchrooms,

medical and social workers on-site and other essential services. They may also have recreational

vehicle parking and storage facilities.

This would be more cost effective and socially beneficial than having people in hotels all over the

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To the editor: I live in Hollywood near Franklin Village.

On Bronson Avenue between Hollywood Boulevard and Franklin Avenue, on Gower Street between

Hollywood and Franklin, and on Carlos Avenue, there are still numerous homeless encampments.

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At Eaton Canyon, a popular Pasadena hiking area, so many people crowded the trail Saturday

morning — many without masks and jammed close together — that rangers shut it down for the rest

of the month.

On the Venice boardwalk, social distancing was in short supply as thousands converged on the

beach-side mecca for Memorial Day weekend. Photos of the crowds made national headlines and

brought concern from officials who had urged beachgoers to wear masks and keep at least six feet

apart.

Both scenes offered a window into the challenges ahead as officials try to slowly ease stay-at-home

regulations and reopen the economy while also maintaining safety rules aimed at preventing new

COVID-19 outbreaks.

Since the coronavirus crisis began, officials have been concerned about “silent spreaders,” people

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who have the virus but do not show symptoms. They could be strolling along Ocean Front Walk or

marching up a hiking trial and look perfectly healthy — but still pass along the virus that causes

COVID-19 to others.

Officials have been reopening public spaces, businesses and other institutions at a rapid clip over the

last couple of days. Los Angeles County officials announced that retail stores and religious institutions

could reopen, with safety restrictions on how many people could be inside at one time.

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Experts said that as the stay-at-home order is relaxed, observing such restrictions is going to be

essential to prevent silent spreaders from causing new outbreaks.

“Without having social distancing, we are going to definitely see some increased spikes and

transmission occurring. That’s definitely going to happen,” said Dr. Robert Kim-Farley, epidemiologist

and infectious-disease expert at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health.

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Venice and Eaton Canyon were not necessarily representative of how well social distancing went

during the holiday. Lifeguards at beaches in Los Angeles and Orange counties said they did not see

major problems and that for the most part people followed rules.

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Visitors share a narrow hiking path at Eaton Canyon Natural Area Park on Sunday inPasadena. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times)

Officials hope residents will continue to cooperate and warn that further reopenings depend on it.

“Reopening does not mean going back to business as usual,” Los Angeles County Supervisor Hilda

Solis said Tuesday. “As long as community members follow safety rules, we can continue to make

more progress.”

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The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that there’s a 20% to 50% chance that

those infected with the coronavirus never show major symptoms during their infection. Asymptomatic

people may be just as capable of transmitting the disease as infected people who become visibly sick,

the CDC said.

People can also transmit the coronavirus days before they show signs of sickness. This is what

scientists call “presymptomatic transmission.”

Of 402 residents and workers testing positive for the coronavirus at Los Angeles County nursing

homes, 345 had no symptoms of illness, Los Angeles County Department of Public Health Director

Barbara Ferrer said last week. In other words, 86% of people testing positive at scores of skilled

nursing facilities across the nation’s most populous counties had no symptoms of the disease when

they were tested.

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This is not the only study to raise concerns about the large numbers of presymptomatic or

asymptomatic infected people. A UC San Francisco study conducted in late April found that, among

several thousand residents and workers in San Francisco’s Mission District, 62 tested positive for

COVID-19 — but more than half of them, 53%, had no symptoms at the time they were tested.

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An editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine in late April called asymptomatic transmission

“the Achilles’ heel of COVID-19 pandemic control through the public health strategies we have

currently deployed.”

In another study, also published in the New England Journal of Medicine, 56% of residents at a skilled

nursing facility in Washington state’s King County who initially tested positive showed no symptoms at

the time, but most of them later did show signs of illness. It took a median of four days for them to

show symptoms.

Visibly healthy people can be omitted from efforts aimed at trying to identify infected people, such as

attempting to screen incoming airline passengers from overseas.

Further, a silent spreader can transmit the coronavirus simply by talking. Loud talking can emit

thousands of saliva droplets per second, and researchers recently found that, in a stagnant air

environment, droplets of fluid sprayed from the mouth remained in the air for as long as eight to 14

minutes before drying up.

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“These observations confirm that there is a substantial probability that normal speaking causes

airborne virus transmission in confined environments,” said the authors in a study published May 13

by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

That’s why it’s so important to adhere to social distancing and wearing masks, experts say.

“What we’re really trying to do is prevent transmission from talking,” said Dr. George Rutherford, an

epidemiology and infectious-disease expert at UC San Francisco, last week. “We’re trying to ... prevent

people who are asymptomatically infected from transmitting.”

It’s easier to suffocate a disease in which the symptoms are obvious, and in which infectiousness

occurs after symptoms show up, said Kim-Farley, the UCLA epidemiologist. For instance, there are few

asymptomatic cases of measles, and officials can identify cases, isolate them, find the infected

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person’s close contacts and quarantine them, snuffing out an outbreak.

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But diseases in which there’s a large share of asymptomatic cases can be far harder to deal with. For

instance, for every 100 people who were infected with polio, only about one fell ill with paralysis, Kim-

Farley said.

“So it’s highly asymptomatic. So that’s why you really can’t do contact tracing for polio, because for

every case that you identify that has symptoms, there are 99 others that don’t. So it’s silently spread in

the community.”

That’s why, in the years before the polio vaccine was available on a large scale in the mid-1950s,

many parents kept their children at home, even in the summer, when the spread of the virus seemed

to peak. Polio was once one of the nation’s most feared diseases, crippling more than 35,000 people

a year, on average.

Dr. Deborah Birx, the White House’s coronavirus response coordinator, said the problem of silent

spreaders makes it all the more important that testing be done widely, especially in vulnerable places

like nursing homes, meatpacking plants and agricultural fields, and that people wear masks when they

can’t stay six feet away from others.

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“What I’m worried about is: What are we putting in place to find asymptomatic cases?” Birx said

Sunday on ABC News. “All of this proactive testing needs to be in place — and needs to continue to

be in place — because that will determine safely remaining open in the fall.”

Experts expect a second surge of coronavirus cases starting in the fall, which may be made worse by

the simultaneous start of the flu season.

As of Tuesday night, there were more than 3,800 coronavirus deaths reported in California — 56% of

which have occurred among L.A. County residents. Nationally, more than 98,000 deaths have been

reported.

Over the Memorial Day weekend, there were no major reported problems with excessive crowds in

the San Francisco Bay Area. San Francisco recently painted 10-foot-diameter circles in the grass at

four city parks to help groups keep away from one another. Uniformed people staffed Mission

Dolores Park to distribute masks to park guests.

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But in Los Angeles County, officials lamented the crowds at the Venice Beach boardwalk, where few

were wearing masks in images shared on social media.

“The issues this weekend validate our decision to keep our county parking lots at Venice Beach

closed,” said Nicole Mooradian, spokeswoman for L.A. County’s Department of Beaches and Harbors.

Times staff writer Sarah Parvini contributed to this report.

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Amid coronavirus, he joined Amazon. 2 weeks later, he died - Los Angeles Times

https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2020-05-27/la-fi-tn-amazon-worker-dead-hiring-wave?_amp=true[5/27/2020 9:18:52 AM]

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He was part of Amazon’s coronavirus hiring spree. Two weeks later he was dead

Harry Sentoso in front of a waterfall during a 2016 family trip back to his hometown of Malang, Indonesia. (Evan Sentoso)

By SAM DEAN STAFF WRITER

MAY 27, 2020 | 5 AM

When Harry Sentoso got called back to work at an Amazon delivery center in Irvine in late March, he was excited.

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Amid coronavirus, he joined Amazon. 2 weeks later, he died - Los Angeles Times

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He had been working in Amazon warehouses on and off for two years, always hoping to get a full-time position but always laid off after seasonal demand died down. Just a few weeksearlier, at the beginning of March, his bosses had told him they didn’t need him anymore. He had spent most of the month cooped up at home in Walnut, looking for other work.

Sentoso saw the warehouse job as a last chance to earn some cash before settling down to retirement. A small business he had started with a friend a few years earlier selling forklift tireshadn’t taken off, and he didn’t want to touch his savings if he didn’t have to. He had applied to dozens of jobs in recent years, but Amazon was the best the 63-year-old could find.

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Before dawn on March 29, he left home in his Honda Civic, radio tuned to classic rock, and made the drive down to Orange County to work the early morning shift hauling and sortingpackages before they went out to customers’ homes.

Two weeks later, in the early morning hours of April 12—his 27th wedding anniversary—Harry Sentoso would be dead.

Sentoso’s return to work was a part of a massive wave of hiring Amazon has undertaken in response to the coronavirus crisis. In mid-March, the company announced plans to hire100,000 new workers to deal with a surge in online orders. In April, it began hiring 75,000 more to keep up with demand as it resumed shipping more nonessential items to customers.

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With that human wave came the virus. The same week that Sentoso was called back into work, new cases of COVID-19 were reported at six warehouses across Southern California. Untilnow, no cases at the Irvine facility, known as DLA9, have been made public, and Sentoso’s death had gone unreported. Across the country, Amazon workers have documented more than1,000 cases among warehouse workers as of May 20, and 7 deaths. Sentoso is the eighth.

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Amid coronavirus, he joined Amazon. 2 weeks later, he died - Los Angeles Times

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Thousands of businesses have had to close and more than 38 million Americans have lost their jobs since the lockdowns began. But Amazon is hiring. The company has put newmeasures in place to make its warehouses safer for employees, but the number of cases at its facilities keeps rising. As consumers continue to minimize their own risk by shopping fromtheir couches, workers have to decide: Is working for Amazon a lifeline, or a life-threatening risk?

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Harry Sentoso moved to Southern California in the 1970s, fleeing anti-leftist violence and persecution in his native Indonesia that targeted his family for their Chinese ancestry. His legalname was Sukoyo, but he chose to go by the short version of his middle name, Hariyadi, in his new home.

After a few hard years scraping by in downtown L.A., he worked in sales for a doll company, then started his own small business, an import-export operation moving constructionmaterials between California and Indonesia. Along the way, he earned a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering and an MBA from Cal Poly Pomona, met his wife, Endang, and starteda family. In his 40s, he landed a steady job as the warehouse supervisor at an oxygen sensor manufacturer, and worked there for over a decade.

By the end of his career, he had socked away a healthy retirement fund, bought a house in Walnut, raised two sons, and taken up day trading as a hobby and a passion. He was devoted tohis family, gracious and kind — former coworkers recall his upbeat attitude and insistence on paying for lunch. He loved good food, dad jokes, and, according to his 20-year-old sonEvan, Mini Coopers.

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In short, Harry Sentoso had lived the kind of life that can flourish for immigrants and refugees, if everything goes right, in Southern California’s sun-baked suburban soil.

But things began to go wrong after Sentoso returned to work in late March. He worked from Sunday to Thursday, then started to feel a little under the weather on Friday, the first of histwo days off. (The median incubation time for coronavirus infections is five days.)

On Sunday, April 5, he went back to work, anxious not to miss a shift so soon after getting his job back and convinced he could shake what he thought was a cold, or maybe just badindigestion. He liked to tell his sons, and the coworkers he befriended who were his sons’ age, that working at Amazon was great for his health — long days on the warehouse floor meanthe always got in all his steps.

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But on the same day, his wife started feeling sick. Sentoso worked four more days, hauling and sorting boxes for delivery to their final destination, but then started to feel worse: shortnessof breath, cough, fever. His wife, a pharmacy technician who made sure he brought and wore a mask to work every day, got tested at her workplace on Wednesday. Her results came backpositive, and the family doctor said it was safe to assume her husband was too. They both began to quarantine.

Three days later, close to midnight on April 11, Sentoso was having trouble getting any oxygen at all. His wife and older son Dylan, 22, tried to get him to the car to take him to thehospital, but Harry fell unconscious on his driveway. She called an ambulance, and called her other son.

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Harry Sentoso poses with his son Evan on a family trip in the early 2000s (Evan Sentoso)

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Evan, a student at UCLA, borrowed a classmate’s car and raced across the empty freeways from Westwood to Walnut alone, hoping he might be able to see his dad before things gotworse. But he was too late. The EMTs had managed to briefly raise a pulse on the way to the hospital, but it had disappeared again by the time they arrived.

His father was gone. Hospital staff allowed Evan 10 minutes in the ICU, standing a few feet away from his father’s body, to cry and say his last goodbyes.

In a statement, Lisa Levandowski, a spokesperson for Amazon, said: “We are mourning the loss of an associate at our site in Irvine, California. His family and loved ones are in ourthoughts, and we are supporting his fellow colleagues in the days ahead.”

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Evan moved back in with his older brother and his mother after his father’s death. The family was forced to mourn behind masks in their own home, the two sons watching and waiting astheir mother got sicker, their father’s ashes still in their urn.

Evan started getting calls from Amazon HR. There was someone from the Leave of Absence team, asking where Harry Sentoso was. After Evan told them that his father had died fromcomplications of the coronavirus, he got a call from the company’s Employee Resource Center, asking to confirm that his father had died. Then someone from Amazon’s Global SecurityOperations called to confirm that his father had died. An Amazon employee called from Chile for the same reason. Finally, the local HR team finished up the phone chain.

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That same week, Amazon announced that it was going to expand shipments of nonessential items, and was hiring a second wave of 75,000 new workers to process the flood of orders (upuntil that point, they had been prioritizing orders that they deemed essential). Amazon also fired two tech workers who had publicly criticized safety and working conditions at thecompany’s warehouses.

His outrage growing, Evan called the local HR rep back to ask some questions.

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“Why are you hiring people if you’re shipping out nonessential goods?” Evan asked. “Someone’s life is not worth less than some person’s board game.”

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He wants to know why Amazon isn’t being more transparent with its workers and the public. The company’s official policy states that it informs all employees who have come in contactwith an infected worker, but Amazon refuses to release official numbers of cases or deaths among its workforce.

Reached for comment, Amazon said that it never received confirmation that Sentoso’s death was linked to COVID-19, so it did not send out a mass notification, and only informed hiscoworkers verbally of his passing.

When Evan first spoke with multiple Amazon representatives, he and his family had not yet received the postmortem test results from the hospital confirming that his father had beeninfected with the virus. But he told Amazon how his father died, that his mother had tested positive, and that a doctor had told the family to assume his father had the virus.

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Once the results, which have been reviewed by The Times, came in, Evan says he tried calling Amazon twice to inform the company, but was never called back. Soon after, Evan’s familyretained a lawyer to file a worker’s compensation claim with the state, which listed coronavirus as his father’s cause of death.

He wants to know why the company was planning to stop allowing workers to take unlimited unpaid time off if they’re afraid to go in to work, and why Amazon is ending its $2 paybump for workers if the coronavirus pandemic in the U.S. shows few signs of slowing down.

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On the call, Evan said, the company ran through the litany of safety procedures that it put in place since the virus began to spread. The week before Sentoso died, the company beganrequiring employees to wear masks on site, and started checking the temperature of workers before they could enter. It began requiring employees to stay six feet apart in late March, andstaggered shifts and canceled in-person meetings to make that easier. The company has increased the frequency of cleaning and disinfecting in warehouses as well, and began sprayingdown whole facilities with disinfectant fogs in mid-April.

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But Evan, and a contingent of Amazon workers across the country, don’t think that those measures are enough. Hundreds of workers at Amazon’s facilities in Hawthorne and Eastvale, inRiverside County, have signed and submitted petitions asking the company to close the facilities for two weeks after infections for thorough cleaning and send workers home withquarantine pay. Following worker complaints compiled by the Warehouse Workers Resource Center, Cal OSHA has also launched investigations into both facilities.

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The call for a shutdown has been especially loud at warehouses in Pennsylvania and New York that have become coronavirus hotspots, with more than 60 reported cases at each beforethe company stopped updating the tally even to local employees.

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Other countries facing coronavirus outbreaks show how things could be different here. In India, factories where workers test positive are forced to shut down. In China, people who havecome into contact with anyone who tests positive are required to undergo strictly enforced seven- or 14-day quarantines.

Even after the number of new cases in the country dwindled to single digits in April, Chinese factory owners worried that a single infected worker could force the entire workforce intoisolation. Foxconn, the million-employee company that builds the iPhone and many other electronic devices, created 20-person teams of workers and required them to work, travel, eatand sleep together in company dormitories to ensure that any infected workers could be quickly traced and quarantined.

In France, a court ruled that Amazon had to restrict its activities to only shipping essential items or face serious fines. The company shut down all six of its large fulfillment centers in thecountry in response, but kept paying all workers their full salaries. Earlier this week, Amazon reached a deal with the court and the labor unions that brought the case in the first place:Starting June 2, the company will spread out shifts and run its warehouses at only half capacity, to increase social distancing, while continuing to pay the full salaries of the remainingworkers left at home.

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In California, brick-and-mortar retailers of nonessential goods were required to shut their doors from March 19 until early May to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, but deliverywarehouses remained open.

Amazon has been working to create its own infrastructure in order to test all workers regularly, but no state in the U.S. has the available capacity to test at the scale necessary to detectcarriers of the virus across the workforce.

Evan and his family are still reeling from his father’s death, but he says he draws on his father’s memory for strength. “He wouldn’t have wanted me to give up, say this isn’t fair and cussmy life out,” Evan said. And he hopes that in sharing it, he can save other families from his own grief.

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“The last thing I want is for another family of another worker to go through what we have,” he added. “If there’s anything I can do to prevent another illness, another death, that’s mygoal.”

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Antibody tests for Covid-19 wrong up to half the time, CDC says

By Maggie Fox, CNN Updated 11:28 PM ET, Tue May 26, 2020

(CNN)Antibody tests used to determine if people have been infected in the past with Covid-19 might be wrong up to half the time, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in new guidance posted on its website.

Antibody tests, often called serologic tests, look for evidence of an immune response to infection. "Antibodies in some persons can be detected within the first week of illness onset," the CDC says.

They are not accurate enough to use to make important policy decisions, the CDC said.

"Serologic test results should not be used to make decisions about grouping persons residing in or being admitted to congregate settings, such as schools, dormitories, or correctional facilities," the CDC says.

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"Serologic test results should not be used to make decisions about returning persons to the workplace."

Health officials or health care providers who are using antibody tests need to use the most accurate test they can find and might need to test people twice, the CDC said in the new guidance.

"In most of the country, including areas that have been heavily impacted, the prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 antibody is expected to be low, ranging from less than 5% to 25%, so that testing at this point might result in relatively more false positive results and fewer false-negative results," the CDC said.

The higher the sensitivity, the fewer false negatives a test will give. The higher the specificity, the fewer false positives. Across populations, tests give more accurate results if the disease being tested for is common in the population. If an infection has only affected a small percentage of people being tested, even a very small margin of error in a test will be magnified.

If just 5% of the population being tested has the virus, a test with more than 90% accuracy can still miss half the cases.

It's a point that's been made frequently in recent weeks by public health experts, but the CDC spells out the problem in the new advice on antibody testing.

False positive, false confidence

A false positive will lead someone to believe they have been infected when in fact they have not been. There's little evidence now about whether having been infected gives people immunity to later infection, but doctors worry that people will behave as if they are immune if they get a positive antibody test.

"It cannot be assumed that individuals with truly positive antibody test results are protected from future infection," the CDC says in the updated guidelines. "Serologic testing should not be used to determine immune status in individuals until the presence, durability, and duration of immunity is established."

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The new CDC guidelines echo advice from groups such as the University of Minnesota, which cautions against using antibody tests to make policy decisions.

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The CDC explains why testing can be wrong so often. A lot has to do with how common the virus is in the population being tested. "For example, in a population where the prevalence is 5%, a test with 90% sensitivity and 95% specificity will yield a positive predictive value of 49%. In other words, less than half of those testing positive will truly have antibodies," the CDC said.

"Alternatively, the same test in a population with an antibody prevalence exceeding 52% will yield a positive predictive greater than 95%, meaning that less than one in 20 people testing positive will have a false positive test result."

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Therefore, its best to use tests with high specificity -- which are unlikely to throw up a lot of false positives -- and in populations where doctors suspect there are many cases," the CDC said.

The Food and Drug Administration has also cautioned about the accuracy of antibody tests.

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By SANDRA EMERSON | [email protected] |PUBLISHED: May 26, 2020 at 5:30 p.m. | UPDATED: May 26, 2020 at 5:33 p.m.

A veterans home in Barstow may close, forcing about 200 veterans to move, as part of the state’seffort to address a massive budget shortfall that resulted from the novel coronavirus crisis.

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s revised budget proposes to initiate the closure of the Barstow Veterans Homeover the next two years, which could save about $400,000 next fiscal year and $14 million annuallyover the long term.

More than two months of business closures and restrictions to slow the spread of the coronavirus hasresulted in a $54 billion state budget deficit. To help fill that gap, Newsom has proposed numerouscuts and is relying on money from the feds.

Residents share a meal in the cafeteria of the Veterans Home of California in Barstow. (File photo by Stan Lim, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)

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The Barstow home is on a list of $14 billion in trigger cuts that would be revisited if the federalgovernment doesn’t pass an aid package to help states and local governments.

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“I am outraged the state would consider letting the burden of balancing the budget fall on the neediestof our population, particularly veterans, who have sacrificed so much for the country and to whom weowe such a great debt,” said Assemblyman Jay Obernolte, who is fighting the closure.

Officials at the home deferred comment to the state Department of Veterans Affairs.

The veterans home opened in 1996 and has 220 beds. It offers independent living, intermediate careand skilled nursing care. Primary medical care is provided to independent residents on-site, whileacute care is available at the Jerry L. Pettis Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Loma Linda or at theBarstow Community Hospital, according to the home’s website.

The home was originally opened because of its unique proximity to multiple military installations in theHigh Desert, which has one of the highest concentrations of veterans in the state, according toObernolte.

However, the state says the home doesn’t meet its criteria for an “ideal veterans home” because thearea doesn’t have a large veteran population, routinely has critical vacancies and is 90 minutes awayfrom the nearest VA medical center, among other issues, according to a May 14 letter to residentsand employees from the state Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary Vito Imbasciani.

“I know this is alarming for the staff, the veterans and their families who call Barstow Home,”Imbasciani wrote. “In my time at CalVet, this is one of the hardest decisions I’ve ever had to make andone of the most difficult letters I’ve ever had to write. You have my solemn promise that we will workwith everyone; each staff member, each resident, every family to make sure this transition is assmooth as possible.”

1 of 3A veteran and resident of the Veterans Home of California in Barstow walks out of the cafeteria. (File photo by Stan Lim, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)

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There will be no dramatic changes right away and the department will work with residents over thenext two years to move them into one of seven other homes for veterans, according to Imbasciani’sletter.

The nearest veterans home is nearly 100 miles away in Lancaster. The West Los Angeles home is134 miles away from Barstow.

A group held a rolling rally on Memorial Day, May 25, to bring awareness to the proposed closure.More than 1,000 motorcycles and 1,500 cars participated in the rally, said David Jensen, a Navyveteran who started the group, “Save Barstow Veterans Home.”

As of Tuesday morning, nearly 19,000 had signed an online petition urging Newsom, Sen. DianneFeinstein and President Donald Trump to keep the home open. The goal is 25,000 signatures.

“Our whole community is just up in arms over this because we all have an attachment to veterans,”said Jensen, of Daggett. “We’re a military town. There are two military facilities right next to our townand other military facilities pretty close to us. It’s necessary for these military folks. When they retirethey retire here.”

The effort has grabbed the attention of other local, state and federal lawmakers, including SupervisorsDawn Rowe and Curt Hagman, and Rep. Paul Cook, R-Apple Valley, who have sent letters to thestate opposing the closure.

Chris Bubser, a Democrat running against Obernolte in November for the 8th Congressional Districtseat, also opposes the closure.

“Governor Newsom, closure of the #Barstow Veterans Home is not acceptable,” Bubser said in atweet. “Especially in these challenging times, we cannot balance the #California budget by cutting vitalservices for #veterans in an already under-served part of the state.”

Obernolte, who sits on three state legislative budget committees, said the governor is not taking intoaccount the $3 million-plus the state gets from the federal government to house veterans in Barstow.Moreover, the governor does not write the budget, he said.

The Legislature will continue hammering out the budget details over the next four weeks beforesending it to Newsom for his signature. Last week, a budget subcommittee rejected the proposal toclose the home, but the fight will continue until the proposal dies, Obernolte announced via Twitter.

“This veterans home represents our commitment as a

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society to the veterans who have served our country,”Obernolte said. “These veterans are not just an item in thebudget. They represent real people with real families andreal lives. They’re a segment of our population we have anobligation to protect.”

Jensen said he hopes their efforts will get Newsom’sattention. He also hopes Newsom will announce that noCalVets homes will be closed nor will any funding be usedto help balance the budget.

“I know it’s tough times,” Jensen said. “It’s tough times foreverybody. The state really has to look elsewhere.”

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Work on the rail line between Redlands and San Bernardino will close several streets at the tracks thisweek.

Park Avenue in Redlands is closed 24 hours a day until crews finish constructing a storm drain as partof the Redlands Passenger Rail Project. A detour sends motorists north around Sylvan Park.

Also beginning this week Colton Avenue and Nevada Street, both in Redlands, will be closed forweekend work from 8 p.m. Friday, May 29, through 5 a.m. Monday.

The Colton detour takes motorists to Tennessee andAlabama streets via Industrial Park Avenue. The Nevadadetour takes drivers east to Alabama, then back to Nevadaeither by Orange Tree Lane for northbound traffic orRedlands Boulevard for those heading south.

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In San Bernardino, Arrowhead Avenue continues to be closed, and Central Avenue is slated to closeJune 8.

Weekday work continues in San Bernardino at the Tippecanoe Avenue station, between RichardsonStreet and Mountain View Avenue, and between E Street and Sierra Way.

The 9-mile line, dubbed Arrow, is set to begin operation in early 2022.

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A 35-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of starting a fire last week in Yucaipa, Cal Fire’sSan Bernardnio Unit said on Tuesday.

Fire officials said firefighters from Cal Fire and the Yucaipa Fire Department responded to the 32300block of Avenue D in Yucaipa on Thursday after getting reports of a vegetation fire.

“Witnesses provided a description of a suspect lighting the fire,” Cal Fire said.

Officials said that man was later identified as Eric Williams, of Yucaipa. Williams was arrested onsuspicion of arson and resisting a peace officer.

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By RICHARD K. DE ATLEY | [email protected] | The Press-EnterprisePUBLISHED: May 26, 2020 at 10:07 a.m. | UPDATED: May 26, 2020 at 10:09 a.m.

A Redlands woman was in jail Tuesday, May 26, after her arrest on suspicion of murder in thestabbing death of her husband.

Danielle Latrice RussellWaggoner , 41, was taken into custody after police were called to the 1200block of Edwards Street in Redlands, the city’s spokesman Carl Baker said.

Officers and then Redlands Fire Department paramedics treated the 54-year-old victim at the scene,and he was taken to Loma Linda University Medical Center, where he died.

RussellWaggoner was at the scene and arrested shortly after receiving treatment for a non-life-threatening wound. Investigators found evidence at the home, Baker said.

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By RICHARD K. DE ATLEY | [email protected] | The Press-EnterprisePUBLISHED: May 26, 2020 at 3:55 p.m. | UPDATED: May 26, 2020 at 3:57 p.m.

A San Bernardino man was fatally shot in the city shortly after midnight on Tuesday, May 26, policesaid.

Paul

Weathers, 32, was found by police who were called to 1500 E. Date Street at 12:24 a.m. Weatherswas hospitalized, and died.

No arrests were announced. Police said they did not know the motive for the shooting, whichremained under investigation.

Paul Weathers was fatally shot early Tuesday, May 26, 2020. (Driver’s license photo courtesy San Bernardino Police)

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President Trump answers questions from reporters Tuesday in the White House Rose Garden. (Evan Vucci / Associated Press)

By CHRIS MEGERIAN, ELI STOKOLS, NOAH BIERMAN

MAY 26, 2020 | 3:55 PM UPDATED 4:50 PM

WASHINGTON — Facing a potentially difficult path to reelection, President Trump on Tuesday

expanded his attacks on states using mail-in ballots, a scorched-earth campaign that could

undermine confidence in the democratic process as the novel coronavirus threatens to make in-

person voting more dangerous.

The president targeted California in particular, where Republicans are suing Gov. Gavin Newsom, a

Democrat, to block his plan to send mail ballots to every registered voter.

Trump falsely accused the state of distributing ballots to “people who aren’t citizens, illegals” and

“anybody who is walking or breathing.” Citing no proof, he warned that people would print fake

ballots and send them in “by the hundreds of thousands.

“When that starts happening, you have a rigged system,” he said in the White House Rose Garden.

“And that’s what would happen.”

Democrats and voting-rights activists accused Trump of deliberately sowing mistrust about the

integrity of U.S. elections and turning ballot access into another partisan flashpoint as Americans

worry about how they can safely participate on Election Day.

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Last week Trump denounced plans to distribute mail ballot applications in Nevada and Michigan as

“illegal” and threatened to “hold up” unspecified federal funding to the Democrat-led states.

At the same time, Republican leaders around the country are running aggressive field operations to

encourage supporters to cast ballots by mail, a practice that has been widespread for years, with only

rare cases of fraud.

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But Trump again insisted that distributing mail ballots contributes to illegal voting.

“There is NO WAY (ZERO!) that Mail-In Ballots will be anything less than substantially fraudulent,”

Trump tweeted earlier Tuesday. “Mail boxes will be robbed, ballots will be forged & even illegally

printed out & fraudulently signed.”

Twitter for the first time added a disclaimer to the bottom of the president’s tweet, urging voters to

“get the facts about mail-in ballots” and providing research as to why Trump’s claims are baseless.

Trump responded by accusing Twitter of “interfering in the 2020 Presidential Election.”

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Even though the company did not delete the president’s tweets or even label them as false, Trump

said, “Twitter is completely stifling FREE SPEECH, and I, as President, will not allow it to happen!”

With surveys showing the president trailing Joe Biden, the presumptive Democrat nominee, and

voters unhappy about his handling of the coronavirus crisis, Trump has increased his complaints that

the November election could be unfair to him.

“If he loses the election, he can blame it on fraud,” said Rick Hasen, a voting expert and political

science professor at UC Irvine. “A more nefarious explanation is that he’s trying to cast doubt on the

legitimacy of the election in case he wants to contest it, or if he wants to undermine any Biden

victory.”

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Voters waited in line to cast ballots April 7 in Milwaukee during Wisconsin’s primary election. (MorryGash / Associated Press)

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Even as the U.S. death toll from COVID-19 neared 100,000, Trump spent recent days tweeting

conspiracy theories about nonexistent voting fraud, a supposed sinister plot led by former President

Obama to sabotage his administration and other falsehoods.

Perhaps Trump’s most malicious tweets targeted Joe Scarborough, an MSNBC host whose once-

chummy relationship with the president has soured. Trump repeatedly suggested that

Scarborough killed an intern in 2001 while he served as a Republican congressman from Florida.

A medical examiner concluded that the woman died from an un-diagnosed heart condition, but false

theories have lurked in dark corners of the Internet. Trump amplified them, tweeting that police

should “open a Cold Case on the Psycho Joe Scarborough.”

The woman’s husband asked Twitter to delete the tweets, accusing the president of taking

“something that does not belong to him — the memory of my dead wife — and perverted it for

perceived political gain.”

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Twitter refused, and Trump did not relent.

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“I hope somebody gets to the bottom of it,” Trump said Tuesday in the Rose Garden, adding that

there’s no statute of limitations on murder charges.

False claims about voter fraud have been a regular feature of Trump’s conspiracy theories — even in

the election that he won.

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When he was widely expected to lose the 2016 race, he accused Democrats of trying to “rig the

election at the polling booths, where so many cities are corrupt and voter fraud is all too common.”

After he won, he was mortified that Hillary Clinton won 3 million more popular votes. He then claimed

California had allowed ineligible voters to cast ballots, tweeting, “I won the popular vote if you deduct

the millions of people who voted illegally.”

After taking office, Trump created a commission to examine allegations of voter fraud. It disbanded

without substantiating his theories.

He revived the claims anyway, despite worries that in-person voting by millions of Americans could

spread the coronavirus. Health officials believe some voters in Wisconsin were infected while

participating in the state’s April 7 primary.

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“We don’t know exactly what the virus will look like in November,” said Justin Levitt, a Loyola Law

School professor who specializes in voting rights. “But if it looks anything like it did in March, April or

May, it’s going to be extremely difficult to vote as Americans are used to voting.”

Hans von Spakovsky, a lawyer at the Heritage Foundation who served on Trump’s commission on

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voter fraud, said registration rolls can be faulty, with outdated addresses and other errors. He warned

that fraudsters will scoop up ballots if states distribute more of them to voters’ former homes.

“You suddenly have all these ballots, which are a very valuable commodity, arriving at places where

voters no longer live,” he said. “Hopefully a lot of those get thrown out. But you have to imagine that

some people might be tempted to vote with those ballots.”

California Gov. Gavin Newsom plans to send mail ballots for the November election to everyregistered voter in the state. (Eric Risberg / Associated Press)

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Fearing the coronavirus would spread at polling places in California in November, Newsom issued an

executive order to send ballots to all registered voters in the state. Republicans filed a lawsuit saying

the governor “has created a recipe for disaster.”

“No state that regularly conducts statewide all-mail elections automatically mails ballots to inactive

voters because it invites fraud, coercion, theft and otherwise illegitimate voting,” the lawsuit said.

California Secretary of State Alex Padilla, a Democrat, responded by saying that “expanding vote-by-

mail during a pandemic is not a partisan issue — it’s a moral imperative to protect voting rights and

public safety.”

Rob Stutzman, a Republican consultant in California who has been critical of Trump, said the lawsuit

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was a mistake and described Trump’s rhetoric as a threat to the country’s faith in its elections.

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“It’s deeply dangerous, cynical, and these party committees should not be aiding and abetting it,” he

said. “It’s wrong not just because it’s not true but because the intent is to tear apart American

democracy.”

Trump’s attacks have put Republicans in a difficult position, because many of them have tried to

harness mail ballots.

Georgia’s Republican secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger, has sent applications to most of the

state’s registered voters, for example.

“We are not California,” he said. “The surge of absentee voting has highlighted a greater need of list

maintenance and clean voter lists — something California fails to focus on.”

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Last week, during a White House meeting about the coronavirus crisis, Trump asked a pair of

governors to weigh in on the prospect for election fraud.

Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson, a Republican, gently took a contradictory position by saying he

wanted to ensure mail ballots were used appropriately, but “there’s a lot of discussion about how we

can make the vote accessible.”

Even Trump’s own rhetoric has become tangled. Earlier this month, the president praised Mike Garcia,

a Republican, for winning a California congressional seat in a special election that was conducted

almost entirely by mail. Then he complained about “tremendous corruption, cheating” with mail

ballots.

One of the politicians who participated in last week’s meeting was Sen. Cory Gardner, a Colorado

Republican who won his seat after the state shifted to an all-mail voting system.

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In addition, Trump himself votes by mail because he’s registered in Florida.

“It is the height of hypocrisy for a president who votes by mail to prevent other Americans from doing

the same,” Sean Eldridge, president of the voting rights group Stand Up America, said Tuesday on a

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