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Coronavirus cases and hospitalizations rise as San BernardinoCounty reopensBy Jene Estrada, Hi-Desert StarMay 31, 2020

SAN BERNARDINO — Barber shops, hair salons and other businesses in the county are opening up

and while the county will continue to permit businesses to reopen, health o�cials remind everyone

to stay cautious as con�rmed cases and hospitalizations continue to rise.

San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors Chairman Curt Hagman posted a press conference

online Friday morning to update county residents on the reopening process.

Last weekend the county got the green light from the state to open merchandise businesses for in-

house shopping, dine-in restaurants and other stage two businesses.

“San Bernardino County businesses and residents worked very hard and made tremendous

sacri�ces to make this moment possible,” Hagman said.“Your efforts to keep our community safe

and healthy have paid off. We can now proceed signi�cantly further toward resuming our normal

lives.”

Interim director of public health Corwin Porter said that, while the county will move forward with

these openings and others in the coming weeks, people should still take precautions when in public.

“We’ve seen triple-digit increases in cases over the last several days so the virus is still active,” he

said. “We need to continue to practice those safety protocols.”

Porter also said that there has been a slight increase in hospitalizations over the last few days. He

said that, at this time, this is not a cause for concern because the hospitals have the capacity to

treat many more patients than they are currently serving.

Porter and Hagman said the county expects to receive more information from the state soon about

regulations regarding summer activities.

Homeowners associations are now able to open private apartment or housing complex pools but

public pools will remain closed. Park playgrounds will also remain closed at this time.

Fourth of July celebrations will also be limited this year with the regular park events being cancelled.

Fireworks will still be displayed and can be viewed from residents' homes.

For more information on the reopening plan, visit http://sbcovid19.com/.

San Bernardino County coronavirus cases growing fasterthan state-allowed reopening limits

Mark Olalde, Palm Springs Desert Sun Published 3:02 p.m. PT May 30, 2020 | Updated 4:27 p.m. PT May 30, 2020

Although San Bernardino County officials have pushed hard for the Newsom administration to allow it to reopen, the county's latest public health datareleased Saturday (http://sbcovid19.com/) show it still does not have the virus under control.

On Saturday, county public health officials reported five new deaths linked to the coronavirus and 166 new cases of COVID-19. Since the beginning ofthe pandemic, 5,200 people in the county have been infected by the virus, and 204 people have died. That's a case fatality rate of 3.9%.

With 1,040 new tests performed, that means about 71 tests per day per 100,000 residents have been performed in the county over the past two weeks.That's still well below the 150 per day that Gov. Gavin Newsom and the California Department of Public Health requested counties meet in order to movethrough the next stage of reopening.

Regardless, county staff told the state they could achieve the metric and were allowed to move forward with reopening. San Bernardino continues to beone of the worst-performing large counties in California in terms of coronavirus testing.

In order to reopen more businesses and schools, Newsom also instructed counties that they needed to either show fewer than 25 new cases per 100,000residents over the course of two weeks or have fewer than 8% of tests come back positive over the course of a week.

During the past seven days, about 8.8% of San Bernardino County tests were positive, while there were about 80 new cases per 100,000 residents overtwo weeks. Both numbers fell on the wrong side of the state's benchmarks.

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The county is tracking 45 outbreaks of varying sizes at detention centers, congregate living facilities, nursing homes and other group accommodations.But, the county has 1,211 surge capacity hospital beds available and was only using 2.6% of them as of Saturday.

Here is the list of cases and deaths in the high desert. Changes from Thursday are in parentheses:Adelanto: 76 cases, 2 deathsApple Valley: 65 cases (+5), 2 deathsBarstow: 18 cases, 2 deathsFort Irwin: 2 casesHesperia: 120 cases (+1), 2 deaths (+1)Joshua Tree: 15 cases, 2 deathsMorongo Valley: 6 cases (+1)Oak Hills: 21 cases (+2)Phelan: 18 casesTwentynine Palms: 11 cases (+2)3 free articles left. Register now.

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There were no new deaths from the coronavirus reported in San Bernardino County on Sunday, May31, but officials identified 46 new cases of COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus.

The number of total cases identified so far — 5,246 — was up 0.9% from Saturday’s tally of 5,200.

The San Bernardino County death toll from the coronavirus remained at 204 Sunday.

In the county of 2.1 million residents, 61,231 people have been tested for the disease, of which 8.7%were positive. Testing went up 2.5% since the day before, according to the county.

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The time it takes for the number of confirmed cases in the county to double is 15.6 days, compared to10.4 days at the beginning of May — a sign that the virus is spreading less quickly over time.

The county has not updated its hospital case and bed counts since May 27. At that point, there were159 confirmed COVID-19 patients in hospital beds and another 101 with suspected cases. The countyhad 1,211 surge capacity beds. Fifty-four confirmed coronavirus patients were in intensive care, alongwith other 19 suspected coronaviruses cases. There were 339 other patients using ICU beds, leaving65% of the beds available.

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Tracking coronavirus in San Bernardino CountyBy LOS ANGELES TIMES STAFF

UPDATED MAY 31, 10:25 P.M. PACIFIC

5,246confirmed cases

+46 on Sunday

204deaths

+0 on Sunday

What we know

Over the past two weeks, San Bernardino County has recorded

1,737 new cases, failing one of the governor’s performance

metrics. In that time, 49 deaths have been reported.

San Bernardino has the fifth highest number of coronavirus cases

among the state's 58 counties and the fourth most deaths.

The county has reported cases in 37 cities or communities. Chino

has the most cases with 838.

The number of patients at county hospitals has been steady.

There are now 225 patients linked to COVID-19.

Nursing homes have been a focal point of the crisis. In San

Bernardino County, 30 facilities have reported an outbreak.

California counties +

Other trackers +

More coverage +

The latest trends

The San Bernardino County Department of Public Health announces new casesand deaths each day, though bottlenecks in testing and reporting lags canintroduce delays.

Experts say the true number of people infected is unknown and likely muchhigher than official tallies.

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Over the past week, the county has averaged 126 new cases and 4 new deathsper day. The number of confirmed infections is currently doubling every 24.9days.

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State and local officials are closely watching the latest figures as they weighwhen and how to reopen. One metric is whether counties have kept the numberof new cases reported over the last 14 days to less than 25 per 100,000residents.

San Bernardino County currently fails that test. Over the last two weeks,officials have confirmed 1,737 new cases, which amounts to 81.3 per 100,000.

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Cases by cityCases have been reported in 37 of San Bernardino County's cities andcommunities.

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Chino 838

San Bernardino 758

Fontana 546

Ontario 486

Redlands 273

Rialto 257

Rancho Cucamonga 231

Colton 228

Yucaipa 216

Victorville 202

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Explore the latest data by visiting our statewide dashboard, as well asdedicated pages for Los Angeles, Alameda, Contra Costa, Fresno, Imperial,Kern, Kings, Orange, Riverside, Sacramento, San Diego, San Bernardino,San Francisco, San Joaquin, San Mateo, Santa Barbara, Santa Clara,Sonoma, Tulare and Ventura counties.

Hospitals and patientsOne goal of the state's stay-at-home mandate is to slow the virus in hope ofpreventing hospitals from being overrun.

There are currently patients admitted to San Bernardino County hospitals whohave a suspected or confirmed case of COVID-19, according to the latestgovernment figures. Of those, are in an intensive-care unit.

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In order to reopen, counties must show that hospitalizations have stabilized,meaning that daily increases have averaged less 5% over a seven-day period, orthat a county can’t have more than 20 hospitalizations on any single day over a14-day period.

Currently, 55 of the state's 58 counties pass this test, which is one of severalthat can be applied. San Bernardino County currently meets the standard.

Date ICU Other Total Status

May 30 64 161 225 Declining

May 29 63 166 229 Stable

May 28 70 173 243 Stable

May 27 73 187 260 Stable

May 26 76 203 279 Stable

May 25 71 183 254 Stable

May 24 70 172 242 Stable

May 23 62 172 234 Stable

May 22 55 171 226 Stable

May 21 63 161 224 Declining

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Nursing homesNursing homes have become a tragic focal point of the coronavirus outbreak.California's Department of Public Health has listed 30 skilled nursing andassisted-living facilities in San Bernardino County that currently have COVID-19 cases.

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CALIMESA POST ACUTE 42 10 or fewer

CEDAR MOUNTAIN POST ACUTE 91 21

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COMMUNITY EXTENDED CARE HOSPITAL OF MONTCLAIR - -

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Reopenings and restrictions

County order: Following state order

Face coverings: Residents asked to wear face coverings in public places and at essential

businesses

Essential retail: Grocery stores, pharmacies, banks and post offices, etc. are open

Retail: Retailers and shopping malls reopened

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table.

Recreation: Gyms, movie theaters, etc., closed, but golf courses reopened. Car washes,

pet grooming, barbershops, hair salons and landscape gardening are open.

Parks: Most county parks and trails reopened. State park campgrounds, parking lots

and indoor facilities closed

Schools: Most K-12 schools are distance learning. Colleges online only

Government: Open only for essential functions

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Officials in San Bernardino County issued a new health order Friday allowing businesses and other entities the option to require face coverings —which

are not mandatory— in some facilities.

Along with businesses like the Ontario International Airport, government locations are also allowed to require face coverings.

“As we get back to normal there will be some changes, there will be some protections in place,” Curt Hagman, chairman of the San Bernardino County

Board of Supervisors, said at a morning news conference Friday. “We don’t want to see our numbers go up.”

The county, which has had 4,914 cases of the coronavirus and 190 deaths reported as of Thursday, has been making strides in reopening over the last

week. On Tuesday, hair salons and barbershops were the latest businesses given the OK to welcome back customers. County officials also announced

salon and barbershop owners are eligible for cash grants under the county’s COVID Compliant Business Partnership Program.

The initiative was created to help small businesses ensure ongoing compliance with COVID-19 safety measures.

“This is important because shops that cut, style, and color hair have to comply with more safety requirements than other businesses under the State’s

rules,” Hagman said.

On Monday, San Bernardino County received the state’s permission to allow places of worship to resume for religious services at a reduced 25% of the

building’s capacity or 100 attendees, whichever is less. The county also got the green light to reopen restaurants and retail stores on May 23.

“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,” Hagman said.

Hagman said pools at apartment complexes have also been allowed to reopen just in time for the summer heat. Plans for the Fourth of July are also in

the works; firework displays by cities and groups will be allowed with social distancing precautions in place.

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“You can not be huddled together at the park,” Hagman added.

Nail salons, gyms, bars, wineries and movie theaters are among the businesses that still remain closed.

Nearly 60,000 people have been tested for the coronavirus in the county, but test expansions continue.

Corwin Porter, the county’s assistant public health director, said work is being done to establish indoor testing sites countywide through the summer

heat.

“We’re also looking at some smaller, mobile sites where we can get into certain communities that may not have as much access or have special needs or

may be more risk for the virus,” Porter said. “

Porter also stressed the importance of residents continuing to practice social distancing, facial coverings and handwashing.

“We still really need to exercise appropriate precautions and do our part to not only protect our families, our loved ones but also those around us in our

communities,” Porter said.

Business owners interested in the county’s compliance program can apply at sbcovid19.com through Aug. 31.

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In the latest San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors COVID-19 weekly update meeting on May 29, Chairman of the Board Curt Hagman

addressed the current state of businesses countywide. Hagman reiterated that hair salons, barbershops, dine-in restaurants are now open, but all with

protective measures in place.

“We are adding more and more things every week,” said Hagman. “We are looking forward to our summer. Speaking of summer, July 4 is coming

up. So we are trying to think ahead about that. There will be fireworks displays from the cities and private organizations, but we are not going to

gather together in parks - you can’t do big group gatherings.”

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Interim Director of Public Health’s Corwin Porter gave an update at the May 29 county meeting.

“We have over 4,900 (positive) cases within our county and 119 deaths. The virus is still very active in our communities,” Porter said.

He asked communities to continue to practice safe distances.

“As our economy opens up we have greater opportunities,” said Porter “but we also have the potential for greater risk. I can’t say enough about that.

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When Gary Haidet calls a San Bernardino County resident who has tested positive for the novelcoronavirus, he asks about their symptoms, who they live with and others with whom they may havecome in contact.

Once he collects the information, which could take 20 minutes to a couple of hours, Haidet sends it tothe county public health department.

“They review everything and see if there’s a cross between one of those contacts and somebody elseor some other location,” Haidet said.

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Every day, Haidet, who lives in Rancho Cucamonga, is assigned cases of people who got COVID-19,the disease caused by the novel coronavirus. His task is to talk to them and identify others they mayhave exposed to the disease, whether at home, at work or in the community.

“They’ve got a lot of cases,” Haidet said of the health department. “I can see where they wereoverwhelmed by what this requires, with the number of personnel they had access to.”

Case investigators, such as Haidet, reach out to residents who have tested positive for an infectiousdisease and collect a list of people with whom they had contact. A contact tracer takes that list andfollows up with the contacts to see if they need to be tested, isolated or quarantined.

Typically, people who test positive must isolate themselves until they’re no longer infectious. Thosewho they have exposed, such as household members, but who aren’t showing symptoms, are

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quarantined, Barbara Cole, Riverside County’s director of disease control, said.

“The bottom line is we’re trying to protect the community by stopping the spread of the disease,” Colesaid.

Contact tracing is not new, but it’s become crucial to safely reopening businesses after a two-and-a-half-month closure. Counties looking to fast track these reopenings needed to show state officials thatthey expanded contact tracing, along with testing, and have flattened the curve.

Public health departments have long relied on case investigators and contact tracers to help track thespread of contagious diseases, including HIV, measles, tuberculosis and now, COVID-19. However,the job is now being done primarily over the phone, instead of through home visits, because of thehigh risk of transmission and public health orders.

Gov. Gavin Newsom has recommended counties have 15 contact tracers per 100,000 residents tohandle a projected surge in positive cases.

San Bernardino County deployed about 90 employees to help with the task. More than 329 contacttracers have been trained and are ready to start, county spokesman David Wert said.

The county is looking at furloughed city employees, contracting with a private staffing firm, recruitingthrough human resources and using contact tracers from the state’s Medical and Health OperationalArea Coordinator program. Community health workers, Loma Linda University interns, nursingstudents and volunteers also may be tapped to help, according to the county’s contact tracing planapproved May 23 by the state.

Riverside County has about 80 contact tracers, but its goal is to have up to 300 focused primarily onCOVID-19, Cole said.

A percentage of Riverside County’s disease-control staff were redirected exclusively to tracingCOVID-19 contacts, while others are investigating cases of other infectious diseases that are stillbeing spread, Cole said.

Riverside County is accepting applications for the temporary full-time position, which pays $18 anhour.

Cole said the county is considering candidates with bachelor’s degrees, good people skills and whoare comfortable talking to people with diverse cultural backgrounds. They also need Spanishspeakers, Cole said.

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“We do feel COVID will be around for a while,” Cole said. “It’s too soon to project when all of this willend. We’re gearing up. We know we’re going to find more cases and we want to find those contacts.”

With courts closed, Haidet’s legal work has slowed, allowing him to use his investigative skills to helpprevent the community spread of COVID-19.

The retired El Monte police officer of 29 years has been a public defender’s investigator for 13 years.

“In that, you learn how to talk to people,” he said. “It’s a little different situation. These people aregoing through, some of them very serious conditions at the time, whereas in the criminal cases it’susually a witness or a friend of a defendant.”

Initially, five public defender’s investigators were trained forthe job. A few weeks later, 50 employees — includinginvestigators and social workers — are at work on the task,Public Defender Chris Gardner said.

“My staff is doing an unbelievable job at it,” he said. “It’skind of right up their alley. This is what they do. They reachout to people and ask them questions.”

Investigators get 15 to 20 cases a day. Investigations cantake 30 minutes to a couple of hours, depending onpeople’s availability and if they are willing to talk, Gardnersaid.

Information collected is kept confidential. Most people havebeen willing to share over the phone, but some arehesitant, said Joe Morrison, a public defender’s investigatorwho retired from the California Highway Patrol.

“Some people are very friendly and they understand,” he said. “Now we’re starting to ask if they’rewilling to give plasma to help out and probably 99% of the people say yes.”

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Sacramento County health director Peter Beilenson, 60, visits his mother, Dolores Beilenson, 86, at Sunrise of Sacramento, an assisted livingcenter where she has resided for the last year. Dolores tested positive for COVID-19 at the end of March and tested negative three weekslater. (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)

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SACRAMENTO — Like many Californians, Dr. Peter Beilenson has watched in anguish as the

coronavirus has devastated elder care homes. As of last week, COVID-19 had killed about 2,000

residents and more than 60 employees of these facilities, accounting for more than half of California’s

mortality from the pandemic.

But Beilenson, Sacramento County’s health director, also knows that virus testing in these vulnerable

places can prevent outbreaks. It may have stopped his mother from sparking one.

His mother, Dolores Beilenson, 86, became fatigued and developed a slight fever in March, and he

insisted she have a test though her symptoms were too mild to cause alarm. When it came back

positive, he pushed for more testing of others, ultimately revealing 24 patients and 25 staff with the

virus, including some who were mostly without the telltale signs.

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The quick and universal testing, said Peter Beilenson, proves “you can actually bring an outbreak

rapidly under control.”

The problem is that, in California, too few elder care facilities are regularly testing residents and staff,

a surveillance gap that Gov. Gavin Newsom is starting to narrow.

Last week, California health officials issued recommendations for universal COVID-19 testing in the

state’s skilled nursing facilities, nearly six weeks after Newsom said he was prioritizing testing in those

homes.

But critics, including advocates for staff and industry trade groups, say that the state has merely laid

out guidelines that shift responsibility onto counties and nursing homes to actually perform the

testing. The likely result: Scores of individual, uncoordinated plans with no clear rules for how

programs will work, what is required and who will pay.

Some also are bothered that the plan does not include hundreds of assisted living facilities such as

Sunrise of Sacramento, where Dolores Beilenson, now recovered, lives.

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In Sacramento, Beilenson pushed for universal testing in every facility with a known case, both skilled

nursing and assisted living, and found 187 hidden positives. In Los Angeles, health officials recently

announced a controversial plan to test only 10% of residents each week and no staff in facilities

without known cases. Placer County is asking facilities to test 25% of staff each week.

Sacramento County health director Peter Beilenson. (Mel Melcon/Los Angeles Times)

“It’s all over the board,” said Jason Belden, director of emergency preparedness at the California Assn.

of Heath Facilities, an industry group. “We just have a lot of unanswered logistical questions.”

Under the California Department of Public Health guidelines, facilities must come up with individual

plans by Monday, working with local health departments to conduct at least one round of universal

testing of both patients and staff. The recommendations ask for frequent retesting when cases are

found and less frequent testing when no cases are found.

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creating a testing framework was a “massive undertaking” and “is not something that can be done

well overnight,” but that ultimately the facilities have responsibility for safety during the pandemic.

“Many nursing homes are corporate entities and they too need to adapt to this new reality just as

other businesses have,” Ghaly’s statement read. "(I)t’s incumbent on them to reduce risk and change

their environments to protect the safety of staff and residents.”

So far in California, more than 9,200 residents of skilled nursing facilities and 5,400 of their workers

have tested positive for COVID-19.

The new testing directives apply only to the state’s 1,224 skilled nursing facilities — which primarily

provide short-term, round-the-clock care — and don’t cover assisted living facilities that fall under the

purview of a different state regulator. Those centers often house patients for longer periods, but there

is no statewide plan for testing in them, though there have been more than 2,000 positive cases

among staff and residents and 305 deaths.

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And the state is not directly providing funding for the testing. State officials say nursing homes could

use federal stimulus money, surplus funds from higher Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement rates,

and could have testing paid for by the health insurers for residents and staff members.

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California is not alone in its dilemmas with curbing the virus in elder care homes. In the absence of a

federal plan, the response to testing in facilities across the U.S. has been scattershot, said David

Grabowski, a professor in the Department of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School.

Some states are conducting universal testing themselves, he said, while others are intervening only

during critical moments. Massachusetts, he said, mailed 12,000 test kits to its facilities, while in Florida,

state officials are sending in strike teams to address outbreaks in nursing homes.

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In the middle ground are many states such as California that are advocating for testing programs that

lack “teeth,” he said, because they are largely left to local health authorities and the facilities

themselves.

Grabowski said it’s still a challenge to obtain access to tests and supplies, and ensure that labs can

return results quickly. When states fail to manage testing directly, he said, it allows an escape route for

some facilities that “don’t really want to know results because then they have to do something about

it.”

“It’s a very different policy to recommend universal testing than to go out and provide it,” Grabowski

said.

Industry advocates agree that many skilled nursing facilities are struggling to cobble together tests

and other resources, but attribute difficulties to a lack of adequate funding.

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The federal government recently provided nearly $5 billion in emergency aid for skilled nursing

facilities, which means each center would get about $300,000, according to the American Health Care

Assn. and the National Center of Assisted Living, an industry group.

Assuming a cost of $100 per test, one round of universal testing of residents and staff in the average

99-bed nursing home would cost $20,000, but those costs could escalate quickly if testing needs to

be repeated during outbreaks. At a minimum, the state recommends universal testing for all residents

and staff in skilled nursing facilities and surveillance testing of 25% of staff each week in facilities

without any cases.

The federal funding boost doesn’t provide for assisted living facilities, which account for an additional

60,000 employees and 185,000 residents in the state.

The problem of cost is especially worrisome when it comes to testing staff, said Belden, the industry

advocate. Though patient costs are covered by state and federal insurance, he said there is

uncertainty about how testing on staff would be covered.

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California health officials declined to answer on the record questions about costs of testing, but

referred to online documents that indicated private insurance would cover the of testing staff. They

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also pointed to provisions of the CARES Act that requires insurers to pay for tests for healthcare

workers and a state mandate that would require about three-quarters of plans to cover costs.

But industry officials and workers advocates raised red flags on relying on staff’s private insurance to

pay for ongoing regimes that probably would require multiple tests over months if not longer.

Dr. Sujal Mandavia is an emergency room doctor and chief medical officer of San Francisco-based

Carbon Health, which has conducted testing in about a dozen nursing homes in the state. Mandavia

said his company is holding off on billing right now for the facilities where they have tested because

of the uncertainties around what providers will ultimately pay for.

“It’s still not clear from the people who would write the checks, the payers and the insurance groups,

about what they are willing to pay and when,” he said. “I’ll be honest with you, it may turn out to be

an unfunded mandate. Nobody knows yet.”

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April Verrett, president of Service Employees International Union (SEIU), Local 2015, which represents

many workers in skilled nursing facilities, points out that many of her members are women of color

and immigrants, and may lack insurance. She contends it is unclear if co-pays and other costs would

be entirely waived for tests for those who do, and wonders about the hidden costs of testing,

including time spent traveling to collection sites if necessary.

Relying on private insurance “is not a sufficient way to deal with this,” Verrett said.

“We have heard loud and clear from our members that part of them feeling safe at work is being

tested,” she said. “It is still putting the burden on the worker to jump through hoops to get testing

that should just be readily available.”

She also questions if the industry, which was criticized for failing to provide workers with protective

gear, should have so much say in choosing their testing programs — albeit under the supervision of

county health directors.

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“There is still a huge issue that many workers are facing across the state with feeling that employers

are not being transparent,” she said.

The state has not published testing data on

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when and how many tests have taken place,

and does not plan to do so. It took months

for state health officials to release, in mid-

April, the names of nursing homes with

COVID-19 outbreaks, though the data

included errors and omissions. The state is still refusing to release testing data by county, despite

requests from The Times.

That lack of transparency both with employers and state officials leaves Verrett and others worried

that the effectiveness of the myriad testing strategies will be hard to assess.

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“Things aren’t going to turn around if we don’t have some way to measure this, and if we don’t

measure it, we will be working in the dark,” said Michael Connors, a spokesman for California

Advocates for Nursing Home Reform. “We are absolutely in the dark right now.”

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By BEAU YARBROUGH | byarbrough@scng.com | The Press-EnterprisePUBLISHED: June 1, 2020 at 6:30 a.m. | UPDATED: June 1, 2020 at 6:31 a.m.

The best case scenario for Moreno Valley, city officials say, is the loss of more than $9 million thisfiscal year due to the coronavirus pandemic — and almost $10 million next year.

The city’s third quarter financial summary, included in agenda materials for the Tuesday, June 2,Moreno Valley City Council meeting, shows that officials expect to lose about $9.3 million due toincreased expenses and lost revenue this fiscal year, which ends June 30. And for next fiscal year,which ends June 30, 2021, officials are estimating a loss of $9.9 million.

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A city report calls these projections “best-case scenarios.” Experts believe a second wave ofcoronavirus infections in the fall is likely.

Under normal circumstances, sales tax revenue is about 18% of Moreno Valley’s total budget,according to Assistant City Manager Marshall Eyerman and its tax on hotel stays less than that. Bothhave been hit hard, across the state, by shutdowns in response to the pandemic.

But there is good news, sort of, Eyerman said.

“We’ve planned since the last recession for these sorts of situations,” he said.

The city has set up emergency funds to protect against financial crises and does quarterly budgetreviews of their two-year budgets so the city can respond quickly to unexpected problems.

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But Moreno Valley is also cutting costs, starting with a 15% salary cut to all city staff, which wassigned by the city council on May 5. City council members are each receiving a 10% cut to their$1,762 monthly salaries. According to Eyerman, the council had never had its salary cuts made duringthe 2008 recession restored in the years following, as city staff had.

Those cuts add up to “substantial savings,” he said.

No layoffs are planned, according to Eyerman.

“And then we’re looking at savings in the general fund that will not impact the general public,” he said.

That includes reductions in the overtime; travel and training; and materials and supplies budgets.Contracts are also being renegotiated.

The city will be dipping into reserves, taking out $2.81 million to cover losses this year. According tothe report, there is currently no plan to use reserves again next year. According to city policy, a planmust be approved within five years to restore that $2.81 million to the reserve fund.

The staff report states that “all essential services” will be maintained over the next two years, alongwith meals programs for vulnerable community members, the city’s Emergency Operations Center,expanded services at the Employment Resource Center and more.

In-person retail shopping began to reopen this week in earnest, after Gov. Gavin Newsom releasednew guidelines for doing so on Monday, May 25. Eyerman said he believes Moreno Valley shouldbounce back.

“Recessions are cyclical and we’ve been prepared,” he said. “We’re looking for a swift recovery.”

Moreno Valley isn’t alone in being hurt by the pandemic.

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could cause the state’s 482 cities and towns to lose at least$6.7 billion in revenue over the next two fiscal years.

Most cities reported unexpected expenditures, includingdisinfecting public facilities, purchasing personal protectiveequipment, buying new technology to allow remote work,opening emergency operations centers and increasedpublic safety costs, including overtime.

More than 79% of all cities are expected to cut services,including 79% of cities with a population between 100,000and 249,999 residents. Moreno Valley has has more than213,000 residents, according to U.S. Census Bureau estimates.

In Riverside County, Riverside is preparing to make a 10% budget cut due to the pandemic, Hemethas lost 34% of its sales tax revenue, Perris has lost 10% of its revenue and San Jacinto has lost 16%of its sales tax revenue.

As of Friday, May 29, Riverside County had 7,486 cases of COVID-19, including 323 deaths. Ofthose, 792 cases and 23 deaths were in Moreno Valley.

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Another 25 Los Angeles County residents have died due to coronavirus-related causes, officialsannounced Sunday, May 31, bringing the county’s death toll to 2,362.

There were also 1,379 new cases of COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, identified inthe county. The total number of infections identified as of Sunday was 54,996.

“Through these difficult times, we mourn with all of you who have lost someone you love to COVID-19,” Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer said in a statement. “We are deeply sorry for your loss, andwish you healing and peace.”

Sunday’s news came a day after Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti announced that nine city-run

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COVID-19 testing sites would close two hours early due to violence that broke out in protests thatwere organized to call for justice for George Floyd, an unarmed black man who died after a whiteofficer kneeled on his neck in Minnesota on Monday.

The Public Health Department did not respond to requests for comment on whether the early closureof testing sites impacted their work or whether officials are concerned about the lack of socialdistancing among protesters could further the spread of COVID-19.

Garcetti said Sunday that some testing sites would remain closed Monday, June 1, “because thevolunteers who staff these centers still do not feel safe coming back to them.”

But the locations at Dodger Stadium — which has the capacity to administer 6,000 tests — andKedren Community Health Center will reopen Monday, Garcetti said. Testing sites have been closedSundays throughout the public-health crisis.

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“Everyone with an appointment for tomorrow can still be accommodated,” he said. “I encourage allresidents to get tested.”

So far, 93% of the people who have died in LA County due to coronavirus-related causes hadunderlying health conditions.

Of all who have died, about 41% were Latino, 28% werewhite, 18% were Asian, 12% were African American, 1%were Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander and 1% identifiedas another race.

As of Sunday, about 12% of people who have testedpositive for the virus have been hospitalized at some pointduring their illness.

More than 598,000 people have been tested for COVID-19so far, with about 8% of them testing positive.

Ferrer said in a Sunday statement that the precautions thathave been recommended throughout the pandemic —washing your hands, wearing a cloth face covering andmaintaining 6 feet of distance from others — is stillparamount.

“Please remember that the actions we all take today willaffect the numbers of cases, hospitalizations and deaths several weeks from now,” she said. “Thisvirus has not changed and is still easily transmitted among people in contact with each other.”

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By DEEPA BHARATH | dbharath@scng.com | Orange County RegisterPUBLISHED: June 1, 2020 at 6:30 a.m. | UPDATED: June 1, 2020 at 6:31 a.m.

U.S. Census Bureau field offices, considered the heart and soul of the effort to count every American,are beginning to reopen in Southern California months after they folded up shop in response to thecoronavirus pandemic.

Field offices in San Bernardino County opened their doors last week, and the Census Bureau says itsoffice in Orange County will resume service on Monday, June 1.

The offices were shuttered after Gov. Gavin Newsom issued stay-at-home orders March 19, underwhich only essential businesses could remain open. Census officials have been doing what they cansince then to ensure compliance, but questionnaire responses this year clearly are lagging.

“As we headed into the pandemic, a lot of these operations shut down,” said Patricia Ramos, aspokeswoman for the U.S. Census Bureau. “A lot of the community efforts in Southern California went

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digital. We resorted to virtual meetings, virtual town halls and phone calls with organizations to makesure everyone was aware that the census efforts won’t stop.”

Community groups and organizations pivoted to other methods of reaching out to the public — fromphone banks to text messages.

In March, the Census Bureau also suspended delivery of census packets to households that do notget direct mail, Ramos said. In San Bernardino County, many of these homes are located inmountainous and rural areas. For example, the communities around Big Bear Lake rely heavily ongetting mail service to post office boxes. But the U.S. Census Bureau does not deliver to post officeboxes, Ramos said.

“So, they go to the front door and deliver the questionnaire,” she said.

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San Bernardino County alone has 56,088 of these households, Ventura has 1,005 and OrangeCounty has 1,741. There’s no word yet about when field offices in Los Angeles and Riverside countieswill be open again.

Door knocking months away

The workers, equipped with protection such as masks, will simply deliver the questionnaires at frontdoors. They won’t interact with residents or anyone else — at least, not yet, Ramos said.

“That’ll only happen when we start the door-to-door knocking, which won’t take place until August,”she said.

The coronavirus pandemic, which has claimed more than 100,000 lives across the United States, hasthrown a wrench in census data collection efforts, forcing deadlines to be pushed back so peopleactually have an opportunity to respond. This is the first year the government has allowed people torespond to census questions online.

In spite of that, response rates have varied by county in Southern California. Orange County’sresponse rate appears promising at 69.1% — very close to the 2010 response rate of 71.7%. LosAngeles, however, lags behind at 56.7%, still far away from the 69% self-response rate in 2010. SanBernardino County is at 57% (65.4% in 2010) and Riverside County at 59.4% (63.5% in 2010).

In Orange County, community groups on Friday, May 29, held a “census caravan,” a parade of schoolbuses, cars and vans that made its way through the Mini Street and French Court neighborhoods ofSanta Ana, which were identified as areas with some of the lowest response rates. The vehicles,bearing banners and magnets with information about filling out the census in Spanish, Vietnameseand Khmer, moved slowly through the communities.

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Trust low in immigrant communities

This effort was primarily to relay information about the census in immigrant communities where trust ingovernment is low, said Sarah Middleton, census consultant for Costa Mesa-based CharitableVentures, which has a contract with the state to support census outreach for Orange County’snonprofit sector.

“There is definitely fear and mistrust from immigrant communities and our partners continue to sendout the message that the census is safe, secure and confidential,” she said. “That’s why trustedmessengers are so important. If immigrant communities see an organization or person they trustsaying this is important, they feel more comfortable participating. Otherwise, it just feels like a scarygovernment survey.”

Parts of Los Angeles County hard hit by the pandemic also are the ones that are hardest to count,said Paul Ong, director of UCLA’s Center for Neighborhood Knowledge. According to Ong’s analysisof census responses through April 30, the response rates from 2010 to 2020 vary widely throughoutthe county. His analysis found that the response rate for 2020 is about 11 percentage points belowwhat it was in 2010 for L.A. County. In many parts of the county, however, that rate is as low as21.6%.

Struggling to ‘close the gap’

The only way to prevent an extreme undercount in some areas of L.A. County would be to send outhordes of in-person census takers, Ong said.

“But, if workers can only begin to go door to door beginning in August, it’s going to be very difficult toclose the gap,” he said. “Despite significant efforts from census workers and local organizations, weare critically behind. Some groups such as low-income people, communities of color, renters andyoung children are at risk of being missed.”

Despite these dire projections, local groups are optimistic they will be able to reach those who arehard to reach.

Outreach at health clinics

AltaMed Health Services, which serves more than 300,000 patients across 35 community healthclinics in Los Angeles and Orange counties, will start opening up census kiosks in its clinic lobbiesbeginning June 1, said Eduardo Cisneros, director of civic engagement.

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AltaMed largely serves Latino and immigrant populations in both counties, particularly the uninsuredand those on Medi-Cal. Workers at the kiosks will help people fill out their census forms right there, hesaid.

“AltaMed clinics happen to be located in the same neighborhoods that are considered hard to count.And because health providers are highly trusted, it is effective for us to promote the census,” Cisnerossaid.

Even as the kiosks were closed since mid-March due to the pandemic, 35 coordinators at the clinicsoperated phone banks calling 1.4 million households and having direct conversations with about58,000 people, Cisneros said.

“We’ve continued to have posters and PSAs in our lobbies and we also started putting censusinformation in our waiting room screen savers,” he said. “We’ve also started to do census outreach atCOVID-19 testing centers by putting up banners, yard signs and handing out educational materialwhen appropriate.”

Completing the census is extremely important because the results will dictate how funds andresources are dispersed, said state Sen. Tom Umberg, D-Santa Ana.

“If we don’t have an accurate count, we are not going to get our fair share of resources,” he said. “Andit is a competition for funds and resources where I’m competing with other legislators.”

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By JOE MOZINGO

JUNE 1, 2020 | 6 AM

Nevada City, Calif. — In the old mining towns that helped birth this state, the bonanzas could be

counted on every summer in recent years — not in the extraction of ore, but in tourism, festivals and

destination weddings.

Now businesses are hoping just to survive the summer, even as the novel coronavirus itself has left

the region largely unscathed.

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Residents in many of the state’s rugged northern counties, from the Del Norte coast to here in the

Sierra foothills, are largely watching the pandemic unfold from afar, as if it were one more nightmare

in San Francisco and Los Angeles. Some feel stuck in a blind spot of public debate, lost between the

terrible reality of the worst of the scourge and the noisy extremists who call it a hoax.

Their remoteness hasn’t spared them from the economic fallout of the shutdown. And the sparsity of

COVID-19 cases in Nevada County has only made the restrictive measures hobbling their livelihoods

all the more exasperating.

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Nevada County has had 41 cases in total, and one death — but no new cases reported since April 28.

Moreover, it had just 12 cases on the west side of the county, which includes Nevada City and Grass

Valley. The remaining 29 were in the east, around Truckee, separated by 40 miles of wilderness.

But people here are torn — restaurateurs, campground owners, hotel managers, gym operators,

tattoo artists and wedding photographers. They know that if California opens up, the virus will come

to their communities. If it doesn’t, financial ruin will.

Dan Thiem and his wife, Erin, owners of Inn Town Campground in Nevada City, which has beenclosed since March 15. (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)

“We make 70% of our revenue in three months,” said Dan Thiem, who owns the Inn Town

Campground in Nevada City with his wife, Erin. “And we can’t do that right now.”

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Many of their campers come every year and rent their spots months ahead.

The state has given no indication as to when businesses like theirs will be allowed to open. Nor has

the county. The couple submitted a proposal to the health department on opening responsibly but

hasn’t heard back.

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“It’s a colossal failure of leadership on all fronts,” Thiem said. “The plan to deal with the coronavirus is

so disjointed, it’s perpetuating it and making it worse for everybody.”

He feels that until counties like Modoc, Yuba and Sutter began to defy state orders in the last few

weeks, state leaders were ignoring the more rural areas where work could not simply shift online.

“The asks are different for different people,” Thiem said. “I feel like the policymakers are Bay Area-

centric, where they say, ‘Just go work from home.’ You know most of our economy here cannot be

done from home. So to say, ‘Go work from home because you’re safer’ is different than to say, ‘You

need to shut down and bankrupt your business.’”

He and his wife spend much of their days processing cancellations even for months they might

ultimately be open.

“They’re making other plans now for other parts of the country,” Erin Thiem said. “People need

something to look forward to.”

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Elizabeth Poston, owner of Living Outdoors Landscapes, waters plants on Main Street in GrassValley. (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)

In a corner storefront downtown, Lior Rahmanian finds it hard to see a way out for his One 11 Kitchen

& Bar. Like many, he was already on his heels when the coronavirus hit, in debt from a renovation.

He first leased the ground floor of the 150-year-old building in November 2018. It was once a jail, and

its brick walls are a foot and a half thick. Three restaurants had operated there over the years, with a

tiny kitchen in need of remodeling.

When he moved in, the floor was black with grease, with leaks and rot in the wood. There were 11

unaddressed violations from the health department, he said.

A three-month renovation turned into a seven-month ordeal, and he finally opened last June, deeply

in debt.

“We hit the ground running. The first night we opened, I believe it was the First Friday Art Walk. We

had a full restaurant within 15 minutes of opening the door.”

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But in September and October, high winds prompted Pacific Gas & Electric to shut down the power

several times in the region. Rahmanian had to close for eight days, losing more than $2,000 a day,

while more than $10,000 worth of food perished.

“Everything is fresh; we don’t have frozen food here,” he said.

Then came the coronavirus. He had to close in-house dining. He laid off his 16 employees and stayed

open doing curbside takeout from noon to 8 p.m., working mostly by himself. He wasn’t close to

being able to pay his bills — his $4,200 rent, his PG&E bill, back pay to employees, suppliers’ invoices,

installments on his renovation loans.

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Lior Rahmanian, chef-owner of One 11 Kitchen & Bar in Nevada City, shows a stack of bills he is readyto mail out. (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)

“One of my produce companies, they froze

my account because I couldn’t pay my bill.

So I’ve been paying them $100 here, $200

here,” he said.

On May 18, the county permitted restaurants

to open, under pressure from a group of

business owners. It took Rahmanian a week

just to find four willing employees at a time

when federal benefits are paying them $600

a week on top of state unemployment.

“Most people in the restaurant industry are making more money now sitting at home than working,”

he said. “I can’t afford a $4,000-a-month employee.”

A neighboring business owner put their shared predicament this way: “The government bought our

employees; now we need to buy them back.”

Rahmanian reopened for diners May 24, having customers order at the counter and seat themselveson the outside patio. He could serve a maximum of about 20 people at a time, compared with nearly

80 before.

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He does not blame the government for the distancing or the shutdown. He understands the health

emergency and notes that Nevada County has a large population of elderly people. He understands

that people are scared.

But he will have to close and file for bankruptcy without help of some sort, whether it be his landlord

cutting his rent or the government offering assistance that isn’t just a loan that he’ll have to dig out of

later.

“Half rent is the most I can pay until things go back to normal,” he said. “And normal doesn’t really

mean the state or the governor or the county telling me I can open full-force; it means when guests

feel safe enough to fill up this restaurant. A lot of people a year from now are still going to stay away

from large crowds and a packed restaurant.”

Joy Porter, a commercial photographer and chairwoman of a local chamber of commerce, helped

organize businesses to lobby the county to open up.

Rachel “Ginger” Lazarus, owner of Cult of Gemini in Grass Valley, disinfects the counter insideher eclectic occult shop, which reopened last week. (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)

“I was getting dozens of calls from people who wanted to know why we weren’t following Sutter and

Yuba counties,” said Porter.

Those neighboring counties to the west — far more conservative and agricultural than Nevada

County — announced that they were opening businesses, including restaurants, before the state gave

them the go-ahead. They had similar numbers of cumulative COVID-19 cases to Nevada County but

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hadn’t tapered down to zero.

Porter is still fighting to push the county farther open, against another tide of people clamoring to

keep it shut as tightly as possible.

Pamela Magill, 55, ran into trouble when she posted on Facebook that people who did not feel

symptoms should not go to a new coronavirus testing center.

“If we get 10 cases, they’ll shut us down again,” she said.

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Her business, Gold Country Gymnastics in Grass Valley, had been closed since March, but she had let

children on the team practice there in small groups.

“Parents said, ‘Thank you for doing this. Our kids are driving us crazy. They need to get some

exercise,’” she said.

She said the most she had at one time was 15 young gymnasts, and maintaining six feet of distancing

was easy in the 15,000-square-foot facility, for which she pays $10,000 a month.

Pamela Magill, owner of Gold Country Gymnastics in Grass Valley. (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)

But another contingent of parents was alarmed and notified the health department that Magill had

opened against the rules.

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The police came two days after her May 9 Facebook post. “Basically, the police officer said, ‘Can you

just stay under the radar?’” she said.

She doesn’t want to do that. She said parents and children who feel they can safely work out at the

gym have a right to.

“Everybody knows it’s not a hoax. It’s clearly a real virus. There is no doubt that it is scary and it is

dangerous and people are dying from it,” she said. But with no new cases in Nevada County since

April, “there is absolutely no reason for our county to be locked down.”

Wedding photographers Andrew Mishler and his wife, Melanie, at their home in Penn Valley.(Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)

Farther down the foothills in Penn Valley, Melanie and Andrew Mishler, who run a wedding

photography business, at first disagreed about the virus.

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“I think it’s bull---; he doesn’t,” said Melanie, 44.

Her husband, 45, thinks the shutdown should have been more drastic at the beginning.

“If everyone in the United States and other parts of the world would have taken this seriously in the

first two or three weeks and restricted movement, wore masks, did what the professionals and

scientists and doctors all said, it wouldn’t have been such a huge disaster,” Andrew said.

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Now that it is a “huge disaster,” he agrees with Melanie that they have to learn to survive with the

virus. And to survive economically.

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“We call it the new Napa,” said Melanie. “Everything from barn weddings to vineyards to lakeside —

all type of venues here.”

A decade or so ago, people used to bring their vendors from out of the area. “It was still country

bumpkin,” she said. “Now we have a really tightknit group of vendors who are really top-notch. Napa

standards.”

That all seems to be unraveling before their eyes. They have already lost more than $100,000 from

couples rescheduling for next year. They fear this whole year is lost.

“How do you have a wedding with 150 people and social distance?” Melanie asked.

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They pinwheel through grief, anxiety, anger, regret.

“One day I’m angry at people for not social distancing,” said Andrew. “The next day, it’s the governor;

the next day, it’s China, because I hear they knew about it two months before. Then I’m angry at

ourselves.”

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Grass Valley residents Thaddeus and Stephanie Raczkowski, with their children Quinten, 4, andEverett, 6. (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)

At their campground in Nevada City, the Thiems pace under the ponderosa pines and incense

cedars, where their 70 sites are empty.

Usually, Dan said, “these are full every weekend from Memorial Day to Labor Day.”

They pass a fence and sign marking an old cemetery for Chinese workers who helped the town thrive.

The campground sits above a vein called the Mohawk, from which hundreds of tons of gold ore were

extracted during the 1800s. Those boom times ended with mines closing and stores shuttering.

By 1920, the population was less than half what it was in 1880.

The couple fears the latest era of prosperity is ending too.

“What’s going to be on the other side of this?” asked Dan. “If half of downtown doesn’t survive, what

type of community are we going to have?”

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By GEORGE AVALOS | |PUBLISHED: June 1, 2020 at 10:14 a.m. | UPDATED: June 1, 2020 at 10:18 a.m.

California’s reeling job market, knocked off its feet by government-mandated business shutdownsamid the coronavirus outbreak, may have staggered to a bottom, economists say.

The evidence that the worst may be over for job losses in California? A sharp decline in the number ofpeople with ongoing unemployment insurance claims in California, a statistic known as continuingclaims, according to economics experts.

“The continuing numbers for unemployment claims are the ones that show we are already at thebottom,” said Christopher Thornberg, an economist and founding partner with Beacon Economics.“The fact that continuing claims are dropping is evidence that we’re past the worst.”

Tucked away in the most recent official federal report on federal unemployment claims are statisticsfor early May that show a dramatic improvement in continuing claims for California.

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“This doesn’t mean the economy is in great shape, but the big drop in continuing claims is one of thegreen shoots that were are looking at,” said Brian Wesbury, chief economist with First Trust Advisors,an investment firm. “It’s really going to be continuing claims that show when the job market isimproving and employers are calling workers back.”

The number of workers claiming unemployment insurance benefits showed huge decreases bothnationwide and in California, a Department of Labor report shows.

“The large drop in continuing claims is a direct result of the sudden reopening of the country andCalifornia for business,” said Scott Anderson, chief economist with Bank of the West. “New layoffs arestill occurring, but at least near-term, the unemployment rate is peaking.”

For the week that ended on May 16, the number of California workers with claims for unemploymentinsurance totaled 2.12 million, down 40 percent from the continuing claims filed the prior week, theLabor Department report showed.

“Continuing claims could be falling because people are being recalled to their jobs,” said JeffreyMichael, director of the Stockton-based Center for Business and Policy Research at the University ofthe Pacific. “I do think we are at the bottom when it comes to unemployment.”

The claims filed during the week that ended May 16 were 1.44 million below the 3.56 million California

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workers who filed continuing claims in the week that ending on May 9, according to the report.

“As the state reopens, many of those furloughed will be re-employed,” said Jerry Nickelsburg, aveteran economist and director of the UCLA Anderson Forecast.

Still, California and the United States overall remain locked in an employment nosedive amid businessshutdowns that state and local government agencies have ordered in a quest to combat the spread ofthe deadly bug.

Over the most recent four weeks that ended on May 23, initial unemployment claims averaged246,400 a week. That figure is dramatically below the peak of 1.06 million unemployment claims thatwere filed during the week that ended on March 28.

Nevertheless, the recent figures remain more than five times higher than the 44,800 weekly averagefor initial unemployment claims that were filed over the first two months of 2020.

“We’ve definitely turned the corner, but there there are more bumps ahead,” Michael said.

Case in point: California, and the U.S. all must dig out of a historically huge hole of job losses beforetheir respective economies can turn around.

During March and April, combined job losses for the two months totaled 2.56 million in California, and21.42 million in the U.S.

In April alone, employment losses were 2.34 million in California and 20.54 million in the U.S.

It might take a few more weeks to be certain if the plunge in ongoing jobless claims is a pattern thatfirmly establishes an improving job market.

“This will be a short and sharp recession,” Thornberg said. “Very sharp and very short.”

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Public safety officials held a vehicle procession Saturday to honor California Rehabilitation Center Correctional Officer Danny Mendoza, 53,who died after being diagnosed with the coronavirus. (California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation)

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JUNE 1, 2020 | 9:41 AM

A correctional officer in the California state prison system died Saturday after testing positive for the

coronavirus, officials said.

While the Riverside County coroner will need to determine the precise cause of death for Danny

Mendoza, 53, he could be the first staff member of the California Department of Corrections and

Rehabilitation to fall victim to COVID-19.

“I am deeply saddened by this dedicated officer’s passing,” CDCR Secretary Ralph Diaz said in a

statement. “My prayers are with the Mendoza family during this challenging time, and I know that

everyone at CDCR sends their condolences and support.”

Mendoza had worked for the department for 24 years and was appointed as a cadet in 1996. Once

he graduated, he became a correctional officer at Calipatria State Prison in Imperial County.

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In 2018, he transferred to the California Rehabilitation Center in Norco, where he worked until his

death.

As the coronavirus outbreak continues to rage throughout California, jails and prisons have proved to

be particularly vulnerable to the virus — as crowded conditions can make it difficult, if not impossible,

to maintain the physical distancing health officials say is vital in stemming the disease’s spread.

As of Monday morning, 1,879 inmates in the state prison system were confirmed to be infected. Nine

inmates have died from COVID-19 — all of them at the California Institution for Men in Chino.

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According to state figures, there have been 309 confirmed COVID-19 cases among staff in the

Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and California Correctional Health Care Services as of

Friday evening, with 161 of those people having already recovered and returned to work.

Ten employees have tested positive at the California Rehabilitation Center, and one is back on the

job.

“I am heartbroken by the loss of one of our CRC family members,” CRC Warden Cynthia Tampkins

said in a statement. “Officer Mendoza was loved and respected by his peers, he will be greatly

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State data show California’s prisons have released about 3,500 inmates while the daily jail population

across 58 counties is down by 20,000 from late February.

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By Tara Parker-Pope

May 28, 2020

Fears about catching the coronavirus from contaminated surfaces have

prompted many of us to spend the past few months wiping down groceries,

leaving packages unopened and stressing about touching elevator buttons.

But what’s the real risk of catching Covid-19 from a germy surface or

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object?

The question has been on people’s minds lately, and there was some

confusion after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention made some

edits to its website last week. Social media sites and some news outlets

suggested the agency had downgraded its warnings and that surface

transmission was no longer a worry.

The C.D.C. subsequently issued a news release to clarify that indirect

contact from a contaminated surface — what scientists call fomite

transmission — remains a potential risk for catching Covid-19.

“Based on data from lab studies on Covid-19 and what we know about

similar respiratory diseases, it may be possible that a person can get Covid-

19 by touching a surface or object that has the virus on it and then touching

their own mouth, nose or possibly their eyes,” the agency wrote. “But this

isn’t thought to be the main way the virus spreads.”

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So does this mean we can catch coronavirus from touching a doorknob?

Catching a Frisbee? Sharing a casserole dish?

The answer, in theory, is yes, which is why you need to wash your hands

often and avoid touching your face. A number of studies of flu, rhinovirus,

coronavirus and other microbes have shown that respiratory illnesses,

including the new coronavirus, can spread by touching contaminated

surfaces, particularly in places like day care centers, offices and hospitals.

“What they’re saying is that high touch surfaces like railings and

doorknobs, elevator buttons are not the primary driver of the infection in

the United States,” said Erin Bromage, a comparative immunologist and

biology professor at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth. “But it’s

still a bad idea to touch your face. If someone who is infectious coughs on

their hand and shakes your hand and you rub your eyes — yes, you’re

infected. Someone’s drinking from a glass, and you pick it up near the rim

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and later rub your eyes or mouth, you’re infected.”

Here’s how fomite transmission works. An infected person coughs or

sneezes on their hands. Some of the droplets may splash onto a nearby

surface, or the person spreads the germs by touching a faucet or countertop

before washing his hands. Studies show that coronavirus can last up to

three days on plastic and steel, but once it lands on a surface, the amount of

viable virus begins to disintegrate in a matter of hours. That means a

droplet on a surface is far more infectious right after the sneeze — not so

much a few days later.

Next, you have to come along and touch the contaminated surface, pick up

enough viable virus on your hands, and then touch your eyes, nose or

mouth. If all goes well for the virus, you will get sick.

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“There’s a long chain of events that would need to happen for someone to

become infected through contact with groceries, mail, takeout containers or

other surfaces,” said Julia Marcus, an infectious disease epidemiologist and

assistant professor in the department of population medicine at Harvard

Medical School. “The last step in that causal chain is touching your eyes,

nose or mouth with your contaminated hand, so the best way to make sure

the chain is broken is washing your hands.”

An outbreak associated with a shopping mall in Wenzhou, China, may have

been fueled by fomite transmission. In January, seven workers who shared

an office in a shopping mall became ill when one of their co-workers

returned from Wuhan. The mall was closed, and public health officials

tracked two dozen more sick people, including several women who had

shopped at the mall, as well as their friends. None of them had come into

contact with the original sick office workers. The researchers speculated

that a women’s restroom or the mall elevators had been the source of

transmission.

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Other studies have used invisible fluorescent tracers — fake germs that

glow under black light — to track how germs are spread from surfaces. The

findings are unnerving. In one series of experiments, 86 percent of workers

were contaminated when spray or powder tracers were put on commonly

touched objects in an office. When tracer powder was put on a bathroom

faucet and exit doorknob, the glowing residue was found on employees’

hands, faces, phones and hair. From a shared phone, the tracer spread to

desktop surfaces, drinking cups, keyboards, pens and doorknobs. A

contaminated copy machine button added a trail of fluorescent finger

prints transferred to documents and computer equipment. And just 20

minutes after arriving home from the office, the fake germs were found on

backpacks, keys and purses, and on home doorknobs, light switches,

countertops and kitchen appliances.

A video making rounds on the internet shows how the black light

experiment works. The glow germs are put on the hands of just one diner at

a buffet, but by the end of the meal, everyone at the table has come into

contact with the glowing germs. The video explains why scientists

discourage the sharing of food during a viral outbreak.

But while those experiments show how germs can spread on surfaces, the

microbe still has to survive long enough and in a large enough dose to make

you sick. Eugene M. Chudnovsky, a professor at the City University of New

York, notes that surfaces are not a particularly effective means of viral

transmission. With the flu, for instance, it takes millions of copies of the

influenza virus to infect a person through surface-to-hand-to-nose contact,

but it may take only a few thousand copies to infect a person when the flu

virus goes from the air directly into the lungs.

Dr. Chudnovsky, a theoretical physicist whose research has focused on the

spread of the airborne infection, said a similar pattern is likely to be true

for the new coronavirus, but the exact numbers are not known.

“I believe the C.D.C. is right when it says that surface transmission is not a

dominant one,” said Dr. Chudnovsky. “Surfaces frequently touched by a

large number of people, like door handles, elevator buttons, etc., may play a

more significant role in spreading the infection than objects touched

incidentally, like food packages delivered to homes.”

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The bottom line is that the best way to protect ourselves from coronavirus

— whether it’s surface transmission or close human contact — is still social

distancing, washing our hands, not touching our faces and wearing masks.

“Hand washing is important not only for fomite transmission, but also for

person-to-person transmission,” said Dr. Daniel Winetsky, a postdoctoral

fellow in the division of infectious diseases at Columbia University. “The

respiratory droplets we produce when speaking, coughing and sneezing fall

mostly onto our hands, and can fall onto other people’s hands if they are

within six feet from us.”

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Hundreds of demonstrators gathered Sunday afternoon, May 31, in Chino Hills at the corners ofGrand Avenue and Peyton Drive to protest the killing of George Floyd.

Holding signs and chanting “No justice, no peace,” and “Black Lives Matters” the peaceful group grewin numbers as the afternoon arrived, drawing horn honks from cars driving by. At one point andestimated 250 were participating.

Floyd, 46, was an unarmed black man who died on May 25 in police custody after a Minneapolisofficer kneeled on his neck. The officer was arrested Friday and charged with murder in a case thatsparked protests across the United States.

Signs read “I can’t breath,” “say their names,” “silence is betrayal,” and “Asians for black lives.”

The protests across the region and the country have turned violent at times, including in LA, whereGov. Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency and the National Guard has been brought in tohelp police in downtown LA after days of protests have led to looting and fires. A curfew will be inplace Sunday night for the second consecutive night.

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MINNEAPOLIS — Americans began cleaning up charred and glass-strewn streets Sunday afteranother night of unrest fueled by rage over police mistreatment of black Americans destroyedbusinesses, damaged landmarks and raised tensions across a divided nation to the boiling point.

Demonstrators block the path of a Los Angeles Fire Department truck during a public disturbance on Melrose Avenue, Saturday, May30, 2020, in Los Angeles. Protests were held in U.S. cities over the death of George Floyd, a black man who died after beingrestrained by Minneapolis police officers on May 25. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

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The chaos reached into every corner of the country, and the scars extended even to buildings nearthe White House. Some elected officials prepared to deploy additional National Guard troops inanticipation of more turmoil.

Tens of thousands of people marched peacefully to protest the death of George Floyd, a black manwho died Monday after a white Minneapolis police officer pressed his knee on his neck until hestopped breathing. But many demonstrations sank into violence as night fell: Cars and stores weretorched. The words “I can’t breathe” were spray-painted all over buildings. Police responded with teargas and rubber bullets.

The scale of the protests, sweeping from coast to coast and unfolding on a single night, rivaled thehistoric demonstrations of the civil rights and Vietnam eras. And by Sunday morning, the fury hadspread to Europe, where thousands gathered in London’s Trafalgar Square, clapping and wavingplacards despite government rules barring crowds because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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“We’re sick of it. The cops are out of control,” protester Olga Hall said in Washington, D.C. “They’rewild. There’s just been too many dead boys.”

People set fire to squad cars, threw bottles at officers and broke storefront windows. They carriedaway TVs and other merchandise even as some protesters urged them to stop. In Indianapolis, twopeople were reported dead after multiple shootings that happened during downtown violence. Thoseslayings added to deaths reported in Detroit and Minneapolis in recent days.

In Minneapolis, the city where the protests began, police, state troopers and National Guard membersmoved in soon after an 8 p.m. curfew took effect to break up the demonstrations. The show of forcecame after three days in which police largely avoided engaging protesters, and after the state pouredmore than 4,000 National Guard troops into Minneapolis. Authorities said that number would soon riseto nearly 11,000.

President Donald Trump appeared to cheer on the tougher tactics, commending the National Guarddeployment in Minneapolis and declaring “No games!” He said police in New York City “must beallowed to do their job!”

Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden condemned the violence as he continued toexpress common cause with those demonstrating after Floyd’s death.

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On Sunday, maintenance crews near the White House worked to replace windows that had beenshattered with large pieces of wood. Buildings for blocks were marked with graffiti, including cursesabout Trump and anti-police sentiments. Shattered glass still covered the sidewalks. The damagedbuildings included the Department of Veterans Affairs, directly across the street from the WhiteHouse.

At the Minneapolis intersection where Floyd was killed, people gathered with brooms and flowers,saying it was important to protect what they called a “sacred space.” The intersection was blockedwith the traffic cones while a ring of flowers was laid out.

County Commissioner Angela Conley showed up shortly after the curfew lifted, saying that police hadtrampled flowers and photos of Floyd. “The community needs healing, and what happened last nightonly exacerbated the pain that’s been felt,” she said of police action.

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Conley said the demonstrations and confrontations with police would continue until the other threeofficers who were at the scene when Floyd was pinned down are arrested and prosecuted. The officerwho put his knee on Floyd’s neck, Derek Chauvin, was charged last week with murder. All fourofficers have been fired.

“We’ll continue to have this militarized presence in our community until justice is done,” Conley said.

Meanwhile, a church located at the intersection set up chairs for an outdoor service. Tracy Gordon, ofthe Worldwide Outreach for Christ, said it was important “to bring some hope to the community and leteveryone know that God is in control.”

Few parts of America were untouched, from protesters setting fires inside Reno’s city hall, to policelaunching tear gas at rock-throwing demonstrators in Fargo, North Dakota. In Salt Lake City,demonstrators flipped a police car and lit it on fire. Police said six people were arrested and an officerwas injured after being struck in the head with a baseball bat.

Overnight curfews were imposed in more than a dozen major cities nationwide, including Atlanta,Denver, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, San Francisco and Seattle.

At least 13 police officers were injured in Philadelphia , and at least four police vehicles were set onfire. In New York City, dangerous confrontations flared repeatedly as officers made arrests andcleared streets. A video showed two NYPD cruisers lurching into a crowd of demonstrators who werepushing a barricade against one of them and pelting it with objects. Several people were knocked tothe ground. It was unclear if anyone was hurt.

“The mistakes that are happening are not mistakes. They’re repeated violent terrorist offenses, andpeople need to stop killing black people,” Brooklyn protester Meryl Makielski said.

Some leaders prepared to put more soldiers in the streets by evening. Georgia Gov. Brian Kempauthorized the deployment of up to 3,000 National Guard troops to Athens, Savannah and any othercities where more demonstrations were planned. Kemp had already approved up to 1,500 Guardsmento help enforce a 9 p.m. Saturday curfew in Atlanta.

“The protesters need to know we’re going to support their efforts in a peaceful, nonviolent protest,” theRepublican told television station WSB late Saturday. “The agitators need to know that we’ll be there… to take them to jail if they’re destroying lives and property.”

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Richmond’s prominent Confederate monuments. At theheadquarters of the United Daughters of the Confederacy,which news outlets reported was vandalized and setablaze, a few men with long guns were among a smallcrowd gathered outside. One man said they were there toprotect the building.

In Ferguson, Missouri, where Michael Brown Jr. was shotand killed by a white police officer in 2014, sparking a waveof protests throughout the country, six officers were hurt bythrown rocks and fireworks.

Police have arrested nearly 1,700 people in 22 cities sinceThursday, according to a tally by The Associated Press.Nearly a third of those arrests came in Los Angeles, where

the governor declared a state of emergency and ordered the National Guard to back up the city’s10,000 police officers as dozens of fires burned across the city.

This week’s unrest recalled the riots in Los Angeles nearly 30 years ago after the acquittal of the whitepolice officers who beat Rodney King, a black motorist who had led them on a high-speed chase. Theprotests of Floyd’s killing have gripped many more cities, but the losses have yet to approach thestaggering totals Los Angeles saw during five days of rioting in 1992, when more than 60 people died,2,000-plus were injured and thousands arrested, with property damage topping $1 billion.

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MINNEAPOLIS — America’s cities boarded up windows, swept up glass and covered graffiti Sunday

as the country’s most significant night of protests in a half-century promised to spill into another day

of unrest fueled by killings of black people at the hands of police.

The turbulence sparked by the death of George Floyd — the unarmed, handcuffed black man who

died after his neck was pinned under the knee of a white Minneapolis police officer for several

minutes — shook not only the streets of New York and Los Angeles, but dozens of smaller

communities such as Fargo, N.D., and Lincoln, Neb. The damage extended even to buildings near the

White House.

Peaceful protests involving tens of thousands of people Saturday gave way, in some places, to rioting,

looting and violence, with police vehicles torched, stores emptied and objects hurled at officers. The

police response varied from restrained to aggressive, with officers at times firing tear gas and rubber

bullets.

Police and peaceful protesters alike pleaded for a stop to violence, saying it only hindered calls for

justice and reform.

“It only hurts the cause,” said Danielle Outlaw, head of the police force in Philadelphia, where more

than 200 people were arrested as fires and looting engulfed Center City.

Disgust over generations of racism in a country founded by slaveholders combined with a string of

recent high-profile killings to stoke the anger. Three months before Floyd’s death, Ahmaud Arbery

was fatally shot as he jogged through a Georgia neighborhood. A white father and son are charged

in the slaying. The month after Arbery was killed, an EMT named Breonna Taylor was shot eight times

by Louisville, Ky., narcotics detectives who knocked down her front door. No drugs were found in her

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home.

Adding to that was angst from months of lockdowns brought on by the coronavirus outbreak, which

has disproportionately hurt communities of color, not only in terms of infections but in job losses and

economic stress.

The droves of people congregating in chanting demonstrations threatened to trigger new outbreaks,

a fact overshadowed by the boiling tensions.

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“We’re sick of it. The cops are out of control,” protester Olga Hall said in Washington, D.C. “They’re

wild. There’s just been too many dead boys.”

The scale of the protests, sweeping from coast to coast and unfolding on a single night, rivaled the

historic demonstrations of the civil rights and Vietnam War eras.

Curfews were imposed in places around the U.S., including Los Angeles, Atlanta, Denver, Minneapolis,

San Francisco and Seattle. About 5,000 National Guard soldiers and airmen were activated in 15 states

and Washington, D.C.

In Minneapolis, the city where the protests began, police, state troopers and National Guard members

moved in soon after an 8 p.m. curfew took effect Saturday to break up demonstrations. The show of

force came after three days in which police largely avoided engaging protesters, and after the state

poured more than 4,000 National Guard troops into Minneapolis. Authorities said that number would

soon rise to nearly 11,000.

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President Trump appeared to cheer on the tougher tactics, commending the National Guard

deployment in Minneapolis and declaring “No games!” He said police in New York City “must be

allowed to do their job!”

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Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden condemned the violence as he continued to

express common cause with those demonstrating after Floyd’s death.

“The act of protesting should never be allowed to overshadow the reason we protest,” Biden said in a

late-night statement.

At the Minneapolis intersection where Floyd died, people gathered with brooms and flowers, saying it

was important to protect what they called a “sacred space.” The intersection was blocked with traffic

cones while a ring of flowers was laid out.

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County Commissioner Angela Conley showed up shortly after the curfew lifted, saying that police had

trampled flowers and photos of Floyd. “The community needs healing, and what happened last night

only exacerbated the pain that’s been felt,” she said of police action.

Conley said the demonstrations and confrontations with police would continue until the other three

officers who were at the scene when Floyd was pinned down are arrested and prosecuted. The officer

who put his knee on Floyd’s neck, Derek Chauvin, was charged last week with murder. All four officers

have been fired.

“We’ll continue to have this militarized presence in our community until justice is done,” Conley said.

Few parts of America were untouched, from protesters setting fires inside Reno’s city hall, to police

launching tear gas at rock-throwing demonstrators in Fargo, N.D. In Salt Lake City, demonstrators

flipped a police car and lighted it on fire. Police said six people were arrested and an officer was

injured after being struck in the head with a baseball bat.

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By Sunday, the fury had spread to Europe, where thousands gathered in London’s Trafalgar Square,

clapping and waving placards despite government rules barring crowds because of the COVID-19

pandemic.

At least 13 police officers were injured in Philadelphia, and at least four police vehicles were set on

fire. In New York, a video showed two police cruisers lurching into a crowd of demonstrators who

were pushing a barricade against one of them and pelting it with objects. Several people were

knocked to the ground. It was unclear if anyone was hurt.

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people need to stop killing black people,” Brooklyn protester Meryl Makielski said.

In Indianapolis, two people were reported dead in bursts of downtown violence, adding to deaths

reported in Detroit and Minneapolis in recent days.

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Sites around the U.S. were defaced with spray-painted messages, from the facade of St. Patrick’s

Cathedral in New York to the historic Hay-Adams hotel near the White House. Some of Floyd’s

gasped last words — “I can’t breathe” — were repeated around the country, alongside anti-police

messages.

On Sunday, maintenance crews near the White House worked to replace windows that had been

shattered with large pieces of wood. Buildings for blocks were marked with graffiti, including curses

about Trump. Shattered glass still covered the sidewalks. The damaged buildings included the

Department of Veterans Affairs, directly across the street from the White House.

Some leaders prepared to put more soldiers in the streets by evening. Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp

authorized the deployment of up to 3,000 National Guard troops to Athens, Savannah and any other

cities where more demonstrations were planned. Kemp had already approved up to 1,500 Guardsmen

to help enforce a 9 p.m. Saturday curfew in Atlanta.

Police have arrested nearly 1,700 people in 22 cities since Thursday, according to a tally by the

Associated Press. Nearly a third of those arrests came in Los Angeles, where the governor declared a

state of emergency and ordered the National Guard to back up the city’s 10,000 police officers as

dozens of fires burned across the city.

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This week’s unrest recalled the riots in Los Angeles nearly 30 years ago after the acquittal of the white

police officers who beat Rodney King, a black motorist who had led them on a high-speed chase. The

protests of Floyd’s death have gripped many more cities, but the losses have yet to approach the

staggering totals Los Angeles saw during five days of rioting in 1992, when more than 60 people died,

2,000-plus were injured and thousands arrested, with property damage topping $1 billion.

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The cost to taxpayers for each gun homicide in San Bernardino is $2.3 million, a criminal justicereform group working with the city said in a study made to find solutions.

Homicides went up more than 15% year-over-year in April, while San Bernardino’s overall crime ratefell by 14%.

“Our calls significantly dropped in April,” San Bernardino police Sgt. John Echevarria, a departmentspokesman said Thursday. “Everyone was doing the stay-at-home thing, and keeping to themselves.”

In the first full month of stay-at-home orders and other restrictions put in place because of the

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coronavirus pandemic, every category of crime except homicide dropped, compared to the same timein 2019, according to the Uniform Crime Reporting statistics gathered by San Bernardino for theCalifornia Department of Justice.

Burglary was down 31.5%, auto theft down 19.2%, rape down 5.8%, aggravated assault down 2.6%,and robbery dropped by 4.8%, the latest report said, bringing overall crime to a drop of 14.15%.

But calls have gone up withing the last week as weather warmed and state and local officialscoincidentally loosened pandemic restrictions. “People just got anxious, got a little tired of beinghome. A lot of people want to get out and do their part,” Echevarria said.

There were four homicides in San Bernardino in April, bringing the 2020 total to 15, compared with 13for the same time last year. Echevarria said Thursday that suspects have been identified in three ofthose cases, with two arrests and one warrant issued. The fourth remains unsolved. All four were gun

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slayings, he said.

Echevarria said department education videos online have encouraged more tips from the community.“These leads have been very helpful,” he said. “In the past, that hasn’t happened.”

On May 27, the National Institute for Criminal Justice Reform issued its report, made with the city’scooperation, that said each gun homicide in San Bernardino costs taxpayers $2.3 million. Each injuryshooting costs $871,000 in taxpayer money, the report said.

There have been an average of 47 homicides a year for the past five years for the Inland Empire city,costing taxpayers $108 million annually, the San Bernardino Cost of Gun Violence study said.

A virtual town hall, open to the public, is set for 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. June 1 on the subject of gun violencein the city, with Police Chief Eric McBride among the listed participants.

While “the human toll of gun violence is most costly,” the figures gathered by the institute help bringthe issue forward to people who may not be affected by gun violence, said David Muhammad,executive director of Oakland-based NICJR.

“When you can show someone in a neighborhood that has no gun violence that, yes, it affects you,you are paying that cost — we are hopeful that everyone will pay attention,” he said in a phoneinterview this week.

The costs were assessed by interviewing officials with the San Bernardino Police Department, forexample, to put a dollar sign on their response to a crime scene, lining up personnel and time spent,then checking that against public records for salaries, Muhammad said.

Other agencies that also arrive at a homicide scene usually includes the fire department, a contractedprivate ambulance, county coroner, and district attorney investigators, Muhammad said. The crime

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scene cost estimate is $10,330, according to the study.

Hospital costs, average of $50,400, are mostly a taxpayer expense, he said, “because of theunfortunate truth that most people who get shot also live within the poverty range.”

The largest single cost is incarceration, $1.94 million, including jail and state prison time for thosearrested and convicted.

Muhammad said the estimates were purposely kept down. “We wanted to make the low estimates, tohave a completely defensible number. $2.3 million per homicide shooting in San Bernardino — a citythat is strapped for resources, is something that is very serious,” he said.

Muhammad says he hopes the town hall meeting on June 1 will help to reignite efforts San Bernardinostarted in 2018 with its Violence Intervention Program, created to use community groups to reachthose most vulnerable to gun violence.

Since then, the city has voted in a new mayor, has a new police chief, and there has been turmoil inthe city manager’s office.

“The number of people involved in gun violence isincredibly small and can be identified,” Muhammad said.What has been delayed since the changes in the city, hesaid, is connecting those people to the outreach workers.He compared it to giving information and counseling topeople vulnerable to coronavirus.

“We can achieve a significant reduction of gun violence inSan Bernardino,” Muhammad said. “We really should beexploring reinvestment into these types of communityservices.”

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African-American man killed by police in Minneapolis last week—here in the Morongo Basin, locals

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Residents held a peaceful protest in Yucca Valley Sunday afternoon.

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Floyd. Dozens of signs in support of the Black Lives Matter Movement lined the highway while

demonstrators took the time to educate others and demand change.

Residents gathered at the intersection of Highway 62 and Old Woman Springs Road Sunday afternoon to protest the

death of George Floyd who was killed in Minneapolis by a police of�cer who kneeled on his neck for more than eight

minutes, as three other police of�cers stood by.

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Yesterday’s local protests remained small compared to what larger cities across the country are

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Hundreds of chanting demonstrators marched through downtown San Bernardino Sunday, May 31, aswhat started as a protest over the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis ended with broken windows,graffiti and rock-and-water-bottle throwing.

As night fell, the gathering turned increasingly violent as small blazes ignited and firefighters asked forpolice protection to respond. The San Bernardino Police Department announced a curfew that wentinto effect at 8 p.m. and was to last until sunrise, June 1.

“If you are a resident in San Bernardino, near the protests, please stay inside,” the San BernardinoCounty District Attorney’s Office tweeted just after 8 p.m.

Police stand to block entrance to the 215 Freeway as protesters march in San Bernardino on Sunday, May 31, 2020. (Photo byWatchara Phomicinda, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)

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Among the targets for looting was the Waterman Discount Mall, 999 N Waterman Ave., with the DA’sOffice asking via Twitter for it to be spared.

“People make their livelihood at the Waterman Discount Mall. Please tell those trying to destroy it tomake this a peaceful march. San Bernardino doesn’t deserve this.”

The death of Floyd, 46, an unarmed black man who died on May 25 in police custody after aMinneapolis officer kneeled on his neck, has sparked violent protests across the country. The officerwas arrested Friday and charged with murder. Three other officers, who were involved in the arrest,were also fired from the Minneapolis Police Department.

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Cities and counties around the country and here, in Southern California, ordered curfews to help quelldays of violent protests. A state of emergency came from Gov. Gavin Newsom Saturday night for LA,and the National Guard moved in.

During Sunday’s demonstration in San Bernardino, protesters gathered outside City Hall, the countygovernment center and law enforcement agencies, including the San Bernardino Police Departmentand the federal Department of Homeland Security office on Rialto Avenue. Chants of “No justice, nopeace! No racist police!” came from group that continued to grow.

The group of hundreds were met by California Highway Patrol officers when they marched to the 215Freeway and the Second Street off-ramp. No demonstrators got on the freeway lanes.

Vandals smashed out a window at the Bank of America at 303 N. D St. and someone wrote “blacklives matter” on one of its walls. A broken window was also seen at the nearby American SportsUniversity.

Firefighters asked for law enforcement protection. “There have been several small fires throughout thecity, throughout the night,” San Bernardino County Fire Department spokesman Jimmy Schiller saidby phone.

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The fires were in a “very unstable area,” he said. The cause of the fires was under investigation. Onewas near the exterior of a home, and several others were burning in fields, he said.

Water bottles and rocks were thrown at CHP officers along Fifth Street between Mountain View andSierra avenues and sirens wailed across downtown as police and CHP vehicles lined Fifth Street.

No injuries or reports of arrests were immediately available Sunday night.

Mac Medina, 41, of Rialto, sat on the steps outside City Hall in the evening with friends

“It’s not just Mr. Floyd. There’s too many people dying and getting shot. Look what just happened inHayward,” Medina said, apparently referring to the recent shooting and wounding of a 61-year-oldman by police in that city. Police said the man was armed with a knife.

He expressed disappointment in the vandalism that occurred Sunday night in downtown.

“That stuff just can’t happen,” said Medina. “The very

About 300 demonstrators hold signs and shout as they march down 2nd St. in Downtown San Bernardino during a protest for thedeath of George Floyd Sunday, May 31, 2020. (Photo by Watchara Phomicinda, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)

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The march began outside City Hall and moved south on DStreet to Rialto Avenue then west on Rialto, with acacophony of blaring car horns that could be heard forblocks. The protesters chanted, “I can’t breathe!” and“Black lives matter!”

During the early part of the march, a law enforcementhelicopter circled over City Hall, but police presence on theground was not significant, with just a few cruisers on thestreet in the marcher’s vicinity.

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Looters Set Fire To DMV In San Bernardino,Ransack StoresJune 1, 2020 at 7:50 am

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SAN BERNARDINO (CBSLA) – The unrest that hit the Los Angelesmetro area over the weekend, sparked by the death of GeorgeFloyd, also spread to the Inland Empire Sunday, where a DMV in SanBernardino was set ablaze and several stores were looted.

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Looters break into a store in San Bernardino,Calif. May 31, 2020. (CBSLA)

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Protests in San Bernardinoturned violent when a DMV onWaterman Avenue and 13th

Street was set on �re. A man was caught on video breaking insideand using some type of torch to set items ablaze.

San Bernardino Fire Department crews were able to extinguish the�ames before they destroyed the building. California HighwayPatrol of�cers also responded, but by the time they got on scene,the arsonist had escaped.

Looters Sunday night also ransacked a Walgreens and several otherstores located just a few blocks away from the DMV. Severalbuildings sustained smashed-out windows and busted doors andpanels.

The city of San Bernardinodeclared a state of emergency atissued a curfew that began at 8

p.m. Sunday and ran through sunrise on Sunday. The city said thecurfew will continue until the state of emergency is lifted.

“Right now, our major focus is restoring order in the city and alsomaking sure we can continue to function as we move forward fromthis incident,” San Bernardino police Lt. Michele Mahan told CBSLASunday night.

Meanwhile, a group used rocks to smash glass doors and break intothe Hemet Valley Mall, located 2200 W Florida Ave. It’s unclearhow many businesses were damaged inside or if there were anyarrests.

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spot amid the coronavirus outbreak. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times)

By EMILY ALPERT REYES, SOUMYA KARLAMANGLA

JUNE 1, 2020 | 5 AM UPDATED 7:18 AM

For months, Hasani Sinclair said he has been painstakingly cautious about avoiding the threat of the

coronavirus. He wears a mask. He follows health guidelines. He has repeatedly gotten tested, even

without knowing of any direct exposure.

But the drumbeat of black deaths in the news propelled him to the Fairfax district on Saturday, joining

the crowds that protested police brutality and bore signs with the names that rang in his brain:

George Floyd. Breonna Taylor. Ahmaud Arbery.

“I cannot in good conscience let this moment pass me by,” said Sinclair, a 38-year-old high school

history teacher. For black men like him, police brutality “has been a silent cause of death for years and

years and years.”

The collision of long-standing anger over such killings and the newer threat of the COVID-19

pandemic have become a joint crisis in Los Angeles and across the country. The coronavirus has been

especially devastating to black communities, with black people making up a disproportionate share ofCOVID-19 deaths.

Now people outraged by deaths at the hands of police have been faced with a dilemma: How to

weigh the risks of protesting during the pandemic.

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For Aura Vasquez, an Afro Latina community organizer who recently ran for City Council, it was both

energizing and unnerving to see the crowds in the Fairfax district.

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At one point, Vasquez said she saw a black police officer giving fist bumps to protesters. There was “a

certain energy of solidarity that was beautiful,” said Vasquez, who has been spending time alone in

her Mid-City home. “But I was also like, ‘Don’t touch me!’”

Mayor Eric Garcetti said over the weekend that he was worried that the demonstrations could

become “super-spreader events.”

“It is not a reason to not protest — we want to find peaceful ways for people to do that,” Garcetti

said. But he cautioned that L.A. needed to make sure “that we don’t have backward progress with

COVID-19 in the midst of our outrage.”

The California Department of Public Health released guidelines last week for how to protest safelyduring the pandemic.

It warned that even six feet of distance between protesters may not be enough to prevent COVID-19

transmission when people are chanting, shouting and singing, so people should wear a mask at all

times, no matter how far away they are. The agency said that if an area has a maximum capacity,

attendance should be limited to 25% of capacity.

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UC San Francisco epidemiologist Dr. George Rutherford described the protests as a kind of

uncontrolled experiment, one that will test what happens when people are wearing masks in an

outdoor setting, but yelling and not maintaining their distance.

“If you have breakdowns in social distancing and don’t have masks on, then you’re deeply in trouble,”

he said.

Many protesters wore masks and some took added steps to limit transmission: Ellie McElvain, a 28-

year-old comedy writer living in Echo Park, said she was worried about spreading the virus because

she had recently flown to Wisconsin to grieve her grandfather.

So McElvain rolled along with the marchers from her car, holding a sign from her window and

handing out water, snacks and hand sanitizer.

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“It would be better if we didn’t have to fight for black lives in the middle of a global pandemic,” said

McElvain, who is white. “But this is what we’re left with.”

Despite such efforts, the risks were evident. Some police officers were not wearing masks. At times,

people embraced in the crowd.

Ashley Wilkerson, an actress, poet and wellness practitioner who lives in South Los Angeles, described

an emotional moment after locking eyes with a police officer and urging him to hold other officers

accountable, when she ended up hugging a black man in the crowd as they both cried, without their

masks. Wilkerson said he told her, “You’re not alone.”

“When there’s enough love, there’s no room for fear,” said Wilkerson, who founded the Brother

Breathe initiative that provides mindfulness workshops designed for black boys and men. After she

left, she said, she used hand sanitizer in the car and changed her clothes and took vitamin C when

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“COVID has affected us for what — two, three months?” said Wilkerson, who is black. “We’re talking

centuries upon centuries of oppression — of devaluing black lives.”

Kimberly Ndombe, a 31-year-old television writer living in Echo Park, said she wrestled with whether

to protest and had initially planned to stay on the sidelines handing out water. But when she arrived

Saturday, Ndombe was reassured to see almost everyone wearing masks and some space between

demonstrators. She joined the march.

For so long, “I’d been sitting in my house with my head spinning, thinking about this,” Ndombe said,

referring to the killings of Floyd, Taylor and Arbery. “I don’t think I was the only person debating, ‘Is

this safe?’ But this is bigger than us.”

Claire Garrido-Ortega, an epidemiology lecturer at Cal State Long Beach, said she felt torn about the

demonstrations due to the ongoing risk of COVID-19. It is communities of color, many of the same

people in the streets protesting police brutality, that already have higher rates of death from COVID-

19.

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“From a human perspective, as a person, we need this. Period,” she said. “From a public health

perspective, I’m worried.”

Garrido-Ortega said that although many protesters appear to be wearing masks, they are also joining

arms and yelling. Arrests also lead to close contact between police and demonstrators and can result

in time in jail, where the virus can spread in close quarters, she said.

And people who are sprayed with tear gas may take off their masks and shout, adding to virus

transmission. “Hand sanitizer? That’s the last thing they’re thinking about,” Garrido-Ortega said.

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Sinclair was planning to get tested again as soon as possible and was unnerved to hear Saturday

afternoon that COVID-19 testing sites had been shut down across L.A.

Garcetti said that some of the centers, which are routinely closed on Sundays, would remain closed

Monday because volunteer staffers did not feel safe returning. He said that the biggest testing site at

Dodger Stadium would be open, along with a walk-up site in South Los Angeles.

The unrest also arrives on a backdrop of economic strain tied to the pandemic, both for

demonstrators and for businesses in their path. After looting and fires broke out, the mayor lamented

that businesses that were hoping to reopen were now “closed, damaged and looted.”

Along Melrose Avenue, where people were sweeping up shattered glass from the sidewalks Sunday,

the pandemic remained evident.

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In the window of a Mexican restaurant called Antonio’s, several signs proclaimed “Black Lives Matter,”

while another stated, “Caution Maintain Social Distancing.”

Times staff writer Brittny Mejia contributed to this report.

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LOS ANGELES — All 38 Los Angeles Superior Court courthouses will be closed Monday due to theongoing unrest and protests against police brutality.

“Out of an abundance of caution, I am taking the extraordinary step of closing our courthousestomorrow (Monday) to protect the safety of the public, judicial officers and employees,” PresidingJudge Kevin C. Brazile said in a statement Sunday night. “This is not a decision I make lightly. Butpublic safety is always our paramount concern.”

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Sean Wotherspoon spent Saturday night in his Los Angeles home, watching live as his businesses

were destroyed.

He watched as security-camera feeds showed people shattering the plate glass windows of his Round

Two store on Melrose Avenue and walking out with more than $250,000 worth of high-end street

wear. He saw them make off with about as much inventory from his vintage store next door. He

watched as the Round Two location on the other side of the country in Richmond, Va., was hollowed

out by fire.

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Round Two store. It is located on Melrose Avenue, not North Fairfax.

“I’ve been robbed before, but nothing like this,” Wotherspoon said.

Protests over the police killing in Minneapolis of George Floyd continued in cities across the country

Sunday night, and thousands of Angelenos took to the streets to voice their outrage at the apparent

impunity of police who kill or brutalize black Americans.

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Looting has accompanied some of the protests. Among the first businesses to be burglarized was a

Minneapolis Target near the police precinct of officer Derek Chauvin, who has been charged with

third-degree murder and manslaughter after killing Floyd by kneeling on his neck as he struggled for

breath. In the days since, national chains and local businesses have been burglarized, including some

in downtown Los Angeles, the Fairfax district, Beverly Hills and Santa Monica’s beachfront commercial

zone.

Many businesses were already struggling with slashed revenue and dismal earning prospects under

the continuing COVID-19 pandemic.

But how and whether they bounce back from shattered windows, stolen merchandise and burned-

out buildings hinges on one factor: their insurance policies.

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As Wotherspoon spent his Sunday assessing the losses to his stores, he admitted that he wasn’t

exactly sure whether his policy would protect him from these kinds of damages.

“We are insured, but I don’t know what we are covered for, and I don’t know whether we are covered

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Business insurance is similar to consumer car insurance: Basic liability is required by many landlords

(though not all) in a lease agreement, protecting proprietors in the event that they face lawsuits from

customers who are injured in their stores, among other legal claims. But it may be up to the individual

business owners to decide how much insurance they want to buy to cover their inventory and

equipment in case of theft, fire and other scenarios.

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Large chains like Target, Starbucks and Apple use their deep pockets to buy sophisticated policies

that cover the entire chain for losses stretching into the millions of dollars, according to Janet Ruiz,

director of strategic communication at the Insurance Information Institute.

But for smaller businesses, the amount of coverage can vary widely in terms of deductibles and dollar

limits, depending on the type of business, the value of the inventory and the depth of an owner’s

pockets. Since not all landlords require businesses to insure their inventory and equipment against

loss, some local owners will end up having to cover all of the losses and repair costs on their own.

For those who are insured, a general cost estimate is about $1,200 a year for a small business with up

to 100 employees and $5 million revenue, Ruiz said, adding that “it depends on how much they are

willing to spend if they have a loss.”

Restaurants, whose kitchens pose fire risks, may have to pay for insurance covering their equipment

at a higher rate than retail stores where customers peruse racks of clothes.

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The losses suffered by business due to the pandemic are excluded from typical business policies,

though some carriers started offering them following the SARS pandemic in 2003, she said.

“There were companies that crafted them, and they didn’t sell,” Ruiz said of such policies. “It’s

expensive.”

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Fraser Ross, owner of the Kitson chain of clothing and gift boutiques on Robertson Boulevard in West

Hollywood, recorded video from across the street as people moved on from burglarizing the

MedMen store nearby, smashed the windows of his outlet store and started hauling out clothes,

accessories and what cash was in the register. He estimates that $300,000 worth of merchandise was

stolen but believes all of it will be covered by his insurance, though he still needs to check with his

lawyer.

“In 2002 we were robbed at gunpoint for $35,000 in watches,” Ross said. “Everything was covered.”

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After the citywide coronavirus lockdown forced Ross to close his doors in late March, he said, the only

expenses he kept paying were for his Shopify online store, basic utilities and his insurance policy. He

fears some of his neighbors in the shopping district might have canceled their insurance policies

during the lockdown.

In normal circumstances, Ross says, he would not be on the hook for replacing the windows — many

insurance companies offer plate glass coverage as a rider on their policies. But since he was

technically between leases with his landlord, Ross is likely going to have to pay for repairs.

A few miles east of Kitson, crowds broke the glass door and windows at Chi Spacca, the upscale

Italian restaurant that had been operating as the Mozza to Go takeout operation during the

coronavirus lockdown.

Once inside, they took all the restaurant’s wine, electronics, an empty cash register and some chef’s

knives; threw plates; and lit a pool of lighter fluid on fire on the floor. Next door at Osteria Mozza,

looters took a third of the liquor from the bar and some high-end champagne, according to Kate

Greenberg, director of operations for the restaurant group.

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“I hope it’s all covered” by insurance, Greenberg said. “I don’t see why we wouldn’t be.”

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Mozza’s staff spent Sunday photographing the damage and plans to take a 3D image on Monday to

show the insurance adjusters the extent of the fire damage. “Whether it was a salad thrown out or

anything, we’re taking a photo of it all,” Greeenberg said.

Now, to try and prevent further damage, business owners across the city are boarding up display

windows and removing as much valuable inventory as they can. Ross said he boarded up his Kitson

stores Sunday and went to a pop-up location in Beverly Hills and loaded up his car.

“I didn’t know what to take, so I only took the most valuable stuff,” Ross said, such as jewelry and

sunglasses.

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Big companies also prepared for more damage Sunday. Target closed or adjusted the hours of 175

locations across the country in response to the protests, including 49 stores in California. Whole

Foods locations in and around Los Angeles, Minneapolis and Chicago remained closed Sunday, and

Walmart and Apple announced that many of their stores would shutter across the country.

Until this weekend, the two most costly civil disturbances in the nation’s history occurred in Watts in

1965 and Los Angeles in 1992, following the acquittal of four police officers in the beating of African

American motorist Rodney King.

The 1992 unrest was the most costly in U.S. history, causing an estimated $1.4 billion in property

damage in today’s dollars, according to the data analytics provider Verisk Analytics and the Insurance

Information Institute. The Watts unrest resulted in $357 million in damage, similarly accounting for

inflation.

The cost of this week’s unrest has yet to be tallied — but in many cases, insurers will likely be stuck

with the bill.

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California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara called on insurers to move quickly to help affected

businesses recover from the riots.

“Commissioner Lara is expecting adjusters to be on the ground as soon as possible to help any looted

businesses quickly access their insurance benefits,” said Michael Soller, spokesman for the state

insurance department.

Lara also will be making a determination on whether to issue an emergency declaration that would

allow insurers to use out-of-state adjusters to speed the process, he said. This was done in 2018

following the Camp and Woolsey fires, when the scale of the damage overwhelmed insurers.

Because of the COVID-19 crisis, Lara ordered insurance companies to refund a portion of commercial

premiums for businesses affected by the pandemic through May and requested they extend grace

periods for paying premiums through mid-July.

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Businesses affected by looting should contact their insurance companies about the grace periods and

premium rebates. Because of the commissioner’s actions, they should have more time to pay

premiums and can qualify for lower rates; they can contact the Department of Insurance for

assistance in submitting claims or with questions about their coverage.

Times cooking editor Genevieve Ko contributed to this report.

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By THE TIMES EDITORIAL BOARD

JUNE 1, 2020 | 3 AM

Amid reports from across the country about escalating clashes between protesters and law

enforcement, it’s worth looking underneath the images for the roots of the outrage. It is theextrajudicial killings of unarmed people by police, and not the protests against them, that too often

spark the cycle of violence and death in the United States. It is the cruel and unyielding knee on the

neck of George Floyd in Minneapolis, and thousands of other police officer knees, fists and triggerfingers that undermine public safety and instill fear.

That’s why we need to demand accountability and change from law enforcement and the criminal

justice establishment that too often shrugs at police violence.

The ties that bind elected officials to police unions must be broken. District attorneys and other

elected prosecutors should reject campaign donations and endorsements from law enforcement

labor groups, because union support compromises a prosecutor’s independence and clouds the

decision over whether to criminally charge police who abuse their power. It diminishes a D.A.’s

incentive to seek out and share with defense lawyers — as the 6th Amendment requires — the

names of officers whose past misconduct undermines their value as prosecution witnesses. It

undercuts a D.A.’s impulse to fight laws that hide from the public the names of problem officers.

Bar associations should revise their ethics rules to forbid candidates for district attorney (and city

prosecutor and state’s attorney) to accept police union money. Lawmakers should adopt laws to

likewise prohibit the practice — although they will find it easier to do if they, too, say no to police

union largess.

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Police unions have every right to advocate for the pay, benefits and working conditions of their

members. But one of their tasks is to defend officers in misconduct cases, and that makes the conflict

of interest readily apparent. An elected official considering whether to prosecute officers should not

be, in essence, on the political payroll of the agency defending the very same people.

These unions’ power to raise and dispense large amounts of campaign cash has warped the electoral

process and has slowed or blocked reasonable efforts to hold officers accountable for bad

performance. Elected prosecutors should not be in the unions’ thrall. Nor, for that matter, should

elected sheriffs.

A handful of police unions criticized the officers involved in the death of Floyd. But police unions are

generally the loudest voices defending bad officers and dismissing reasonable efforts to improve

officer performance. A case in point: Minneapolis Police Union leader Bob Kroll is a strong supporterof President Trump at least in part because of the president’s contempt for the 2015

recommendations of the federal Task Force on 21st Century Policing. Many law enforcement unionsdecried the task force report, which called for sensible steps to improve police transparency and

accountability, enhance oversight and strengthen relationships with policed communities, all in order

to build public trust.

It was a lost opportunity, and we are now paying the steep price. Public trust in police is lacking

because of actions like the killing of Floyd. Relationships that might have permitted a more

constructive response to his death were not built.

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Even before the Floyd killing, reform advocates in Los Angeles and elsewhere began calling for police

budgets to be slashed and the money spent instead on social services. It’s an understandable

position, although off-base in its particulars. Lower funding translates into fewer officers, which in turn

leads to precisely the occupation-style approach to policing that causes such tension here and in

other U.S. cities.

But at a time of economic near-collapse, L.A.’s proposed budget includes officer raises far out of

proportion to pay increases for other city workers — plus shocking bonuses for officers with college

degrees. The L.A. Police Protective League — which, it should be noted, issued a statement decryingthe killing of Floyd in Minneapolis — is a big financial supporter of most of L.A.’s elected officials.

Earlier this year, without raising money for incumbent Los Angeles Dist. Atty. Jackie Lacey directly, the

union put up $1 million to defeat her reform-oriented opponent, George Gascón. (The Times has

endorsed Gascón.) It was an independent expenditure, and as such it backed the candidate withoutnecessarily creating the same kind of conflict of interest as a direct donation.

On Sunday, Lacey issued a rather weak statement regarding the “culmination of injustice,” decryingviolent protests and expressing sympathy to Floyd’s family. It made no mention of police or the cause

of Floyd’s death.

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Meanwhile, a group of more than 40 district attorneys put out a statement Thursday calling forstructural changes in the criminal justice system along the lines of the task force recommendations,

including severing the financial link between elected prosecutors and police unions. Lacey was invited

to sign. For now, at least, she has not.

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JUNE 1, 2020 | 6 AM

Belkin Peralta watched longingly May 8 as 16 women in her dormitory at the Mesa Verde ICE

Processing Center in Bakersfield changed out of their blue uniforms and emerged in their street

clothes. Without notice or explanation, they all had been told they were free to go.

Mesa Verde guards had told Peralta and the two other remaining women in the dorm that they

would be transferred to a different facility. The 22-year-old panicked, thinking it meant she would

likely be sent back to the gang violence she had escaped in Honduras.

“In my mind, we had lost, and they were going to deport us,” she said.

Instead, the next day, Peralta was taken to a nearby holding facility and released. Peralta’s cousin in

Van Nuys bought her a bus ticket and picked her up at the local station that evening. She now lives

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with her aunt near San Diego.

Peralta’s dorm was emptied as immigration officials, under orders from a federal judge, are

scrambling to create sufficient space for social distancing among detainees and staff. But her case

also illustrates the inconsistent manner in which Immigration and Customs Enforcement has

responded to the COVID-19 pandemic, as infections are escalating.

As of Thursday, 1,392 detainees and 44 ICE employees at detention centers had tested positive for

COVID-19. The biggest outbreak by far is at Otay Mesa Detention Center in San Diego, where 158

detainees have tested positive, one of whom has died.

Nationwide, 25,900 people were detained by ICE as of May 23 — down by nearly 12,000 people since

March.

In response to lawsuits and public pressure, ICE has released hundreds of immigrants from detention

facilities. Others have been released after paying bond.

ICE says it has voluntarily freed more than 900 others, including Peralta and her dorm-mates, due to

the pandemic. Some of the women had previously been deemed by the agency as being too

dangerous to release, lawyers said.

On its website, ICE keeps a running tally of detainees who have been released under judicial order,

noting that the agency is fighting many of those decisions in court.

As of Thursday, 392 detainees had been released under judges’ orders, according to the agency, 202

of them in California. ICE notes that half had been charged or convicted of crimes ranging from

homicide to DUI.

“Many of the individuals ordered released by federal courts have extensive criminal histories and pose

a potential public safety threat,” the website reads.

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Listing off some charges of released detainees, ICE spokesman Alexx Pons said they “all align with

ICE’s core mission to identify and remove those who pose a significant risk to public safety.”

“When you’re looking at custody determinations, those factors are weighed, along with an individual’s

medical considerations,” Pons said.

Peralta and others said social distancing is impossible at the facilities, that detainees don’t have access

to adequate hygiene supplies and that many people with COVID-19 symptoms aren’t tested. Dozens

of immigrants around the state have participated in hunger strikes in recent weeks, including Peralta.

In the end, just one woman in Peralta’s dorm was deported, after being transferred to a detention

facility in Louisiana. Advocates pointed to the other releases as proof that ICE exaggerates the

number of detainees it claims are dangerous while ignoring the risks associated with keeping masses

of people detained during a pandemic.

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“They’ve always had the prosecutorial discretion to release folks immediately,” said Juan Prieto of the

California Immigrant Youth Justice Alliance. “It’s a matter of challenging that notion that they should

incarcerate individuals simply for being in this country without documentation.”

Prieto and other advocates scrambled to arrange temporary lodging, meals and transportation to

family, or other long-term accommodations, for the women who were released unexpectedly.

Under a class-action lawsuit brought by the San Francisco Public Defender’s Office, the American Civil

Liberties Union foundations of Northern and Southern California and others, 61 people have been

ordered released from Mesa Verde, which has space for 400, and the Yuba County Jail, which holds

up to 220 ICE detainees.

U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria issued a searing ruling April 29, slamming ICE for failing to produce

a list of detainees who are at high risk for serious outcomes if they were to contract the novel

coronavirus.

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Chhabria ordered ICE to provide information on every detainee at both facilities to review them for

potential release on bail. At the same time, lawyers have submitted applications on behalf of dozens

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of people for the judge to review. So far, he has rejected 56. ICE has opposed each application up for

review.

In Pennsylvania, some immigrants who were released under judicial order were later told to return to

detention. Lawyers don’t expect that to happen in the case of Mesa Verde and Yuba County Jail.

But in another class-action case in California, concerning detainees at the Adelanto ICE Processing

Facility near Victorville, the district judge’s far more sweeping order was overruled in the 9th Circuit

Court of Appeals.

Judge Terry Hatter had ordered ICE to decrease the population at Adelanto, which currently holds

about 1,200 people, to permit social distancing. He directed the agency to stop admitting new

detainees to the facility and to reduce the existing population by at least 250 people by April 30.

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ICE appealed the decision.

In the 9th circuit, a panel of judges reversed all but one aspect of Hatter’s ruling, maintaining that

Adelanto facility administrators substantially comply with the Centers for Disease Control and

Prevention guidelines for detention facilities concerning COVID-19. The reversal halted a wave of

petitions for the release of immigrants held at Adelanto.

Before the 9th Circuit decision in the class-action case, Hatter had ordered the release of dozens of

detainees whose lawyers filed individual petitions seeking their release.

But similar cases of immigrants who hadn’t been released are now paused.

Nicolette Glazer, an immigration lawyer in Los Angeles who represented 11 of the detainees Hatter

released, said the 9th Circuit’s decision sends the message to other courts that ICE has met what’s

required of it by law.

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“A district court may be swayed by some of the reasoning and, regardless, ICE will be emboldened to

appeal,” she said. “If we started getting more written opinions, they would become binding on district

courts.”

For those who remain detained, the legal twists and turns are anxiety-inducing. In some cases,

different judges have rejected or approved petitions brought by detainees with similar medical issues

and legal cases.

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One of those is Marco Montoya Amaya, whose request for release from Mesa Verde was denied by a

federal judge in early April because the parasitic infection with which he has been diagnosed is not

included in the list of conditions identified by the CDC as high-risk factors for COVID-19. Montoya, a

42-year-old from Honduras, also has latent tuberculosis.

“We are scared to die inside of here,” he said. “Every day I am ending up more traumatized.”

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His lawyer Eleni Wolfe-Roubatis of the nonprofit Immigrant Legal Defense said the patchwork of

releases and rejections across the country shows what advocates have long known about what she

calls “the luck of the draw of the judge.”

“But when it’s life or death like this, it’s all the more stark,” she said.

On Thursday, Chhabria ordered ICE to release Montoya. He walked out of the facility that afternoon.

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On Friday’s Up Close Show, the Yucca Valley town manager and mayor were asked about why the

town opposed a petition to the California Fish and Wildlife Department to list the Joshua tree as a

threatened species. Managing editor Tami Roleff �lls in the highlights of their response…

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“It’s not that the town is against Joshua trees. Obviously we cherish and really look forward to a

community that’s based on our natural environment.”

Town Manager Curtis Yakimow said that if the Joshua tree becomes protected as a threatened

species, the state regulations would become onerous for property owners who want to develop their

property. Currently, residents are required to get a free permit from the town if they want to cut

down or move a Joshua tree, something that Yakimow and Mayor Jeff Drozd say will become much

more dif�cult if the trees are listed as threatened, as the property owner may have to engage a

biologist and get a permit from the Department of Fish and Game.

“For those reasons, very practical reasons, the town will always stand up for the ability of our

property owners to be able to maximize the use of their property. Everyone loves the Joshua tree; it’s

iconic. How do you manage, how do you navigate, how do you ensure that somebody can use their

property as they desire?”

Drozd added that the way to preserve Joshua trees is not for state regulations, but through private

agencies purchasing the land to save it.

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to build on it—to me, that’s real conservation, that’s the way you should conserve. Private property

and town property, stopping construction projects, we don’t know what’s going to happen with this.

It’s kind of an unknown and it’s based on global warming actually, rather than loss of land and Joshua

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