Dear John,

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• Coronavirus Update: 1,441,589 Cases and 82,933 Deaths
• CG: California's Coronavirus By the Numbers
• OCReg: California prediction: When coronavirus deaths will peak
• AP: California governor considers aid for immigrants amid virus
• AP: California governor sticking with mid-May as COVID-19 peak
• SJMN: Coronavirus: Staying home is slowing the disease, Newsom says, showing new optimism
• LAT $: California's coronavirus curve 'is bending,' but tougher days are ahead, Newsom says
• CG: California Coronavirus Cases Leveling Off
• LAT $: LAPD files 37 complaints against businesses for violating coronavirus closure rules
• PE: No citations for not wearing coronavirus masks, Riverside County sheriff says
• LAT $: L.A. orders customers and workers to wear face coverings as coronavirus protection
• LAT $: California to get more than 200 million masks a month in coronavirus fight, Gov. Newsom says
• VOC: Will OC Grocery Store Workers be Required to Wear Masks?
• FresBee: CDC says to wear face coverings in public. WHO says don't bother. What's going on?
• LADN: Customers without masks may be refused service during coronavirus outbreak
• OCReg: Encouraging face coverings for grocery workers, other 'essential' employees serving the public
• PE: Riverside City Council rejects pay cut to $1 during coronavirus crisis
• AP: Massive effort to get Los Angeles homeless into hotels
• SFC: Bay Area lines up hotel rooms, shelters for vulnerable, sick homeless people
• SacBee: Plan approved for 1,000 beds to shelter Sacramento homeless during coronavirus crisis
• SFC: Two cities OK paid sick leave for workers during coronavirus emergency
• SacBee: Millions of Californians could lose health insurance in coronavirus-driven recession, study says
• OCReg: Coronavirus: California scrambles to issue extra $600 jobless payments
• LAT $: Newly eligible California workers in limbo over unemployment benefits
• AP: Coronavirus cases surge at some California nursing homes
• SFC: Orinda nursing home with coronavirus outbreak had sanitation, staffing violations
• LAT $: Consider pulling residents from nursing homes over coronavirus, says L.A. health czar
• LADN: Los Angeles crime was down 23% in March because of coronavirus pandemic
• SFC: Oakland residents charged in double-fatal shooting at Grocery Outlet
• OCReg: Married couple found shot dead in Huntington Beach home
• PE: 4 dead in murder-suicide in Menifee
• CG: CA Department of Fish and Wildlife Commissioner Wants to Close Sportfishing Season Due to COVID-19
• SacBee: California courts leaders approve $0 bail for low-level suspects. Will it be signed?
• CalCoast: California temporarily eliminates cash bail for most low-level offenses
• CG: Special Prisoner Releases to Counter Coronavirus Spread Denied By U.S. District Court
• Northern California hospital is approved as site for coronavirus drug trial
• SFC: UCSF lab accelerates processing of coronavirus tests in Bay Area, all for no cost
• CalM: Could a blood test for coronavirus antibodies get California back to normal? Lots of questions remain
• AP: Judge refuses to approve fire victims letter attacking PG&E
• OCReg: Man arrested for alleged price gouging during coronavirus fears, selling box of N95 masks for $300
• Reason: The Coronavirus Stimulus Is Full of Wasteful Spending
• FH: For Local Governments, To Tax or Not to Tax, That is the Question
• OCReg: Red tape allowed COVID-19 to spread
• OCReg: Creativity and compassion continue to combat the coronavirus
• FH: California Should Lead the Covid response
• FH: Our "Splendid Isolation!"
• CalM: Commentary: It's time to reconsider California's 'shelter-at-home' policy
• SacBee: Placer County finally gets new district attorney, a veteran prosecutor from Sacramento
• SacBee: Sacramento County extends stay-at-home order to May. Travel, recreation restrictions added
• SFC: $665K settlement for East Bay student punished for mock terrorist video
• SFC: Public schools in six Bay Area counties to stay closed through academic year's end
• Patterson Unified lends up to 3,000 student laptops for coronavirus distance learning
• FresBee: Fresno County confirms third coronavirus death. City-by-city infections breakdown released
• CalCoast: California nearing 18,000 coronavirus cases, while SLO County slows
• VCStar $: Coronavirus: 243 cases, 6 deaths, 49 hospitalized
• LAT $: 22 new coronavirus deaths in L.A. County as statewide toll surges past 400
• LADN: Judge brings attorneys to LA's Skid Row in homelessness lawsuit
• OCReg: Orange County reports 50 more cases of coronavirus on April 7
• VOC: Early Recall Election Results Show Westminster Council Majority Likely to Stay in Office
• OCReg: Coronavirus has now infected at least nine OCFA firefighters
• OCReg: Full quarantine imposed at Orange County central jail after 4 more inmates contract coronavirus
• SBSun: San Bernardino County reports 17 new coronavirus cases, one more death
• SBSun: San Bernardino County voters could repeal fire tax in November
• SBSun: San Bernardino County residents must wear masks in public, have virtual religious services to slow coronavirus
• PE: Riverside County passes 1,000 coronavirus cases; 28 now dead
• SDUT: Live coronavirus updates in San Diego: 12 new local COVID deaths highest one-day count
• SDUT: Video hookups, masks, a six-foot long stick: San Diego Court prepares to process some criminal cases
• SDUT: A dozen new COVID deaths announced in San Diego
• VOSD: San Diego's Slow Homebuilding Isn't Being Slowed Much Further by Coronavirus

Sincerely,