Dear John,

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• FRBlog: Really, Can You Just Can It?
• Coronavirus Update (Live): 1,790,564 Cases and 109,654 Deaths
• Reason: Good News: Coronavirus Death Estimates Keep Shrinking
• LAT $: COVID-19 death toll in the U.S. surpasses 20,000, now highest in the world
• SFC: Unlikely that California has 'herd immunity' to the coronavirus
• SacBee: Update: When experts predict new coronavirus cases will peak in California, Sacramento
• SJMN: Coronavirus cases top 21,000 in California; nearly 600 have died
• LAT $: New signs suggest coronavirus was in California far earlier than anyone knew
• SDUT: Federal judge denies church's bid to hold Easter service despite coronavirus-related stay-home orders
• AP: Restrictions tighten during California's virus-hit Easter
• CalM: Open for Easter? Legal spat brews over lockdown restrictions on Sunday service
• SacBee: Coronavirus has emptied places of worship, but here's how it also fuels our faith
• FresBee: Painful church closures, canceled Easter events, but Fresno's faithful find new ways to help
• Coronavirus mostly spreading among household members in Stanislaus County, expert says
• Reason: The Surveillance State Thrives During the Pandemic
• CG: New Farm Bill Would Extend Benefits and Coronavirus Protections for Farmworkers
• CalM: Farmers forced to let crops rot as food bank demand soars
• CalM: 'The perfect storm of vulnerability': Protection in the fields doesn't follow farmworkers home
• SJMN: Coronavirus: The mysterious drowning that kills people
• LAT $: How a stockpile of 39 million masks was exposed as fake
• LAT $: To fight coronavirus, Pasadena to require workers and customers to wear face coverings
• SFC: How coronavirus testing will be used to reopen society
• SFC: Newsom hints at California path to 'some semblance of normalcy'
• OCReg: On roads emptied by coronavirus pandemic, some Southern California drivers floor it - and collect tickets
• AP: Coronavirus doesn't delay property taxes in California
• PE: Trailers for homeless with coronavirus symptoms set up at Glen Helen Regional Park
• FresBee: Fresno wins millions in homeless funding for pandemic, but officials wrangle over details
• With park bathrooms closed due to coronavirus, Modesto to put in portables for homeless
• OCReg: Cedars-Sinai: Possible coronavirus drug shows encouraging results
• CalCoast: California Men's Colony inmate infected with coronavirus
• SacBee: California corrections officials seek inmate who fled mothers facility with her infant
• SacBee: California expanding hours on unemployment phone lines after complaints about long delays
• AP: Southern California power station erupts in fireball
• AP: 6 hospitalized after shooting breaks out at California party
• SFC: Coronavirus pandemic a roadblock to nursing students wanting to join California Health Corps
• SDUT: Another 100+ sailors on carrier test positive for coronavirus
• LAT $: Series of earthquakes rattles Mammoth Lakes area
• LADN: Rep. Adam Schiff unveils bill to probe US response to coronavirus
• OCReg: Little transparency as hotels become homeless housing
• SFC: Hospitals are a business, too. Coronavirus is threatening them
• NR: Authoritarian Overreach Is Unnecessary to Fight the Pandemic
• OCReg: The coronavirus crisis and our constitutional rights
• OCReg: Coronavirus and the new abnormal
• OCReg: California's coronavirus response must be guided by the data
• SacBee: Some Sacramento crime numbers down during coronavirus stay-at-home orders, police say
• SacBee: Election results go final for Sacramento, Yolo, Placer, El Dorado supervisor races
• SJMN: Coronavirus: Alameda County passes 800 cases, reports one new death
• SJMN: Coronavirus: 12 new cases but fewer hospitalizations and ICU patients in San Mateo County
• SJMN: 'Cautiously optimistic:' Bay Area records fourth day of declining coronavirus ICU patients
• Update: Two girls found dead along river in Oakdale took their own lives, police say
• Central San Joaquin Valley families go hungry amid coronavirus
• FresBee: Keeping families of front-line doctors safe: UCSF Fresno offering housing due to COVID-19
• CalCoast: SLO County Supervisor Adam Hill resigns as board chair
• CalCoast: Los Osos CSD seeking delay in sewer rate increase
• VCStar $: Coronavirus: 309 cases, 10 dead, 62 hospitalized
• LADN: LA County announces 25 more coronavirus deaths; total fatalities now 265
• LADN: Another resident and 4 employees at Jewish senior living home in Reseda test positive for coronavirus
• LADN: One LA city employee has died from coronavirus, mayor says
• CG: Los Angeles County Extends Stay-At-Home Orders Until May 15th
• LAT $: 26 new coronavirus deaths in L.A. County as stay-at-home orders extended
• OCReg: 18 displaced as Orange County firefighters douse house fire in Santa Ana
• SBSun: San Bernardino County sees 810 coronavirus, 25 deaths by Friday; no updates Saturday
• SBSun: San Bernardino commits additional $10 million to replace Mt. Vernon Bridge
• PE: 80 inmates, 55 sheriff's workers in Riverside County have coronavirus
• PE: Riverside County up to 1,431 coronavirus cases, 41 deaths
• SDUT: Live coronavirus updates in San Diego: County logs another COVID-19 death, new total is 45
• SDUT: San Diegans urged to stay the course with peak of pandemic locally still on horizon

Sincerely,