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Golf courses and hiking trails reopen, but protestors want LOTS more things open. Now. And tech companies help ensure California’s non-wired students — estimated to be 20% of them — stay plugged into school. Plus: The country’s largest pension system w…
Anyone who’s anyone has been asked to help reopen California and rebuild an economy some experts say totters toward a depression. And I talk a Philadelphia transplant who began using his art to make sense of his new city of San Francisco and later, the…
Food workers are now guaranteed sick leave, Gov. Gavin Newsom said on the heels of the deadliest day yet for the Golden State. And plasma may help combat the pandemic — one of its biggest cheerleaders is a woman widowed by COVID-19. Plus, love remains …
The state announces creation for what’s believed to be the first of its kind fund to help undocumented immigrants who don’t qualify for federal relief. Plus, read dispatches from the deadliest week since COVID-19 arrived in force in America.
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Here’s the tl;dr version of today’s presser with Gov. Gavin Newsom: We won’t be anywhere near normal anytime soon. And draw hope from stories of recovery from the coronavirus, even as the road back may be agonizing. Plus, a T-rex has a message about so…
The Golden State gets ready to open for business — on paper, at least. We’ll find out more on Tuesday. And the state’s quick action is being praised for its quick response to the coronavirus pandemic. Plus: Over the last month, everything about our wor…
Stay in this Easter weekend, state officials plead amid a decline in projected hospitalizations linked to coronavirus. And at one of San Francisco’s biggest homeless shelters, 70 people test positive for COVID-19.
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A meeting to talk sportfishing’s fate in a time of coronavirus erupts into chaos. Plus: Gov. Gavin Newsom sends ventilators out of state to the dismay of locals who uh, sort of need them? And stick around for stories that show us what can happen if we …
Coronavirus will peak in the Golden State on April 17, when an estimated 70 people will die, new modeling predicts. And a USA TODAY investigation shows health officials sounded the alarm on the virus long before action was taken. Plus: If you must groc…
The Golden State’s preparing 50,000 extra beds for the expected surge in COVID-19 cases. And a doctor who fought Ebola in Liberia is now here battling the coronavirus. Plus, trying to get pregnant in the middle of a pandemic takes its toll.
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