CALIFORNIA - Sacramento
Roughly a third of Sacramento County’s COVID-19 cases stem from the local church community, according to an investigation by public health officials.
“We have asked churches to hold services and fellowship meetings virtually, whether via Zoom, Skype, virtual platform, and most churches are cooperative and want to do this,” Nava said.
KCRA has compiled a list of churches providing religious services online.
KCRA
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/sacramento-county-parishioners-meeting-outside-of-church-contract-covid-19/ar-BB123rpL
There’s a Lutheran church in Sac that got hit hard.
I don’t know if they are still meeting at the hospital.
CALIFORNIA
Bay Area - Alameda County
To fight coronavirus, Fremont companies turn to make test kits, ventilators
...the city fast-tracked its zoning permit process two weeks ago — cutting it from around four months to less than a week — to let more than 115 biotech companies make COVID-19 supplies.
SFChronicle
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/to-fight-coronavirus-fremont-companies-turn-to-make-test-kits-ventilators/ar-BB122Jmz
San Mateo County
DALY CITY (KPIX 5) — Nurses at Seton Medical Center in Daly City are planning a protest at noon Thursday because they say they are critically low on personal protective equipment (PPE).
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/desperate-for-protective-equipment-seton-medical-center-nurses-plan-thursday-protest/ar-BB123zkL
Fresno -
First homeless patient tests positive for coronavirus in Fresno
Fresno Bee
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/first-homeless-patient-tests-positive-for-coronavirus-in-fresno/ar-BB123fXD
Los Angeles -
Garcetti authorizes shutting off utilities to nonessential businesses violating Safer at Home
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/garcetti-authorizes-shutting-off-utilities-to-nonessential-businesses-violating-safer-at-home/ar-BB122YCn
Coronavirus: California Releases Model Predicting Peak In Mid-May
...A model from the University of Washington shows deaths in California could peak at the end of April/beginning of May with about 122 new deaths per day, and around 5,000 dead by the end of summer.
CBS LA
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/coronavirus-california-releases-model-predicting-peak-in-mid-may/ar-BB123w4d
More than 200 L.A. County sheriff’s employees quarantined since coronavirus outbreak
LA Times
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/more-than-200-la-county-sheriffs-employees-quarantined-since-coronavirus-outbreak/ar-BB122VPF
Riverside County -
Riverside County has reported 58 new COVID-19 cases, raising the county’s total to 429 cases as of Wednesday afternoon.
San Diego -
SD Mayor Orders Vacant City Properties Be Made Available for COVID-19 Patients
https://timesofsandiego.com/politics/2020/04/01/sd-mayor-orders-vacant-city-properties-be-made-available-for-covid-19-patients/