Newsom looks for emergency housing to shelter homeless during coronavirus pandemic. California jobless claims soar. Pandemic upends medical, scientific research.
Shelters are reporting symptomatic residents. Officials worry about outbreaks in tent camps. State authorities are confronting questions of how to speed up help as much as possible.
California needs 50,000 more hospital beds because of coronavirus. Newsom orders "soft closure" of state parking lots. PG&E pleads guilty to wildfire charges.
By the time Newsom issued Thursday's mandatory order to shelter in place, it was clear that, for a week, this was where things had been inexorably heading.
Newsom orders all Californians to shelter in place until further notice as coronavirus fears grow. Housing crisis complicates state's response to COVID-19.