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Newspaper Page TextA10 NATION East Oregonian Saturday, March 21, 2020 CORONAVIRUS California rushes to try to contain coronavirus among the homeless By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Home to the largest homeless population in the country, California ofﬁ cials are rushing to get tens of thousands of people off the streets and into shelters and tents to slow the spread of the coronavirus among one of the most vulnerable and difﬁ cult-to-reach groups. There has been only one conﬁ rmed death among Cal- ifornia’s estimated 150,000 homeless people, but author- ities believe that without swift intervention, it’s only a matter of time before the virus sweeps through home- less encampments and gath- ering spots where people are in close proximity and can’t practice proper hygiene, like hand-washing. Los Angeles has sus- pended an ordinance requir- ing tents to come down at night and has lined up doz- ens of trailers to use as iso- lation shelters. A charitable group in San Francisco was AP Photo/Ben Margot People are seen in a homeless encampment on Thursday in Oakland, Calif. California Gov. Gavin Newsom has authorized $150 million in emergency funding to protect homeless peo- ple in California from the spread of COVID-19. passing out tents so peo- ple could use them to sep- arate themselves from oth- ers. Both cities also are using recreational centers and other large, open indoor spaces to create emergency shelters that have more space between beds. Mel Tillekeratne, a lead- ing Los Angeles homeless advocate, said Thursday that people living in encamp- ments are “beginning to feel the fear” over the virus. He’s the founder of the Shower of Hope, which contracts with local governments to pro- vide pop-up stations with showers and other services for homeless people. “They’re asking, ‘How can I get hand sanitizer?’ ‘How can I get informa- tion?’” Tillekeratne said. Gov. Gavin Newsom has directed state and local ofﬁ - cials to rent hotel rooms and deploy travel trailers to house the homeless. Lawmakers have given the Democratic governor up to $1 billion to spend on the crisis, and on Wednesday he announced the ﬁ rst $150 million would go to local governments to house the homeless. A signiﬁ cant portion of the homeless population is addicted to drugs or alcohol or is mentally ill, conditions that in the past have made them resistant to accept help. Newsom has said he is not worried about that, add- ing that the state has “the capacity to encourage peo- ple off the streets.” “I think there’s a lot of mythology about resis- tance; I think it’s wildly overstated,” Newsom told reporters this week. “I’m not ratcheting up a mindset of enforcement police state.” Tillekeratne said it’s hard to imagine a scenario where authorities are rounding up homeless people exhibit- ing signs of the coronavi- rus and forcibly bringing them to shelters. However, he acknowledged that some won’t want to go. Census Bureau delays deadline by 2 weeks By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. — The U.S. Census Bureau is delay- ing the deadline for counting everyone in the U.S. by two weeks because of the spread- ing novel coronavirus, ofﬁ - cials said on Friday. The 2020 census had been scheduled to stop at the end of July, but the deadline has now been extended to mid-August, said Tim Olson, an associate director for ﬁ eld operations at the bureau. Most U.S. residents started being able to respond to the 2020 census last week when the bureau’s website went live and people started receiving notices to partici- pate in the mail. As of Friday, 18.6 million households had answered the questionnaire, primarily online, said Al Fontenot, the bureau’s asso- ciate director for decennial programs. This is the ﬁ rst once-a-de- cade census in which most people are being encouraged to ﬁ ll out their form online, although people can still respond by telephone or by mailing back a form. Earlier this week, the Cen- sus Bureau suspended ﬁ eld operations for two weeks out of concern about the health and safety of its workers and the U.S. public from the novel coronavirus. This primarily affected several thousands workers who were already dropping off questionnaires in rural areas with no ﬁ xed addresses, Puerto Rico and tribal areas. The Census Bureau also was pushing back by a month its operations to count the homeless, which was sup- posed to begin at the end of the month. Most census takers won’t go out into the ﬁ eld until May when they knock on the doors of homes whose residents haven’t yet responded. The start of that operation also was pushed back two weeks to the end of May because of coronavirus. “Of all of our worst night- mares of things that could have gone wrong with the census, we did not anticipate this set of actions,” Fontenot said. “But our staff has been extremely resilient about looking for solutions.” The bureau had planned to hire as many as 500,000 workers, primarily to knock on the doors of residents who haven’t answered the ques- tions by May, but bureau ofﬁ - cials said on Friday that the virus outbreak was leading them to consider hiring more temporary workers than pre- viously planned. As of Friday, more than 600,000 applicants had accepted job offers, but the bureau ofﬁ cials said they real- ized that some might drop out because of the coronavirus, and the Census Bureau was keeping open its job applica- tion process. The bureau so far has 2.8 million applicants and has switched all training online for new hires. AP Photo/Evan Vucci President Donald Trump listens as White House coronavi- rus response coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx speaks during a coronavirus task force brieﬁ ng at the White House on Friday in Washington. Trump moves on invoking powers to spur virus supplies can cause more severe ill- ness, including pneumonia. Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer said he implored Trump during a phone call on Fri- day to invoke the Korean War-era act immediately to order the manufacture of ventilators and other criti- cally needed medical gear. The president told Schumer he would, then could be heard on the telephone seeming to make the order. He yelled to someone in his ofﬁ ce to do it now, said Schumer’s spokesman, Jus- tin Goodman. The president and the Cabinet ofﬁ cials who briefed reporters focused on the border as they moved to restrict the entry of peo- ple without documentation to the U.S. This follows a stepped-up State Depart- ment travel advisory telling Americans they should not leave the country. As Congress debated a ﬁ nancial relief package that could reach $1 trillion, ofﬁ - cials again urged Ameri- cans to maintain social dis- tancing while Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, applauded strict new mea- sures put in place by the governors of California and New York to limit mobility. By JILL COLVIN and JONATHAN LEMIRE Associated Press WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has invoked the Defense Production Act to get needed medical supplies on the front lines of the coro- navirus outbreak and the private sector mobilized against it. Trump had said earlier in the week he would tap the act as needed. He said Friday he has put that “in gear.” Trump also announced an effective closure of the U.S. border with Mex- ico, prohibiting most travel except for trade. That brings it in line with the restriction on the Canadian border ear- lier this week. The U.S. is also suspending interest on student loans to help young people cope with job losses and the ﬁ nancial crunch. More than 200 people have died from COVID- 19 in the U.S. and sickness from the disease is on the rise, with hospitals at risk of being overrun. Most people who get it have only mild or moderate symptoms, such as fever and cough. For some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it EASTERN OREGON marketplace Place classified ads online at www.easternoregonmarketplace.com or call 1-800-962-2819 between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. After hours, leave a voicemail and we’ll confirm your ad the next business day. 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