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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
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