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Another 432 people have been confirmed to have coronavirus, according to San Bernardino Countydata released Sunday, Aug. 23. No new deaths were reported.

The county estimates another 322 patients have recovered from COVID-19.

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Cases: 45,035, up from 44,603 Saturday, Aug. 22

Deaths: 691, the same as Saturday

Hospitalizations: 351 confirmed patients Saturday, downfrom 365 Friday; suspected patients: 68 Saturday, downfrom 81 Friday

Intensive-care unit patients: 109 confirmed patientsSaturday, down from 117 Friday; suspected patients: 9Saturday, down from 10 Friday

People tested: 340,124, up from 338,314 Saturday

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Recoveries (estimated): 36,474, up from 36,152 Saturday

To see a full list of community-by-community cases, click here.

Here is a look at how the county’s numbers have changed each day:

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San Bernardino County had fewer than 400 people hospitalized with a confirmed coronavirus case forthe first time since June in numbers released Friday, Aug. 21.

The number of people in the hospital with the coronavirus — once one of the main concerns with thevirus because hospitals could become overcrowded and unable to provide proper treatment — hasdropped consistently for the past month.

There were 386 confirmed COVID-19 patients in county hospitals Thursday, Aug. 20, down from 418

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Wednesday, Aug. 19, according to the state Department of Public Health. Hospitalization numbersalways reflect the day before.

The county has 27% fewer patients hospitalized with confirmed cases than two weeks ago.

Suspected COVID-19 cases and the number of people in intensive care for the coronavirus have bothsteadily dropped, too. Both numbers were lower Thursday, Aug. 20, than June 29.

Meanwhile, deaths and cases continue to rise. Another fourCOVID-19 deaths were recorded Friday, along with 474new cases.

Here are the latest numbers, according to county and statepublic health officials.

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Confirmed cases: 43,943, up from 43,469 Thursday

Deaths: 629, up from 625 Thursday

Hospitalizations: 386 confirmed patients Thursday, down from 418 Wednesday; 75 suspectedpatients Thursday, down from 82 Wednesday

Intensive-care unit: 116 confirmed patients Thursday,down from 123 Wednesday; 11 suspected patientsThursday, down from seven Wednesday

People tested: 333,877, up from 330,058 Thursday

Recoveries (estimated): 35,704, up from 35,150 Thursday

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Following a surge in coronavirus cases and hospitalizations last month, Orange Countywas removed Sunday from the state list of counties being monitored for the virus.

The move marks a turning point for the county. If the rates of new cases and testsperformed, percentages of positive tests and hospitalizations, as well as available intensivecare beds and ventilators remain at acceptable levels for the next two weeks, K-12 studentscould resume in-person classes after Labor Day weekend.

Positive tests remained at 5.4%, which is below the state’s maximum threshold of 8%, andthe three-day average of hospitalizations fell Sunday by nearly 5%, according to the

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Orange County Health Care Agency.

The county has 29% of its intensive care unit beds and 58% of its ventilators available.Over the most recent 14-day period, the case rate per 100,000 residents is 90.2.

Officials reported one new death and 897 total fatalities Sunday. To date, 45,954 residentshave tested positive for the virus, with 380 currently hospitalized and 111 in intensive care.

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The county can be placed back on the watch list if it is flagged for any of the six metricsbeing monitored for at least three days in a row. It first fell below the state’s monitoringthresholds on Wednesday.

The decision to reopen schools falls to individual districts. County officials say 24 privateelementary schools and one public school district serving kindergarten through sixthgrade have been approved to reopen for in-person classes. About 100 other OrangeCounty private and charter schools have applied for similar permission and are awaitingapproval.

Schools must also have an option for online learning if parents do not want their childrento go back to in-person classes. State public health officials and educators have offered

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the in-person option for elementary schools only, acknowledging that online learning foryoung children is particularly difficult and that they are generally seen as being at lesserrisk of developing COVID-19 than older children and adults.

“Do I have fear and anxiety? Of course I do. Do we expect that there might be anoutbreak? Of course,” Dr. Clayton Chau, director of the Orange County Health CareAgency, said last week. “But we have to do it. We know that this lockdown has causedemotional turmoil for some of our children, and we know that in-home learning is not thebest education.”

Laguna Beach Mayor Bob Whalen said Saturday that he was encouraged by recentincreases in mask usage, which he attributed to lowering the case rates.

“I think everybody wants this time to open up in a smart and intelligent way that keeps usopen,” he said. “The last thing anybody wants is to have to roll back a second timebecause it’s devastating for our businesses.

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Los Angeles County, meanwhile, remains on the state watch list.

Last week, Los Angeles County’s chief medical officer said new coronavirus cases maysoon drop enough to allow officials to apply for waivers to reopen elementary schools. Dr.Jeffrey Gunzenhauser noted that waivers can be sought to reopen schools when cases fallbelow 200 for every 100,000 people for two weeks.

Over the last two weeks, officials have reported 27,739 new cases, which amounts to 275per 100,000, but Gunzenhauser said that number was steadily dropping.

“We do believe we could get down to under 200 in the near future,” he said.

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He said the length of average hospital stays for COVID-19 has declined from a few monthsago, probably because of improved understanding of how to treat the disease. Moreyoung people are now being hospitalized for the disease, and they also are likely torecover more quickly than older patients.

But Gunzenhauser warned that younger people are dying from the disease, and thepercentage of people ages 18 to 29 hospitalized for COVID-19 has doubled to 10%. Of theroughly 5,400 people in the county who have died of COVID-19, 440 were ages 18 to 41with no underlying health conditions, he said.

The underlying conditions that make patients most at risk for severe illness and death arehypertension, which is common among those 65 and older, and diabetes, a condition thataffects 10% of the county’s population, he said.

Times staff writer Colleen Shalby and Times Community News writer Andrew Turnercontributed to this report.

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George Johnson, executive office for Riverside County, is not a doctor or scientist.

Evidentially he is covering for the board of supervisors to shield them from a second round of blamefor a failed re-opening.

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Riverside has had the highest number of COVID-19 deaths in the last two weeks, ever.

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The virus is raging out of control in this county and this businessman wants to put residents in even more danger by opening up right after Labor Day.

Where is input from Dr. Cameron Kaiser, or is he even employed by the county after his job was hinted to be in danger if he didn’t comply with the May 8 board order?

Riverside County has turned into a corrupt, irresponsible nightmare, where money and the economy are put before common sense and the safety and health of its residents.

Hopefully this time the governor will not give into the bullying from Riverside County.

I hope he will hold firm on his decision to keep us on the list and not change any numbers as has been suggested by Johnson that would let the county off of the hook to be accountable.

Thank you to Jeff Horseman for an excellent article.

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Four of the nine people arrested during a protest and counter-protest Aug. 1 in Yucaipa have beencharged, with one of them accused of assault on a deputy, court records show.

The arrests came during across-the-street demonstrations on Yucaipa Boulevard. A counter-groupwas on hand to protest an event organized by Black Lives Matter and supporters.

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Between both sides, there was estimated 280 participants, San Bernardino County Sheriff’s deputieshave said.

Deputies shut down Yucaipa Boulevard between 4th and 5th Streets when protesters blocked trafficand began to walk east in the middle of the road.

Black Lives Matter protester Melissa Hernandez said in an email that deputies had blocked the street,leaving protesters in a caravan with little choice but to block the road.

Between 120 to 150 people had been demonstrating in support of law enforcement in front of City Hallthat same evening, said John Berry of Redlands, one of the counter-protest organizers. He is also aspokesman for the Redlands Tea Party Patriots.

That group, Hernandez said, shouted racial slurs, and told protesters to go back to Mexico. Berry saidthe counter-protesters complied with a dispersal order and left.

Among the four charged was Andres Ballestro Medina, 41, of Rialto, whom San Bernardino CountySheriff’s deputies said was driving a car that nearly struck deputies as it drove erratically through thearea.

He was charged with felony assault on a peace officer and possession of a dangerous weapon. Hepleaded not guilty to both charges on Aug. 4, court records show.

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Two other men in the car with Medina have been charged, but have not entered pleas. Each of themis accused of possession of dangerous weapons. Deputies said hammers, makeshift weapons andtwo-way radios were found in the car.

The fourth man was charged with misdemeanor failure to disperse.

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Online classes planned by the Rialto Unified School District were canceled for Monday, Aug. 24, aftersome district technology was crippled by a malware attack, officials said over the weekend.

Planned instruction on Monday won’t happen for over 24,500 students assigned to 29 schools andone adult learning facility, district spokeswoman Syeda Jafri said Sunday night.

“The district is looking into this sensitive matter,” Jafri said. “In our students’ and staff’s best interests,it may be premature to release further details at this time.”

The malware attack was announced over the weekend on social media. It comes as students arelearning remotely during the coronavirus pandemic under a system called Bridge Academy.

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Bridge Academy will be suspended until further notice while the malware attack is investigated andaddressed, the district said.

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A family of 11 hikers — all lost, some disoriented, distraught or dehydrated — was plucked off Mt.Baldy on Thursday, Aug. 20, the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department said.

A distress call came in just before 2 p.m. from a hiker who had gotten lost, a news release said. Adispatcher could hear the hiker’s thirsty children, ages 7 and 11, crying in the background.

A deputy responding to the call determined that there were eight additional family members ages 7 to72 on the mountain who had gotten lost.

Within an hour, deputies and San Bernardino County firefighters had found the caller and her children,and within two hours, the rest were located, hoisted to safety and treated for dehydration and minorcuts.

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AUG. 23, 2020 | 11:01 AM UPDATED AUG. 24, 2020 | 1:45 AM

SAN FRANCISCO — The second- and third-largest fires in California history are expected togrow in the next few days as a new thunderstorm system moves over the state, producingdry lightning and gusty winds.

The National Weather Service issued red-flag warnings across large swaths of Northernand Central California that went into effect before sunrise Sunday.

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2:21 AM, Aug. 24, 2020 A previous version of this story said the number of structures destroyed

by fires in California since late July was over 2,000. The figure is 1,171, including at least 1,134

since Aug. 15.

The storms could spark more blazes and cause existing ones to spread rapidly, and that isunwelcome news for firefighters, who are already stretched thin.

Crews on Sunday were battling dangerous fires from the Santa Cruz Mountains to wine

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country and beyond, using a small break in the weather to get a jump on theconflagrations, many of them ignited by lightning strikes.

On Saturday, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced that the White House had approvedCalifornia’s request for a presidential major disaster declaration to bolster the state’semergency response to wildfires burning in Northern California.

More than 1.3 million acres have burned in California in just a month, according to a Timesanalysis — an astonishing toll so early in the fire season.

In all of 2019, about 259,000 acres in California burned, according to the Idaho-basedNational Interagency Fire Center, although that was following a relatively wet winter.

Across California, “over 14,000 firefighters are on the front lines of more than two dozenmajor fires and lightning complexes,” or groups of fires, said Jeremey Rahn, Cal Fire publicinformation officer, at a Sunday news conference.

The blazes include the LNU Lightning Complex fire, which at nearly 348,000 acres is thesecond-largest fire in California history. The SCU Lightning Complex fire, currentlycovering more than 343,000 acres, is the third-largest.

“To have both of those going on at the same time ... gives us the magnitude of what hashappened here in this state,” Sean Kavanaugh, incident commander on the LNU fire, saidSunday. “Over all jurisdictions, 1.3 million acres have been burned in recent time.”

The Times analysis found that more than 1,100 structures statewide have been destroyed.More than 80,000 buildings statewide remain threatened.

The LNU fire in Napa, Sonoma, Lake, Solana, Yolo and Colusa counties had killed fourpeople, destroyed 871 homes and other buildings and was 21% contained as of Sunday

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night. Firefighters were working to strengthen containment lines ahead of the storms butsaid area residents should be ready to evacuate.

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“With the weather predicted, the red flag warning issued, I can’t stress the importance ofbeing prepared to leave,” Chief Shana Jones said.

The SCU Lightning Complex fire began as a collection of about 20 blazes in areas ofContra Costa, Alameda, Santa Clara, Stanislaus and San Joaquin counties and by Sundayhad merged into two conflagrations.

The flames, which were 10% contained Sunday night, were burning primarily through drygrass and brush in steep, remote areas that hadn’t burned in years. Firefighters werebracing for gusty winds and the possibility of dry lightning starting at about 3 p.m., saidBarbara Rebiskie, public information officer on the SCU fire.

“There’s a lot of dead fuel up there,” Rebiskie said. “And the erratic winds, the 7%humidities and the lightning — it’s not a good combination.”

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An estimated 20,265 homes and commercial buildings were threatened and five had beendestroyed, with a new evacuation order issued at 3 a.m. Sunday for parts of AlamedaCounty. In the hours that followed, a public information center set up to deal with queriesfrom the public was flooded with so many phone calls that it crashed, Rebiskie said. By lateSunday morning, operators were still receiving about 1,000 calls an hour, she said.

She urged people to keep calling back if they got a busy signal, and to visit the incident’swebpage to see a full list of evacuations.

Firefighting resources have beenpouring into the region in recent days.But firefighters say it’s simply notenough.

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The size and scope of the fires are unprecedented, Daniel Swain, a climate scientist atUCLA, wrote in a blog post.

“As I’ve stated publicly, I’m essentially at a loss for words to describe the scope of thelightning-sparked fire outbreak that has rapidly evolved in northern California — even inthe context of the extraordinary fires of recent years,” he wrote. “It’s truly astonishing.”

In some places, officials said they were being turned down for state help and left to begequipment and manpower from volunteers and local agencies.

“Many of these firefighters have been on the lines for 72 hours, and everybody is runningon fumes,” said Assemblyman Jim Wood (D-Healdsburg), whose district includes winecountry areas currently under siege. “Our first responders are working to the ragged edgeof everything they have.”

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With blazes overwhelming the crews available, fire experts say state officials are now beingforced to prioritize which fires will get resources, and to change how equipment and crewswill be used. Though officials often try to build defensible lines to contain blazes, fireexperts said the focus was now on saving lives and structures. That means the currentblazes could burn for weeks.

“At the statewide level, we do get into this mode where we start wondering where thebiggest loss is going to be, what’s the highest priority, and that is where the resources aregoing to go,” said Lenya Quinn-Davidson, a fire specialist with the UC CooperativeExtension.

Forecasters on Sunday afternoon were monitoring an area of moisture with the potentialto generate thunderstorms that was just off Central California and moving toward theMonterey area, said Carolina Walbrun, meterologist with the National Weather Service inMonterey.

The front was expected to continue to move north, affecting a stretch of the state fromMonterey to the Bay Area, she said.

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“The fear that we have as these thunderstorms develop is that it can create strongdowndrafts and result in further fire spread,” Walbrun said. “We also have the potential ofgenerating additional fires with dry lightning from these thunderstorms. There’s very littlemoisture associated with it.”

The first round of thunderstorms were expected to hit hardest Sunday night into Monday,with a second event forecast Monday night into Tuesday, she said.

In addition to bringing gusty winds, the system was also causing winds to shift to more ofa southwesterly direction, which could mean that firefighters have to change focus fromprotecting communities to the south of fire lines to those to the north, she said.

“The issue that is going to hamper this whole thing is going to be the lack of resourcesthat are available for firefighting because there are so many fires active right now, allresources are depleted,” Walbrun said. “So any additional starts are just going to stress thesystem even more.”

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Already, at least 1,171 homes and commercial buildings have been destroyed by fire inCalifornia since late July. They include at least 1,134that were decimated since Aug. 15,which marked the start of what officials were calling a “lightning siege” of about 12,000strikes that started an estimated 585 fires in California.

In San Mateo and Santa Cruz counties,the CZU Lightning Complex fire wasthreatening multiple communities andhad forced 77,000 people from theirhomes. The blaze began as a collectionof about 22 fires that largely mergedinto one, challenging firefighters as theytried to keep the flames away from thetowns dotting the rural, mountainousarea.

The Los Angeles County Fire Department said it had deployed five engine strike teams,consisting of 23 engines and 101 firefighters, to help with the effort.

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The fire had consumed 74,000 acres and was 8% contained as of Sunday night. Itthreatened 24,323 structures and had destroyed 175, the vast majority in Santa CruzCounty. One person was killed in the fire.

Firefighters were taking advantage of fairly calm winds to attack the fire on the ground asmuch as possible as they scrambled to make progress ahead of the inclement weather,said Daniel Potter, a Cal Fire public information officer.

“We’re going to get as much accomplished as we can before the front hits us,” he said.“And then adapt and overcome any new fires that may start in the area due to thelightning coming through.”

Crews were working to establish containment lines and fire breaks around the city of SantaCruz and the campus of UC Santa Cruz in a bid to keep the blaze from damaging thecommunity if it made a run in that direction.

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“It’s pretty much impossible to stop when a good wind is pushing the fire front faster thanwe can move,” Potter said.

Officials were asking people to stay out of evacuation zones to avoid hazards includingfire and downed trees and wires, and to keep roads open for emergency vehicles.

They also warned about criminals taking advantage of the crisis. Authorities on Saturdaymorning arrested five people on suspicion of looting, grand theft, burglary and conspiracyafter they were stopped driving away from the Fall Creek Drive area, the Santa CruzCounty Sheriff’s Office said.

Someone also broke into the department vehicle of a firefighting commander while hewas out battling the blaze, stole his wallet and drained his bank account, Mark Brunton,Cal Fire operations chief, said at a briefing Sunday.

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“It’s saddening, it’s sickening,” Brunton said, “and we are doing everything we can to try tohelp the community and unfortunately these [things] happen.”

Meanwhile, local officials also continued to beg tourists to stay away.

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The Santa Cruz County Emergency Operations Center said it was requesting that visitorsrefrain from traveling there through Sept. 1 to keep overnight accommodations availablefor evacuees.

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More than 45,000 Santa Cruz County residents have been displaced by the fires, andthough the county is operating 12 shelters, capacity is limited because of COVID-19,officials said. Many local hotels, motels and vacation rentals are also booked.

“DO NOT visit us now,” the county said in a tweet. “Air quality is poor, ash is everywhere,and we’re dealing with an unparalleled catastrophe. This is no time for a day at thebeach.”

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Protesters at a news conference at San Diego City Hall in June urge the City Council to extend an eviction moratorium. (Sam Hodgson / San DiegoUnion-Tribune)

By ERIKA D. SMITH | COLUMNIST

AUG. 24, 2020 | 5 AM

Gov. Gavin Newsom likes to talk about California “meeting the moment.” Well, for millionsof renters, there’s perhaps no moment more worth meeting than Sept. 1.

That’s the day — a mere eight days from now — when a statewide moratorium onevictions is set to expire and families across the state, including many families withchildren, could suddenly find themselves being booted from their homes into the street.As least one study has predicted that as many as 5.4 million households could go off theso-called eviction cliff.

The only thing that can save them now is a last-minute legislative compromise from state

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lawmakers, guided by the governor’s office. But when asked about the chances of doingso in time to, you know, meet the moment, Newsom has often veered from vague toflippant to defensive.

It’s a reflection of the worrisome political reality that, even now, with disastrousconsequences drawing ever nearer for a state that already leads the nation inhomelessness, his office and state lawmakers are trying to figure out a way to makelandlords happy.

“Every day, I’m asked this question and every day I make the same point, and forgive mefor all of you having to make it again,” Newsom said in a clipped tone on Friday, flankedby emergency personnel gathered to discuss the wildfires burning homes and forestsacross Northern California.

“As I’ve said, we’ve had very good conversations and made tremendous progress. Theprogress includes considerations of large landlords, large apartment owners, smallapartment owners, advocates for tenants and the like.”

“We are committed to getting it done,” he added tersely. “It is one of our top priorities.

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Everybody recognizes we need to deliver and I’m confident we will.”

To be sure, the cost of failure would be unacceptably high for a state that, in addition tothe number of people living in encampments under bridges and alleys, leads the nation inpoverty when the cost of living is factored in. Those most at risk for eviction come Sept. 1were living paycheck to paycheck before the COVID-19 pandemic and now have lost theirjobs because of it.

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And yet, the powerful and well-funded California Apartment Assn. and California Chamberof Commerce have come out against the last anti-eviction bill standing. AB 1436 fromAssemblyman David Chiu (D-San Francisco) would prohibit the removal of renters whomiss payments for either until 90 days after the COVID-19 state of emergency ends orApril 2021, whichever occurs first.

The bill also would provide a year of mortgage relief, allowing a pause or reduction inpayments to some property owners and landlords. But they are understandably skepticalabout that promise of forbearance because of concerns about whether out-of-state bankswould actually honor it. Instead, they would prefer to prevent evictions by receiving taxcredits in place of rent — a proposal that was in another bill that state lawmakers sidelinedearlier this month.

Under AB 1436, warned Debra Carlton, the apartment association’s executive vicepresident, landlords “will lose their rental units and tenants will eventually lose theirhomes.”

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It’s a sentiment echoed by dozens of landlords and property managers who flooded myinbox after I wrote about what the coming “eviction cliff” — as many have dubbed it —would do the most vulnerable California residents.

“Why are we expected to bear nearly the entire financial burden of families who are out ofwork?” one wanted to know. Another, citing the need to pay property taxes and utilitiesand to make repairs, demanded: “Who is supposed to pay these expenses?”

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Many griped about how tenants will abuse an extended eviction ban, using it as an excuseto skip rent even when they have the money to pay. Others pointed out that as mom-and-pop landlords, they use the rent they get from their tenants to pay their ownmortgage and, without a reprieve, could soon end up homeless themselves.

I get it. The fear of foreclosure is real, as is the painful possibility that corporate investorswill come in snap up their properties. There is no doubt that what has been happening tomany landlords over the last few months has been deeply unfair.

But what has been happening to many tenants has been deeply unfair for a lot longerthan that.

Consider that between 2010 and 2019, for example, the average rent in the city of LosAngeles climbed 65% to $2,527. During the same period, the median household incomegrew 36% to $64,036. There’s a reason about 150 people become homeless in L.A. Countyevery day and only about 130 homeless people get into housing — and sky-high rentalprices have a lot to do with it.

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Statewide, the story is much the same. Today, according to Zillow, the median rent inCalifornia is $2,775, with many people using more than a third of their income to pay for

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it. And though there have been signs that rental prices have been falling lately, most ofthe declines seem to be for the most expensive apartments, while rents in more affordableneighborhoods, at least in L.A., are essentially flat, as my Times colleague Andrew Khourireported.

It’s also worth noting that, according to the National Multifamily Housing Council, some93% of tenants have been paying at least part of their rent every month during thepandemic. That’s a percentage, I imagine, that will decline as unemployment checksshrink.

Meanwhile, the numbers show that Californians who bought homes and investmentproperties after the Great Recession, have seen mostly gains since then. The median homeprice has jumped from $251,000 in 2012 to $533,500 in 2020.

Study after study shows that property owners, in general, and landlords, in particular, tendto be better off financially than those who rent. And it’s renters pulling in the most meagerincomes who have found themselves most vulnerable to COVID-19 and the economicupheaval it has wrought.

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For sure, there are exceptions. All renters aren’t on the verge of financial ruin andlandlords aren’t sitting pretty. But landlords have indeed benefited from a system that,though not of their creation, has long been tilted in their favor with beneficial tax policiesand a housing shortage that has allowed rents to rise mostly unchecked.

It could be that this is what a pandemic-induced market correction looks like.

The fundamental problem is that by giving too much weight to the demands of landlords,California would be enabling what could only be construed as a return to the status quo,in which renters — many of them Black and Latino — continue to pay exorbitant sums tokeep a roof over their heads. As if the status quo was ever acceptable.

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I do hope that Newsom and lawmakers can hammer out a compromise before the stategoes off the eviction cliff. But if they must choose, there’s only one acceptable choice. Thistime, it must be renters.

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Erika D. Smith is a columnist for the Los Angeles Times writing about the diversity ofpeople and places across California. She joined The Times in 2018 as an assistant editorand helped expand coverage of the state’s housing and homelessness crisis. Shepreviously worked at the Sacramento Bee, where she was a columnist and editorial boardmember covering housing, homelessness and social justice issues. Before the Bee, Smithwrote for the Indianapolis Star and Akron Beacon Journal. She is a recipient of the SigmaDelta Chi award for column writing, a graduate of Ohio University and a native of thelong-suffering sports town of Cleveland.

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By JAKE SHERIDAN

AUG. 23, 2020 | 6 AM

Ivan Mirabelli cruised through Westwood Hills, past manicured lawn, big houses andscattered laborers keeping his well-off neighborhood’s appearance up, even in apandemic.

Besides short walks and a few outdoor meetups, Mirabelli said he’s holed up at home. Hisjob in finance — typically travel heavy, but now fully online — gives him that flexibility.

“I don’t want to get sick,” said Mirabelli, 34, who called the adaptability of his gig aprivilege. “I don’t have to make the tradeoff between my job and my safety.”

But not all jobs changed with the coronavirus. Along the district’s rolling streets, peopledelivered packages, painted walls and pruned trees. “It’s like any other day. … It seemspretty normal,” said Jose Ochoa, 28, who was landscaping a few blocks over.

For workers, the attitude is “more like, ‘nothing’s going to really happen to me,’ because

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we have to do it either way,” Ochoa said. “People from here, they’re more cautious.”

Five months into the pandemic, the coronavirus has preyed upon the fault lines ofAmerican society to expand inequities. Economic fallout hits poorer Californians hardest,and infection and death rates among Latino and Black communities tower over those inwhite communities, where more have the means to stay home.

A remarkable role reversal in mobility emerges as a product and producer of that growingdisparity.

Social distancing varies by income, a new study published by UC Davis to the NationalAcademy of Sciences shows. America’s wealthiest, who are typically the country’s mostmobile, became its most stationary as the coronavirus spread, while poorer people wentfrom the most inert to the biggest movers.

“People in poor areas may be at more risk of infection because they are social distancingless,” economist Joakim Weill said.

Wealthier people became the least mobile because they can adapt their work andconsumption, said Michael Springborn, a UC Davis professor who worked with Weill andstudies environmental and resource economics.

“Flexibility almost certainly increases with your level of income. … The more income youhave, the more flexibility you have,” Springborn said. “Lower-income communities tend tohave jobs that are typically considered essential work and lend themselves less to workfrom home.”

“They may have less liquidity and less cash on hand, and that may force them to do moretrips to buy groceries, for instance,” Weill added.

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The economists identified the trend after splitting America’s counties and census tractsinto five different income groups based on median income. Using mobile location data,

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they then compared income to the mobility of people living within each area. The resultsshow a stark difference between upper-class and working people.

“There’s a massive jump as you get to that final category,” Springborn said, referring tothe elevated percentage of people staying completely at home in America’s wealthiestcensus tracts, where median income sits between $40,500 and $148,000. Among the threepoorest quintiles, the measure of people staying completely at home bunches together ata rate nearly a fifth smaller than the richest group’s, representing a large, mobile workingclass.

“It’s a reflection of the distribution of income level in the United States. You have a lot ofpeople earning a relatively low or modest amount, and then a much smaller amount ofcommunities that are really, really far out on the high end,” Springborn said. Non-wealthypeople’s increased coronavirus exposure fits alongside their higher rates of preexistinghealth conditions and decreased access to quality healthcare, Springborn said.

“It’s becoming clear from various lines of evidence that poor communities are bearing adisproportionate share of the burden of the pandemic,” he said.

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In Los Angeles, communities with higher poverty rates have three times as many cases aswealthier communities, Advancement Project senior fellow Maria Cabildo said. Cabildoforesaw the coronavirus’ spread to Los Angeles’ poorer areas back when the virus wasreported to primarily affect wealthy people.

“You couldn’t even get a test unless you’d been traveling. You need to have been in Chinaor have been in Italy. I had a sense, like, this is going to happen ... this thing’s going tospread into our communities,” the born East-sider said. Skyrocketing mortality rates forLatino and Black Angelenos prove her expectations turned true, she said. The coronavirusravaged poor communities while slowing in wealthier ones.

Poor households — often facing eviction, food shortage and more unmet needs — don’thave the flexibility to choose safety over money, so they have to go out and faceexposure, Cabildo said.

“If they’re lucky enough to have a family member that’s working, they’re out working,” shesaid. “The consequence of that is people come into contact with many more people.” Thatincreased exposure combines with other factors, like higher home density, to devastate

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poor Latino and Black households in Los Angeles, she said.

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“We owe something to these workers, who are moving L.A. forward so that the rest of uscan shelter in place. We have to respond with resources in those communities that aremost severely impacted,” she said.

Springborn and Weill, whose research team also included academics from UC SantaBarbara and Stanford, said their findings should inform policy decisions too.

“These type of findings should urge them to really consider prioritizing lower communitiesin the distribution of vaccines,” Weill said. Worker protections, information campaigns andmasks could also be targeted toward poorer communities, they added.

Back in the Westwood Hills, a driver parked his sleek gray van on the side of the road andgot out to deliver a package. He said his name was Matt, and paused for a second as hetried to figure out how to get past a house’s metal gate.

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“If I didn’t have to be out here, no, I wouldn’t be out here. There’s no way I’d be out here,”the 52-year-old said.

The sun beamed. Matt was sweaty. He said that even though he’s not worried aboutcontracting the coronavirus, he understands that flexibility comes with higher income —flexibility that would allow him to quit his grueling delivery job where “everyone walksaround like a zombie,” and maybe move back across the country to live by family again.

“You know, wealth equals freedom,” Matt said. “Green equals freedom. Money equalsfreedom.”

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