Sacramento Bee: Gavin Newsom Chides CA Beach Goers, Warns About Coronavirus 
Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday rebuked Californians who flocked to Southern California beaches over the weekend, warning that crowded beaches could prolong the stay-at-home orders he and local governments handed down last month to slow the coronvirus outbreak. “Those images are an example of what not to see,” Newsom said, referring to photographs that circulated widely over the weekend. (Sheeler, 4/27)

Los Angeles Times: Newsom Sued Over California Stay-At-Home Coronavirus Rules
Two Sacramento County residents on Monday filed a federal lawsuit challenging Gov. Gavin Newsom’s sweeping stay-at-home order that is credited with helping slow the spread of coronavirus. The lawsuit, filed on behalf of Ron Givens of the Sacramento Gun Club and Christine “Chris” Bish, a real estate agent and a Republican candidate for Congress running against Rep. Doris Matsui (D-Sacramento), alleges that the California Highway Patrol unconstitutionally denied their requests for permits to hold a protest outside the state Capitol. (Willon, 4/27)

San Francisco Chronicle: Where Is California’s Coronavirus Equipment Going? Gavin Newsom Aides Give Details 
After prodding from state lawmakers, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration debuted a website Monday to let people track the shipment of coronavirus-related personal protective equipment across California. The website shows how the state has distributed scarce supplies by county, such as face masks, gloves and gowns, to protect health care workers and others from the coronavirus pandemic. (Gardiner, 4/27)

Bay Area News Group: Coronavirus: Bay Area's Shelter-In-Place To Last Through May
As states across the country rush to restart economies battered by the coronavirus, the Bay Area is telling residents to buckle down — at least until June. Six Bay Area counties — Santa Clara, Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, San Mateo and San Francisco — and the city of Berkeley announced Monday they will be extending their first-in-the-nation stay-at-home order through the end of May. The current order was set to expire Sunday. (Salonga and Kelliher, 4/27)

Sacramento Bee: Coronavirus CA Updates: Bay Area Counties Extend Shelter Order 
The worldwide coronavirus infection total surpassed 3 million early Monday, of which nearly 1 million confirmed cases have come in the United States, as state governments continue to consider when and how to reopen their economies. The U.S. also makes up more than a quarter of the global death total from COVID-19, the disease caused by the highly contagious virus, according to data maintained by Johns Hopkins University. Nearly 56,000 had died nationwide as of Monday afternoon out of more than 210,000 total fatalities around the world. (McGough and Kasler, 4/27)

Bay Area News Group: California Coronavirus Cases Climb, But Pace Of New Cases Slows
The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases and deaths continued to climb in California over the weekend, but the pace of the daily increase in new cases and deaths has slowed in the past few days, officials reported. The total number of cases reached 43,621 as of Sunday evening, an increase of 1,091, from the day before, according to data compiled by this news organization. But this number is lower than the 1274 new cases reported Saturday, and offers a relief to the surge of cases earlier in the week, when the state reported more than 2300 cases in a single day. (Ross, 4/27)

Bay Area News Group: Coronavirus Deaths Rise In Santa Clara, San Francisco Counties
Health officials in Santa Clara County reported an additional seven deaths from the novel coronavirus in their Monday report, while San Francisco health officials added one more death to their total. That bit of bad news also came with information from Bay Area health agencies that the number of confirmed cases throughout the area seemed to slow down over the weekend, a trend that authorities have said eventually will have to pick up momentum for local stay-at-home orders related to COVID-19 to be lifted. (Ross and Hurd, 4/27)

Sacramento Bee: Coronavirus Spurs Sutter Roseville CA To Open New ER Early
In the past six weeks, as the new coronavirus spread across the Sacramento region, leaders at Sutter Roseville Medical Center moved to open their expanded emergency and critical care units long before the planned May 27 date. “Late February, when we saw what was happening in the world and thought about how we would be prepared for that — not just Sutter Roseville but all of Sutter Health — one of the many actions was: ‘Joan, get this building open early,’” said Joan Touloukian, the master planning project director at Sutter Roseville. (Anderson, 4/27)

Los Angeles Times: L.A.'s Less Invasive Coronavirus Test Could Bring Risk, Rewards
When the coronavirus hit, Los Angeles County faced a testing crisis. Officials had only one test processing machine at its laboratory in Downey and had little hope of getting help from the federal government. Swabs were scarce. Laboratories were backlogged. And there weren’t enough healthcare workers to take samples from patients. (Lau and Petersen, 4/28)

Fresno Bee: Coronavirus: Fresno Health Official Says More Testing Needed
Amid cries from some city leaders to begin reopening non-essential businesses, Fresno County’s leading health official said the Fresno-area needs more testing to know whether the coronavirus curve is flattening to a safer level. Councilman Garry Bredefeld and Mike Karbassi support the idea of reopening non-essential businesses. Karbassi, who is a small business owner, suggested Monday at a news conference that the city should reopen businesses by May 7. He said small, non-essential businesses couldn’t compete with the bigger chain stores that have remained open. (Rodriguez-Delgado, 4/27)

CalMatters: Two Bakersfield Doctors' Viral, Dubious COVID Test Claims
They dressed in scrubs. They sounded scientific. And last week’s message from two Bakersfield doctors was exactly what many stuck-at-home Americans wanted to hear: COVID-19 is no worse than influenza, its death rates are low and we should all go back to work and school... But public health experts were quick to debunk the doctors’ findings as misguided and riddled with statistical errors — and an example of the kind of misleading information they are forced to waste precious time disputing. (Ostrov, 4/27)

San Jose Mercury News: Coronavirus Cases At San Jose Nursing Home Keep Climbing
A San Jose nursing home with one of the first reported outbreaks of the coronavirus in an elder care facility is now on the verge of reaching 100 combined infections among patients and staff. Canyon Springs Post Acute Care first notified patients’ families the last week of March that two patients and an employee had become infected with the virus. (Peele and Sciacca, 4/27)

San Francisco Chronicle: SF Will Return $138 Million Of Health Care Funds To Help Jobless Weather Coronavirus Crisis 
With San Francisco’s shutdown orders extended through May, out-of-work residents’ desperation will surely swell. So it’s good news Mayor London Breed’s administration has found a way to get the $138 million tied up in hard-to-access medical reimbursement accounts back to the employees who earned the money in the first place. (Knight, 4/28)

San Francisco Chronicle: SF Fails To Meet Deadline Of Leasing Enough Hotel Rooms For Homeless During Coronavirus Pandemic 
San Francisco failed to meet a Sunday deadline to secure more than 8,000 hotel rooms for the homeless and other at-risk populations who must quarantine or socially distance themselves amid the coronavirus pandemic. The city was supposed to lease 8,250 hotel rooms for the homeless, frontline workers and those living in densely populated apartment buildings by Sunday, according to an April 14 emergency ordinance unanimously passed by the Board of Supervisors. (Thadani, 4/27)

San Francisco Chronicle: Cars, Trains And Uncertainty: How Coronavirus Will Change Bay Area Transit 
For years, Bay Area commuters shared a daily ritual. They packed cheek-by-elbow into a stuffy BART train, or pushed their way onto Muni Metro, or crammed together in buses that seemed to lurch with all the weight. In a region where the whole economy depended on pumping everyone downtown, crowding was a sign of success. Then the coronavirus swept in, forcing workers to stay home and upending the norms of highways and transit in ways that no one had ever expected. (Swan, 4/27)

Los Angeles Times: Tech Failures Plague California Unemployment System
For Californians desperate to get unemployment assistance during the COVID-19 pandemic, the last month has been a perfect storm of failures for a state government with a long history of technology problems. Many seeking jobless benefits in recent weeks found phone lines jammed at the state Employment Development Department and had their calls disconnected before they could talk to a live service representative at the agency, which processes unemployment insurance claims. (McGreevy and Christensen, 4/27)

Stat: California Fines A Dozen Drug Makers For Not Providing Drug Pricing Data
Over the past six months, California state authorities fined more than a dozen drug makers a total of $17.5 million for failing to report price hikes as required by law, and more than half of the penalties were levied since the beginning of the year, according to data obtained by STAT. To date, the state has only collected $4.8 million, as some fines were settled for lower amounts and other companies have yet to either make a payment or reach a settlement, according to a spokesperson for the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development, which administers the law. (Silverman, 4/28)