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1760 Ocean Avenue Starting from Santa Monica, CA 90401 310.393.6711 $ Parking | Kitchenettes | WiFi Available 88 BOOK DIRECT AND SAVE SeaviewHotel.com + Taxes THURSDAY Not a record review Photo LA Goes Virtual Noteworthy. Culture Watch. 07.02.20 Page 4 Page 6 Volume 19 Issue 191 @smdailypress @smdailypress Santa Monica Daily Press smdp.com CORONAVIRUS DEATHS per 100,000 LA County Daily Deaths 80 SANTA MONICA LA COUNTY CALIFORNIA USA WORLDWIDE 60 40 31.4 33.7 15.4 38.8 6.8 20 SMDP Graphic-Data from Johns Hopkins, WHO, LA County Public Health Mar 10 Jun 30 Virus spike County prompts big Man arrested for arson bracing for California of Sake House harsh holiday about face on weekend MATTHEW HALL reopenings Daily Press Editor ADAM BEAM Los Angeles County is bracing Associated Press for a make or break weekend in fighting the coronavirus outbreak California Gov. Gavin Newsom with local officials backing state on Wednesday ordered bars and measures to temporarily roll back indoor dining at restaurants to reopening of some businesses in close in most areas of the state advance of the July 4 holiday. for the next three weeks amid a Governor Gavin Newsom troubling surge of new coronavirus announced a new round of closures cases throughout the state. Wednesday and his announcement The revised stay-at-home order followed a previous decision to affects 19 counties where nearly close beaches this weekend. three-quarters of the state’s roughly All beaches, beach parking lots, 40 million people live — including beach bike paths, beach facilities Los Angeles County. and beach accessways will be closed Newsom says indoor operations from 12:01 a.m. Friday, July 3, at restaurants, wineries and tasting Matthew Hall until 5 a.m. Monday, July 6. Local rooms, family entertainment ARSON: The Sake House restaurant was destroyed by a fire during the looting in May. beaches will be completely closed to centers, movie theaters, zoos and all recreational activities, the Santa museums and cardroom gambling MATTHEW HALL looting on May 31. mandatory minimum sentence of Monica Pier will be closed, and businesses must close. Bars were Daily Press Editor Tillmon was arrested pursuant five years in federal prison and a Santa Monica’s portion of the beach ordered to close both indoor and to a criminal complaint filed on statutory maximum sentence of bike path and all beach parking lots outdoor operations. Micah Tillmon, 19, of West June 25 and unsealed after his 20 years. will also be closed. “The bottom line is the spread Hills has been arrested in arrest. The complaint charges According to the criminal “With a sharp rise in confirmed of this virus continues at a rate that connection with the arson of Tillmon with one count of arson, COVID-19 cases, public health Sake House restaurant during the a felony offense that carries a SEE ARREST PAGE 11 SEE REOPENINGS PAGE 5 SEE COVID-19 PAGE 7 CITY OF SANTA MONICA News 2 THURSDAY, JULY 02, 2020 Visit us online at www.smdp.com HOUSING DIVISION The City of Santa Monica announces it has committed funds in the amount of $13,348,057, which includes an existing acquisition and predevelopment Little evidence that loan of $10,658,973, to Community Corporation of Santa Monica for the construction of an affordable housing development located at 1819 Pico Boulevard and 2024 19th Street. protests spread coronavirus in US MIKE STOBBE AND NICKY FORSTER of a Black man at the hands of a white officer Associated Press touched off protests around the United States. Coincidentally, some states had begun to lift There is little evidence that the protests social distancing restrictions in late May. that erupted after George Floyd’s death caused Dave and his colleagues counted protests a significant increase in U.S. coronavirus over three weeks in 281 cities with populations infections, according to public health experts. of at least 100,000. Most had protests lasting If the protests had driven an explosion more than three days, and many had protests in cases, experts say, the jumps would have that had at least 1,000 participants. started to become apparent within two weeks It’s not clear how many protesters — and perhaps as early as five days. But participated, let alone how many of them that didn’t happen in many cities with the wore masks or got tested after. That may have largest protests, including New York, Chicago, varied from place to place. Minneapolis, and Washington, D.C. Houston is among a number of Texas In what’s considered the first systematic cities that have recently seen steep increases look at the question, a team of economists in cases and hospitalizations. Dr. Umair determined that only one of 13 cities involved Shah, executive director of the county health in the earliest wave of protests after Memorial department, believes it was likely some cases Day had an increase that would fit the pattern. could be traced to the protests. It was Phoenix, where experts say cases “We just don’t know how much,” he said. and hospitalizations surged after a decision But it’s hard to measure the protests’ by Gov. Doug Ducey to end Arizona’s stay-at- precise impact for a number of reasons, Shah home order on May 15 and eased restrictions and others said. Earlier business reopenings on businesses. Arizona residents who were and more willingness to shrug off social cooped up for six weeks flooded Phoenix- distancing guidelines started the trend in the area bar districts, ignoring social distancing Houston area, Shah said. guidelines. Another factor: Many people don’t get In many cities, the protests actually seemed tested unless they feel symptoms. Many to lead to a net increase in social distancing, protesters were young adults, who generally as more people who did not protest decided are less likely to get severe illness, and to stay off the streets, said that study’s lead therefore may not have gotten tested, experts author, Dhaval Dave of Bentley University. said. “The large-scale protests can impact both And some who do get tested may still not the behavior of the protesters and the behavior answer all the questions they are asked by of the non-protesters,” said Dave. The paper outbreak investigators. was released last week by the National Bureau “I know of three people who told us ‘Yes, of Economic Research, but has not been I was at a protest.’ That doesn’t mean there published by a peer-reviewed journal. was not another 25 or more who did attend Drawing from data compiled by Johns a protest and just did not share that with us,” Hopkins University, The Associated Press said Dr. Mysheika Roberts, the public health reviewed trends in daily reported cases in commissioner for the city of Columbus, Ohio. 22 U.S. cities with protests. It found post- That city has seen increased cases in the protest increases in several cities — including last month, but health officials say they can’t Houston and Madison, Wisconsin — where attribute it to any particular reason other than experts say other factors were more likely the people socializing and returning to normal main drivers. activities without wearing masks or taking Health officials are still investigating case other precautions. So far, protests don’t seem surges in different states, and more data to be a real factor. may come in. But experts believe that if “Most of the protests, at least in my the protests did have a big impact on cases, jurisdiction, were outside,” and the virus does stronger signs would be apparent now. not spread as well outside, Roberts said. “And Floyd was killed on May 25 by a I would say 50% of those at the protests were Minneapolis police officer who used his knee wearing a face mask.” to pin Floyd’s neck to the ground. 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