Palo Alto Weekly April 3, 2020

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Vol. XLI, Number 26 Q April 3, 2020

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Q Business Bloom Energy pivots to ventilators Q Living Well Seniors cope with isolation Q Home Pandemic reshapes real estate market

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Local news, information and analysis

How long will the outbreak last?

As Santa Clara County extends stay-at-home order, officials prepare for a deadly spring

by Gennady Sheyner and Sue Dremann e’re in for a grim April over the eerily quiet and brutally and a harsh May before long two weeks that stretched we approach some new from March 16, when Santa Clara County and five other Bay Area kind of normalcy.

That’s the message that has counties first ordered residents to been imbedded in statistical stay at home due to the coronavimodels, white papers and pro- rus outbreak, to this past Tuesday, nouncements made by governors, when the counties extended the mayors and White House advisers order to May 3.

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But while the initial Bay Area shutdown seemed jarring, the March 31 extension felt almost inevitable. Between the two orders, the number of confirmed cases in the county jumped from 138 to 890 and the number of deaths from COVID-19 went from three to 30. Bay Area schools officially shuttered for the rest of the academic year; and U.S. President Donald Trump abruptly pivoted from a bullish plan to reopen the

country by Easter to declaring on Tuesday, “This is going to be three weeks like we’ve never seen before.”

While health experts are reluctant to answer the elusive question “How long will the outbreak last?” with any degree of certainty or specificity, most measures indicate that Santa Clara County, like the state and the nation, will see a sharp increase in cases in April and early May before things begin

to level off.

Health officials have been reluctant to predict the duration of the outbreak, partly because the lack of widespread testing makes it difficult to know how many people in the county are infected. County Executive Jeffrey Smith said on March 24 that he believes that based on modeling done thus far, the number of infected persons is (continued on page 10)

PUBLIC HEALTH

Shelter order extended to May 3 County signals that COVID-19 spread may be slowing down

by Gennady Sheyner

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After posting a message on social media alerting neighbors that he was willing to help anyone in need during the coronavirus outbreak, Howard Kushlan has spent most of his days walking neighbors’ dogs, shopping and doing just about anything that’s needed.

COMMUNITY

Ordinary people, extraordinary times The new normal: Life during the coronavirus crisis

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n a span of days, the coronavirus outbreak created a new reality along the Midpeninsula: Schools shut down, Stanford University students were ordered off campus, all concerts and sports events were canceled. Tech campuses are empty and most residents are now stuck at home under a statewide stay-at-home order.

Life as we knew it has come to

by Linda Taaffe a screeching halt.

As residents adjust to living the new normal, the Weekly is sharing personal stories of how ordinary people are coping during these extraordinary times. This week, we talked to an older adult living with her husband behind closed doors and an entrepreneur who has inspired hundreds of neighbors to volunteer in the community.

‘This is a war, and we all have to do what we can.’

Howard Kushlan Entrepreneur Howard Kushlan knows the best place to get eggs, where to find Clorox wipes, who’s in need of distilled water for their

CPAP machine, which neighbor has a prescription waiting to be picked up, and just about every shopping policy at every food store in Palo Alto.

Over the past month, the Palo Alto resident has spent his days — and some evenings — helping neighbors during the pandemic as part of a growing corps of volunteer residents that he unintentionally inspired to take action after sending a call out to those in need on social media.

“I didn’t overthink it. I just put a post up saying, ‘I’m happy to do whatever you need; if you need groceries, if you need

ith the number of coronavirus cases rising and health systems bracing for a surge of patients, Bay Area health officials extended on Tuesday the regional stay-at-home order until May 3 and announced new restrictions on businesses and construction activities.

The new order, which Santa Clara County Health Officer Sara Cody announced, builds on the March 16 order that Cody along with officials from San Francisco, San Mateo, Alameda, Contra Costa and Marin counties, as well as Berkeley, announced and that was set to expire on April 7.

The extended stay-at-home order is intended to help preserve the area’s critical hospital capacity.

“Our hospitals are beginning to fill with COVID-19 patients,” Cody said during a noon press conference in San Jose. “We need more time.”

Of the new restrictions, the most significant pertain to businesses that remain open and construction projects that remain in progress. All businesses that continue to operate will now be required to prepare and post a “social distancing” plan detailing the measures they are taking to ensure compliance with county guidance. In addition, essential businesses that also offer nonessential services will now be

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MAPPING THE VIRUS ... Two Palo Alto High School students have taken on a new extracurricular activity while they’re sheltering at home: offering real-time

SPREAD POSITIVE VIBES ... As the coronavirus crisis continues to unfold at home and around the world, we want to share positive stories from our readers for upcoming Around Town columns.

Have you witnessed a random act of kindness or watched the community form bonds while maintaining a safe social distance?

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ADMIRE FROM AFAR ... Social distancing has made a significant impact on many members of the Palo Alto community — even the Barron Park donkeys. While Perry and Jenny continue to go on walks four times a week and stop by Bol Park every Sunday to interact with their fellow citizens, they have clearly noticed differences in their lack of interactions with their visitors. “They’re very smart, they’re very sociable,� Barron Park Donkey Project Coordinator Jenny Kiralti said. She encourages people to come by every day to 3590 Laguna Ave. and say hello to the famous duo, as long as they abide by the recent “no petting� rule (while there is no evidence that shows the virus is transmitted between people who pet the same animal, Kiralti said the rule is in place as a precaution).

Visitors must also make no contact with the gate, which children tend to hang on to. The donkeys have had fewer visitors of late. On a typical Saturday morning, about 40-50 people drop by the donkeys’ home, but on March 28 they saw fewer than 10 visitors, according to Kiralti. “They’re looking out, wondering where all their pals are,� she said. “Jenny in particular ... just looked a little forlorn.� The public can still find them strolling in Bol Park from 10-11 a.m. on Sundays, and so far people have been good about maintaining 6 feet of distance between the animals and one another. “Just being near the donkeys is calming and relaxing with these times,� Kiralti said.

coronavirus data from across the nation. Jonathan Kao and Victor Lin, the duo behind the website clearcov19.com, call themselves “two high school seniors who mess around with all things web development, AI and computer science!� They’re giving users information on cases searchable

by ZIP code or county. The information is displayed through a “minimalist and user-friendly interface,� according to the site.

The results show confirmed cases and deaths (users also can find out the increase from the past week or month) for their county; positive and negative test results for their state; and the severity of the coronavirus in their county (compared to the rest of their state) and in their state (compared to the rest of the U.S.). The county’s confirmed cases and deaths also are visualized through line graphs that can be viewed by the past week, month or three months. Site visitors also can sign up for daily emails updates on new data from their county. Days after launching the online resource in late March, the website received more than 2,000 unique visitors and support on platforms such as Nextdoor, a neighborhood social networking service, they told the Weekly in an email. “We never thought we would receive such a positive response from the Palo Alto community, and it’s gotten us thinking that we have something that could be of value to so many more,� they wrote.

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CITY COUNCIL ... The council plans to hear an update on the city’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic and approve, on a second reading, the local moratorium on eviction of residential tenants. The meeting will start at 6 p.m. on Monday, April 6, and will be conducted completely remotely. Residents can tune in to Channel 26, listen to 90.1 FM KZSU radio, log into the livestream through Midpen Media Center at https:// midpenmedia.org/category/government/city-of-palo-alto/ or at http:// www.youtube.com/c/cityofpaloalto.

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News Digest Mom gets prison for admissions scandal

Photo courtesy of California Department of Public Health.

Gov. Gavin Newsom tours Bloom Energy in Sunnyvale on March 28 to see workers refurbishing ventilators.

BUSINESS

Bloom Energy used to make fuel cells. Now it’s saving lives.

With pressing need on the horizon, local company tackles the refurbishing of old ventilators to treat COVID-19 patients

by Sue Dremann

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hen Gov. Gavin Newsom said that California hospitals will face a massive shortage of life-saving ventilators for seriously ill COVID-19 patients, the executives of the San Jose-based company Bloom Energy knew they had to do something to help.

Newsom made a call to action on March 16 to the state’s CEOs to help find or manufacture equipment such as masks, gloves and respiratory ventilators to resupply hospitals that could run out of protective gear and vital equipment. He said the state could need at least 10,000 ventilators, which help critically ill patients to breathe, over the next three months.

Bloom, which produces fuel cells, decided it wasn’t a stretch to repair and upgrade hundreds of older ventilators the state had purchased for prior pandemics, said Susan Brennan, the company’s executive vice president and chief operating officer.

The company immediately put together a “tiger team” with government officials and Bloom employees to figure out logistics. A company engineer downloaded a ventilator manual and taught employees how to build and service the ventilators overnight, she said.

Engineers began testing the ventilators to understand how well they functioned and set up an assembly line in its Sunnyvale facility to service the equipment. The company rearranged its storage to make room for the assembly line.

It is keeping its main production line for its fuel cell production and created a new refurbishment line for the ventilators, she said.

“It’s tight but effective, and we’re keeping social distancing.

It’s tight, but it’s 6-feet tight,” she said.

The company made its first delivery of 24 repaired and upgraded ventilators this week. On Friday, March 27, the company had refurbished 80 ventilators and was prepared to ship another 120 the next day, CEO KR Sridhar announced during a press conference in the company’s Sunnyvale manufacturing facility with Gov. Newsom on Saturday, March 28.

After Los Angeles received 170 ventilators from the federal stockpile that weren’t working, the state quickly had a truck deliver them to Bloom Energy for repair on Friday. The repaired ventilators were due to be returned to Los Angeles on Monday, fully functional.

Sridhar said in future weeks the company would be able to ship 200 to 250 ventilators at a time.

“We will not be the bottleneck,” he said, while urging anyone who has a ventilator to send it to Bloom for refurbishing.

Bloom is one of two local companies committed to retooling for building ventilators. Tesla CEO Elon Musk has said he would use the company’s Fremont car plant to produce the life-saving equipment. Last week, he delivered more than 1,200 purchased ventilators to the state, Newsom announced. Musk said in a tweet that he has been talking to leading manufacturers about supplies and engineering for repurposing the Tesla plant.

Bloom chose to refurbish rather than build machines because it will boost the state’s supply quickly, while others are ramping

up for production, said Brennan, who is a former vice president of manufacturing for Nissan, North America, and Ford Motor Company’s director of the global manufacturing business office.

“We know we will be ahead of anybody who is building new,” she said.

The biggest challenge to the new operation? Supplies.

“We started with 200 (ventilators) and we are only right now constrained by supplies. We are working with our external partners for incoming supplies,” she said.

Brennan is optimistic the company can turn out many hundreds of ventilators in a short period of time.

“I have never seen this level of cooperation between people who don’t know each other. It is as frictionless as a process that’s difficult as could be,” she said.

Bloom also is using its manufacturing facility in Delaware to refurbish ventilators on the east coast. The company started working on its first six machines for that state last week, she said.

The company is calling for other states and hospitals to locate and send in any timed out, expired or out-of-warranty ventilators. Once brought up to a standard for suitable use, the ventilators will be shipped back to the providers, which have the responsibility to validate and certify the devices, she said.

“We’re not in this to make money. We’re doing this because we saw a need,” she said. Q Staff Writer Sue Dremann can be emailed at sdremann@ paweekly.com.

An Atherton woman who paid more than $500,000 to help her children get into college through a nationwide admissions scandal was sentenced on Tuesday to seven months in prison, according to prosecutors.

Elizabeth Henriquez, 57, must also serve two years of supervised release, pay a $200,000 fine and perform 300 hours of community service, according to prosecutors with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts. She has until June 30 to surrender herself to the Bureau of Prisons.

Henriquez began participating in the scheme in 2015 when she began communicating with William “Rick” Singer, the Newport Beach man who helped dozens of other parents bribe admissions officers and athletic coaches at top colleges and universities into accepting their children in exchange for large sums of money. In many cases, the scandal involved correcting or providing answers for college entrance exams.

Henriquez and her husband, Manuel Henriquez, pleaded to one count of conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud and honest mail services and wire fraud; and a second count of conspiracy to commit money laundering.

Manuel Henriquez, former CEO of venture capital and private equity firm Hercules Capital in Palo Alto, is scheduled for a sentencing hearing on April 8.

The Henriquezes are among 10 local parents indicted in the case. Q —Jamey Padojino

Witness leads police to getaway car Three people wanted in connection with an armed robbery at the Arco gas station at 699 San Antonio Road on Sunday night were located by police with the help of a witness, who followed the trio’s getaway car from south Palo Alto to the north side of town, police said Monday.

Dispatchers were told a man entered the gas station’s store, aimed a handgun at the cashier and demanded money. A witness, who went inside the gas station store moments after the robbery, followed the trio while giving updates to dispatchers on their location, according to police. Officers stopped the getaway vehicle in the area of Alma Street and Palo Alto Avenue, not far from El Camino Park, and arrested a 28-year-old man and a 26-year-old woman, both from Salinas, who allegedly took turns driving the getaway vehicle away from the gas station. They also took into custody a 19-year-old Los Banos man.

The three alleged robbers were found with stolen cash, drugs, drug paraphernalia and an unsecured handgun.

The two men were also arrested for alleged possession of a stolen firearm, which is a felony, police said. The woman is also suspected of possession of drug paraphernalia and possession of methamphetamine, both misdemeanors. Q —Palo Alto Weekly staff

More restrictions put on construction With the number of coronavirus cases rising and health systems bracing for a surge of patients, Bay Area health officials extended on Tuesday the regional stay-at-home order until May 3 and announced new restrictions on construction activities.

The new order, which Santa Clara County Health Officer Sara Cody announced, builds on the “shelter-in-place” order that Cody and officials from six other Bay Area jurisdictions announced on March 16 and that was set to expire on April 7. Now, residents in the seven jurisdictions will be asked to stay home for all but essential functions until May 3.

The new order limits construction activity, explicitly banning construction of purely market-rate housing. However, developments that have at least 10% of their units designated as belowmarket-rate will be allowed to proceed.

Whereas the prior order gave wide latitude to cities to move ahead with public works projects, the new one allows local governments to advance only those projects that they specifically designate as “essential government functions.” As such, it will suspend numerous projects that are pending in Palo Alto, including the California Avenue parking garage and the remodel of the city’s animal shelter. Q —Gennady Sheyner LET’S DISCUSS: Read the latest local news headlines and talk about the issues at Town Square at PaloAltoOnline.com/square

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Here’s the latest on the coronavirus Local schools will not reopen this academic year

by Palo Alto Weekly staff or Santa Clara County stu- 66,000 hospital beds, an increase dents whose public schools of 16,000 more than the state is were ordered closed preparing for the “Phase 1 surge,” through April 3, the other shoe Gov. Gavin Newsom said during an dropped on Wednesday: Cam- April 1 press conference. puses will stay shuttered for the HOTLINE FOR SENIORS UNVEILED: rest of the academic year.

Superintendent Don Austin Newsom unveiled a hotline number made the announcement to Palo — 833-544-2374 — on March 31 Alto Unified families on Wednes- aimed at helping isolated seniors day, stating that classroom in- to stay connected. The hotline will struction will not resume and that provide the latest information on the students will engage in distance coronavirus pandemic and services learning for the remainder of the available to them, he said. semester.

“We empathize with students BEEFING UP HEALTH CARE who were holding out hope for STAFFING: On March 30, Newsom a return this year,” Austin said. announced the California Health “Most people knew that reopen- Corps initiative, which would bring ing this year was unlikely given retired health care professionals or the challenges facing our nation those with inactive licenses back and a virus still spreading rapidly. into the workforce to staff additional At a minimum, I hope a defini- health care sites that will be needed tive answer can provide a degree throughout the state and increase of relief. While our classrooms the number of medical professionals are closed, teaching and learning treating patients who don’t have COVID-19. On March 31, Newsom continues.”

In the coming weeks, districts said that 25,000 workers had already across the county will commu- signed up. nicate with families about how grades, graduation, transcripts, TELEPHONE TOWN HALL: A scholarships, summer school telephone town hall on the status and continued distance learning of the coronavirus in Santa Clara instruction will be handled, ac- County is scheduled for this Sunday, cording to a joint letter from all April 5, at 11 a.m. The meeting will 32 of Santa Clara County’s school feature Rep. Anna Eshoo, D-Palo district superintendents and the Alto, Health Officer Dr. Sara Cody county superintendent of schools. and Santa Clara County Supervisor “We acknowledge that distance Joe Simitian and other health care learning comes with its own set of professionals. Anyone interested in challenges, and we commit to pro- joining can call 855-866-6313. vide students, families and educators with ongoing support. As all STATE BANS VEHICLES AT STATE of our districts further implement PARKS: California State Parks distance learning options and ac- announced on March 29 that it is ademic strategies, the social and temporarily closing vehicle access emotional well-being of all of our at all 280 state parks to prevent students is of utmost importance the spread of the coronavirus. The to us. We are working to find ways department restriction followed to stay connected, which will con- an increase of visitors at parks tinue to help us learn together and statewide at the start of the celebrate important milestones,” weekend. The department said it could fully close parks if people the letter states.

In San Mateo County, dis- do not follow social-distancing tricts also stated Wednesday that guidelines. For more information, schools would be closed through go to the parks.ca.gov/?page_ id=30350.

June.

The schools announcement was but one development in the SAN MATEO COUNTY CLOSES ITS ongoing coronavirus pandemic, PARKS: All San Mateo County parks which has hit Santa Clara County have been closed until further notice particularly hard. Here are more due to a sharp increase in visitors despite the shelter-at-home order, updates from the past week.

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GATHERING HOSPITAL BEDS: By the end of May, California may need

county officials said on March 27.

Data collected from mid-February to March 25 showed increases of 50% to 300% in park use following the shelter-at-home order. Q

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NEW COVID-19 CASES, DEATHS: On April 1, Santa Clara County reported 66 new cases, bringing its total to 956, with the death toll at 32. As of Tuesday evening, San Mateo County had 388 cases of the coronavirus, with 10 deaths.

View our interactive charts on the number of cases and deaths at PaloAltoOnline.Atavist.com.

Dina Abarca watches her son Ethan Castillo, 4, play a game on a cell phone after she returned home from work in Menlo Park.

EDUCATION

School closures heighten low-income families’ fears that their students will be left behind Local school districts and nonprofits jump in to offer lifelines for children in need

by Elena Kadvany

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he coronavirus has put Dina Abarca in a high-stakes Catch-22.

A single mother who lives paycheck to paycheck, she’s grateful to still have a job. She works long days at the deli counter at Bianchini’s Market in Portola Valley, carefully packaging meals that used to be offered at a selfserve counter and watching a staff member now dedicated to constantly sanitizing the store.

But the job means she can’t be at home with her 4-year-old son who is on the autism spectrum and whom she worries will fall behind without the structured support of his preschool, St. Elizabeth Seton School in Palo Alto.

Her daughter, a 19-year-old San Francisco State University student, has become his daytime caretaker, along with Abarca’s nephew, a junior at Bellarmine College Preparatory, and her oldest son, a 21-year-old Humboldt State University student, all living for the foreseeable future in Abarca’s home in Belle Haven.

“Not knowing how long this will last — it’s nerve-racking only because I’m not there with them.

But if I were there with them, then I don’t have a paycheck, which helps me support them,” she said.

“The only comfort that I have is I’m thankful I do have 40 hours of work.”

Abarca is among the many low-income families in East Palo Alto, Palo Alto and east Menlo Park for whom the coronavirus is

exacerbating the economic, educational and technological inequities that already loom large without the threat of a public health crisis. Many are hourly laborers, gardeners, house cleaners, child care providers or service workers now out of jobs. The safety net of after-school programs and nonprofits they rely on to support their children are closed. They might not have internet access at home or enough devices to share among multiple children now relying on online instruction for their education for the remainder of the school year.

Asminda Zalava has four children at each level of the school system: a fourth-grader at Los Robles-Ronald McNair Academy, a sixth-grader at KIPP Valiant Community Prep, a high school senior at East Palo Alto Academy and a college senior at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Her husband, who runs a gardening company, hasn’t worked since the shelter-at-home order went into effect.

A stay-at-home mother in East Palo Alto, Zalava is preoccupied with the many unanswered questions about how the shutdown will affect her children’s educational paths. The high school senior has been accepted to college, but will the school even be open in September? How will federal student aid loans be impacted? Will her oldest, the college senior, still graduate in June? Will her sixthgrade daughter, who has special

needs, be ready to move onto seventh grade without individualized support at school?

“It is worrisome,” Zalava said in Spanish. “The main thing is — education. We don’t know how ... everyone will be affected.”

Zalava said the online learning being provided to her children now isn’t a replacement for inperson instruction, and she does worry about longer-term academic loss. Will her children be behind educationally when school is back in session?

“The longer it goes on, the longer our kids are away from individualized, consistent instruction,” said Jenna Wachtel Pronovost, executive director of the Ravenswood Education Foundation, which raises funds for the Ravenswood City School District.

A student who was receiving guided, targeted reading instruction at school, for example, could fall behind, despite the district’s best efforts.

“If they don’t have someone who can guide them in this daily, targeted intentional way about developing their reading skills; if they don’t have that person at home or can’t access that person online, they’re not going to get it,” Wachtel Pronovost said. “That is not the case of families in other communities. They will find another way, whether it’s because the parent has access or they have access to tutors. They will be able (continued on page 17)

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Upfront number of daily deaths would then gradually go down to 15 on June (continued from page 5) 1 and then dip to single digits by mid-June.

At best, experts can only take probably at least 5,000. (The county’s confirmed number of cases on an educated guess based on “assumptions” and prepare for the April 2 was only 1,019, however.)

Testing remains far from wide- worst, they said.

“Nobody knows,” Dr. Yvonne spread, despite efforts to boost supplies of tests by academic in- Maldonado, medical director of stitutions like Stanford University infection control at Lucile Packard and University of California, San Children’s Hospital and Stanford professor of pediatric Francisco and commerinfectious diseases and cial firms such as Abhealth research and polbott, Roche and Quest icy, said this week when Diagnostics. asked about the projectSome experts estied peak and when the mate the peak in cases crisis might end. could happen earlier or “Two weeks ago, exlater — in part varying perts said we would be by location. Santa Clara like Italy. Two weeks County health leaders Dr. Yvonne have passed and we are say a local surge will Maldonado not like Italy. On the start by mid-April, but Dr. Mark Ghaly, the state’s secre- other hand, we could be like New tary of health and human services, York or New Jersey,” she said.

The virus might be distributed projected a peak in the state as a whole in mid-May. Both state and differently across the Bay Area, county leaders have refused to making predictions difficult, Malpublicly release details regarding donado said. Some communities their modeling, saying they prefer may have a higher infection rate, to reserve those models for inter- others a lower one. Demographics, levels of health within comnal decision making.

The Institute for Health Metrics munities and populations, access and Evaluation, which is part of to medical care, the movement of University of Washington, created people and daily behaviors can all a model for every state in the na- affect how the virus spreads.

There are some officials who are tion. It predicted that in California, the COVID-19 curve showing willing to openly predict numbers. numbers of cases will peak on The city of San Jose’s manager’s April 28, when the state would office reported grim estimates see 128 deaths that day related to for Santa Clara County at the the virus. Under this model, the March 24 City Council meeting,

Outbreak

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Courtesy of Stanford Health Care

Santa Clara County recorded the first COVID-19 case in the Bay Area and the seventh in the nation on Jan. 31. Between March 22 and March 29, the county’s cases more than doubled from 302 to 646. As of April 2, the county had recorded 1,019 cases, and the death toll jumped to 36. estimating 2,000 to 16,000 deaths and 9,000 to 19,000 people who could be ill in the next 12 weeks out of a population of 1.94 million. County public health leaders, however, distanced themselves in a single-paragraph statement the next day, saying they hadn’t vetted the information and were studying it.

On April 1, San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo voiced support for the data, noting the city manager’s office had presented it to Smith prior to releasing it. Emails show the county did not dispute the data so long as it was clear the numbers

were based on assumptions. And those estimates and assumptions were fundamentally correct, Liccardo said, even as City Manager David Sykes conceded the county and the city were not completely “in sync.”

Despite those worrisome projections, county health leaders say they are starting to see signs of hope. Local hospitals are not yet nearing their capacity and are not seeing the types of shortages of personal protective equipment needed by health care workers as in New York and Michigan.

Dr. Dean Winslow, professor of medicine in the division of hospital medicine, division of infectious diseases and geographic medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine, said Tuesday that about 33 patients at Stanford had been admitted for suspected COVID-19 infections. About half are confirmed cases; a smaller number tested negative. The rest of the results are still pending.

And among the county’s 11 hospitals, which have 1,475 beds, there were 152 confirmed COVID-19 patients and another 90 who were

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San Mateo County recorded its first COVID-19 case on March 2. Eighteen days later, the number of confirmed cases reached triple digits. As of April 2, the county had recorded 453 cases and 10 deaths. suspected of having COVID-19 as of March 30, according to Smith.

On March 31, even as county Health Officer Sara Cody announced the extension of the stay-at-home order and added new restrictions — including a clamp down on non-essential construction activities and new requirements for businesses to post plans for keeping their facilities safe — she said there are signs that the order is working and that the spread of the virus is slowing.

“We have some signs, some very soft signs, but I think the train is beginning to slow down a little bit,” Cody said.

“What we need to see is that our demand curve — which is how many people are ill, requiring hospitalization and ICU care — comes to a place where it’s comfortably nestled under our supply curve,” Cody said, referring to the supply of beds, staff and medical equipment that is needed to properly take care of the patients.

“It’s a complex balance. I want to say that bringing in the data to understand all the needs in our health care system — be they supplies of beds, or staff or personal protective equipment — is fairly complex, as is understanding the trajectory of the epidemic in our county.”

Looking at the coming months

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ny estimate of when the pandemic will end is inherently fuzzy, given that the determination depends on myriad variables, including availability of testing for COVID-19, hospital capacity, and effectiveness of socialdistancing measures.

Andy Slavitt, who served as acting administrator for Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services during the Obama administration and who now heads the organization United States of Care, suggested in a March 28 post on

Medium that social-distancing measures would probably need to remain in place through May or even into June to slow the spread of the virus.

“If we buckle down (6 to 10 weeks?) with social isolation, the curve flattens and, in a really strong effort, can decline. If we let up, we are in for a very rocky and lethal extended period of time,” Slavitt wrote.

A recent analysis by National Geographic of how different cities handled the 1918 influenza pandemic shows the devastating impacts of halting social-distancing measures too soon. San Francisco did so immediately after its count of daily casualties dropped, only to see a second wave about a month later. It ended up with 673 deaths per 100,000 residents, according to the analysis. New York City, which kept its measures in place for longer, had 452 deaths per 100,000 over the same period.

“A delay or letting up a little early on social distancing means lives lost,” Slavitt wrote, pointing to the data.

Stanford health experts echo that sentiment.

“We really need to be very careful not to relax measures too early,” Winslow said.

Testing has lagged throughout the state, and that’s a major concern, he said. Asymptomatic people who are still carriers are being neither tested nor tracked. There’s also no significant understanding of who is potentially already

immune — two pieces of critical missing data to understanding the outbreak, he said.

Winslow and Maldonado said predictive models to determine if there could be a resurgence of the disease also aren’t reliable at this point, and they urged caution.

Some analysts see a way we can ease out of the current economic and social crisis while also keeping an eye on public health.

A new white paper from the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative-leaning think tank, proposes a phased “roadmap” for getting out of the pandemic. In the first stage, governments impose social distancing measures such as bans on public gatherings, stay-athome advisories and isolation of COVID-19 cases either at home or at hospitals, allowing communities to flatten the curve. During this time, the health care system ramps up its capacity and obtains life-saving ventilators, personal protective equipment and other critical medical tools.

The paper’s authors, a list that includes three former FDA officials as well as Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security epidemiologist Caitlin Rivers and Johns Hopkins health security expert Crystal Watson, propose remaining in this stage until there’s a decrease in cases for 14 consecutive days; hospitals are safely able to treat all patients that require hospitalization; and each state (continued on page 12)

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has enough tests for people with COVID-19 symptoms. The paper estimates that the country would need to produce about 750,000 tests per week — a number based on the testing ratio in South Korea, a nation lauded for its quick and effective response to the pandemic.

Once these goals are met, the nation can move to the next stage, in which schools can reopen and most people can start going back to work.

Physical-distancing restrictions would be gradually lifted, though not eliminated, until the third stage,

when a vaccine is developed.

(At a Wednesday news briefing, Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease and top White House adviser on the pandemic, called the development of a vaccine “the ultimate solution” to keeping the coronavirus from coming back.)

The American Enterprise Institute paper argues for a slow and gradual progression between phases, done on a state-by-state basis.

Furthermore, a state that reopens should revert to the first phase “if a substantial number of cases cannot be traced back to known cases, if there is as sustained rise in new

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In other words, states may need to go through another cycle of social-distancing measures if the nation has not yet developed and scaled up production of a COVID-19 vaccine.

Getting to the end point

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tanford University biologist Erin Mordecai and her team have likewise been modeling scenarios for the critical period between June, when the surge is expected to abate, and July 2021, when a vaccine would presumably be in place.

But like the American Enterprise Institute, Mordecai’s team sought to identify ways to get society back to its normal rhythms before the vaccine is created.

“The idea of a shelter-in-place for a year or more doesn’t seem feasible,” Mordecai said. “We were interested in a possible alternative to just having everyone stay home for a very long time.”

Their modeling suggests that the most effective approach may require repeated social-distancing interventions, with strategies quickly adapting to the situation on the ground.

The models also indicate that launching social-distancing interventions early in the epidemic cycle

is more critical than the severity of the social measures imposed.

Hence she and her team created the “lightswitch” approach. Under this concept, social-distancing measures are gradually added or removed over the course of the year, based on the fluctuations in numbers of COVID-19 cases. On one end of the scale are strict interventions like quarantines and fines for people who flout stay-at-home orders. On the other, public life starts to open up while restrictions remain in place for vulnerable populations and people with COVID-19.

“You can turn on and off socialdistancing interventions over time,” Mordecai said.

Such an approach, she said, would require “very careful surveillance,” enabling authorities to quickly intervene if the number of hospitalized COVID-19 patients creeps up.

“We can use that as a benchmark.

Do you exceed hospital capacity?

Then we may need a shelter-inplace. Will hospitalizations go down? Then we can resume normal activities.”

(The team’s interactive website, covid-measures.github.io, allows users to test out intervention strategies by plotting two — one after the outbreak and another one later in the year — and seeing the impacts of these strategies on hospitalizations, infections, recoveries and deaths.)

While much is being discussed about effective strategies for

handling the outbreak and the best ways to get us at an endpoint, health experts can only speculate about whether the new coronavirus will mutate and continue to plague our lives.

Maldonado noted that COVID-19 is related to six other coronaviruses, including the common cold. Some of those mutate over time and come back; others don’t.

The 2003 Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) coronavirus, which sickened 8,000 people and killed nearly 800, never came back after 16 years, although some thought it would. The 2012 Middle East respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus (MERS) did reappear, although not at a high level because it was transmitted only through contact with camels.

COVID-19 is highly contagious, which gives Maldonado pause.

“It’s highly possible we’ll see it again,” she said. “That’s why we need to develop antivirals and a vaccine.” Q Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner can be emailed at gsheyner@ paweekly.com. Staff Writer Sue Dremann can be emailed at sdremann@paweekly.com.

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Early Learning Institute

Palo Alto Pleasanton

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Harker Summer Programs

San Jose

Let’s Go Crafting

Palo Alto

Let’s Go Crafting’s Studio is where your child will have fun while learning many different fiber related arts. We teach sewing, knitting, crochet, weaving and jewelry making to children ages 8 to 15 years. AM or PM camps $275/week. Full day camps $550/ week. 5 student minimum for all sessions; 10 student maximum.

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Oshman Family JCC Camps

Palo Alto

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Camps at the OFJCC introduce your child to new experiences while creating friendships in a fun and safe environment. We work to build confidence, stretch imaginations and teach new skills.

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(408) 553-5737

i2 Camp at Castilleja School

Palo Alto

i2 Camp offers week-long immersion programs that engage middle school girls in the fields of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). The fun and intimate hands-on activities of the courses strive to excite and inspire participants about STEM, creating enthusiasm that will hopefully spill over to their schoolwork and school choices in future years.

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Palo Alto

(650) 269-0423

Palo Alto

Castilleja Summer Camp for Girls Palo Alto Casti Camp offers girls entering grades 2-6 a range of age-appropriate activities including athletics, art, science, computers, writing, crafts, cooking, drama and music classes each day along with weekly field trips. Leadership program available for girls entering grades 7-9.

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Community School of Music

(650) 470-7833

Mountain View

Community School of Music and Arts (CSMA) Mountain View 50+ creative camps for grades K-12! Drawing, Painting, Ceramics, Sculpture, Musical Theater, Summer Music Workshops and more!

One and two-week sessions; full and half-day enrollment. Extended care from 8:30am-5:30pm. Financial aid offered.

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World-renowned jazz camps at Stanford. Week-long jazz immersion programs for middle school musicians (July 6-10), high school (July 12-17 and July 19-24), and adults (July 26-31). All instruments and vocals. No jazz experience necessary!

(650) 736-0324

TheatreWorks Silicon Valley

Palo Alto Atherton

Campers bring their plays to life, make new friends, and practice collaboration skills at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley’s PlayMakers Camp (grades K-5). TheatreWorks offers four sessions in Palo Alto and Atherton from June 8 – July 31. Campers learn acting, playwriting, movement, and stagecraft from professional teaching artists from the Tony Award-winning local company.

(650) 493-1141

Art, cooking, tinkering, yoga and mindfulness. We celebrate multiple perspectives and recognize the many ways for our children to interpret their world. Summer Unplugged! is appropriate for ages 6-11 years. Located at Walter Hays School.

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ARTS, CULTURE, OTHER CAMPS Art and Soul Camp

Palo Alto

PACCC summer camps offer campers, grades 1st to 6th, a wide variety of engaging opportunities. We are excited to announce all of your returning favorites: Leaders in Training (L.I.T.), Camp YOUnique, F.A.M.E. (Fine Arts, Music and Entertainment), J.V. Sports, Operation: Chef and Chef Jr.! Periodic field trips, special visitors and many engaging camp activities, songs and skits round out the variety of offerings at PACCC Summer Camps. Open to campers from all communities. Register online.

EXPLORE biomedical science at Stanford. Stanford EXPLORE offers high school students the unique opportunity to learn from Stanford professors and graduate students about diverse topics in biomedical science, including bioengineering, neurobiology, immunology and many others.

Stratford infuses its STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math) curriculum into an innovative and enriching summer camp experience. Younger campers learn, explore, and engage in hands-on learning projects, while Elementary-age students collaborate to tackle real-world problems by utilizing academic principles and concepts in a fun and engaging way. At the Middle School level, individual subject-based enrichment classes are offered and tailored for each grade level.

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ATHLETICS Dance Connection Palo Alto

Palo Alto

Share the joy of dance with us! Our studio is an extended family and a “home away from home” for our community of children and teens. At Dance Connection, we value the positive energy and atmosphere that we continuously strive to provide. Summer Dance Camps include all styles of dance for ages 4 and up and features our new “This is Me!” Empowerment Camp along with Teen Jazz and Hip Hop Camps. A Summer Session for ages 3 to adults will be offered from June 8 – July 31.

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Kim Grant Tennis Summer Camps

Palo Alto Monterey Bay

Fun and specialized Junior Camps for Mini (3-5), Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced, High Performance and Elite tennis levels. Weekly programs designed by Kim Grant to improve player technique, fitness, agility, mental toughness and all around game.

Weekly camps in Palo Alto and Sleep-Away Camps in Monterey Bay. SO MUCH FUN!

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ATHLETICS Nike Tennis Camps

Stanford University

Junior Overnight and Day Camps for boys & girls, ages 9-18 offered throughout June, July and August. Adult Weekend Clinics (June & Aug). Camps directed by Head Men’s Coach, Paul Goldstein, Head Women’s Coach, Lele Forood, and Associate Men’s and Women’s Coaches, Brandon Coupe and Frankie Brennan. Come join the fun and get better this summer!

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(800) NIKE-CAMP (800) 645-3226

Run for Fun Camps

Bay Area

Run for Fun’s mission is to provide creative and engaging play for all youth by getting kids active in an inclusive community centered around outdoor fun! We pride ourselves on hiring an enthusiastic, highly trained staff who love what they do. Summer 2020 features four weeks of Adventure Day Camp and two weeks of Overnight Camp High Five. Adventure Day Camp is a new discovery every day filled with sports, crafts and nature, including explorations to Camp Jones Gulch, Capitola Beach, Foothills Park, Shoreline Lake and Great America. Camp High Five is six days and five nights of traditional overnight camp mixed with challenge-by-choice activities, campfires, friendships and lots of laughter.

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Spartans Sports Camp

Mountain View

Spartans Sports Camp offers a wide variety of sports, performing arts, and academic enrichment camps for kids entering grades 1-9.

Experienced staff ensures everyone has fun. Daily on-site swimming is offered for all camps. Camps begin June 8th and run weekly through July 31st at Mountain View High School. The camp is run

by MVHS coaches and student-athletes and all proceeds benefit the MVHS Athletic Department. Lunch and extended care are available for your convenience. Flexible cancellation policies.

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(650) 479-5906

Stanford Athletics & Youth

Stanford

We can’t wait to have you join us this summer at Stanford! We hope you’re ready for engaged and safety-focused staff, phenomenal facilities, and innovative programs. We’ll have camps that challenge your camper’s physical, mental, and social skills in age-appropriate activities. When your camper registers for Camp Cardinal, they are a Cardinal Kid for life. Our main camper program is for grades K-6 and then campers graduate to our Counselor-in-Training Program where they become camp leaders!

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Stanford Baseball Camps

Stanford

At Sunken Diamond on the campus of Stanford University. A variety of camps are offered to benefit a wide range of age groups and skill sets. Campers will gain instruction in several baseball skills, fundamentals, team concepts, and game play.

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Stanford Water Polo Camps

(650) 725-2054

Stanford

New to water polo or have experience, we have a camp for you. Half day or full day options for boys and girls ages 7 and up. All camps provide fundamental skills, scrimmages and games.

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‘It’s scary because (I’m) in the high-risk demographic ... and you don’t want to go this way.’

Millie Chethik Older adult Millie Chethik thinks she just might be able to learn Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata on the piano because, these days, she explained, she has plenty of time to practice the challenging piece. While most Midpeninsula residents started sheltering at home on March 17, Chethik has been voluntarily hunkering down inside her Palo Alto home ever since the earliest coronavirus cases were confirmed in Santa Clara County, “I’ve been kind of in isolation, really, pretty much,” the 80-yearold said during a telephone

CityView A round-up

of Palo Alto government action this week

City Council

The council did not meet this week.

Board of Education (March 31)

Palo Verde project: The board approved conceptual designs and contracts for the multipurpose and administration building project at Palo Verde Elementary School. Yes: Unanimous Fletcher project: The board approved a conceptual design and contracts for a classroom building project at Fletcher Middle School. Yes: Unanimous COVID-19: The board heard an update from the superintendent on the district’s response to COVID-19. Action: None

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shopping, if you need supplies, whatever,’” Kushlan told the Weekly over the phone last week.

“And then it just sort of caught on.

Other people ran with it, and it’s taken on a life of its own.”

Kushlan said his post had about 350 likes and 90 comments last week and had inspired more than 200 residents from well beyond his downtown neighborhood to join in and volunteer to help vulnerable residents throughout the community.

He has set up a Google doc where people can add new requests for assistance or remove requests that have been fulfilled.

“I didn’t micromanage it,” he said. “It’s awesome. People just go in and get things done. ... We don’t have time to waste.”

Volunteers are doing everything from translating for non-English speaking seniors at Lytton Gardens to taking time to chat on the phone with someone who just needs to talk to coordinating the distribution of hand sanitizers to nurses.

“It runs the whole gamut,” said Kushlan, who was preparing to help someone move the next day after shopping for groceries for a neighbor and taking a dog for a walk.

No one is more surprised by how one post on the social-media site Nextdoor could have snowballed into such an enormous effort than Kushlan himself.

“What’s incredible is it’s metastasizing in the best kind of way,” he said. “I’m stunned by the volume of people who genuinely want to help. It’s been awe-inspiring.”

Kushlan said since the stay-athome order, he’s been focused on answering every call and doing every possible thing he can when somebody makes a request.

“There’s a lot of uncertainty, and so many people are out there that are scared and want help,” said Kushlan, who grew up in Palo Alto and now runs Crux, a marketing and political consulting firm.

“My view is this is a war, and we all have to do what we can. With a crisis like this, I think there’s no time to wait for instructions.

You’ve got to step up with whatever your skill set is,” he said.

He said he’s learned a lot through this unexpected period of volunteering. One woman from

a senior living center called him really scared because she needed distilled water for her CPAP machine.

“I didn’t even know those machines needed distilled water,” he said. The water was tough to find, but he finally tracked some down.

“I just go to different local stores like Piazza’s or Safeway or Ace Hardware that I know, looking for supplies,” said Kushlan, who does one shopping trip at a time.

“Everyone at the stores knows me now.”

Kushlan said that, two weeks ago, going shopping was like an “apocalyptic” experience. Now, he says about waiting in line, “once you’re inside, it’s like a very lovely calm.”

Kushlan, who was just a few blocks away from the World Trade Center in New York City during 9/11, said this coronavirus outbreak is like nothing he’s experienced.

“I was out taking a walk with my mom this morning, and it’s like there’s this enemy out there that we can’t see. It’s so bizarre. It’s unfathomable,” he said.

Kushlan said one silver lining from this experience is that he’s gotten to know his neighbors.

“I have to tell you, I’m someone who doesn’t necessarily get involved with the neighborhood. I was one of those people who felt, ‘It’s nice here, but I don’t know my neighbors,’” he said. “In times like these, you have to step outside your comfort zone, and that’s when people’s best is brought out.”

Millie Chethik waters plants on the balcony of her Palo Alto home where she has been living in isolation since the earliest cases of the coronavirus were confirmed in Santa Clara County in February. interview. “My husband recently had a surgery, so he’s vulnerable.

And it was his wisdom that really made me take this seriously.

“He was the one that said, ‘Millie, as my caregiver, I don’t want you to expose yourself to groups.’

So the first thing I did was I wrote to my choral director, and said, ‘You know, I can’t come to rehearsal.’”

Her current schedule has her on a very different pace than her typical routine, which included social activities almost every day of the week. Chethik said she was a regular at events at the senior center, an active participant in her book club, performed in a choral group and participated in a slew of other activities.

She tries not to think too much about being confined at home.

“I think it takes its toll, but you know, you try to do other things to work around it,” she said.

Chethik said she’s turned to the internet for socializing.

Her book club now video conferences its meetings over the internet to discuss the latest titles.

“It worked well. You know, it’s socially distancing but still connecting,” she said.

Chethik said she’s trying to coordinate the same set up for other activities, as well, such as her neighborhood’s homeowners association meeting and possibly activities that were typically held in person at Avenidas senior center prior to its temporary closure.

Chethik said when she does leave the house, it’s typically to shop for necessities or to take a walk.

“When I have to go shopping, I just try to wash my hands as often as possible and just generally keep away from people,” she said.

She’s also learned to call stores ahead to schedule her shopping

on days when the shelves are restocked.

“It’s scary because (I’m) in the high-risk demographic,” she said.

“You don’t know how many years you have left anyway, and you don’t want to go this way.”

Even though she and her husband are living behind closed doors, she doesn’t feel as if they are all alone.

“My neighbor knocked on my door the other day and said, ‘Are you guys all right?’ You know, he is very worried, and it was very kind of him to stop by and ask,” she said. “I don’t know, maybe people are being kind in the beginning, but then if it gets really, really nasty, things may change.”

Chethik said she’s never experienced anything like this in her lifetime — not even during the polio outbreak in the 1940s.

“I had polio when I was 4 years old, but I was too young to understand,” she said. “My mother was trying to do everything she could to keep me out of harm’s way. She kept me away from public swimming pools … but it was such a bad epidemic at the time, and they didn’t have any vaccine until a few years later.”

Chethik said her friends all have had different takes on the coronavirus outbreak.

“I had one friend who said, ‘You’re just germ crazy,’ and I had another one who said, ‘You know, you shouldn’t leave the house,’” she said. “I think we have to believe in the scientists, what they’re telling us. Not the politicians.

“It’s a scary situation. We’ll get through it, I’m sure, but it’s very scary. And who knows how many people will die in the meantime.” Q Read about how other seniors are coping in the Living Well article on page 22.

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to find another way and our families are going to be just fighting to survive.”

The Ravenswood school district is working to fill in the most-needed gaps for local families in need, from serving nearly 10,000 free meals last week to distributing donated Wi-Fi hot spots and district Chromebooks to make sure students have access to online learning at home.

Among Ravenswood elementary school students, as many as half don’t have internet at home except for a smartphone, the district said. Statewide, 20% of California’s 6 million public school students lacked digital connectivity at home when the school closures began, a digital gap the state is now working to close, Linda Darling-Hammond, president of the State Board of Education, said during a Wednesday press conference with Gov. Gavin Newsom.

The Ravenswood Education Foundation’s new emergency fund, launched quickly after the schools closed to support students and families, has raised more than $440,000. The fund is flexible but has so far supported food distribution, Target and Safeway gift cards for groceries, an emergency child care program and iPads for the district’s youngest students.

“Ravenswood families and kids rely on schools to provide them their whole educational experience and many of their basic needs,” Wachtel Pronovost said.

Stepping in to offer help When St. Elizabeth Seton closed, the school sent Abarca’s son home with homework packets and an iPad. His teacher has sent links for virtual activities, such as yoga and photo updates on the classroom hamster, to keep children occupied. But he struggles to stay focused on an iPad even for short periods of time, she said.

“By the time I get home he’s overwhelmed and doesn’t want to do any schoolwork. That has been very challenging for me,”

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required to halt those and limit their operations to only essential components.

The new order also limits construction activity, explicitly banning construction of purely market-rate housing. However, developments with at least 10% of their units designated as below-market-rate will be allowed to proceed.

Whereas the prior order gave wide latitude to cities to move ahead with public works projects, the new one allows local governments to advance only those projects that they specifically

Abarca said. “I just feel like he’s going to somehow fall behind because I’m not there doing the structure and what the school expects him to be doing on a daily basis.”

For her older children and nephew, the online learning is mostly self-guided — “almost like homeschooling,” she said.

She has to take their word for it that they’ve completed their schoolwork while she’s at her job.

Liz Gardner, a single mother who lives in Palo Alto, said her two sons rely heavily on support programs at JLS Middle School, both academic and social-emotional. They used to go to JLS’ after-school Homework Habitat program to get help on homework and retake tests and saw Counseling and Support Services for Youth counselors.

“Since we’re an (economically) challenged family, what is the academic expectation when we’re so reliant on certain resources from the school?” Gardner asked.

She’s been out of work since July and receives financial support from her family to get by.

Gardner said she’s grateful for the quality of education offered by the Palo Alto school district, having moved here for the schools, but as a parent is missing connection and communication while the schools are closed.

She suggested the JLS principal use Zoom to hold a webinar to answer questions and talk with parents.

For many low-income families, local nonprofits have become critical lifelines of support and communication during the shutdown. Abarca received personal letters from the Foundation for a College Education and Peninsula Bridge, which help prepare low-income students for college, offering her family support and resources. They’ve helped her navigate Zoom, which she hadn’t used before. When her older children weren’t adhering to the stay-at-home order, she called a Peninsula Bridge mentor to talk to them.

“I rely on them, too,” Abarca said of the nonprofits. “It’s another way for me to be a little

more at peace knowing I have that support as a parent and for the kids to have that, too.”

Staff at the Boys & Girls Clubs of the Peninsula in East Palo Alto, east Menlo Park and Redwood City are reaching out to students via phone, video and text to offer emotional connection and academic support.

They’re providing free meals, making sure students can access online schoolwork and helping high school seniors review financial aid packages offered by colleges, according to an email from CEO Peter Fortenbaugh.

Twenty-three high school juniors took a SAT prep test online last weekend through the Boys & Girls Club, he said.

Palo Alto nonprofit DreamCatchers, which usually provides after-school tutoring and mentoring to low-income Palo Alto Unified students, has moved its services online, offering remote academic support. The nonprofit also is working to raise an additional $50,000 before the end of the school year in anticipation of growing needs from the students and families it supports.

East Palo Alto resident Stephanie Duncan, whose son attends Palo Alto High School through the district’s Voluntary Transfer Program, has deeply appreciated the personal communication from the Foundation for a College Education (FCE). Staff from the nonprofit called both her and her children directly — her older daughter, a 20-year-old college student, is part of Foundation for a College Education’s college program — to check in with them individually. A program director reassured her son, a senior, that important meetings about his college admissions process would still happen, albeit on Zoom.

In contrast, communication from the Palo Alto school district has been mostly districtwide email blasts, Duncan said. She hasn’t yet heard from the special-education department how her son, who has attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), will have his final individualized education plan meeting before he graduates. The district released a general update on special

education this week and is awaiting further state guidance.

“With FCE, there’s a touch that’s different. There’s a ‘How can we help?’” Duncan said.

Duncan said she’s giving Paly “the benefit of the doubt” when it comes to the distance learning that’s been provided so far to her son. To this point, all work for all Palo Alto Unified high school students has been optional and ungraded. After spring break, the district will enter a new phase with higher weekly time expectations and some synchronous learning (that is, instruction in real time, such as live

Zoom lectures) and a promise of “increased” special education services.

“Right now this optional learning, it might seem OK for my son, but when he has to buckle down after spring break and his ability to get what he needs ... that’s the unknown,” Duncan said. “I just have to trust the system to some degree.” Q How is your family adjusting to distance learning? Tell us your story by emailing editor@ paweekly.com.

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designate as “essential government functions.” As such, it will likely impact numerous projects that are pending in Palo Alto, including the California Avenue parking garage and the proposed bike bridge over U.S. Highway 101.

The order also requires playgrounds, athletic courts, dog parks and most other types of recreational activities to be closed to the public. Most cities, including Menlo Park and Palo Alto, have already shuttered all these facilities to comply with social distancing guidelines.

In announcing the order, Cody pointed to the significant rise in COVID-19 cases throughout the county, which she noted remains

“the epicenter of this outbreak in the Bay Area.” The number of cases increased from 138 on March 17, when the last order took effect, to 890 on Tuesday. The number of deaths has climbed from 3 to 30 over that period.

Even so, she said there have been some indications that the actions taken by various counties to limit social interactions are beginning to slow the spread.

“The sacrifices that everyone has made have given our hospitals valuable time to prepare for the expected influx of patients,” Cody said. “However, more time and additional resources are needed to slow the spread and to further reduce the impact on our local hospitals and local health

care providers.”

While the number of COVID-19 cases is climbing, county hospitals have yet to reach their capacity for treating patients. County Executive Dr. Jeff Smith said that as of Monday, the county’s 11 hospitals had 152 confirmed COVID-19 patients and another 90 who are suspected of having COVID-19.

The county’s hospitals have 1,475 beds, and 611 ventilators are available, of which 209 are now in use. The county also has 300 intensive care unit beds total, of which 119 are currently available, Smith said. Currently, there are 56 COVID-19 patients in ICU in the 11 hospitals.

“So at this point, we’re not near capacity but we’re getting prepared

for capacity,” Smith said.

The number of new cases has fluctuated in recent days, with the county reporting 17 new cases last Saturday, 55 on Sunday and 202 cases on Monday. Officials warned, however, that the huge variation is attributable in large part to how and when the cases are reported to the county.

Even accounting for the variations, county officials believe they are seeing “a little bit of a slowing,” Cody said.

“I’m saying it very cautiously.

It’s really, really early. … It will take more time to see the impact of social distancing,” she said. Q Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner can be emailed at gsheyner@ paweekly.com.

Answers to this week’s puzzles, which can be found on page 27.

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POLICE CALLS Palo Alto

March 26-March 31 Violence related Armed robbery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Child abuse. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Domestic violence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Theft related Commercial burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Grand theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Shoplifting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle related Bicycle theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Lost/stolen plates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Parking/driving violation . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle accident/prop damage. . . . . . . 1 Vehicle impound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle tampering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Miscellaneous Found property. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Lost property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Misc. penal code violation . . . . . . . . . . 2 Other/misc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Psychiatric subject . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Suspicious circumstances . . . . . . . . . . 1 Trespassing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vandalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

other manner specified in the California Code of Civil Procedure. The court orders that the documents listed in item 6 be served by publication at least once per week for four successive weeks in the following newspaper: PALO ALTO WEEKLY. Date: 1/9/20 /s/ ________________ Judicial Officer

995 Fictitious Name Statement MR. ELECTRIC OF PALO ALTO FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: FBN663684 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Mr. Electric Of Palo Alto, located at 1814 Armand Dr., Milpitas, CA 95035, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by: A Corporation.

The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): SAITAMA INC. 1814 Armand Dr. Milpitas, CA 95035 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 01/17/2020.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on February 18, 2020.

(PAW Mar. 13, 20, 27; Apr. 3, 2020) SUPREME PAINTING AND MORE FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: FBN664539 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Supreme Painting And More, located at 888 McCreery Ave., San Jose, CA 95116, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by: An Individual.

The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): HECTOR A. CASTILLO 888 McCreery Ave. San Jose, CA 95116 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 03/10/2020.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on March 10, 2020.

(PAW Mar. 20, 27; Apr. 3, 10, 2020) RIOS RIOS CORPORATION FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: FBN664659 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: 1.) Rios, 2.) Rios Corporation, located at 172 University Ave., Palo Alto, CA 94301, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by: A Corporation.

The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): ROBOTIK INNOVATIONS, INC. 172 University Ave. Palo Alto, CA 94301 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 03/09/2020.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on March 13, 2020.

(PAW Mar. 27; Apr. 3, 10, 17, 2020)

997 All Other Legals ORDER FOR PUBLICATION Case Number: D19-03305 Publication Granted: The court finds that the respondent cannot be served in any

SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF CONTRA COSTA Case No.: D19-03305 DECLARATION IN SUPPORT OF APPLICATION FOR PUBLICATION OR POSTING OF SUMMONS DECLARATION IN SUPPORT OF APPLICATION FOR PUBLICATION/POSTING I, KEVIN WOMACK, declare: I am the Petitioner in this action.

My last contact with Respondent December of 2012, was as follows: Since that time I have made a thorough, systematic and good faith investigation to determine his/her whereabouts as follows: I have made reasonable, diligent efforts to effect service by mail including service at the Respondent’s last known mailing address as follows: I tried serve Respondant at last known address at 8243 Grand Staff Drive, Sacramento, CA 95823.

I have asked relatives, friends, co-tenants, the occupants of any real estate involved in the litigation and others likely to know of the Respondent’s whereabouts as follows: I have had contact with any relatives of respondant since 2003. Any contact infor to relatives no longer work. Her father’s last known residence was in Palo Alto.

I have made searches of local, telephone, and internet-based directories and social network sites as follows: I have tried to contact respondant on facebook and last known address. I got last known address from background check.

On facebook her last current last address location was in East Palo Alto.

I have searched the county assessor’s real and personal property index and the county recorder’s office for the locale where the Respondent was last known to have resided, owned property, or conducted a business as follows: Went to Sacramento County Hall of records to search for Respondant and found that Respondant had a Domestic Violence case, however no address.

I have contacted the Respondent’s last known place of business as follows: There is no last place of business.

In the alternative, I have obtained the services of a professional searcher who has made the necessary investigation. A true and complete copy of the report prepared by this investigator is attached hereto.

No Professional searcher. Did a Background Check online.

To the best of my knowledge, no person or entity other than as mentioned above knows or is likely to know the whereabouts of the Respondent and I know of no other source from which his/her whereabouts may be ascertained.

I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of California that the foregoing is true and correct.

Executed on 1/6/2020 at Martinez, California.

Signed: ____________________ Petitioner (PAW Mar. 13, 20, 27; Apr. 3, 2020)

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Anna Welke

Menlo Park

March 26-March 30

September 7, 1940 – March 24, 2020 Our beloved devoted mother, grandmother, sister, and friend…

Anna Lange Welke was born on September 7, 1940 in Jelgava, Latvia to Janis and Elsa Kalnins Lange. Her mother was a dentist and her father a forestry engineer.

During World War II the family was forced to flee their ancestral home and property - exiled to Germany where they lived as wartime refugees for six years.

Sponsored by the Lutheran Church of Lyford, Texas they arrived in the United States in 1950. Two years later they moved to Palo Alto, California where Anna graduated from Cubberley High School in 1959. She went on to UC Berkeley where she studied Sociology and met her husband-to-be and graduated in 1963. Anna married Elton Welke shortly after college, and gave birth to their daughter Allison the following year. In another three years their son Erik was born. The family lived in Seattle, San Francisco’s East Bay, as well as Des Moines, Iowa briefly before returning to Palo Alto in 1972 where Anna lived ever since.

Anna entered the workforce when her children were in high school, first teaching dyslexic children, then moving on to the management of a staffing office. She concluded her working career in tech when she retired in 2005.

Her years in retirement were spent traveling, volunteering at the Cantor Museum at Stanford, and enjoying the company of friends and family. It was of highest importance to her to maintain a regular presence in the lives of her children and grandchildren. She never missed a birthday or significant event. Anna was an avid reader. She enjoyed many memorable journeys with family and friends.

Anna is survived by her daughter Allison (son-in-law Patrick Alexander, and their sons Spencer, Clayton and Hampton); son Erik (daughter-in-law Yuting Lau, and their children Ryan, Jamie and Tierra); sister Ieva Lange; brother John (sister-in-law Judy Lange, and nephews Jani and Peter Lange).

Remembrances may be made in her honor to the Cantor Arts Center, Pathways Hospice, or Hinds Hospice of Fresno.

A Memorial Service will be held at a future date to be determined. Please email allison@hoppe-law.com with contact information, and we will inform you when the date of the service is known.

PAID

OBITUARY

Violence related Child abuse. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Spousal abuse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Theft related Burglary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Commercial burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Shoplifting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle related Auto recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Auto theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Bicycle theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Theft from auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Vehicle tampering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Alcohol or drug related Drunk in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Miscellaneous Coroner case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Disturbance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Found property. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Info. case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Misc. penal code violation . . . . . . . . . . 2 Suspicious circumstances . . . . . . . . . . 2 Warrant arrest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

VIOLENT CRIMES Palo Alto

150 Arastradero Road, 3/24, 3:20 p.m.; simple battery.

San Antonio Road, 3/26, 5:41 p.m.; domestic violence.

El Camino Real/Oregon Expressway, 3/27, 2:16 p.m.; domestic violence/ battery.

Ramona Street, 3/27, 7:20 p.m.; simple battery.

Los Robles Avenue, 3/28, 12:56 a.m.; domestic violence/battery.

San Antonio Road, 3/29, 8:38 p.m.; armed robbery.

Menlo Park Hamilton Avenue/Carlton Avenue, 3/26, 5:42 p.m.; spousal abuse.

1200 block Sevier Ave., 3/28, 7:18 p.m.; child abuse.

1300 block Modoc Ave., 3/29, 9:57 a.m.; spousal abuse.

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Transitions Births, marriages and deaths

Michael Loran Palo Alto resident and software engineer Michael Loran died on Feb. 26 after a brief battle with cancer. He was 59.

Born in Tel Aviv on May 29, 1960, to Haim and Jeannine Loran, he spent his childhood in France and Israel with his parents and older sister, Ayala Loran.

After graduating from high school, he served in the Israeli Intelligence Corps of the Israel Defense Forces and remained an avid supporter of the State of Israel.

In 1982, he came to the U.S. and later studied computer science at Boston University.

There, he met his future wife, T. Maria Lam. In 1989, he earned a master’s degree in computer science. Four years later he married Maria in Greenwich, Connecticut, and welcomed their son, Daniel C. Loran, in 1995 and daughter, Rachel C. Loran, in 2002.

He was a software engineer during his earlier years, working with IBM, Philips and Gemstone Systems. At Millennium Pharmaceuticals, he directed a bioinformatics program in drug discovery.

He and his family lived in New England and New York before moving to Palo Alto in 2006.

On top of spending time with his family and travelling, he

enjoyed discussing and debating topical issues with his lifetime friends. “Michael will be remembered for his sharp mind and quick wit,� his family wrote.

Predeceased by his sister Ayala Miron, he is survived by his wife, Maria of Palo Alto; children, Daniel and Rachel of Palo Alto; his father, Haim Loran, of Easton, Maryland; mother, Jeanine Loran, of Ramat Gan, Israel; four nephews; a niece; and a newborn grandniece.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests contributions to be sent to the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network (www.pancan.org).

OBITUARIES Charles Fordyce Bisbee, Anne Knight, Virginia Mann A list of local residents who died recently: Charles “Charile�

Fordyce Bisbee, 70, a resident of Palo Alto, died on March 4. Anne Knight, 76, writing coach and resident of Palo Alto, died on March 25.

Virginia Mann, 94, writer and resident of Palo Alto, died on March 8.

To read their full obituaries, leave remembrances and post photos, go to Lasting Memories at PaloAltoOnline. com/obituaries.

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Spectrum Editorials, letters and opinions

Letters ‘Unwise’ park closures Editor, I think closing the parking lots at Arastradero and Foothills parks is wrong-headed, unnecessary and foolish.

For Arastradero, the parking lot is so small that it was always nearly impossible to park there throughout the week. The city should be building an accessory lot across the road. The open field awaits! We drove up there at about 10:30 a.m. on the Thursday before it closed and the lot was already at full capacity. I should point out that both parks have many wide paths where

the danger of crowding or virus transfer is remote.

That same day, after being unable to park at Arastradero, we drove up to Foothills Park. There was a fair number of cars parked there, but there were a lot of empty parking spaces. We walked out on the level — and wide — valley trail, and pedestrians were remarkably few and far between. We walked out to the camping site at the end of the valley, and the sole bench on the entire walk, a permanent gripe for us, was available.

In both parks, there were signs saying that they were open to pedestrians and bikers. Practically speaking, this shuts the parks tight except to very athletic bicyclists, as there are no parking spaces near

either park. Since I am 88 and can no longer ride a bicycle, both parks are effectively sealed shut for me.

And consider how people are being encouraged to get out, walk, get fresh air and exercise — the closing of these parks is awfully short-sighted and even unhealthy for many Palo Alto community members. The city should consider revoking this unwise plan.

Donald Price Addison Avenue, Palo Alto

A difficult transition Editor, We are thankful for our county’s proactive response to COVID-19.

Sources say that Santa Clara County has helped “flatten the

curve,” and we are happy that our shelter-in-place policies have been effective.

Although these unprecedented closures have created widespread uncertainty within our educational community, it is true that the health of our community should be our No. 1 priority.

Unfortunately, the transition away from grade-dependent learning has been difficult for many students, as a result of Palo Alto’s grade-focused culture. Our school district was one of the first to switch to credit/no credit grades for this semester. Many students have the capacity and resources to complete the optional work that is posted by teachers, but choose not to, simply because

“it’s not for a grade.”

Nevertheless, we are extremely grateful that the well-being of students is being held as a priority.

Even though students have faced troubles in adapting to managing school work at home, our teachers’ ability to adapt and provide students with the materials they need, whether it be physical or emotional, is appreciated.

It is a challenge for teachers to galvanize students into learning, but we believe that eventually Bay Area students will learn for the sake of learning and not just for a grade.

Arohi Bhattacharya High Street, Palo Alto Agnes Mar Coleridge Street, Palo Alto

An Alternative View

Think about helping others in our coronavirus-affected area

by Diana Diamond

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n these dire times, as people are really worried about getting the coronavirus, it seems we all are potential targets, ready to be plucked randomly, without any regard to abilities, lifestyles, race, age or gender.

I was at a college reunion a couple of years ago and out of a class of 300, 32 had died. Their names were read off, and as I looked at the remaining classmates around me, I could find no patterns as to why they had died — no rationale — the football stars and sorority beauties, the nerds and the artists, the rich

Couple’s Net

and poor, all had passed on.

The same is true today. We seem to be arbitrarily stricken. And now in this worldwide virus, we are worried and concentrated on those we care about — family, neighbors and friends.

But we need to also be concerned about those who suddenly lost their jobs because businesses have been shuttered — restaurants, beauty shops, shoe repair stores, cleaners, etc., many of whom suddenly have no incomes.

Here are some suggestions on how we may be able to help a bit: • If and when that promised “up to” $1,200 a month is sent to those who qualify, perhaps we could donate some or all of it to food banks. If you and your family, especially those of you retired,

don’t really need the income, why not donate it to help feed others, to provide enough money for nonprofit organizations to buy food for the homeless, the disadvantaged, and the disabled?

I don’t need the fed handout to eat, but others do — and if we all gave to food banks or local churches who supported the poor, what a wonderful opportunity to help, and what better time than now?

These government checks won’t come for another three weeks, but we can plan ahead.

I was going to provide a list of reputable food banks, but thought it would be better if you decide where to donate and give money to those you think are most needy.

It’s the least we can do as a

local and caring community.

• I was talking to the man whose workers clean my house every three weeks. He has a crew of nine women who work five days a week for their entire wages. “Last week three of them worked twice during the week, the second group worked once and the third group didn’t work at all,” he said, “because people were afraid to have outsiders in their home. I understand, but I don’t know how to pay my workers who depend on me to pay for their rent and food.”

His crew did not come last Thursday but I told him I would pay for them anyway — and for their next scheduled visit. I’m not the only one doing this.

We should do the same for our

gardeners, our hairdressers, our barbers, manicurists, restaurant servers, etc. They are going without any income, and I doubt they will get the $1,200 monthly grant promised by the government, so we need to keep on reimbursing them (perhaps by buying gift cards now that we can use later after they are working full time again), or purchasing takeout dinners from restaurants — just to help them get by now.

We are all in this together, and we all need to help everyone out as best we can. Q Diana Diamond is a longtime Palo Alto journalist, editor and author of the blog “An Alternative View” at PaloAltoOnline.com/ blogs. You can email her at dianadiamond@gmail.com.

Before I remember the virus

by Chandrama Anderson

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n the first few seconds after awakening, I am taking in the morning.

The sun shining. My dog’s little noises.

My breath. Stretching and rolling my shoulders.

Then the current reality of this pandemic comes zooming into consciousness again.

It reminds me of grieving. Again, waking, and having those seconds

of my previous normal. Then suddenly remembering my loved one has died (my daughter, several miscarriages, several deaths in a 5-year period, my mother-in-law, Natalie, who is the mom of my heart).

We are creating a new normal right now. All of us. I want to encourage you to create or enhance a new normal with your beloved. I want to challenge you to love each other unconditionally. What does that even mean?

This might be an odd comparison, but think of dog love.

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My dog, Bixby, is always happy to see me. He always welcomes me when I get home with enthusiasm and exuberance (not that we’re going anywhere right now other than food shopping or to the pharmacy). He shows his affection freely and often. He snuggles with me a lot (he’s small, so he’s a lap dog).

If I accidentally step on his little foot, he yelps a bit and I apologize and check to be sure he’s okay. He doesn’t hold it against me. He’s over it before I am! He’s loyal. He’s happy and excited to do

things together. Doing everything together would be fine with him (and as adults that might not be your thing).

When you treat each other well, you will feel better, despite what’s going on outside your doors. When you are in the moment together, you are fine. You are healthy and content. Happy even. Small moments of breathing, slowing down, making eye contact, having bellyto-belly hugs.

All of this creates a safe emotional environment for you two, and for your family. It creates a secure roof

over the heads of your kids.

You are resilient. Remember that. And even more so when you’re resilient together.

Inhale, exhale. Repeat. Think of dogs. Q Chandrama Anderson is an LMFT specializing in couples counseling and grief who worked in high-tech in Silicon Valley for 15 years before becoming a therapist. She is the author of the blog “Couple’s Net” at PaloAltoOnline.com/blogs and can be emailed at canderson. connect2@gmail.com.

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TAKEOUT MEALS ... The Palo Alto senior nutrition program La Comida is offering takeout meals Mondays through Fridays. Pickup locations are at Stevenson House, 455 E. Charleston Road, between 11:15 a.m. and 12:15 p.m.; and the downtown Palo Alto Masonic Lodge, 457 Florence St., between 11:45 a.m. and 12:15 p.m. For more information, go to lacomida.org or call 650-3223742. Community Services Agency’s Senior Nutrition Program is offering curbside pickup for boxed lunches at 266 Escuela Ave., Mountain View, from 11:30 a.m. to 12:15 p.m., Mondays through Fridays. For more information, call 650-968-0386.

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Older adults reveal the daily challenges of social distancing

Tough new social-distancing regulations have left many seniors living alone behind closed doors with no access to family members, outside visitors or their regular support network.

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ome have lost caregivers in their homes. Many are now barred from visiting their spouses in local care facilities. Others have been forced to cancel travel plans.

About a dozen older adults answered the Weekly’s request to share how the COVID-19 shutdown has affected seniors in the community. Here are their responses: From The Sequoias in Portola Valley, a resident noted that senior living complexes such as hers as well as Channing House, Palo Alto Commons, Sunrise and Vi are under severe restrictions, including prohibitions on visits from outside relatives. Spouses living in differing care levels within the same facility also are barred from visiting one another.

“I’m sure the spouse in ‘independent living’ stresses a great deal on how their husband or wife (in ‘assisted living’ or ‘skilled nursing’) is faring,” she wrote in an email to the Weekly.

“You eat only what is brought to you with few options other than to accept or refuse each type of offering — the entrée, the small salad, the fruit, the dessert. At least there is coffee at each meal. However, if you ate everything, you likely would need larger clothing in no time,” she added. “Not leaving (the facility), along with many other

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restrictions, is strictly enforced.

There are barricades manned by security. If you somehow manage to leave — and I can’t imagine how that would happen — you are totally locked down for two weeks upon return and visited daily by the nurse.”

Maggie, a Palo Alto resident, had been planning to bring her husband of 62 years, who suffers from Alzheimer’s and had been living at Sunrise, back home to care for him. Then, she fell while grocery shopping, broke her femur and was hospitalized following surgery. Now she is almost recovered but a “no visitation” policy has prevented her from seeing her husband.

“We have been apart now for what seems far too long,” Maggie wrote in an email. “I am really looking forward to being with Paul again as soon as possible.

The coronavirus is not helping anything. Hope that will be gone soon, but that seems unlikely.”

For one Palo Alto couple in their 80s, a spring agenda filled with travel suddenly turned into a drama of end-of-life contingency planning.

Just back from a cruise to

Mexico, the couple was notified outside caregivers — including by the cruise company that a fel- overnight help — pending the low passenger might have had results. “Since we can’t have a cleaner come in, I’m taking care COVID-19.

“We immediately quarantined of everything and I’m exhausted,” ourselves inside our house,” said the daughter said.

Another Palo Alto woman, in the husband. The couple canceled plans for trips to Arizona her 70s, is caring for her 83-yearfor spring training and to the east old husband as well as his twin coast to visit their children and brother, both of whom have dementia and, in one case, limited grandchildren.

Realizing their family probably mobility. With the stay-at-home would not be able to visit them order, she lost the help of a partshould they come down with the time male caregiver as well as her virus, the husband contacted Ave- weekly house cleaner.

“It is hard not to see what is nidas senior services agency and my responsibility in asked: “If I should sustaining the emodie at home, how tional and physical would you support ‘Since we can’t well-being of these my wife?” two at-risk se“My wife is com- have a cleaner niors,” she wrote in puter-phobic and come in, I’m an email. “Homeshe’s going to need making, nursing, assistance — lo- taking care of caregiving, meal cal assistance,” the everything and planning and prep, husband explained laundry, gardening, by telephone. “We I’m exhausted.’ both feel fine for — A family caregiver household business matters and cheernow and we’re pretty sure we didn’t pick up any- ful companionship to the twins thing, but we’re staring at what has now all fallen on me.”

While these older adults reprewe think might be the end of life sent only a small portion of the as we’ve known it.”

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PERMIT CENTER MOVES ONLINE ... Menlo Park has moved to a virtual permit center in response to COVID-19, according to a city press release issued on Wednesday. Staff will continue to process applications currently on file and are reaching out to applicants who submitted their applications between January and March to ask that plans be submitted electronically. The city is not issuing new building or encroachment permit applications at this time, and all construction activity remains suspended temporarily, according to the press release.

To speak to a planner, email the planning division at planning@ menlopark.org.

ONLINE BLOOMS ... There’s no substitute for seeing and smelling acres of flowers in person, but there is a way to enjoy one of the Midpeninsula’s most abundant gardens from home. Shuttered by the stay-athome order, Woodside’s Filoli estate is using its Facebook page and Instagram to offer a window into what’s currently in full bloom in the estate’s 16 acres of gardens. For more information, go to facebook. com/FiloliEstate/ and on Instagram at @_filoli. Q

Coronavirus crisis reshapes spring real estate market Limited market data for 2020 before the outbreak underscores the unpredictability of next few months

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s with so many other sectors of the economy, the Midpeninsula’s real estate market has been upended by the state’s stay-at-home order in response to the coronavirus crisis.

Even if the federal government recently added residential real estate service to the list of “essential services,” the Bay Area’s stay-at-home order greatly affects how that service is provided. It’s also the responsibility of all real estate professionals to act with extreme care to protect the community in which we’re deeply rooted.

Real estate professionals have been ordered by the California Association of Realtors to cease all face-to-face marketing or Xin Jiang sales activities.

The entire real estate value chain is affected, as well. Preparations for homes going on the market, particularly the staging of homes, have stopped.

Appraisals have been delayed, if not canceled. With a stock market meltdown, financial institutions are caught up with a sudden change in the economic outlook, and some nontraditional lenders, such as private equity and venture capital loan providers, have ceased lending. There are now some hurdles even at the end of the escrow/closing process, as most Bay Area counties have stopped in-person recording in favor of e-filing, which not all escrow companies are yet equipped to do.

Looking back year-to-date, we have limited data to show us the direction of the market, and it’s possible that the limited data points may not be relevant anyway. In Palo Alto, there were 133 new listings from the beginning of 2020 to March 21, on par with 134 for the same period last year.

Seventy-four homes went into contract, a 13% decline from last year. Among those 74, 41 have officially exchanged hands, and the remaining are still in escrow. The median price of all sold homes from the beginning of the year to March 21 was $3.1 million, a 10% increase from the same period of last year. However, 41 is only about 10% of the usual annual closed transactions.

Price information from such a small sample pool does not give

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REAL ESTATE AN ‘ESSENTIAL SERVICE’ ... The federal government recently added residential and commercial real estate services to its revised list of essential services needed to maintain “critical infrastructure” during the coronavirus crisis. Despite the federal reclassification of real estate as an essential service, the Bay Area’s stay-at-home order greatly affects how business can be conducted.

Santa Clara and San Mateo counties, which have both extended their stay-at-home orders through May 3, classify real estate as an essential service but caution that as many activities as possible should be accomplished online. Since the vast majority of real estate activities require some in-person interaction, the California Association of Realtors has released guidelines for Realtors on navigating transactions while maintaining proper social distancing. Read Santa Clara County’s order at sccgov.org/, San Mateo’s order at smcgov.org/ and find the California Association of Realtors’ guidelines at car.org.

The number of new listings in Palo Alto from the beginning of 2020 through mid-March, when local stay-at-home orders were issued, matched last year’s number for that same period. any reliable indicators.

From firsthand experience, I can say that the entry-level market (below $3 million) in Palo Alto had been quite active as buyers jumped in early to lock in the low mortgage interest rate. There were a limited number of new listings in Old Palo Alto and Crescent Park, and few testing the off-market at the high end. This high-end pipeline that was skewed toward late spring now faces serious challenges.

We’re beyond the point where data from past downturns can help predict the future of the real estate market.

Based on normal seasonality, the period of March to June accounts for about 35% to 40% of the entire year’s transaction volume. Our local real estate market is likely going to lose its high season this year. No one knows how the market will unfold in the wake of the global health crisis.

Our tech economy seems to be holding on well for now, as most people in that industry can work remotely. Silicon Valley

companies are providing critical infrastructure to enable people to work, and children to learn, at home. However, the local tech economy isn’t immune if the nation’s economy falls apart. Compared to what I wrote in my article, “The sky is not falling yet,” for the Weekly’s 2019 Fall Real Estate magazine, the big picture is entirely different now. We’re beyond the point where data from past downturns can help predict the future of the real estate market. When the actual economic damage over time is revealed, the stock market may head further south. Home prices will follow the downtrend, even though local home prices are more resilient and supply is at a historic low.

The coronavirus pandemic offers a serious sanity check to all sellers and buyers. When the real estate market resumes, sellers who adjust their expectations swiftly may be better off in assuming there may be a further downside to home prices. For potential sellers, the critical question to ask is whether waiting to sell can be an option if the recovery takes a couple of years.

Potential buyers will need to re-assess their purchasing power. They should also be prepared for even lower inventory, as Palo Alto sellers tend to have the patience and ability to wait, whether it’s because of a smaller

property tax burden (for residents who have been in their homes a long time) or low-to-zero debt financing. The stickiness is even more so for homes in the high price segment. Now also is a perfect time to remind buyers to plan for the long run. The current shelter-in-place order may have just made many of us realize how quickly we can grow out of our “shelter.” In that sense, market timing is always less important compared with finding the right home.

The coronavirus reminds all of us how closely we are connected globally, regardless of cultures, religions or physical locations.

Will the current outbreak stop globalization? Can Silicon Valley continue to be the world innovation center if the attraction to global talents dwindles? Our local housing market will be a byproduct of answers to all those questions. Q Xin Jiang is a real estate agent with Compass in Palo Alto. She can be emailed at xin.jiang@ compass.com.

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Your Realtor & You REALTORS® Urge Households to Respond to 2020 Census

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The coronavirus outbreak is threatening to affect the accuracy of the 2020 Census.

One of the biggest challenges facing the census now is getting the message out, as the coronavirus takes over news headlines.

REALTORS® are joining elected officials and advocacy groups in this outreach.

to lose a congressional seat since more people left California than moved in over the course of a year. If California loses a seat in Congress, the state's number of seats in the U.S. House of Representatives will drop from 53 to 52 and it could cost the state billions of dollars in federal funds.

"The National Association of REALTORS® has partnered with the U.S. Census Bureau in this endeavor because a complete and accurate count will help guide funding decisions," says Mary Kay Groth, president of the Silicon Valley Association of REALTORS®.

To slow the spread of coronavirus, the U.S. Census Bureau has temporarily suspended in-person interviews for its surveys. Where feasible, census field workers will contact survey participants by phone to collect the necessary information.

Federal law sets April 1 as Census Day, the date when the government must try to get as accurate a count of the country's population as possible. As of March 29, 34.1 percent of California households have responded. Nationwide, 34.7 percent of the nation's households have self-responded.

Roughly $1.5 trillion is allocated to states and localities annually based off census results to fund roads, public transportation, hospitals, schools and other infrastructure.

More specifically, this year’s results will influence the allocation of $93.5 billion to Federal Direct Student Loans, $19.3 billion to Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers and $12 billion to the National School Lunch Program.

Census data is also used to draw district lines to determine appropriate Congressional representation for the next decade. California is one of 10 states likely

There is a push to get people to respond online, but not everybody has reliable internet. Groth adds that the homeless are at risk of being undercounted in the census, as are minorities and immigrants who fear they would be targeted by federal immigration authorities. It will be even harder to reach them with doorto-door operations scaled back due to the coronavirus.

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"The bureau will never ask for bank account or social security numbers, donations or anything on behalf of a political party. Strict federal law protects the confidentiality of census responses," says Groth. ******* Information provided in this column is presented by the Silicon Valley Association of REALTORS®. Send questions to Rose Meily at rmeily@silvar.org.

1527 FORDHAM COURT, MOUNTAIN VIEW Like many towns between San Francisco and San Jose, Mountain View began as a stage coach stop. In 1850 the approximate route of today’s El Camino Real was designated by the county as the town’s major thoroughfare, with a stage stop between Stevens Creek and today’s Grant Road. After the railroad arrived, the town’s center grew around the station near Castro Street, named for one of the first major property owners, Mariano Castro. The city was incorporated in 1902.

Mountain View being blessed with rich soil and a mild climate, southeast of El Camino Real were orchards, vineyards and farmlands under large landholdings.

One property owner was Elias Fulton Springer, born in Missouri in 1831, whose

name continues today as Springer Road, Springer Elementary School, and Springer Meadows. The area was still agricultural after World War II. In the early 1950’s housing was developed, as was the Rancho Village Shopping Center at El Camino Real and El Monte Road.

Adjoining Springer Meadows is a neighborhood called Blossom Valley, within which is another neighborhood and park called Varsity Park. The name seems to be related to several streets named for Eastern colleges: Yale Drive, Cornell Drive, Columbia Drive, and Fordham Way and Fordham Court. Fordham Court, although only about a mile from a major thoroughfare in Silicon Valley, is a quiet cul-de-sac.

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through linear gas fireplace, on the other side of which is an inviting open space that includes a gourmet kitchen, family room area wired with Ethernet, HDMI and audio for 5+1 home theater system with wall-mounted Sony Bravia 4K 65-inch smart TV (Android). A future-proof Cat6A Network cable is installed throughout the entire house.

The kitchen features a quartz custom countertop, Samsung Counter-depth Flex Refrigerator, Bosch gas cooktop, Bosch quiet dishwasher, Center Island with seating for four, and large pantry.

The Master Bedroom has a Holographic Electric fireplace and a wall-mounted Vizio 4K 55-inch smart TV (Android). The en-suite Master Bathroom has a Blue Ocean 64inch Stainless Steel Shower Panel. There are two more bedrooms with full bath, an office that can be a fourth bedroom, and a guest bathroom.

The two-car Garage has a finished and painted interior, vertically stacked highcapacity LG washer and dryer, and tank water heater for kitchen and laundry use.

Front, side and back yards are professionally landscaped with LED lights and outlets, a new fence on the right side; and irrigation systems for front and back yards with timers.

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24 Six-legged colony member 26 Furry TV alien 27 “Formal Friday” wear 28 “All Songs Considered” broadcaster 29 “Heads” side of a coin 31 List of options 33 Frigid ending?

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4152 Baker Ave, Palo Alto Offered at $5,750,000 Michael Dreyfus · 650.485.3476 Lic. #01121795 Noelle Queen · 650.427.9211 Lic. #01917593

312 Concord Dr, Menlo Park Price Upon Request Annette Smith · 650.766.9429 Lic. #01180954

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