How Berkeley Could Remove the Police From Traffic Stops

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First, we have a quick update on the pandemic:

On Wednesday, Gov. Gavin Newsom said that the state was rethinking its Covid-19 testing strategy, and was working to ensure that hospitals do not become overwhelmed in parts of the state where cases are rapidly mounting.

The state has been averaging about 8,000 new coronavirus cases a day over the past week, according to The New York Times’s database. Mr. Newsom said that hospitalizations had shot up by 44 percent over the past two weeks, and that the share of tests coming back positive in the state had risen to 7.1 percent.

[See our map of coronavirus cases per county.]

“That can spike quickly into the double digits,” the governor warned in his online briefing.