As part of an effort to provide temporary housing for people in L.A. County experiencing homelessness who are vulnerable to COVID-19, the county’s homeless services agency has been working with Sacramento as well as local service providers and hotels and motels to secure rooms where those living on the street who are at high-risk for contracting the virus could have temporary shelter in the hopes of preventing the spread and contraction of COVID-19.

Larry Mantle and KPCC film critics Lael Loewenstein, Amy Nicholson and Charles Solomon review this weekend’s new movie releases and share some of their recommendations for movies and TV shows to discover, rediscover and binge-watch while you’re at home.

Like all public events following the start of widespread stay-at-home orders from the state and federal government, the 2020 TCM Classic Film Festival was unfortunately cancelled this year due to health concerns posed by COVID-19. But festival faithful and classic film buffs won’t be left hanging this year.

President Donald Trump gave governors a road map Thursday for recovering from the economic pain of the coronavirus pandemic, laying out “a phased and deliberate approach” to restoring normal activity in places that have strong testing and are seeing a decrease in COVID-19 cases.

The carmaker will be able to manufacture 50,000 ventilators by July 4, a Ford official tells Morning Edition. It is retooling a plant in Michigan, which is scheduled to begin operations Monday.

New Yorker writer Michael Specter covered Fauci's early work in the AIDS epidemic. "He's always taken an open-minded approach to the problems," Specter says of the infectious-disease expert.

Small business owners got some tough news on Thursday morning when the Small Business Administration announced its the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) was maxed out and that it wouldn't be able to accept more claims right now.

Yesterday, L.A. County reported 472 new coronavirus cases and 42 new deaths, the highest in a single day so far. The total number of cases in L.A. county is now 10,496.

COVID-19 has created a lot of uncertainty, including in the field of baseball.

The wave of layoffs that has engulfed the U.S. economy since the coronavirus struck forced 5.2 million more people to seek unemployment benefits last week, the government reported Thursday.