Gov. Newsom Signals Possible Reopening Of Some Businesses By Friday -- What Does That Look Like In SoCal?

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Gov. Newsom Signals Possible Reopening Of Some Businesses By Friday -- What Does That Look Like In SoCal?

Today on AirTalk, we look at what reopening will look like in SoCal. Also on the show, we take listener questions with a medical expert; discuss what LAUSD classes might look like in the fall; and more.

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Today on AirTalk, we look at what reopening will look like in SoCal. Also on the show, we take listener questions with a medical expert; discuss what LAUSD classes might look like in the fall; and more.

COVID-19: The Latest With Physician, Models Predict Significant Increase In U.S. Cases

As of Monday afternoon, L.A. County has at least 1,260 deaths and 26,238 confirmed cases of coronavirus. The United States has more than a million cases of the virus with more than 67,000 deaths. Meanwhile, new models put together by FEMA project that we could see up to 200,000 new cases a day by the end of the month, according to the New York Times. 

The L.A. Times reports that scientists have discovered a new strain of the deadly coronavirus that is even more contagious. The study finds that the new strain first appeared in February in Europe and has been the dominant strain across the world since mid-March. Plus, some COVID-19 patients are experiencing issues with blood clotting even after respiratory issues have died down. Today on AirTalk, we get the latest with an infectious disease specialist who will take your questions. Call 866-893-5722 to join the conversation. 

With files from LAist. Read the full story here.

Guest:

Dean Blumberg, M.D., professor of medicine and chief of Pediatric Infectious Diseases at UC Davis Children’s Hospital

LAUSD Schools Still Set To Start August 18 … Whether Virtually Or In-Person is Unknown

Los Angeles Unified School District officials are making plans for summer — and for now, none of those plans involve reopening school campuses shuttered by the coronavirus pandemic.

In a video address Monday, Superintendent Austin Beutner said LAUSD leaders have "made no decisions" about whether the fall semester — still scheduled to begin on August 18 — will involve students in classrooms, online or both. He said it's not clear what the public health conditions will allow.

Last week, Governor Gavin Newsom surprised many educators when he suggested California schools could resume

early — perhaps even as soon as mid-July. Newsom fears the longer students remain at home, the farther they'll fall behind academically. Read more about this on LAist. 

We get the latest on LAUSD’s plans (or lack of them) for the upcoming school year. Plus, if you’re an LAUSD parent or student, weigh in by calling 866-893-5722. 

With files from LAist.

Guest:

Kyle Stokes, education reporter for KPCC; he tweets

Gov. Newsom Signals Possible Reopening Of Some Businesses By Friday -- What Does That Look Like In SoCal?

After nearly two months of “safer at home” during the COVID-19 outbreak, the state of California appears to be taking its first steps towards reopening businesses and restarting the economy.

Governor Gavin Newsom announced on Monday during the daily press briefing he has held since the start of the outbreak that California will be entering the first phase of its four-stage plan and allowing certain retail businesses like bookstores, music stores, sporting goods stores and florists to reopen for pickup as early as Friday. Manufacturing and logistics can start in the retail supply chain again as well. There are also local control measures in effect that allow certain municipalities to decide themselves whether to move farther ahead in the process and reopen certain things like restaurant dining rooms, though anyone deciding to do so would have to submit “containment plans” to the state. Two cities in Orange County, which has been involved in a back-and-forth with Sacramento over his order last week closing all state and local beaches in OC, have been cleared to reopen their beaches after they submitted plans to the state last week for how they’d reopen the beaches while safely controlling crowds.

Guests:

Erika Ritchie, reporter for the Orange County Register covering South Orange County Coastal Communities; she tweets

Donald Wagner, Orange County Supervisor, 3rd District, which includes Anaheim Hills, Irvine, Orange, Tustin, and the unincorporated canyons; former Mayor of Irvine (2016-2019); tweets

Bob Whalen, mayor of Laguna Beach

Karen Farrer, mayor of the City of Malibu

Robert Garcia, mayor of Long Beach; he tweets

An Early Look At How NCAA Student-Athletes Could Be Compensated For Name, Image And Likeness Under Newly-Proposed Rules

Collegiate student-athletes got one step closer from being able to profit from the use of their name, image and likeness (NIL) last week when the NCAA Board of Governors announced its support for a proposal from one of its working groups that would allow student-athletes to sign endorsement deals, earn advertising revenue and be paid for time spent and services provided as a student-athlete.

Students would be able to identify themselves by the school they attend and the sport they play, but that they wouldn’t be allowed to use their school’s branding or logos in that capacity. But student-athletes could, under the new rules, profit from things like monetizing their social media channel, hosting an in-person or virtual sports camp or making appearances in their capacity as a student-athlete (as long as the university isn’t organizing the event and its branding isn’t being used). There’s also a provision to allow for agents to be hired, though the specifics of how that would work are still under discussion. 

The biggest point of discussion as this continues is expected to be the “guardrails” that the working group has proposed to ensure that any compensation “represent a genuine payment for use of their NIL, and is not simply a disguised form of pay for athletics participation.” Schools would not be allowed to directly pay student-athletes or be involved with organizing opportunities for NIL compensation, and there is also special attention being paid by the working group to ensure that NIL isn’t used by athletics boosters as a recruitment tool.

Today on AirTalk, we’ll dive into exactly what NCAA student-athletes would and wouldn’t be allowed to do under the proposed new rules, what potential role the federal government might play in the conversation, how the new rules would line up with state laws on NIL and what a world where student-athletes could receive compensation might look like.

We invited the NCAA, the chair of its Board of Governors Michael V. Drake, the Pac-12 Conference, and the athletic directors of all four California Pac-12 schools (UCLA, USC, Stanford, Cal) to participate in our discussion. None of them could accommodate our request, and as of the airing of this segment we have yet to get a response from the NCAA. USC and the Pac-12 Conference couldn’t accommodate our request but shared the following statement:

Guests:

Dan Murphy, ESPN staff writer and investigative reporter who has been following the story; he tweets

David Carter, associate professor of sports business at USC and founder and principal of The Sports Business Group, a consulting and marketing firm that works with sports organizations, venues and individual athletes