All Los Angeles residents must now wear masks when outside the home, Mayor Eric Garcetti announced Wednesday. The order significantly tightens restrictions that had required the coverings only in businesses and public transportation. Bring your mask everywhere, the mayor said. “That will help us get more freedoms.” L.A. Daily News | KABC

Some people are vehemently opposed to masks. Here’s video of a brawl that broke out at a Van Nuys Target after two men refused to wear them. They were arrested. LAPD/YouTube

Once a united front, the Bay Area is now fracturing in its response to the coronavirus. San Francisco, San Mateo, and Marin counties said they were loosening their shelter-in-place orders, with curbside retail allowed to start on Monday. Santa Clara County won’t join them, the health official Dr. Sara Cody said: “The conditions really haven’t changed in our county. We don’t suddenly have herd immunity. We don’t have a vaccine. We have exactly the same conditions as we did in March.” Mercury News | SFGate.com

Updated list of counties now allowed to open more fully: Amador, Butte, Calaveras, Colusa, El Dorado, Glenn, Lassen, Nevada, Placer, Plumas, San Benito, Shasta, Sierra, Sutter, Tehama, Tuolumne, Yuba. S.F. Chronicle

Doctors in a California community near the Mexican border are attributing a surge of Covid-19 cases to legal border crossings. Hospitals in Chula Vista have been so busy that ambulances have been turned away some days. The influx, one medical professional said, is mostly people with dual citizenship or dual residence who regularly go into Tijuana, one of Mexico’s hardest hit cities. Wall Street Journal | S.D. Union-Tribune

Here are a few eye-opening depictions of the Covid-19 crisis:

The latest coronavirus totals, according to tallies by the S.F. Chronicle and N.Y. Times:

Confirmed cases:
1,397,700 in U.S.
73,022 in California
10,234 in Bay Area
56,274 in Southern California

Deaths:
84,109 in U.S.
2,970 in California

Cumulative infections and deaths in California:

See trackers of cases in California, the U.S., and worldwide.

Veritas is San Francisco’s biggest landlord, with more than $3 billion in reported assets. Yet it applied for and got a $3.6 million loan from the Payroll Protection Program, created by Congress to rescue small businesses battered by the coronavirus. Veritas has been accused in multiple lawsuits of shirking repairs and harassing tenants to drive them from rent-controlled apartments. Mission Local | S.F. Chronicle

On March 13, Patagonia became among the first retailers to close its stores. Yet even as competitors scramble to reopen, the Ventura-based company does not intend to open any locations until June at the earliest and is prepared to wait until the fall. “We’re not going to necessarily follow what the state decrees are,” its CEO said. N.Y. Times

Alameda County officials appear to have capitulated to Elon Musk, saying in a statement that Tesla can reopen its Fremont factory next week without acknowledging that it’s already been operating for several days. Tesla told Bloomberg that the company is ramping up car operations this week and preparing for full production. CNN | Bloomberg

Other odds and ends:

The Wall Street Journal published a scathing editorial alleging that Rep. Adam Schiff “knew all along that there was no proof of Russia-Trump collusion.” It cited newly released transcripts from the House investigation into Russia’s meddling in the 2016 election. The editorial concluded: “President Trump often spreads falsehoods and invents facts, but at least he’s paid a price for it in media criticism and public mistrust … As for Mr. Schiff, no one should ever believe another word he says.” Wall Street Journal (non-paywall version)

Mike Garcia, a former fighter pilot and political rookie, clinched victory in the race for an open congressional seat north of Los Angeles, flipping a blue district to Republican control for the first time in California in 22 years. Republicans are already casting the win as proof that they can reverse the suburban drubbing they suffered in the 2018 midterms. Washington Post | Politico

California made an appearance among the winners of the California Academy of Sciences’ 2020 BigPicture Natural World Photography Competition. Jak Wonderly’s “The Cost of Cats,” above, took top prize in the “Human/Nature” category. Each year, hundreds of birds are brought to a San Rafael animal rescue group after being mauled by house cats. These didn’t survive. The Atlantic | bioGraphic

California was assembled, to borrow John McPhee’s description, through a hundred million years of crashing tectonic plates. The result is a place of extreme topography, home to the highest and lowest points in the lower 48. For fun, a geographer named Sean Conway created a very cool depiction of California’s jaggedness, above, using a 1944 Department of Interior map and exaggerated elevation data. Along with his other maps, it’s been a massive hit on social media.

Check out a larger version here, and follow Conway on Instagram.