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    As coronavirus overwhelms California health officials, hope of 'containment' fades

    by Taryn Luna and Melody Gutierrez, Los Angeles Times Mar 08, 2020 7 minutes

    ROCKLIN, Calif. - The crackling of a police loudspeaker drew neighbors out of their homes to observe an unusual spectacle on a typically quiet residential street: a California county trying to force a resident to respect quarantine orders.

    A police helicopter circled overhead on Thursday as an officer stood outside his patrol car and instructed an elderly woman to go back inside a single-story home owned by a man who died of COVID-19, a passenger who may have fallen ill on a cruise to Mexico and became the first person in the state to succumb to the virus.

    The struggle to contain the coronavirus in just one household speaks to the gargantuan task many of the state's 58 counties face as they try to contact and assess the 1,590 California residents who disembarked from the Grand Princess cruise ship in San Francisco on Feb. 21. The Placer County victim was on that same ship, creating the prospect that other passengers returned home two weeks ago carrying COVID-19.

    State officials obtained a passenger manifest from the cruise company on Wednesday and began immediately informing 44 counties of

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