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[Sporting News]

Al Sadd coach and former Spain international Xavi and his wife, journalist Nuria Cunillera, have donated money to help the hospital "purchase sanitary equipment for professionals and patients." Xavi's donation matches those his ex-Barcelona coach Pep Guardiola and former team-mate Lionel Messi made to the same hospital last month. More than 11,700 people have died with coronavirus in Spain since the outbreak began.

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[The Detroit News]

Kings rookie Kyle Guy is urging people to follow public health orders after losing a loved one to the coronavirus. Guy shared his grief in a moving tribute to his grandfather Saturday on Instagram. Guy said his grandfather died Friday night, apparently after contracting COVID-19 in the global coronavirus pandemic that has killed nearly 57,000 worldwide, according to the World Health Organization.

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[FOX 11 Los Angeles]

SACRAMENTO, Calif. The former home of the Sacramento Kings and the arena where NBA superstar LeBron James made his professional playing career will now be used as one of the many alternative care sites in California during the coronavirus pandemic, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Monday. Newsom said the alternative care sites, like the one at Sleep Train Arena, will be utilized to increase beds for patients who have been discharged from state emergency rooms showing mild to moderate COVID-19 symptom...

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[VF21]

SACRAMENTO, Calif. The former home of the Sacramento Kings and the arena where NBA superstar LeBron James made his professional playing career will now be used as one of the many alternative care sites in California during the coronavirus pandemic, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Monday. Newsom said the alternative care sites, like the one at Sleep Train Arena, will be utilized to increase beds for patients who have been discharged from state emergency rooms showing mild to moderate COVID-19 symptom...

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So the fact LeBron played his first game there makes this more of a news story? ...sigh... Good thing to know.

I HATE LA...and their need to make everything somehow about them or theirs. I'm pretty sure right nobody (I mean NOBODY) cares about the LBJ link to Sleep Train.

 

[CBS 2 Los Angeles]

The recently closed St. Vincent Medical Center in the Westlake District will reopen later this month to increase the number of hospital beds in the region and expand intensive care unit capacity for patients who have contracted the novel coronavirus, Gov. Gavin Newsom said Monday. The Los Angeles Surge Hospital is expected to begin opening April 13, and will ramp up access to more patients as health care workers and staff are hired and supplies and equipment are secured.

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[Houston Chronicle]

Gov. Gavin Newsom is sticking with a mid-May projection for when the COVID-19 outbreak will reach its peak in California, continuing efforts to stockpile hospital beds and protective gear for health care workers even as a new analysis suggests the virus' spread could be slowing sooner. While confirmed cases and deaths continue rising in California, the rate of hospitalizations and intensive-care placements — a key indicator of resources the state needs — have been increasing more slowly.

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[The Hanford Sentinel]

As tens of thousands of retired health care workers and medical and nursing students sign up for the newly established California Health Corps, almost nothing is known about how it will operate, how much it will cost and whether taxpayers will be liable for any malpractice. Gov. Gavin Newsom established the corps to staff the 66,000 additional hospital rooms he said could be needed when the coronavirus outbreak peaks in California in mid-May.

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[NBA.com]

Sacramento Kings guard Bogdan Bogdanovic and forward Nemanja Bjelica teamed up with General Manager Vlade Divac’s foundation – the Ana and Vlade Divac Foundation – to fund the purchase of much needed ventilators, medical-grade masks and supplies to support hospitals and medical institutions providing critical care and trauma services for COVID-positive, COVID-exposed and high-risk patients in their native Serbia.

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[The Sacramento Bee]

Three members of the Kings organization are teaming up to donate needed supplies to medical facilities caring for coronavirus patients in their native Serbia. Bogdan Bogdanovic and Nemanja Bjelica are partnering with general manager Vlade Divac’s foundation — the Ana and Vlade Divac Foundation — to fund the purchase of ventilators, medical-grade masks and supplies to support hospitals providing critical care for COVID-19 patients, the Kings said in a news release Tuesday.

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[NBA.com]

Sacramento Kings players Harrison Barnes, Bogdan Bogdanovic, De’Aaron Fox and Richaun Holmes are teaming up to support several local restaurants and donate more than 1,000 meals to families and children in need due to the COVID-19 health crisis throughout the Sacramento community during April. The idea for this donation was initiated by Holmes, rooted in his desire to give back to the community during this unprecedented time of uncertainty.

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[The Sacramento Bee]

Kings center Richaun Holmes wanted to do something to help the community that embraced him so warmly before the coronavirus outbreak led to isolation orders and social distancing guidelines. He even asked a few of his friends to help. The Kings announced Wednesday that Holmes is partnering with teammates De’Aaron Fox, Harrison Barnes and Bogdan Bogdanovic to support local restaurants and donate more than 1,000 meals to families and children in need due to the pandemic.

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[CBS Sacramento]

In an effort to help the community during the coronavirus pandemic, Sacramento Kings players are working with local restaurants to donate more than 1,000 to families in need. According to the Kings, Richaun Holmes rallied his teammates together to support local restaurants and the community during this crisis. Players Harrison Barnes, Bogdan Bogdanovic, De’Aaron Fox joined Holmes to donate the meals.

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[Quartz]

As Kenya prepares for a rise in novel coronavirus (Covid-19) cases, 3D printing companies are designing and printing personal protective equipment (PPEs) and parts for medical devices to address the expected medical equipment deficit in the country. Ultra Red Technologies, along with a coalition of other Kenyan-owned 3D printers, has borrowed from open source prototypes designed by 3DVerkstan, a company in Sweden, to print plastic face shields to fill a gap before established plastic manufacturers can create a mould and begin producing quickly at affordable prices. The Nairobi-based Ultra Red has also designed a 3D printed prototype for a ventilator adaptor that could allow doctors to treat either two or four patients at one time if necessary, working with established medical equipment distributor, Nairobi X-Ray Supplies, to administer testing on sets of artificial lungs.

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[NBA.com]

Sacramento Kings guard Cory Joseph and his family are donating face shields through Operation Canadian Shield to help protect thousands of frontline workers in hospitals providing care for COVID-19 patients in his native city of Toronto, Ontario. Joseph and family have teamed up with fellow Canadian and Kings chief of staff and assistant coach Roy Rana, Frontier, Sunnybrook Foundation and University Health Network to coordinate this effort.

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[NJ.com]

Cooper University Health Care in Camden is receiving a much needed donation from a tech giant in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. Apple is donating tens of thousands of custom face shields to help healthcare workers on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic, a Cooper official said. We are extremely grateful to Apple, not only for their products, which are helping our COVID-19 patients communicate with their families and our staff, but also for this crucial donation of personal protective e...

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[The Sacramento Bee]

Kings guard Cory Joseph and his family are leading an effort to provide face shields to hospital workers caring for COVID-19 patients in his native Toronto. The Kings announced Wednesday that Joseph is partnering with fellow Canadian and Kings assistant coach Roy Rana, Frontier, the Sunnybrook Foundation and University Health Network to make the donation through Operation Canadian Shield. The operation provides face shields to healthcare workers free of charge.

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[Miami Herald]

David and Jonathan Tamen, sophomores at Miami Beach Senior High, developed and marketed face shields with their personal 3D printer and laminator that are now used by the neurology unit at Jackson Memorial Hospital and at food distribution events sponsored by the City of Miami Beach. Their face shields may also soon be distributed by the city to anyone in need in order to leave gear on the market available to those on the front lines of COVID-19.

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[Yahoo Sports Canada]

Joseph and Rana haven't forgot about their Toronto roots and are stepping up during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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[The Sacramento Bee]

The NBA season is still on hold as America tries to slow the spread of the coronavirus, but Kings forward Harrison Barnes has not stopped his charitable work in the community. The Kings announced Monday that Barnes and his wife, Brittany, are donating $40,000 to provide weekly groceries for vulnerable families and senior citizens for the next month.

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[The Sacramento Bee]

The message goes out to ”the hundreds of courageous doctors, nurses and frontline workers at the Sleep Train Arena alternate care facility and all those across the region, who are helping our community on the front lines,” the Kings said in a news release. The empty Sleep Train Arena, former home of the Kings, was converted to a hospital to handle the surge of COVID-19 cases.

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[Sky Sports]

He said the hiatus has given him the chance to watch a lot of game film from the season - something that he typically wouldn't have time to do until the summer - and he likes the way his team has grown. "I was really pleased with how we were playing over the last 20-25 games," Walton continued. "We were really starting to play some consistent basketball.

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[CBS Sacramento]

SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – The Sacramento Kings are joining the San Francisco 49ers and other local major sports teams in a partnership to donate 50,000 face masks and bandanas to health care providers during the coronavirus pandemic. The 49ers announced Friday that they are partnering with the Kings, San Francisco Giants, Oakland A’s, Golden State Warriors, San Jose Sharks, San Jose Earthquakes, the teams’ merchandising partners and other local organizations to donate the masks to UC San Francisco an...

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[The Sacramento Bee]

The state is paying the Kings $500,000 a month for use of the facility for three months, though the team has donated the use of adjacent practice facility. The expenses are detailed in a state contract The Bee obtained after filing a request under the California Public Records Act with Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Office of Emergency Services.

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[San Francisco Chronicle]

The NBA has pushed back the possible reopening date of some team practice facilities for at least a week until May 8 at the earliest, saying Monday the extra time was needed in part to make sure player training options would be safe and controlled in an effort to try to mitigate the threats caused by the coronavirus pandemic. And when those facilities reopen, the rules will be strict.

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[The Sacramento Bee]

NBA practice facilities will reportedly reopen later this week in some cities, but the Kings have no immediate plans to unlock their doors. The Kings issued a statement Monday reasserting their Golden 1 Center facilities will remain closed in accordance with public health orders because of the coronavirus. The team suspended all basketball activities March 17 under recommendations from Sacramento County health officials, two days before Gov. Gavin Newsom issued an ongoing statewide stay-at-home ...

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[gooddaysacramento.cbslocal.com]

Coronavirus is turning Sacramento-area golf courses into tourist destinations. With most courses closed in the Bay Area, golfers there are going the extra mile to play a round. They’re desperate for golf, especially because the weather’s nice,” said Sagar Passi, a Sacramento-area golfer.

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