Los Angeles Mayor Warns City Will ‘Never Be Completely Open’ Until Coronavirus Cure

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GARCETTI: "Sure. I hope for our K-12 schools we will have some sense of opening, but it won't be in the way that we've known school in the past. It might be fewer days a week, it might be staggered because we have to maintain that physical distance and we have to make sure for our vulnerable children, some of them won't be able to go back to school for some time. Look, we have to tell the hard truths and protect our people. At the same time, we take steps forward. For instance, this past weekend we opened up our trails, we have retail for curbside pickup. We'll see that expanded and even some active recreation on our beaches this coming weekend. Those are important. And we've never been fully closed. We'll never be completely open until we have a cure, but I do believe that we can take steps. But monitor those numbers, listen to the scientists and the medical professionals, and make the tough calls even when there's criticism."