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Today, Adam Popescu, a journalist based in Los Angeles, looks at how stay-at-home orders are affecting the construction industry.

The update comes as cities and states around the country grapple with similar questions. On Tuesday, Bay Area health officials shut down a broad range of construction projects, including office buildings and market-rate housing — after initially deeming them essential.

In Los Angeles, work continued. Here’s Adam’s dispatch:

Throughout Los Angeles, construction crews are clustering on work sites and at food trucks, many not distancing or wearing any protection besides an occasional hard hat.

Masks and gloves are not mandatory, according to Los Angeles’s safety regulations, but keeping at least six feet apart is a measure the authorities call central to stopping Covid-19’s spread.