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Sean Penn, whose emergency relief organization CORE has provided additional COVID-19 testing through out Los Angeles, said he doesn’t see the value in giving Admiral Brett Giroir advice on how to improve testing capacity. “I don’t have faith in giving advice to the White House testing czar or to the President of the…

At Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti’s daily coronavirus briefing Tuesday, L.A. City Fire Chief Ralph Terrazas provided an update on his department’s COVID-related efforts. He also offered praise for Sean Penn’s efforts to provide testing throughout the city. “We’ve focused in four primary areas,” said the chief, the…

Twitter founder-CEO Jack Dorsey has donated $10 million to CORE, the disaster relief group co-founded by Sean Penn a decade ago. Funds from Dorsey’s #startsmall initiative will expand free COVID-19 testing in cities across the country. Dorsey launched #startsmall last month for COVID-19 relief, girls health and…