Students and instructors from Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism are collaborating with the New York Times to write stories about how the coronavirus pandemic is affecting life throughout California. Launching the series, student Annie Berman writes about the resort town of Mammoth Lakes. The town is at an elevation of 7,881 feet in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Berman writes: "At peak ski season, the population triples, a fact normally welcomed by civic leaders. ... But not now. Not when surrounding Mono County has the highest rate of coronavirus infection in the state. Not when the county's lone hospital has just 17 beds. Not when transferring a patient to another hospital means a special medical evacuation flight at a cost of up to $50,000, and when even this option can be delayed by frequent blizzard conditions. And when the town's thin air only makes respiratory ailments worse." In an interview, Dr. Tom Boo, the county's public health officer says, "I'm absolutely terrified."