Fatigued Californians are back in lockdown. Will it work?

The effort to rein in a surging pandemic comes as the public seems less willing or unable to comply with shelter-in-place rules

California has enacted new stay-at-home guidelines as coronavirus cases in the state have surged, placing 33m pandemic-fatigued residents under some of the harshest restrictions in the US in a last-resort effort to rein in the pandemic.

The measures are the strictest since those enacted in March, when California's early, aggressive lockdown helped keep the state's death rate relatively low. Nine months on, however, a worn-out public seems less willing to comply with shelter-in-place and many workers - devastated by the economic toll of the pandemic - are unable to do so.