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Camila Cabello and Shawn Mendes recently started dating, and during the Coronavirus pandemic the two are quarantined together in Miami. That meant it was no problem for them to participate in the iHeartRadio Living Room Concert for America together, and though fans might’ve expected them to deliver an acoustic rendition of their 2019 duet “Senorita,” they instead did a song off Camila’s latest album, Romance, “My Oh My,” that features rapper DaBaby on the original version.

Before their performance, Camila urged everyone watching to remember that staying home is the best way to protect each other and our loved ones through social distancing, and Shawn also shared a specific thank you for all the first responders in hospitals. While the spread of COVID-19 and Coronavirus has reached crisis levels in areas of America like Washington, California, and New York, there are still parts of the country that aren’t taking it as seriously.

Hopefully, those who aren’t directly impacted yet are watching massive livestream events like the iHeartRadio Living Room Concert for America and realizing just how severe the threat has become. The livestream features plenty of other artists weighing in on the crisis and performing acoustic songs at home for fans, including Finneas and Billie Eilish. Watch Camila and Shawn perform above.

Phoebe Bridgers recently returned with new music, sharing “Garden Song” as the first solo material since the release of her breakout debut album, Strangers In The Alps in 2017. Tonight, she’s returned with another bit of music for fans, although it’s not quite new material – Bridgers released a cover of Conor Oberst’s “Mamah Borthwick (A Sketch),” off his 2016 album Ruminations. In the caption of the video uploaded to Instagram, Phoebe shared that she’s releasing the song to help raise money for the employees of the local Los Angeles music venue The Bootleg. The link to that fundraiser is here.

She explains that it was the place where she met Oberst, who has since become her collaborator on the project Better Oblivion Community Center. “The Bootleg is raising money to pay their employees and hopefully keep the doors open once this is over,” she wrote. “Here’s me singing a Conor song because I met him there. It’s a special place. Help out if you can. Link in my stories. #coverthebootleg”

For those unfamiliar with the story of Mamah Borthwick, she was the mistress of famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright, and you can learn a lot more about her story via this post from the tumblr that annotates songs by Conor Oberst.

One of the most heartwarming things about human beings is our ability to adapt to changing circumstances. As the Coronavirus pandemic becomes a very real threat to public health, and social distancing is the most effective way to halt the spread of the virus, all tours and concerts have been canceled across America. Not only does this leave fans and audiences hungry to hear from their favorite musicians, but it also leaves these performers stuck at home, unable to express themselves.

Almost immediately, the ability to host livestreams from the safety of living rooms and houses began to crop up, and the iHeart Living Room Concert for America is just the latest platform to enlist musicians who are more than willing to get on camera from the comfort of their own home to entertain fans who are cooped up in isolation.

Billie Eilish and her brother Finneas were part of the show’s offering that aired live tonight, delivering an acoustic version of “Bad Guy” from their couch in Highland Park. Finneas even joins in on some harmonies, a welcome touch to update the song that dominated last year and helped catapult Eilish to break Grammys records at this year’s awards. Watch above.

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At least 10 NBA players have tested positive for COVID-19, with the first confirmed case being that of Rudy Gobert which, subsequently, forced the league to come to a halt. Since then, members of seven organizations have tested positive including players from the Nets, Lakers, Celtics, Pistons, and Jazz.

Gobert and teammate Donovan Mitchell were both cleared of the virus this past week, as was Christian Wood of the Pistons, and on Friday, Marcus Smart became the latest player to get cleared of the virus. Smart announced the news on Sunday night, saying Mass Health cleared him a couple days back and he was now “Corona Free.”

It is good news to hear that the players are being able to beat the virus and get cleared of it, and hopefully they will follow in the footsteps of ESPN analyst Doris Burke in seeking out ways that they can possibly help others by donating blood and plasma as doctors look to treat coronavirus patients with plasma from those that have had the virus and have built up significant amounts of antibodies to fight it.

Hopefully others that have been affected by the virus around the league will find ways to recover, and people will continue taking social distancing seriously so as not to overwhelm hospitals that are facing down this crisis.

In the final minutes of this week’s The Walking Dead episode, “Look at the Flowers,” right before Beta rips off half his mask and does the “Thriller” dance with a horde of zombies, we are briefly introduced to a wild new character (pictured above).

Her name is Juanita Sanchez, and in the comics, she goes by “Princess,” because “Queen” makes her sound too “old.” She is played by actress Paola Lazaro. Princess is a trip, one of those horribly damaged people (she was repeatedly tied up, locked in a closet, and abused by her evil step-brother and step-father in the comics) who uses comedy to mask her pain. Princess has a lot of pain, so her sense of humor is wonderfully off-kilter and inappropriate. Princess has also spent so much time alone that she’s not sure that those she encounters are real or hallucinations. She is very cheerful and very talkative.

In the comic series, she is discovered on a mission similar to the one that Eugene is carrying out now; Eugene wants to meet Stephanie, a woman from a new community with whom he is smitten. In the comics, Eugene, Yumiko, Magna, Michonne, and Siddiq encounter Princess in Pittsburgh on the way to The Commonwealth in Ohio. Here, however, Siddiq is dead, Michonne is in search of Rick, and Magna has decided to stay behind (although, a sickened Ezekiel — dead in the Comics at this point — is along for the ride).

So, presumably, Eugene’s girlfriend, Stephanie, is from The Commonwealth, which is possibly also where Maggie and Georgie reside. They’re meeting in Charleston, West Virginia, which is about halfway between Alexandria and Ohio, which is where The Commonwealth is set in the comics, so that makes perfect sense. The lure to The Commonwealth — which is a functioning society of 50,000 people with modern amenities — may be the medical care that it can offer Ezekiel, who is otherwise dying of treatable cancer. The Commonwealth is also likely to play into CRM and The Walking Dead spin-off, The World Beyond.

We’ll learn more about Princess in next week’s episode, which is not the season finale, but because of delays, it is the last episode for awhile.