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San Francisco Implemented Strong Measures Against Coronavirus. So Far, So Good.

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A pigeon crosses an empty Powell Street during the coronavirus pandemic on March 30, 2020 in San Francisco, California.
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So far, so good, in San Francisco, where a shelter-in-place order that was implemented has apparently blunted the impact of the coronavirus, as hospital emergency rooms are currently not overwhelmed. Dr. Jahan Fahimi, an emergency physician and medical director at the University of California, San Francisco, told CNN, “The surge we have been anticipating has not yet come. We’re all kind of together holding our breaths.”

By Monday, 374 people had been confirmed with coronavirus and six people had died. Dr. Grant Colfax, the city’s public health director, cautioned, “We’re watching the data very carefully.”

Dr. Robert M. Wachter, who works at theUniversity of California, San Francisco Medical Center, wrote in USA Today:

By the first week in March, many of the Bay Area’s information technology giants, including Apple, Google and Facebook, were directing their employees to work from home. The work-from-home orders increased the degree of physical distancing for tens of thousands of people in the region, which lowered the chances of viral spread. Such actions underscored a message that reverberated throughout the region: These companies were taking the threat seriously.er cautioned,

Wachter noted, “While we in San Francisco are allowing ourselves a bit of optimism, it’s entirely possible that our luck won’t hold.”

Mother Jones noted:

On March 11, six days after it announced its first two coronavirus cases, San Francisco barred gatherings of more than 1,000 people at a time and told folks not to leave their homes unless they needed to go grocery shopping and visit medical professionals … (San Francisco’s public health director Dr. Grant) Colfax pushed the city to set up the emergency operations center in January. It has relocated to the larger Moscone Center.

Dr. Armand Dorian, the chief medical officer at the University of Southern California Verdugo Hills Hospital in Glendale, warned that while coronavirus cases had not exploded over the weekend, “We were like, ‘maybe there is something there.’ But honestly, I would be very, very cautious because I really think we are at the beginning of the uptick.” He continued that the problem “is going to be coming in waves or mini waves. The key is just being so staunch, keeping everybody home for the next couple of weeks to make sure we don’t miss this opportunity. And this is not disappearing; it’s going to be here for the rest of our lives.”

The Daily Wire reported on Tuesday a report saying social distancing was working across the nation:

According to a company that produces thermometers that connect to the internet, thus permitting the company to track fevers across America, the social distancing measures that many areas in the United States have implemented are successfully working to reduce the number of coronavirus transmissions. Kinsa Health, which according to The New York Times, has routinely been two to three weeks ahead of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in predicting flu data since 2018, when it distributed over 500,000 thermometers, created a map of fever levels nationwide on March 22 and saw by the next day that social distancing measures were working.

 

 

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