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When will California lift its mask mandate? History says now is not the time
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When the day finally arrives that denizens of the Bay Area can tear off their masks and safely breathe one another’s unfiltered air, it won’t be accompanied by cheers and the tossing of face coverings into the streets.
That’s what happened in San Francisco in November 1918 during the influenza pandemic, and the celebrations turned out to be fatally premature. Barely a month later, the city was buried under a fresh wave of illness and death.
Lifting California’s mask mandate may be the single most obvious sign that the coronavirus pandemic is nearly over. “It will be a moment of exhaling and saying the worst is behind us,” said Dr. Ori Tzvieli, deputy health officer for Contra Costa County. But that moment will also arrive with much more caution this century than last, he said.
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One Bay Area county made all adults vaccine eligible. It got hit by a deluge of demand
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Dr. Ori Tzvieli, deputy county health officer, advises patience and says appointments should open up in “the next few weeks.”Brittany Hosea-Small / Special to The Chronicle
In what could portend a similar deluge of demand across California in the coming weeks, Contra Costa County on Wednesday said 30,000 of its residents requested vaccine appointments overnight, after the county on Tuesday became one of the first in the state to open up shots to everyone 16 and over.
“We’ve had huge demand,” said the county deputy health officer, Dr. Ori Tzvieli. “Our phones have been ringing off the hook. We had over 30,000 people sign up for appointments overnight and more are coming in.”
Bay Briefing: The vaccine hunters
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I got vaccinated messages written by people who had gotten their vaccines are seen taped to a rolling door at a warehouse at the San Francisco Wholesale Produce Market being used as a vaccine hub on Friday, March 19, 2021 in San Francisco, Calif.Lea Suzuki / The Chronicle
Good morning, Bay Area. It’s Thursday, April 1, and Bay Area musicians are looking back at a year without in-person live shows. Here’s what you need to know to start your day. “We will get to you”
Mukesh Aggarwal struggled to find a vaccine appointment for his parents. Tracking all the various sites run by myriad government agencies, pharmacies and health providers for an appointment, especially when they were snapped up so quickly, was frustrating.
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