(27 Mar 2020) Tourists and most residents are gone from the streets of San Francisco.
A drive through the city by the bay finds nearly empty streets and sidewalks.
When Gov. Gavin Newsom last week ordered nearly all 40 million Californians to stay in their homes to combat the spread of COVID-19, he set the tone for the nation, becoming the first to issue a statewide lockdown.
But one week into the lockdown, epidemiologists tracking rates of transmission in California and the United States worry that Newsom's shelter-in-place order will be less effective in controlling new infections without stronger enforcement.
The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people, but for some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness or death.
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