{"id":262,"date":"2020-03-31T20:39:23","date_gmt":"2020-04-01T03:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/?p=262"},"modified":"2020-03-31T20:39:23","modified_gmt":"2020-04-01T03:39:23","slug":"were-beating-coronavirus-odds-so-far-thanks-to-early-stay-home-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/2020\/03\/31\/were-beating-coronavirus-odds-so-far-thanks-to-early-stay-home-order\/","title":{"rendered":"We&#8217;re beating coronavirus odds so far thanks to early stay-home order"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Like a wildfire spraying hot embers, the coronavirus pandemic is now flaring in communities around the country, with growth curves in New Orleans, Michigan\u00a0and Illinois that resemble those of 10 days ago in New York City \u2014\u00a0which in turn mirror those of early 2020 in Italy and Wuhan, China.<\/p>\n<p>But California \u2014\u00a0and particularly San Francisco, where I live \u2014\u00a0appears to be following a different course, with relatively low rates of COVID-19\u00a0cases and mortality. In San Francisco, there are few signs of an imminent spike. Our experience may\u00a0hold lessons for the rest of the country, especially on the importance of aggressive public and corporate steps to promote social distancing.<\/p>\n<p>As recently as March 10, the rates of confirmed coronavirus infection in New York City and San Francisco were roughly the same: New York City had seven cases and San Francisco had 14. On\u00a0Monday evening, New York City had more than\u00a038,000\u00a0confirmed cases and 914 deaths;\u00a0San Francisco had over\u00a0374 cases and six\u00a0deaths.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/opinion\/2020\/03\/31\/coronavirus-early-stay-home-order-helping-san-francisco-column\/5088664002\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow external noopener noreferrer\" class=\"wpel-icon-left\"><i class=\"wpel-icon dashicons-before dashicons-admin-links\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>We&#8217;re beating coronavirus odds so far thanks to early stay-home order<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like a wildfire spraying hot embers, the coronavirus pandemic is now flaring in communities around the country, with growth curves in New Orleans, Michigan\u00a0and Illinois that resemble those of 10 days ago in New York City \u2014\u00a0which in turn mirror those of early 2020 in Italy and Wuhan, China. But California \u2014\u00a0and particularly San Francisco, &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/2020\/03\/31\/were-beating-coronavirus-odds-so-far-thanks-to-early-stay-home-order\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}