Coronavirus: Is Bay Area social distancing lockdown working? Some see progress

Coronavirus: Is Bay Area social distancing lockdown working? Some see progress

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https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/03/30/coronavirus-is-bay-area-social-distancing-lockdown-working-some-see-progress/

Two weeks into the Bay Area’s first-in-the-nation public lockdown to slow the spread of the deadly new coronavirus, doctors and local health officials are anxiously debating a question with literal life-or-death consequences: Is it working?

By some accounts, there are encouraging signs. Contra Costa County Health Officer Dr. Chris Farnitano said Monday that his county hasn’t seen a spike in ambulance transports and that hospitalizations for COVID-19 have only slowly risen.