Balancing Health and the Economy During COVID-19

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🗓️ 19 June 2020

⏱️ 54 minutes

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The San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted this week to ask the state to provide the city with more latitude in moving up dates for reopening things like bars, indoor dining, and hair salons. San Francisco is one of only six counties in the state that had not yet sought this flexibility around reopening. The move comes at a time when officials are working to strike a balance between keeping residents safe and COVID-19 hospitalizations manageable while gradually reopening the economy. More than 243,000 Californians filed for unemployment last week, and while many San Franciscans are struggling to stay afloat, the pandemic has also exposed long-term economic inequities. In this hour, we talk with San Francisco health and economy officials about how they balance those concerns. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:25.1	From KQED public radio in San Francisco, I'm Nina Kim.
1:29.0	Coming up on forum, we take a deeper look at how San Francisco is managing the coronavirus and the city's economic recovery. Praised early on for swiftly enacting a
1:34.6	shelter-in-place order, this week the number of coronavirus cases topped 3,000, with 47 recorded
1:41.0	COVID-19 related deaths since the pandemic began and the toll hitting communities of color artist.
1:47.0	Now, San Francisco wants more flexibility in determining a timetable for lifting restrictions on businesses.
1:53.0	In this hour, we talk with city officials about how they're trying to address the city's public health and economic needs. And we take your questions.
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