One Year Later, Reflecting Back On The Bay Area’s Historic Stay-At-Home-Order

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🗓️ 16 March 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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One year ago Tuesday, the sun rose, people were out and about, but because of the coronavirus --then still called the “novel coronavirus” --the Bay Area was on the cusp of the first stay-at-home order in the nation. Public health officers from 6 counties and the City of Berkeley held a press conference, telling millions of people they would need to stay mostly at home for three weeks to stop the spread of COVID-19, then with fewer than 300 known cases across the 7 jurisdictions. Most people probably had no idea that they were in for a year of lockdowns, restrictions, uncertainty and deaths. Alexis Madrigal reflects with Dr. Seema Yasmin and KQED’s Lesley McClurg back on the day it started a year ago, and the seismic changes that followed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:00.4	From KQED Public Radio in San Francisco, this is Forum.
1:01.7	I'm Alexis Madrigal.
1:05.6	This week on Forum, we're looking back on our time in the pandemic.
1:13.3	It was on this day one year ago, March 16, 2020, that Bay Area Health Officers issued the nation's first shelter-in-place order, cementing the reality that this would be a year unlike any other.
1:18.9	We'll start today recalling the shock of those early weeks as people began to fall ill and
1:23.3	life began to change. The unthinkable, million sick, school-shuttered, communities brought to a
1:28.9	standstill morphed into the everyday. It's been a surreal time and we want to know what you'll
1:33.8	remember from it. That's ahead'll be filling in this week as your guest host. I'm an Oakland resident, staff writer at The Atlantic Magazine, and I've spent the past
2:02.1	year co-running the COVID tracking project, which kept me immersed in the data and science of the
2:06.9	pandemic. During my stint here, we'll be looking back at the year that was, the history and future
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