SF Mayor London Breed on How Her City is Coping Almost a Year Into the Pandemic

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🗓️ 25 February 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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It's been almost a year since Mayor London Breed has been on Forum. But what a year it's been. She and San Francisco's public health leadership were credited with implementing a shutdown that slowed the progress of the pandemic here. But eventually the virus caught up with us, and measures to control it have decimated small businesses especially downtown, the tourism and restaurant industries, and the city's budget. We'll talk to Mayor Breed about crime, homelessness, and other challenges facing the city. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:49.8	From KQED Public Radio in San Francisco, this is Forum.
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0:56.2	This hour on forum, San Francisco Mayor London Breed is here to take your questions. It's been nearly a year since she ordered a citywide shutdown to slow the spread of the
1:00.4	coronavirus.
1:01.7	Since then, San Francisco has had one of the nation's lowest COVID-19 case rates among the
1:06.5	nation's largest cities, but the pandemic has taken a huge toll on small businesses, renters,
1:13.0	school kids, and especially people of color. We'll talk with Mayor Breed about all that, plus
1:18.3	the rise in violence, including hate crimes directed at Asian Americans and her push to reopen
1:24.1	public schools. That's all ahead on Forum, right after the news.
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