5 years since COVID: How the pandemic reshaped the Bay Area

It’s been five years since the coronavirus outbreak overtook the world and changed our lives forever.

Flashback: Though local cities and counties didn’t issue shelter-in-place orders until mid-March 2020, the virus is thought to have been circulating in the region as early as January.

  • The CDC announced the Bay Area’s first confirmed case — and the U.S.’s seventh — on Jan. 31. The Santa Clara County man had recently traveled to Wuhan, the center of the outbreak.
  • On Feb. 25, San Francisco Mayor London Breed declared a state…

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