March 17 marks two years since six Bay Area counties enacted a shelter-in-place order at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Health officials say the tools, strategies, and lessons learned to battle the coronavirus will prevent future lockdowns, mask mandates, and restrictions.
behind us, doctors and experts say that mass vaccination is what we must strive for moving forward.
"This pandemic really magnified the differences and disparities and really impacted people who didn’t have choices," Pan said. In April 2020, before vaccines were available, Fresno pastor Mark Wallace was on a ventilator for weeks. He said he miraculously won his battle with the virus. "We’re starting to crawl back," general manager Kurt Niver said. "We’re obviously not there yet, but it is going in the right direction."
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