Covid-19: How tech’s empty offices helped San Francisco bend the curve


Twitter Inc, which strongly encouraged work from home on March 2, announced in a blog post it would be mandatory March 11. Countless smaller companies and startups in the Bay Area who never got headlines for their actions were doing the same. — AFP

With the exception of outdoor exercise and quick, furtive dashes to the corner grocery store, swathes of Northern California have now been sheltering in place for more than a month.

The San Francisco Bay Area’s stay-at-home order was announced March 16, and that swift decision-the first in the nation-is now widely credited with #BendingtheCurve, buying the US health care system time and saving lives.

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