San Francisco and Bay Area will shelter in place to slow coronavirus spread

Photo by Justin Sullivan / Getty Images California public health officials will be placing six counties in the San Francisco Bay Area— about 6.7 million people — under a “shelter in place” order to try to stem the spread of the novel coronavirus, the Los Angeles Times reports.The order will go into effect at 12:01AM PT on Tuesday, March 17th, and it will include San Francisco, Santa Clara, San Mateo, Marin, Contra Costa, and Alameda counties, according to the San Francis