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Mayor Breed reflects on one year anniversary of shelter in place: We sacrificed
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San Francisco Mayor London Breed speaks to commemorate the one year anniversary of the shutdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic at San Francisco General Hospital Wednesday.Gabrielle Lurie / The Chronicle
As a line of people waited to get vaccinated at San Francisco General Hospital, Mayor London Breed celebrated Wednesday how far the city has come since she somberly ordered the city to lock down exactly a year ago.
Breed has been hailed around the country for her swift decision to shut down San Francisco before many other major cities. Experts say that move likely saved thousands of lives, and kept the death rate the lowest of any large city in the country.
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Julie Nicholson smiles while running a half marathon marking the anniversary of her pedestrian crash on a slow street closed to car traffic in San Francisco, Calif., on Sunday, March 14, 2021. KNIGHT0317Photos by Marissa Leshnov / Special to The Chronicle
On Sunday, Julie Nicholson ran for the first time through the spot in the Panhandle where a car had nearly killed her.
She was jogging on Jan. 4 last year when a car speeding north on Masonic Avenue blew through a red light, hit another car and careened into the park straight at her. She flew 30 feet, landing with a thud. She assumed she was seconds from death but remembers thinking, “OK, I lived.”
Amid pandemic suffering, Latinos grapple with sharp rise in opioid overdoses Jorge Carrasco, Noticias Telemundo
Diego considers himself fortunate.
The 49-year-old man, who is only being identified by his first name for privacy reasons, thinks back on some dark moments in his life all associated with drugs.
He said his brothers introduced him to narcotics when he was 12 and living in his hometown of Springfield, Massachusetts. By the time he was 17, said Diego, who is of Puerto Rican descent, he was not only using drugs, but also trafficking in them. He said the drugs plunged him into a spiral of addiction, fracturing his family relationships and landing him in jail numerous times.