Will San Francisco, New York and other big cities recover from COVID-19? What a post-vaccine city could look like Marco della Cava, USA TODAY
As COVID-19 vaccines roll out, what will US cities look like in a post-pandemic world?
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SAN FRANCISCO Rory Cox shudders each time he steps outside the doors of his YuBalance fitness studio.
“It’s a damn ghost town,” said Cox, 37, whose three studios have seen an 80% decline in business since the novel coronavirus hit in March. “My number one marketing tool is people walking by. If they’re not out there, you lose.”
Cox, like many of those he represents as founder of the San Francisco Small Business Alliance, loves this iconic and iconoclastic city, a place where tech start-ups have brought both great riches and staggering inequality.