They ordered the Bay Area to shut down. Then came the hard part FacebookTwitterEmail Dr. Sara Cody, MD, center, Health Officer and Public Health Department Director, speaks during a news conference about the shelter in place extension order in Santa Clara County on Tuesday, March 31, 2020, in San Jose, Calif. The Bay Area’s shelter-in-place order, which bans all non-essential trips outside the home and requires restaurants to operate only through takeout and delivery, will be extended until May 3.Tony Avelar / Special to the Chronicle In a year framed by near-impossible choices in the coronavirus pandemic — between saving lives and causing widespread economic and social devastation — the decision to issue the first shelter-in-place order in the United States and shut down the Bay Area ended up being one of the easiest, said Dr. Sara Cody.