Employees
at a market wear face masks in San Francisco, California ( REUTERS )
These are some ways the
emergency declaration will help the city prepare, health officials said at the
news conference:
• It allows
staff to be pulled away from nonessential duties so they can focus on
preparedness and prevention. This includes public health nurses, case managers
and social workers, who will assess situations in the city.
• Clinicians
will be on call at all times to answer questions from anyone who calls the
city's customer service number, 311, with clinical questions about coronavirus.
• "It
allows us to look at things like shelters, and other opportunities for us to
expand, in the event that that's necessary, and do a broader assessment of the
city's capacity to respond in the event that there is an outbreak," city
Health Director Dr. Grant Colfax said.
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