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We continue to base our decisions on data and public health recommendations. Testing results from UCSF show that low-wage workers are being disproportionately impacted, so we're converting 556 unused hotel rooms originally intended for first responders to serve these residents.
From the beginning of this pandemic, our goal has been to protect public health and keep our hospitals from being overrun, which is why we secured hotel rooms for frontline workers and others who need a place to quarantine. We need to be flexible when circumstances change.
We prepared for a surge that hit other cities throughout the world, but thankfully San Franciscans took the Stay Home order seriously from the beginning. But we're not out of the woods yet and we'll need to continue to adapt as this pandemic evolves.
Are these rooms for people who have gotten positive tests but don’t need hospital care? Sounds like a very important step in the right direction if so.
I hope so! This is an important piece of the contact tracing puzzle, quarantining those who are currently sick away from people who aren't sick.
I think we have been taught a valuable lesson:
essential workers' pay is not always - or, indeed, often - commensurate to the importance of the work they do.
@PheoSurgeon
Very true indeed.
556 rooms for the currently 80 total COVID patients in all major SF hospitals? 
Presumably for ones that don't need hospitalization, but don't have enough rooms at home to stay isolated from their family.
As a SF taxpayer and worse, property tax payer WTF is our money going towwrds funding alcohol, weed and tobacco for homeless in hotel rooms?? Disgusted. The city officials making these decisions are a farce @LondonBreedhttps://www.sfgate.com/news/editorspicks/article/San-Francisco-homeless-hotels-drugs-alcohol-15253297.php …
It’s counterintuitive, but the point is to keep infected people in quarantine. What’s the point of having people on hotels if they go out for what they deem to be essential items for them?
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