Mayor London Breed is urging people to have hope after an extremely tough year.
Breed used her annual "State of the City" address to lay out how she believes San Francisco will bounce back after the coronavirus pandemic.
"You don’t really need me to tell you the state of our city," she said.
The mayor gave the speech virtually from the city’s emergency operations headquarters at the Moscone Center, soon to become the site of a mass vaccination clinic.
"We are anxious, we’re frustrated, we’re impatient and we are lonely," Breed said, adding we should also be hopeful and proud. "San Francisco’s response to COVID-19 has been hailed as a national model," she said. "We have the lowest death rate of any major city in the United States. Though every life lost is a tragedy, we have saved thousands of lives."
About 10 months ago, the Bay Area became the first in the country to shelter-in-place. Earlier this week, the state lifted its latest order.
Now, the city is slowly reopening.
But, Breed said, there’s much more to be done.
"Our city can’t fully recover until our students are supported and our schools are open. I will continue to do everything I can to help get our kids back in the classroom."
When that will happen is still unclear for a lot of them.
Read the full text of Breed's remarks here.
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