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Board of Supervisors ratifies local health emergency to extend COVID-19 health orders
Summary
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted to ratify the Department of Public Health health officer's March 6 declaration of a local health emergency, extending authority for health orders beyond a seven-day automatic period to support the city's COVID-19 response.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors on March 10 voted to ratify the Department of Public Health (DPH) health officer's March 6 declaration of a local health emergency regarding COVID-19, a move supervisors said is necessary to allow the city's health officer to issue narrowly tailored public-health orders beyond the seven-day automatic emergency period.
DPH Health Officer Dr. Thomas Aragon told the board the local-health-emergency declaration is designed for urgent situations where immediate action is required and explained that the statute underlying the declaration grants narrowly defined public-health powers, typically limited to seven days unless renewed by the board. "When there is an immediate emergency, sometimes a health officer needs to declare a…
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