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Salon workers and worshippers urge Health Commission to ease limits on services

San Francisco Health Commission · August 18, 2020
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Multiple callers told the commission that prolonged closure of salons is causing severe economic hardship and asked for consistent rules for outdoor worship and churches; cosmetologists argued salons can operate safely with licensing and infection controls.

Several callers used the public-comment period to press the Health Commission to reconsider restrictions that keep hair salons and other cosmetology businesses closed while allowing other outdoor services to operate.

Noel Vandenberg, a San Francisco hairstylist, said his salon has been closed five months and called the…

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