I spoke with SF Mayor London Breed about how she was alerted to the coronavirus at a time when it had not yet affected much of the rest of the country and how she acted swiftly to protect her city. “That was enough to sound the alarm for me,” Breed says. “Although we had no cases confirmed at time, we got out there and we were clear with the public, ‘It’s not whether or not we’re going to have a case. We are gonna have a case.’”