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As millions of Californians adjust to a surreal, new, locked-down existence — an existence in which Gov. Gavin Newsom said public schools are likely to be closed for the rest of the year — one place has continued to draw crowds: the local supermarket.

In the Bay Area, where “shelter in place” orders are keeping residents homebound except for “essential” trips, grocery stores, farmers’ markets and pharmacies are some of the only places people can go.

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In Los Angeles, Mayor Eric Garcetti stood with representatives of the grocery store industry in a video briefing on Monday aimed at reassuring Angelenos that the food supply is stable and urging us not to hoard things we don’t really need.

Dr. John Swartzberg, a professor of infectious diseases at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Public Health, told me packed supermarkets could be the “site of the greatest risk to having social distancing work.”