Jake Norrie

As COVID-19 continues to spread across the United States, Texas State students have adapted to learning from afar. One student is taking the term "far" to a whole new level. Bobcat Update's Jake Norrie traveled to San Francisco for spring break, and he's still there. Jake files this report from the West Coast.

The usual bustling streets of downtown San Francisco have gone silent as millions in the metropolitan area adhere to shelter-in-place orders. These orders, along with social-distancing guidelines, were implemented to help slow the spread of COVID-19. Being in such a hotspot for the virus hasn't been easy, San Francisco resident Joey Vaughan says routine things -- like going to the grocery store or getting prescriptions -- are some of the hardest tasks.

[SB]: (Joey Vaughan, Coping With COVID-19)

Hair-Club Area Manager Mary Neithercutt has a job that depends on person-to-person contact, so she definitely feels the impact of working remotely.

[SB]: (Mary Neithercutt, Workplace Challenges)

[Stand Up]: (Jake Norrie, Bobcat Update) What started out as a normal spring break trip to San Francisco, California turned into a near two-month "shelter in place" period. Now, cooped up inside an apartment with 3 others, we live day by day hoping these precautionary-measures pay off and I can eventually come back to the Lone Star State. For Bobcat Update I'm Jake Norrie.