As six Bay Area counties ask residents to shelter in place to prevent spreading COVID-19, only essential businesses are staying open while all other businesses have been ordered to close. Below is ...

Shelter-In-Place Rules. In the affected California counties, all non-essential travel was banned and people are being told to work from home or stop working unless they provide an "essential ...

When shelter-in-place orders went into effect in California, human activity ground to a halt. ... Graphic by Aclima. Shipping accounts for air quality problems in some parts of the Bay Area — ...

The basics of a “shelter-in-place” order during the coronavirus pandemic are fairly clear: Stay at home. That order, though, has plenty of exemptions for “essential” activities. And it is ...

Shelter-in-place explained: What can you do during it and how is it different to stay at home order? With greater measures coming into force, there is confusion surrounding the term.

A shelter-in-place order sounds alarming, but it’s not a full quarantine. It is still mandatory, though; San Francisco has declared it a misdemeanor to not follow the order.

Many states in the U.S. have issued shelter in place or stay at home orders. A lockdown is a much stricter order, which could involve not being able to leave a certain area or having a curfew.

But we don’t get “shelter in place” until the ’70s, in connection with evacuation plans, like Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld’s use in a 1976 “defense posture” report.

Seven California counties have enacted shelter in place orders to help stem the spread of COVID-19 — and now New York City might do the same.