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‘Don’t go visit your mom’ on Mother’s Day, San Francisco health director says

A customer shops for flowers at the San Francisco Flower Mart on August 29, 2014 in San Francisco. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Sorry, mom.

The director of the San Francisco Department of Public Health told residents Wednesday not to visit their mothers on Mother’s Day, even if wearing masks and keeping six feet apart.


Unless residents live in the same households with their mothers, “The greatest gift we can give to our mothers this Mother’s Day is to stay away,” said Dr. Grant Colfax, who formerly worked in the Obama White House on HIV prevention. “Don’t go visit your mom in person this year.”

Colfax’s advice, shared by other public health experts, further muddles the picture of what Mother’s Day will look like Sunday in the Bay Area and beyond. Gov. Gavin Newsom said Monday that he may allow certain businesses, including flower shops, to reopen as early as Friday. 

Read the full story on LATimes.com.