Indeed, San Francisco has dramatically better Covid outcomes than almost all large US cities. The thing SF screwed up worst was opening indoor restaurants/bars

Indeed, San Francisco has dramatically better Covid outcomes than almost all large US cities. The thing SF screwed up worst was opening indoor restaurants/bars for a couple months in the Autumn, which alongside holiday gatherings/winter weather resulted in a more than 10x increase in cases during that time (thankfully starting from a very low baseline). I would guess that mistake is responsible for more than half of all Covid deaths in the city, as both before and after that period (after suitably offsetting the data by a couple weeks to account for delay between action and visible outcomes) case rates were steadily declining. SF also did a poor job, especially early on, at getting targeted testing and outreach to working class neighborhoods.