This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate 4 Another tech conference pullout. Fewer cargo ships calling at ports. Chinese tourists staying away. The economic impacts of the coronavirus are starting to be felt across California, though right now they aren't slowing the economy at large. That could change, experts say, if the virus continues to spread. "A lot of it depends on how this situation starts to show an end game," said Robert Eyler, an economics professor at Sonoma State University and director of the school's Center for Regional Economic Analysis. If the COVID-19 virus morphs into a global pandemic, it could push the U.S. economy into recession and deliver a $1.1 trillion hit, according to Oxford Economics. In San Francisco, the effects are already apparent. On Friday, Verizon became the latest big-name company to pull out of a major cybersecurity conference at Moscone Center next week. AT&T and IBM already said they would not attend. San Francisco Mayor London Breed wrote a letter urging people planning to come to the RSA Conference — for which registration starts Saturday — to stay the course and not give in to "fears, rumors and misinformation." Other conferences have… Read full this story
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