Photo to illustrate story on Bay Area economy. (Photo by Damian Gadal/Flickr)

A barometer of the Bay Area economy is expected to wane in the spring from the effects of the coronavirus, but it is unclear what the recent widening spread of the virus will mean for the summer and fall.

“Up to now there has been little of any impact” at the Port of Oakland, which is an economic barometer for the Bay Area, port spokesman Mike Zampa said. But he said the latest data for the port is through only January.

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Keith Burbank is currently a fulltime reporter covering Alameda County and Oakland news for Bay City News. He has also worked on the Data Points project for Local News Matters, finding trends and stories about the region through data. In 2019, he was a California Fellow at the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism, producing a series about homeless deaths in Santa Clara County. He worked as a swing shift editor for the newswire for several years as well. Outside of journalism, Keith enjoys computer programming, math, economics and music.