SF News One Kid May Have Exposed Up to 300 People to Measles at UC Davis Medical Center In Sacramento We probably have the anti-vaxxers to thank for this one, as a potential measles outbreak could be on the horizon in Sacramento after an unnamed child exposed as many as 300 people to the virus.
SF News Napa Natural Medicine Quack Who Sold Fake COVID-Fighting Pellets and Vaccination Cards Gets Three Years Juli Mazi, the non-MD naturopath who misled patients during the pandemic into believing that vaccines are "toxic" and she'd made her own natural pellet versions, has been sentenced to three years.
SF News Trial Underway for Guy Who Allegedly Threatened to Kill Scott Wiener Over Vaccine Legislation State Senator Scott Wiener introduced a bill that would allow teens to get vaccinated without parental consent; which led to an anti-vaxxer saying “expect a visit from me and my rifle,” which led to that fellow now being on trial on eight felony counts.
SF News Napa Quack Set to Be Sentenced In Case Involving Phony COVID Pills and Vax Cards, But First She Tried to Vacate Her Plea Napa-based naturopathic doctor Juli A. Mazi, the loon who was nabbed by the feds last year for prescribing bogus COVID-19 immunization pills and handing out fraudulent vaccination cards, just tried to vacate her plea agreement after firing her lawyers. But the judge wasn't having it.
SF News Naturopathic Quack In Napa Takes Plea In Federal Case Involving Fake Vaccine Cards and Fake Vaccine 'Pellets' A Napa-based naturopathic doctor took matters a little too far in her homeopathic advice to patients about COVID-19, both discouraging them from getting "toxic" vaccines and duping them into taking pellets she claimed would provide lifelong immunity from the virus.
SF Politics Anti-Vaxxers Bring Chaos to Healdsburg, Rallying Around Unvaccinated City Council Member A Healdsburg city council meeting turned into a mini-January 6 insurrection Monday, as anti-vaccine zealots stormed city hall and forced a council meeting onto Zoom.
SF Politics Butte County Town of Oroville Declares Itself a ‘Constitutional Republic’ in the Latest Anti-Vaccine Tantrum The city council of a small town north of Sacramento is making a big stink that they don’t have to follow vaccine mandates, though the mayor backing the measure admits the resolution “doesn’t change anything.”
SF News Op-Ed: We've Learned Nothing Since the 1918 Pandemic About Collective Duty The right wing has convinced itself that vaccine mandates are fascist, and because no one can agree on the same facts, America is going to stay trapped in this cycle of pandemic denial well into the next public health crisis.
SF News Anti-Vaxx Protest on Golden Gate Bridge Snarls Traffic, Leads to Five Injuries Two California Highway Patrol (CHP) officers and three Golden Gate Bridge workers were injured by a vehicle during a chaotic protest scene Thursday evening relating to vaccine mandates in the workplace.
Bay Area Sports Warriors Allow a Maskless, Unvaccinated Andrew Wiggins to Address Reporters In an atrocious lapse of judgement, the Golden State Warriors allowed the unvaccinated forward to address the media unmasked and indoors. Wiggins' comments promptly made the situation even worse.
Business & Tech Reddit Moderators Revolt Over Company’s Lax Misinformation Policy Some of the most popular subreddits on Reddit have “gone dark” this week in protest of the company’s hand-off policy with misinformation and anti-vaxxer online bullying, and Wednesday, Reddit did at least ban one of the worst offenders.
SF News Hugely Popular Anti-Vaxx Misinformation Website Is Just Some Lady in Piedmont Vaccine misinformation hotbed OpenVAERS is one of the leading sources of bad info about COVID vaccines on the internet, and an investigation finds that it’s run by some woman in the Oakland-surrounded suburb of Piedmont with too much time on her hands.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Anti-Vaxxers Storm Marin Meeting, Tear Off Masks The SFPD has arrested a San Bruno man in a Marina District shooting last week, anti-vaxxers stormed a public meeting with a congressman in Marin County, and Santa Clara County is imposing its first mandatory water restrictions in the drought.
SF News Mandatory Vaccination Advances Through California Legislature This year's measles outbreak led directly to California lawmakers proposing a change to state law that would all but eliminate the ability for parents to cite personal beliefs in keeping their kids from
SF News Robert Kennedy Jr. Speaks Out For Anti-Vaxxers In Sacramento Unfazed by this year's measles scare, anti-vaccination activist Robert Kennedy Jr. spoke at a screening of a film in Sacramento Tuesday night, at the Crest Theater, that continues to spread the misinformation that
SF News Adorable Marin County Boy With Leukemia Speaks Out In Support Of Vaccination Bill Speaking out at a small school district board meeting last night in Marin County, six-year-old Rhett Krawitt spoke out in favor of a statewide bill that would remove the "personal belief" exemption from
SF News New State Legislation Could Kill 'Opt-Out' Provision Of Vaccination Law, Save Lives As California suffers through the worst outbreak of the measles in 20 years, San Jose Mercury News reports that two state lawmakers plan to introduce legislation to close what many see as a
