Business & Tech Juul Relocates Headquarters to D.C. A week after we learned of layoffs at Juul Labs that were set to slash nearly a third of the company's workforce, news arrives that Juul is officially moving its headquarters out of San Francisco to Washington, D.C.
SF News Researchers Find Now Dominant Strain of Coronavirus Is More Contagious, Came From Europe Mutation While experts have largely agreed that the introduction of SARS-CoV-2 on the West Coast likely came from China, the strain that is gaining dominance in parts of the U.S. and elsewhere in the world appears to be a more contagious one that mutated as it spread in Italy.
SF News Vallejo Nursing Home Outbreak Infects Almost 100 People, and Counting More than half of positive COVID-19 cases in Solano County have been found in the city of Vallejo, and that proportion may rise after an outbreak has occurred at a 166-bed skilled nursing
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: 22-Year-Old Shot In Mission Dies From Wounds Doctors in the Bay Area are learning quickly how to treat COVID-19 patients and pivoting techniques, Uber is potentially looking to purchase Lime, and the young man who was caught in crossfire on 14th Street Friday succumbed to his wounds.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Two Trader Joe's Workers In SF Test Positive UC Hastings and a merchant association have filed suit against the city over conditions in the Tenderloin, Ghost Ship defendant Derick Almena has been released on bond, and Mayor London Breed is threatening to close Dolores Park if people don't stop crowding there.
SF News UCSF Finds 2 Percent of Residents and Workers In Mission With Active COVID-19 Infections, Half Show No Symptoms We now have the first data to come out of mass testing of Mission District residents and workers last week, and out of 4,160 people who were tested both for COVID-19 infections and for antibodies, just over 2 percent tested positive for an active infection.
Business & Tech Newsom Says Some Retail Businesses Can Reopen With Curbside Service Friday Bookstores, florists, and clothing stores are among the kinds of retail businesses that get to open in California later this week as part of a Phase 2 in a four-phased reopening of the economy.
SF News All Essential Workers Can Now Get Free COVID Testing Without Any Symptoms Anyone who has to leave their house to work in a grocery store, hardware store, pharmacy, restaurant, or now garden store or nursery can now go and get a free COVID-19 test at one of the city's two walk-up testing sites.
SF News Fire Chief: Civic Center Encampment Is Mostly Out-of-Town Homeless Who Heard They Could Get Free Hotel Rooms SF Fire Chief Jeanine Nicholson, whose paramedic teams often interact with the city's homeless population, says that three-quarters of the homeless people in a tent encampment that recently sprang up along one side of the Asian Art Museum are new arrivals from out of town.
Business & Tech Apple iOS Update To Include Fix For Face ID With Masks, New Contact-Tracing Software for COVID-19 The next iOS update for the iPhone is set to include new software being developed with Google that uses Bluetooth signals to help identify if you've been in close contact with someone who's tested positive for COVID-19.
SF News 22-Year-Old Mission Resident Fatally Shot In Crossfire Near 14th and Guerrero A 22-year-old Twitter employee walking home from Dolores Park on Friday evening was struck by a bullet, possibly in crossfire during a drive-by shooting, and is now hospitalized on life support.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Parks Once Again Crowded Over the Weekend A teenage boy was killed in a motorcycle accident in American Canyon, a stay-at-home order protest happened in Vacaville, and various businesses like garden stores are reopening this week.
SF Politics 32 Arrested at Sacramento Protest Against Sheltering Order; San Francisco Protest Remains Small New polling shows that 30 percent of Californians oppose stay-at-home orders while 70 percent are comfortable keeping this up — and predictably, Trump supporters are mostly in the former camp.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Most of SF's Billionaires Aren't Ponying Up for COVID Relief The California EDD is still having trouble processing applications for pandemic assistance, PG&E is purging three-quarters of its board, and rumors are swirling that Uber will move its headquarters to Dallas.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Newsom Promises Big Changes to Stay-At-Home Orders, Including Restaurants Governor Newsom is staring down protesters, law enforcement personnel, and sun worshipers in often-conservative Orange County today as he pledges that revised "Phase 2" sheltering orders are on their way early next week.
SF News Fast-Tracked Highway 101 Deck Replacement Project Nears Completion Two Months Early Remember the potential "car-mageddon" we all worried about on Highway 101 near Alemany Circle before the coronavirus pandemic upended our collective existence? Well, Caltrans wisely decided to get a head start on the deck-replacement project, and now it's just about finished!
SF Politics Large 'Reopen California' Protest Forms In Sacramento What appears to be several hundred if not 1,000 or more protesters have gathered outside the State House in Sacramento as part of a series of "Reopen California" protests happening today.
SF News UCSF Team Identifies 10 Existing Drugs and Compounds to Treat COVID-19 A team of researchers at the Quantitative Biosciences Institute at UCSF launched a fast-paced, all-nighter effort in late February to understand how the novel coronavirus functions, and to quickly identify existing drugs that could be used to stop it.
SF News San Francisco Will Test All Residents and Staff at Nursing Homes Under New Order Following outbreaks at two nursing facilities in SF, a health order to be issued next week will mandate the biweekly testing of every resident and staff member at the 21 skilled nursing and care facilities in the city.
SF Politics Protesters Stage 'Die-In' Over Homeless Hotel Issue Outside Mayor's Home A group of faith leaders and protesters from the Do No Harm Coalition staged a "die-in" outside of Mayor London Breed's Lower Haight apartment on Thursday evening, in order to put further pressure on the mayor to house the homeless in empty hotel rooms.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Antioch Planning Chair Stirs Controversy With COVID Comments Essential workers to protest today in recognition of May Day, Juul is having trouble off-loading that 29-story building it bought, and Joe Biden is flatly denying a sexual assault allegation from the 1990s.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Man Dumps Masks All Over I-880 A court dismissed Oakland's lawsuit against the Raiders and the NFL, Twitter's stock slumped today after a lackluster 1st quarter earnings report, and an SF sheriff's deputy shot someone's dog on mid-Market.
SF Politics Anti-Shelter-in-Place Protest Planned Around City Hall in SF on Friday A protest is being organized in San Francisco for Friday to demand the reopening of all of California, bringing the wave of "liberate" protests seen around the country into the heart of the city.
SF News Another Coughing Thief Arrested In Vallejo Much like two women allegedly tried to do in order to brazenly rob a Walgreens in San Francisco earlier this month, a woman is suspected of coughing in security guards' faces in order to evade capture and rob a Target store in Vallejo.
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco Distributes $1.5 Million in Grants to Artists and Arts Orgs; Another $250K Added to Fund Extending a lifeline to over 500 local artists and 65 arts organizations, the city of San Francisco just announced the distribution of $1.5 million in one-time grants from the SF Arts & Artists Relief Fund.
