SF News San Francisco and Five Other Bay Area Counties Announce Shelter-in-Place Extension Until June Health officers from seven Bay Area jurisdictions — six counties and the City of Berkeley — are collaborating on a joint extension of shelter-in-place orders to be announced later this week, extending current orders through the month of May.
SF News Santa Clara County Re-classifies Six Flu Deaths As COVID-19 Victims In addition to the three cases announced last week — including one woman who died at home on February 6 and whose case is so far the earliest known COVID-19 death in the U.S. — Santa Clara County's medical examiner has now found six additional post-mortem cases.
SF News Vallejo Planning Commissioner Tosses Cat During Zoom Conference, Resigns Always a source of the Bay Area's most unique headlines, Vallejo has produced another one this fine Monday morning.
SF News SFPD Finds Dead Body Inside Great Highway Apartment Building San Francisco police are investigating a possible homicide in an apartment unit on the 1600 block of Great Highway in the Outer Sunset.
SF News Monday Morning Catchup: High-Speed Chase From Sonoma Ends In SF A 24-year-old suspect was fatally shot in officer-involved shooting in Napa, Nancy Pelosi has issued her official endorsement of Joe Biden, and BART may start handing out free face masks for riders.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Shelter-in-Place Order Likely to Be Extended A pair of San Francisco women were charged for allegedly coughing in a Civic Center Walgreens in order to rob it, the city revealed that there are 113 confirmed COVID-19 cases in long-term care facilities, and Mayor London Breed foreshadowed sheltering orders extending to June.
SF News Four Men Arrested for a Pair of Sunday Robberies in San Francisco The SFPD says it has arrested and charged four suspects in connection with two robberies — one armed, and one involving an assault — in different neighborhoods in San Francisco on Sunday.
Arts & Entertainment Tony Bennett to Lead 'I Left My Heart In San Francisco' Singalong on Saturday On Saturday at noon, Tony Bennett will be attempting to get all of San Francisco to pop out of their windows and onto their balconies to sing along to the city anthem he made famous, "I Left My Heart in San Francisco."
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Despite Seemingly Booming Takeout Business, Cole Valley's Zazie Is Temporarily Closing In a microcosm of what is going on at San Francisco restaurants that remain open for delivery and takeout, beloved brunch spot Zazie in Cole Valley finds itself losing too much money every week to stay open during the pandemic lockdown.
Arts & Entertainment Presidio Closes Roads to Create 4.5-Mile 'Loop' for Nearby Residents The Presidio Trust just announced an experimental road closure that will create a continuous, 4.5-mile, vehicle-free paved trail for pedestrians and bicyclists where they can practice social distancing. But don't get any ideas about driving over there.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Outbreak Hits Oakland Nursing Facility Two people were arrested in Pacifica in connection with the fentanyl-related death of a Montara man last year, Marshawn Lynch was passing out free face masks, and three have died so far in a nursing home COVID outbreak in Oakland.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Second Infection Shuts Down Navigation Center Gilead's much talked about antiviral drug remdesivir had a setback in a Chinese study and the company's stock tumbled, four elderly residents at an SF nursing home have now died of COVID-19, and a BART board member says they need to start talking about cutting hours and possibly jobs.
SF News 57-Year-Old Bay Area Woman Who May Have Been the First U.S. Coronavirus Death Was Healthy, Only Sick a Few Days Details about the case we just learned about Wednesday, a posthumously tested San Jose woman who appears now to be the very first death from COVID-19 in the United States, are now coming in.
Bay Area Sports Two New York Baseball Fans File Suit Against MLB For Ticket Refunds; MLB the Show Premieres on TV The Major League Baseball season is officially still postponed, not canceled, so no one has talked about any refunds yet — and games still might get played to empty stadiums with ticketholders credited for next season.
SF News Bay Area Law Enforcement Pushes Back on Jail Release Orders Citing Re-Arrests and Repeat Offenders Officials at several Bay Area law enforcement agencies are bristling at the statewide emergency orders to lower jail populations during the COVID-19 pandemic, with at least one suggesting that releasing some suspects presents a greater public health threat than keeping them jailed.
SF News AIDS Walk San Francisco Moves Online Like many other events this year, the AIDS Walk can't go on as scheduled due to public health concerns and the ongoing pandemic. But unlike many other events, this one has its roots in another virus pandemic that shook San Francisco to its core.
SF News New Model Suggests San Francisco May Have Had 9,000 Coronavirus Infections By March 1 Another day, another potentially revised timeline in the U.S. chapter of this pandemic. The latest one comes from a Northeastern University estimate of how the coronavirus began spreading undetected in several major American cities in February.
SF News Thursday Morning What's New: Napa County Eases Distancing Rules A judge is rejecting a call by three SoCal churches to reopen, Marin's health officer says social distancing in the Bay Area may have saved 40,000 lives, and the CHP says it's seen an 87-percent jump in speeding tickets.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Extends Free COVID Testing To Uninsured Residents An eviction protection ordinance just passed in Contra Costa County, BART confirms $250M in stimulus funding, and Gilead's drug remdesivir continues to show promise as a COVID-19 treatment.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Dosa Is Pivoting to Ghost Kitchen Model, But Promises to Reopen Fillmore Restaurant Restaurateurs hated all delivery apps and ghost kitchens just a couple months ago, but now the ghost kitchen model may be looking better and better for restaurants trying to stay in business and expand their delivery footprint in the region.
SF News 20 Deaths In One Day: Bay Area May Be Hitting the COVID-19 Fatality Peak The number of hospitalizations associated with the coronavirus has been decreasing steadily in the Bay Area for a week, however that good news comes after the region counted its 200th confirmed death from the virus on Monday, and is now counting about 20 new deaths per day.
Arts & Entertainment Look For Shooting Stars Tonight In the Lyrid Meteor Shower If you're staying up until all hours during the pandemic, or if you're an early riser, you may have already caught some of the Lyrid meteor shower. But the first shooting star extravaganza of the spring is going on for another few days, and you may as well get some joy out of it.
SF News Study: Restaurant Outbreak In China Suggests Limits To Airborne Transmission of COVID-19 A recently released study by researchers in China, examining an outbreak of COVID-19 that occurred among some related and unrelated diners in a restaurant in Guangzhou in January, suggests that air conditioning in an enclosed space can help spread the coronavirus — but not to everyone in a room.
SF News Two Women and a Dog Die After Car Plunges Off Cliff in Potrero Hill One person was injured and two women and a dog were killed Tuesday evening after an SUV plummeted off of a 200-foot cliff in the Potrero Hill neighborhood.
SF News New Autopsies Show Community Transmission of the Coronavirus In Santa Clara County In January or Earlier A new piece has emerged in the incomplete puzzle of when and how the novel coronavirus, a.k.a. SARS-CoV-2, arrived in the U.S., and it is bound to shift how researchers and the Centers for Disease Control see their timelines for this pandemic.
