SF News Update: Gov. Newsom Orders Orange County Beaches Closed, Not Whole State's May is one of the finest times of year in California, but Governor Gavin Newsom is scolding Southern California in particular for overcrowding its beaches — and now he says he will order Orange County to "hard close" all its beaches.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Man Charged With Trying to Push Woman In Front of BART Train A vote is looming for PG&E's settlement with wildfire victims, Santa Clara County just expunged thousands of marijuana convictions, and a 44-year-old Oakland man faces attempted murder charges after being seen pushing a woman in front of a BART train.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Salesforce Cancels Dreamforce The SFPD was reportedly enforcing a curfew at a Civic Center tent encampment, the name of the guy who barricaded himself in Glide last week has been released, and the city is reimbursing workers who have money tied up in medical savings accounts.
SF News If You Want a COVID-19 Test You Can Get One In SF — New Testing Sites Are Under Capacity During a Board of Supervisors hearing on Tuesday evening, a city health official said that San Francisco's testing sites have only been administering about 500 COVID-19 tests per day, when they have the combined capacity to do 5,800 tests per day.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tosca Cafe Offers Family Meals; Mister Jiu's Opens Drive-Thru 'Grocery' Over in North Beach and Chinatown, a couple of prominent restaurants have just joined the takeout and delivery game during this pandemic lockdown. Both Tosca and Mister Jiu's are doing full meals, cocktails, wine, and pantry items for takeout.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mission Bar Casements To Deliver Freshly Poured Guinness On Demand May 1st Inspired by a pub in Belfast, Ireland that has been delivering freshly-poured pints of Guinness to customers stuck in their homes, new Mission Irish bar Casements is doing something similar on Friday, May 1 — but it's a one-time-only deal they say.
SF News Relaxed Shelter-In-Place Order Permits Some Outdoor Activities and Businesses to Resume The revised shelter-in-place order that will be in effect from May 4 to May 31 for six Bay Area counties has been released, and it says that golf courses and tennis courts can reopen, among other things.
Business & Tech Lyft Is Laying Off Nearly 1,000 Workers, Furloughing 300 More Lyft just announced that it will lay off 17 percent of its workforce, or 982 people, in order to address losses that it faces due to pandemic lockdowns. And employees say they were mistakenly all sent an email earlier this week using an insensitive name for the cost-cutting project.
Business & Tech Results of First Federal Double-Blind Study of Remdesivir In COVID-19 Patients Shows Quicker Recoveries The results of a federal study of the use of remdesivir to treat severely ill COVID-19 patients were announced Wednesday, and shares of Bay Area-based Gilead Sciences were trending up as a result — as was the rest of the stock market.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Freeway Shooting At Bay Bridge Off-Ramp Kills One A freeway shooting last night on I-80 just past the Bay Bridge left one person dead, there was no sign of the coronavirus or its antibodies in Bolinas, and the SFMTA just voted to raise Muni fares.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Uber Headed For Major Layoff Nancy Pelosi is using a silk scarf for a face mask, Novato police are investigating a shooting between two cars, and a man in the Tenderloin was reportedly attacked with a machete last night.
SF News Gov. Newsom Suggests Four-Phased Reopening Of the State, Possibly With An Early School Year Governor Gavin Newsom on Tuesday said that for some parts of the state and some types of businesses, "we are weeks, not months away" from being able to open some things back up.
SF News CDC Is Now Telling People To Socially Distance Their Pets There is enough evidence that dogs and cats can get the coronavirus, and though it's not clear if they can spread it to people, the CDC is suggesting that they can at least potentially spread it to other pets in dog parks, etc.
SF News Sunset Homicide Victim's Severed Head Reportedly Found In Refrigerator; Case Might Be Linked to Daly City Shooting More details have emerged about a homicide case we heard about Monday, at an apartment on the Great Highway in San Francisco. And now it seems there is a link between this homicide and the crazed carjacking suspect who was fatally shot by police in Daly City on Easter Sunday.
SF News SF General Boasts Only One Death to Date After Treating 38 COVID-19 Patients In Intensive Care Of the 1,468 confirmed COVID-19 cases to date in San Francisco, it's not clear how many cases remain active — and city health officer Dr. Grant Colfax has said that hospitalization data is one of the best markers we have for how the city is tackling the coronavirus.
SF News Medical Lab Quest Diagnostics Announces First COVID-19 Antibody Tests For Consumer Sale Quest Diagnostics, the commercial lab company with 2,200 patient service sites around the country, just announced that it is selling on-demand COVID-19 antibody tests for anyone who wants one — and who is no longer symptomatic.
Bay Area Sports Giants and A's Ticketholders May Be Getting Refunds Shortly Major League Baseball told its 30 teams on Tuesday that they can start issuing refunds to fans who bought tickets for the 2020 season as they see fit.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Sonoma County To Ease Some Restrictions IRS employees are being told to make their own masks and come back to the office, SF restaurants worry that employees are making more on unemployment than they would if they returned to work, and a suspicious package shut down the Ashby BART station this a.m.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Breed Apologizes For FEMA Comments SF may lease the Art Institute's Fort Mason campus for COVID housing, the death of a San Jose woman in early February was caused by a coronavirus infection in her heart, and the California state bar exam is being delayed until September.
SF News History Lesson: SF Had an Anti-Mask League During the 1918 Flu Pandemic Who Rallied Against Face Masks It turns out that, a century ago, San Francisco was home to a movement akin to the "liberate" protests that have been going on around the country, in which city residents formed an Anti-Mask League as the 1918 influenza pandemic extended into January 1919.
Business & Tech For Pandemic Safety, Airbnb Launches New Cleaning Protocol and 3-Day Buffer Rule Between Guests Airbnb just announced a new set of standardized cleaning protocols for its hosts, and instituted a new rule that mandates 72 hours in between checkout of one guest and check-in for another if strict cleaning rules are not adhered to.
SF News Alleged Drug Dealer Arrested in the Tenderloin For Violating Shelter-in-Place Orders, Selling Drugs A 20-year-old Oakland man was arrested by SFPD officers on Saturday night both for violating local sheltering orders and for being in possession of a bunch of drugs for sale.
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.
