Business & Tech Inundated With Requests For Experimental Coronavirus Drug, Gilead Halts Individual-Case Program As predicted several weeks ago, Bay Area-based Gilead is at the center of the international conversation — and domestic desperation — about potential treatments for the novel coronavirus.
SF News Asian Americans In SF and Elsewhere See New Wave Of Racist Attacks Stemming From Pandemic Many of us who lived through the post-9/11 months of 2001 were bracing for the inevitable ugliness of American racism to rear its head during the coronavirus crisis, and it has, only not just in America this time.
SF News San Francisco Offers Free 12-Hour Child Care For Healthcare Workers at 35 Rec & Parks Sites In a move that will hopefully make you love our fair city and its response to the coronavirus crisis, San Francisco is providing free child care for local healthcare workers in 12-hour shifts that reflect the shifts that nurses and doctors tend to work.
Business & Tech PG&E Pleads Guilty In Camp Fire Manslaughter Case Brought By Butte County The latest development in the painfully slow bankruptcy clownshow of Pacific Gas & Electric is a proposed settlement in a case brought by the Butte County district attorney and county officials.
SF News Hayward Opens Bay Area's First Free Drop-In Testing Site for COVID-19 While testing sites have been getting established across the Bay Area over the last ten days, the city of Hayward has just opened what we believe is the first fully open, no-referral-required testing site that is free to the public.
SF News Monday Morning Updates: Napa County Records Its First Two Cases The Grand Princess passengers are starting to leave their quarantine at Travis AFB today, UCSF is accepting donations of N95 masks, and a healthy 26-year-old in New York describes her severe case of the coronavirus and hospitalization.
SF News Confirmed COVID-19 Cases In San Francisco Rise to 105 San Francisco crossed the 100-person mark in the count of coronavirus patients between Saturday and Sunday, marking the biggest single-day jump in this crisis to date in the city.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SoMa Nightclub Slim's To Close Permanently The first of what could be many nightclub deaths during this pandemic is Slim's on 11th Street, PG&E has agreed to potentially sell itself to the state, and Newsom has pulled all toll-takers off of Bay Area bridges.
SF News Don't Hoard N95 Masks, But Surgical and Homemade Masks May Help If Your Roommate Is Coughing A pair of ER doctors on the front lines in Boston have been answering questions on Reddit and they say that while healthcare workers certainly need the masks more, regular people can protect themselves in other ways from the aerosolized virus.
SF News A Police Chase-Related Crash Blocks Three Eastbound Lanes of the Bay Bridge A police chase following an apparent carjacking and a subsequent crash has led to three lanes being blocked on the Bay Bridge. And yes, there are actually quite a few people still trying to go back and forth across the Bay.
Arts & Entertainment Pixar's 'Onward' to Stream on Disney+ April 3, Download for Purchase Tonight The latest Disney-Pixar animated release, Onward, is one of dozens of scheduled Hollywood releases this spring that are getting impacted by the coronavirus pandemic. And in this case, Disney's decided to let it go straight to streaming.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Site Launches To Make It Easier To Support Local Restaurants Through Gift Cards; Nightclubs Look To Crowdfunding Instagram co-founder Mike Krieger and his wife Kaitlyn just launched a site that lets you see all the local restaurants that are selling gift cards to help them survive the current social-distancing lockdown.
Business & Tech San Francisco To Press Hotels Into Service For Healthcare Workers and Homeless The city of San Francisco is preparing for a surge in coronavirus cases, and is trying to protect both the homeless population and the families of healthcare workers through the use of currently empty hotel rooms.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Student Loan Payment Requirements Suspended President Trump announced that you can stop paying your student loans for now, Congress passed legislation making coronavirus testing free, and London Breed slammed Trump for his "Chinese virus" comments.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Prepares for Surge In New COVID-19 Cases Governor Gavin Newsom issued a statement saying 56 percent of California could be infected in 8 weeks without isolation measures, and he's seeking $1 billion in emergency aid to prepare for a surge in cases.
SF News Santa Rita Jail in East Bay Releases 300 Inmates to Protect Against Virus Spread These are extraordinary times, and calls are going out nationwide to release low-level offenders from jails so that they are not unnecessarily exposed to the coronavirus.
SF News 568 Grand Princess Passengers Refused COVID-19 Tests, at Government's Urging Now it looks like Mike Pence's promise to get every passenger from the Grand Princess cruise ship tested for the novel coronavirus has not been kept.
SF News Should SF Close Its Parks and Plazas to Encourage More Isolation? San Francisco got called out this week by CNN's Jake Tapper and Dr. Sanjay Gupta for allowing everyone to continue on their daily outdoor exercise routines and stroll along the Embarcadero during the city's shelter-in-place order.
Business & Tech EU Wants Netflix To Stop Streaming In HD to Keep Internet From Breaking Los Gatos-based Netflix and other streaming platforms are being urged by a European Union commissioner to temporarily stop streaming content in HD due to the unprecedented levels of internet usage occurring as multiple countries go on lockdown.
Arts & Entertainment Muttville Encourages San Franciscans to Adopt a Senior Dog While In Isolation Muttville Senior Dog Rescue has had to put 84 dogs into foster homes this week as it temporarily shuts down its adoption events and Alabama Street headquarters, and founder Sherri Franklin is foster 12 dogs at her own home.
SF News Thursday Morning Headlines: Virus Infects Three at Burlingame Nursing Home The State Department is about to tell all Americans abroad to come home, Tesla has cut its workforce in Fremont by 75 percent, and Tulsi Gabbard has finally dropped out of the presidential race.
SF News Day Around the Bay: London Breed Tells CNN 'People Are Making Adjustments' Golden Gate Bridge tolls plummet and bridge officials now want emergency funding, Newsom offers $150M in emergency funding to protect the homeless, and London Breed pushed back on Jake Tapper's calling out of San Francisco for not isolating ourselves enough.
SF News Why Is Solano County Not Sheltering In Place? The County Health Officer Says It's Not Necessary The one holdout after eight Bay Area counties have issued similar orders, the Solano County health officer, Dr. Bela Matyas, is taking a less prescriptive approach.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Locanda Likely Closing For Good, Delfina Hopes to Reopen While Pizzerias Pivot to Delivery In the first of what could be many eulogies for Bay Area restaurants, the owners of the Delfina Restaurant Group say they have laid off many of their 300 employees and they've likely shuttered Locanda for good.
Arts & Entertainment BottleRock Rescheduled For October; Napa County Issues Shelter-In-Place Order Napa County has issued its own shelter-in-place order for residents, despite there not yet being a confirmed case of COVID-19 in the county. And as of Wednesday, we're learning that BottleRock is being rescheduled to October, to the week before Coachella.
