SF News Two Out Of Five COVID-Positive People May Be Asymptomatic Due to Other Coronaviruses In the Past The estimates have changed over time, but the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is now saying that some 40 percent of COVID-infected people will be asymptomatic or only mildly symptomatic. This is up from a CDC estimate of 25 percent back in April.
SF News A Legacy Of LGBTQ Activism and Medical Smarts Helped Spare San Francisco From the Worst of COVID A look back at the last 45 years of San Francisco's history yields several key moments that can be traced directly forward to the city's response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
SF News London Breed Says She's Celebrating Her Birthday On Zoom As SF Remains In COVID 'Red Zone' Family and friend gatherings, and birthday parties, remain some of the main points of COVID transmission according to San Francisco contact tracers. And thus Mayor London Breed says she'll be celebrating her birthday today in a socially distanced fashion.
SF Politics Former SF District Attorney Turned Senator Kamala Harris Picked As Biden's Running Mate Biden has announced Senator Kamala Harris as his running mate, putting a Bay Area native daughter in the national spotlight once again. And she is the first Black woman ever to join a major-party ticket — in addition to being the first person of Indian descent to join such a ticket in our country.
SF News Two Dead in Triple Stabbing/Suicide In Redwood City Three people were stabbed at a home in unincorporated Redwood City early Tuesday morning, with one of the victims dead, and the person suspected in the stabbing was found dead at the scene.
SF News That Neck Gaiter/Bandana Is Not Protecting Anyone From Your Droplets People wearing neck gaiters or bandanas as face coverings may be doing more harm than good if they are infected with the coronavirus, according to a new study on mask effectiveness.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Collision and Car Fire Leads To Bay Bridge Backup A list of speakers for the DNC is leading to new Biden VP speculation, small gym owners continue pleading with the city to reopen, and New Zealand's 102-streak of no new COVID cases has just ended.
SF News Day Around the Bay: UCSF Tests Two-Drug COVID Therapy They Hope Will Be 'Golden Ticket' Santa Clara County just added 740 COVID cases likely as a result of the state backlog, two Stanislaus County residents were arrested for an April murder in SF, and UCSF hopes that remdesivir and the anti-inflammatory interferon will be the "golden ticket" in treating COVID patients.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Belinda Leong and Manresa Alum John Paul Carmona Open Pac Heights French Spot Routier — for Takeout One of the city's most celebrated pastry chefs, Belinda Leong, has teamed up with a former coworker and fellow alum of the Manresa kitchen to open Routier, a full-service French restaurant nearly two years in the making.
Bay Area Sports Recent Berkeley Grad Collin Morikawa Takes PGA Championship Trophy In Surprise Win 23-year-old Collin Morikawa quickly took the lead on Sunday in the final round of the PGA Championship at San Francisco's Harding Park, just when it seemed like a crowded leaderboard was heading for a playoff.
SF News 75-Year-Old Man Receives Life-Threatening Injuries From Metal Bar Attack In Tenderloin A 75-year-old man was assaulted Friday morning in San Francisco and left with life-threatening injuries, and police say they have arrested a 34-year-old Oakland man in the attack.
Arts & Entertainment Bay Area Has-Beens Smash Mouth Perform at South Dakota Motorcycle Rally/Likely Super-Spreading Event You may have heard over the weekend that the South Dakota town of Sturgis was hosting its annual motorcycle rally and summer music festival despite a pandemic raging across the country. And San Jose-based Smash Mouth was there!
SF News San Quentin COVID Outbreak Claims the Life of 55-Year-Old Prison Guard The outbreak at San Quentin State Prison has claimed its first life among the prison staff, and it's San Jose native Sgt. Gilbert Polanco.
SF News Nextdoor Founder High-Tails It Out Of SF Putting Pac Heights Manse Up For $25M A co-founder of Nextdoor, the social platform that brought out the racism and pettiness you always knew was likely surrounding you among neighbors but now have proof of, has decided to leave San Francisco with his family to spend some time in Italy.
SF News Young Adults Now Represent Nearly Half Of All COVID Cases In SF, Over One-Third Of Cases In California Young adults in California between the ages of 18 and 40 appear to be the primary carriers and spreaders of the virus. And while they may require hospitalization in fewer numbers than older adults, they are far from immune from the serious symptoms.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: CA Public Health Official Resigns After Data Glitch State officials said someone would be held "accountable" for the major COVID data glitch, the school year begins today for kids in Oakland, and the SF Fire Department has very few COVID cases despite employees likely exposure to infected people.
SF News Death of Marin Real Estate Investor Reveals Allegedly Vast Ponzi Scheme A well known Republican donor and real estate mogul who attracted over 1,000 investors into what was allegedly a Ponzi scheme dating back decades died of a heart attack in May, leaving his ex-wife to sort out a major financial mess.
Arts & Entertainment Trailer Arrives For New Documentary About Robin Williams' Battle With Dementia Robin Williams' tragic suicide took the world by surprise in August 2014. Six years on, his widow wants the world to understand the nature of the disease that was tormenting him in his final months, via a documentary titled 'Robin's Wish.'
SF News Vallejo Seeks Change Of Venue And Gag Order For Civil Rights Case In Sean Monterrosa Shooting The city attorney in Vallejo is already seeking a change of venue and a gag order on the attorneys and plaintiffs involved in the civil rights lawsuit filed yesterday in federal court pertaining to the police shooting of Sean Monterrosa.
Arts & Entertainment Outside Lands Announces Inside Lands, a Virtual Festival Featuring 12 Years Of Great Performances As other festivals have done, Outside Lands will move online for a free, virtual event later this month called Inside Lands, featuring videos of past performances and interviews from the festival's last 12 years, all on Twitch.
Bay Area Sports Tiger Woods Overheard Hating on the SF Giants During PGA Championship Golf great Tiger Woods may have just lost some fans in the Bay Area, after he was overheard Thursday morning chatting with another player about how much he hates the San Francisco Giants.
SF Politics Former SF Medical Examiner's Staffer Involved In Adachi Autopsy Sues City Over His Firing A former employee of the SF Medical Examiner's Office claims he was fired after refusing to alter the autopsy report of late Public Defender Jeff Adachi at the request of the City Administrator. The city says that the allegations are "complete fiction."
SF News Outspoken San Mateo Health Officer Calls State's Watch-List Process 'Arbitrary' and 'Misdirected' Dr. Scott Morrow, who has the distinction of being the longest-serving county health officer in the state of California, has been mincing no words from the start of the pandemic. And this is no exception.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Zuckerberg Is Now a Centibillionaire California marks its 10,000 coronavirus death, a shooting in East Oakland claims one life, and Mark Zuckerberg is now worth over $100 billion.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Sonoma County Approves Fines For Mask Scofflaws Community organizations are scrambling to figure out where 18,000 newly released inmates might live, Uber lost $1.8 billion last quarter, and Laney College is featured on Netflix's 'Last Chance U.'
