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.
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.
