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.
SF News Humpday Headlines: A Double Murder-Suicide In Vallejo An arrest was made in the December theft of an SF woman's dog outside a grocery store, PG&E CEO Bill Johnson says he's retiring, and that standoff at Glide ended last night around midnight with the suspect safely taken into custody.
SF News Day Around the Bay: San Mateo County Orders Non-Residents Off Its Beaches Netflix has picked up 16 million new global subscribers, the LA antibody prevalence study suggests even more people have had COVID-19, and San Mateo County authorities questioned hundreds of people on beaches if they had traveled more than 5 miles to get there.
SF News SF Woman Reunited With Dognapped Dog After Four Months A San Francisco woman whose five-year-old miniature Australian shepherd Jackson was taken from outside a grocery store in Bernal Heights in December is being reunited with the pooch after he turned up in a Los Angeles shelter.
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing: Tenderloin Museum and the Roxie Present 'Gay San Francisco' Online Screening Tuesday evening, the Tenderloin Museum is presenting a screening of an underground documentary, shot on 16mm film, that captures some of crazier and most rarely seen images from real-life queer San Francisco in the late 1960s.
SF News San Mateo County Authorities Arrest Suspect Believed Responsible for 53 Burglaries, Seize Cache of Guns A 20-year-old man was arrested in Modesto over the weekend in connection with over 50 residential burglaries in San Mateo County — and in the process authorities seized eight semi-automatic rifles, three shotguns, a bulletproof vest, two handguns, and several allegedly stolen items.
SF News Knife-Wielding Man Reportedly Barricaded In Glide Memorial Church After Police Shoot At Him An SFPD officer reportedly shot at a suspect wielding a knife on Ellis Street in the Tenderloin early Tuesday morning, and the suspect remained barricaded in a building — apparently Glide Memorial Church — as of Tuesday afternoon.
SF News Weather Report: Balmy Weather Will Tempt the Housebound Outside This Week It's hard being stuck in a San Francisco apartment for this many weeks, leaving only to get groceries or booze as few times as possible. It's made a lot of non-dog-owners a little jealous that those with dogs have a natural excuse to walk around a few times a day.
SF News 67 People Test Positive for COVID-19 At Senior Facility In Western Addition While a coronavirus outbreak at San Francisco's Laguna Honda Hospital appears to have been contained, a separate outbreak has taken hold at another senior care facility near Japantown in the Western Addition where 39 residents have been infected.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Newsom Warns Against Complacency Thrift stores are seeing a spate of donation-dumping as everyone empties their closets, Chinatown SROs are too densely populated for social distancing, and PG&E's bankruptcy plan has gotten a boost from a judge.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF's Mission District and SoMa Have High COVID-19 Rates Muni will restore the 5-Fulton and several other bus routes next week, protesters of stay-at-home order descended on Sacramento today sans masks, and the Mission, Dogpatch, Bayview, and SoMa appear to be San Francisco's hotspots for COVID-19 so far.
SF News Laid-Off Alioto's Restaurant Server Turned Uber Eats Driver Has Car Stolen In the Mission Yusuf Soylemez had only been driving for Uber Eats for about 10 days, trying to make ends meet after getting laid off from his job at a popular Fisherman's Wharf restaurant. And on Friday afternoon he had left his car idling when it got stolen on Mission Street.
SF News SFPD Patrols Dolores Park, Tells Sunbathers and Picnickers To Spread Out A sunny Sunday in San Francisco would typically have drawn 10,000 or so people to the outdoor party of Dolores Park. But on April 19, one of the warmest days so far this spring, the scene was relatively mellow but nonetheless dotted with small gatherings and sunbathers.
