Business & Tech Facebook Launches County-by-County Coronavirus Symptom Reporting Tool In an effort to help get ahead of potential hot spots, Facebook has partnered with Carnegie Mellon University to produce a county-by-county map of the U.S. showing the percent of the population reporting coronavirus symptoms.
SF News UCSF Study Will Give Free COVID-19 and Antibody Tests to Mission District Residents, Bolinas Residents Researchers at UCSF are conducting a study that will test nearly every resident in Bolinas as well as a group of 5,700 residents of the Mission District in San Francisco, to determine who has COVID-19, or who might have already had it and not known it.
SF News San Leandro Police Shoot and Kill Bat-Swinging Man in Walmart Police were called to the scene at a San Leandro Walmart on Sunday afternoon following reports of a robbery and found a man just inside the store entrance wielding a baseball bat.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: 51 Infected At Safeway Distribution Hub A total of 51 people have been infected at Safeway's massive distribution center in Tracy, a freight train derailed in Emeryville yesterday, and experts are questioning the conclusions of that Stanford anitbody prevalence study.
SF News Day Around the Bay: San Francisco To Require Face Masks as of Midnight SF will require facial coverings in public starting Saturday but not enforce the rule until next week, Kamala Harris said she'd "be honored" to be Biden's running mate, and UC Berkeley researchers are conducting a broad study of East Bay residents to track the asymptomatic spread of COVID-19.
SF News Large-Scale Antibody Test Suggests As Many As 80,000 Santa Clara County Residents Have Already Had COVID-19 Preliminary results of a large-scale antibody testing effort by Stanford researchers show that the vast majority of COVID-19 cases in Santa Clara County have likely gone uncounted.
SF News The Next Clusters of COVID-19 Cases Will Probably Be Among Right-Wing Protesters Who Hate Sheltering Orders Hardcore Trump supporters, rural Republicans, and right-wing activists who enjoy bringing assault weapons to their demonstrations seem destined to be the next demographics to seal their own fates with this pandemic as protests against social-distancing orders ramp up.
SF News Study: COVID-19 Most Contagious Before Symptoms Appear A study published this week that examined the cases of coronavirus patients in China during different points in their infections provides evidence that — as has been suspected — the virus is highly contagious in asymptomatic or presymptomatic people, moreso than after symptoms set in.
SF News Oakland Murder Suspect Killed By Police After Allegedly Leaving Beaten Woman On Roadside A police pursuit that began in Oakland ended Thursday night in Richmond with an officer-involved shooting that left a kidnapping and murder suspect dead.
SF News Marin and Contra Costa Counties Make Face Masks Mandatory; Sonoma Order Takes Effect Today Starting at midnight last night, it became illegal for anyone to be in a public space in Sonoma County without a facial covering. And now starting on Wednesday, a similar order is taking effect in both Marin and Contra Costa counties.
SF News BART's Morning Rush Hour Is Now 5:30 to 7 a.m., Because Nurses The only people riding BART these days, for the most part, are essential workers like grocery store clerks and healthcare personnel, and they go to work earlier than most of us.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: A Second Remdesivir Trial Shows Promise Oakland police warn that the new 'Slow Streets' program could encourage more sideshows, Marin County residents complain about PG&E maintenance shutoffs, and China has revised its COVID death toll by 50 percent.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Outbreak At Safeway Distribution Center Kills One Nancy Pelosi will be put to the test in negotiating more stimulus funds, a team at UCSF is now using CRISPR technology to make a next-generation coronavirus test, and an outbreak of COVID-19 and one worker death at a Safeway facility in Tracy could lead to supply-chain issues.
SF News An Inmate at SF County Jail Has Tested Positive For COVID-19 San Francisco Public Defender Mano Raju is calling on the Sheriff's Department to release "as many individuals from the jail as possible" after an inmate at SF County Jail has turned up COVID-positive.
Arts & Entertainment After Eight-Year Hiatus, Gnome Paintings Return to Oakland With COVID Themes New gnomes are now appearing with coronavirus themes, attached to Oakland utility poles, seemingly by a new artist hoping to amuse their Oakland neighbors and inspired by another artist who did a series of these in 2012.
SF News PG&E Shuts Off Power to Orinda and Danville to Do Scheduled Maintenance; Homebound Residents Are Pissed When all we have to amuse ourselves with right now besides 2000-piece puzzles are television and the internet, it seems sorely unfair that PG&E is pushing ahead with power shutoffs during shelter-in-place orders.
Business & Tech If You're Near the Bay Today You Can Watch One of the World's Largest Cargo Ships Carefully Steer Into Port Anyone near the Golden Gate, Embarcadero, Treasure Island, or the Port of Oakland is going to get a bit of a low-key show today as one of the world's most massive container ships is arriving at the Port of Oakland.
SF News San Francisco Recorded Only Six New COVID-19 Cases Today, But a Surge May Still Be Coming There are both encouraging and concerning data points coming from the SF Department of Public Health on Thursday, with one of the former being the lowest one-day uptick in confirmed COVID-19 cases in the city in weeks.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Asthma Not As Great a Risk for COVID as Thought Three men were injured in a drive-by shooting in Richmond, SF's city attorney discusses the commandeering of private buildings, and data shows that black Californians are dying of COVID-19 at a disproportionate rate.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Alameda DA to Investigate Hayward Nursing Home Gov. Newsom announced a new fund to provide pandemic relief payments to undocumented people, Ayesha Curry is being sued, and the Alameda County DA's office is investigating the Hayward nursing home where now 13 elderly residents have died of COVID-19.
Bay Area Sports 49ers Pledge To Raise $100 Million For Pandemic-Related Hunger Through Online 'All-In Challenge' The 49ers head office took to Instagram Wednesday to announce that they're auctioning off travel packages to fly to an away game with the team, have dinner with York and Lynch, and go down to the field with Shanahan and take photos with the players.
SF News Sonoma, L.A., and New York Are Mandating Face Masks — Why Doesn't SF? If Laredo, Texas is already fining people for not wearing facial coverings in public, why isn't San Francisco doing this?
SF Politics Thomas Keller, Tim Cook, Elon Musk, and Mark Zuckerberg Named to President Trump's 'Opening the Country' Council As President Trump persists in treating this pandemic as a PR and political crisis more than a health crisis, he announced on Tuesday that he's establishing a "council" of around 200 business leaders from around the country to help "advise" the White House as the U.S. attempts to "reopen."
SF News SF to Expand Contact-Tracing, Add New Drive-Thru and Walk-Up COVID Testing Site Taking a cue from South Korea as San Francisco looks ahead to easing stay-at-home orders, the city is launching a new, aggressive contact-tracing program for every new COVID-positive case in the city limits.
SF News As Grand Princess Idles Near Tijuana, Celebrity Cruises Crew Member Files Class-Action Suit There are currently around 80,000 cruise ship workers stranded aboard 100 vessels that have no passengers and that, in many cases, have been denied entry to most ports around the world.
