SF News Day Around the Bay: Transamerica Pyramid Beacon To Light Up For Healthcare Workers The Moscone Center homeless shelter will pivot to become smaller, BART is decreasing weekday service further to every 30 minutes, and a North Bay congressman has come to the defense of the Santa Rosa-born Navy captain who's been dismissed for publicizing the COVID situation on his aircraft carrier.
Arts & Entertainment This Is Giving Me Life Today: Original ‘Hamilton’ Cast Members Zoom-Bomb Nine-Year-Old Fan For Her Birthday Since Zoom-bombing is all the rage, actor John Krasinski decided to use the privacy-invading fad to surprise one nine-year-old girl who had a disappointing birthday last week and missed her chance to see Hamilton in her hometown of Jacksonville, Florida.
SF News Orinda Nursing Home Now Has 49 COVID Cases; Laguna Honda Has 16 A nursing facility in Orinda has become the latest hot spot for COVID-19 cases, with a total of 27 residents and 22 staffers now having tested positive. The Orinda Care Center first made headlines Friday when a total of 27 people — 24 residents and three staffers — turned up positive.
SF News 14 Percent Of San Francisco's 583 COVID-19 Cases Are Hospitalized — Around 7 Percent In ICU For the first time on Monday, San Francisco's Department of Public Health released some extra data on the current hospitalized population of coronavirus cases in the city — something that other Bay Area counties have been doing for weeks.
Arts & Entertainment Video: Two San Jose Nurses Perform Celine Dion's 'The Prayer' Before Their Shift Over the weekend, a pair of nurses at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center in San Jose posted a video to Facebook of them performing "The Prayer" before starting their latest shift amid a pandemic.
SF Politics SF Turns Moscone Center and Palace of Fine Arts Into Homeless Shelters; Supes Decry Subpar Conditions The Moscone Center and the Palace of Fine Arts have been transformed into ersatz homeless shelters with bed mats on the floor and minimal social distance. After some photos came out of the grim Moscone setup, several supervisors are making more noise about the potentially unsafe situation.
SF News Muni Bus Service Gets Majorly Curtailed; Riders Told To Expect Little Service Monday and Tuesday The SFMTA sent out an alert late Sunday telling all those who are still commuting by bus and anyone needing bus transportation to expect major delays Monday and Tuesday due to staffing shortages. And starting Wednesday, the entire system will be reduced to just 17 core lines.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Three Injured In I-580 Freeway Shooting The Santa Clara Convention Center has been turned into a recovery space for previously hospitalized COVID-19 patients, SF's inmate population is down by half since late January, a tiger at the Bronx Zoo apparently caught the virus from a human caretaker.
Arts & Entertainment Day Around the Bay: Outside Lands Organizers Post Update A nursing home in Orinda has 27 positive COVID-19 cases, Governor Newsom says he's secured 7,000 hotel rooms for the homeless, and San Diego County is now issuing $1,000 fines to people violating stay-at-home orders.
Arts & Entertainment Support the SF and Oakland Zoos As They Weather the Pandemic Shutdown Like many other nonprofits and performance venues in the Bay Area, the San Francisco and Oakland Zoos are dealing with a sharp drop in revenue due to shelter-in-place orders.
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco To Applaud And Thank Healthcare Workers At 8PM Saturday Earlier calls for San Francisco to observe this nightly global ritual haven't taken hold — spread the word and make it happen for Saturday, April 4, and maybe every night thereafter.
SF Politics Mayor Breed: 'We Are Not Going To Solve Our Homeless Problem With This Crisis' While homeless advocates and several SF supervisors contend that the city is moving too slowly to get homeless people into shelters with adequate social distance, Mayor London Breed on Friday laid out some of the complications with giving every homeless person a hotel room.
Business & Tech SF Doctor Featured In Netflix Doc Says Possible COVID-19 Treatment Could Be Ready By September A local doctor known for his research into a universal flu vaccine says that his lab has a potential treatment in the works for COVID-19 using SARS antibodies. If all goes well, he says it could be ready for a public rollout by September — and it could also serve as a temporary vaccine as well.
SF News Filipino Cruise Ship Worker From Grand Princess Dies of COVID-19 In SF One of San Francisco's seven deaths to date from the coronavirus was a crew member on board the Grand Princess who was a citizen of the Philippines, and now fellow crew members and advocates are calling for transparency and care for the remaining quarantined crew.
Arts & Entertainment Salesforce Tower's LED Crown Honors Healthcare Workers With Clapping Hands Joining a worldwide, daily call for applause for the healthcare workers on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic, the top of Salesforce Tower was illuminated this week with a video of clapping hands.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Bay Area Counties Mum On Geographic Data LA County is broadcasting neighborhood-level virus data but we're not, Bay Area doctors and nurses are racing to draw up wills, and police are investigating a homicide near Oakland's City Hall.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Democratic National Convention Moves to August SF police arrested a 54-year-old man connected to a string of Hayes Valley arsons, California is seriously lagging behind most of the country in its coronavirus testing backlog, and a new walk-up testing site has opened in SF General's parking lot.
Arts & Entertainment The Stud and Oasis Put Drag Shows Online SoMa queer nightclubs The Stud and Oasis are both doing shows, both live and recorded, that you can enjoy from home while also supporting these nightlife businesses in a time of crisis.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Alexander's Steakhouse Offers Prime Rib and Dry-Aged Steak Dinners For Pickup Among the pricy luxuries that those with means can still indulge in — while also supporting a local business — Alexander's Steakhouse in SoMa (and in the South Bay) is offering some family meal packages for pickup that could just brighten up your weekend.
SF News New Nonprofit Delivers Fresh Produce to SF Seniors — Including Retired Nurse Who Remembers AIDS Epidemic San Franciscans have been stepping up to help each other left and right in the first weeks of the COVID-19 epidemic, and one non-profit that just formed two weeks ago is collecting donated organic fruits and vegetables and delivering them to homebound seniors.
SF Politics San Francisco To Extend Interest-Free Loans To Small Businesses In Trouble During Pandemic The city of San Francisco is establishing a $10 million emergency relief fund that will extend interest-free loans of up to $50,000 to small businesses in crisis during the coronavirus shelter-in-place period.
SF News Video Shows Thief Breaking Into Outer Sunset Store; Owner Says She Still Won't Board It Up SFist co-founder and senior editor emeritus Eve Batey has a story to share with the SFist readership today about her shop getting broken into early Wednesday morning, how fast the SFPD response was, as well as Nest cam video of the bicycle-riding thief.
SF News Despite Social Distancing Success In Bay Area, We Still Have to Brace for Death Toll to Rise Even with mitigation measures like social distancing and sheltering at home, the grim numbers of daily dead are ticking up statewide and will continue to in the next few weeks, with one estimate seeing 5,000 per week at the peak.
SF News Thursday Morning Here We Are: Shooting On Nob Hill Gravely Injures One An emergency hospital is being set up in the Craneway Pavilion in Richmond, an Oakland woman describes her experience with COVID-19, and Russia is finally issuing a stay-at-home order as Putin disappears from sight.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Muni Buses Get Crowded After Trains Go Offline Sierra snowpack is at 53 percent of average after a very dry winter, Antioch police arrested an Arizona man after a three-city chase, and Muni buses and shuttles are looking too crowded for social distancing after the Metro trains were shut down.
