SF News [Update] BART Says Hold Up, You Still Need to Wear Masks, Then Reverses Following that federal judge's ruling on Monday that abruptly ended mask mandates on planes and public transit, BART reportedly told its police not to enforce mask-wearing on Tuesday. But now, they've issued a statement similar to the SFMTA's saying masks are still required, for now.
SF News Three Bay Area Counties Now In CDC's 'Moderate' Tier for COVID Transmission; California Now Only State In That Tier California has returned to the CDC's yellow or "moderate" tier for COVID transmission after a brief return to the orange zone, and now it's the only state in yellow status this week.
SF News One Unvaccinated Teacher In Marin School Seeded COVID Outbreak That Infected Over a Dozen Students, Their Siblings, and Parents The CDC has just released a study focused on how one unvaccinated teacher infected with the Delta variant of COVID-19, in a mostly masked Marin County classroom, managed to infect half their students and seeded an outbreak that hit another classroom and students' families as well.
SF News CDC Updates Mask Rules for the Vaccinated; San Francisco Rules TBA On Tuesday the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) updated its guidance on wearing face masks outdoors, and on the rules for the fully vaccinated — essentially endorsing what many of us have already been doing after our second shots.
SF News Entire Bay Area May Be In 'Orange' Tier Within a Week As CDC Director Warns of 'Impending Doom' The trends continue in a positive direction for the Bay Area's COVID-19 cases, but the picture is not good at the national level and the director of the CDC says we may be looking at a major fourth wave in the coming weeks.
SF News CDC Director: 25 Percent of Infected People May Be Asymptomatic Experts are increasingly acknowledging that the rapid global spread of the coronavirus is due to how easily it's transmitted by those who show no symptoms — and yes it could be through exhaling.
SF News Beards May Get Less Fashionable After CDC Warning Beware, all beardy bros and hirsute daddies! An odd but relevant CDC guide has been making the rounds as the agency prepares the nation for deep coronavirus pandemic panic, and it says your beards have to go.
SF News Costa Mesa Says 'No' To Coronavirus Patients, Objecting To Local Quarantine Facility The City of Costa Mesa, like the coronavirus itself, has done something novel: issued a restraining order against COVID-19 infectees from entering the SoCal metropolis.
SF News Pregnant Woman In Napa County Tests Positive For Zika Virus A pregnant Napa woman has tested positive for the Zika virus. KQED reports that the Napa County Public Health Division and the California Department of Public Health confirmed the case to the public,
SF News Your Flu Shot Might Not Work This Year (But You Should Still Get One) It's the time of year when you can't go to the grocery store, drug store, or even Target without someone nagging you to get your annual flu shot. But this year, doctors are
SF News Dallas Ebola Patient Has Died, Health Care Futurist Recommends 'Dedicated' Mortuaries For Victims According to health care futurist Wanda Jones, head of the San Francisco-based New Century Healthcare Institute, "no one expects a flood of Ebola patients in the United States." But with the news that
SF News Rabid Skunks Menace Northern California Dogs When you think about rabid animals infecting dogs, you probably think of Old Yeller (bitten by a rabid wolf) or Cujo (bat bite). But now Northern California dog guardians are being warned of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Your Excessive Drinking Habit Is Costing California Billions We already know San Francisco is a town full of drunks (we were named the 18th drunkest city in an least one click-bait-y survey earlier this year), but our collective drinking habit might
SF News CDC Hits Twitter For Swine Flu Updates In case you can't get enough swine flu information, be sure to follow the Centers for Disease Control's Twitter accounts. CNET has the scoop: "@CDCemergency... is posting new recommendations, bulletins on confirmed cases,
SF News Swine Flu Map View H1N1 Swine Flu in a larger map Adding to the paranoia that is Swine Flu Tracker 2009, here's a handy map that shows reported cases of the flu throughout the U.S.
SF News Sacramento Co. May Have Swine Flu Case Now that swine flu hysteria is taking root, Sacramento County may have uncovered a case of swine flu, according to the Sacramento County Health Officer Dr. Glennah Trochet. This would make it Northern
