SF News We Have Hit One Million COVID-19 Deaths In the United States America remains the nation with the highest COVID-19 death toll in the world, and regrettably, this week, the country suffered its millionth COVID death.
SF News Eight African Countries Under 'Do Not Travel' Advisories Over Omicron Concerns With the holidays in full swing, which inevitably means a more active SFO, the State Department on Saturday put eight African countries on a "Do Not Travel" list for US citizen as concern grows over the Omicron variant.
SF News Mayor Breed Offers Up $62 Million More in Small Business Grants and Loans London Breed shook the tree at City Hall, and produced $50 million in loans and $12 million in grants for a very substantial small business COVID-19 economic relief package.
Bay Area Sports Update: Warriors Announce Seemingly Unwise Plan to Allow 9,000 Fans in Chase Center The Golden State Warriors do not even have a schedule for next season yet, but already announced plans to let fans into their arena at 50% capacity in a mere six weeks.
SF Politics Trump Rallies Caused 30,000 COVID-19 Cases, 700 Deaths, Stanford Study Finds Stanford researchers ran the numbers and linked Trump rallies to 700 deaths, with the depressing kicker that these were “not necessarily among attendees.”
SF News Solano County Patient Has COVID-19/Flu Co-Infection, ‘Twin-demic’ Fears Grow A handful of people in the country have contracted coronavirus and the flu simultaneously, one here in the Bay Area, and the double-whammy co-infection threat is real.
SF News Covidiot Files: Trumper Yoga Studio in Pacifica Advertising ‘Mask Free’ Classes The MAGA-yoga connection apparently exists, and a hot yoga studio could be in hot water for “mask free” classes flouting health restrictions.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Pelosi Signs On To $125 Billion Bill To Save Restaurants Nationwide In an interview that made news because Jim Cramer called her “Crazy Nancy,” Speaker Pelosi lent her support to a bipartisan $125 billion restaurant aid bill that senators hope to ram past Mitch McConnell.
SF News Newsom Enacts New Fire Shelter Strategies to Avoid COVID-19 Outbreaks We’re now feeling the full fury of coronavirus and wildfire crises happening at the same time, and the state is scrambling to make sure COVID outbreaks don’t hit thousands of shelter evacuees.
SF News SF Jury Trials Are Back Underway, With First Verdict Now Rendered You’re officially now at risk of being called in to jury duty again, as transparent masks, Zoom, and tiny jury pools have the wheels of justice turning once more.
SF News Breed Allocates Nearly Half a Billion Dollars to Fight COVID-19 In New Budget The mayor sets aside $446 million for coronavirus relief and services, but that’s contingent on no “second surge” of infections, and full reimbursement that the federal government has promised.
Bay Area Sports Stanford, Cal Football Players Threaten to Boycott College Football Season Over COVID-19 Concerns “Hundreds” of players from across the Pac-12 say they will not take the field unless college football cleans up its safety protocols and gives them health insurance.
SF News California Investigating Whether COVID-19 Disproportionately Affects LGBTQ Community The state will start reporting sexual orientation and gender identity in its COVID-19 counts, as LGBTQ activists suspect their community is particularly hard-hit.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Pfizer Gets $2B Vaccine Contract Twitter is booting all QAnon conspiracists off the platform, BART just gave out raises despite budget woes, and Pfizer just got a federal contract to produce 100 million doses of a coronavirus vaccine by the end of the year, pending approvals.
SF News Nationwide Retail Chains Make Masks Mandatory; Benioff Wants Unmasked People to Be Fined Walmart, Target, Starbucks, and a long list of other national chains are ignoring the culture war and requiring face coverings, and even Trump’s top toady at the CDC is now on the mandatory mask bandwagon.
SF News Pandemic Updates: East Bay Counties Rack Up Hundreds Of New Cases Cases continue to surge in Alameda and Contra Costa counties; the CDC is cowing to President Trump's anger over guidelines around the reopening of schools; and a new study out of the UK points to serious, lasting brain disorders in recovered COVID-19 patients.
SF News Hallelujah! Liquor Stores Can Resume Normal Hours Just As Bars Get Paused Your corner convenience store no longer has to close before sundown every night, as the 8 p.m. closure order has been quietly rescinded.
SF News UCSF Researchers Discover How Coronavirus Makes 'Zombies' Of Human Cells, Causes Them To Sprout Tentacles A new study by an international team led by UC San Francisco finds that cells infected with SARS-CoV-2 quickly begin to grow new arms or dendrites — referred to clinically as filopodia — which are themselves studded with fresh virus particles.
SF News Doctors Warn San Quentin COVID-19 Outbreak Could Affect the Whole Bay Area The Marin County prison is turning into “a catastrophic super spreader” according to a bombshell memo that explains how a bad situation is much worse than anyone realizes.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink San Francisco Will Open Outdoor Bars, Hair Salons, Tattoo Parlors on June 29 As presaged by that Board of Supervisors vote last week, and thanks to relatively low and stable COVID case growth and hospitalization rates, SF is moving ahead with some earlier-than-previously-announced opening dates for businesses.
SF News Contra Costa, Santa Clara County Health Officers Get Threats From Anti-Lockdown Lunatics Someone, or a group of someones, recently went to the home of Contra Costa County Public Health Officer Dr. Chris Farnitano and wrote on the sidewalk outside, "My body my choice" and, "Tyranny is not the answer."
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Yelp Adds a Little COVID-19 Widget to List Restaurants’ Safety Precautions The voluntary listing of precautions, like whether they provide hand sanitizer, is a new feature that restaurants can list on their Yelp page if they choose to.
SF News Inexpensive Steroid Is First Drug Proven to Reduce COVID Mortality Rates In the race to find effective treatments for COVID-19, a team at the University of Oxford has found that a low-cost — or as one BBC commentator put it "cheap-as-chips" — steroid called dexamethasone has proven to reduce deaths by a third among patients on ventilators.
SF News Pandemic Updates: Newsom Touts Low Statewide 'Percent-Positive' Figure Today in COVID-19 news around the Bay Area and the state, San Francisco recorded two new deaths over the weekend, the daily rate of new cases across the region has remained steady for a month, and Governor Newsom warns of upticks as the economy reopens.
SF News California's Surge in COVID-19 Cases Linked to Increased Testing, CHHS Secretary Says As we slowly transition back to a point of pre-coronavirus normalcy, counties across the state are seeing swells in COVID-19 cases. However, a California Health and Human Services (CHHS) official claims these spikes are because of increased testing — and not due to businesses reopening.
