SF News San Francisco Hotels Offer Up 8500 Rooms And Counting for Homeless, Healthcare Workers A total of 31 hotels in San Francisco have stepped up to offer 8,500 vacant rooms for lease by the city, and more may be getting under contract soon.
SF News As Bay Area Confirmed COVID-19 Cases Tops 1000, Santa Clara County Remains Epicenter The total number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the nine-county Bay Area stands at 990 as of noon on Tuesday, and we are more than likely going to cross the 1,000 threshold by evening.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Order From Your Favorite Restaurant Today For the 'Great American Takeout' Many restaurants have been forced to shut their doors indefinitely in San Francisco. For those restaurants that have stayed open to weather this storm as delivery- and takeout-only, today is a day to show solidarity and order from them.
SF News Tuesday Morning Headlines: Instacart To Hire 300,000 More Delivery People Hayward's drop-in testing site for COVID-19 was overwhelmed Monday, a Solano County judge finally suspended what was probably the state's last active trial, and San Francisco is closing its playgrounds amid virus concerns.
SF News Photos: Mission District and Haight-Ashbury Shops Boarded Up — With Notes of Solidarity in Tow Non-essential businesses still sit vacant throughout San Francisco amid the coronavirus crisis, with many now boarded up, as if expecting a hurricane. But between the long stretches of plywood canvassing window panes across the city, irrefutable signs of unity and hope prevail.
Arts & Entertainment This Is Giving Me Life Today: Drag Queens and Musical Theater Artists Performing From Their Living Rooms One obvious way our current shelter-in-place, pandemic crisis differs from those in other eras is how wildly connected we already were in virtual space before all this began.
Arts & Entertainment Breed Unveils $2.5 Million Arts Relief Fund, But Industry Faces $48 Million in Losses Mayor Breed’s Arts Relief Program will dole out $2.5 million, possibly more if outside donors step up, which is still just a drop in the hat amidst months of cancelled events.
Business & Tech Inundated With Requests For Experimental Coronavirus Drug, Gilead Halts Individual-Case Program As predicted several weeks ago, Bay Area-based Gilead is at the center of the international conversation — and domestic desperation — about potential treatments for the novel coronavirus.
SF News Asian Americans In SF and Elsewhere See New Wave Of Racist Attacks Stemming From Pandemic Many of us who lived through the post-9/11 months of 2001 were bracing for the inevitable ugliness of American racism to rear its head during the coronavirus crisis, and it has, only not just in America this time.
SF News San Francisco Offers Free 12-Hour Child Care For Healthcare Workers at 35 Rec & Parks Sites In a move that will hopefully make you love our fair city and its response to the coronavirus crisis, San Francisco is providing free child care for local healthcare workers in 12-hour shifts that reflect the shifts that nurses and doctors tend to work.
SF News Hayward Opens Bay Area's First Free Drop-In Testing Site for COVID-19 While testing sites have been getting established across the Bay Area over the last ten days, the city of Hayward has just opened what we believe is the first fully open, no-referral-required testing site that is free to the public.
SF News E-Scooter Companies Scoot, Lime, and Jump Halt Operations in SF; Spin Continues Running Scoot, Lime, and Jump are choosing to stop all operations in San Francisco over the COVID-19 pandemic. Of SF’s four e-scooter rental companies, only Ford Motor Company-owned Spin continues to run, promising to clean their scooters more often to provide "a safe ride."
SF News Governor Newsom: More Ventilators Coming, COVID-19 Testing Still Limited, and Eviction Ban Extended Governor Newsom held a live-streamed press conference Saturday to give an update on California's current response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The news included an increase in ventilator production, plans to make COVID-19 testing more available, and an extension to the ban on evictions.
SF News Confirmed COVID-19 Cases In San Francisco Rise to 105 San Francisco crossed the 100-person mark in the count of coronavirus patients between Saturday and Sunday, marking the biggest single-day jump in this crisis to date in the city.
SF News Photos: Vendors at Ferry Plaza Farmers Market Sell Fresh Produce — From a Distance The Ferry Plaza Farmers Market today was a husk of its former self: sparse, somewhat silent, and eerily still. But San Franciscans still came out — albeit in smaller droves — to get their locally sourced produce, making sure to practice proper social distancing all the while.
SF News San Jose Police Expected to 'Strictly Enforce' Shelter-In-Place Order Starting Monday SF police have taken a more relaxed tone on ticketing people breaking the now Bay Area-wide shelter-in-place order; thus far, not a single citation for violating the mandate has been issued. San Jose law enforcement, however, has other plans beginning Monday.
SF News SFPD Has Issued Zero Citations to People Violating Shelter-In-Place Order Five days into the shelter-in-place order, San Francisco police have yet to cite a single person for violating the command, opting to educate the public about the order rather than issue tickets.
SF News UCSF Holds Virtual Town Hall On Pandemic Preparedness, Reveals Only Two Weeks' Supply of Masks and Gear Led by Chancellor Sam Hawgood and UCSF Health CEO Mark Laret, the online town hall meeting Friday afternoon — watched by more than 6,500 people — gave insights into how UCSF Health is making COVID-19 tests more available.
SF News Don't Hoard N95 Masks, But Surgical and Homemade Masks May Help If Your Roommate Is Coughing A pair of ER doctors on the front lines in Boston have been answering questions on Reddit and they say that while healthcare workers certainly need the masks more, regular people can protect themselves in other ways from the aerosolized virus.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Site Launches To Make It Easier To Support Local Restaurants Through Gift Cards; Nightclubs Look To Crowdfunding Instagram co-founder Mike Krieger and his wife Kaitlyn just launched a site that lets you see all the local restaurants that are selling gift cards to help them survive the current social-distancing lockdown.
Business & Tech San Francisco To Press Hotels Into Service For Healthcare Workers and Homeless The city of San Francisco is preparing for a surge in coronavirus cases, and is trying to protect both the homeless population and the families of healthcare workers through the use of currently empty hotel rooms.
SF News Santa Rita Jail in East Bay Releases 300 Inmates to Protect Against Virus Spread These are extraordinary times, and calls are going out nationwide to release low-level offenders from jails so that they are not unnecessarily exposed to the coronavirus.
SF News Workers at Still-Open, ‘Essential’ Businesses Face High Risk, Low Financial Reward The unsung heroes of the ongoing coronavirus crisis are the nurses, grocery clerks, and delivery drivers slogging through amidst angry customers and precarious conditions.
SF News Should SF Close Its Parks and Plazas to Encourage More Isolation? San Francisco got called out this week by CNN's Jake Tapper and Dr. Sanjay Gupta for allowing everyone to continue on their daily outdoor exercise routines and stroll along the Embarcadero during the city's shelter-in-place order.
Business & Tech EU Wants Netflix To Stop Streaming In HD to Keep Internet From Breaking Los Gatos-based Netflix and other streaming platforms are being urged by a European Union commissioner to temporarily stop streaming content in HD due to the unprecedented levels of internet usage occurring as multiple countries go on lockdown.
