Arts & Entertainment Woman Documenting Grand Princess Cruise on Twitter Tweets Videos of Grandmother Dancing, Singing in Quarantine A 23-year-old Bay Area woman and her grandparents have finally, happily, arrived back on land, and they're doing a lot of singing and dancing about it on Twitter.
SF News Berkeley Officials Claim No Community Spread Yet, But Virus Leaves Cal Campus Deserted UC Berkeley this week called off all in-person classes until the end of spring break on March 29, meaning that professors were lecturing in empty lecture halls in front of web chat screens Tuesday and Wednesday.
Business & Tech Gig Workers Uniquely Vulnerable to Coronavirus, No Employee Protections in Place Many on-demand delivery companies are cleaning up as the shut-in economy surges, but the rideshare industry is taking a hit, and gig workers are forced to put in extra work under high-risk conditions.
SF News No New COVID-19 Cases In SF As WHO Declares It a Pandemic Noon came and went on Wednesday without a change in the number of confirmed coronavirus cases from the San Francisco Department of Public Health. This should cautiously be seen as good news?
SF Politics Supervisors and Mayor Breed Work On Mitigating Economic Impacts From Virus San Francisco's Board of Supervisors have proposed a package of legislation that is aimed at helping workers, renters, and small businesses who may be affected by the economic downturn linked to the coronavirus epidemic.
SF News SF Bans All Large Gatherings and Warriors Games; Cruise Crew With Coronavirus Have No More Symptoms Mayor London Breed is said to be issuing an order today that will ban all large gatherings of 1,000 people or more in San Francisco for at least the next two weeks — including Warriors games.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink South Park Cafe Closed After Employee Tests Positive for Coronavirus South Park Cafe, the popular techie hub and South Park lunch spot that just reopened last summer thanks to credit card startup Brex, has closed following a positive COVID-19 test in an employee.
SF News San Francisco Confirms One New Virus Case; UCSF and Stanford To Boost Testing After 11 new cases were reported in just two days, it's a relief that the SF Department of Public Health only added a single new confirmed case of COVID-19 on Tuesday. The total number of cases in city residents stands at 14 as of noon.
Bay Area Sports Santa Clara County Bans Events Over 1,000 People, Including Sharks Games After the county marked its first death from the coronavirus on Monday, Santa Clara health officials announced that all "mass gatherings" of 1,000 or more people would be banned for the next three weeks, at a minimum.
Business & Tech United Is Now Disinfecting All Tray Tables, Not Letting Passengers Reach For Their Own Water Cup United Airlines announced in a note to frequent travelers Monday that it is ramping up and changing its cleaning and inflight service procedures to address the coronavirus outbreak — and encourage more people to get on planes, which, good luck.
SF News San Francisco's COVID-19 Case Total Hits 13; Will SF Get Locked Down? Federal, state, and local officials have been avoiding talking about lockdowns in any American city, and a lockdown here is likely not going to look like the lockdown in Wuhan, but what could it look like?
SF News Here's What Muni Looked Like at 8:30 AM Monday Morning As coronavirus panic truly takes hold in San Francisco this week and tens of thousands of downtown office workers are telecommuting, the Muni Metro was near empty during the prime time of 8:30 this morning.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chef Jose Andres's Nonprofit to Provide Meals For Docked Cruise Ship Andres is cementing his reputation for responding to national disasters, tweeting that his nonprofit World Central Kitchen arrived Sunday evening to prepare and deliver food to the passengers on board the Grand Princess cruise ship after it docks at the Port of Oakland today.
SF News SF Halts 'Non-Essential' Public Gatherings at City Facilities; 6 New Cases of Coronavirus Reported The San Francisco Department of Public Health (SFDPH) announced six more cases of COVID-19 Saturday, bringing the total number of infections in the city to eight. Also, as a means to hinder the advance of coronavirus, SF has blocked all "non-essential" public gatherings at "city-owned facilities."
SF News Grand Princess Cruise Ship to Dock at Port of Oakland Tomorrow In an oceanic game of musical chairs, the coronavirus-stricken cruise ship will now dock at the Port of Oakland on Monday, allowing 3,000-plus souls to touchdown on firm ground — before being shuttled off to various health care facilities for mandatory quarantine and appropriate medical treatment.
SF News Sunday Streets, St. Patrick's Day Parade Called Off as Coronavirus Worries Snowball Cancel culture is taking on a new connotation as popular events — like Facebook F8, South by Southwest (SXSW), and, soon... maybe Coachella — scrap their plans over fears about the spread of COVID-19. Now, we can add SF's St. Patrick’s Day Parade and Sunday Streets to that ballooning list.
SF News SF Department of Public Health Suggests 'Social Distancing' to Slow Spread of Coronavirus To the giddy delight of introverts across the seven-by-seven, the San Francisco Department of Public Health (SFDPH) has now recommended “social distancing" as a precautionary measure to thwart the spread of COVID-19.
SF News Saturday Links: Stanford Cancels All In-Person Classes Stanford dropped all in-person classes amidst concerns over the novel coronavirus, all 3,533 people aboard the Grand Princess cruise ship will now be tested for COVID-19, and a thief was crushed to death in East Bay trying to steal the catalytic converter off a car.
SF News Day Around the Bay: UCSF Prepares For Covid-19 Uptick With Triage Tents More cruise-related virus cases appear in Placer and Contra Costa counties, Marin County is monitoring 11 recent cruise passengers, and UCSF Parnassus is preparing for 'Contagion'-style triage of new patients.
SF News 19 Grand Princess Crew Members, 2 Passengers Test Positive For Coronavirus Vice President Mike Pence was the one to announce the cruise ship cases, saying one test remained inconclusive — and the ship is now headed to an unnamed "non-commercial port."
Arts & Entertainment Coronavirus Fears Shut Down Beloved Bay Area Treasure, the Exploratorium's Tactile Dome Museums around the Bay Area are either temporarily closing or curtailing some exhibits as fears of the novel coronavirus spreading widely take hold.
SF News Cruise Ship Passengers May Not All Get Quarantined; Three New Virus Cases In East Bay Health officials in Contra Costa County say that there are three new cases of covid-19 there, two of which were passengers aboard the Grand Princess cruise ship when it sailed to Mexico last month.
SF News You Can Now Sign Up To Get Coronavirus Panic Text Alerts From the City of SF The City of San Francisco on Thursday launched a new text alert system specifically for updates on the spread of covid-19, now that SF has claimed its first two confirmed cases.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Coronavirus Contact Shuts Down Lowell High School BART was experiencing major delays after a small trackside fire near Balboa Park, 78 Sonoma County residents are being monitored for coronavirus after traveling on the Grand Princess, and Lowell High School is closed until at least Monday due to a parent being diagnosed.
SF News Cruise Passengers Off California Coast Describe Strange Scene On Board The Coast Guard helicopters dropped off sample kits to the ship this morning, and some passengers are being confined to their rooms, but many reportedly continue milling about the ship.
