SF News San Francisco Confirms First Two Coronavirus Cases, Both the Result of Community Spread At a press conference Thursday morning, Mayor London Breed announced the first two confirmed cases of the virus in the city limits, and discussed the fate of the Grand Princess cruise ship, which still may end up docking here.
SF News Cruise Ship With Possible Coronavirus Cases Being Held Offshore The Grand Princess, the Princess Cruises ship that made a roundtrip from San Francisco to Mexico in mid-February and returned with at least two passengers sick with the coronavirus, is currently being held off the California coast as testing of 21 passengers showing symptoms takes place.
SF News First CA Coronavirus Death Linked To Roundtrip Cruise From SF to Mexico; Ship Returns Here Thursday The first death from covid-19 in the state of California happened in Placer County as we learned Wednesday morning, and now it's being reported that the man who died was on the same cruise to Mexico as the Sonoma County case reported Monday.
SF News London Breed Issues Letter to Mike Pence Calling Administration Response to Virus 'Anemic' San Francisco Mayor London Breed publicly slammed the Trump administration Tuesday for its failure of leadership with regard to the growing coronavirus pandemic.
SF News Anticipating First Local Cases, SF Opens Public Coronavirus Testing Lab Unfortunately for the local paranoiac community including myself, there will be no on-demand testing for the coronavirus at the new SF facility, but test turnaround time will go down to one or two days from seven.
SF News Virus Death Toll Hits Six In Washington State; New Cases In Sonoma and Santa Clara Counties All of the deaths from the coronavirus so far in the U.S. — now a total of six — have occurred in Washington State, suggesting that the undetected hot spot there is further along in the virus's cycle than elsewhere.
SF News Two Healthcare Workers From Vacaville Facility Likely Infected By Coronavirus Patient Health officials in Solano County announced Sunday that two healthcare workers at the NorthBay VacaValley Hospital are being treated as presumptive positive cases for the coronavirus after their exposure to a female patient in recent weeks.
SF News Facebook Announces Funding for Ad Outreach to Help SF's Struggling Chinatown Businesses According to some anecdotal reports, foot traffic in SF's Chinatown is down over 50 percent because of concerns over the coronavirus. But the Eye of Sauron-like social media giant hopes to turn that around by helping those affected businesses create and run ads to buffer dwindling sales.
SF News Saturday Links: Business in Chinatown Continues to Slump Over Coronavirus Scares Chinatown eateries are still feeling the squeeze from the novel coronavirus as foot traffic in the area continues to slow, Oakland police have made a second arrest in an El Cerrito robbery, and two new cases of COVID-19 were confirmed in Mexico.
SF News A Second Case Of Coronavirus With Unknown Origin Confirmed In Santa Clara County Terrifying! A second case of "community transmission" of the Wuhan coronavirus has now been confirmed in Santa Clara County, marking the first two U.S. instances — both in the Bay Area — of an infection with no discernible connection to a traveler returned from China.
SF News Newsom: 8,400 Californians Being Monitored for Coronavirus Governor Gavin Newsom gave a press conference Thursday laying out how the state of California is dealing with unfolding coronavirus pandemic, following news of a Solano County case Wednesday that had no discernible origin.
Business & Tech Facebook Cancels Its Biggest Event of the Year, the F8 Developers' Conference, Over Coronavirus Concerns After canceling a couple of smaller events in San Francisco in recent weeks over coronavirus travel caution, Facebook announced Thursday that it is canceling its biggest industry conference of the year, the F8 developers conference set to take place in San Jose in May.
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 The First Coronavirus Case Of Unknown Origin Appears In the Bay Area, In Solano County A resident of Solano County has tested positive for the Wuhan coronavirus who has no known ties to anyone who has traveled abroad, sparking new fears that there are more undetected cases in the U.S.
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.
Business & Tech Gilead Sciences Stock Jumps After World Health Comments On Its Coronavirus Drug A World Health Organization official has said that Gilead's remdesivir is "the only drug right now that we think may have real efficacy" against the novel coronavirus that first appeared in China.
SF News Two More Coronavirus Cases Confirmed in NorCal, Plus One More Suspected As many as three more Sacramento and Humboldt County victims could be infected with coronavirus, in addition to the five cruise ship patients hospitalized in northern California.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Another Coronavirus Patient Arrives In SF A good Samaritan in his 20s who was helping a fellow driver who had crashed on Highway 101 was killed by another vehicle in San Mateo this morning, and one of the cruise ship patients with the coronavirus is at an unnamed SF hospital.
SF News Americans Evacuated From Cruise Ship In Japan Head To Travis Air Force Base A group of around 340 Americans — some of whom may have tested positive for the coronavirus — were evacuated from Japan by the U.S. State Department Sunday after being held in quarantine for over a week on board a cruise ship.
SF News San Francisco Flu Patients Will Undergo Testing For Coronavirus In an ever-evolving news cycle around the novel coronavirus, San Francisco flu patients will start being tested for the disease as part of an "early warning system" enacted by the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
SF News Palo Alto Mom and Daughter Return Home After Coronavirus Quarantine in SoCal A Bay Area woman and her daughter were among the 195 Americans evacuated from Wuhan, China two weeks ago and sent into quarantine at March Air Reserve Base in Riverside.
SF News Local Hospitals Prepare for Coronavirus Patients; Richmond Lab Begins Testing While there has yet to be a case of the Wuhan/novel coronavirus in San Francisco, health officials are preparing for the possibility that a case will appear here.
SF News Bay Area Woman Among Those Quarantined For Coronavirus Onboard British Cruise Ship In Japan What was meant to be a carefree 15-day vacation at sea, San Francisco resident Julie Choy now finds herself in a viral hellscape, trapped inside her small windowless room aboard the Diamond Princess cruise ship — some 5,000 miles away from the Bay Area.
SF News Bay Area Family Self-Quarantines Out of Complete Coronavirus Paranoia A Bay Area family that likely had no exposure to the Wuhan coronavirus is now quarantined of their own volition, at home, after taking a flight to Singapore and canceling a trip on a cruise ship.
SF News All Flights Between SFO and China Will Stop For At Least Six Weeks Starting late next week, there will be no flights at all landing from China at SFO, and no way to fly directly there from San Francisco either, as the coronavirus crisis worsens.
