SF News Highly Suspicious COVID-19 Antibody Testing Site Raises Scam Concerns in San Jose A company called TestMe2 is charging $150 a pop for coronavirus antibody tests that have been rejected by the FDA, and not returning results for a month or longer, among many other red flags.
SF News Alameda County COVID-19 Cases Double in One Month As Other Bay Area County Counts Have Slowed As a result of a surge in cases in Alameda County — 100 percent growth in 30 days — health officials are holding off on allowing any outdoor dining for two to four weeks.
SF Politics SF Supervisors Extend Eviction Moratorium Indefinitely The Board of Supervisors on Tuesday voted to extend the pandemic-related eviction moratorium for residential tenants in the city past the July sunset timeframe that was initially approved in March. And an SF lawmaker is introducing a similar statewide measure on Wednesday in Sacramento.
SF News Sure Enough, COVID-19 Outbreak Hits Tesla Plants After Elon Musk Defies Local Orders We don’t know how many of the 10,000 workers at the Fremont Tesla plant tested positive for coronavirus, but media reports describe the number as “several.”
SF News Pandemic Updates: 10 New Bay Area Deaths, Study Finds Multiple Virus Entries In CA, and WHO Downplays Asymptomatic Spread In pandemic news Tuesday there is a mix of good and bad, and an interesting new study looking at the genetics of multiple SARS-CoV-2 strains that entered California at the beginning of the year. And new cases aren't exactly slowing down locally.
SF News Berkeley Study Suggests Social-Distancing Measures Prevented 530 Million COVID-19 Infections By April A new peer-reviewed study has found that public health orders to enforce social distancing have saved an untold number of lives and likely prevented around 530 million COVID-19 transmissions across six countries.
SF News SF Opens Pop-Up COVID Testing Site Specifically for Protesters San Francisco has opened a new free testing site as St. Mary's Cathedral (1111 Gough Street) specifically for people who have attended protests, no symptoms required.
SF News Passengers From Grand Princess Mexico Cruise Sue Company for Negligence In the second lawsuit to be filed by passengers aboard a Princess Cruise Lines cruise from San Francisco who were exposed to the coronavirus, passengers who sailed from SF to Mexico and back in mid-February are suing the company for negligence.
SF News Photo: Is This What SF Office Life In a Pandemic Is Going to Look Like? Two people per elevator, each facing a corner, and one at a time in all restrooms — these are just two of the things downtown office workers are likely looking forward to as San Francisco companies begin to reopen office spaces.
SF News UCSF Doctor 'Persistently Positive' For COVID-19 After Three Months 66-year-old UCSF medical director Dr. Coleen Kivlahan is one of 60 UCSF medical professionals who have been infected with the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, but she's the only one who has not recovered and who continues to test positive for the virus nearly 90 days after she believes she caught it.
Arts & Entertainment AMC Theatres In Danger of Complete Financial Collapse In a regulatory filing today, AMC Theatres says that it has "substantial doubt" it will be able to continue operations this year even after sheltering restrictions are lifted and cinemas are allowed to reopen.
SF News Health Experts, Governors Fear Mid-June Spike In COVID-19 Cases From Protests Four consecutive days of nationwide protests, with protesters numbering in the tens of thousands in some cities — some masked, some not — have health experts and state and city leaders worried about a spike in new COVID-19 cases in the next two weeks.
SF News East Oakland Quickly Becoming Hardest Hit COVID-19 Hot Spot In the Bay Area The Fruitvale zip code, 94601, has one of the highest per capita rates of COVID-19 cases in the Bay Area, and today we learn that 12 workers at the Fruitvale location of Cardenas Markets have tested positive for the virus.
SF News Starting This Weekend, San Franciscans Must Wear Masks Everywhere Under the latest health order from the San Francisco Department of Public Health, city residents are being required to wear masks everywhere outside their homes, with few exceptions.
SF News New Study Rewrites the Timeline Of When COVID-19 Began Spreading In Washington State Disagreement and uncertainty in the scientific community have been playing out in unusually public ways in these early months of the COVID-19 pandemic. And now we have a study about the timelines of transmission in the U.S. and Europe that upends several previous scientific assertions.
SF News BART's 15-Point 'Welcome Back' Plan Includes Personal Hand Straps, Electrostatic Fog Treatments As BART prepares for some of its pre-pandemic ridership to return, agency management today unveiled a 15-point plan to keep riders as safe and as socially distanced as possible on a public transit system.
SF News COVID-19 Outbreak Hits Fish Packing Plant in Santa Clara County Nearly 40 cases of coronavirus have been traced to the Lusamerica Fish Company in Morgan Hill, and employees’ relatives charge that the company kept it under wraps.
SF News East Bay Law Enforcement Promotes '#ZeroBailFail' On Twitter; Federal Courts May Step In to Hold Suspects In Jail The Alameda County Sheriff's Office released four side-by-side booking photos of one suspect they've had to arrest four times since late March on suspicion of a variety of charges, promoting the hashtag #ZeroBailFail.
SF News SF Among 11 California Counties Not Moving Into 'Phase 2.5' Yet Governor Gavin Newsom began teasing out more details about California's reopening timeline, which will be pushing forward this week for 47 of the state's 58 counties with the reopening of restaurants, barbershops, and hair salons, with modifications. SF is not one of them.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Mayor Issues Order Allowing Restaurants to Take Over Sidewalks and Parking Spaces Once dining in restaurants is again permitted in the city of San Francisco, restaurants will be able to set up outdoor seating on sidewalks, in alleys, and in street-parking spaces under a new, expedited permit program announced by Mayor London Breed on Tuesday.
SF News Alameda County Overtakes Santa Clara For Most COVID Cases, Adds 280 Over Holiday Weekend Over the holiday weekend, Alameda County overtook Santa Clara County in its cumulative tally of COVID-19 cases as new cases appear to be growing faster in the East Bay this month than elsewhere in the region.
SF News Racist East Bay Letter Writer Arrested By San Leandro Police; Released Due to Backed-Up Bail Schedule 52-year-old Nancy Arechiga was apprehended by San Leandro police in relation to a number of xenophobic notes posted at the homes of East Bay Asian Americans, as well as in nearby public places, though she was later released due to the state’s backed-up bail schedule caused by the pandemic.
SF Politics Report: Half of the #Reopen Crowd on Twitter are Probably Bots A Carnegie Mellon University analysis found that 82 percent of the most influential COVID-19 retweeters are bots, and that bots comprise about half of the Twitter accounts that are crowing “Reopen America.”
SF News SF Adds 122 Confirmed COVID-19 Cases In Biggest Single-Day Jump Yet As testing has become more widespread, we have expected to see jumps in the number of new cases. But apart from a one-day, 6-percent jump on May 5 when 104 new COVID-19 cases were confirmed, the numbers of new cases found have not jumped so significantly day to day.
SF News San Francisco Man Reunites With Family After 61 Days In UCSF's COVID Unit Ron Temko says he was "one breath away from death" at more than one point during his two-month stay at UCSF Parnassus, suffering a severe and nearly fatal case of COVID-19.
