SF News San Francisco Will Test All Residents and Staff at Nursing Homes Under New Order Following outbreaks at two nursing facilities in SF, a health order to be issued next week will mandate the biweekly testing of every resident and staff member at the 21 skilled nursing and care facilities in the city.
SF Politics Protesters Stage 'Die-In' Over Homeless Hotel Issue Outside Mayor's Home A group of faith leaders and protesters from the Do No Harm Coalition staged a "die-in" outside of Mayor London Breed's Lower Haight apartment on Thursday evening, in order to put further pressure on the mayor to house the homeless in empty hotel rooms.
SF Politics Eager to Point Fingers, Trump Orders Spies to Push China Lab COVID-19 Theory U.S. intelligence officials have been directed to “hunt for evidence” that the coronavirus originated in a Chinese lab, though spies and scientists cite zero evidence for this claim.
SF News Another Coughing Thief Arrested In Vallejo Much like two women allegedly tried to do in order to brazenly rob a Walgreens in San Francisco earlier this month, a woman is suspected of coughing in security guards' faces in order to evade capture and rob a Target store in Vallejo.
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco Distributes $1.5 Million in Grants to Artists and Arts Orgs; Another $250K Added to Fund Extending a lifeline to over 500 local artists and 65 arts organizations, the city of San Francisco just announced the distribution of $1.5 million in one-time grants from the SF Arts & Artists Relief Fund.
Business & Tech Elon Musk Joins Chorus Of Anti-Lockdown Folk, Calls Sheltering Orders 'Fascist' Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is showing his libertarian streak and jumping on the "Liberate" train, saying that pandemic lockdown orders are akin to "forcibly imprisoning people in their homes."
SF News Update: Gov. Newsom Orders Orange County Beaches Closed, Not Whole State's May is one of the finest times of year in California, but Governor Gavin Newsom is scolding Southern California in particular for overcrowding its beaches — and now he says he will order Orange County to "hard close" all its beaches.
SF News If You Want a COVID-19 Test You Can Get One In SF — New Testing Sites Are Under Capacity During a Board of Supervisors hearing on Tuesday evening, a city health official said that San Francisco's testing sites have only been administering about 500 COVID-19 tests per day, when they have the combined capacity to do 5,800 tests per day.
SF News Bayview’s Pier 94 to Become COVID-19 RV Homeless Shelter More than 100 shelter RVs provided by the city and state will become temporary shelter with counseling for people with underlying health conditions experiencing homelessness.
SF News Relaxed Shelter-In-Place Order Permits Some Outdoor Activities and Businesses to Resume The revised shelter-in-place order that will be in effect from May 4 to May 31 for six Bay Area counties has been released, and it says that golf courses and tennis courts can reopen, among other things.
Business & Tech Lyft Is Laying Off Nearly 1,000 Workers, Furloughing 300 More Lyft just announced that it will lay off 17 percent of its workforce, or 982 people, in order to address losses that it faces due to pandemic lockdowns. And employees say they were mistakenly all sent an email earlier this week using an insensitive name for the cost-cutting project.
Business & Tech Results of First Federal Double-Blind Study of Remdesivir In COVID-19 Patients Shows Quicker Recoveries The results of a federal study of the use of remdesivir to treat severely ill COVID-19 patients were announced Wednesday, and shares of Bay Area-based Gilead Sciences were trending up as a result — as was the rest of the stock market.
SF News Gov. Newsom Suggests Four-Phased Reopening Of the State, Possibly With An Early School Year Governor Gavin Newsom on Tuesday said that for some parts of the state and some types of businesses, "we are weeks, not months away" from being able to open some things back up.
SF News CDC Is Now Telling People To Socially Distance Their Pets There is enough evidence that dogs and cats can get the coronavirus, and though it's not clear if they can spread it to people, the CDC is suggesting that they can at least potentially spread it to other pets in dog parks, etc.
SF News SF General Boasts Only One Death to Date After Treating 38 COVID-19 Patients In Intensive Care Of the 1,468 confirmed COVID-19 cases to date in San Francisco, it's not clear how many cases remain active — and city health officer Dr. Grant Colfax has said that hospitalization data is one of the best markers we have for how the city is tackling the coronavirus.
SF News Medical Lab Quest Diagnostics Announces First COVID-19 Antibody Tests For Consumer Sale Quest Diagnostics, the commercial lab company with 2,200 patient service sites around the country, just announced that it is selling on-demand COVID-19 antibody tests for anyone who wants one — and who is no longer symptomatic.
SF News History Lesson: SF Had an Anti-Mask League During the 1918 Flu Pandemic Who Rallied Against Face Masks It turns out that, a century ago, San Francisco was home to a movement akin to the "liberate" protests that have been going on around the country, in which city residents formed an Anti-Mask League as the 1918 influenza pandemic extended into January 1919.
Business & Tech For Pandemic Safety, Airbnb Launches New Cleaning Protocol and 3-Day Buffer Rule Between Guests Airbnb just announced a new set of standardized cleaning protocols for its hosts, and instituted a new rule that mandates 72 hours in between checkout of one guest and check-in for another if strict cleaning rules are not adhered to.
SF News San Francisco and Five Other Bay Area Counties Announce Shelter-in-Place Extension Until June Health officers from seven Bay Area jurisdictions — six counties and the City of Berkeley — are collaborating on a joint extension of shelter-in-place orders to be announced later this week, extending current orders through the month of May.
SF News Santa Clara County Re-classifies Six Flu Deaths As COVID-19 Victims In addition to the three cases announced last week — including one woman who died at home on February 6 and whose case is so far the earliest known COVID-19 death in the U.S. — Santa Clara County's medical examiner has now found six additional post-mortem cases.
Arts & Entertainment Folsom Street Fair and Up Your Alley Will Be Held Virtually for 2020 It's official: Up Your Alley and Folsom Street Fair will continue on as digital events this year, with plans underway to champion each happening's celebrated sex-positivity and sense of community — from behind a screen.
SF News UCSF Begins Using Convalescent Plasma Therapy To Treat COVID-19 Patients It's safe to say there'll be no coronavirus vaccine available in the near future — or even this year. In lieu of one on the proverbial horizon, doctors at UCSF have started using plasma infusions that contain COVID-19 antibodies as a treatment method for the infection.
SF News Another SRO Suffers COVID-19 Outbreak, This Time Infecting 24 in the Mission Shelter-in-place may be effective for many San Franciscans, but the curve is hardly being flattened at numerous single-room-occupancy hotels where more flare-ups are being reported.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Despite Seemingly Booming Takeout Business, Cole Valley's Zazie Is Temporarily Closing In a microcosm of what is going on at San Francisco restaurants that remain open for delivery and takeout, beloved brunch spot Zazie in Cole Valley finds itself losing too much money every week to stay open during the pandemic lockdown.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Second Infection Shuts Down Navigation Center Gilead's much talked about antiviral drug remdesivir had a setback in a Chinese study and the company's stock tumbled, four elderly residents at an SF nursing home have now died of COVID-19, and a BART board member says they need to start talking about cutting hours and possibly jobs.
