SF News 57-Year-Old Bay Area Woman Who May Have Been the First U.S. Coronavirus Death Was Healthy, Only Sick a Few Days Details about the case we just learned about Wednesday, a posthumously tested San Jose woman who appears now to be the very first death from COVID-19 in the United States, are now coming in.
SF News Bay Area Law Enforcement Pushes Back on Jail Release Orders Citing Re-Arrests and Repeat Offenders Officials at several Bay Area law enforcement agencies are bristling at the statewide emergency orders to lower jail populations during the COVID-19 pandemic, with at least one suggesting that releasing some suspects presents a greater public health threat than keeping them jailed.
SF News AIDS Walk San Francisco Moves Online Like many other events this year, the AIDS Walk can't go on as scheduled due to public health concerns and the ongoing pandemic. But unlike many other events, this one has its roots in another virus pandemic that shook San Francisco to its core.
SF News New Model Suggests San Francisco May Have Had 9,000 Coronavirus Infections By March 1 Another day, another potentially revised timeline in the U.S. chapter of this pandemic. The latest one comes from a Northeastern University estimate of how the coronavirus began spreading undetected in several major American cities in February.
SF News Roommate Do's and Don'ts in the Age of Coronavirus Since 40 percent of you out there have roommates, with others in family households, we’ve got some house rules to keep your domicile from becoming a germ pile.
SF News 20 Deaths In One Day: Bay Area May Be Hitting the COVID-19 Fatality Peak The number of hospitalizations associated with the coronavirus has been decreasing steadily in the Bay Area for a week, however that good news comes after the region counted its 200th confirmed death from the virus on Monday, and is now counting about 20 new deaths per day.
SF News Study: Restaurant Outbreak In China Suggests Limits To Airborne Transmission of COVID-19 A recently released study by researchers in China, examining an outbreak of COVID-19 that occurred among some related and unrelated diners in a restaurant in Guangzhou in January, suggests that air conditioning in an enclosed space can help spread the coronavirus — but not to everyone in a room.
SF News New Autopsies Show Community Transmission of the Coronavirus In Santa Clara County In January or Earlier A new piece has emerged in the incomplete puzzle of when and how the novel coronavirus, a.k.a. SARS-CoV-2, arrived in the U.S., and it is bound to shift how researchers and the Centers for Disease Control see their timelines for this pandemic.
SF News SF to ‘Close’ Car Traffic on Several Streets to Promote Social Distancing The city adopts Oakland-style car bans on streets, but the number of streets closing is less than overwhelming, and it appears the program will employ honor system enforcement.
SF News 67 People Test Positive for COVID-19 At Senior Facility In Western Addition While a coronavirus outbreak at San Francisco's Laguna Honda Hospital appears to have been contained, a separate outbreak has taken hold at another senior care facility near Japantown in the Western Addition where 39 residents have been infected.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF's Mission District and SoMa Have High COVID-19 Rates Muni will restore the 5-Fulton and several other bus routes next week, protesters of stay-at-home order descended on Sacramento today sans masks, and the Mission, Dogpatch, Bayview, and SoMa appear to be San Francisco's hotspots for COVID-19 so far.
SF News SFPD Patrols Dolores Park, Tells Sunbathers and Picnickers To Spread Out A sunny Sunday in San Francisco would typically have drawn 10,000 or so people to the outdoor party of Dolores Park. But on April 19, one of the warmest days so far this spring, the scene was relatively mellow but nonetheless dotted with small gatherings and sunbathers.
Business & Tech Facebook Launches County-by-County Coronavirus Symptom Reporting Tool In an effort to help get ahead of potential hot spots, Facebook has partnered with Carnegie Mellon University to produce a county-by-county map of the U.S. showing the percent of the population reporting coronavirus symptoms.
SF News UCSF Study Will Give Free COVID-19 and Antibody Tests to Mission District Residents, Bolinas Residents Researchers at UCSF are conducting a study that will test nearly every resident in Bolinas as well as a group of 5,700 residents of the Mission District in San Francisco, to determine who has COVID-19, or who might have already had it and not known it.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: 51 Infected At Safeway Distribution Hub A total of 51 people have been infected at Safeway's massive distribution center in Tracy, a freight train derailed in Emeryville yesterday, and experts are questioning the conclusions of that Stanford anitbody prevalence study.
SF News New CDPH Report Shows 34 Nursing Homes in the Bay Area Have Confirmed COVID-19 Cases The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) — after weeks of pressure from healthcare providers and the general public — published a partial list of nursing homes that have recorded COVID-19 cases. The report included 258 affected facilities; 34 of those listed are in the Bay Area.
SF News Large-Scale Antibody Test Suggests As Many As 80,000 Santa Clara County Residents Have Already Had COVID-19 Preliminary results of a large-scale antibody testing effort by Stanford researchers show that the vast majority of COVID-19 cases in Santa Clara County have likely gone uncounted.
SF News The Next Clusters of COVID-19 Cases Will Probably Be Among Right-Wing Protesters Who Hate Sheltering Orders Hardcore Trump supporters, rural Republicans, and right-wing activists who enjoy bringing assault weapons to their demonstrations seem destined to be the next demographics to seal their own fates with this pandemic as protests against social-distancing orders ramp up.
SF News Study: COVID-19 Most Contagious Before Symptoms Appear A study published this week that examined the cases of coronavirus patients in China during different points in their infections provides evidence that — as has been suspected — the virus is highly contagious in asymptomatic or presymptomatic people, moreso than after symptoms set in.
SF News Marin and Contra Costa Counties Make Face Masks Mandatory; Sonoma Order Takes Effect Today Starting at midnight last night, it became illegal for anyone to be in a public space in Sonoma County without a facial covering. And now starting on Wednesday, a similar order is taking effect in both Marin and Contra Costa counties.
SF News BART's Morning Rush Hour Is Now 5:30 to 7 a.m., Because Nurses The only people riding BART these days, for the most part, are essential workers like grocery store clerks and healthcare personnel, and they go to work earlier than most of us.
Business & Tech Facebook Cancels Company Gatherings of 50 or More Until Next Summer, Plans To Hire 10,000 Employees This Year In a post published earlier today by Mark Zuckerberg himself, Facebook announced that company gatherings of 50 or more people are officially canceled until June of 2021.
SF News An Inmate at SF County Jail Has Tested Positive For COVID-19 San Francisco Public Defender Mano Raju is calling on the Sheriff's Department to release "as many individuals from the jail as possible" after an inmate at SF County Jail has turned up COVID-positive.
Arts & Entertainment After Eight-Year Hiatus, Gnome Paintings Return to Oakland With COVID Themes New gnomes are now appearing with coronavirus themes, attached to Oakland utility poles, seemingly by a new artist hoping to amuse their Oakland neighbors and inspired by another artist who did a series of these in 2012.
SF News San Francisco Recorded Only Six New COVID-19 Cases Today, But a Surge May Still Be Coming There are both encouraging and concerning data points coming from the SF Department of Public Health on Thursday, with one of the former being the lowest one-day uptick in confirmed COVID-19 cases in the city in weeks.
