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Oakland Is Shutting Down 74 Miles of City Streets to Make More Room For Runners and Cyclists

Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf announced Thursday that the city will be closing 10 percent of its roadways to vehicle traffic during the coronavirus lockdown in order to create more social-distancing space for people trying to stay fit and active.

SF Restaurants, Food & Drink

Saison and Angler Team To Launch Saison Smokehouse This Weekend

With both restaurants shut down for the foreseeable future, the culinary team behind Angler and Saison is launching a to-go barbecue concept this weekend in the Angler space, using the restaurant's centerpiece hearth and live fire.

As Muni Scales Back Service, Healthcare Workers Left Figuring How To Get To Work

As the SFMTA shut down all but 17 of its 79 bus and train routes on Wednesday, riders who still need to move around the city — including healthcare and other frontline workers — are bearing the brunt of the cutbacks.

Grand Princess Passengers Sue Cruise Line For Negligence

The first of what will likely be a tsunami of COVID-19-related lawsuits against cruise ship companies came Wednesday when nine Northern California plaintiffs filed suit against Princess Cruise Lines and parent company Carnival Corp.

Day Around the Bay: Wuhan Lifts Its Lockdown Orders

Furloughs and pay cuts hit the Tesla plant in Fremont, SF inks deal for nearly 2,000 hotel rooms for the homeless at $197 a pop, and lockdown is over in the Wuhan Province.

Arts & Entertainment

SF Mayor Says Normal Pride Celebration May Not Be Possible

After a number of local publications covered the strangely vague stance being taken by SF Pride concerning the late June parade and weekend-long festival, SF Mayor London Breed made a comment Wednesday suggesting that it won't be happening.

Business & Tech

Pharma Bro Martin Shkreli, Still In Prison, Wants Out So He Can Research Coronavirus Treatments

An attorney for notorious "Pharma Bro" and all around garbage human Martin Shkreli says he is filing court papers this week to request a release for his client so that he may conduct "laboratory research" on the coronavirus.

SF Restaurants, Food & Drink

Meals on Wheels In San Francisco Sees 60- to 100-Percent Uptick In New Clients Per Week

As this pandemic unfolds and more San Francisco seniors find themselves homebound than ever before, the San Francisco chapter of Meals on Wheels — the organization that regularly delivers hot meals to the homebound — is reporting a steep rise in its number of newly signed-up clients.

Marin County Health Officer Describes His Own Three-Week Bout With COVID-19

The top public health official in Marin County, Dr. Matt Willis, announced two weeks ago that he was self-quarantining at home with a case of the novel coronavirus, and now he's emerged out the other side to describe the first-hand experience.

Updated: Bay Area Nursing Home Outbreaks Account For At Least 211 Positive Cases and 11 Deaths

News of new clusters of COVID-19 cases at senior care facilities throughout the Bay Area continues to roll in, and as of Wednesday, the unsettling tallies of cases among both staff members and elderly residents is swiftly rising.

Op-Ed: UCSF Doctor Blasts City For Not Putting Homeless In Hotels After Discharging Patient Onto the Street

As city officials continue to debate the feasibility and prudence of trying to provide hotel rooms as shelter for San Francisco's approximately 8,000 homeless people, a doctor at UCSF has a personal tale of having to discharge a homeless patient who tested negative for COVID-19.

Celebrated Sacramento Attorney Visits Antarctica, Comes Back with COVID-19

A shipful of doctors and lawyers hit a medical conference in the remote icy continent, and still came back testing positive.

Arts & Entertainment

Will Pride Happen In June? New York and San Francisco Have Yet To Officially Cancel

Because shelter-in-place orders are still, technically, only extended until May 3 in San Francisco, SF Pride has yet to make any moves to change or cancel the LGBTQ Pride celebrations here — even though Los Angeles has canceled their Pride, which happens just weeks before ours

More Than 60 Percent of Coronavirus Cases In SF Are People Under 50

For the first time since the coronavirus outbreak began in the Bay Area, San Francisco's Department of Public Health has released some demographic information about the 622 cases in the city to date.

Business & Tech

Facebook Will Give $15 Million In Grants to Struggling Bay Area Businesses; Twitter CEO Pledges $1 Billion In Aid

Facebook has pledged to give $100 million in small-business grants to help struggling businesses emerge from this pandemic — and $15 million in grants will be reserved for the Bay Area.

Infectious Disease Expert Says Bay Area Should Go Back to Containment and Contact-Tracing

As the Bay Area appears to be successfully "flattening the curve," a Marin County-based epidemiologist is saying that we should not just be focused on mitigation efforts — which could go on for an extended period — but we can return to active containment strategies.

Bay Area Sailing Crew Returns Home to Surreal Scenes After Three Months at Sea

A Sausalito-based sailing crew just sailed back under the Golden Gate Bridge for the first time since December, and the Bay Area they are returning to is a whole lot quieter and weirder than the one they last saw.

W. Kamau Bell, Steve Kerr, Others Holding Online Show Tonight to Fundraise for Masks

With the goal of raising $1 million to buy masks and hand sanitizer for underserved communities, “Masks for the People” goes live on Instagram at 6 p.m. tonight.

Orinda Nursing Home Now Has 49 COVID Cases; Laguna Honda Has 16

A nursing facility in Orinda has become the latest hot spot for COVID-19 cases, with a total of 27 residents and 22 staffers now having tested positive. The Orinda Care Center first made headlines Friday when a total of 27 people — 24 residents and three staffers — turned up positive.

14 Percent Of San Francisco's 583 COVID-19 Cases Are Hospitalized — Around 7 Percent In ICU

For the first time on Monday, San Francisco's Department of Public Health released some extra data on the current hospitalized population of coronavirus cases in the city — something that other Bay Area counties have been doing for weeks.

Arts & Entertainment

Video: Two San Jose Nurses Perform Celine Dion's 'The Prayer' Before Their Shift

Over the weekend, a pair of nurses at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center in San Jose posted a video to Facebook of them performing "The Prayer" before starting their latest shift amid a pandemic.

SF Turns Moscone Center and Palace of Fine Arts Into Homeless Shelters; Supes Decry Subpar Conditions

The Moscone Center and the Palace of Fine Arts have been transformed into ersatz homeless shelters with bed mats on the floor and minimal social distance. After some photos came out of the grim Moscone setup, several supervisors are making more noise about the potentially unsafe situation.

Muni Bus Service Gets Majorly Curtailed; Riders Told To Expect Little Service Monday and Tuesday

The SFMTA sent out an alert late Sunday telling all those who are still commuting by bus and anyone needing bus transportation to expect major delays Monday and Tuesday due to staffing shortages. And starting Wednesday, the entire system will be reduced to just 17 core lines.

San Francisco Bans Use of Reusable Bags and Other Items Over Coronavirus Concerns

If you've visited any big-name grocery store — Trader Joe's, Safeway, Whole Foods — this week, odds are you weren’t allowed to use a reusable bag. Why? Because on Tuesday, San Francisco banned shoppers from using them and “other reusable items" to thwart the spread of COVID-19.

SF Police Start Issuing Citations to People and Businesses Breaking Shelter-In-Place Order

During a press conference held Friday around noon, San Francisco Police Chief Bill Scott said one individual — who had dismissed prior warnings — was cited in the past 24 hours for failing to shelter in place, an infraction punishable by fine or even imprisonment.